Abstract
Fluorescence lifetimes have been measured for bacteriochlorophyll (BChl) c isolated from Chlorobium limicola in different states of aggregation in non-polar solvents. Two different homologs of BChl c were used, one with an isobutyl group at the 4 position, the other with n-propyl. Species previously identified as dimers (Olson and Pedersen 1990, Photosynth Res, this issue) decayed with lifetimes of 0.64 ns for the isobutyl homolog, 0.71 ns for n-propyl. Decay-associated spectra indicate that the absorption spectrum of the isobutyl dimer is slightly red-shifted from that of the n-propyl dimer. Aggregates absorbing maximally at 710 nm fluoresced with a principal lifetime of 3.1 ns, independent of the homolog used. In CCl4, only the isobutyl homolog forms a 747-nm absorbing oligomer spectrally similar to BChl c in vivo. This oligomer shows non-exponential fluorescence decay with lifetimes of 67 and 19 ps. Because the two components show different excitation spectra, the higher oligomer is probably a mixture of more than one species, both of which absorb at ∼747 nm.
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Abbreviations
- BChl:
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bacteriochlorophyll
- Chl:
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chlorophyll
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full-width at half-maximum
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Causgrove, T.P., Brune, D.C., Blankenship, R.E. et al. Fluorescence lifetimes of dimers and higher oligomers of bacteriochlorophyll c from Chlorobium limicola . Photosynth Res 25, 1–10 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00051730
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