[Means of optimizing light energy conversion in the primary stages of photosynthesis. II. Optimization of the structure of an uniform photosynthetic unit lattice].
The possibility of optimization of the structure of a model photosynthetic unit lattice is analysed. The efficiency of the photosynthetic unit operation is evaluated from the time of excitation energy trapping by reaction centers. The calculations assume a Förster inductive resonance mechanism for energy transfer within light--harvesting antenna and pairwise dipolar interactions. We use the probability matrix method which is adapted to excitation trapping time (but not to excitation jumps number) calculation. It is shown that the specific anisotropy of the distances between antenna molecules (which is in principle possible due to the diskshaped form of chlorophyll molecules) in combination with the optimal spatial arrangement of reaction centers as "well regulated clusters" allows to decrease the time of excitation energy trapping by over an order of magnitude. The requirements for optimization of the structure of a macroscopic photosynthetic unit lattice and the consequences following from them for the in vivo systems are formulated.
D002734:Chlorophyll; D008027:Light; D008954:Models, Biological; D010788:Photosynthesis; D011487:Protein Conformation
D002734:Chlorophyll
Puti optimizatsii preobrazovaniia svetovoĭ énergii v pervichnykh aktakh fotosinteza. II. Optimizatsiia stroeniia reshetki odnorodnoĭ fotosinteticheskoĭ edinitsy.