Engineering chlorophyll (Chl) pigments that are bound to photosynthetic light-harvesting proteins is one promising strategy to regulate spectral coverage for photon capture and to improve the photosynthetic efficiency of these proteins.*
The in situ oxidation of BChl a in light-harvesting protein LH2 from a purple bacterium Rhodoblastus acidophilus by 2,3-dichloro-5,6-dicyano-1,4-benzoquinone demonstrated in the article “Selective oxidation of B800 bacteriochlorophyll a in photosynthetic light-harvesting protein LH2” by Yoshitaka Saga et al. will be useful for engineering photofunctions in natural light-harvesting proteins and for understanding the alteration from BChl pigments in anoxygenic photosynthetic bacteria to Chl pigments in oxygenic organisms in the evolution of photosynthesis.*
The authors observed their sample in 20 mM Tris buffer containing 150 mM NaCl (pH 8.0) using a home-built frequency modulation AFM ( FM-AFM ) with NANOSENSORS™ PPP-NCHAuD AFM probes.*
Figure 6 from «Selective oxidation of B800 bacteriochlorophyll a in photosynthetic light-harvesting protein LH2” by Y. Saga et al.: FM-AFM images of native LH2 (A) and oxidized LH2 (B) adsorbed on mica taken in 20 mM Tris buffer containing 150 mM NaCl (pH 8.0). Left: wide images. Middle: locally enlarged images of single LH2 proteins. Right: overlapped height-profiles of ten proteins.
*Yoshitaka Saga, Kiyoshiro Kawano, Yuji Otsuka, Michie Imanishi, Yukihiro Kimura, Sayaka Matsui & Hitoshi Asakawa
Selective oxidation of B800 bacteriochlorophyll a in photosynthetic light-harvesting protein LH2
Nature, Scientific Reports, volume 9, Article number: 3636 (2019)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-40082-y
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