Nanosecond fluorescence from isolated photosynthetic reaction centers of Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides.
Nanosecond fluorescence from isolated photosynthetic reaction centers of Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides.
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来自球形红假单胞菌的分离光合反应中心的纳秒荧光。
DOI:
10.1016/0005-2728(84)90205-6
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发表时间:
1984
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Parson,WW
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Woodbury,NW;Parson,WW
The time-course of fluorescence from reaction centers isolated fromRhodopseudomonas sphaeroideswas measured using single-photon counting techniques. When electron transfer is blocked by the reduction of the electron-accepting quinones, reaction centers exhibit a relatively long-lived (delayed) fluorescence due to back reactions that regenerate the excited state (P*) from the transient radical-pair state, PF. The delayed fluorescence can be resolved into three components, with lifetimes of 0.7, 3.2 and 11 ns at 295 K. The slowest component decays with the same time-constant as the absorbance changes due to PF, and it depends on both temperature and magnetic fields in the same way that the absorbance changes do. The time-constants for the two faster components of delayed fluorescence are essentially independent of temperature and magnetic fields. The fluorescence also includes a very fast (prompt) component that is similar in amplitude to that obtained from unreduced reaction centers. The prompt fluorescence presumably is emitted mainly during the period before the initial charge-transfer reaction creates PFfrom P*. From the amplitudes of the prompt and delayed fluorescence, we calculate an initial standard free-energy difference between P* and PFof about 0.16 eV at 295 K, and 0.05 eV at 80 K, depending somewhat on the properties of the solvent. The multiphasic decay of the delayed fluorescence is interpreted in terms of relaxations in the free energy of PFwith time, totalling about 0.05 eV at 295 K, possibly resulting from nuclear movements in the electron-carriers or the protein.