Detailed information on the photo-generated triplet states of diatom and haptophyte Fucoxanthin Chlorophyll-binding Proteins (FCPs and E-FCPs, respectively) have been obtained from a combined spectroscopic investigation involving Transient Absorption and Time-Resolved Electron Paramagnetic Resonance. Pennate diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum FCP shows identical photoprotective Triplet-Triplet Energy Transfer (TTET) pathways to the previously investigated centric diatom Cyclotella meneghiniana FCP, with the same two chlorophyll a-fucoxanthin pairs that involve the fucoxanthins in sites Fx301 and Fx302 contributing to TTET in both diatom groups. In the case of the haptophyte Emilianina huxleyi E-FCP, only one of the two chlorophyll a-fucoxanthins pairs observed in diatoms, the one involving chlorophyll a409 and Fx301, has been shown to be active in TTET. Furthermore, despite the marked change in the pigment content of E-FCP with growth light intensity, the TTET pathway is not affected. Thus, our comparative investigation of FCPs revealed a photoprotective TTET pathway shared within these classes involving the fucoxanthin in site Fx301, a site exposed to the exterior of the antenna monomer that has no equivalent in Light-Harvesting Complexes from the green lineage.

Biology Centre Czech Academy of Sciences Institute of Plant Molecular Biology Branišovská 1160 31 370 05 České Budějovice Czech Republic

Biology Centre Czech Academy of Sciences Institute of Plant Molecular Biology Branišovská 1160 31 370 05 České Budějovice Czech Republic; Institute of Chemistry Faculty of Science University of South Bohemia Branišovská 1760 370 05 České Budějovice Czech Republic

Department of Chemical Sciences University of Padova via Marzolo 1 35131 Padova Italy

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