Ultrafast excitation quenching by the oxidized photosystem II reaction center

• Main Authors: Akhtar, Parveen, Sipka, Gábor, Han, Wenhui, Li, Xingyue, Han, Guangye, Shen, Jian-Ren, Garab, Győző, Tan, Howe-Siang, Lambrev, Petar H.
• Other Authors: School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Science::Chemistry; Energy Transfer; Photosystem-II
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/160008
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Photosystem II (PSII) is the pigment-protein complex driving the photoinduced oxidation of water and reduction of plastoquinone in all oxygenic photosynthetic organisms. Excitations in the antenna chlorophylls are photochemically trapped in the reaction center (RC) producing the chlorophyll-pheophyt...