Proximity of Acetate, Manganese, and Exchangeable Deuterons to Tyrosine YZ•in Acetate-Inhibited Photosystem II Membranes:  Implications for the Direct Involvement of YZ•in Water-Splitting†

Biochemistry ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 36 (40) ◽  
pp. 12062-12070 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dee Ann Force ◽  
David W. Randall ◽  
R. David Britt
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Author(s):  
Katherine M. Davis ◽  
Brendan T. Sullivan ◽  
Mark C. Palenik ◽  
Lifen Yan ◽  
Vatsal Purohit ◽  
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2016 ◽  
Vol 39 (7) ◽  
pp. 1524-1536 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dmitriy Shevela ◽  
Janine Arnold ◽  
Veronika Reisinger ◽  
Hans-Martin Berends ◽  
Karol Kmiec ◽  
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2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jure Zabret ◽  
Stefan Bohn ◽  
Sandra Schuller ◽  
Oliver Arnolds ◽  
Madeline Möller ◽  
...  

Abstract Biogenesis of photosystem II (PSII), nature’s water splitting catalyst, is assisted by auxiliary proteins that form transient complexes with PSII components to facilitate stepwise assembly events. Using cryo-electron microscopy, we solved the structure of such a PSII assembly intermediate with 2.94 Å resolution. It contains three assembly factors (Psb27, Psb28, Psb34) and provides detailed insights into their molecular function. Binding of Psb28 induces large conformational changes at the PSII acceptor side, which distort the binding pocket of the mobile quinone (QB) and replace bicarbonate with glutamate as a ligand of the non-heme iron, a structural motif found in reaction centers of non-oxygenic photosynthetic bacteria. These results reveal novel mechanisms that protect PSII from damage during biogenesis until water splitting is activated. Our structure further demonstrates how the PSII active site is prepared for the incorporation of the Mn4CaO5 cluster, which performs the unique water splitting reaction.


2014 ◽  
Vol 106 (2) ◽  
pp. 27a
Author(s):  
Yulia Pushkar ◽  
Katherine Davis ◽  
Lifen Yan

2021 ◽  
pp. 3-38
Author(s):  
Jian-Ren Shen ◽  
Yoshiki Nakajima ◽  
Fusamichi Akita ◽  
Michihiro Suga

2008 ◽  
Vol 105 (46) ◽  
pp. 17632-17635 ◽  
Author(s):  
Javier J. Concepcion ◽  
Jonah W. Jurss ◽  
Joseph L. Templeton ◽  
Thomas J. Meyer

Light-driven water oxidation occurs in oxygenic photosynthesis in photosystem II and provides redox equivalents directed to photosystem I, in which carbon dioxide is reduced. Water oxidation is also essential in artificial photosynthesis and solar fuel-forming reactions, such as water splitting into hydrogen and oxygen (2 H2O + 4 hν → O2 + 2 H2) or water reduction of CO2 to methanol (2 H2O + CO2 + 6 hν → CH3OH + 3/2 O2), or hydrocarbons, which could provide clean, renewable energy. The “blue ruthenium dimer,” cis,cis-[(bpy)2(H2O)RuIIIORuIII(OH2)(bpy)2]4+, was the first well characterized molecule to catalyze water oxidation. On the basis of recent insight into the mechanism, we have devised a strategy for enhancing catalytic rates by using kinetically facile electron-transfer mediators. Rate enhancements by factors of up to ≈30 have been obtained, and preliminary electrochemical experiments have demonstrated that mediator-assisted electrocatalytic water oxidation is also attainable.


2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1-2) ◽  
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Natsuko Inoue-Kahino ◽  
Keisuke Namie ◽  
Yuki Kato ◽  
Tatsuya Tomo ◽  
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