Purple phototrophic bacteria for resource recovery: challenges and opportunities

G Capson-Tojo, DJ Batstone, M Grassino… - Biotechnology …, 2020 - Elsevier
Sustainable development is driving a rapid focus shift in the wastewater and organic waste
treatment sectors, from a “removal and disposal” approach towards the recovery and reuse …

The architecture and function of the light-harvesting apparatus of purple bacteria: from single molecules to in vivo membranes

RJ Cogdell, A Gall, J Köhler - Quarterly reviews of biophysics, 2006 - cambridge.org
1. Introduction 2292. Structures 2342.1 The structure of LH2 2342.2 Natural variants of
peripheral antenna complexes 2422.3 RC–LH1 complexes 2423. Spectroscopy 2493.1 …

Chromatic adaptation of photosynthetic membranes

S Scheuring, JN Sturgis - Science, 2005 - science.org
Many biological membranes adapt in response to environmental conditions. We
investigated how the composition and architecture of photosynthetic membranes of a …

Light harvesting in phototrophic bacteria: structure and function

RG Saer, RE Blankenship - Biochemical Journal, 2017 - portlandpress.com
This review serves as an introduction to the variety of light-harvesting (LH) structures present
in phototrophic prokaryotes. It provides an overview of the LH complexes of purple bacteria …

Ultrafast dynamics of photosynthetic light harvesting: Strategies for acclimation across organisms

OC Fiebig, D Harris, D Wang… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Photosynthetic light harvesting exhibits near-unity quantum efficiency. The high efficiency is
achieved through a series of energy and charge transfer steps within a network of pigment …

Two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy of molecular aggregates

NS Ginsberg, YC Cheng… - Accounts of chemical …, 2009 - ACS Publications
The properties of molecular aggregates, coupled clusters of small molecules, are often
challenging to unravel because of their inherent complexity and disordered environments …

[HTML][HTML] Spectral properties of single light-harvesting complexes in bacterial photosynthesis

Y Saga, Y Shibata, H Tamiaki - Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology …, 2010 - Elsevier
Photosynthetic light-harvesting complexes play important roles in the early events in
photosynthesis in nature, and have been studied by various spectroscopic methodologies …

Cryo-EM structures of light-harvesting 2 complexes from Rhodopseudomonas palustris reveal the molecular origin of absorption tuning

P Qian, CT Nguyen-Phan… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
The genomes of some purple photosynthetic bacteria contain a multigene puc family
encoding a series of α-and β-polypeptides that together form a heterogeneous antenna of …

Effects of light sources on growth and carotenoid content of photosynthetic bacteria Rhodopseudomonas palustris

FS Kuo, YH Chien, CJ Chen - Bioresource Technology, 2012 - Elsevier
This study investigated the effects of eight light sources on photosynthetic bacteria
(Rhodopseudomonas palustris) growth and carotenoid content (CD), cultured for 144h. Light …

Purple phototrophic bacteria are outcompeted by aerobic heterotrophs in the presence of oxygen

G Capson-Tojo, S Lin, DJ Batstone, T Hülsen - Water Research, 2021 - Elsevier
There is an ongoing debate around the effect of microaerobic/aerobic conditions on the
wastewater treatment performance and stability of enriched purple phototrophic bacteria …