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Photosystem 2 and the oxygen evolving complex: a brief overview

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PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH
Volume 152, Issue 2, Pages 97-105

Publisher

SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11120-022-00910-1

Keywords

Photosystem 2; Oxygen evolving complex; Polypeptides; Manganese; Calcium; Chloride

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  1. National Science Foundation
  2. United States Department of Agriculture

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These special issues of photosynthesis research present papers documenting progress in revealing the many aspects of photosystem 2, a unique and complex system. The author provides a personal assessment of the progress observed over a four-decade research career, discussing some remaining unsolved issues.
These special issues of photosynthesis research present papers documenting progress in revealing the many aspects of photosystem 2, a unique, one-of-a-kind complex system that can reduce a plastoquinone to a plastoquinol on every second flash of light and oxidize 2 H2O to an O-2 on every fourth flash. This overview is a brief personal assessment of the progress observed by the author over a four-decade research career, including a discussion of some remaining unsolved issues. It will come as no surprise to readers that there are remaining questions given the complexity of PS2, and the efforts that have been needed so far to uncover its secrets. In fact, most readers will have their own lists of outstanding questions.

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