Journal
FRONTIERS IN BIOSCIENCE-LANDMARK
Volume 22, Issue -, Pages 1379-1426Publisher
BIOSCIENCE RESEARCH INST-BRI
DOI: 10.2741/4550
Keywords
Photosystem; Cytochrome; Oxidase; Protons; Membrane potential; Channels; Electrogenic; Voltage; Electron injection; Review
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- Russian Foundation for Basic Research [15-04-06266-a, 14-04-00153-a, 14-04-00519]
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In the thylakoid membrane of green plants, cyanobacteria and algae, photosystem II (PSII) uses light energy to split water and generate molecular oxygen. In the opposite process of the biochemical transformation of dioxygen, in heterotrophs, the terminal respiratory oxidases (TRO) are at the end of the respiratory chain in mitochondria and in plasma membrane of many aerobic bacteria reducing dioxygen back to water. Despite the different sources of free energy (light or oxidation of the substrates), energy conversion by these enzymes is based on the spatial organization of enzymatic reactions in which the conversion of water to dioxygen (and vice versa) involves the transfer of protons and electrons in opposite directions across the membrane, which is accompanied by generation of proton-motive force. Similar and distinctive features in structure and function of these important energy-converting molecular machines are described. Information about many fascinating parallels between the mechanisms of TRO and PSII could be used in the artificial light-driven water-splitting process and elucidation of energy conversion mechanism in protein pumps.
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