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Two-Photon and Fluorescence Spectroscopy and the Effect of Environment on the Photochemical Properties of Peridinin in Solution and in the Peridinin-Chlorophyll-Protein from Amphidinium carterae

The Journal of Physical Chemistry A2003Vol. 107(40), pp. 8052–8066

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Sumie Shima, Robielyn P. Ilagan, Nathan B. Gillespie, Brandi J. Sommer, Roger G. Hiller, Frank P. Sharples, Harry A. Frank, Robert R. Birge

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The ground and excited-state properties of peridinin in solution and in the peridinin-chlorophyll-protein (PCP) complex are studied by using one-photon and two-photon spectroscopy, solvent effects, and quantum theory. Two-photon excitation spectra, two-photon polarization data, and fluorescence spectra in CS2 reveal three low-lying excited singlet states in peridinin: a lowest-excited1Ag*--like state with a system origin at ∼16 200 cm-1, a 1Bu*+-like S2 state with a system origin at ∼19 300 cm-1, and a 1Bu*--like S3 state with a system origin at ∼22 000 cm-1. The 1Bu*+-like S2 state dominates the two-photon excitation spectrum of peridinin in solution and in PCP because of type II enhancement associated with a large oscillator strength (f ≈ 1.6) coupled with a change in dipole moment upon excitation (Δμ ≈ 3 D). Thus, the two-photon spectrum looks very much like the one-photon spectrum although weak vibronic bands of the 1Ag*--like state are observed at ∼17, ∼18.1, and ∼19.2 kK in the two-photon spectrum of peridinin in CS2. MNDO−PSDCI theory and solvent effect studies indicate that the S1 (1Ag*--like) state has a large dipole moment (μaa ≈ 16 D, Δμ ≈ 8 D) in both polar and nonpolar environments, much larger than the ground-state dipole moment [μ00 ≈ 6 (non polar media) − 8 (polar media) D]. Thus, the 1Ag*--like state is assigned as the charge-transfer state observed in previous studies. The suggestion that the charge-transfer character is induced in polar solvent is not supported by these studies. We conclude that some of the studies that have suggested an increase in the charge-transfer character of S1 with solvent polarity are based on experiments that are more sensitive to (μaa − μ00)μ00 than (μaa − μ00). Peridinin exists as a mixture of all-trans and 14-s-cis (single bond to allene moiety) conformers in ambient temperature hexane solution, with a predominance of the former. Polar solvents such as methanol and high-dielectric solvents such as CS2 preferentially stabilize the all-trans conformer relative to the 14-s-cis. MNDO−PSDCI calculations on the minimized peridinin molecules within PCP indicate that most of the chromophores have excited state properties similar to those observed for the isolated all-trans chromophore. However, the chromophores occupying sites 612 and 622 are not only blue shifted but have inverted S1 and S2 singlet states. Our studies provide both support and additional perspective on the PCP energy transfer model proposed by Damjanovic et al. (Biophys. J. 2000, 79, 1695−1705) in which the peridinin molecules in these sites transfer energy to other peridinin chromophores rather than directly to chlorophyll. We conclude that the 612 and 622 sites optimize energy transfer by increasing the population of the lowest-excited 1Bu*+-like state, which provides enhanced dipolar coupling to the remaining peridinin set. An analysis of the PCP complex spectrum in terms of component spectra of the pigments indicates that two peridinin molecules have unique, blue-shifted spectra.

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