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Annual Review of Physical Chemistry

Volume 74, 2023

Ultrafast Dynamics of Photosynthetic Light Harvesting: Strategies for Acclimation Across Organisms

Abstract

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-containing proteins. Remarkably, high efficiency is conserved across many organisms despite differences in the protein structures and organization that allow each organism to respond to its own biological niche and the stressors within. In this review, we highlight recent progress toward understanding how organisms maintain optimal light-harvesting ability by acclimating to their environment. First, we review the building blocks of photosynthetic light harvesting, energy transfer, and time-resolved spectroscopic techniques. Then, we explore how three classes of photosynthetic organisms—purple bacteria, cyanobacteria, and green plants—optimize their light-harvesting apparatuses to their particular environment. Overall, research has shown that photosynthetic energy transfer is robust to changing environmental conditions, with each organism utilizing its own strategies to optimize photon capture in its particular biological niche.

Keyword(s): energy transfer, light harvesting, photosynthesis, ultrafast dynamics
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Ultrafast Dynamics of Photosynthetic Light Harvesting: Strategies for Acclimation Across Organisms
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