Abstract
The kinetics of photoinduced absorbance change in the 400-ns to 100-ms time range were studied between 770 and 1025 nm in reaction center core (RCC) complexes isolated from the green sulfur bacterium Chlorobium vibrioforme. A global, multiple stretched-exponential analysis shows the presence of two distinct but strongly overlapping spectra. The spectrum of the 70-μs component consists of a broad bleaching with two minima at 810 and 825 nm and a broad positive band at wavelengths greater than 865 nm and is assigned to the decay of 3Bchl a of the Fenna-Matthews-Olson (FMO) protein. The contribution of the 70-μs component correlates with the amount of FMO protein in the isolated RCC complex. The spectrum of the 1.6-μs component has a sharp bleaching at 835 nm, a maximum at 805 nm, a broad positive band at wavelengths higher than 865 nm, and a broad negative band at wavelengths higher than 960 nm. When the RCC is incubated with inorganic iron and sulfur, the 1.6-μs component is replaced by a component with a lifetime of ∼40 μs, consistent with the reconstruction of the Fx cluster. We propose that the 1.6-μs component results from charge recombination between P840+ and an intermediate electron acceptor operating between Ao and Fx. Our studies in Chlorobium RCCs show that approaches that employ a single wavelength in the measurement of absorption changes have inherent limitations and that a global kinetic analysis at multiple wavelengths in the near-infrared is required to reliably separate absorption changes due to P840/P840+ from the decay of 3Bchl a in the FMO protein.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 382-393 |
Number of pages | 12 |
Journal | Biophysical journal |
Volume | 81 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2001 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Biophysics