Light Harvesting in Photosynthesis

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Light Harvesting in
Photosynthesis
FOUNDATIONS OF BIOCHEMISTRY
AND BIOPHYSICS SERIES
Light Harvesting in Photosynthesis
Roberta Croce, Rienk van Grondelle, Herbert van Amerongen,
and Ivo van Stokkum
An Introduction to Experimental Biophysics:
Biological Methods for Physical Scientists,
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of Biosystems, Second Edition
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Light Harvesting in
Photosynthesis
Edited by
Roberta Croce
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Vrije Universiteit
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Rienk van Grondelle
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Vrije Universiteit
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Herbert van Amerongen
Laboratory of Biophysics
Wageningen University
Wageningen, the Netherlands
Ivo van Stokkum
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Vrije Universiteit
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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Names: Croce, Roberta, editor. | Grondelle, Rienk van, editor. | Amerongen,
Herbert van, editor. | Stokkum, Ivo van, editor.
Title: Light harvesting in photosynthesis / [edited by] Roberta Croce, Rienk
van Grondelle, Herbert van Amerongen, Ivo van Stokkum.
Other titles: Foundations of biochemistry and biophysics.
Description: Boca Raton : Taylor & Francis/CRC Press, 2017. | Series:
Foundations of biochemistry and biophysics | Includes bibliographical
references.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017037100 | ISBN 9781482218350 (hardback : alk. paper)
Subjects: | MESH: Photosynthesis--physiology | Biophysical Phenomena |
Light-Harvesting Protein Complexes--metabolism | Plants--metabolism
Classification: LCC QK882 .L47 2017 | NLM QK 882 | DDC 572/.45--dc23
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Contents
Preface vii
Editors ix
Contributors xi
PART 1 BUILDING THE LIGHT-HARVESTING APPARATUS: Pigments 1
1 Pigments: General properties and biosynthesis 3
Min Chen and Robert E. Blankenship
2 Chlorophylls in a protein environment: How to calculate their spectral and redox properties
(from MO to DFT) 21
Carles Curutchet and Benedetta Mennucci
3 Carotenoids: Electronic states and biological functions 37
Harry A. Frank and Bruno Robert
PART 2 BUILDING THE LIGHT-HARVESTING APPARATUS: Proteins 57
4 Light harvesting in higher plants and green algae 59
Lauren Nicol and Roberta Croce
5 Light harvesting in cyanobacteria: The phycobilisomes 77
Leeat Bar-Eyal, Anat Shperberg-Avni, Yossi Paltiel, Nir Keren, and Noam Adir
6 Photosynthetic apparatus in purple bacteria 95
David J. Mothersole, David A. Farmer, Andrew Hitchcock, and C. Neil Hunter
7 Light harvesting in green bacteria 121
Jakub Pšencˇík and Tomáš Mancˇal
8 Light-harvesting complexes in chlorophyll c–containing algae 155
Claudia Büchel
9 Reaction centers: Structure and mechanism 181
Michael R. Jones
10 Organization of photosynthetic membrane proteins into supercomplexes 207
Egbert J. Boekema and Dmitry A. Semchonok
11 Photoprotective excess energy dissipation 219
Alberta Pinnola, Diana Kirilovsky, and Roberto Bassi
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PART 3 LIGHT-HARVESTING SYSTEMS IN ACTION: Energy Transfer and Electron Transport 247
12 The exciton concept 249
Leonas Valkunas, Jevgenij Chmeliov, and Herbert van Amerongen
13 Modeling of energy transfer in photosynthetic light harvesting 269
Vladimir I. Novoderezhkin and Rienk van Grondelle
14 Quantum aspects of photosynthetic energy transfer 305
Susana F. Huelga and Martin B. Plenio
15 Photoinduced electron transfer in the reaction centers 327
Thomas Renger
16 Modulation of the redox potentials 359
Fabrice Rappaport
PART 4 LIGHT-HARVESTING SYSTEMS IN ACTION: Spectroscopy 379
17 Basic optical spectroscopy for light harvesting 381
Arvi Freiberg and Gyo˝zo˝ Garab
18 Advanced Ultrafast Spectroscopy Methods 427
Tomáš Polívka and Donatas Zigmantas
19 Experimental evidence of quantum coherence in photosynthetic light harvesting 449
Gregory D. Scholes, Jacob C. Dean, Jessica M. Anna, Gregory S. Engel,
and Rienk van Grondelle
20 Systems biophysics: Global and target analysis of light harvesting and photochemical
quenching in vivo 467
Ivo van Stokkum
PART 5 ARTIFICIAL AND NATURAL PHOTOSYNTHESIS 483
21 Light harvesting, photoregulation, and photoprotection in selected artificial photosynthetic
systems 485
Katherine WongCarter, Manuel J. Llansola-Portoles, Gerdenis Kodis, Devens Gust,
Ana L. Moore, and Thomas A. Moore
22 Light to useful charge in nanostructured organic and hybrid solar cells 511
Tönu Pullerits and Villy Sundström
23 Chlorophyll fluorescence as a tool for describing the operation and regulation
of photosynthesis in vivo 539
Jeremy Harbinson
24 Harvesting sunlight with cyanobacteria and algae for sustainable production in a bio-based
economy 573
Pascal van Alphen and Klaas J. Hellingwerf
Index 587
Preface
This book introduces the basic physical, chemi- the regulation of light harvesting. Part 3 deals with
cal, and biological principles underlying the first the physics underlying light harvesting: energy
steps in photosynthesis: light absorption, excita- transfer and electron transport. Part 4 introduces
tion energy transfer, and charge separation. In Part basic and advanced spectroscopic methods, includ-
1, we introduce pigments and their spectroscopic/ ing data analysis. In Part 5, we discuss artificial
redox properties. In Part 2, pigment-proteins as and natural photosynthetic systems, how they are
they occur in various natural systems (plants, algae, assembled, and what the energy transfer properties
photosynthetic bacteria) are described, including are.
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Editors
Roberta Croce, PhD, (1968) studied chemistry at published more than 600 scientific papers, which
the University of Padova and earned her PhD at the have attracted about 27K citations.
University of Milano. Since 2011, she is a full pro-
fessor in biophysics of photosynthesis/energy and Herbert van Amerongen, PhD, (1959) stud-
head of the Biophysics Group at Vrije Universiteit ied physics at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and
Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She served as cochair earned his PhD in biophysics at the same univer-
of the International Congress of Photosynthesis sity. Since 2002, he is a full professor of biophysics at
Research held in Maastricht in 2016. She has pub- Wageningen University, where he is also director of
lished more than 130 scientific articles. Since 2013, the MicroSpectroscopy Research Facility. He pub-
she is a member of the Royal Holland Society of lished more than 170 publications in peer- refereed
Sciences and Humanities (KHMW). journals and, together with Leonas Valkunas and
Rienk van Grondelle, he is author of the book
Rienk van Grondelle, PhD, (1949) studied physics Photosynthetic Excitons. In 2016, he served as
at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) and earned cochair of the 17th International Congress of
his PhD in Leiden. He joined the physics faculty of Photosynthesis Research in Maastricht.
the VU in 1982, where he was appointed full pro-
fessor in 1987. He built up a large research group Ivo van Stokkum, PhD, (1962) is associate profes-
and has made major contributions to elucidating sor of computational biophysics in the Department
the fundamental physical mechanisms that under- of Physics and Astronomy, Faculty of Science, at the
lie light harvesting and charge separation. In 2001, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. He earned his mas-
he became a member of the Royal Netherlands ter’s degree in experimental physics and his PhD
Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). In 2009, in natural sciences from the Radboud University
he was awarded an Academy Professorship for his Nijmegen. He has coauthored 270 scientific pub-
outstanding contributions to the understanding lications, which have attracted more than 14K
of the first stage in photosynthesis. To date, he has citations.
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