PHOTOSTABILITY OF PURPLE BACTERIAL LIGHT–HARVESTING COMPLEXES TOWARDS EXPOSURE OF LIGHT ILLUMINATION TRACED BY PIGMENT RATIO
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https://doi.org/10.11113/jt.v78.8196Keywords:
Light-harvesting complexes, photostability, pigment ratio, purple bacteriaAbstract
Purple photosynthetic light–harvesting (LH2) is an attractive complex module for assembling hybrid nanostructures that feature energy transfer. LH2 has a broad absorption spectrum range from ultraviolet (UV) to near-infra red (NIR) region. Bacteriochlorophyll a molecules absorb at 320 nm to 400 nm (Soret band), 585 nm (Qx) and at NIR region (B800 and B850 bands), while carotenoid absorption bands span from 400 nm to 550 nm. LH2 has to be extracted from its native lipid bilayer membrane and placed in suitable matrix that less mobile and better adherent than the native lipid environment to determine its function. Previous results on pigment ratio determination in different strains of purple photosynthetic bacteria suggested a variation during initial log phase and late log phase. In this experiment, the goal is to reveal the behavior of pigment ratio in LH2 of Rhodopseudomonas palustris during irradiation of certain intensity of light. Photostability assay of LH2 from Rhodopseudomonas palustris in n-dodecyl-β-D-maltoside or DDM was determined under continuous illumination (3 000 μmol·m–2·s–1) for 300 min at room temperature by recording the absorption spectra. Degradation was observed in B850 and B800 at about 67 % and 64 %, respectively, as well as blue shift in B850. Initial pigments isolated from LH2 suggested a mixture of carotenoids and bacteriochlorophylls which was determined further using a high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC).
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