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Lionetti D, Suseno S, Shiau AA, de Ruiter G, Agapie T. Redox Processes Involving Oxygen: The Surprising Influence of Redox-Inactive Lewis Acids. JACS AU 2024; 4:344-368. [PMID: 38425928 PMCID: PMC10900226 DOI: 10.1021/jacsau.3c00675] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2023] [Revised: 12/12/2023] [Accepted: 12/13/2023] [Indexed: 03/02/2024]
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Metalloenzymes with heteromultimetallic active sites perform chemical reactions that control several biogeochemical cycles. Transformations catalyzed by such enzymes include dioxygen generation and reduction, dinitrogen reduction, and carbon dioxide reduction-instrumental transformations for progress in the context of artificial photosynthesis and sustainable fertilizer production. While the roles of the respective metals are of interest in all these enzymatic transformations, they share a common factor in the transfer of one or multiple redox equivalents. In light of this feature, it is surprising to find that incorporation of redox-inactive metals into the active site of such an enzyme is critical to its function. To illustrate, the presence of a redox-inactive Ca2+ center is crucial in the Oxygen Evolving Complex, and yet particularly intriguing given that the transformation catalyzed by this cluster is a redox process involving four electrons. Therefore, the effects of redox inactive metals on redox processes-electron transfer, oxygen- and hydrogen-atom transfer, and O-O bond cleavage and formation reactions-mediated by transition metals have been studied extensively. Significant effects of redox inactive metals have been observed on these redox transformations; linear free energy correlations between Lewis acidity and the redox properties of synthetic model complexes are observed for several reactions. In this Perspective, these effects and their relevance to multielectron processes will be discussed.
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- Division of Chemistry and
Chemical Engineering, California Institute
of Technology, 1200 East California Boulevard, MC 127-72, Pasadena, California 91125, United States
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- Division of Chemistry and
Chemical Engineering, California Institute
of Technology, 1200 East California Boulevard, MC 127-72, Pasadena, California 91125, United States
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- Division of Chemistry and
Chemical Engineering, California Institute
of Technology, 1200 East California Boulevard, MC 127-72, Pasadena, California 91125, United States
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- Division of Chemistry and
Chemical Engineering, California Institute
of Technology, 1200 East California Boulevard, MC 127-72, Pasadena, California 91125, United States
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Saito K, Nishio S, Ishikita H. Interplay of two low-barrier hydrogen bonds in long-distance proton-coupled electron transfer for water oxidation. PNAS NEXUS 2023; 2:pgad423. [PMID: 38130665 PMCID: PMC10733176 DOI: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad423] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2023] [Accepted: 11/20/2023] [Indexed: 12/23/2023]
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D1-Tyr161 (TyrZ) forms a low-barrier H-bond with D1-His190 and functions as a redox-active group in photosystem II. When oxidized to the radical form (TyrZ-O•), it accepts an electron from the oxygen-evolving Mn4CaO5 cluster, facilitating an increase in the oxidation state (Sn; n = 0-3). In this study, we investigated the mechanism of how TyrZ-O• drives proton-coupled electron transfer during the S2 to S3 transition using a quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical approach. In response to TyrZ-O• formation and subsequent loss of the low-barrier H-bond, the ligand water molecule at the Ca2+ site (W4) reorients away from TyrZ and donates an H-bond to D1-Glu189 at Mn4 of Mn4CaO5 together with an adjacent water molecule. The H-bond donation to the Mn4CaO5 cluster triggers the release of the proton from the lowest pKa site (W1 at Mn4) along the W1…D1-Asp61 low-barrier H-bond, leading to protonation of D1-Asp61. The interplay of the two low-barrier H-bonds, involving the Ca2+ interface and forming the extended Grotthuss-like network [TyrZ…D1-His190]-[Mn4CaO5]-[W1…D1-Asp61], rather than the direct electrostatic interaction, is likely a basis of the apparent long-distance interaction (11.4 Å) between TyrZ-O• formation and D1-Asp61 protonation.
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- Keisuke Saito
- Department of Applied Chemistry, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8654, Japan
- Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8904, Japan
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8654, Japan
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8654, Japan
- Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8904, Japan
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Saito M, Saito K, Ishikita H. Structural and energetic insights into Mn-to-Fe substitution in the oxygen-evolving complex. iScience 2023; 26:107352. [PMID: 37520740 PMCID: PMC10382916 DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2023.107352] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2023] [Revised: 06/21/2023] [Accepted: 07/07/2023] [Indexed: 08/01/2023] Open
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Manganese (Mn) serves as the catalytic center for water splitting in photosystem II (PSII), despite the abundance of iron (Fe) on earth. As a first step toward why Mn and not Fe is employed by Nature in the water oxidation catalyst, we investigated the Fe4CaO5 cluster in the PSII protein environment using a quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical (QM/MM) approach, assuming an equivalence between Mn(III/IV) and Fe(II/III). Substituting Mn with Fe resulted in the protonation of μ-oxo bridges at sites O2 and O3 by Arg357 and D1-His337, respectively. While the Mn4CaO5 cluster exhibits distinct open- and closed-cubane S2 conformations, the Fe4CaO5 cluster lacks this variability due to an equal spin distribution over sites Fe1 and Fe4. The absence of a low-barrier H-bond between a ligand water molecule (W1) and D1-Asp61 in the Fe4CaO5 cluster may underlie its incapability for ligand water deprotonation, highlighting the relevance of Mn in natural water splitting.
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- Masahiro Saito
- Department of Applied Chemistry, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8654, Japan
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8654, Japan
- Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8904, Japan
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8654, Japan
- Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8904, Japan
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Schmollinger S, Chen S, Merchant SS. Quantitative elemental imaging in eukaryotic algae. Metallomics 2023; 15:mfad025. [PMID: 37186252 PMCID: PMC10209819 DOI: 10.1093/mtomcs/mfad025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2022] [Accepted: 03/03/2023] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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All organisms, fundamentally, are made from the same raw material, namely the elements of the periodic table. Biochemical diversity is achieved by how these elements are utilized, for what purpose, and in which physical location. Determining elemental distributions, especially those of trace elements that facilitate metabolism as cofactors in the active centers of essential enzymes, can determine the state of metabolism, the nutritional status, or the developmental stage of an organism. Photosynthetic eukaryotes, especially algae, are excellent subjects for quantitative analysis of elemental distribution. These microbes utilize unique metabolic pathways that require various trace nutrients at their core to enable their operation. Photosynthetic microbes also have important environmental roles as primary producers in habitats with limited nutrient supplies or toxin contaminations. Accordingly, photosynthetic eukaryotes are of great interest for biotechnological exploitation, carbon sequestration, and bioremediation, with many of the applications involving various trace elements and consequently affecting their quota and intracellular distribution. A number of diverse applications were developed for elemental imaging, allowing subcellular resolution, with X-ray fluorescence microscopy (XFM, XRF) being at the forefront, enabling quantitative descriptions of intact cells in a non-destructive method. This Tutorial Review summarizes the workflow of a quantitative, single-cell elemental distribution analysis of a eukaryotic alga using XFM.
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- Stefan Schmollinger
- California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3), University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
- Departments of Molecular and Cell Biology and Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- X-ray Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL 60439, USA
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- California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3), University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
- Departments of Molecular and Cell Biology and Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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Mandal M, Saito K, Ishikita H. Substitution of Ca 2+ and changes in the H-bond network near the oxygen-evolving complex of photosystem II. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2023; 25:6473-6480. [PMID: 36785919 DOI: 10.1039/d2cp05036f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/09/2023]
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Ca2+, which provides binding sites for ligand water molecules W3 and W4 in the Mn4CaO5 cluster, is a prerequisite for O2 evolution in photosystem II (PSII). We report structural changes in the H-bond network and the catalytic cluster itself upon the replacement of Ca2+ with other alkaline earth metals, using a quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical approach. The small radius of Mg2+ makes W3 donate an H-bond to D1-Glu189 in Mg2+-PSII. If an additional water molecule binds at the large surface of Ba2+, it donates H-bonds to D1-Glu189 and the ligand water molecule at the dangling Mn, altering the H-bond network. The potential energy profiles of the H-bond between D1-Tyr161 (TyrZ) and D1-His190 and the interconversion between the open- and closed-cubane S2 conformations remain substantially unaltered upon the replacement of Ca2+. Remarkably, the O5⋯Ca2+ distance is shortest among all O5⋯metal distances irrespective of the radius being larger than that of Mg2+. Furthermore, Ca2+ is the only alkaline earth metal that equalizes the O5⋯metal and O2⋯metal distances and facilitates the formation of the symmetric cubane structure.
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- Manoj Mandal
- Department of Chemical and Biological Sciences, S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata 700106, West Bengal, India.
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- Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8904, Japan. .,Department of Applied Chemistry, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8654, Japan
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- Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8904, Japan. .,Department of Applied Chemistry, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8654, Japan
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Mendoza D, Dong ST, Lassalle-Kaiser B. In situ/operando X-ray spectroscopy applied to electrocatalytic CO2 reduction: status and perspectives. Curr Opin Colloid Interface Sci 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cocis.2022.101635] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Gao X, Fan H. The Role of Redox-Inactive Metals in Modulating the Redox Potential of the Mn 4CaO 4 Model Complex. Inorg Chem 2022; 61:11539-11549. [PMID: 35839298 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.2c00243] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Photosynthetic oxygen-evolving center (OEC), the "engine of life", is a unique Mn4CaO5 cluster catalyzing the water oxidation. The role of redox-inactive component Ca2+, which can only be functionally replaced by Sr2+ in a biological environment, has been under debate for a long time. Recently, its modulating effect on the redox potential of native OEC and artificial structural OEC model complex has received great attention, and linear relationship between the potential and the Lewis acidity of the redox-inactive metal has been proposed for the MMn3O4 model complex. In this work, the modulating effect has been studied in detail using the Mn4CaO4 model complex, which is the closest structural model to OEC to date and has a similar redox potential at the S1-S2 transition. We found the redox-inactive metal only has a weak modulating effect on the potential, which is comparable in strength to that of the ligand environments. Meanwhile, the net charge of the complex, which could be changed along with the redox-inactive metal, has a high impact on the potential and can be unified by protonation, deprotonation, or ligand modification. Although the modulating effect of the redox-inactive metal is not very strong, the linear relationship between the potential and the Lewis acidity is still valid for Mn4MO4 complexes. Our results of strong modulating effects for net charge and weak modulating effects for redox-inactive metal fit with the previous experimental observations on Mn4MO4 (M = Ca2+, Y3+, and Gd3+) model complexes, and suggest that Ca2+ can be structurally and electrochemically replaced with other metal cations, together with proper ligand modifications.
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- Xianrui Gao
- Shenyang University of Chemical Technology, Shenyang 110142, China.,State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, Dalian 116023, China
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- Shenyang University of Chemical Technology, Shenyang 110142, China.,State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, Dalian 116023, China
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Gao Y, Pink M, Smith JM. Alkali Metal Ions Dictate the Structure and Reactivity of an Iron(II) Imido Complex. J Am Chem Soc 2022; 144:1786-1794. [DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c11429] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Yafei Gao
- Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, 800 East Kirkwood Avenue, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, 800 East Kirkwood Avenue, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, 800 East Kirkwood Avenue, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, United States
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Kim K, Cho D, Noh H, Ohta T, Baik MH, Cho J. Controlled Regulation of the Nitrile Activation of a Peroxocobalt(III) Complex with Redox-Inactive Lewis Acidic Metals. J Am Chem Soc 2021; 143:11382-11392. [PMID: 34313127 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c01674] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
Abstract
Redox-inactive metal ions play vital roles in biological O2 activation and oxidation reactions of various substrates. Recently, we showed a distinct reactivity of a peroxocobalt(III) complex bearing a tetradentate macrocyclic ligand, [CoIII(TBDAP)(O2)]+ (1) (TBDAP = N,N'-di-tert-butyl-2,11-diaza[3.3](2,6)pyridinophane), toward nitriles that afforded a series of hydroximatocobalt(III) complexes, [CoIII(TBDAP)(R-C(═NO)O)]+ (R = Me (3), Et, and Ph). In this study, we report the effects of redox-inactive metal ions on nitrile activation of 1. In the presence of redox-inactive metal ions such as Zn2+, La3+, Lu3+, and Y3+, the reaction does not form the hydroximatocobalt(III) complex but instead gives peroxyimidatocobalt(III) complexes, [CoIII(TBDAP)(R-C(═NH)O2)]2+ (R = Me (2) and Ph (2Ph)). These new intermediates were characterized by various physicochemical methods including X-ray diffraction analysis. The rates of the formation of 2 are found to correlate with the Lewis acidity of the additive metal ions. Moreover, complex 2 was readily converted to 3 by the addition of a base. In the presence of Al3+, Sc3+, or H+, 1 is converted to [CoIII(TBDAP)(O2H)(MeCN)]2+ (4), and further reaction with nitriles did not occur. These results reveal that the reactivity of the peroxocobalt(III) complex 1 in nitrile activation can be regulated by the redox-inactive metal ions and their Lewis acidity. DFT calculations show that the redox-inactive metal ions stabilize the peroxo character of end-on Co-η1-O2 intermediate through the charge reorganization from a CoII-superoxo to a CoIII-peroxo intermediate. A complete mechanistic model explaining the role of the Lewis acid is presented.
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- Kyungmin Kim
- Department of Chemistry, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan 44919, Republic of Korea.,Department of Emerging Materials Science, Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST), Daegu 42988, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea.,Center for Catalytic Hydrocarbon Functionalizations, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Emerging Materials Science, Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST), Daegu 42988, Republic of Korea
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- Picobiology Institute, Graduate School of Life Science, University of Hyogo, RSCLP Center, 679-5148 Hyogo, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea.,Center for Catalytic Hydrocarbon Functionalizations, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan 44919, Republic of Korea.,Department of Emerging Materials Science, Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST), Daegu 42988, Republic of Korea
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Zhang P, Song T, Zheng D, Li F, Wu X, Fan K, Sun L. Ni III -rich NiFeBa as an Efficient Catalyst for Water Oxidation. CHEMSUSCHEM 2021; 14:2516-2520. [PMID: 33982441 DOI: 10.1002/cssc.202100833] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2021] [Revised: 05/11/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Electrocatalytic water oxidation requires efficient catalysts to reduce the overpotential and accelerate the sluggish kinetics of oxygen formation. Here, a promising NiFeBa material was prepared by the co-electrodeposition of Ba2+ , Ni2+ , and Fe3+ as an efficient catalyst for electrocatalytic water oxidation. NiFeBa showed enhanced water oxidation performance compared with NiFe layered double hydroxide and NiFe oxide, delivering a current density of 10 mA cm-2 at an overpotential of 180 mV. Doped Ba ions played a key role in stabilizing the electrogenerated Ni3+ species, producing more octahedral Ni-O structures for lattice oxygen-based water oxidation, adjusting the catalytic mechanism, and finally leading to an enhancement of catalytic efficiency.
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- Peili Zhang
- State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Institute of Artificial Photosynthesis, DUT-KTH Joint Education and Research Centre on Molecular Devices, Institute for Energy Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Institute of Artificial Photosynthesis, DUT-KTH Joint Education and Research Centre on Molecular Devices, Institute for Energy Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Eco-chemical Engineering, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Institute of Artificial Photosynthesis, DUT-KTH Joint Education and Research Centre on Molecular Devices, Institute for Energy Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Institute of Artificial Photosynthesis, DUT-KTH Joint Education and Research Centre on Molecular Devices, Institute for Energy Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Institute of Artificial Photosynthesis, DUT-KTH Joint Education and Research Centre on Molecular Devices, Institute for Energy Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Institute of Artificial Photosynthesis, DUT-KTH Joint Education and Research Centre on Molecular Devices, Institute for Energy Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, P. R. China
- Center of Artificial Photosynthesis for Solar Fuels, School of Science, Westlake University, Hangzhou, 310024, P. R. China
- Department of Chemistry, School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology and Health, University of Science and Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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Saito K, Nakagawa M, Mandal M, Ishikita H. Role of redox-inactive metals in controlling the redox potential of heterometallic manganese-oxido clusters. PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH 2021; 148:153-159. [PMID: 34047897 PMCID: PMC8292285 DOI: 10.1007/s11120-021-00846-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2020] [Accepted: 05/11/2021] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
Abstract
Photosystem II (PSII) contains Ca2+, which is essential to the oxygen-evolving activity of the catalytic Mn4CaO5 complex. Replacement of Ca2+ with other redox-inactive metals results in a loss/decrease of oxygen-evolving activity. To investigate the role of Ca2+ in this catalytic reaction, we investigate artificial Mn3[M]O2 clusters redox-inactive metals [M] ([M] = Mg2+, Ca2+, Zn2+, Sr2+, and Y3+), which were synthesized by Tsui et al. (Nat Chem 5:293, 2013). The experimentally measured redox potentials (Em) of these clusters are best described by the energy of their highest occupied molecular orbitals. Quantum chemical calculations showed that the valence of metals predominantly affects Em(MnIII/IV), whereas the ionic radius of metals affects Em(MnIII/IV) only slightly.
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- Keisuke Saito
- Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8654, Japan.
- Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 153-8904, Japan.
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8654, Japan
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- Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 153-8904, Japan
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8654, Japan.
- Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 153-8904, Japan.
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Gouré E, Gerey B, Astudillo CN, Pécaut J, Sirach S, Molton F, Fortage J, Collomb MN. Self-Assembled Heterometallic Complexes by Incorporation of Calcium or Strontium Ion into a Manganese(II) 12-Metallacrown-3 Framework Supported by a Tripodal Ligand with Pyridine-Carboxylate Motifs: Stability in Their Manganese(III) Oxidized Form. Inorg Chem 2021; 60:7922-7936. [PMID: 34014651 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.1c00457] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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We report on the isolation of a new family of μ-carboxylato-bridged metallocrown (MC) compounds by self-assembly of the recently isolated hexadentate tris(2-pyridylmethyl)amine ligand tpada2- incorporating two carboxylate units with metal cations. Twelve-membered MCs of manganese of the type 12-MC-3, namely, [{MnII(tpada)}3(M)(H2O)n]2+ (Mn3M) (M = Mn2+ (n = 0), Ca2+ (n = 1), or Sr2+ (n = 2)), were structurally characterized. The metallamacrocycles connectivity consisting in three -[Mn-O-C-O]- repeating units is provided by one carboxylate unit of the three tpada2- ligands, while the second carboxylate coordinated a fourth cation in the central cavity of the MC, Mn2+ or an alkaline earth metal, Ca2+ or Sr2+. Mn3Ca and {Mn3Sr}2 join the small family of heterometallic manganese-calcium complexes and even rarer manganese-strontium complexes as models of the OEC of photosystem II (PSII). A 8-MC-4 of strontium of the molecular wheel type with four -[Sr-O]- repeating unit was also isolated by self-assembly of the tpada2- ligand with Sr2+. This complex, namely, [Sr(tpada)(OH2)]4 (Sr4), does not incorporate any cation in the central cavity but instead four water molecules coordinated to each Sr2+. Electrochemical investigations coupled to UV-visible absorption and EPR spectroscopies as well as electrospray mass spectrometry reveal the stability of the 12-MC-3 tetranuclear structures in solution, both in the initial oxidation state, MnII3M, as well as in the three-electrons oxidized state, MnIII3M. Indeed, the cyclic voltammogram of all these complexes exhibits three-successive reversible oxidation waves between +0.5 and +0.9 V corresponding to the successive one-electron oxidation of the Mn(II) ion into Mn(III) of the three {Mn(tpada)} units constituting the ring, which are fully maintained after bulk electrolysis.
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- Eric Gouré
- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, DCM, 38000 Grenoble, France
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, DCM, 38000 Grenoble, France.,Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CEA, CNRS, IRIG, SyMMES, 38000 Grenoble, France
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CEA, CNRS, IRIG, SyMMES, 38000 Grenoble, France
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, DCM, 38000 Grenoble, France
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Recent advances in heterogeneous Mn-based electrocatalysts toward biological photosynthetic Mn4Ca cluster. Catal Today 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cattod.2016.12.041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Kim B, Kim S, Ohta T, Cho J. Redox-Inactive Metal Ions That Enhance the Nucleophilic Reactivity of an Alkylperoxocopper(II) Complex. Inorg Chem 2020; 59:9938-9943. [PMID: 32614571 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c01109] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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The importance of redox-inactive metal ions in modulating the reactivity of redox-active biological systems is a subject of great current interest. In this work, the effect of redox-inactive metal ions (M3+ = Sc3+, Y3+, Yb3+, La3+) on the nucleophilic reactivity of a mononuclear ligand-based alkylperoxocopper(II) complex, [Cu(iPr2-tren-C(CH3)2O2)]+ (1), was examined. 1 was prepared by the addition of hydrogen peroxide and triethylamine to the solution of [Cu(iPr3-tren)(CH3CN)]+ (iPr3-tren = tris[2-(isopropylamino)ethyl]amine) via the formation of [Cu(iPr3-tren)(O2H)]+ (2) in methanol (CH3OH) at 30 °C. 1 was characterized using density functional theory (DFT) calculations and spectroscopic methods such as UV-vis, resonance Raman (rR), and electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR). DFT calculations support the electronic structure of 1 with an intermediate geometry between the trigonal-bipyramidal and square-pyramidal geometries, which is consistent with the observed EPR signal exhibiting a signal with g⊥ = 2.03 (A⊥ = 16 G) and g|| = 2.19 (A|| = 158 G). The Cu-O bond stretching frequency of 1 was observed at 507 cm-1 for 16O2 species (486 cm-1 for 18O2 species), and its O-O vibrational energy was determined to be 799 cm-1 for 16O2 species (759 cm-1 for 18O2 species) by rR spectroscopy. The reactivity of 1 was investigated in oxidative nucleophilic reactions. The positive slope of the Hammett plot (ρ = 2.3(1)) with para-substituted benzaldehydes and the reactivity order with 1°-, 2°-, and 3°-CHO demonstrate well the nucleophilic character of this copper(II) ligand-based alkylperoxo complex. The Lewis acidity of M3+ improves the oxidizing ability of 1. The modulated reactivity of 1 with M3+ was revealed to be an opposite trend of the Lewis acidity of M3+ in aldehyde deformylation.
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- Bohee Kim
- Department of Emerging Materials Science, DGIST, Daegu 42988, Korea
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- Department of Emerging Materials Science, DGIST, Daegu 42988, Korea
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- Picobiology Institute, Graduate School of Life Science, University of Hyogo, RSC-UH LP Center, Hyogo 679-5148, Japan
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- Department of Emerging Materials Science, DGIST, Daegu 42988, Korea
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Lubitz W, Chrysina M, Cox N. Water oxidation in photosystem II. PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH 2019; 142:105-125. [PMID: 31187340 PMCID: PMC6763417 DOI: 10.1007/s11120-019-00648-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 120] [Impact Index Per Article: 24.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2018] [Accepted: 05/20/2019] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Biological water oxidation, performed by a single enzyme, photosystem II, is a central research topic not only in understanding the photosynthetic apparatus but also for the development of water splitting catalysts for technological applications. Great progress has been made in this endeavor following the report of a high-resolution X-ray crystallographic structure in 2011 resolving the cofactor site (Umena et al. in Nature 473:55-60, 2011), a tetra-manganese calcium complex. The electronic properties of the protein-bound water oxidizing Mn4OxCa complex are crucial to understand its catalytic activity. These properties include: its redox state(s) which are tuned by the protein matrix, the distribution of the manganese valence and spin states and the complex interactions that exist between the four manganese ions. In this short review we describe how magnetic resonance techniques, particularly EPR, complemented by quantum chemical calculations, have played an important role in understanding the electronic structure of the cofactor. Together with isotope labeling, these techniques have also been instrumental in deciphering the binding of the two substrate water molecules to the cluster. These results are briefly described in the context of the history of biological water oxidation with special emphasis on recent work using time resolved X-ray diffraction with free electron lasers. It is shown that these data are instrumental for developing a model of the biological water oxidation cycle.
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- Wolfgang Lubitz
- Max-Planck-Institut für Chemische Energiekonversion, Mülheim/Ruhr, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Chemische Energiekonversion, Mülheim/Ruhr, Germany
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- Research School of Chemistry, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
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Cotruvo JA. The Chemistry of Lanthanides in Biology: Recent Discoveries, Emerging Principles, and Technological Applications. ACS CENTRAL SCIENCE 2019; 5:1496-1506. [PMID: 31572776 PMCID: PMC6764073 DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.9b00642] [Citation(s) in RCA: 122] [Impact Index Per Article: 24.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2019] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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The essential biological role of rare earth elements lay hidden until the discovery in 2011 that lanthanides are specifically incorporated into a bacterial methanol dehydrogenase. Only recently has this observation gone from a curiosity to a major research area, with the appreciation for the widespread nature of lanthanide-utilizing organisms in the environment and the discovery of other lanthanide-binding proteins and systems for selective uptake. While seemingly exotic at first glance, biological utilization of lanthanides is very logical from a chemical perspective. The early lanthanides (La, Ce, Pr, Nd) primarily used by biology are abundant in the environment, perform similar chemistry to other biologically useful metals and do so more efficiently due to higher Lewis acidity, and possess sufficiently distinct coordination chemistry to allow for selective uptake, trafficking, and incorporation into enzymes. Indeed, recent advances in the field illustrate clear analogies with the biological coordination chemistry of other metals, particularly CaII and FeIII, but with unique twists-including cooperative metal binding to magnify the effects of small ionic radius differences-enabling selectivity. This Outlook summarizes the recent developments in this young but rapidly expanding field and looks forward to potential future discoveries, emphasizing continuity with principles of bioinorganic chemistry established by studies of other metals. We also highlight how a more thorough understanding of the central chemical question-selective lanthanide recognition in biology-may impact the challenging problems of sensing, capture, recycling, and separations of rare earths.
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- Joseph A. Cotruvo
- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State
University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United
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Shamsipur M, Pashabadi A. Latest advances in PSII features and mechanism of water oxidation. Coord Chem Rev 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2018.07.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Beal NJ, Corry TA, O’Malley PJ. Comparison between Experimental and Broken Symmetry Density Functional Theory (BS-DFT) Calculated Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) Parameters of the S2 State of the Oxygen-Evolving Complex of Photosystem II in Its Native (Calcium) and Strontium-Substituted Form. J Phys Chem B 2017; 121:11273-11283. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.7b09498] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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- Nathan J. Beal
- School of Chemistry, The University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom
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- School of Chemistry, The University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom
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- School of Chemistry, The University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom
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Nolte TM, Peijnenburg WJGM, Hendriks AJ, van de Meent D. Quantitative structure-activity relationships for green algae growth inhibition by polymer particles. CHEMOSPHERE 2017; 179:49-56. [PMID: 28363094 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2017.03.067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2016] [Revised: 03/10/2017] [Accepted: 03/16/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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After use and disposal of chemical products, many types of polymer particles end up in the aquatic environment with potential toxic effects to primary producers like green algae. In this study, we have developed Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationships (QSARs) for a set of highly structural diverse polymers which are capable to estimate green algae growth inhibition (EC50). The model (N = 43, R2 = 0.73, RMSE = 0.28) is a regression-based decision tree using one structural descriptor for each of three polymer classes separated based on charge. The QSAR is applicable to linear homo polymers as well as copolymers and does not require information on the size of the polymer particle or underlying core material. Highly branched polymers, non-nitrogen cationic polymers and polymeric surfactants are not included in the model and thus cannot be evaluated. The model works best for cationic and non-ionic polymers for which cellular adsorption, disruption of the cell wall and photosynthesis inhibition were the mechanisms of action. For anionic polymers, specific properties of the polymer and test characteristics need to be known for detailed assessment. The data and QSAR results for anionic polymers, when combined with molecular dynamics simulations indicated that nutrient depletion is likely the dominant mode of toxicity. Nutrient depletion in turn, is determined by the non-linear interplay between polymer charge density and backbone flexibility.
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- Tom M Nolte
- Department of Environmental Science, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University Nijmegen, P.O. Box 9010, 6500 GL Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
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- National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, P.O. Box 1, 3720 BA Bilthoven, The Netherlands
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- Department of Environmental Science, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University Nijmegen, P.O. Box 9010, 6500 GL Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, P.O. Box 1, 3720 BA Bilthoven, The Netherlands
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Guo Z, Barry BA. Calcium, Ammonia, Redox-Active Tyrosine YZ, and Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in the Photosynthetic Oxygen-Evolving Complex. J Phys Chem B 2017; 121:3987-3996. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.7b01802] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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- Zhanjun Guo
- School of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States
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- School of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States
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Koepf M, Bergkamp JJ, Teillout AL, Llansola-Portoles MJ, Kodis G, Moore AL, Gust D, Moore TA. Design of porphyrin-based ligands for the assembly of [d-block metal : calcium] bimetallic centers. Dalton Trans 2017; 46:4199-4208. [DOI: 10.1039/c6dt04647a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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A secondary binding-site for alkaline-earth cations is introduced on a porphyrin platform to obtain competent bitopicN,O-ligands.
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- Matthieu Koepf
- School of Molecular Sciences
- Arizona State University
- Tempe
- USA
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- School of Molecular Sciences
- Arizona State University
- Tempe
- USA
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- School of Molecular Sciences
- Arizona State University
- Tempe
- USA
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- School of Molecular Sciences
- Arizona State University
- Tempe
- USA
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- School of Molecular Sciences
- Arizona State University
- Tempe
- USA
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Yamada Y, Oyama K, Suenobu T, Fukuzumi S. Photocatalytic water oxidation by persulphate with a Ca2+ ion-incorporated polymeric cobalt cyanide complex affording O2 with 200% quantum efficiency. Chem Commun (Camb) 2017; 53:3418-3421. [DOI: 10.1039/c7cc00199a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Incorporation of a small amount of Ca2+ ions into a polymeric cobalt cyanide complex enhanced the activity for photocatalytic water oxidation by persulphate with [Ru(bpy)3]2+ at pH 7.0 to achieve a maximum quantum efficiency of 200%.
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- Yusuke Yamada
- Department of Applied Chemistry and Bioengineering
- Graduate School of Engineering
- Osaka City University
- Osaka 558-8585
- Japan
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- Department of Material and Life Science
- Graduate School of Engineering
- Osaka University
- SENTAN
- Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)
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- Department of Material and Life Science
- Graduate School of Engineering
- Osaka University
- SENTAN
- Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)
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- Department of Chemistry and Nano Science
- Ewha Womans University
- Seoul 120-750
- Korea
- Faculty of Science and Engineering
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Guo Z, Barry BA. Cryogenic Trapping and Isotope Editing Identify a Protonated Water Cluster as an Intermediate in the Photosynthetic Oxygen-Evolving Reaction. J Phys Chem B 2016; 120:8794-808. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.6b05283] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Zhanjun Guo
- School of Chemistry and Biochemistry
and Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States
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- School of Chemistry and Biochemistry
and Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States
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Gerey B, Gouré E, Fortage J, Pécaut J, Collomb MN. Manganese-calcium/strontium heterometallic compounds and their relevance for the oxygen-evolving center of photosystem II. Coord Chem Rev 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2016.04.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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González-Flores D, Zaharieva I, Heidkamp J, Chernev P, Martínez-Moreno E, Pasquini C, Mohammadi MR, Klingan K, Gernet U, Fischer A, Dau H. Electrosynthesis of Biomimetic Manganese-Calcium Oxides for Water Oxidation Catalysis--Atomic Structure and Functionality. CHEMSUSCHEM 2016; 9:379-387. [PMID: 26692571 DOI: 10.1002/cssc.201501399] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2015] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Water-oxidizing calcium-manganese oxides, which mimic the inorganic core of the biological catalyst, were synthesized and structurally characterized by X-ray absorption spectroscopy at the manganese and calcium K edges. The amorphous, birnesite-type oxides are obtained through a simple protocol that involves electrodeposition followed by active-site creation through annealing at moderate temperatures. Calcium ions are inessential, but tune the electrocatalytic properties. For increasing calcium/manganese molar ratios, both Tafel slopes and exchange current densities decrease gradually, resulting in optimal catalytic performance at calcium/manganese molar ratios of close to 10 %. Tracking UV/Vis absorption changes during electrochemical operation suggests that inactive oxides reach their highest, all-Mn(IV) oxidation state at comparably low electrode potentials. The ability to undergo redox transitions and the presence of a minor fraction of Mn(III) ions at catalytic potentials is identified as a prerequisite for catalytic activity.
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- Diego González-Flores
- Department of Physics, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 14, 14195, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Physics, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 14, 14195, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Physics, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 14, 14195, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Physics, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 14, 14195, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Physics, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 14, 14195, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Physics, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 14, 14195, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Physics, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 14, 14195, Berlin, Germany
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- Technical University Berlin, Department of Chemistry, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623, Berlin, Germany
- Institute of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Albertstrasse 21, 76104, Freiburg, Germany
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- Technical University Berlin, Department of Chemistry, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623, Berlin, Germany
- Institute of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Albertstrasse 21, 76104, Freiburg, Germany
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- Department of Physics, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 14, 14195, Berlin, Germany.
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Najafpour MM, Renger G, Hołyńska M, Moghaddam AN, Aro EM, Carpentier R, Nishihara H, Eaton-Rye JJ, Shen JR, Allakhverdiev SI. Manganese Compounds as Water-Oxidizing Catalysts: From the Natural Water-Oxidizing Complex to Nanosized Manganese Oxide Structures. Chem Rev 2016; 116:2886-936. [PMID: 26812090 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.5b00340] [Citation(s) in RCA: 332] [Impact Index Per Article: 41.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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All cyanobacteria, algae, and plants use a similar water-oxidizing catalyst for water oxidation. This catalyst is housed in Photosystem II, a membrane-protein complex that functions as a light-driven water oxidase in oxygenic photosynthesis. Water oxidation is also an important reaction in artificial photosynthesis because it has the potential to provide cheap electrons from water for hydrogen production or for the reduction of carbon dioxide on an industrial scale. The water-oxidizing complex of Photosystem II is a Mn-Ca cluster that oxidizes water with a low overpotential and high turnover frequency number of up to 25-90 molecules of O2 released per second. In this Review, we discuss the atomic structure of the Mn-Ca cluster of the Photosystem II water-oxidizing complex from the viewpoint that the underlying mechanism can be informative when designing artificial water-oxidizing catalysts. This is followed by consideration of functional Mn-based model complexes for water oxidation and the issue of Mn complexes decomposing to Mn oxide. We then provide a detailed assessment of the chemistry of Mn oxides by considering how their bulk and nanoscale properties contribute to their effectiveness as water-oxidizing catalysts.
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- Institute of Chemistry, Max-Volmer-Laboratory of Biophysical Chemistry, Technical University Berlin , Straße des 17. Juni 135, D-10623 Berlin, Germany
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- Fachbereich Chemie und Wissenschaftliches Zentrum für Materialwissenschaften (WZMW), Philipps-Universität Marburg , Hans-Meerwein-Straße, D-35032 Marburg, Germany
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- Department of Biochemistry and Food Chemistry, University of Turku , 20014 Turku, Finland
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- Groupe de Recherche en Biologie Végétale (GRBV), Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières , C.P. 500, Trois-Rivières, Québec G9A 5H7, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, School of Science, The University of Tokyo , 7-3-1, Hongo, Bunkyo-Ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Otago , P.O. Box 56, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand
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- Photosynthesis Research Center, Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Faculty of Science, Okayama University , Okayama 700-8530, Japan.,Photosynthesis Research Center, Key Laboratory of Photobiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing 100093, China
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- Controlled Photobiosynthesis Laboratory, Institute of Plant Physiology, Russian Academy of Sciences , Botanicheskaya Street 35, Moscow 127276, Russia.,Institute of Basic Biological Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences , Pushchino, Moscow Region 142290, Russia.,Department of Plant Physiology, Faculty of Biology, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University , Leninskie Gory 1-12, Moscow 119991, Russia
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Krewald V, Neese F, Pantazis DA. Redox potential tuning by redox-inactive cations in nature's water oxidizing catalyst and synthetic analogues. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2016; 18:10739-50. [DOI: 10.1039/c5cp07213a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Fundamental differences between synthetic manganese clusters and the biological water oxidizing catalyst are demonstrated in the modulation of their redox potential by redox-inactive cations.
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- Vera Krewald
- Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion
- 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr
- Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion
- 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr
- Germany
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Chemical, electrochemical and photochemical molecular water oxidation catalysts. JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY B-BIOLOGY 2015; 152:71-81. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotobiol.2014.10.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/07/2014] [Revised: 09/08/2014] [Accepted: 10/27/2014] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Nagashima H, Nakajima Y, Shen JR, Mino H. Proton Matrix ENDOR Studies on Ca2+-depleted and Sr2+-substituted Manganese Cluster in Photosystem II. J Biol Chem 2015; 290:28166-28174. [PMID: 26438823 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m115.675496] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2015] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Proton matrix ENDOR spectra were measured for Ca(2+)-depleted and Sr(2+)-substituted photosystem II (PSII) membrane samples from spinach and core complexes from Thermosynechococcus vulcanus in the S2 state. The ENDOR spectra obtained were similar for untreated PSII from T. vulcanus and spinach, as well as for Ca(2+)-containing and Sr(2+)-substituted PSII, indicating that the proton arrangements around the manganese cluster in cyanobacterial and higher plant PSII and Ca(2+)-containing and Sr(2+)-substituted PSII are similar in the S2 state, in agreement with the similarity of the crystal structure of both Ca(2+)-containing and Sr(2+)-substituted PSII in the S1 state. Nevertheless, slightly different hyperfine separations were found between Ca(2+)-containing and Sr(2+)-substituted PSII because of modifications of the water protons ligating to the Sr(2+) ion. Importantly, Ca(2+) depletion caused the loss of ENDOR signals with a 1.36-MHz separation because of the loss of the water proton W4 connecting Ca(2+) and YZ directly. With respect to the crystal structure and the functions of Ca(2+) in oxygen evolution, it was concluded that the roles of Ca(2+) and Sr(2+) involve the maintenance of the hydrogen bond network near the Ca(2+) site and electron transfer pathway to the manganese cluster.
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- Hiroki Nagashima
- Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa, Nagoya, 464-8602, Japan
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- Photosynthesis Research Center, Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology/Faculty of Science, Okayama University, Okayama 700-8530, Japan
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- Photosynthesis Research Center, Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology/Faculty of Science, Okayama University, Okayama 700-8530, Japan
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- Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa, Nagoya, 464-8602, Japan.
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Krewald V, Neese F, Pantazis DA. Resolving the Manganese Oxidation States in the Oxygen-evolving Catalyst of Natural Photosynthesis. Isr J Chem 2015. [DOI: 10.1002/ijch.201500051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Lee YM, Bang S, Yoon H, Bae SH, Hong S, Cho KB, Sarangi R, Fukuzumi S, Nam W. Tuning the Redox Properties of a Nonheme Iron(III)-Peroxo Complex Binding Redox-Inactive Zinc Ions by Water Molecules. Chemistry 2015; 21:10676-80. [PMID: 26096281 DOI: 10.1002/chem.201502143] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2015] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Redox-inactive metal ions play important roles in tuning chemical properties of metal-oxygen intermediates. Herein we report the effect of water molecules on the redox properties of a nonheme iron(III)-peroxo complex binding redox-inactive metal ions. The coordination of two water molecules to a Zn(2+) ion in (TMC)Fe(III) -(O2 )-Zn(CF3 SO3 )2 (1-Zn(2+) ) decreases the Lewis acidity of the Zn(2+) ion, resulting in the decrease of the one-electron oxidation and reduction potentials of 1-Zn(2+) . This further changes the reactivities of 1-Zn(2+) in oxidation and reduction reactions; no reaction occurred upon addition of an oxidant (e.g., cerium(IV) ammonium nitrate (CAN)) to 1-Zn(2+) , whereas 1-Zn(2+) coordinating two water molecules, (TMC)Fe(III) -(O2 )-Zn(CF3 SO3 )2 -(OH2 )2 [1-Zn(2+) -(OH2 )2 ], releases the O2 unit in the oxidation reaction. In the reduction reactions, 1-Zn(2+) was converted to its corresponding iron(IV)-oxo species upon addition of a reductant (e.g., a ferrocene derivative), whereas such a reaction occurred at a much slower rate in the case of 1-Zn(2+) -(OH2 )2 . The present results provide the first biomimetic example showing that water molecules at the active sites of metalloenzymes may participate in tuning the redox properties of metal-oxygen intermediates.
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- Yong-Min Lee
- Department of Chemistry and Nano Science, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 120-750 (Korea), Fax: (+82) 2-3277-4114
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- Department of Chemistry and Nano Science, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 120-750 (Korea), Fax: (+82) 2-3277-4114
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- Department of Material and Life Science, Graduate School of Engineering, ALCA, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565-0871 (Japan)
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- Department of Chemistry and Nano Science, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 120-750 (Korea), Fax: (+82) 2-3277-4114
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- Department of Chemistry and Nano Science, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 120-750 (Korea), Fax: (+82) 2-3277-4114
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- Department of Chemistry and Nano Science, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 120-750 (Korea), Fax: (+82) 2-3277-4114
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- Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA 94025 (USA)
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- Department of Chemistry and Nano Science, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 120-750 (Korea), Fax: (+82) 2-3277-4114. .,Department of Material and Life Science, Graduate School of Engineering, ALCA, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565-0871 (Japan). .,Faculty of Science and Technology, Meijo University, ALCA and SENTAN, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Shiogamaguchi, Tempaku, Nagoya, Aichi 468-8502 (Japan).
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- Department of Chemistry and Nano Science, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 120-750 (Korea), Fax: (+82) 2-3277-4114.
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Siegbahn PEM. Water oxidation energy diagrams for photosystem II for different protonation states, and the effect of removing calcium. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2015; 16:11893-900. [PMID: 24618784 DOI: 10.1039/c3cp55329a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The main parts of the water oxidation mechanism in photosystem II have now been established both from theory and experiments. Still, there are minor questions remaining. One of them concerns the charge and the protonation state of the oxygen evolving complex (OEC). Previously, theory and experiments have agreed that the two water derived ligands on the outer manganese should be one hydroxide and one water. In the present study it is investigated whether both of them could be water. This question is addressed by a detailed study of energy diagrams, but in this context it is more conclusive to compare the redox potential of the OEC to the one of TyrZ. Both procedures lead to the conclusion that one of the ligands is a hydroxide. Another question concerns the protonation of the second shell His337, where the results are more ambiguous. The final part of the present study describes results when calcium is removed from the OEC. Even though protons enter to compensate the charge of the missing Ca(2+), the redox potential and the pKa value of the OEC change dramatically and prevent the progress after S2.
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- Per E M Siegbahn
- Department of Organic Chemistry, Arrhenius Laboratory, Stockholm University, SE-106 91, Stockholm, Sweden.
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Martin-Diaconescu V, Gennari M, Gerey B, Tsui E, Kanady J, Tran R, Pécaut J, Maganas D, Krewald V, Gouré E, Duboc C, Yano J, Agapie T, Collomb MN, DeBeer S. Ca K-edge XAS as a probe of calcium centers in complex systems. Inorg Chem 2015; 54:1283-92. [PMID: 25492398 PMCID: PMC4331723 DOI: 10.1021/ic501991e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2014] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Herein, Ca K-edge X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) is developed as a means to characterize the local environment of calcium centers. The spectra for six, seven, and eight coordinate inorganic and molecular calcium complexes were analyzed and determined to be primarily influenced by the coordination environment and site symmetry at the calcium center. The experimental results are closely correlated to time-dependent density functional theory (TD-DFT) calculations of the XAS spectra. The applicability of this methodology to complex systems was investigated using structural mimics of the oxygen-evolving complex (OEC) of PSII. It was found that Ca K-edge XAS is a sensitive probe for structural changes occurring in the cubane heterometallic cluster due to Mn oxidation. Future applications to the OEC are discussed.
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- Vlad Martin-Diaconescu
- Max Planck Institute
for Chemical Energy Conversion, Stiftstrasse 34-36, D-45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, DCM and
CNRS, DCM, F-38000 Grenoble, France
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, DCM and
CNRS, DCM, F-38000 Grenoble, France
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- California Institute of
Technology, Department of Chemistry, Pasadena, California 91125, United States
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- California Institute of
Technology, Department of Chemistry, Pasadena, California 91125, United States
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory − Physical Biosciences Division, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Laboratoire de Reconnaissance Ionique
et Chimie de Coordination (LCIB, SCIB, INAC, CEA Grenoble), 38054 Grenoble
Cedex 9, France
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- Max Planck Institute
for Chemical Energy Conversion, Stiftstrasse 34-36, D-45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute
for Chemical Energy Conversion, Stiftstrasse 34-36, D-45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, DCM and
CNRS, DCM, F-38000 Grenoble, France
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, DCM and
CNRS, DCM, F-38000 Grenoble, France
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory − Physical Biosciences Division, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- California Institute of
Technology, Department of Chemistry, Pasadena, California 91125, United States
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- Max Planck Institute
for Chemical Energy Conversion, Stiftstrasse 34-36, D-45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical
Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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Goecke F, Jerez CG, Zachleder V, Figueroa FL, Bišová K, Řezanka T, Vítová M. Use of lanthanides to alleviate the effects of metal ion-deficiency in Desmodesmus quadricauda (Sphaeropleales, Chlorophyta). Front Microbiol 2015; 6:2. [PMID: 25674079 PMCID: PMC4309186 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/20/2014] [Accepted: 01/02/2015] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Lanthanides are biologically non-essential elements with wide applications in technology and industry. Their concentration as environmental contaminants is, therefore, increasing. Although non-essential, lanthanides have been proposed (and even used) to produce beneficial effects in plants, even though their mechanisms of action are unclear. Recently, it was suggested that they may replace essential elements. We tested the effect of low concentrations of lanthanides on the common freshwater microalga Desmodesmus quadricauda, grown under conditions of metal ion-deficiency (lower calcium or manganese concentrations). Our goal was to test if lanthanides can replace essential metals in their functions. Physiological stress was recorded by studying growth and photosynthetic activity using a pulse amplitude modulation (PAM) fluorimeter. We found that nutrient stress reduced parameters of growth and photosynthesis, such as maximal quantum yield, relative electron transport rate, photon capturing efficiency and light saturation irradiance. After adding low concentrations of five lanthanides, we confirmed that they can produce a stimulatory effect on microalgae, depending on the nutrient (metal) deprivation. In the case of a calcium deficit, the addition of lanthanides partly alleviated the adverse effects, probably by a partial substitution of the element. In contrast, with manganese deprivation (and at even lower concentrations), lanthanides enhanced the deleterious effect on cellular growth and photosynthetic competence. These results show that lanthanides can replace essential elements, but their effects on microalgae depend on stress and the nutritional state of the microalgae, raising the possibility of environmental impacts at even low concentrations.
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- Franz Goecke
- Laboratory of Cell Cycles of Algae, Centre Algatech, Institute of Microbiology Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic Třeboň, Czech Republic
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- Department of Ecology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Málaga Málaga, Spain
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- Laboratory of Cell Cycles of Algae, Centre Algatech, Institute of Microbiology Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic Třeboň, Czech Republic
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- Department of Ecology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Málaga Málaga, Spain
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- Laboratory of Cell Cycles of Algae, Centre Algatech, Institute of Microbiology Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic Třeboň, Czech Republic
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- Department of Microbiology, Institute of Microbiology Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic Prague, Czech Republic
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- Laboratory of Cell Cycles of Algae, Centre Algatech, Institute of Microbiology Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic Třeboň, Czech Republic
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Shen JR. The Structure of Photosystem II and the Mechanism of Water Oxidation in Photosynthesis. ANNUAL REVIEW OF PLANT BIOLOGY 2015; 66:23-48. [PMID: 25746448 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-arplant-050312-120129] [Citation(s) in RCA: 442] [Impact Index Per Article: 49.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Oxygenic photosynthesis forms the basis of aerobic life on earth by converting light energy into biologically useful chemical energy and by splitting water to generate molecular oxygen. The water-splitting and oxygen-evolving reaction is catalyzed by photosystem II (PSII), a huge, multisubunit membrane-protein complex located in the thylakoid membranes of organisms ranging from cyanobacteria to higher plants. The structure of PSII has been analyzed at 1.9-Å resolution by X-ray crystallography, revealing a clear picture of the Mn4CaO5 cluster, the catalytic center for water oxidation. This article provides an overview of the overall structure of PSII followed by detailed descriptions of the specific structure of the Mn4CaO5 cluster and its surrounding protein environment. Based on the geometric organization of the Mn4CaO5 cluster revealed by the crystallographic analysis, in combination with the results of a vast number of experimental studies involving spectroscopic and other techniques as well as various theoretical studies, the article also discusses possible mechanisms for water splitting that are currently under consideration.
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- Jian-Ren Shen
- Photosynthesis Research Center, Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, Okayama 700-8530, Japan;
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Zhang Z, Coats KL, Chen Z, Hubin TJ, Yin G. Influence of Calcium(II) and Chloride on the Oxidative Reactivity of a Manganese(II) Complex of a Cross-Bridged Cyclen Ligand. Inorg Chem 2014; 53:11937-47. [DOI: 10.1021/ic501342c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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- Zhan Zhang
- Key
Laboratory for Large-Format Battery Materials and System, Ministry
of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hubei
Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry and Service Failure, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, P. R. China
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- Department
of Chemistry and Physics, Southwestern Oklahoma State University, 100
Campus Drive, Weatherford, Oklahoma 73096, United States
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- Key
Laboratory for Large-Format Battery Materials and System, Ministry
of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hubei
Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry and Service Failure, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, P. R. China
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- Department
of Chemistry and Physics, Southwestern Oklahoma State University, 100
Campus Drive, Weatherford, Oklahoma 73096, United States
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- Key
Laboratory for Large-Format Battery Materials and System, Ministry
of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hubei
Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry and Service Failure, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, P. R. China
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Askerka M, Wang J, Brudvig GW, Batista VS. Structural changes in the oxygen-evolving complex of photosystem II induced by the S1 to S2 transition: A combined XRD and QM/MM study. Biochemistry 2014; 53:6860-2. [PMID: 25347729 PMCID: PMC4230327 DOI: 10.1021/bi5011915] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The S1 → S2 transition of the oxygen-evolving
complex (OEC) of photosystem II does not involve the transfer of a
proton to the lumen and occurs at cryogenic temperatures. Therefore,
it is commonly thought to involve only Mn oxidation without any significant
change in the structure of the OEC. Here, we analyze structural changes
upon the S1 → S2 transition, as revealed
by quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics methods and the isomorphous
difference Fourier method applied to serial femtosecond X-ray diffraction
data. We find that the main structural change in the OEC is in the
position of the dangling Mn and its coordination environment.
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- Mikhail Askerka
- Department of Chemistry, Yale University , New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8107, United States
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Kärkäs MD, Verho O, Johnston EV, Åkermark B. Artificial Photosynthesis: Molecular Systems for Catalytic Water Oxidation. Chem Rev 2014; 114:11863-2001. [DOI: 10.1021/cr400572f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1024] [Impact Index Per Article: 102.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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- Markus D. Kärkäs
- Department of Organic Chemistry,
Arrhenius Laboratory, Stockholm University, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Organic Chemistry,
Arrhenius Laboratory, Stockholm University, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Organic Chemistry,
Arrhenius Laboratory, Stockholm University, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Organic Chemistry,
Arrhenius Laboratory, Stockholm University, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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Bang S, Lee YM, Hong S, Cho KB, Nishida Y, Seo MS, Sarangi R, Fukuzumi S, Nam W. Redox-inactive metal ions modulate the reactivity and oxygen release of mononuclear non-haem iron(III)-peroxo complexes. Nat Chem 2014; 6:934-40. [PMID: 25242490 PMCID: PMC4215643 DOI: 10.1038/nchem.2055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 118] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2013] [Accepted: 07/31/2014] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Redox-inactive metal ions that function as Lewis acids play pivotal roles in modulating the reactivity of oxygen-containing metal complexes and metalloenzymes, such as the oxygen-evolving complex in photosystem II and its small-molecule mimics. Here we report the synthesis and characterization of non-haem iron(III)-peroxo complexes that bind redox-inactive metal ions, (TMC)Fe(III)-(μ,η(2):η(2)-O2)-M(n+) (M(n+) = Sr(2+), Ca(2+), Zn(2+), Lu(3+), Y(3+) and Sc(3+); TMC, 1,4,8,11-tetramethyl-1,4,8,11-tetraazacyclotetradecane). We demonstrate that the Ca(2+) and Sr(2+) complexes showed similar electrochemical properties and reactivities in one-electron oxidation or reduction reactions. However, the properties and reactivities of complexes formed with stronger Lewis acidities were found to be markedly different. Complexes that contain Ca(2+) or Sr(2+) ions were oxidized by an electron acceptor to release O2, whereas the release of O2 did not occur for complexes that bind stronger Lewis acids. We discuss these results in the light of the functional role of the Ca(2+) ion in the oxidation of water to dioxygen by the oxygen-evolving complex.
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- Suhee Bang
- Department of Chemistry and Nano Science, Department of Bioinspired Science, Center for Biomimetic Systems, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 120-750, Korea
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- Department of Chemistry and Nano Science, Department of Bioinspired Science, Center for Biomimetic Systems, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 120-750, Korea
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- Department of Chemistry and Nano Science, Department of Bioinspired Science, Center for Biomimetic Systems, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 120-750, Korea
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- Department of Chemistry and Nano Science, Department of Bioinspired Science, Center for Biomimetic Systems, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 120-750, Korea
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- Department of Material and Life Science, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University and ALCA, Japan Science Technology Agency (JST), Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry and Nano Science, Department of Bioinspired Science, Center for Biomimetic Systems, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 120-750, Korea
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- Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Nano Science, Department of Bioinspired Science, Center for Biomimetic Systems, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 120-750, Korea
- Department of Material and Life Science, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University and ALCA, Japan Science Technology Agency (JST), Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry and Nano Science, Department of Bioinspired Science, Center for Biomimetic Systems, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 120-750, Korea
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Tsui EY, Kanady JS, Agapie T. Synthetic cluster models of biological and heterogeneous manganese catalysts for O2 evolution. Inorg Chem 2014; 52:13833-48. [PMID: 24328344 DOI: 10.1021/ic402236f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 120] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Artificial photosynthesis has emerged as an important strategy toward clean and renewable fuels. Catalytic oxidation of water to O2 remains a significant challenge in this context. A mechanistic understanding of currently known heterogeneous and biological catalysts at a molecular level is highly desirable for fundamental reasons as well as for the rational design of practical catalysts. This Award Article discusses recent efforts in synthesizing structural models of the oxygen-evolving complex of photosystem II. These structural motifs are also related to heterogeneous mixed-metal oxide catalysts. A stepwise synthetic methodology was developed toward achieving the structural complexity of the targeted active sites. A geometrically restricted multinucleating ligand, but with labile coordination modes, was employed for the synthesis of low-oxidation-state trimetallic species. These precursors were elaborated to site-differentiated tetrametallic complexes in high oxidation states. This methodology has allowed for structure-reactivity studies that have offered insight into the effects of different components of the clusters. Mechanistic aspects of oxygen-atom transfer and incorporation from water have been interrogated. Significantly, a large and systematic effect of redox-inactive metals on the redox properties of these clusters was discovered. With the pKa value of the redox-inactive metal-aqua complex as a measure of the Lewis acidity, structurally analogous clusters display a linear dependence between the reduction potential and acidity; each pKa unit shifts the potential by ca. 90 mV. Implications for the function of the biological and heterogeneous catalysts are discussed.
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- Emily Y Tsui
- Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology , Pasadena, California 91125, United States
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Yano J, Yachandra V. Mn4Ca cluster in photosynthesis: where and how water is oxidized to dioxygen. Chem Rev 2014; 114:4175-205. [PMID: 24684576 PMCID: PMC4002066 DOI: 10.1021/cr4004874] [Citation(s) in RCA: 468] [Impact Index Per Article: 46.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2013] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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- Junko Yano
- Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720
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- Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720
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Chatterjee R, Milikisiyants S, Coates CS, Koua FHM, Shen JR, Lakshmi KV. The structure and activation of substrate water molecules in Sr2+-substituted photosystem II. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2014; 16:20834-43. [DOI: 10.1039/c4cp03082f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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An EPR spectroscopy study with direct evidence that the Ca2+ ion plays a structural role in maintaining the hydrogen-bond network in photosystem II.
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- Ruchira Chatterjee
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
- The Baruch ’60 Center for Biochemical Solar Energy Research
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Troy, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
- The Baruch ’60 Center for Biochemical Solar Energy Research
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Troy, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
- The Baruch ’60 Center for Biochemical Solar Energy Research
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Troy, USA
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- Photosynthesis Research Center
- Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology and Faculty of Science
- Okayama University
- Okayama 700-8530, Japan
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- Photosynthesis Research Center
- Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology and Faculty of Science
- Okayama University
- Okayama 700-8530, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
- The Baruch ’60 Center for Biochemical Solar Energy Research
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Troy, USA
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Saito K, Ishikita H. Influence of the Ca 2+ ion on the Mn 4 Ca conformation and the H-bond network arrangement in Photosystem II. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2014; 1837:159-66. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2013.09.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2013] [Revised: 09/19/2013] [Accepted: 09/24/2013] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Bazin D, Dessombz A, Nguyen C, Ea HK, Lioté F, Rehr J, Chappard C, Rouzière S, Thiaudière D, Reguer S, Daudon M. The status of strontium in biological apatites: an XANES/EXAFS investigation. JOURNAL OF SYNCHROTRON RADIATION 2014; 21:136-142. [PMID: 24365928 DOI: 10.1107/s1600577513023771] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2013] [Accepted: 08/22/2013] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Osteoporosis represents a major public health problem through its association with fragility fractures. The public health burden of osteoporotic fractures will rise in future generations, due in part to an increase in life expectancy. Strontium-based drugs have been shown to increase bone mass in postmenopausal osteoporosis patients and to reduce fracture risk but the molecular mechanisms of the action of these Sr-based drugs are not totally elucidated. The local environment of Sr(2+) cations in biological apatites present in pathological and physiological calcifications in patients without such Sr-based drugs has been assessed. In this investigation, X-ray absorption spectra have been collected for 17 pathological and physiological calcifications. These experimental data have been combined with a set of numerical simulations using the ab initio FEFF9 X-ray spectroscopy program which takes into account possible distortion and Ca/Sr substitution in the environment of the Sr(2+) cations. For selected samples, Fourier transforms of the EXAFS modulations have been performed. The complete set of experimental data collected on 17 samples indicates that there is no relationship between the nature of the calcification (physiological and pathological) and the adsorption mode of Sr(2+) cations (simple adsorption or insertion). Such structural considerations have medical implications. Pathological and physiological calcifications correspond to two very different preparation procedures but are associated with the same localization of Sr(2+) versus apatite crystals. Based on this study, it seems that for supplementation of Sr at low concentration, Sr(2+) cations will be localized into the apatite network.
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- Dominique Bazin
- CNRS-LCMCP-UPMC, Collège de France, 11 place Marcelin Berthelot, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France
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- Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Université Paris XI, Bâtiment 510, 91405 Orsay, France
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- INSERM, UMR-S 606, Lariboisière Hospital, F-75010 Paris, France
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- INSERM, UMR-S 606, Lariboisière Hospital, F-75010 Paris, France
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- Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- B2OA, UMR 7052 CNRS, Université Paris Diderot, 10 avenue de Verdun, F-75010 Paris, France
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- Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Université Paris XI, Bâtiment 510, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Synchrotron SOLEIL, L'Orme des Merisiers, Saint-Aubin, BP 48, 91192 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Synchrotron SOLEIL, L'Orme des Merisiers, Saint-Aubin, BP 48, 91192 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Service d'Explorations Fonctionnelles, AP-HP, Hôpital Tenon, 4 rue de la Chine, F-75020 Paris, France
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van Oort B, Kargul J, Maghlaoui K, Barber J, van Amerongen H. Fluorescence kinetics of PSII crystals containing Ca(2+) or Sr(2+) in the oxygen evolving complex. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2013; 1837:264-9. [PMID: 24269510 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2013.11.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2013] [Revised: 11/06/2013] [Accepted: 11/12/2013] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
Abstract
Photosystem II (PSII) is the pigment-protein complex which converts sunlight energy into chemical energy by catalysing the process of light-driven oxidation of water into reducing equivalents in the form of protons and electrons. Three-dimensional structures from x-ray crystallography have been used extensively to model these processes. However, the crystal structures are not necessarily identical to those of the solubilised complexes. Here we compared picosecond fluorescence of solubilised and crystallised PSII core particles isolated from the thermophilic cyanobacterium Thermosynechococcus elongatus. The fluorescence of the crystals is sensitive to the presence of artificial electron acceptors (K3Fe(CN)3) and electron transport inhibitors (DCMU). In PSII with reaction centres in the open state, the picosecond fluorescence of PSII crystals and solubilised PSII is indistinguishable. Additionally we compared picosecond fluorescence of native PSII with PSII in which Ca(2) in the oxygen evolving complex (OEC) is biosynthetically replaced by Sr(2+). With the Sr(2+) replaced OEC the average fluorescence decay slows down slightly (81ps to 85ps), and reaction centres are less readily closed, indicating that both energy transfer/trapping and electron transfer are affected by the replacement.
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- Bart van Oort
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Faculty of Sciences, VU University Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1081, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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- Department of Plant Molecular Physiology, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw, Miecznikowa 1, 02-096 Warsaw, Poland
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- Division of Molecular Biosciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK
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- Laboratory of Biophysics, Wageningen University, P. O. Box 8128, 6700 ET Wageningen, The Netherlands
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Lee YM, Bang S, Kim YM, Cho J, Hong S, Nomura T, Ogura T, Troeppner O, Ivanović-Burmazović I, Sarangi R, Fukuzumi S, Nam W. A Mononuclear Nonheme Iron(III)-Peroxo Complex Binding Redox-Inactive Metal Ions. Chem Sci 2013; 4:3917-3923. [PMID: 25426288 PMCID: PMC4241270 DOI: 10.1039/c3sc51864g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Redox-inactive metal ions that function as Lewis acids play pivotal roles in modulating reactivities of oxygen-containing metal complexes in a variety of biological and biomimetic reactions, including dioxygen activation/formation and functionalization of organic substrates. Mononuclear nonheme iron(III)-peroxo species are invoked as active oxygen intermediates in the catalytic cycles of dioxygen activation by nonheme iron enzymes and their biomimetic compounds. Here, we report mononuclear nonheme iron(III)-peroxo complexes binding redox-inactive metal ions, [(TMC)FeIII(O2)]+-M3+ (M3+ = Sc3+ and Y3+; TMC = 1,4,8,11-tetramethyl-1,4,8,11-tetraazacyclotetradecane), which are characterized spectroscopically as a 'side-on' iron(III)-peroxo complex binding a redox-inactive metal ion, (TMC)FeIII-(μ,η2:η2-O2)-M3+ (2-M). While an iron(III)-peroxo complex, [(TMC)FeIII(O2)]+, does not react with electron donors (e.g., ferrocene), one-electron reduction of the iron(III)-peroxo complexes binding redox-inactive metal ions occurs readily upon addition of electron donors, resulting in the generation of an iron(IV)-oxo complex, [(TMC)FeIV(O)]2+ (4), via heterolytic O-O bond cleavage of the peroxide ligand. The rates of the conversion of 2-M to 4 are found to depend on the Lewis acidity of the redox-inactive metal ions and the oxidation potential of the electron donors. We have also determined the fundamental electron-transfer properties of 2-M, such as the reduction potential and the reorganization energy in electron-transfer reaction. Based on the results presented herein, we have proposed a mechanism for the reactions of 2-M and electron donors; the reduction of 2-M to the reduced species, (TMC)FeII-(O2)-M3+ (2'-M), is the rate-determining step, followed by heterolytic O-O bond cleavage of the reduced species to form 4. The present results provide a biomimetic example demonstrating that redox-inactive metal ions bound to an iron(III)-peroxo intermediate play a significant role in activating the peroxide O-O bond to form a high-valent iron(IV)-oxo species.
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- Yong-Min Lee
- Department of Bioinspired Science, Department of Chemistry and Nano Science, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 120-750, Korea
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- Department of Bioinspired Science, Department of Chemistry and Nano Science, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 120-750, Korea
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- Department of Bioinspired Science, Department of Chemistry and Nano Science, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 120-750, Korea
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- Department of Bioinspired Science, Department of Chemistry and Nano Science, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 120-750, Korea ; Department of Emerging Materials Science, DGIST, Daegu 711-873, Korea
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- Department of Bioinspired Science, Department of Chemistry and Nano Science, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 120-750, Korea
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- Picobiology Institute, Graduate School of Life Science, University of Hyogo, Hyogo 678-1297, Japan
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- Picobiology Institute, Graduate School of Life Science, University of Hyogo, Hyogo 678-1297, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, 91058 Erlangen, Germany
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- Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
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- Department of Bioinspired Science, Department of Chemistry and Nano Science, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 120-750, Korea ; Department of Material and Life Science, Graduate School of Engineering, ALCA, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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- Department of Bioinspired Science, Department of Chemistry and Nano Science, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 120-750, Korea
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Yoon H, Lee YM, Wu X, Cho KB, Sarangi R, Nam W, Fukuzumi S. Enhanced electron-transfer reactivity of nonheme manganese(IV)-oxo complexes by binding scandium ions. J Am Chem Soc 2013; 135:9186-94. [PMID: 23742163 PMCID: PMC3934761 DOI: 10.1021/ja403965h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 116] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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One and two scandium ions (Sc(3+)) are bound strongly to nonheme manganese(IV)-oxo complexes, [(N4Py)Mn(IV)(O)](2+) (N4Py = N,N-bis(2-pyridylmethyl)-N-bis(2-pyridyl)methylamine) and [(Bn-TPEN)Mn(IV)(O)](2+) (Bn-TPEN = N-benzyl-N,N',N'-tris(2-pyridylmethyl)-1,2-diaminoethane), to form Mn(IV)(O)-(Sc(3+))1 and Mn(IV)(O)-(Sc(3+))2 complexes, respectively. The binding of Sc(3+) ions to the Mn(IV)(O) complexes was examined by spectroscopic methods as well as by DFT calculations. The one-electron reduction potentials of the Mn(IV)(O) complexes were markedly shifted to a positive direction by binding of Sc(3+) ions. Accordingly, rates of the electron transfer reactions of the Mn(IV)(O) complexes were enhanced as much as 10(7)-fold by binding of two Sc(3+) ions. The driving force dependence of electron transfer from various electron donors to the Mn(IV)(O) and Mn(IV)(O)-(Sc(3+))2 complexes was examined and analyzed in light of the Marcus theory of electron transfer to determine the reorganization energies of electron transfer. The smaller reorganization energies and much more positive reduction potentials of the Mn(IV)(O)-(Sc(3+))2 complexes resulted in remarkable enhancement of the electron-transfer reactivity of the Mn(IV)(O) complexes. Such a dramatic enhancement of the electron-transfer reactivity of the Mn(IV)(O) complexes by binding of Sc(3+) ions resulted in the change of mechanism in the sulfoxidation of thioanisoles by Mn(IV)(O) complexes from a direct oxygen atom transfer pathway without metal ion binding to an electron-transfer pathway with binding of Sc(3+) ions.
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- Heejung Yoon
- Department of Material and Life Science, Graduate School of Engineering, ALCA, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
- Department of Bioinspired Science, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 120-750, Korea
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- Department of Bioinspired Science, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 120-750, Korea
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- Department of Bioinspired Science, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 120-750, Korea
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- Department of Bioinspired Science, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 120-750, Korea
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- Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, United States
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- Department of Bioinspired Science, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 120-750, Korea
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- Department of Material and Life Science, Graduate School of Engineering, ALCA, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
- Department of Bioinspired Science, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 120-750, Korea
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Reduction potentials of heterometallic manganese-oxido cubane complexes modulated by redox-inactive metals. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2013; 110:10084-8. [PMID: 23744039 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1302677110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 154] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Understanding the effect of redox-inactive metals on the properties of biological and heterogeneous water oxidation catalysts is important both fundamentally and for improvement of future catalyst designs. In this work, heterometallic manganese-oxido cubane clusters [MMn3O4] (M = Sr(2+), Zn(2+), Sc(3+), Y(3+)) structurally relevant to the oxygen-evolving complex (OEC) of photosystem II were prepared and characterized. The reduction potentials of these clusters and other related mixed metal manganese-tetraoxido complexes are correlated with the Lewis acidity of the apical redox-inactive metal in a manner similar to a related series of heterometallic manganese-dioxido clusters. The redox potentials of the [SrMn3O4] and [CaMn3O4] clusters are close, which is consistent with the observation that the OEC is functional only with one of these two metals. Considering our previous studies of [MMn3O2] moieties, the present results with more structurally accurate models of the OEC ([MMn3O4]) suggest a general relationship between the reduction potentials of heterometallic oxido clusters and the Lewis acidities of incorporated cations that applies to diverse structural motifs. These findings support proposals that one function of calcium in the OEC is to modulate the reduction potential of the cluster to allow electron transfer.
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Polander BC, Barry BA. Calcium and the Hydrogen-Bonded Water Network in the Photosynthetic Oxygen-Evolving Complex. J Phys Chem Lett 2013; 4:786-791. [PMID: 26281933 DOI: 10.1021/jz400071k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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In photosynthesis, photosystem II evolves oxygen from water at a Mn4CaO5 cluster (OEC). Calcium is required for biological oxygen evolution. In the OEC, a water network, extending from the calcium to four peptide carbonyl groups, has recently been predicted by a high-resolution crystal structure. Here, we use carbonyl vibrational frequencies as reporters of electrostatic changes to test the presence of this water network. A single flash, oxidizing Mn(III) to Mn(IV) (the S1 to S2 transition), upshifted the frequencies of peptide C═O bands. The spectral change was attributable to a decrease in C═O hydrogen bonding. Strontium, which supports a lower level of steady state activity, also led to an oxidation-induced shift in C═O frequencies, but treatment with barium and magnesium, which do not support activity, did not. This work provides evidence that calcium maintains an electrostatically responsive water network in the OEC and shows that OEC peptide carbonyl groups can be used as solvatochromic markers.
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- Brandon C Polander
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States
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Redox-inactive metals modulate the reduction potential in heterometallic manganese-oxido clusters. Nat Chem 2013; 5:293-9. [PMID: 23511417 PMCID: PMC3654670 DOI: 10.1038/nchem.1578] [Citation(s) in RCA: 255] [Impact Index Per Article: 23.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2012] [Accepted: 01/22/2013] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Redox-inactive metals are found in biological and heterogeneous water oxidation catalysts, but their roles in catalysis are currently not well understood. A series of high oxidation state tetranuclear-dioxido clusters comprised of three manganese centers and a redox-inactive metal (M) of various charge is reported. Crystallographic studies show an unprecedented Mn3M(μ4-O)(μ2-O) core that remains intact upon changing M or the manganese oxidation state. Electrochemical studies reveal that the reduction potentials span a window of 700 mV, dependent upon the Lewis acidity of the second metal. With the pKa of the redox-inactive metal-aqua complex as a measure of Lewis acidity, these compounds display a linear dependence between reduction potential and acidity with a slope of ca. 100 mV per pKa unit. The Sr2+ and Ca2+ compounds show similar potentials, an observation that correlates with the behavior of the OEC, which is active only in the presence of one of these two metals.
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