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INORGANIC CHEMISTRY
卷 47, 期 6, 页码 1700-1710出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ic701835r
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- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council Funding Source: Medline
The oxygen in our atmosphere is derived from and maintained by the water-splitting process of photosynthesis. The enzyme that facilitates this reaction and therefore underpins virtually all life on our planet is known as photosystem II (PSII). It is a multisubunit enzyme embedded in the lipid environment of the thylakoid membranes of plants, algae, and cyanobacteria. Powered by light, PSII catalyzes the chemically and thermodynamically demanding reaction of water splitting. In so doing, it releases molecular oxygen into the atmosphere and provides the reducing equivalents required for the conversion of carbon dioxide into the organic molecules of life. Recently, a fully refined structure of an isolated 700 kDa cyanobacterial dimeric PSII complex was elucidated by X-ray crystallography, which gave organizational and structural details of the 19 subunits (16 intrinsic and 3 extrinsic) that make up each monomer and provided information about the position and protein environments of the many different cofactors it binds. The water-splitting site was revealed as a cluster of four Mn ions and a Ca ion surrounded by amino acid side chains, of which six or seven form direct ligands to the metals. The metal cluster was originally modeled as a cubane-like structure composed of three Mn ions and the Ca2+ linked by oxo bonds and the fourth Mn attached to the cubane via one of its O atoms, New data from X-ray diffraction and X-ray spectroscopy suggest some alternative arrangements. Nevertheless, all of the models are sufficiently similar to provide a basis for discussing the chemistry by which PSII splits water and makes oxygen.
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