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SUBMITTER: Cupellini L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6994720 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cupellini Lorenzo L Calvani Dario D Jacquemin Denis D Mennucci Benedetta B
Nature communications 20200131 1
The photosynthetic apparatus of higher plants can dissipate excess excitation energy during high light exposure, by deactivating excited chlorophylls through a mechanism called nonphotochemical quenching (NPQ). However, the precise molecular details of quenching and the mechanism regulating the quenching level are still not completely understood. Focusing on the major light-harvesting complex LHCII of Photosystem II, we show that a charge transfer state involving Lutein can efficiently quench ch ...[more]