Abstract
Independent experimental and theoretical evaluation was performed for the adequacy of our previously proposed general molecular model of the structural organization of light-harvesting pigments in chlorosomal bacteriochlorophyll (BChl) с/d/e-containing superantennae of different green bacteria. Measurement of the temperature dependence of steady-state fluorescence spectra of BChl c was accomplished in intact cells of a photosynthetic green bacterium Chloroflexus aurantiacus; this allows in vivodetermination of the structure of exciton levels of BChl c oligomers in this natural antenna. Experimental data confirm our model of organization of oligomeric pigments in chlorosomal BChl c antenna of green bacterium Chloroflexus aurantiacus. This model implies that the unit building block of the antenna is a cylindrical assembly containing six excitonically coupled linear pigment chains, whose exciton structure with intense upper levels provides for the optimal spectral properties of the light-harvesting antenna.
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