Photosynthetica 2000, 38(1):1-6 | DOI: 10.1023/A:1026723303078

Interactions of Chlorophyll and Polypeptide Mixture with Bacterial Reaction Centres

H. Enomoto1, S. Takeda1, C. Nakamura1, J. Miyake1, A. Ptak2, A. Dudkowiak2, D. Frackowiak2
1 National Institute for Advanced Interdisciplinary Research, AIST/MITI, Ibaraki, Japan
2 Institute of Physics, Poznań, University of Technology, Poznań, Poland

In aqueous solutions of chlorophyll (Chl) a with synthesized polypeptides, at high ratios of Chl to polypeptides (about 75-150 µM to 500 µM) clusters of polypeptides and pigment molecules were formed. The main absorption maxima of more than one formed cluster were located at about 500 nm (Soret band) and in the region of 720-806 nm (red band). The formation of these clusters was fairly slow (some hours) at room temperature and even slower at 4 °C. The rate of cluster formation increased with the increase in Chl concentration. The addition of the even low amount of reaction centres (RCs), separated from the purple bacteria Rhodobacter sphaeroides, to the sample of Chl with polypeptides caused a very strong decrease in the efficiency of cluster formation, and a change in concentration ratios of various pigment-polypeptide aggregates. It was probably a competition between the interaction of Chl with polypeptides and with the RCs. The yield of thermal deactivation of the clusters was high, much higher than that for the RCs alone and it was different for various types of cluster. The clusters absorbing at 725-750 nm were fluorescent with maximum of emission at about 770 nm, whereas clusters absorbing at about 800 nm were nonfluorescent.

Additional key words: absorption spectra; fluorescence spectra; photoacoustic spectra; Rhodobacter sphaeroides; thermal deactivation

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Enomoto, H., Takeda, S., Nakamura, C., Miyake, J., Ptak, A., Dudkowiak, A., & Frackowiak, D. (2000). Interactions of Chlorophyll and Polypeptide Mixture with Bacterial Reaction Centres. Photosynthetica, 38(1), 1-6. doi: 10.1023/A:1026723303078
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