Low temperature spectroscopy of proteins. Part II: Experiments with single protein complexes

Yuri Berlin, Alexander Burin, Josef Friedrich, Jürgen Köhler

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Abstract

In this part of the review we describe aspects of the physics of proteins at low temperature as they are reflected in the spectra of individual pigment-protein complexes. The focus of this review is on the spectral diffusion of chromophores that are naturally embedded in light-harvesting complexes from purple bacteria. From the spectral diffusion behaviour we can deduce details about the organisation of the energy landscape of the protein and discuss the implications for the motions of the protein in conformational phase space.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)64-89
Number of pages26
JournalPhysics of Life Reviews
Volume4
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 2007

Keywords

  • Conformational substates
  • Energy landscape
  • Excitons in biomolecules
  • LH2
  • Protein spectroscopy
  • Single-molecule spectroscopy
  • Spectral diffusion

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