Tuning the photoexcitation response of cyanobacterial Photosystem I via reconstitution into Proteoliposomes.

ABSTRACT: The role of natural thylakoid membrane housing of Photosystem I (PSI), the transmembrane photosynthetic protein, in its robust photoactivated charge separation with near unity quantum efficiency is not fundamentally understood. To this end, incorporation of suitable protein scaffolds for PSI incorporation is of great scientific and device manufacturing interest. Areas of interest include solid state bioelectronics, and photoelectrochemical devices that require bio-abio interfaces that do not compromise the photoactivity and photostability of PSI. Therefore, the surfactant-induced membrane solubilization of a negatively charged phospholipid (DPhPG) with the motivation of creating biomimetic reconstructs of PSI reconstitution in DPhPG liposomes is studied. Specifically, a simple yet elegant

SUBMITTER: Niroomand H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5449388 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature