Carotenoids are ubiquitous and essential pigments in photosynthesis. They absorb in the
blue-green region of the solar spectrum and transfer the absorbed energy to (bacterio-) …

Oxygenic photosynthesis is the principal converter of sunlight into chemical energy on Earth.
Cyanobacteria and plants provide the oxygen, food, fuel, fibers, and platform chemicals for …

Bacterial photosynthesis is essential for sustaining life on Earth as it aids in carbon
assimilation, atmospheric composition, and ecosystem maintenance. Many bacteria utilize …

We report a 100-million atom-scale model of an entire cell organelle, a photosynthetic
chromatophore vesicle from a purple bacterium, that reveals the cascade of energy …

Abstract Light-harvesting complex 1 (LH1) and the reaction centre (RC) form a membrane-
protein supercomplex that performs the primary reactions of photosynthesis in purple …

Previously we introduced peptidiscs as an alternative to detergents to stabilize membrane
proteins in solution (Carlson et al., 2018). Here, we present 'on-gradient'reconstitution, a …

Chlorophyll-based phototrophs, or chlorophototrophs, convert light energy into stored
chemical potential energy using two types of photochemical reaction center (RC), denoted …

Chlorophototrophic organisms have a charge-separating reaction centre (RC) complex that
receives energy from a dedicated light-harvesting (LH) antenna. In the purple phototrophic …

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 …

Photosynthesis begins when a network of pigment–protein complexes captures solar energy
and transports it to the reaction center, where charge separation occurs. When necessary …