Exciton states and optical properties of the CP26 photosynthetic protein.

Comput Biol Chem

Department of Chemistry, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie gory 1-3, Moscow 119991, Russia.

Published: February 2018

The photosynthetic complex CP26, one of the minor antennae of the photosystem II, plays an important role in regulation of the excitation energy transfer in the PSII. Due to instability during isolation and purification, it remained poorly studied from the viewpoint of theoretical chemistry because of the absence of X-ray crystallography data. In this work, using the recently determined three-dimensional structure of the complex we apply the quantum chemical approach to study the properties of exciton states in it. Spectral properties, structure of exciton states and roles of the pigments in the complex and photosystem II are discussed.

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