Structural and Functional Hierarchy in Photosynthetic Energy Conversion-from Molecules to Nanostructures.

ABSTRACT: Basic principles of structural and functional requirements of photosynthetic energy conversion in hierarchically organized machineries are reviewed. Blueprints of photosynthesis, the energetic basis of virtually all life on Earth, can serve the basis for constructing artificial light energy-converting molecular devices. In photosynthetic organisms, the conversion of light energy into chemical energy takes places in highly organized fine-tunable systems with structural and functional hierarchy. The incident photons are absorbed by light-harvesting complexes, which funnel the excitation energy into reaction centre (RC) protein complexes containing redox-active chlorophyll molecules; the primary charge separations in the RCs are followed by vectorial transport of charges (electrons and proton

SUBMITTER: Szabo T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4666181 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature