Protein-Based Model for Energy Transfer between Photosynthetic Light-Harvesting Complexes Is Constructed Using a Direct Protein-Protein Conjugation Strategy.
J Am Chem Soc
; 145(29): 15827-15837, 2023 07 26.
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Photosynthetic organisms utilize dynamic and complex networks of pigments bound within light-harvesting complexes to transfer solar energy from antenna complexes to reaction centers. Understanding the principles underlying the efficiency of these energy transfer processes, and how they may be incorporated into artificial light-harvesting systems, is facilitated by the construction of easily tunable model systems. We describe a protein-based model to mimic directional energy transfer between light-harvesting complexes using a circular permutant of the tobacco mosaic virus coat protein (cpTMV), which self-assembles into a 34-monomer hollow disk. Two populations of cpTMV assemblies, one labeled with donor chromophores and another labeled with acceptor chromophores, were coupled using a direct protein-protein bioconjugation method. Using potassium ferricyanide as an oxidant, assemblies containing o-aminotyrosine were activated toward the addition of assemblies containing p-aminophenylalanine. Both of these noncanonical amino acids were introduced into the cpTMV monomers through amber codon suppression. This coupling strategy has the advantages of directly, irreversibly, and site-selectively coupling donor with acceptor protein assemblies and avoids cross-reactivity with native amino acids and undesired donor-donor or acceptor-acceptor combinations. The coupled donor-acceptor model was shown to transfer energy from an antenna disk containing donor chromophores to a downstream disk containing acceptor chromophores. This model ultimately provides a controllable and modifiable platform for understanding photosynthetic interassembly energy transfer and may lead to the design of more efficient functional light-harvesting materials.
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J Am Chem Soc
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Estados Unidos