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The closely related species\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Gem. groenlandica<\/jats:italic>\n                      , with highly similar photosynthetic genes, harvests infrared light using a single 860 nm absorption band. The cryo-electron microscopy structure of the\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Gem. groenlandica<\/jats:italic>\n                      photosynthetic complex reveals that the outer antenna lacks monomeric bacteriochlorophylls, resulting in a smaller optical antenna cross-section. The\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Gem. groenlandica<\/jats:italic>\n                      spectrum is red-shifted relative to\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Gem. phototrophica<\/jats:italic>\n                      due to the formation of a H-bond enabled by a different rotamer conformation of \u03b1Trp\n                      <jats:sup>31<\/jats:sup>\n                      in the outer ring. This H-bond forms with a neighboring bacteriochlorophyll and increases the intra-dimer exciton coupling, affecting the exciton localization probability within the rings and increasing exciton cooperativity between the complexes. The functional consequences of the spectral shift, caused solely by a subtle conformational change of a single residue, represent a novel mechanism in which phototrophic organisms adjust their antennae for particular light conditions and enable\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Gem. groenlandica<\/jats:italic>\n                      to grow higher in the water column where more photons are available.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                    <jats:sec>\n                      <jats:title>IMPORTANCE<\/jats:title>\n                      <jats:p>\n                        The photoheterotrophic species of the phylum Gemmatimonadota employ unique photosynthetic complexes with two concentric antenna rings around a central reaction center. In contrast to other phototrophic species, these organisms have not evolved any regulatory systems to control the expression of their photosynthetic apparatus under different light conditions. Despite the overall similarity, the complexes present in\n                        <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Gemmatimonas phototrophica<\/jats:italic>\n                        and\n                        <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Gemmatimonas groenlandica<\/jats:italic>\n                        have different absorption properties in the near-infrared region of the spectrum that make them more suitable for low or medium light, respectively. The main difference in absorption depends on the conformation of a single tryptophan residue that can form an H-bond with a neighboring bacteriochlorophyll. 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