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Parameters of the protein energy landscapes of several light-harvesting complexes probed via spectral hole growth kinetics measurements.

Author(s): Herascu N, Najafi M, Amunts A, Pieper J, Irrgang KD, Picorel R, Seibert M, Zazubovich V

J Phys Chem B. 2011 Mar 31;115(12):2737-47 Authors: Herascu N, Najafi M, Amunts A, Pieper J, Irrgang KD, Picorel R, Seibert M, Zazubovich V

Article GUID: 21391534

Spectral hole burning, recovery, and thermocycling in chlorophyll-protein complexes: distributions of barriers on the protein energy landscape.

Author(s): Najafi M, Herascu N, Seibert M, Picorel R, Jankowiak R, Zazubovich V

J Phys Chem B. 2012 Sep 27;116(38):11780-90 Authors: Najafi M, Herascu N, Seibert M, Picorel R, Jankowiak R, Zazubovich V

Article GUID: 22957798

Conformational Changes in Pigment-Protein Complexes at Low Temperatures-Spectral Memory and a Possibility of Cooperative Effects.

Author(s): Najafi M, Herascu N, Shafiei G, Picorel R, Zazubovich V

J Phys Chem B. 2015 Jun 11;119(23):6930-40 Authors: Najafi M, Herascu N, Shafiei G, Picorel R, Zazubovich V

Article GUID: 25985255

Monte Carlo Modeling of Spectral Diffusion Employing Multiwell Protein Energy Landscapes: Application to Pigment-Protein Complexes Involved in Photosynthesis.

Author(s): Najafi M, Zazubovich V

J Phys Chem B. 2015 Jun 25;119(25):7911-21 Authors: Najafi M, Zazubovich V

Article GUID: 26020801

Spectral Hole Burning in Cyanobacterial Photosystem I with P700 in Oxidized and Neutral States.

Author(s): Herascu N, Hunter MS, Shafiei G, Najafi M, Johnson TW, Fromme P, Zazubovich V

J Phys Chem B. 2016;120(40):10483-10495 Authors: Herascu N, Hunter MS, Shafiei G, Najafi M, Johnson TW, Fromme P, Zazubovich V

Article GUID: 27661089


Title:Parameters of the protein energy landscapes of several light-harvesting complexes probed via spectral hole growth kinetics measurements.
Authors:Herascu NNajafi MAmunts APieper JIrrgang KDPicorel RSeibert MZazubovich V
Link:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21391534?dopt=Abstract
Category:J Phys Chem B
PMID:21391534
Dept Affiliation: PHYSICS
1 Department of Physics, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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Parameters of the protein energy landscapes of several light-harvesting complexes probed via spectral hole growth kinetics measurements.

J Phys Chem B. 2011 Mar 31;115(12):2737-47

Authors: Herascu N, Najafi M, Amunts A, Pieper J, Irrgang KD, Picorel R, Seibert M, Zazubovich V

Abstract

The parameters of barrier distributions on the protein energy landscape in the excited electronic state of the pigment/protein system have been determined by means of spectral hole burning for the lowest-energy pigments of CP43 core antenna complex and CP29 minor antenna complex of spinach Photosystem II (PS II) as well as of trimeric and monomeric LHCII complexes transiently associated with the pea Photosystem I (PS I) pool. All of these complexes exhibit sixty to several hundred times lower spectral hole burning yields as compared with molecular glassy solids previously probed by means of the hole growth kinetics measurements. Therefore, the entities (groups of atoms), which participate in conformational changes in protein, appear to be significantly larger and heavier than those in molecular glasses. No evidence of a small (~1 cm(-1)) spectral shift tier of the spectral diffusion dynamics has been observed. Therefore, our data most likely reflect the true barrier distributions of the intact protein and not those related to the interface or surrounding host. Possible applications of the barrier distributions as well as the assignments of low-energy states of CP29 and LHCII are discussed in light of the above results.

PMID: 21391534 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]