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Effects of Tetracycline on Scenedesmus obliquus Microalgae Photosynthetic Processes. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:ijms231810544. [PMID: 36142466 PMCID: PMC9504007 DOI: 10.3390/ijms231810544] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2022] [Revised: 09/06/2022] [Accepted: 09/07/2022] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Tetracycline (TC) antibiotics can be detected worldwide in the aquatic environment due to their extensive use and low utilization efficiency, and they may affect the physiological processes of non-target organisms. In this study, the acute and sub-acute toxicities of TC on the freshwater microalga Scenedesmus obliquus were investigated with an emphasis on algal photosynthesis and transcription alterations during an 8 d TC exposure. The results showed that the IC10, IC30 and IC50 values were 1.8, 4.1 and 6.9 mg/L, respectively. During sub-acute exposure, the microalgae of the IC10 treatment was able to recover comparable growth to that of the control by day 7, while significantly lower cell densities were observed in the IC30 and IC50 treatments at the end of the exposure. The photosynthetic efficiency Fv/FM of S. obliquus first decreased as the TC concentration increased and then returned to a level close to that of the control on day 8, accompanied by an increase in photosynthetic activities, including light harvesting, electron transport and energy dissipation. Transcriptomic analysis of the IC10 treatment (1.8 mg/L TC) revealed that 2157 differentially expressed genes were up-regulated and 1629 were down-regulated compared with the control. KEGG and GO enrichments demonstrated that 28 photosynthesis-related genes involving light-harvesting chlorophyll protein complex, photosystem I, photosystem II, photosynthetic electron transport and enzymes were up-regulated, which may be the factor responsible for the enhanced photosynthesis and recovery of the microalgae. Our work may be helpful not only for gaining a better understanding of the environmental risk of TC at concentrations close to the real levels in natural waters, but also for explaining photosynthesis and related gene transcription induced by antibiotics.
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Conlan B, Messinger J. Thomas John Wydrzynski (8 July 1947-16 March 2018). PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH 2019; 140:253-261. [PMID: 30478710 PMCID: PMC6509086 DOI: 10.1007/s11120-018-0606-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2018] [Accepted: 11/12/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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With this Tribute, we remember and honor Thomas John (Tom) Wydrzynski. Tom was a highly innovative, independent and committed researcher, who had, early in his career, defined his life-long research goal. He was committed to understand how Photosystem II produces molecular oxygen from water, using the energy of sunlight, and to apply this knowledge towards making artificial systems. In this tribute, we summarize his research journey, which involved working on 'soft money' in several laboratories around the world for many years, as well as his research achievements. We also reflect upon his approach to life, science and student supervision, as we perceive it. Tom was not only a thoughtful scientist that inspired many to enter this field of research, but also a wonderful supervisor and friend, who is deeply missed (see footnote*).
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- Brendon Conlan
- Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian Capital Territory, Australian National University, Acton, ACT, 0200, Australia
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- Department of Chemistry - Ångström, Uppsala University, Lägerhyddsvägen 1, 75120, Uppsala, Sweden.
- Department of Chemistry, Umeå University, Linnaeus väg 6, 90187, Umeå, Sweden.
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del Val C, Bondar AN. Charged groups at binding interfaces of the PsbO subunit of photosystem II: A combined bioinformatics and simulation study. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2017; 1858:432-441. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2017.03.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2016] [Revised: 03/13/2017] [Accepted: 03/14/2017] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Bommer M, Bondar AN, Zouni A, Dobbek H, Dau H. Crystallographic and Computational Analysis of the Barrel Part of the PsbO Protein of Photosystem II: Carboxylate–Water Clusters as Putative Proton Transfer Relays and Structural Switches. Biochemistry 2016; 55:4626-35. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.6b00441] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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- Martin Bommer
- Institut
für Biologie, Strukturbiologie/Biochemie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin, Germany
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- Fachbereich
Physik, Theoretical Molecular Biophysics, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 14, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Institut
für Biologie, Biophysik der Photosynthese, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin, Germany
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- Institut
für Biologie, Strukturbiologie/Biochemie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin, Germany
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- Fachbereich
Physik, Biophysics and Photosynthesis, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 14, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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Gimpel JA, Nour-Eldin HH, Scranton MA, Li D, Mayfield SP. Refactoring the Six-Gene Photosystem II Core in the Chloroplast of the Green Algae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. ACS Synth Biol 2016. [PMID: 26214707 DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.5b00076] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Oxygenic photosynthesis provides the energy to produce all food and most of the fuel on this planet. Photosystem II (PSII) is an essential and rate-limiting component of this process. Understanding and modifying PSII function could provide an opportunity for optimizing photosynthetic biomass production, particularly under specific environmental conditions. PSII is a complex multisubunit enzyme with strong interdependence among its components. In this work, we have deleted the six core genes of PSII in the eukaryotic alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii and refactored them in a single DNA construct. Complementation of the knockout strain with the core PSII synthetic module from three different green algae resulted in reconstitution of photosynthetic activity to 85, 55, and 53% of that of the wild-type, demonstrating that the PSII core can be exchanged between algae species and retain function. The strains, synthetic cassettes, and refactoring strategy developed for this study demonstrate the potential of synthetic biology approaches for tailoring oxygenic photosynthesis and provide a powerful tool for unraveling PSII structure-function relationships.
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- Javier A. Gimpel
- California Center for Algae
Biotechnology Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093-0368, United States
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- California Center for Algae
Biotechnology Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093-0368, United States
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- California Center for Algae
Biotechnology Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093-0368, United States
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- California Center for Algae
Biotechnology Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093-0368, United States
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- California Center for Algae
Biotechnology Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093-0368, United States
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Gabdulkhakov AG, Kljashtorny VG, Dontsova MV. Analysis of molecular oxygen exit pathways in cyanobacterial photosystem II: Molecular dynamics studies. CRYSTALLOGR REP+ 2015. [DOI: 10.1134/s1063774515060085] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Lorch S, Capponi S, Pieront F, Bondar AN. Dynamic Carboxylate/Water Networks on the Surface of the PsbO Subunit of Photosystem II. J Phys Chem B 2015; 119:12172-81. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.5b06594] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Sebastian Lorch
- Theoretical
Molecular Biophysics, Department of Physics, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 14, D-14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Department
of Physiology and Biophysics, University of California at Irvine, Medical Sciences I, Irvine, California 92697, United States
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- Theoretical
Molecular Biophysics, Department of Physics, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 14, D-14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Theoretical
Molecular Biophysics, Department of Physics, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 14, D-14195 Berlin, Germany
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Pigolev AV, Klimov VV. The green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii as a tool for in vivo study of site-directed mutations in PsbO protein of photosystem II. BIOCHEMISTRY (MOSCOW) 2015; 80:662-73. [DOI: 10.1134/s0006297915060036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Duchoslav M, Fischer L. Parallel subfunctionalisation of PsbO protein isoforms in angiosperms revealed by phylogenetic analysis and mapping of sequence variability onto protein structure. BMC PLANT BIOLOGY 2015; 15:133. [PMID: 26051374 PMCID: PMC4459440 DOI: 10.1186/s12870-015-0523-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2015] [Accepted: 05/11/2015] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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BACKGROUND PsbO, the manganese-stabilising protein, is an indispensable extrinsic subunit of photosystem II. It plays a crucial role in the stabilisation of the water-splitting Mn4CaO5 cluster, which catalyses the oxidation of water to molecular oxygen by using light energy. PsbO was also demonstrated to have a weak GTPase activity that could be involved in regulation of D1 protein turnover. Our analysis of psbO sequences showed that many angiosperm species express two psbO paralogs, but the pairs of isoforms in one species were not orthologous to pairs of isoforms in distant species. RESULTS Phylogenetic analysis of 91 psbO sequences from 49 land plant species revealed that psbO duplication occurred many times independently, generally at the roots of modern angiosperm families. In spite of this, the level of isoform divergence was similar in different species. Moreover, mapping of the differences on the protein tertiary structure showed that the isoforms in individual species differ from each other on similar positions, mostly on the luminally exposed end of the β-barrel structure. Comparison of these differences with the location of differences between PsbOs from diverse angiosperm families indicated various selection pressures in PsbO evolution and potential interaction surfaces on the PsbO structure. CONCLUSIONS The analyses suggest that similar subfunctionalisation of PsbO isoforms occurred parallelly in various lineages. We speculate that the presence of two PsbO isoforms helps the plants to finely adjust the photosynthetic apparatus in response to variable conditions. This might be mediated by diverse GTPase activity, since the isoform differences predominate near the predicted GTP-binding site.
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- Miloš Duchoslav
- Department of Experimental Plant Biology, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Viničná 5,, 128 44 Praha 2, Czech Republic.
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- Department of Experimental Plant Biology, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Viničná 5,, 128 44 Praha 2, Czech Republic.
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Castillo-Medina RE, Islas-Flores T, Thomé PE, Iglesias-Prieto R, Lin S, Zhang H, Villanueva MA. The PsbO homolog from Symbiodinium kawagutii (Dinophyceae) characterized using biochemical and molecular methods. PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH 2013; 115:167-78. [PMID: 23708979 DOI: 10.1007/s11120-013-9856-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2013] [Accepted: 05/16/2013] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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A photosystem II component, the PsbO protein is essential for maximum rates of oxygen production during photosynthesis, and has been extensively characterized in plants and cyanobacteria but not in symbiotic dinoflagellates. Its close interaction with D1 protein has important environmental implications since D1 has been identified as the primary site of damage in endosymbiotic dinoflagellates after thermal stress. We identified and biochemically characterized the PsbO homolog from Symbiodinium kawagutii as a 28-kDa protein, and immunolocalized it to chloroplast membranes. Chloroplast association was further confirmed by western blot on photosynthetic membrane preparations. TX-114 phase partitioning, chromatography, and SDS-PAGE for single band separation and partial peptide sequencing yielded peptides identical or with high identity to PsbO from dinoflagellates. Analysis of a cDNA library revealed three genes differing by only one aminoacid residue in the in silico-translated ORFs despite greater differences at nucleotide level in the untranslated, putative regulatory sequences. The consensus full amino acid sequence displayed all the characteristic domains and features of PsbO from other sources, but changes in functionally critical, highly conserved motifs were detected. Our biochemical, molecular, and immunolocalization data led to the conclusion that the 28-kDa protein from S. kawagutii is the PsbO homolog, thereby named SkPsbO. We discuss the implications of critical amino acid substitutions for a putative regulatory role of this protein.
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- Raúl E Castillo-Medina
- Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Unidad Académica de Sistemas Arrecifales, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México-UNAM, Prol. Avenida Niños Héroes S/N, 77580 Puerto Morelos, Q ROO, Mexico
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Commet A, Boswell N, Yocum CF, Popelka H. pH optimum of the photosystem II H₂O oxidation reaction: effects of PsbO, the manganese-stabilizing protein, Cl- retention, and deprotonation of a component required for O₂ evolution activity. Biochemistry 2012; 51:3808-18. [PMID: 22512418 DOI: 10.1021/bi201678m] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Hydroxide ion inhibits Photosystem II (PSII) activity by extracting Cl(-) from its binding site in the O(2)-evolving complex (OEC) under continuous illumination [Critchley, C., et al. (1982) Biochim. Biophys. Acta 682, 436]. The experiments reported here examine whether two subunits of PsbO, the manganese-stabilizing protein, bound to eukaryotic PSII play a role in protecting the OEC against OH(-) inhibition. The data show that the PSII binding properties of PsbO affect the pH optimum for O(2) evolution activity as well as the Cl(-) affinity of the OEC that decreases with an increasing pH. These results suggest that PsbO functions as a barrier against inhibition of the OEC by OH(-). Through facilitation of efficient retention of Cl(-) in PSII [Popelkova, H., et al. (2008) Biochemistry 47, 12593], PsbO influences the ability of Cl(-) to resist OH(-)-induced release from its site in the OEC. Preventing inhibition by OH(-) allows for normal (short) lifetimes of the S(2) and S(3) states in darkness [Roose, J. L., et al. (2011) Biochemistry 50, 5988] and for maximal steady-state activity by PSII. The data presented here indicate that activation of H(2)O oxidation occurs with a pK(a) of ∼6.5, which could be a function of deprotonation of one or more amino acid residues that reside near the OEC active site on the D1 and CP43 intrinsic subunits of the PSII reaction center.
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- Alan Commet
- Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
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Popelkova H, Boswell N, Yocum C. Probing the topography of the photosystem II oxygen evolving complex: PsbO is required for efficient calcium protection of the manganese cluster against dark-inhibition by an artificial reductant. PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH 2011; 110:111-121. [PMID: 22042330 DOI: 10.1007/s11120-011-9703-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2011] [Accepted: 10/17/2011] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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The photosystem II (PSII) manganese-stabilizing protein (PsbO) is known to be the essential PSII extrinsic subunit for stabilization and retention of the Mn and Cl(-) cofactors in the oxygen evolving complex (OEC) of PSII, but its function relative to Ca(2+) is less clear. To obtain a better insight into the relationship, if any, between PsbO and Ca(2+) binding in the OEC, samples with altered PsbO-PSII binding properties were probed for their potential to promote the ability of Ca(2+) to protect the Mn cluster against dark-inhibition by an exogenous artificial reductant, N,N-dimethylhydroxylamine. In the absence of the PsbP and PsbQ extrinsic subunits, Ca(2+) and its surrogates (Sr(2+), Cd(2+)) shield Mn atoms from inhibitory reduction (Kuntzleman et al., Phys Chem Chem Phys 6:4897, 2004). The results presented here show that PsbO exhibits a positive effect on Ca(2+) binding in the OEC by facilitating the ability of the metal to prevent inhibition of activity by the reductant. The data presented here suggest that PsbO may have a role in the formation of the OEC-associated Ca(2+) binding site by promoting the equilibrium between bound and free Ca(2+) that favors the bound metal.
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- Hana Popelkova
- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1048, USA.
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Popelkova H, Yocum CF. PsbO, the manganese-stabilizing protein: Analysis of the structure–function relations that provide insights into its role in photosystem II. JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY B-BIOLOGY 2011; 104:179-90. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotobiol.2011.01.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2010] [Revised: 01/13/2011] [Accepted: 01/14/2011] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Slowik D, Rossmann M, Konarev PV, Irrgang KD, Saenger W. Structural Investigation of PsbO from Plant and Cyanobacterial Photosystem II. J Mol Biol 2011; 407:125-37. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2011.01.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2010] [Revised: 12/31/2010] [Accepted: 01/07/2011] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Williamson A, Conlan B, Hillier W, Wydrzynski T. The evolution of Photosystem II: insights into the past and future. PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH 2011; 107:71-86. [PMID: 20512415 DOI: 10.1007/s11120-010-9559-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2010] [Accepted: 05/07/2010] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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This article attempts to address the molecular origin of Photosystem II (PSII), the central component in oxygenic photosynthesis. It discusses the possible evolution of the relevant cofactors needed for splitting water into molecular O2 with respect to the following functional domains in PSII: the reaction center (RC), the oxygen evolving complex (OEC), and the manganese stabilizing protein (MSP). Possible ancestral sources of the relevant cofactors are considered, as are scenarios of how these components may have been brought together to produce the intermediate steps in the evolution of PSII. Most importantly, the driving forces that maintained these intermediates for continued adaptation are considered. We then apply our understanding of the evolution of PSII to the bioengineering of a water oxidizing catalyst for utilization of solar energy.
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- Adele Williamson
- Research School of Biology, College of Medicine, Biology and Environment, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, 0200, Australia
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