Introduction 4546 2. General Information on the Structure of Photosynthetic Complexes and StructureÀFunction Relationships 4548 2.1. Photosystem I (PSI) and Photosystem II (PSII) 4548 2.2. Basic Aspects of Bacterial Photosynthesis 4549 3. Interpigment Interactions, Excitation Energy Transfer (EET), and Charge Separation (CS) Rates-General Considerations 4550 4. Fundamentals of Spectral Hole-Burning (SHB) and Fluorescence Line-Narrowing Spectroscopy (FLNS) and Single Photosynthetic Complex Spectroscopy (SPCS) 4552 4.1. Zero-Phonon Lines, Homogeneous and Inhomogeneous Broadening 4553 4.1.1. ZPLs and Phonon Sidebands (PSBs) 4554 4.1.2. ElectronÀPhonon Coupling and Homogeneous Line Shapes 4555 4.2. Nonphotochemical, Photochemical, and Transient SHB Spectroscopy 4557 4.3. Mechanism of Nonphotochemical Hole-Burning (NPHB) 4558 4.4. Kinetics of NPHB 4559 4.5. Zero-Phonon Action (ZPA) Spectroscopy: Site Distribution Function (SDF) 4560 4.6. Hole Shapes and FLN Line Shapes-Electron Phonon Coupling and ΔFLNS 4561 4.7. Ground and Excited State Vibrational Frequencies 4567 4.8. SHB in Excitonically Coupled Systems 4567 4.9. Basic Principles of SPCS 4568 4.10. Basic Principles of Two-Dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy (2D ES) 4569 5. Examples of Applications of NPHB, FLNS, SPCS, and 2D ES to Photosynthesis 4570 5.1. Light-Harvesting and EET in Antenna Complexes 4570 5.1.1. Peripheral Antenna Systems of Photosystem II (
Previously published and new spectral hole burning (SHB) data on the B800 band of LH2 light-harvesting antenna complex of Rps. acidophila are analyzed in light of recent single photosynthetic complex spectroscopy (SPCS) results (for a review, see Berlin et al. Phys. Life Rev. 2007, 4, 64.). It is demonstrated that, in general, SHB-related phenomena observed for the B800 band are in qualitative agreement with the SPCS data and the protein models involving multiwell multitier protein energy landscapes. Regarding the quantitative agreement, we argue that the single-molecule behavior associated with the fastest spectral diffusion (smallest barrier) tier of the protein energy landscape is inconsistent with the SHB data. The latter discrepancy can be attributed to SPCS probing not only the dynamics of of the protein complex per se, but also that of the surrounding amorphous host and/or of the host-protein interface. It is argued that SHB (once improved models are developed) should also be able to provide the average magnitudes and probability distributions of light-induced spectral shifts and could be used to determine whether SPCS probes a set of protein complexes that are both intact and statistically relevant. SHB results are consistent with the B800 --> B850 energy-transfer models including consideration of the whole B850 density of states.
Hole-burning and single photosynthetic complex spectroscopy were used to study the excitonic structure and excitation energy-transfer processes of cyanobacterial trimeric Photosystem I (PS I) complexes from Synechocystis PCC 6803 and Thermosynechococcus elongatus at low temperatures. It was shown that individual PS I complexes of Synechocystis PCC 6803 (which have two red antenna states, i.e., C706 and C714) reveal only a broad structureless fluorescence band with a maximum near 720 nm, indicating strong electron-phonon coupling for the lowest energy C714 red state. The absence of zero-phonon lines (ZPLs) belonging to the C706 red state in the emission spectra of individual PS I complexes from Synechocystis PCC 6803 suggests that the C706 and C714 red antenna states of Synechocystis PCC 6803 are connected by efficient energy transfer with a characteristic transfer time of approximately 5 ps. This finding is in agreement with spectral hole-burning data obtained for bulk samples of Synechocystis PCC 6803. The importance of comparing the results of ensemble (spectral hole burning) and single-complex measurements was demonstrated. The presence of narrow ZPLs near 710 nm in addition to the broad fluorescence band at approximately 730 nm in Thermosynechococcus elongatus (Jelezko et al. J. Phys. Chem. B 2000, 104, 8093-8096) has been confirmed. We also demonstrate that high-quality samples obtained by dissolving crystals of PS I of Thermosynechococcus elongatus exhibit stronger absorption in the red antenna region than any samples studied so far by us and other groups.
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