| Chapter title |
Carotenoids and Photosynthesis.
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|---|---|
| Chapter number | 4 |
| Book title |
Carotenoids in Nature
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| Published in |
Sub cellular biochemistry, August 2016
|
| DOI | 10.1007/978-3-319-39126-7_4 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Book ISBNs |
978-3-31-939124-3, 978-3-31-939126-7
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| Authors |
Hideki Hashimoto, Chiasa Uragami, Richard J. Cogdell, Hashimoto, Hideki, Uragami, Chiasa, Cogdell, Richard J. |
| Editors |
Claudia Stange |
| Abstract |
Carotenoids are ubiquitous and essential pigments in photosynthesis. They absorb in the blue-green region of the solar spectrum and transfer the absorbed energy to (bacterio-)chlorophylls, and so expand the wavelength range of light that is able to drive photosynthesis. This is an example of singlet-singlet energy transfer, and so carotenoids serve to enhance the overall efficiency of photosynthetic light reactions. Carotenoids also act to protect photosynthetic organisms from the harmful effects of excess exposure to light. Triplet-triplet energy transfer from chlorophylls to carotenoids plays a key role in this photoprotective reaction. In the light-harvesting pigment-protein complexes from purple photosynthetic bacteria and chlorophytes, carotenoids have an additional role of structural stabilization of those complexes. In this article we review what is currently known about how carotenoids discharge these functions. The molecular architecture of photosynthetic systems will be outlined first to provide a basis from which to describe carotenoid photochemistry, which underlies most of their important functions in photosynthesis. |
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