Pigment pigment interactions and protein dynamics in light harvesting complexes [Elektronische Ressource] : a single molecule study / von Clemens Hofmann

Pigment-PigmentInteractionsandProteinDynamicsinLight-HarvestingComplexes:aSingle-MoleculeStudyVonderUniversita¨tBayreuthzurErlangungdesGradeseinesDoktorsderNaturwissenschaften(Dr.rer.nat.)genehmigteAbhandlungvonClemensHofmannausHamburg1.Gutachter: Prof.Dr.Ju¨rgenKo¨hler2.Gutachter: Prof.Dr. MarkusSchwoererTagderEinreichung: 12.Dezember2003TagdesKolloquiums: 24.Mai2004I certify that all material in this thesis which is not my own work has been identified and thatnomaterial isincludedforwhichadegreehaspreviouslybeenconferred uponme.............................(ClemensHofmann)Scientificpublicationsofresultspresentedinthiswork• CLEMENS HOFMANN, THIJS J. AARTSMA, HARTMUT MICHEL, AND JU¨RGEN KO¨HLER,“SpectralDynamicsintheB800bandofLH2fromRhodospirillummolischianum: ASingle-MoleculeStudy”. NewJour.Phys. 68(2004).¨ ¨• CLEMENS HOFMANN, THIJS J. AARTSMA, HARTMUT MICHEL, AND JURGEN KOHLER,“DirectObservationofTiersintheEnergyLandscapeofaChromoprotein: ASingle-MoleculeStudy”. Proc.Nat.Acad.Sci.U.S.A.10015534-15538(2004).• CLEMENS HOFMANN, FRANCESCOFRANCIA, GIOVANNI VENTUROLI,DIETER¨ ¨OESTERHELT, AND JURGEN KOHLER,“Energytransferinasingleself-aggregatedphotosyntheticunit”. FEBSLett. 546345-348(2003).• CLEMENS HOFMANN, MATIJN KETELAARS,MICHIO MATSUSHITA,HARTMUT MICHEL,¨ ¨THIJS J. AARTSMA, AND JURGEN KOHLER,“Single-MoleculestudyoftheElectronicCouplingsinaCircularArrayofMolecules: Light-Harvesting2ComplexfromRhodospirillummolischianum”. Phys.Rev.Lett.