Visualization of excitation energy transfer processes in plants and algae

Mimuro, Mamoru

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“…For general information, see some reviews (Clegg 2004;Govindjee 2004;Papageorgiou 2004;Sauer and Debreczeny 1996). An entry into the vast literature on excitation energy transfer and trapping of energy in photosynthestic systems may be sought through several reviews (Brody 2005;Frank and Christensen 1995;Koyama and Kakitani 2006;Leupold et al 2006;Mimuro 2004Mimuro , 2005Renger and Holzwarth 2008;Van Stokkum et al 2008;Van Grondelle and Gobets 2004;Van Grondelle and Novoderezhkin 2008) in the Advances in Photosynthesis and Respiration Series (Springer, Dordrecht).…”

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Fluorescence lifetimes: fundamentals and interpretations

Noomnarm

Clegg

2009

Photosynth Res

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Fluorescence measurements have been an established mainstay of photosynthesis experiments for many decades. Because in the photosynthesis literature the basics of excited states and their fates are not usually described, we have presented here an easily understandable text for biology students in the style of a chapter in a text book. In this review we give an educational overview of fundamental physical principles of fluorescence, with emphasis on the temporal response of emission. Escape from the excited state of a molecule is a dynamic event, and the fluorescence emission is in direct kinetic competition with several other pathways of de-excitation. It is essentially through a kinetic competition between all the pathways of de-excitation that we gain information about the fluorescent sample on the molecular scale. A simple probability allegory is presented that illustrates the basic ideas that are important for understanding and interpreting most fluorescence experiments. We also briefly point out challenges that confront the experimenter when interpreting time-resolved fluorescence responses.

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Fluorescence lifetimes: fundamentals and interpretations

Noomnarm

Clegg

2009

Photosynth Res

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“…Figure 2 shows Alexander Glazer and several other scientists involved in phycobilisome research. [See Brody (2002) and Mimuro (2002) for early energy transfer measurements.] Glazer and co-workers (Glazer et al 1973;Glazer and Fang 1973b) were the first to perform in vitro reconstitution of a phycocyanin indistinguishable from the native protein.…”

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Phycobiliproteins and phycobilisomes: the early observations

Marsac

2005

Discoveries in Photosynthesis

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The purpose of this minireview is to highlight the early observations that led to the discovery of the physicochemical properties of the phycobiliproteins, their structure and function, and to their architectural organization in supramolecular complexes, the phycobilisomes. Generally attached on the stromal surface of the thylakoid membranes in both prokaryotic (cyanobacteria) and eukaryotic cells (cyanelles, red algae and cryptomonads), these complexes represent the most abundant soluble proteins and the major light-harvesting antennae for photosynthesis. This review mainly focuses on the years prior to the development of the molecular biology of cyanobacteria that flourished in the 1980s. We refer the reader to the comprehensive and excellent review by Sidler (1994) for more recent discoveries and more detailed literature on this topic.

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“…Any degree of overlap of these spectra will satisfy the quantization requirements for the energy or the thermally equilibrated donor molecules to promote the acceptor to a vibrational level of excited singlet state. The greater the degree or overlap of the luminescence spectrum of the donor and the absorption spectrum of the acceptor, the greater is the probability that energy transfer will take place [43,44].…”

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A Recent Review on Chemiluminescence Reaction, Principle and Application on Pharmaceutical Analysis

2013

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This paper provides a general review on principle of chemiluminescent reactions and their recent applications in drug analysis. The structural requirements for chemiluminescent reactions and the different factors that affect the efficiency of analysis are included in the review. Chemiluminescence application in immunoassay is the new version for this review. Practical considerations are not included in the review since the main interest is to state, through the aforementioned applications, that chemiluminescence has been, is, and will be a versatile tool for pharmaceutical analysis in future years.

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Visualization of excitation energy transfer processes in plants and algae

Cited by 9 publications

References 36 publications

Fluorescence lifetimes: fundamentals and interpretations

Fluorescence lifetimes: fundamentals and interpretations

Phycobiliproteins and phycobilisomes: the early observations

A Recent Review on Chemiluminescence Reaction, Principle and Application on Pharmaceutical Analysis

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