A different perspective for nonphotochemical quenching in plant antenna complexes

Edoardo Cignoni; Margherita Lapillo; Lorenzo Cupellini; Silvia Acosta-Gutiérrez; Francesco Luigi Gervasio; Benedetta Mennucci

doi:10.1038/s41467-021-27526-8

Nature Communications (Dec 2021)

A different perspective for nonphotochemical quenching in plant antenna complexes

Edoardo Cignoni,
Margherita Lapillo,
Lorenzo Cupellini,
Silvia Acosta-Gutiérrez,
Francesco Luigi Gervasio,
Benedetta Mennucci

Affiliations

Edoardo Cignoni: Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, University of Pisa
Margherita Lapillo: Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, University of Pisa
Lorenzo Cupellini: Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, University of Pisa
Silvia Acosta-Gutiérrez: Department of Chemistry, University College London
Francesco Luigi Gervasio: Department of Chemistry, University College London
Benedetta Mennucci: Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, University of Pisa

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27526-8
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Nonphotochemical quenching (NPQ) protects photosynthetic complexes from damage due to excess light. Here the authors explore different conformations of the plant CP29 light harvesting complex, showing how protein tuning of carotenoid excitation energies and carotenoid-chlorophyll interactions account for NPQ.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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