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Medientyp:
E-Artikel
Titel:
Water oxidation in oxygenic photosynthesis studied by magnetic resonance techniques
Beteiligte:
Lubitz, Wolfgang;
Pantazis, Dimitrios A.;
Cox, Nicholas
Erschienen:
Wiley, 2023
Erschienen in:FEBS Letters
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1002/1873-3468.14543
ISSN:
0014-5793;
1873-3468
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<jats:p>The understanding of light‐induced biological water oxidation in oxygenic photosynthesis is of great importance both for biology and (bio)technological applications. The chemically difficult multistep reaction takes place at a unique protein‐bound tetra‐manganese/calcium cluster in photosystem II whose structure has been elucidated by X‐ray crystallography (Umena et al.<jats:italic>Nature</jats:italic>2011,<jats:bold>473</jats:bold>, 55). The cluster moves through several intermediate states in the catalytic cycle. A detailed understanding of these intermediates requires information about the spatial and electronic structure of the Mn<jats:sub>4</jats:sub>Ca complex; the latter is only available from spectroscopic techniques. Here, the important role of Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) and related double resonance techniques (ENDOR, EDNMR), complemented by quantum chemical calculations, is described. This has led to the elucidation of the cluster's redox and protonation states, the valence and spin states of the manganese ions and the interactions between them, and contributed substantially to the understanding of the role of the protein surrounding, as well as the binding and processing of the substrate water molecules, the O‐O bond formation and dioxygen release. Based on these data, models for the water oxidation cycle are developed.</jats:p>