Pigment organization and energy transfer in the green photosynthetic bacterium Chloroflexus aurantiacus
- 1 January 1986
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Photosynthesis Research
- Vol. 9 (1-2), 33-45
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00029729
Abstract
The transfer of excitation energy and the pigment arrangement in isolated chlorosomes of the thermophilic green bacterium Chloroflexus aurantiacus were studied by means of absorption, fluorescence and linear dichroism spectroscopy, both at room temperature and at 4 K. The low temperature absorption spectrum shows bands of the main antenna pigments BChl c and carotenoid, in addition to which bands of BChl a are present at 798 and 613 nm. Fluorescence measurements showed that excitation energy from BChl c and carotenoid is transferred to BChl a, which presumably functions as an intermediate in energy transfer from the chlorosome to the cytoplasmic membrane. Measurements of fluorescence polarization and the use of two different orientation techniques for linear dichroism experiments enabled us to determine the orientation of several transition dipole moments with respect to each other and to the three principal axes of the chlorosome. The Qy transition of BChl a is oriented almost perfectly perpendicular to the long axis of the chlorosome. The Qy transition of BChl c and the γ-carotene transition dipole are almost parallel to each other. They make an angle of about 40° with the long axis and of about 70° with the short axis of the chlorosome; the angle between these transitions and the BChl a Qy transition is close to the magic angle (55°).Keywords
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