Nature Communications (Oct 2022)

Molecular asymmetry of a photosynthetic supercomplex from green sulfur bacteria

  • Ryan Puskar,
  • Chloe Du Truong,
  • Kyle Swain,
  • Saborni Chowdhury,
  • Ka-Yi Chan,
  • Shan Li,
  • Kai-Wen Cheng,
  • Ting Yu Wang,
  • Yu-Ping Poh,
  • Yuval Mazor,
  • Haijun Liu,
  • Tsui-Fen Chou,
  • Brent L. Nannenga,
  • Po-Lin Chiu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33505-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Cryo-EM reveals an asymmetric bacterial photosynthetic supercomplex built upon a homodimeric reaction center core. The structure provides mechanistic insights into light excitation transfer and a possible evolutionary transition intermediate of photosynthetic machinery.