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Drosou M, Comas-Vilà G, Neese F, Salvador P, Pantazis DA. Does Serial Femtosecond Crystallography Depict State-Specific Catalytic Intermediates of the Oxygen-Evolving Complex? J Am Chem Soc 2023; 145:10604-10621. [PMID: 37137865 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c00489] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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Recent advances in serial femtosecond crystallography (SFX) of photosystem II (PSII), enabled by X-ray free electron lasers (XFEL), provided the first geometric models of distinct intermediates in the catalytic S-state cycle of the oxygen-evolving complex (OEC). These models are obtained by flash-advancing the OEC from the dark-stable state (S1) to more oxidized intermediates (S2 and S3), eventually cycling back to the most reduced S0. However, the interpretation of these models is controversial because geometric parameters within the Mn4CaO5 cluster of the OEC do not exactly match those expected from coordination chemistry for the spectroscopically verified manganese oxidation states of the distinct S-state intermediates. Here we focus on the first catalytic transition, S1 → S2, which represents a one-electron oxidation of the OEC. Combining geometric and electronic structure criteria, including a novel effective oxidation state approach, we analyze existing 1-flash (1F) SFX-XFEL crystallographic models that should depict the S2 state of the OEC. We show that the 1F/S2 equivalence is not obvious, because the Mn oxidation states and total unpaired electron counts encoded in these models are not fully consistent with those of a pure S2 state and with the nature of the S1 → S2 transition. Furthermore, the oxidation state definition in two-flashed (2F) structural models is practically impossible to elucidate. Our results advise caution in the extraction of electronic structure information solely from the literal interpretation of crystallographic models and call for re-evaluation of structural and mechanistic interpretations that presume exact correspondence of such models to specific catalytic intermediates of the OEC.
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- Maria Drosou
- Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz 1, 45470, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
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- Institute of Computational Chemistry and Catalysis, Chemistry Department, University of Girona, Montilivi Campus, Girona, Catalonia 17003, Spain
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz 1, 45470, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
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- Institute of Computational Chemistry and Catalysis, Chemistry Department, University of Girona, Montilivi Campus, Girona, Catalonia 17003, Spain
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz 1, 45470, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
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Yamaguchi K, Shoji M, Isobe H, Kawakami T, Miyagawa K, Suga M, Akita F, Shen JR. Geometric, electronic and spin structures of the CaMn4O5 catalyst for water oxidation in oxygen-evolving photosystem II. Interplay between experiments and theoretical computations. Coord Chem Rev 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2022.214742] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Ara AM, Ahmed MK, D'Haene S, van Roon H, Ilioaia C, van Grondelle R, Wahadoszamen M. Absence of far-red emission band in aggregated core antenna complexes. Biophys J 2021; 120:1680-1691. [PMID: 33675767 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2021.02.037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2020] [Revised: 01/31/2021] [Accepted: 02/22/2021] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Reported herein is a Stark fluorescence spectroscopy study performed on photosystem II core antenna complexes CP43 and CP47 in their native and aggregated states. The systematic mathematical modeling of the Stark fluorescence spectra with the aid of conventional Liptay formalism revealed that induction of aggregation in both the core antenna complexes via detergent removal results in a single quenched species characterized by a remarkably broad and inhomogenously broadened emission lineshape peaking around 700 nm. The quenched species possesses a fairly large magnitude of charge-transfer character. From the analogy with the results from aggregated peripheral antenna complexes, the quenched species is thought to originate from the enhanced chlorophyll-chlorophyll interaction due to aggregation. However, in contrast, aggregation of both core antenna complexes did not produce a far-red emission band at ∼730 nm, which was identified in most of the aggregated peripheral antenna complexes. The 730-nm emission band of the aggregated peripheral antenna complexes was attributed to the enhanced chlorophyll-carotenoid (lutein1) interaction in the terminal emitter locus. Therefore, it is very likely that the no occurrence of the far-red band in the aggregated core antenna complexes is directly related to the absence of lutein1 in their structures. The absence of the far-red band also suggests the possibility that aggregation-induced conformational change of the core antenna complexes does not yield a chlorophyll-carotenoid interaction associated energy dissipation channel.
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- Anjue Mane Ara
- Biophysics of Photosynthesis, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Faculty of Sciences, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Department of Physics, Jagannath University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- Biophysics of Photosynthesis, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Faculty of Sciences, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Biophysics of Photosynthesis, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Faculty of Sciences, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell, CEA, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Biophysics of Photosynthesis, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Faculty of Sciences, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Biophysics of Photosynthesis, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Faculty of Sciences, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Department of Physics, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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Yamaguchi K, Yamanaka S, Isobe H, Shoji M, Miyagawa K, Kawakami T. Theory of chemical bonds in metalloenzymes XXIII fundamental principles for the photo-induced water oxidation in oxygen evolving complex of photosystem II. Mol Phys 2020. [DOI: 10.1080/00268976.2020.1725168] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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- K. Yamaguchi
- The Institute for Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
- Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Japan
- RIKEN Center for Computational Science, Kobe, Japan
- Institute for Nanoscience Design, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Japan
- Division of Quantum Information and Quantum Biology (QIQB), Osaka University, Toyonaka, Japan
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- Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Japan
- Division of Quantum Information and Quantum Biology (QIQB), Osaka University, Toyonaka, Japan
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- Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan
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- Center of Computational Sciences, Tsukuba University, Tsukuba, Japan
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- The Institute for Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
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- Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Japan
- RIKEN Center for Computational Science, Kobe, Japan
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The study of conformational changes in photosystem II during a charge separation. J Mol Model 2020; 26:75. [PMID: 32152736 DOI: 10.1007/s00894-020-4332-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2019] [Accepted: 02/23/2020] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Photosystem II (PSII) is a multi-subunit pigment-protein complex and is one of several protein assemblies that function cooperatively in photosynthesis in plants and cyanobacteria. As more structural data on PSII become available, new questions arise concerning the nature of the charge separation in PSII reaction center (RC). The crystal structure of PSII RC from cyanobacteria Thermosynechococcus vulcanus was selected for the computational study of conformational changes in photosystem II associated to the charge separation process. The parameterization of cofactors and lipids for classical MD simulation with Amber force field was performed. The parametrized complex of PSII was embedded in the lipid membrane for MD simulation with Amber in Gromacs. The conformational behavior of protein and the cofactors directly involved in the charge separation were studied by MD simulations and QM/MM calculations. This study identified the most likely mechanism of the proton-coupled reduction of plastoquinone QB. After the charge separation and the first electron transfer to QB, the system undergoes conformational change allowing the first proton transfer to QB- mediated via Ser264. After the second electron transfer to QBH, the system again adopts conformation allowing the second proton transfer to QBH-. The reduced QBH2 would then leave the binding pocket.
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I. M, Shahid M, Kumar M, Ansari A, Akhtar MN, AlDamen MA, Song Y, Ahmad M, Khan IM. Exploring solvent dependent catecholase activity in transition metal complexes: an experimental and theoretical approach. NEW J CHEM 2020. [DOI: 10.1039/c9nj04374h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Four coordination compounds are designed with pyridinemethanol ligands, characterized with spectral, magnetic and X-ray analyses, and assessed for catecholase activity in various solvents.
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- Mantasha I.
- Department of Chemistry
- Aligarh Muslim University
- Aligarh-202002
- India
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- Department of Chemistry
- Aligarh Muslim University
- Aligarh-202002
- India
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- Department of Chemistry
- Central University of Haryana
- Mahendergarh-123031
- India
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- Department of Chemistry
- Central University of Haryana
- Mahendergarh-123031
- India
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- Department of Chemistry
- Khwaja Fareed University of Engineering & Information Technology
- Rahim Yar Khan 64200
- Pakistan
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- Department of Chemistry
- Faculty of Science
- The University of Jordan
- Amman 11942
- Jordan
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- State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry
- Nanjing University
- Nanjing 210023
- P. R. China
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- Department of Applied Chemistry (ZHCET)
- Aligarh Muslim University
- Aligarh-202002
- India
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- Department of Chemistry
- Aligarh Muslim University
- Aligarh-202002
- India
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Yamaguchi K, Yamanaka S, Isobe H, Shoji M, Miyagawa K, Nakajima T, Kawakami T, Okumura M. Theoretical and computational investigations of geometrical, electronic and spin structures of the CaMn 4 O X (X = 5, 6) cluster in the Kok cycle S i (i = 0-3) of oxygen evolving complex of photosystem II. PHYSIOLOGIA PLANTARUM 2019; 166:44-59. [PMID: 30847925 DOI: 10.1111/ppl.12960] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2018] [Revised: 03/01/2019] [Accepted: 03/05/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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The optimized geometries of the CaMn4 OX (X = 5, 6) cluster in the oxygen evolving complex (OEC) of photosystem II (PSII) by large-scale quantum mechanics (QM) and molecular mechanics (MM) calculations are compared with recent serial femtosecond crystallography (SFX) results for the Si (i = 0-3) states. The valence states of four Mn ions by the QM/MM calculations are also examined in relation to the experimental results by the X-ray emission spectroscopy (XES) for the Si intermediates. Geometrical and valence structures of right-opened Mn-hydroxide, Mn-oxo and Mn-peroxide intermediates in the S3 state are investigated in detail in relation to recent SFX and XES experiments for the S3 state. Interplay between theory and experiment indicates that the Mn-oxo intermediate is a new possible candidate for the S3 state. Implications of the computational results are discussed in relation to possible mechanisms of the oxygenoxygen bond formation for water oxidation in OEC of PSII.
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- Kizashi Yamaguchi
- Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, 567-0047, Japan
- Riken Center for Computational Science, Kobe, Hyogo 650-0047, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 560-0043, Japan
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- Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Science, Okayama University, Okayama, Okayama 700-8530, Japan
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- Center of Computational Sciences, Tsukuba University, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8577, Japan
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- Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, 567-0047, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 560-0043, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 560-0043, Japan
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Shoji M, Isobe H, Miyagawa K, Yamaguchi K. Possibility of the right-opened Mn-oxo intermediate (R-oxo(4444)) among all nine intermediates in the S3 state of the oxygen-evolving complex of photosystem II revealed by large-scale QM/MM calculations. Chem Phys 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphys.2018.11.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Lloret-Fillol J, Costas M. Water oxidation at base metal molecular catalysts. ADVANCES IN ORGANOMETALLIC CHEMISTRY 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/bs.adomc.2019.02.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Shoji M, Isobe H, Yamanaka S, Umena Y, Kawakami K, Kamiya N, Yamaguchi K. Theoretical Elucidation of Geometrical Structures of the CaMn4O5 Cluster in Oxygen Evolving Complex of Photosystem II Scope and Applicability of Estimation Formulae of Structural Deformations via the Mixed-Valence and Jahn–Teller Effects. ADVANCES IN QUANTUM CHEMISTRY 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/bs.aiq.2018.05.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Yamaguchi K, Shoji M, Isobe H, Miyagawa K, Nakatani K. Theory of chemical bonds in metalloenzymes XXII: a concerted bond-switching mechanism for the oxygen–oxygen bond formation coupled with one electron transfer for water oxidation in the oxygen-evolving complex of photosystem II. Mol Phys 2018. [DOI: 10.1080/00268976.2018.1552799] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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- K. Yamaguchi
- Institute for Nanoscience Design, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan
- The Institute for Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
- Handairigaku Techno-Research, Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan
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- Center of Computational Sciences, Tsukuba University, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
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- Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan
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- The Institute for Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
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- The Institute for Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
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Shoji M, Isobe H, Tanaka A, Fukushima Y, Kawakami K, Umena Y, Kamiya N, Nakajima T, Yamaguchi K. Understanding Two Different Structures in the Dark Stable State of the Oxygen-Evolving Complex of Photosystem II: Applicability of the Jahn-Teller Deformation Formula. CHEMPHOTOCHEM 2018; 2:257-270. [PMID: 29577075 PMCID: PMC5861676 DOI: 10.1002/cptc.201700162] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2017] [Revised: 11/02/2017] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Tanaka et al. (J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2017, 139, 1718) recently reported the three-dimensional (3D) structure of the oxygen evolving complex (OEC) of photosystem II (PSII) by X-ray diffraction (XRD) using extremely low X-ray doses of 0.03 and 0.12 MGy. They observed two different 3D structures of the CaMn4O5 cluster with different hydrogen-bonding interactions in the S1 state of OEC keeping the surrounding polypeptide frameworks of PSII the same. Our Jahn-Teller (JT) deformation formula based on large-scale quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) was applied for these low-dose XRD structures, elucidating important roles of JT effects of the MnIII ion for subtle geometric distortions of the CaMn4O5 cluster in OEC of PSII. The JT deformation formula revealed the similarity between the low-dose XRD and damage-free serial femtosecond X-ray diffraction (SFX) structures of the CaMn4O5 cluster in the dark stable state. The extremely low-dose XRD structures were not damaged by X-ray irradiation. Implications of the present results are discussed in relation to recent SFX results and a blue print for the design of artificial photocatalysts for water oxidation.
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- Mitsuo Shoji
- Center of Computational SciencesTsukuba University, TsukubaIbaraki305–8577Japan
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- Graduate School of Natural Science and TechnologyOkayama UniversityOkayama700–8530Japan
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- The OUC Advanced Research Institute for Natural Science and Technology (OCARNA)Osaka City UniversityOsaka558–8585Japan
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- The OUC Advanced Research Institute for Natural Science and Technology (OCARNA)Osaka City UniversityOsaka558–8585Japan
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- The OUC Advanced Research Institute for Natural Science and Technology (OCARNA)Osaka City UniversityOsaka558–8585Japan
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- The OUC Advanced Research Institute for Natural Science and Technology (OCARNA)Osaka City UniversityOsaka558–8585Japan
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- The OUC Advanced Research Institute for Natural Science and Technology (OCARNA)Osaka City UniversityOsaka558–8585Japan
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- Riken Advanced Institute for Computational Science, Chuo-KuKobe, Hyogo650-0047Japan
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- Riken Advanced Institute for Computational Science, Chuo-KuKobe, Hyogo650-0047Japan
- Institute for Nanoscience DesignOsaka University, ToyonakaOsaka560–8531Japan
- Handairigaku Techno-Research, ToyonakaOsaka560-0043Japan
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Yamaguchi K, Shoji M, Isobe H, Yamanaka S, Kawakami T, Yamada S, Katouda M, Nakajima T. Theory of chemical bonds in metalloenzymes XXI. Possible mechanisms of water oxidation in oxygen evolving complex of photosystem II. Mol Phys 2018. [DOI: 10.1080/00268976.2018.1428375] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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- Kizashi Yamaguchi
- Institute for Nanoscience Design, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
- Handairigaku Techno-Research, Osaka Univeristy, Osaka, Japan
- Riken Advanced Institute for Computational Science (AICS), Hyogo, Japan
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- Center for Computational Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
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- Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan
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- Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
- Riken Advanced Institute for Computational Science (AICS), Hyogo, Japan
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- Riken Advanced Institute for Computational Science (AICS), Hyogo, Japan
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- Riken Advanced Institute for Computational Science (AICS), Hyogo, Japan
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- Riken Advanced Institute for Computational Science (AICS), Hyogo, Japan
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Selikhanov GK, Fando MS, Dontsova MV, Gabdulkhakov AG. Investigations of Photosensitive Proteins by Serial Crystallography. BIOCHEMISTRY (MOSCOW) 2018; 83:S163-S175. [DOI: 10.1134/s0006297918140134] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Gao J, Wang H, Yuan Q, Feng Y. Structure and Function of the Photosystem Supercomplexes. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2018; 9:357. [PMID: 29616068 PMCID: PMC5869908 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2018.00357] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2017] [Accepted: 03/02/2018] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Photosynthesis converts solar energy into chemical energy to sustain all life on earth by providing oxygen and food, and controlling the atmospheric carbon dioxide. During this process, the water-splitting and oxygen-evolving reaction is catalyzed by photosystem II (PSII), while photosystem I (PSI) generates the reducing power for the reduction of NADP+ to NADPH. Together with their peripheral light-harvesting complexes (LHCs), photosystems function as multisubunit supercomplexes located in the thylakoid membranes of cyanobacteria, algae, and plants. Recent advances in single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryoEM), X-ray free electron laser (XFEL) and other techniques have revealed unprecedented structural and catalytic details concerning the two supercomplexes. Several high-resolution structures of the complexes from plants were solved, and serial time-resolved crystallography and "radiation-damage-free" femtosecond XFEL also provided important insights into the mechanism of water oxidation. Here, we review these exciting advances in the studies of the photosystem supercomplexes with an emphasis on PSII-LHCII, propose presently unresolved problems in this field, and suggest potential tendencies for future studies.
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- Jinlan Gao
- State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- College of Life Science and Technology, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, China
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- College of Life Science and Technology, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, China
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- College of Life Science and Technology, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, China
- *Correspondence: Yue Feng, ;
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Gelzinis A, Abramavicius D, Ogilvie JP, Valkunas L. Spectroscopic properties of photosystem II reaction center revisited. J Chem Phys 2017; 147:115102. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4997527] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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- Andrius Gelzinis
- Department of Theoretical Physics, Faculty of Physics, Vilnius University, Sauletekio 9-III, 10222 Vilnius, Lithuania
- Department of Molecular Compound Physics, Center for Physical Sciences and Technology, Sauletekio 3, 10257 Vilnius, Lithuania
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- Department of Theoretical Physics, Faculty of Physics, Vilnius University, Sauletekio 9-III, 10222 Vilnius, Lithuania
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- Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
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- Department of Theoretical Physics, Faculty of Physics, Vilnius University, Sauletekio 9-III, 10222 Vilnius, Lithuania
- Department of Molecular Compound Physics, Center for Physical Sciences and Technology, Sauletekio 3, 10257 Vilnius, Lithuania
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El-Khouly ME, El-Mohsnawy E, Fukuzumi S. Solar energy conversion: From natural to artificial photosynthesis. JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY C-PHOTOCHEMISTRY REVIEWS 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotochemrev.2017.02.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 182] [Impact Index Per Article: 26.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Chattopadhyay K, Craig GA, Heras Ojea MJ, Pait M, Kundu A, Lee J, Murrie M, Frontera A, Ray D. Dangling and Hydrolyzed Ligand Arms in [Mn3] and [Mn6] Coordination Assemblies: Synthesis, Characterization, and Functional Activity. Inorg Chem 2017; 56:2639-2652. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.6b02813] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [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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- School of Chemistry, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ,U.K
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, INDIA
- Chonnam National University, Gwangju 61186, South Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, INDIA
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- Chonnam National University, Gwangju 61186, South Korea
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- School of Chemistry, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ,U.K
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- Departament de Química, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Crta de Valldemossa km 7.5, 07122 Palma de Mallorca (Baleares), SPAIN
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, INDIA
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Yamaguchi K, Shoji M, Isobe H, Yamanaka S, Umena Y, Kawakami K, Kamiya N. On the guiding principles for understanding of geometrical structures of the CaMn4O5 cluster in oxygen-evolving complex of photosystem II. Proposal of estimation formula of structural deformations via the Jahn–Teller effects. Mol Phys 2017. [DOI: 10.1080/00268976.2016.1278476] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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- K. Yamaguchi
- Institute for Nanoscience Design, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Japan
- Handairigaku Techno-Research , Toyonaka, Japan
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- Center of Computational Sciences, Tsukuba University , Tsukuba, Japan
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- Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University , Okayama, Japan
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- Graduate School of Science, Osaka University , Osaka, Japan
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- The OUC Advanced Research Institute for Natural Science and Technology (OCARNA), Osaka City University , Osaka, Japan
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- The OUC Advanced Research Institute for Natural Science and Technology (OCARNA), Osaka City University , Osaka, Japan
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- The OUC Advanced Research Institute for Natural Science and Technology (OCARNA), Osaka City University , Osaka, Japan
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Kim Y, Lee JH, Ha H, Im SW, Nam KT. Material science lesson from the biological photosystem. NANO CONVERGENCE 2016; 3:19. [PMID: 28191429 PMCID: PMC5271162 DOI: 10.1186/s40580-016-0079-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2016] [Accepted: 07/09/2016] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Inspired by photosynthesis, artificial systems for a sustainable energy supply are being designed. Each sequential energy conversion process from light to biomass in natural photosynthesis is a valuable model for an energy collection, transport and conversion system. Notwithstanding the numerous lessons of nature that provide inspiration for new developments, the features of natural photosynthesis need to be reengineered to meet man's demands. This review describes recent strategies toward adapting key lessons from natural photosynthesis to artificial systems. We focus on the underlying material science in photosynthesis that combines photosystems as pivotal functional materials and a range of materials into an integrated system. Finally, a perspective on the future development of photosynthesis mimetic energy systems is proposed.
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- Younghye Kim
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Seoul National University, 151-744 Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Seoul National University, 151-744 Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Seoul National University, 151-744 Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Seoul National University, 151-744 Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Seoul National University, 151-744 Seoul, Korea
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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: 337] [Impact Index Per Article: 42.1] [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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Sproviero EM, Gascón JA, McEvoy JP, Brudvig GW, Batista VS. QM/MM Models of the O2-Evolving Complex of Photosystem II. J Chem Theory Comput 2015; 2:1119-34. [PMID: 26633071 DOI: 10.1021/ct060018l] [Citation(s) in RCA: 112] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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This paper introduces structural models of the oxygen-evolving complex of photosystem II (PSII) in the dark-stable S1 state, as well as in the reduced S0 and oxidized S2 states, with complete ligation of the metal-oxo cluster by amino acid residues, water, hydroxide, and chloride. The models are developed according to state-of-the-art quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) hybrid methods, applied in conjunction with the X-ray crystal structure of PSII from the cyanobacterium Thermosynechococcus elongatus, recently reported at 3.5 Å resolution. Manganese and calcium ions are ligated consistently with standard coordination chemistry assumptions, supported by biochemical and spectroscopic data. Furthermore, the calcium-bound chloride ligand is found to be bound in a position consistent with pulsed electron paramagnetic resonance data obtained from acetate-substituted PSII. The ligation of protein ligands includes monodentate coordination of D1-D342, CP43-E354, and D1-D170 to Mn(1), Mn(3), and Mn(4), respectively; η(2) coordination of D1-E333 to both Mn(3) and Mn(2); and ligation of D1-E189 and D1-H332 to Mn(2). The resulting QM/MM structural models are consistent with available mechanistic data and also are compatible with X-ray diffraction models and extended X-ray absorption fine structure measurements of PSII. It is, therefore, conjectured that the proposed QM/MM models are particularly relevant to the development and validation of catalytic water-oxidation intermediates.
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- Eduardo M Sproviero
- Department of Chemistry, Yale University, P.O. Box 208107, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8107
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- Department of Chemistry, Yale University, P.O. Box 208107, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8107
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- Department of Chemistry, Yale University, P.O. Box 208107, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8107
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- Department of Chemistry, Yale University, P.O. Box 208107, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8107
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- Department of Chemistry, Yale University, P.O. Box 208107, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8107
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Yamaguchi K, Isobe H, Shoji M, Yamanaka S, Okumura M. Theory of chemical bonds in metalloenzymes XX: magneto-structural correlations in the CaMn4O5cluster in oxygen-evolving complex of photosystem II. Mol Phys 2015. [DOI: 10.1080/00268976.2015.1114162] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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The quest for energy traps in the CP43 antenna of photosystem II. JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY B-BIOLOGY 2015; 152:286-300. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotobiol.2015.05.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2015] [Revised: 05/13/2015] [Accepted: 05/28/2015] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Bricker TM, Mummadisetti MP, Frankel LK. Recent advances in the use of mass spectrometry to examine structure/function relationships in photosystem II. JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY B-BIOLOGY 2015; 152:227-46. [PMID: 26390944 DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotobiol.2015.08.031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2015] [Revised: 08/27/2015] [Accepted: 08/31/2015] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Tandem mass spectrometry often coupled with chemical modification techniques, is developing into increasingly important tool in structural biology. These methods can provide important supplementary information concerning the structural organization and subunit make-up of membrane protein complexes, identification of conformational changes occurring during enzymatic reactions, identification of the location of posttranslational modifications, and elucidation of the structure of assembly and repair complexes. In this review, we will present a brief introduction to Photosystem II, tandem mass spectrometry and protein modification techniques that have been used to examine the photosystem. We will then discuss a number of recent case studies that have used these techniques to address open questions concerning PS II. These include the nature of subunit-subunit interactions within the phycobilisome, the interaction of phycobilisomes with Photosystem I and the Orange Carotenoid Protein, the location of CyanoQ, PsbQ and PsbP within Photosystem II, and the identification of phosphorylation and oxidative modification sites within the photosystem. Finally, we will discuss some of the future prospects for the use of these methods in examining other open questions in PS II structural biochemistry.
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- Terry M Bricker
- Department of Biological Sciences, Division of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, United States.
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Division of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, United States
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Division of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, United States
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Shoji M, Isobe H, Yamanaka S, Suga M, Akita F, Shen JR, Yamaguchi K. On the guiding principles for lucid understanding of the damage-free S1 structure of the CaMn4O5 cluster in the oxygen evolving complex of photosystem II. Chem Phys Lett 2015. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2015.03.033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Isobe H, Shoji M, Yamanaka S, Mino H, Umena Y, Kawakami K, Kamiya N, Shen JR, Yamaguchi K. Generalized approximate spin projection calculations of effective exchange integrals of the CaMn4O5 cluster in the S1 and S3 states of the oxygen evolving complex of photosystem II. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2015; 16:11911-23. [PMID: 24632787 DOI: 10.1039/c4cp00282b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Full geometry optimizations followed by the vibrational analysis were performed for eight spin configurations of the CaMn4O4X(H2O)3Y (X = O, OH; Y = H2O, OH) cluster in the S1 and S3 states of the oxygen evolution complex (OEC) of photosystem II (PSII). The energy gaps among these configurations obtained by vertical, adiabatic and adiabatic plus zero-point-energy (ZPE) correction procedures have been used for computation of the effective exchange integrals (J) in the spin Hamiltonian model. The J values are calculated by the (1) analytical method and the (2) generalized approximate spin projection (AP) method that eliminates the spin contamination errors of UB3LYP solutions. Using J values derived from these methods, exact diagonalization of the spin Hamiltonian matrix was carried out, yielding excitation energies and spin densities of the ground and lower-excited states of the cluster. The obtained results for the right (R)- and left (L)-opened structures in the S1 and S3 states are found to be consistent with available optical and magnetic experimental results. Implications of the computational results are discussed in relation to (a) the necessity of the exact diagonalization for computations of reliable energy levels, (b) magneto-structural correlations in the CaMn4O5 cluster of the OEC of PSII, (c) structural symmetry breaking in the S1 and S3 states, and (d) the right- and left-handed scenarios for the O-O bond formation for water oxidation.
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- H Isobe
- Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, Okayama 700-8530, Japan
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Theoretical studies of the damage-free S1 structure of the CaMn4O5 cluster in oxygen-evolving complex of photosystem II. Chem Phys Lett 2015. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2015.01.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Pait M, Shatruk M, Ray D. Anion coordination selective [Mn3] and [Mn4] assemblies: synthesis, structural diversity, magnetic properties and catechol oxidase activity. Dalton Trans 2015; 44:11741-54. [DOI: 10.1039/c5dt01157d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The present manuscript reports the detail synthesis, characterization, magnetic property and catechol oxidation study of a family of mixed valent (MnIIMnIII) and trivalent (MnIII) manganese complexes from a Schiff base ligand.
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- Moumita Pait
- Department of Chemistry
- Indian Institute of Technology
- Kharagpur 721 302
- India
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
- Florida State University
- Tallahassee
- USA
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- Department of Chemistry
- Indian Institute of Technology
- Kharagpur 721 302
- India
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Nature relies on a unique and intricate biochemical setup to achieve sunlight-driven water splitting. Combined experimental and computational efforts have produced significant insights into the structural and functional principles governing the operation of the water-oxidizing enzyme Photosystem II in general, and of the oxygen-evolving manganese-calcium cluster at its active site in particular. Here we review the most important aspects of biological water oxidation, emphasizing current knowledge on the organization of the enzyme, the geometric and electronic structure of the catalyst, and the role of calcium and chloride cofactors. The combination of recent experimental work on the identification of possible substrate sites with computational modeling have considerably limited the possible mechanistic pathways for the critical O-O bond formation step. Taken together, the key features and principles of natural photosynthesis may serve as inspiration for the design, development, and implementation of artificial systems.
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Shoji M, Isobe H, Yamanaka S, Umena Y, Kawakami K, Kamiya N, Shen JR, Nakajima T, Yamaguchi K. Large-Scale QM/MM Calculations of Hydrogen Bonding Networks for Proton Transfer and Water Inlet Channels for Water Oxidation—Theoretical System Models of the Oxygen-Evolving Complex of Photosystem II. ADVANCES IN QUANTUM CHEMISTRY 2015. [DOI: 10.1016/bs.aiq.2014.10.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Oba T, Tamiaki H. Asymmetry of chlorophylls in photosynthetic proteins: from the viewpoint of coordination chemistry. J PORPHYR PHTHALOCYA 2014. [DOI: 10.1142/s1088424614500710] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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We conducted a meta-analysis of (bacterio)chlorophyll [(B)Chl] molecules in photosynthetic pigment-protein complexes from the viewpoint of coordination chemistry. We surveyed the ligand species and site in the axial coordination of 146 Chl and 21 BChl molecules in 42 reported crystal structures of 12-type proteins. The imidazolyl moiety of histidine (His) is the most abundant ligand, and the second is water, a much weaker ligand. We focused on the positions, the circumstances, and the macrocycle sides for the coordination of the 31 hydrated (B)Chl molecules found in these proteins. A ligand water molecule of a hydrated (B)Chl is not necessarily hydrogen-bonded to the surrounding protein residues. A hydrated (B)Chl seems to occupy the redundant space where more strongly coupled His-Chl complexes cannot be formed. It is noted that 28 of 31 hydrated (B)Chl molecules (90) were coordinated from the α-side of the (bacterio)chlorin macrocycle, the opposite side from which the C 17-propionic ester protrudes. Among them, all five hydrated Chl molecules at the edges of the proteins were coordinated from the α-side, suggesting that (B)Chl molecules prefer this side for the coordination bondings to the β-side. The analysis also revealed that each (B)Chl binding site was composed of both the protein residues and the neighboring pigment molecules contributing roughly equally. It can be safely said that the cofactor pigments aggregated even in the proteins. Penta-coordination is advantageous to flexible adjustment of intermolecular orientations of (B)Chl molecules in the aggregates.
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- Toru Oba
- Department of Material and Environmental Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Utsunomiya University, Utsunomiya, Tochigi 321-8585, Japan
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- Graduate School of Life Sciences, Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu, Shiga 525-8577, Japan
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Shoji M, Isobe H, Yamanaka S, Umena Y, Kawakami K, Kamiya N, Shen JR, Nakajima T, Yamaguchi K. Theoretical modelling of biomolecular systems I. Large-scale QM/MM calculations of hydrogen-bonding networks of the oxygen evolving complex of photosystem II. Mol Phys 2014. [DOI: 10.1080/00268976.2014.960021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Kern J, Tran R, Alonso-Mori R, Koroidov S, Echols N, Hattne J, Ibrahim M, Gul S, Laksmono H, Sierra RG, Gildea RJ, Han G, Hellmich J, Lassalle-Kaiser B, Chatterjee R, Brewster AS, Stan CA, Glöckner C, Lampe A, DiFiore D, Milathianaki D, Fry AR, Seibert MM, Koglin JE, Gallo E, Uhlig J, Sokaras D, Weng TC, Zwart PH, Skinner DE, Bogan MJ, Messerschmidt M, Glatzel P, Williams GJ, Boutet S, Adams PD, Zouni A, Messinger J, Sauter NK, Bergmann U, Yano J, Yachandra VK. Taking snapshots of photosynthetic water oxidation using femtosecond X-ray diffraction and spectroscopy. Nat Commun 2014; 5:4371. [PMID: 25006873 PMCID: PMC4151126 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5371] [Citation(s) in RCA: 161] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2014] [Accepted: 06/10/2014] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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The dioxygen we breathe is formed by light-induced oxidation of water in photosystem II. O2 formation takes place at a catalytic manganese cluster within milliseconds after the photosystem II reaction centre is excited by three single-turnover flashes. Here we present combined X-ray emission spectra and diffraction data of 2-flash (2F) and 3-flash (3F) photosystem II samples, and of a transient 3F' state (250 μs after the third flash), collected under functional conditions using an X-ray free electron laser. The spectra show that the initial O-O bond formation, coupled to Mn reduction, does not yet occur within 250 μs after the third flash. Diffraction data of all states studied exhibit an anomalous scattering signal from Mn but show no significant structural changes at the present resolution of 4.5 Å. This study represents the initial frames in a molecular movie of the structural changes during the catalytic reaction in photosystem II.
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- Jan Kern
- Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA,LCLS, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
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- Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Institutionen för Kemi, Kemiskt Biologiskt Centrum, Umeå Universitet, Umeå, Sweden
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- Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Institut für Biologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, D-10099 Berlin, Germany,Max-Volmer-Laboratorium für Biophysikalische Chemie, Technische Universität, D-10623 Berlin, Germany
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- Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- PULSE Institute, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
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- PULSE Institute, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
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- Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Institut für Biologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, D-10099 Berlin, Germany,Max-Volmer-Laboratorium für Biophysikalische Chemie, Technische Universität, D-10623 Berlin, Germany
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- Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- PULSE Institute, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
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- Max-Volmer-Laboratorium für Biophysikalische Chemie, Technische Universität, D-10623 Berlin, Germany
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- Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Max-Volmer-Laboratorium für Biophysikalische Chemie, Technische Universität, D-10623 Berlin, Germany
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- LCLS, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
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- LCLS, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
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- LCLS, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
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- European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, F-38043 Grenoble Cedex, France
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- European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, F-38043 Grenoble Cedex, France
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- SSRL, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
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- Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- LCLS, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA,PULSE Institute, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
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- European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, F-38043 Grenoble Cedex, France
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- LCLS, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
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- LCLS, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
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- Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Institut für Biologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, D-10099 Berlin, Germany,Max-Volmer-Laboratorium für Biophysikalische Chemie, Technische Universität, D-10623 Berlin, Germany
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- Institutionen för Kemi, Kemiskt Biologiskt Centrum, Umeå Universitet, Umeå, Sweden
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- Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- LCLS, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA,Corresponding authors. (U.B.), , (J.Y.), (V.K.Y)
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- Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA,Corresponding authors. (U.B.), , (J.Y.), (V.K.Y)
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- Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA,Corresponding authors. (U.B.), , (J.Y.), (V.K.Y)
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Guerrero F, Zurita JL, Roncel M, Kirilovsky D, Ortega JM. The role of the high potential form of the cytochrome b559: Study of Thermosynechococcus elongatus mutants. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2014; 1837:908-19. [PMID: 24613347 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2014.02.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2013] [Revised: 02/21/2014] [Accepted: 02/26/2014] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Cytochrome b559 is an essential component of the photosystem II reaction center in photosynthetic oxygen-evolving organisms, but its function still remains unclear. The use of photosystem II preparations from Thermosynechococcus elongatus of high integrity and activity allowed us to measure for the first time the influence of cytochrome b559 mutations on its midpoint redox potential and on the reduction of the cytochrome b559 by the plastoquinone pool (or QB). In this work, five mutants having a mutation in the α-subunit (I14A, I14S, R18S, I27A and I27T) and one in the β-subunit (F32Y) of cytochrome b559 have been investigated. All the mutations led to a destabilization of the high potential form of the cytochrome b559. The midpoint redox potential of the high potential form was significantly altered in the αR18S and αI27T mutant strains. The αR18S strain also showed a high sensitivity to photoinhibitory illumination and an altered oxidase activity. This was suggested by measurements of light induced oxidation and dark re-reduction of the cytochrome b559 showing that under conditions of a non-functional water oxidation system, once the cytochrome is oxidized by P680(+), the yield of its reduction by QB or the PQ pool was smaller and the kinetic slower in the αR18S mutant than in the wild-type strain. Thus, the extremely positive redox potential of the high potential form of cytochrome b559 could be necessary to ensure efficient oxidation of the PQ pool and to function as an electron reservoir replacing the water oxidation system when it is not operating.
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- Fernando Guerrero
- Instituto de Bioquímica Vegetal y Fotosíntesis, Universidad de Sevilla-CSIC, Américo Vespucio 49, 41092 Seville, Spain; Laboratoire de Bioénergétique Moléculaire et Photosynthèse, Institut de Biologie et de Technologies de Saclay (iBiTec-S), CEA Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette cedex, France.
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- Instituto de Bioquímica Vegetal y Fotosíntesis, Universidad de Sevilla-CSIC, Américo Vespucio 49, 41092 Seville, Spain; Laboratoire de Bioénergétique Moléculaire et Photosynthèse, Institut de Biologie et de Technologies de Saclay (iBiTec-S), CEA Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette cedex, France.
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- Instituto de Bioquímica Vegetal y Fotosíntesis, Universidad de Sevilla-CSIC, Américo Vespucio 49, 41092 Seville, Spain.
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- Laboratoire de Bioénergétique Moléculaire et Photosynthèse, Institut de Biologie et de Technologies de Saclay (iBiTec-S), CEA Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette cedex, France.
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- Instituto de Bioquímica Vegetal y Fotosíntesis, Universidad de Sevilla-CSIC, Américo Vespucio 49, 41092 Seville, Spain.
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Gabdulkhakov AG, Dontsova MV. Structural studies on photosystem II of cyanobacteria. BIOCHEMISTRY (MOSCOW) 2014; 78:1524-38. [DOI: 10.1134/s0006297913130105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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- A G Gabdulkhakov
- Institute of Protein Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Moscow Region, 142290, Russia.
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Shen Y. Carbon dioxide bio-fixation and wastewater treatment via algae photochemical synthesis for biofuels production. RSC Adv 2014. [DOI: 10.1039/c4ra06441k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Utilizing the energy, nutrients and CO2held within residual waste materials to provide all necessary inputs except for sunlight, the cultivation of algae becomes a closed-loop engineered ecosystem. Developing this green biotechnology is a tangible step towards a waste-free sustainable society.
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- Yafei Shen
- Department of Environmental Science and Technology
- Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering
- Tokyo Institute of Technology
- Yokohama, Japan
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Yamaguchi K, Kitagawa Y, Isobe H, Shoji M, Yamanaka S, Okumura M. Reprint of “Theory of chemical bonds in metalloenzymes XVIII. Importance of mixed-valence configurations for Mn5O5, CaMn4O5 and Ca2Mn3O5 clusters revealed by UB3LYP computations. A bio-inspired strategy for artificial photosynthesis”. Polyhedron 2013. [DOI: 10.1016/j.poly.2013.08.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Yamaguchi K, Yamanaka S, Shoji M, Isobe H, Kitagawa Y, Kawakami T, Yamada S, Okumura M. Theory of chemical bonds in metalloenzymes XIX: labile manganese oxygen bonds of the CaMn4O5cluster in oxygen evolving complex of photosystem II. Mol Phys 2013. [DOI: 10.1080/00268976.2013.842009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Müh F, Zouni A. The nonheme iron in photosystem II. PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH 2013; 116:295-314. [PMID: 24077892 DOI: 10.1007/s11120-013-9926-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2013] [Accepted: 09/17/2013] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Photosystem II (PSII), the light-driven water:plastoquinone (PQ) oxidoreductase of oxygenic photosynthesis, contains a nonheme iron (NHI) at its electron acceptor side. The NHI is situated between the two PQs QA and QB that serve as one-electron transmitter and substrate of the reductase part of PSII, respectively. Among the ligands of the NHI is a (bi)carbonate originating from CO2, the substrate of the dark reactions of oxygenic photosynthesis. Based on recent advances in the crystallography of PSII, we review the structure of the NHI in PSII and discuss ideas concerning its function and the role of bicarbonate along with a comparison to the reaction center of purple bacteria and other enzymes containing a mononuclear NHI site.
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Identification and functional characterization of polyunsaturated fatty acid elongase (McELOVL5) gene from pike eel (Muraenesox cinereus). Biotechnol Lett 2013; 36:29-37. [DOI: 10.1007/s10529-013-1344-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2013] [Accepted: 09/05/2013] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Yamaguchi K, Kitagawa Y, Isobe H, Shoji M, Yamanaka S, Okumura M. Theory of chemical bonds in metalloenzymes XVIII. Importance of mixed-valence configurations for Mn5O5, CaMn4O5 and Ca2Mn3O5 clusters revealed by UB3LYP computations. A bio-inspired strategy for artificial photosynthesis. Polyhedron 2013. [DOI: 10.1016/j.poly.2013.04.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Chakraborty M, Mandal PC, Mukhopadhyay S. Kinetic studies on oxidation of l-cysteine and 2-mercaptoethanol by a trinuclear Mn(IV) species in aqueous acidic media. Inorganica Chim Acta 2013. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ica.2012.12.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Shoji M, Isobe H, Yamanaka S, Umena Y, Kawakami K, Kamiya N, Shen JR, Yamaguchi K. Theoretical insight in to hydrogen-bonding networks and proton wire for the CaMn4O5 cluster of photosystem II. Elongation of Mn–Mn distances with hydrogen bonds. Catal Sci Technol 2013. [DOI: 10.1039/c3cy00051f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Kondaveeti SK, Vaddypally S, Lam C, Hirai D, Ni N, Cava RJ, Zdilla MJ. Synthesis, Structure, and Magnetic Studies of Manganese–Oxygen Clusters of Reduced Coordination Number, Featuring an Unchelated, 5-Coordinate Octanuclear Manganese Cluster with Water-Derived Oxo Ligands. Inorg Chem 2012; 51:10095-104. [DOI: 10.1021/ic202448c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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- Sandeep K. Kondaveeti
- Department of Chemistry, Temple University, 1901 N. 13th Street, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania 19122, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Temple University, 1901 N. 13th Street, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania 19122, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Temple University, 1901 N. 13th Street, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania 19122, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544,
United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544,
United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544,
United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Temple University, 1901 N. 13th Street, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania 19122, United States
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Weinberg DR, Gagliardi CJ, Hull JF, Murphy CF, Kent CA, Westlake BC, Paul A, Ess DH, McCafferty DG, Meyer TJ. Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer. Chem Rev 2012; 112:4016-93. [DOI: 10.1021/cr200177j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1125] [Impact Index Per Article: 93.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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- David R. Weinberg
- Department
of Chemistry, University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3290,
United States
- Department of Physical and Environmental
Sciences, Colorado Mesa University, 1100 North Avenue, Grand Junction,
Colorado 81501-3122, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3290,
United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3290,
United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, B219
Levine Science Research Center, Box 90354, Duke University, Durham,
North Carolina 27708-0354, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3290,
United States
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- The American Chemical Society,
1155 Sixteenth Street NW, Washington, District of Columbia 20036,
United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3290,
United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3290,
United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, B219
Levine Science Research Center, Box 90354, Duke University, Durham,
North Carolina 27708-0354, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3290,
United States
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Cerezo J, Zúñiga J, Bastida A, Requena A, Cerón-Carrasco JP, Eriksson LA. Antioxidant Properties of β-Carotene Isomers and Their Role in Photosystems: Insights from Ab Initio Simulations. J Phys Chem A 2012; 116:3498-506. [DOI: 10.1021/jp301485k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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- Javier Cerezo
- Departamento de Química Física, Universidad de Murcia, 30100 Murcia, Spain
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- Departamento de Química Física, Universidad de Murcia, 30100 Murcia, Spain
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- Departamento de Química Física, Universidad de Murcia, 30100 Murcia, Spain
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- Departamento de Química Física, Universidad de Murcia, 30100 Murcia, Spain
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- CEISAM, UMR CNRS 6230, BP 92208, Université de Nantes, 2, rue de la Houssinière, 44322 Nantes
Cedex 3, France
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- Department of Chemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Gothenburg, 41296 Göteborg, Sweden
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Roncel M, Kirilovsky D, Guerrero F, Serrano A, Ortega JM. Photosynthetic cytochrome c550. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2012; 1817:1152-63. [PMID: 22289879 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2012.01.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2011] [Revised: 12/31/2011] [Accepted: 01/14/2012] [Indexed: 10/14/2022]
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Cytochrome c550 (cyt c550) is a membrane component of the PSII complex in cyanobacteria and some eukaryotic algae, such as red and brown algae. Cyt c550 presents a bis-histidine heme coordination which is very unusual for monoheme c-type cytochromes. In PSII, the cyt c550 with the other extrinsic proteins stabilizes the binding of Cl(-) and Ca(2+) ions to the oxygen evolving complex and protects the Mn(4)Ca cluster from attack by bulk reductants. The role (if there is one) of the heme of the cyt c550 is unknown. The low midpoint redox potential (E(m)) of the purified soluble form (from -250 to -314mV) is incompatible with a redox function in PSII. However, more positive values for the Em have been obtained for the cyt c550 bound to the PSII. A very recent work has shown an E(m) value of +200mV. These data open the possibility of a redox function for this protein in electron transfer in PSII. Despite the long distance (22Å) between cyt c550 and the nearest redox cofactor (Mn(4)Ca cluster), an electron transfer reaction between these components is possible. Some kind of protective cycle involving a soluble redox component in the lumen has also been proposed. The aim of this article is to review previous studies done on cyt c550 and to consider its function in the light of the new results obtained in recent years. The emphasis is on the physical properties of the heme and its redox properties. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: Photosynthesis Research for Sustainability: from Natural to Artificial.
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- Mercedes Roncel
- Instituto de Bioquímica Vegetal y Fotosíntesis, Universidad de Sevilla-CSIC, Sevilla, Spain.
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