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  • 标题:A seventh bacterial chlorophyll driving a large light-harvesting antenna
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  • 作者:Jiro Harada ; Tadashi Mizoguchi ; Yusuke Tsukatani
  • 期刊名称:Scientific Reports
  • 电子版ISSN:2045-2322
  • 出版年度:2012
  • 卷号:2
  • DOI:10.1038/srep00671
  • 出版社:Springer Nature
  • 摘要:

    The discovery of new chlorophyllous pigments would provide greater understanding of the mechanisms and evolution of photosynthesis. Bacteriochlorophyll f has never been observed in nature, although this name was proposed ~40 years ago based on structurally related compounds. We constructed a bacteriochlorophyll f–accumulating mutant of the green sulfur bacterium Chlorobaculum limnaeum, which originally produced bacteriochlorophyll e, by knocking out the bchU gene encoding C-20 methyltransferase based on natural transformation. This novel pigment self-aggregates in an in vivo light-harvesting antenna, the chlorosome, and exhibits a Qy peak of 705 nm, more blue-shifted than any other chlorosome reported so far; the peak overlaps the maximum (~700 nm) of the solar photon flux spectrum. Bacteriochlorophyll f chlorosomes can transfer light energy from core aggregated pigments to another bacteriochlorophyll in the chlorosomal envelope across an energy gap of ~100 nm, and is thus a promising material for development of new bioenergy applications.

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