Carotenoids are essential for the survival of photosynthetic organisms [1-6]. They act as
protective devices against irreversible photodestruction of the photosynthetic apparatus …

In photosynthesis, light-harvesting chlorophyll molecules are shunted between
photosystems by phosphorylation of the protein to which they are bound. An anchor for the …

Excitons are considered as the basic concept used by describing the spectral properties of
photosynthetic pigment-protein complexes and excitation dynamics in photosynthetic light …

Low-temperature single-molecule spectroscopic techniques were applied to a light-
harvesting pigment-protein complex (LH2) from purple photosynthetic bacteria. The …

Since highly symmetric cyclic architecture of light-harvesting antenna complex LH2 in purple
bacteria was revealed in 1995, there has been a renaissance in developing cyclic porphyrin …

Absorption of light by light-harvesting complexes and transfer of electronic excitation to the
photosynthetic reaction center (RC) constitute the primary light-harvesting process of …

In photosynthesis, highly organized multiprotein assemblies convert sunlight into
biochemical energy with high efficiency. A challenge in structural biology is to analyze such …

Absorption and CD spectra of a photosynthetic bacterial antenna complex are calculated on
the basis of the crystal structure of the LH2 (B800-850) complex from Rhodopseudomonas …

I t is through photosynthesis that Earth's biosphere derives its energy from sunlight.
Photosynthetic organisms—plants, algae and photosynthetic bacteria—have developed …

Observing the elementary steps of light-harvesting in real time is now possible using
femtosecond spectroscopy. This, combined with new structural data, has allowed a fairly …