Photosynthetic Light-Harvesting (Antenna) Complexes-Structures and Functions.

ABSTRACT: Chlorophylls and bacteriochlorophylls, together with carotenoids, serve, noncovalently bound to specific apoproteins, as principal light-harvesting and energy-transforming pigments in photosynthetic organisms. In recent years, enormous progress has been achieved in the elucidation of structures and functions of light-harvesting (antenna) complexes, photosynthetic reaction centers and even entire photosystems. It is becoming increasingly clear that light-harvesting complexes not only serve to enlarge the absorption cross sections of the respective reaction centers but are vitally important in short- and long-term adaptation of the photosynthetic apparatus and regulation of the energy-transforming processes in response to external and internal conditions. Thus, the wide variety of structural

SUBMITTER: Lokstein H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8199901 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature