title: Energy transfer from carotenoid and FMO-protein in subcellular preparations from green sulfur bacteria. Spectroscopic characterization of an FMO-reaction center core complex at low temperature.
abstract: The Fenna-Matthews-Olson (FMO)-protein and the FMO-reaction center (RC) core complex from the green sulfur bacterium Chlorobium tepidum were examined at 6 K by absorption and fluorescence spectroscopy. The absorption spectrum of the RC core complex was obtained by a subtraction method and found to have fiye peaks in the QY region, at 797, 808, 818, 834 and 837 nm. The efficiency of energy transfer from carotenoid to bacteriochlorophyll a in the RC core complex was 23% at 6 K, and from the FMO-protein to the core it was 35%. Energy transfer from the FMO-protein to the core complex was also measured in isolated membranes of Prosthecochloris aestuarii from the action spectra of charge separation. Again, a low efficiency of energy transfer was obtained, both at 6 K and at room temperature.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biophysics, Huygens Laboratory, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9504, 2300 RA, Leiden, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Francke
authors.forename: S C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Otte
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Miller
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Amesz
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Olson