Augmenting light coverage for photosynthesis through YFP-enhanced charge separation at the Rhodobacter sphaeroides reaction centre.
Augmenting light coverage for photosynthesis through YFP-enhanced charge separation at the Rhodobacter sphaeroides reaction centre.
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DOI:
10.1038/ncomms13972
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发表时间:
2017-01-05
影响因子:
16.6
通讯作者:
Neil Hunter C
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作者:
Grayson KJ;Faries KM;Huang X;Qian P;Dilbeck P;Martin EC;Hitchcock A;Vasilev C;Yuen JM;Niedzwiedzki DM;Leggett GJ;Holten D;Kirmaier C;Neil Hunter C
Photosynthesis uses a limited range of the solar spectrum, so enhancing spectral coverage could improve the efficiency of light capture. Here, we show that a hybrid reaction centre (RC)/yellow fluorescent protein (YFP) complex accelerates photosynthetic growth in the bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides. The structure of the RC/YFP-light-harvesting 1 (LH1) complex shows the position of YFP attachment to the RC-H subunit, on the cytoplasmic side of the RC complex. Fluorescence lifetime microscopy of whole cells and ultrafast transient absorption spectroscopy of purified RC/YFP complexes show that the YFP–RC intermolecular distance and spectral overlap between the emission of YFP and the visible-region (QX) absorption bands of the RC allow energy transfer via a Förster mechanism, with an efficiency of 40±10%. This proof-of-principle study demonstrates the feasibility of increasing spectral coverage for harvesting light using non-native genetically-encoded light-absorbers, thereby augmenting energy transfer and trapping in photosynthesis. Photosynthesis uses only a limited range of solar radiation. Here, Grayson et al. genetically incorporated the yellow fluorescent protein (YFP) chromophore into a bacterial photosystem, and show that energy harvested by reaction centre–YFP complexes can augment photosynthesis in vivo.
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影响因子:
4.3
作者:
Chi, Shuang C.;Mothersole, David J.;Dilbeck, Preston;Niedzwiedzki, Dariusz M.;Zhang, Hao;Qian, Pu;Vasilev, Cvetelin;Grayson, Katie J.;Jackson, Philip J.;Martin, Elizabeth C.;Li, Ying;Holten, Dewey;Hunter, C. Neil
通讯作者:
Hunter, C. Neil
影响因子:
2.9
作者:
Kremers, Gert-Jan;Goedhart, Joachim;Gadella, Theodorus W. J., Jr.
通讯作者:
Gadella, Theodorus W. J., Jr.
影响因子:
3.7
作者:
Majumder, Erica L. -W.;Olsen, John D.;Blankenship, Robert E.
通讯作者:
Blankenship, Robert E.
影响因子:
2.9
作者:
Meadows, KA;Parkes-Loach, PS;Loach, PA
通讯作者:
Loach, PA
影响因子:
4.3
作者:
Cartron, Michael L.;Olsen, John D.;Hunter, C. Neil
通讯作者:
Hunter, C. Neil