Chem. J. Chinese Universities ›› 1999, Vol. 20 ›› Issue (11): 1746.

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Picosecond Energy Transfer Between Choromophores in Allophycocyanin Terminal Emitters

WANG Hui1, ZHAO Jing-Quan2, JIANG Li-Jin 2   

  1. 1. Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China;
    2. Institute of Photographic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
  • Received:1998-11-04 Online:1999-11-24 Published:1999-11-24

Abstract: Ultrafast time-resolved fluorescence spectra were used to study the energy transfer kinetics of API and APB from Cynobacteria Spirulina platensis. The same fast lifetime component(38 ps) was found in API and APB monomers which was attributed to energy transfer between αAPAP, another two lifetimes(198 ps,141 ps) observed describe the energy transfer processes of βAP→ αAPBand αAP/ β18. In trimers, we also found the excited energy transfer between αAPAP in API and APB with 29-32 ps constants. The substitution of αAPBin AP Iand β18in APB gives rise to a heterogeneity in the chromophore-conformations and chromophore chromophore interactions, another fast lifetimes(68 ps and 50 ps) was also found and attributed to the excited energy transfer between βAP/ αAPB and αAP18in the same monomers.

Key words: Phycobilisome, Allophycocyanin, ps time-resolved fluorescence spectra, Energy transfer

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