Abstract：
: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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Photosynth Resjournal_title
Photosynthesis researchauthors
Lubitz W,Chrysina M,Cox Ndoi
10.1007/s11120-019-00648-3subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2019-10-01 00:00:00pages
105-125issue
1eissn
0166-8595issn
1573-5079pii
10.1007/s11120-019-00648-3journal_volume
142pub_type
杂志文章,评审abstract：:We investigated the dark-to-light transition in Synechococcus sp. PCC 7942 cells by a detailed analysis of fluorescence transients induced by strong red light. The transients, recorded with high data-acquisition, revealed all the steps of the fast (OJIP; 10(-5)-1 s) and slow phase (PSM(T); 1-10(3) s), kinetically dist...
journal_title：Photosynthesis research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s11120-009-9405-7
更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:P700 enriched fractions were isolated from two brown algae and one diatom using sucrose density centrifugation after digitinin solubilization. They had a Chl a/P700 ratio of about 250 to 375 according to the species, they were enriched in long-wavelength absorbing Chl a and exhibited a fluorescence emission maximum at...
journal_title：Photosynthesis research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/BF00035009
更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Inorganic phosphate participates in many fundamental processes within the plant cell. Its broad influence on plant metabolism is related to such key operations as metabolite transport, enzyme regulation and carbohydrate metabolism in general. This review discusses these topics with special emphasis on the role assigne...
journal_title：Photosynthesis research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/BF00016551
更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:In this brief report, we provide a pictorial essay on an international conference "Photosynthesis Research for Sustainability-2013 in honor of Jalal A. Aliyev" that was held in Baku, Azerbaijan, during June 5-9, 2013 ( http://photosynthesis2013.cellreg.org/ ). We begin this report with a brief note on Jalal Aliyev, th...
journal_title：Photosynthesis research
pub_type：
doi：10.1007/s11120-013-9901-7
更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The filamentous nitrogen-fixing cyanobacterium, Anabaena sp. strain PCC 7120 was found to tolerate very high doses of 60Co-gamma radiation or prolonged desiccation. Post-stress, cells remained intact and revived all the vital functions. A remarkable capacity to repair highly disintegrated genome and recycle the damage...
journal_title：Photosynthesis research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s11120-013-9936-9
更新日期：2013-10-12 00:00:00
abstract：:A high CO2-requiring mutant of Synechocystis PCC6803 (G3) capable of Ci transport but unable to utilize the intracellular Ci pool for photosynthesis was constructed. A DNA clone of 6.1 kbp that transforms the G3 mutant to the wild-type phenotype was isolated from a Synechocystis PCC6803 genomic library. Complementatio...
journal_title：Photosynthesis research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/BF00029385
更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The nucleotide sequences of the genes coding for the subunits of the Photosystem I (PS I) core, PsaA and PsaB were determined for the marine prokaryotic oxyphototrophs Prochlorococcus sp. MED4 (CCMP1378), P. marinus SS120 (CCMP1375) and Synechococcus sp. WH7803. Divergence of these sequences from those of both freshwa...
journal_title：Photosynthesis research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1023/A:1006445810996
更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:In appreciation of his contribution to the Photosystsem II research and commemoration of the book Photosystem II: The Light-Driven Water-Plastoquinone Oxido-Reductase, co-edited with Kimiyuki Satoh, I present here some of my recollections of Thomas John Wydrzynski and by several others with whom he has associated over...
journal_title：Photosynthesis research
pub_type： 传,历史文章,杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s11120-008-9341-y
更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Isolated mesophyll cells from darkened leaves of the C(4) plant Digitaria sanguinalis keep functional plasmodesmata that allow the free exchange of low molecular mass compounds with the surrounding medium. This cell suspension system has been used to measure C(4) PEPC activity in situ using a spectrophotometric assay....
journal_title：Photosynthesis research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1023/B:PRES.0000017179.31351.f0
更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Chlorophyll (Chl) b serves an essential function in accumulation of light-harvesting complexes (LHCs) in plants. In this article, this role of Chl b is explored by considering the properties of Chls and the ligands with which they interact in the complexes. The overall properties of the Chls, not only their spectral f...
journal_title：Photosynthesis research
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1007/s11120-007-9181-1
更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:For maximal rates of CO2 assimilation in isolated intact spinach chloroplasts the generation of the adequate NADPH/ATP ratio is achieved either by cyclic electron flow around photosystem I or by linear electron transport to oxaloacetate, nitrite or oxygen (Mehler-reaction). The interrelationships between these poising...
journal_title：Photosynthesis research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/BF00019060
更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The current study confirmed earlier conclusions regarding differential ozone (O(3)) tolerances of two soybean cultivars, Essex and Forrest, and evaluated antioxidant enzyme activities of these two varieties based on their performance under environmentally relevant, elevated O(3) conditions. The experiment was conducte...
journal_title：Photosynthesis research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1023/A:1026500911237
更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The localization of isoprenoid lipids in chloroplasts, the accumulation of particular isoprenoids under high irradiance conditions, and channelling of photosynthetically fixed carbon into plastidic thylakoid isoprenoids, volatile isoprenoids, and cytosolic sterols are reviewed. During leaf and chloroplast development ...
journal_title：Photosynthesis research
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1007/s11120-007-9204-y
更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:A guided tour through much of photosynthesis research as I saw it, 1936-2001, is presented here. For earlier perspectives, see Myers 1974 (Plant Physiol 54: 420-426) and 1996 (Photosynth Res 50: 195-208). ...
journal_title：Photosynthesis research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1023/A:1020475502933
更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The effects of protein phosphorylation and cation depletion on the electron transport rate and fluorescence emission characteristics of photosystem I at two stages of chloroplast development in light-grown wheat leaves are examined. The light-harvesting chlorophyll a/b protein complex associated with photosystem I (LH...
journal_title：Photosynthesis research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/BF00030071
更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The interaction of PsaC with the core heterodimer of Photosystem 1 was studied in wild type Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 and the site-directed mutant R561E of PsaB. The mutant reaction center was much less stable in urea and the functional reconstitution of the mutant core using PsaC was impaired. However, the extent of...
journal_title：Photosynthesis research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/BF00018261
更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:We have constructed a mutant Synechococcus sp. PCC 7942, termed R2HECAT, in which the entire phycobilisome rod operon has been deleted. In the whole cell absorption spectra of R2HECAT, the peak corresponding to phycocyanin (PC), λmax≈620 nm, could not be detected. However, a single pigment-protein fraction with λmax=6...
journal_title：Photosynthesis research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/BF00032236
更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Two green algal species, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii and Scenedesmus obliquus, exhibited a relative maximum during the decay of luminescence, when adapted to low CO2 conditions that was not observed in high CO2 adapted cells.From the kinetics of transient changes in the level of dark fluorescence, after illumination and...
journal_title：Photosynthesis research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/BF00034857
更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Cuttings of grapevine (Vitis vinifera L. cv. Chardonnay) were dark-forced at least three weeks. Pigment contents, 77 K fluorescence emission, excitation spectra of the leaves, petioles, stems, transmission electron micrographs of the etioplasts from leaves, the chlorenchyma tissues of the stems were analysed. The dark...
journal_title：Photosynthesis research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s11120-004-1061-3
更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The problem of predicting the kinetics of proton efflux and the decay of the internal proton concentration for vesicles containing one or more buffers for which the internal proton concentration is initially higher than that of the surrounding medium is examined. An analytical solution is derived that describes the ti...
journal_title：Photosynthesis research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/BF00019150
更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:A protein was isolated from membranes of the green sulfur bacterium Chlorobium tepidum. This protein was characterized by gel electrophoresis, gel filtration, analytical ultracentrifugation and amino acid sequencing. The molecular weight of the purified protein was shown to be 26 kDa by SDS-PAGE. HPLC gelfiltration, S...
journal_title：Photosynthesis research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1023/B:PRES.0000015383.58680.56
更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Roderick K. Clayton passed away on October 23, 2011, at the age of 89, shortly after the plan for this dedicatory issue of Photosynthesis Research had been hatched. I had just written a lengthy letter to him to re-establish contact after a hiatus of 2 or 3 years, and to suggest that I visit him to talk about his life....
journal_title：Photosynthesis research
pub_type： 传,历史文章,杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s11120-013-9948-5
更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The dependence of chlorosome development on bacteriochlorophyll (BChl)c synthesis was studied with the phototrophic green bacteriumChloroflexus aurantiacus. By selecting defined culture conditions, three possibilities could be identified. Upon addition of 5-aminolevulinic acid, cells of resting cultures increased thei...
journal_title：Photosynthesis research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/BF02184154
更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Cyanobacteria perform photosynthesis with the use of large light-harvesting antennae called phycobilisomes (PBSs). These hemispherical PBSs contain hundreds of open-chain tetrapyrrole chromophores bound to different peptides, providing an arrangement in which excitation energy is funnelled towards the PBS core from wh...
journal_title：Photosynthesis research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s11120-017-0417-4
更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The chloroplast ATP synthase synthesizes ATP from ADP and free phosphate coupled by the electrochemical potential across the thylakoid membrane in the light. The light-dependent regulation of ATP synthase activity is carried out in part through redox modulation of a cysteine disulfide bridge in CF1 gamma-subunit. In o...
journal_title：Photosynthesis research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s11120-008-9315-0
更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Upon a sudden transition from high to low light, the rate of CO2 assimilation (AN) in some plants first decreases to a low level before gradually becoming stable. However, the underlying mechanisms remain controversial. The activity of chloroplast ATP synthase (gH+) is usually depressed under high light when compared ...
journal_title：Photosynthesis research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s11120-020-00725-y
更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Significance of molecular crowding in grana thylakoids of higher plants on photosystem II function was studied by 'titrating' the naturally high protein density by fusing unilamellar liposomes of the native lipid mixture with isolated grana membranes (BBY). The incorporation of lipids was monitored by equilibrium dens...
journal_title：Photosynthesis research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s11120-007-9253-2
更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：:There is currently a renewed interest in developing microalgae as a source of renewable energy and fuel. Microalgae hold great potential as a source of biomass for the production of energy and fungible liquid transportation fuels. However, the technologies required for large-scale cultivation, processing, and conversi...
journal_title：Photosynthesis research
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1007/s11120-011-9638-0
更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Most chloroplasts undergo changes in composition, function and structure in response to growth irradiance. However, Tradescantia albiflora, a facultative shade plant, is unable to modulate its light-harvesting components and has the same Chl a/Chl b ratios and number of functional PS II and PS I reaction centres on a ...
journal_title：Photosynthesis research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1023/A:1010681721929
更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Henrik Lundegårdh made major contributions in the field of ecology and plant physiology from 1912 to 1969. His early work at Hallands Väderö in the Kattegat pioneered quantitative approaches to plant ecology and laid the understanding of carbon dioxide exchange in natural communities which is still useful today in glo...
journal_title：Photosynthesis research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1023/A:1024980325118
更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00
