Model Lipid Membranes Assembled from Natural Plant Thylakoids into 2D Microarray Patterns as a Platform to Assess the Organization and Photophysics of Light‐Harvesting Proteins

• Published in: Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) Vol. 17; no. 14; pp. e2006608 - n/a
• Main Authors: Meredith, Sophie A., Yoneda, Takuro, Hancock, Ashley M., Connell, Simon D., Evans, Stephen D., Morigaki, Kenichi, Adams, Peter G.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Germany Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.04.2021; John Wiley and Sons Inc
• Subjects: artificial photosynthesis; Atomic force microscopy; atomic force microscopy (AFM); biohybrids; chlorophyll fluorescence; Electron transfer; Fluorescence; fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM); Light-Harvesting Protein Complexes - metabolism; light‐harvesting; Lipids; Membranes; Nanotechnology; Photosynthesis; Photosystem II Protein Complex - metabolism; Plant Proteins - metabolism; Proteins; supported lipid bilayers; Thylakoids - metabolism; Tumor Necrosis Factor Ligand Superfamily Member 14 - metabolism; Two dimensional models; artificial photosynthesis; biohybrids; supported lipid bilayers; atomic force microscopy (AFM); chlorophyll fluorescence; fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM); light-harvesting

Natural photosynthetic “thylakoid” membranes found in green plants contain a large network of light‐harvesting (LH) protein complexes. Rearrangement of this photosynthetic machinery, laterally within stacked membranes called “grana”, alters protein–protein interactions leading to changes in the ener...