The Eighth Bacteriochlorophyll Completes the Excitation Energy Funnel in the FMO Protein

Marcel Schmidt am Busch; Frank Müh; M. E. Madjet; Thomas Renger

doi:10.1021/jz101541b

The Eighth Bacteriochlorophyll Completes the Excitation Energy Funnel in the FMO Protein

Marcel Schmidt am Busch
, Frank Müh
, M. E. Madjet
, Thomas Renger

Department of Theoretical Biophysics

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Abstract

The Fenna-Matthews-Olson (FMO) light-harvesting protein connects the outer antenna system (chlorosome/baseplate) with the reaction center complex in green sulfur bacteria. Since its first structure determination in the mid-70s, this pigment-protein complex has become an important model system to study excitation energy transfer. Recently, an additional bacteriochlorophyll a(the eighth) pigment was discovered in each subunit of this homotrimer. Our structure-based calculations of the optical properties of the FMO protein demonstrate that the eighth pigment is the linker to the baseplate, confirming recent suggestions from crystallographic studies.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	93-98
Number of pages	6
Journal	The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
Volume	2
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/jz101541b
Publication status	Published - 20 Jan 2011

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103036 Theoretical physics
103029 Statistical physics
106006 Biophysics
103025 Quantum mechanics
104017 Physical chemistry
211915 Solar technology

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Engineering and Natural Sciences (in general)

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