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Anisotropic Circular Dichroism of Light-Harvesting Complex II in Oriented Lipid Bilayers: Theory Meets Experiment

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Pawlak,  Krzysztof
Research Department DeBeer, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, Max Planck Society;

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Akhtar, P., Lindorfer, D., Lingvay, M., Pawlak, K., Zsiros, O., Siligardi, G., et al. (2019). Anisotropic Circular Dichroism of Light-Harvesting Complex II in Oriented Lipid Bilayers: Theory Meets Experiment. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 123(5), 1090-1098. doi:10.1021/acs.jpcb.8b12474.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0005-A919-1
Abstract
Anisotropic circular dichroism (ACD) spectroscopy of macroscopically aligned molecules reveals additional information about their excited states that is lost in the CD of randomly oriented solutions. ACD spectra of light-harvesting complex II (LHCII)-the main peripheral antenna of photosystem II in plants-in oriented lipid bilayers were recorded from the far-UV to the visible wavelength region. ACD spectra show a drastically enhanced magnitude and level of detail compared to the isotropic CD spectra, resolving a greater number of bands and weak optical transitions. Exciton calculations show that the spectral features in the chlorophyll Q y region are well-reproduced by an existing Hamiltonian for LHCII, providing further evidence for the identity of energy sinks at chlorophylls a603 and a610 in the stromal layer and chlorophylls a604 and a613 in the lumina] layer. We propose ACD spectroscopy to be a valuable tool linking the three-dimensional structure and the photophysical properties of pigment-protein complexes.