| Literature DB >> 1528856 |
M Du1, S J Rosenthal, X Xie, T J DiMagno, M Schmidt, D K Hanson, M Schiffer, J R Norris, G R Fleming.
Abstract
Spontaneous emission from reaction centers of photosynthetic bacteria has been recorded with a time resolution of 50 fs. Excitation was made directly into both the special-pair band (850 nm) and the Qx band of bacteriochlorophylls (608 nm). Rhodobacter sphaeroides R26, Rhodobacter capsulatus wild type, and four mutants of Rb. capsulatus were studied. In all cases the fluorescence decay was not single exponential and was well fit as a sum of two exponential decay components. The short components are in excellent agreement with the single component detected by measurements of stimulated emission. The origin of the nonexponential decay is discussed in terms of heterogeneity, the kinetic scheme, and the possibility of slow vibrational relaxation.Entities:
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Year: 1992 PMID： 1528856 PMCID： PMC49951 DOI： 10.1073/pnas.89.18.8517
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A ISSN： 0027-8424 Impact factor: 11.205