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Modeling the Excitation Energy Capture in Thylakoid Membranes

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Part of the book series: Advances in Photosynthesis and Respiration ((AIPH,volume 14))

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The thylakoid membrane of organisms carrying out oxygenic photosynthesis is composed of a great variety of extrinsic and intrinsic peripheral light-harvesting complexes together with two types of core complexes that bind the cofactors of the reaction centers. In a complex interplay, the macromolecular supercomplexes perform an optimized conversion of light into chemical free energy. In the past decades much knowledge has accumulated on the structure and dynamics of the individual pigment-protein supercomplexes: This can be advantageously used to model light-harvesting in various kinds of thylakoid membranes and the distribution of excitation energy to the photosystems.

This chapter focuses on the experimental dissection and theoretical reassembly of the components of thylakoid membranes. By means of three examples it will be demonstrated how known structural building blocks are related to so-called states can be put together in reaction schemes. The mathematical treatment of such self-consistent reaction schemes which predicts unique solutions for all measurable quantities will be explicitly outlined. The solutions can be used to analyze experimental data (target analysis), to test their consistency with experimental data, and to predict experimentally difficult accessible quantities like: (i) quantum yields and (ii) the proportion in which the two photosystems are excited. Fluorescence induction, lateral energy transfer, distribution and redistribution of excitation energy between the photosystems (spillover), uphill energy transfer and low temperature data will also be discussed.

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Trissl, HW. (2003). Modeling the Excitation Energy Capture in Thylakoid Membranes. In: Larkum, A.W.D., Douglas, S.E., Raven, J.A. (eds) Photosynthesis in Algae. Advances in Photosynthesis and Respiration, vol 14. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1038-2_12

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