Quantum dynamics of vibration-assisted excitation energy transfer in phycobiliprotein light-harvesting complex

Phycobiliprotein is a light-harvesting complex containing linear tetrapyrrole bilin pigments that are responsible for absorption and funneling the sun’s energy in cryptophytes algae. In particular, the protein structure determines relative positions and orientations of the pigments and thus controls...

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Veröffentlicht in:The Journal of chemical physics 2019-10, Vol.151 (14), p.144101-144101
Hauptverfasser: Kosenkov, Yana Kholod, Kosenkov, Dmitri
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Phycobiliprotein is a light-harvesting complex containing linear tetrapyrrole bilin pigments that are responsible for absorption and funneling the sun’s energy in cryptophytes algae. In particular, the protein structure determines relative positions and orientations of the pigments and thus controls energy transfer pathways. The present research reveals the impact of molecular vibrations (in the 850–2700 cm−1 region) on excitation energy transfer in phycobiliprotein. The analysis of the excitation energy transfer pathways indicates a possibility of the coherent mechanism of energy transfer (delocalization) in central dihydrobiliverdin pigments and incoherent vibration-assisted energy transfer to peripheral phycocyanobilin pigments at a sub-picosecond time scale. A computational approach that enables modeling the dynamics of the excitation energy transfer with the quantum master equation formalism employing Huang-Rhys factors to describe electronic-vibrational coupling has been developed. The computational methodology has been implemented in PyFREC software.
ISSN:0021-9606
1089-7690
DOI:10.1063/1.5116555