A highly efficient heptamethine cyanine antenna for photosynthetic Reaction Center: From chemical design to ultrafast energy transfer investigation of the hybrid system.
Bioconjugation
Biophotovoltaic
Light harvesting antenna
Photocurrent
Photoenzyme
Photosynthetic bacteria
Solar energy conversion
Journal
Biochimica et biophysica acta. Bioenergetics
ISSN: 1879-2650
Titre abrégé: Biochim Biophys Acta Bioenerg
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 101731706
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
01 04 2019
01 04 2019
Historique:
received:
03
07
2018
revised:
11
12
2018
accepted:
26
01
2019
pubmed:
6
2
2019
medline:
28
8
2019
entrez:
6
2
2019
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
The photosynthetic Reaction Center (RC) from the purple bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides has unique photoconversion capabilities, that can be exploited in assembly biohybrid devices for applications in solar energy conversion. Extending the absorption cross section of isolated RC through covalent functionalization with ad-hoc synthesized artificial antennas is a successful strategy to outperform the efficiency of the pristine photoenzyme under visible light excitation. Here we report a new heptamethine cyanine antenna that, upon covalent binding to RC, forms a biohybrid (hCyN7-RC) which, under white light excitation, has doubled photoconversion efficiency versus the bare photoenzyme. The artificial antenna hCyN7 successfully meets appropriate optical properties, i.e. peak position of absorption and emission maximum in the visible and NIR region respectively, large Stokes shift, and high fluorescence quantum yield, required for improving the efficiency of the biohybrid in the production of the charge-separated state in the RC. The kinetics of energy transfer and charge separation of hCyN7-RC studied via ultrafast visible and IR spectroscopies are here presented. The antenna transfers energy to RC chromophores within <10 ps and the rate of Q
Identifiants
pubmed: 30721661
pii: S0005-2728(18)30185-3
doi: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2019.01.009
pii:
doi:
Substances chimiques
Bacterial Proteins
0
Light-Harvesting Protein Complexes
0
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
350-359Informations de copyright
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