Structural factors which control the position of the Q(y) absorption band of bacteriochlorophyll a in purple bacterial antenna complexes

R J Cogdell; T D Howard; N W Isaacs; K McLuskey; A T Gardiner

doi:10.1023/A:1020995224156

Structural factors which control the position of the Q(y) absorption band of bacteriochlorophyll a in purple bacterial antenna complexes

Photosynth Res. 2002;74(2):135-41. doi: 10.1023/A:1020995224156.

Authors

R J Cogdell¹, T D Howard, N W Isaacs, K McLuskey, A T Gardiner

Affiliation

¹ Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, IBLS, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, UK, [email protected].

PMID: 16228551
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020995224156

Abstract

This paper presents a concise review of the structural factors which control the energy of the Q(y) absorption band of bacteriochlorophyll a in purple bacterial antenna complexes. The energy of these Q(y) absorption bands is important for excitation energy transfer within the bacterial photosynthetic unit.