在环境温度下的光合作用海洋藻类中连接一致的光采集
Elisabetta Collini1, Cathy Y Wong, Krystyna E Wilk
1Department of Chemistry, Institute for Optical Sciences and Centre for Quantum Information and Quantum Control, University of Toronto, 80 St George Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3H6 Canada.
Nature
|February 5, 2010
概括
海藻天线蛋白在环境温度下表现出量子连贯性,挑战了关于生物系统的先前假设. 这种量子效应提高了光合作用中的光采集效率.
科学领域:
- 生物物理学的生物物理.
- 光合作用研究研究 光合作用研究
- 量子生物学 量子生物学
背景情况:
- 光合作用利用天线蛋白捕获光能转化为生物质.
- 在天线蛋白内有效的能量转移对于光合作用至关重要.
- 量子力学可能在生物系统内的能量转移中发挥作用,即使在更高的温度下也是如此.
研究的目的:
- 为了研究量子连贯性在来自海洋密码藻类的光收获蛋白质中的作用.
- 为了确定量子效应是否在生物学上相关的温度下持续存在.
主要方法:
- 采用了二维光子回声光谱学.
- 对从海洋密码藻中分离出来的采光蛋白进行了测量.
主要成果:
- 在蛋白质中观察到异常持久的激发振荡.
- 在能量转移中检测到明显的相关性和反相关性.
- 在环境温度下,5纳米宽的蛋白质中,量子连贯性是显而易见的.
结论:
- 海洋加密藻类中的光合作用蛋白质利用量子连贯性来有效收集光.
- 电子激发的量子连贯共享在生物学上相关的条件下发生.
- 这一发现挑战了量子连贯性仅限于生物系统中非常低的温度的概念.
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