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Hussein R, Ibrahim M, Bhowmick A, Simon PS, Bogacz I, Doyle MD, Dobbek H, Zouni A, Messinger J, Yachandra VK, Kern JF, Yano J. Evolutionary diversity of proton and water channels on the oxidizing side of photosystem II and their relevance to function. PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH 2023; 158:91-107. [PMID: 37266800 PMCID: PMC10684718 DOI: 10.1007/s11120-023-01018-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2023] [Accepted: 03/29/2023] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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One of the reasons for the high efficiency and selectivity of biological catalysts arise from their ability to control the pathways of substrates and products using protein channels, and by modulating the transport in the channels using the interaction with the protein residues and the water/hydrogen-bonding network. This process is clearly demonstrated in Photosystem II (PS II), where its light-driven water oxidation reaction catalyzed by the Mn4CaO5 cluster occurs deep inside the protein complex and thus requires the transport of two water molecules to and four protons from the metal center to the bulk water. Based on the recent advances in structural studies of PS II from X-ray crystallography and cryo-electron microscopy, in this review we compare the channels that have been proposed to facilitate this mass transport in cyanobacteria, red and green algae, diatoms, and higher plants. The three major channels (O1, O4, and Cl1 channels) are present in all species investigated; however, some differences exist in the reported structures that arise from the different composition and arrangement of membrane extrinsic subunits between the species. Among the three channels, the Cl1 channel, including the proton gate, is the most conserved among all photosynthetic species. We also found at least one branch for the O1 channel in all organisms, extending all the way from Ca/O1 via the 'water wheel' to the lumen. However, the extending path after the water wheel varies between most species. The O4 channel is, like the Cl1 channel, highly conserved among all species while having different orientations at the end of the path near the bulk. The comparison suggests that the previously proposed functionality of the channels in T. vestitus (Ibrahim et al., Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 117:12624-12635, 2020; Hussein et al., Nat Commun 12:6531, 2021) is conserved through the species, i.e. the O1-like channel is used for substrate water intake, and the tighter Cl1 and O4 channels for proton release. The comparison does not eliminate the potential role of O4 channel as a water intake channel. However, the highly ordered hydrogen-bonded water wire connected to the Mn4CaO5 cluster via the O4 may strongly suggest that it functions in proton release, especially during the S0 → S1 transition (Saito et al., Nat Commun 6:8488, 2015; Kern et al., Nature 563:421-425, 2018; Ibrahim et al., Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 117:12624-12635, 2020; Sakashita et al., Phys Chem Chem Phys 22:15831-15841, 2020; Hussein et al., Nat Commun 12:6531, 2021).
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- Rana Hussein
- Department of Biology, Humboldt-Universität Zu Berlin, 10099, Berlin, Germany.
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- Department of Biology, Humboldt-Universität Zu Berlin, 10099, Berlin, Germany
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- Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Department of Biology, Humboldt-Universität Zu Berlin, 10099, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Biology, Humboldt-Universität Zu Berlin, 10099, Berlin, Germany
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- Molecular Biomimetics, Department of Chemistry-Ångström, Uppsala University, SE 75120, Uppsala, Sweden
- Department of Chemistry, Umeå University, SE 90187, Umeå, Sweden
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- Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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Morlock S, Subramanian SK, Zouni A, Lisdat F. Bio-inorganic hybrid structures for direct electron transfer to photosystem I in photobioelectrodes. Biosens Bioelectron 2022; 214:114495. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bios.2022.114495] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2022] [Revised: 05/31/2022] [Accepted: 06/19/2022] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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Dobson Z, Ahad S, Vanlandingham J, Toporik H, Vaughn N, Vaughn M, Williams D, Reppert M, Fromme P, Mazor Y. The structure of photosystem I from a high-light-tolerant cyanobacteria. eLife 2021; 10:e67518. [PMID: 34435952 PMCID: PMC8428864 DOI: 10.7554/elife.67518] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2021] [Accepted: 08/25/2021] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Photosynthetic organisms have adapted to survive a myriad of extreme environments from the earth's deserts to its poles, yet the proteins that carry out the light reactions of photosynthesis are highly conserved from the cyanobacteria to modern day crops. To investigate adaptations of the photosynthetic machinery in cyanobacteria to excessive light stress, we isolated a new strain of cyanobacteria, Cyanobacterium aponinum 0216, from the extreme light environment of the Sonoran Desert. Here we report the biochemical characterization and the 2.7 Å resolution structure of trimeric photosystem I from this high-light-tolerant cyanobacterium. The structure shows a new conformation of the PsaL C-terminus that supports trimer formation of cyanobacterial photosystem I. The spectroscopic analysis of this photosystem I revealed a decrease in far-red absorption, which is attributed to a decrease in the number of long- wavelength chlorophylls. Using these findings, we constructed two chimeric PSIs in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 demonstrating how unique structural features in photosynthetic complexes can change spectroscopic properties, allowing organisms to thrive under different environmental stresses.
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- Zachary Dobson
- School of Molecular Sciences, Arizona State UniversityTempeUnited States
- BiodesignCenter for Applied Structural Discovery, Arizona State UniversityTempeUnited States
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- Department of Chemistry, Purdue UniversityWest LafayetteUnited States
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- School of Molecular Sciences, Arizona State UniversityTempeUnited States
- BiodesignCenter for Applied Structural Discovery, Arizona State UniversityTempeUnited States
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- School of Molecular Sciences, Arizona State UniversityTempeUnited States
- BiodesignCenter for Applied Structural Discovery, Arizona State UniversityTempeUnited States
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- School of Molecular Sciences, Arizona State UniversityTempeUnited States
- BiodesignCenter for Applied Structural Discovery, Arizona State UniversityTempeUnited States
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- School of Molecular Sciences, Arizona State UniversityTempeUnited States
- BiodesignCenter for Applied Structural Discovery, Arizona State UniversityTempeUnited States
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- John M. Cowley Center for High Resolution Electron Microscopy, Arizona State UniversityTempeUnited States
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- Department of Chemistry, Purdue UniversityWest LafayetteUnited States
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- School of Molecular Sciences, Arizona State UniversityTempeUnited States
- BiodesignCenter for Applied Structural Discovery, Arizona State UniversityTempeUnited States
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- School of Molecular Sciences, Arizona State UniversityTempeUnited States
- BiodesignCenter for Applied Structural Discovery, Arizona State UniversityTempeUnited States
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Morlock S, Subramanian SK, Zouni A, Lisdat F. Scalable Three-Dimensional Photobioelectrodes Made of Reduced Graphene Oxide Combined with Photosystem I. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2021; 13:11237-11246. [PMID: 33621059 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c01142] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Photobioelectrodes represent one of the examples where artificial materials are combined with biological entities to undertake semi-artificial photosynthesis. Here, an approach is described that uses reduced graphene oxide (rGO) as an electrode material. This classical 2D material is used to construct a three-dimensional structure by a template-based approach combined with a simple spin-coating process during preparation. Inspired by this novel material and photosystem I (PSI), a biophotovoltaic electrode is being designed and investigated. Both direct electron transfer to PSI and mediated electron transfer via cytochrome c from horse heart as redox protein can be confirmed. Electrode preparation and protein immobilization have been optimized. The performance can be upscaled by adjusting the thickness of the 3D electrode using different numbers of spin-coating steps during preparation. Thus, photocurrents up to ∼14 μA/cm2 are measured for 12 spin-coated layers of rGO corresponding to a turnover frequency of 30 e- PSI-1 s-1 and external quantum efficiency (EQE) of 0.07% at a thickness of about 15 μm. Operational stability has been analyzed for several days. Particularly, the performance at low illumination intensities is very promising (1.39 μA/cm2 at 0.1 mW/cm2 and -0.15 V vs Ag/AgCl; EQE 6.8%).
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- Sascha Morlock
- Biosystems Technology, Institute of Life Sciences and Biomedical Technologies, Technical University of Applied Sciences Wildau, Hochschulring 1, Wildau 15745, Germany
- Biophysics of Photosynthesis, Institute for Biology, Humboldt University of Berlin, Philippstraße 13, Berlin 10115, Germany
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- Biophysics of Photosynthesis, Institute for Biology, Humboldt University of Berlin, Philippstraße 13, Berlin 10115, Germany
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- Biophysics of Photosynthesis, Institute for Biology, Humboldt University of Berlin, Philippstraße 13, Berlin 10115, Germany
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- Biosystems Technology, Institute of Life Sciences and Biomedical Technologies, Technical University of Applied Sciences Wildau, Hochschulring 1, Wildau 15745, Germany
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New 3-D Mn(II) coordination polymer with redox active oxalate linker; an efficient and robust electrocatalyst for oxygen evolution reaction. Inorganica Chim Acta 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ica.2020.119982] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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AbstractCyanobacteria and plants carry out oxygenic photosynthesis. They use water to generate the atmospheric oxygen we breathe and carbon dioxide to produce the biomass serving as food, feed, fibre and fuel. This paper scans the emergence of structural and mechanistic understanding of oxygen evolution over the past 50 years. It reviews speculative concepts and the stepped insight provided by novel experimental and theoretical techniques. Driven by sunlight photosystem II oxidizes the catalyst of water oxidation, a hetero-metallic Mn4CaO5(H2O)4 cluster. Mn3Ca are arranged in cubanoid and one Mn dangles out. By accumulation of four oxidizing equivalents before initiating dioxygen formation it matches the four-electron chemistry from water to dioxygen to the one-electron chemistry of the photo-sensitizer. Potentially harmful intermediates are thereby occluded in space and time. Kinetic signatures of the catalytic cluster and its partners in the photo-reaction centre have been resolved, in the frequency domain ranging from acoustic waves via infra-red to X-ray radiation, and in the time domain from nano- to milli-seconds. X-ray structures to a resolution of 1.9 Å are available. Even time resolved X-ray structures have been obtained by clocking the reaction cycle by flashes of light and diffraction with femtosecond X-ray pulses. The terminal reaction cascade from two molecules of water to dioxygen involves the transfer of four electrons, two protons, one dioxygen and one water. A rigorous mechanistic analysis is challenging because of the kinetic enslaving at millisecond duration of six partial reactions (4e−, 1H+, 1O2). For the time being a peroxide-intermediate in the reaction cascade to dioxygen has been in focus, both experimentally and by quantum chemistry. Homo sapiens has relied on burning the products of oxygenic photosynthesis, recent and fossil. Mankind's total energy consumption amounts to almost one-fourth of the global photosynthetic productivity. If the average power consumption equalled one of those nations with the highest consumption per capita it was four times greater and matched the total productivity. It is obvious that biomass should be harvested for food, feed, fibre and platform chemicals rather than for fuel.
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Shamsipur M, Pashabadi A. Latest advances in PSII features and mechanism of water oxidation. Coord Chem Rev 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2018.07.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Chapman HN, Fromme P. Structure determination based on continuous diffraction from macromolecular crystals. Curr Opin Struct Biol 2017; 45:170-177. [PMID: 28917122 DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2017.07.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2017] [Revised: 07/14/2017] [Accepted: 07/31/2017] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Bright and coherent X-ray sources, such free-electron lasers, have spurred large activities in developing new methods to obtain the structures of biological macromolecules. In particular, single-molecule diffraction is highly desired, as it would abolish the need for crystallization. It provides considerably more diffraction intensity information than needed to solve a structure, unlike crystal diffraction, which is usually insufficient for direct phasing. To overcome the challenge of weak scattering signals of single molecules, the direct phasing approaches in coherent diffractive imaging have been combined with crystals in several imaginative ways. One of these, using crystals with translational disorder, has been used to phase continuous femtosecond X-ray diffraction data from photosystem II complexes, offering a paradigm shift in crystallography.
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- Henry N Chapman
- Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, DESY, 22607 Hamburg, Germany; Department of Physics, University of Hamburg, 22761 Hamburg, Germany; Center for Ultrafast Imaging, University of Hamburg, 22761 Hamburg, Germany.
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- School of Molecular Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-1604, USA; Biodesign Center for Applied Structural Discovery, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA.
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Chen J, Kell A, Acharya K, Kupitz C, Fromme P, Jankowiak R. Critical assessment of the emission spectra of various photosystem II core complexes. PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH 2015; 124:253-265. [PMID: 25832780 DOI: 10.1007/s11120-015-0128-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2014] [Accepted: 03/23/2015] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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We evaluate low-temperature (low-T) emission spectra of photosystem II core complexes (PSII-cc) previously reported in the literature, which are compared with emission spectra of PSII-cc obtained in this work from spinach and for dissolved PSII crystals from Thermosynechococcus (T.) elongatus. This new spectral dataset is used to interpret data published on membrane PSII (PSII-m) fragments from spinach and Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, as well as PSII-cc from T. vulcanus and intentionally damaged PSII-cc from spinach. This study offers new insight into the assignment of emission spectra reported on PSII-cc from different organisms. Previously reported spectra are also compared with data obtained at different saturation levels of the lowest energy state(s) of spinach and T. elongatus PSII-cc via hole burning in order to provide more insight into emission from bleached and/or photodamaged complexes. We show that typical low-T emission spectra of PSII-cc (with closed RCs), in addition to the 695 nm fluorescence band assigned to the intact CP47 complex (Reppert et al. J Phys Chem B 114:11884-11898, 2010), can be contributed to by several emission bands, depending on sample quality. Possible contributions include (i) a band near 690-691 nm that is largely reversible upon temperature annealing, proving that the band originates from CP47 with a bleached low-energy state near 693 nm (Neupane et al. J Am Chem Soc 132:4214-4229, 2010; Reppert et al. J Phys Chem B 114:11884-11898, 2010); (ii) CP43 emission at 683.3 nm (not at 685 nm, i.e., the F685 band, as reported in the literature) (Dang et al. J Phys Chem B 112:9921-9933, 2008; Reppert et al. J Phys Chem B 112:9934-9947, 2008); (iii) trap emission from destabilized CP47 complexes near 691 nm (FT1) and 685 nm (FT2) (Neupane et al. J Am Chem Soc 132:4214-4229, 2010); and (iv) emission from the RC pigments near 686-687 nm. We suggest that recently reported emission of single PSII-cc complexes from T. elongatus may not represent intact complexes, while those obtained for T. elongatus presented in this work most likely represent intact PSII-cc, since they are nearly indistinguishable from emission spectra obtained for various PSII-m fragments.
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- Jinhai Chen
- Department of Chemistry, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, 66506, USA
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Kupitz C, Grotjohann I, Conrad CE, Roy-Chowdhury S, Fromme R, Fromme P. Microcrystallization techniques for serial femtosecond crystallography using photosystem II from Thermosynechococcus elongatus as a model system. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2015; 369:20130316. [PMID: 24914149 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0316] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Serial femtosecond crystallography (SFX) is a new emerging method, where X-ray diffraction data are collected from a fully hydrated stream of nano- or microcrystals of biomolecules in their mother liquor using high-energy, X-ray free-electron lasers. The success of SFX experiments strongly depends on the ability to grow large amounts of well-ordered nano/microcrystals of homogeneous size distribution. While methods to grow large single crystals have been extensively explored in the past, method developments to grow nano/microcrystals in sufficient amounts for SFX experiments are still in their infancy. Here, we describe and compare three methods (batch, free interface diffusion (FID) and FID centrifugation) for growth of nano/microcrystals for time-resolved SFX experiments using the large membrane protein complex photosystem II as a model system.
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- Christopher Kupitz
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85281, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85281, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85281, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85281, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85281, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85281, USA
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Gabdulkhakov AG, Kljashtorny VG, Dontsova MV. Molecular dynamics studies of pathways of water movement in cyanobacterial photosystem II. CRYSTALLOGR REP+ 2015. [DOI: 10.1134/s1063774515010083] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Shen JR. The Structure of Photosystem II and the Mechanism of Water Oxidation in Photosynthesis. ANNUAL REVIEW OF PLANT BIOLOGY 2015; 66:23-48. [PMID: 25746448 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-arplant-050312-120129] [Citation(s) in RCA: 441] [Impact Index Per Article: 49.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Oxygenic photosynthesis forms the basis of aerobic life on earth by converting light energy into biologically useful chemical energy and by splitting water to generate molecular oxygen. The water-splitting and oxygen-evolving reaction is catalyzed by photosystem II (PSII), a huge, multisubunit membrane-protein complex located in the thylakoid membranes of organisms ranging from cyanobacteria to higher plants. The structure of PSII has been analyzed at 1.9-Å resolution by X-ray crystallography, revealing a clear picture of the Mn4CaO5 cluster, the catalytic center for water oxidation. This article provides an overview of the overall structure of PSII followed by detailed descriptions of the specific structure of the Mn4CaO5 cluster and its surrounding protein environment. Based on the geometric organization of the Mn4CaO5 cluster revealed by the crystallographic analysis, in combination with the results of a vast number of experimental studies involving spectroscopic and other techniques as well as various theoretical studies, the article also discusses possible mechanisms for water splitting that are currently under consideration.
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- Jian-Ren Shen
- Photosynthesis Research Center, Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, Okayama 700-8530, Japan;
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Serial time-resolved crystallography of photosystem II using a femtosecond X-ray laser. Nature 2014; 513:261-5. [PMID: 25043005 DOI: 10.1038/nature13453] [Citation(s) in RCA: 315] [Impact Index Per Article: 31.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2013] [Accepted: 05/04/2014] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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Photosynthesis, a process catalysed by plants, algae and cyanobacteria converts sunlight to energy thus sustaining all higher life on Earth. Two large membrane protein complexes, photosystem I and II (PSI and PSII), act in series to catalyse the light-driven reactions in photosynthesis. PSII catalyses the light-driven water splitting process, which maintains the Earth's oxygenic atmosphere. In this process, the oxygen-evolving complex (OEC) of PSII cycles through five states, S0 to S4, in which four electrons are sequentially extracted from the OEC in four light-driven charge-separation events. Here we describe time resolved experiments on PSII nano/microcrystals from Thermosynechococcus elongatus performed with the recently developed technique of serial femtosecond crystallography. Structures have been determined from PSII in the dark S1 state and after double laser excitation (putative S3 state) at 5 and 5.5 Å resolution, respectively. The results provide evidence that PSII undergoes significant conformational changes at the electron acceptor side and at the Mn4CaO5 core of the OEC. These include an elongation of the metal cluster, accompanied by changes in the protein environment, which could allow for binding of the second substrate water molecule between the more distant protruding Mn (referred to as the 'dangler' Mn) and the Mn3CaOx cubane in the S2 to S3 transition, as predicted by spectroscopic and computational studies. This work shows the great potential for time-resolved serial femtosecond crystallography for investigation of catalytic processes in biomolecules.
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Gabdulkhakov AG, Dontsova MV. Structural studies on photosystem II of cyanobacteria. BIOCHEMISTRY (MOSCOW) 2014; 78:1524-38. [DOI: 10.1134/s0006297913130105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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- A G Gabdulkhakov
- Institute of Protein Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Moscow Region, 142290, Russia.
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Nelson N. Evolution of photosystem I and the control of global enthalpy in an oxidizing world. PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH 2013; 116:145-151. [PMID: 23954951 DOI: 10.1007/s11120-013-9902-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2013] [Accepted: 07/26/2013] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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Life on earth is governed by light, chemical reactions, and the second law of thermodynamics, which defines the tendency for increasing entropy as an expression of disorder or randomness. Life is an expression of increasing order, and a constant influx of energy and loss of entropic wastes are required to maintain or increase order in living organisms. Most of the energy for life comes from sunlight and, thus, photosynthesis underlies the survival of all life forms. Oxygenic photosynthesis determines not only the global amount of enthalpy in living systems, but also the composition of the Earth's atmosphere and surface. Photosynthesis was established on the Earth more than 3.5 billion years ago. The primordial reaction center has been suggested to comprise a homodimeric unit resembling the core complex of the current reaction centers in Chlorobi, Heliobacteria, and Acidobacteria. Here, an evolutionary scenario based on the known structures of the current reaction centers is proposed.
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- Nathan Nelson
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, 69978, Tel Aviv, Israel,
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Müh F, Glöckner C, Hellmich J, Zouni A. Light-induced quinone reduction in photosystem II. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2011; 1817:44-65. [PMID: 21679684 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2011.05.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 163] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2011] [Revised: 05/20/2011] [Accepted: 05/23/2011] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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The photosystem II core complex is the water:plastoquinone oxidoreductase of oxygenic photosynthesis situated in the thylakoid membrane of cyanobacteria, algae and plants. It catalyzes the light-induced transfer of electrons from water to plastoquinone accompanied by the net transport of protons from the cytoplasm (stroma) to the lumen, the production of molecular oxygen and the release of plastoquinol into the membrane phase. In this review, we outline our present knowledge about the "acceptor side" of the photosystem II core complex covering the reaction center with focus on the primary (Q(A)) and secondary (Q(B)) quinones situated around the non-heme iron with bound (bi)carbonate and a comparison with the reaction center of purple bacteria. Related topics addressed are quinone diffusion channels for plastoquinone/plastoquinol exchange, the newly discovered third quinone Q(C), the relevance of lipids, the interactions of quinones with the still enigmatic cytochrome b559 and the role of Q(A) in photoinhibition and photoprotection mechanisms. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: Photosystem II.
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- Frank Müh
- Max-Volmer-Laboratorium für Biophysikalische Chemie, Technische Universität Berlin, Strasse des 17. Juni 135, D-10623 Berlin, Germany
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Guskov A, Gabdulkhakov A, Broser M, Glöckner C, Hellmich J, Kern J, Frank J, Müh F, Saenger W, Zouni A. Recent Progress in the Crystallographic Studies of Photosystem II. Chemphyschem 2010; 11:1160-71. [DOI: 10.1002/cphc.200900901] [Citation(s) in RCA: 96] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Schlodder E. Introduction to optical methods in photosynthesis. PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH 2009; 101:93-104. [PMID: 19526323 DOI: 10.1007/s11120-009-9446-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2009] [Accepted: 05/21/2009] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Optical spectroscopy is widely used to study structure and function of photosynthetic systems. Due to the large variety of different methods, these studies have contributed a lot to the identification of the cofactors involved in the primary reactions of photosynthesis and to the elucidation of the kinetics of the light-induced energy and electron transfer reactions. Within other aspects of photosynthesis research as e.g. photoinhibition, these techniques play an important role as well. In this brief introduction, I will focus on the basic principles of the different methods and the information obtained by applying these various techniques. In the reviews that follow, under the section "Optical Methods", these methods are discussed in detail.
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- Eberhard Schlodder
- Max-Volmer-Laboratorium für Biophysikalische Chemie, Technische Universität Berlin, Strasse des 17. Juni 135, Berlin, Germany,
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Fromme P, Grotjohann I. Chapter 9 Crystallization of Photosynthetic Membrane Proteins. CURRENT TOPICS IN MEMBRANES 2009. [DOI: 10.1016/s1063-5823(09)63009-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Photosynthesis is the major process that converts solar energy into chemical energy on Earth. Two and a half billion years ago, the ancestors of cyanobacteria were able to use water as electron source for the photosynthetic process, thereby evolving oxygen and changing the atmosphere of our planet Earth. Two large membrane protein complexes, Photosystems I and II, catalyze the primary step in this energy conversion, the light-induced charge separation across the photosynthetic membrane. This chapter describes and compares the structure of two Photosystems and discusses their function in respect to the mechanism of light harvesting, electron transfer and water splitting.
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- Petra Fromme
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-1604, USA.
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Varco-Merth B, Fromme R, Wang M, Fromme P. Crystallization of the c14-rotor of the chloroplast ATP synthase reveals that it contains pigments. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2008; 1777:605-12. [PMID: 18515064 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2008.05.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2008] [Revised: 04/18/2008] [Accepted: 05/13/2008] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The ATP synthase is one of the most important enzymes on earth as it couples the transmembrane electrochemical potential of protons to the synthesis of ATP from ADP and inorganic phosphate, providing the main ATP source of almost all higher life on earth. During ATP synthesis, stepwise protonation of a conserved carboxylate on each protein subunit of an oligomeric ring of 10-15 c-subunits is commonly thought to drive rotation of the rotor moiety (c(10-14)gammaepsilon) relative to stator moiety (alpha(3)beta(3)deltaab(2)). Here we report the isolation and crystallization of the c(14)-ring of subunit c from the spinach chloroplast enzyme diffracting as far as 2.8 A. Though ATP synthase was not previously known to contain any pigments, the crystals of the c-subunit possessed a strong yellow color. The pigment analysis revealed that they contain 1 chlorophyll and 2 carotenoids, thereby showing for the first time that the chloroplast ATP synthase contains cofactors, leading to the question of the possible roles of the functions of the pigments in the chloroplast ATP synthase.
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- Benjamin Varco-Merth
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA 85287, USA
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Meelich K, Zaleski CM, Pecoraro VL. Using small molecule complexes to elucidate features of photosynthetic water oxidation. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2008; 363:1271-9; discussion 1279-81. [PMID: 17954438 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2007.2224] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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The molecular oxygen produced in photosynthesis is generated via water oxidation at a manganese-calcium cluster called the oxygen-evolving complex (OEC). While studies in biophysics, biochemistry, and structural and molecular biology are well known to provide deeper insight into the structure and workings of this system, it is often less appreciated that biomimetic modelling provides the foundation for interpreting photosynthetic reactions. The synthesis and characterization of small model complexes, which either mimic structural features of the OEC or are capable of providing insight into the mechanism of O2 evolution, have become a vital contributor to this scientific field. Our group has contributed to these findings in recent years through synthesis of model complexes, spectroscopic characterization of these systems and probing the reactivity in the context of water oxidation. In this article we describe how models have made significant contributions ranging from understanding the structure of the water-oxidation centre (e.g. contributions to defining a tetrameric Mn3Ca-cluster with a dangler Mn) to the ability to discriminate between different mechanistic proposals (e.g. showing that the Babcock scheme for water oxidation is unlikely).
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- Kristof Meelich
- Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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Kern J, Biesiadka J, Loll B, Saenger W, Zouni A. Structure of the Mn4-Ca cluster as derived from X-ray diffraction. PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH 2007; 92:389-405. [PMID: 17492491 DOI: 10.1007/s11120-007-9173-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2006] [Accepted: 04/10/2007] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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The catalytic centre for light-induced water oxidation in photosystem II (PSII) is a multinuclear metal cluster containing four manganese and one calcium cations. Knowing the structure of this biological catalyst is of utmost importance for unravelling the mechanism of water oxidation in photosynthesis. In this review we describe the current state of the X-ray structure determination at 3.0 A resolution of the water oxidation complex (WOC) of PSII. The arrangement of metal cations in the cluster, their coordination and protein surroundings are discussed with regard to spectroscopic and mutagenesis studies. Limitations of the presently available structural data are pointed out and possible perspectives for the future are outlined, including the combination of X-ray diffraction and X-ray spectroscopy on single crystals.
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- Jan Kern
- Institut für Chemie, Max Volmer Laboratorium für Biophysikalische Chemie, Sekr. PC 14, Technische Universität Berlin, Strasse des 17. Juni 135, 10623 Berlin, Germany.
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Fromme P, Yu H, DeRuyter YS, Jolley C, Chauhan DK, Melkozernov A, Grotjohann I. Structure of photosystems I and II. CR CHIM 2006. [DOI: 10.1016/j.crci.2005.06.039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Loll B, Kern J, Zouni A, Saenger W, Biesiadka J, Irrgang KD. The antenna system of photosystem II from Thermosynechococcus elongatus at 3.2 A resolution. PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH 2005; 86:175-84. [PMID: 16172937 DOI: 10.1007/s11120-005-4117-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2004] [Accepted: 03/18/2005] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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The content and type of cofactors harboured in the Photosystem II core complex (PS IIcc) of the cyanobacterium Thermosynechococcus elongatus has been determined by biochemical and spectroscopic methods. 17 +/- 1 chlorophyll a per pheophytin a and 0.25 beta-carotene per chlorophyll a have been found in re-dissolved crystals of dimeric PS IIcc. The X-ray crystal structure of PS IIcc from Thermosynechococcus elongatus at 3.2 A resolution clearly shows chlorophyll a molecules arranged in two layers close to the cytoplasmic and lumenal sides of the thylakoid membrane. Each of the cytoplasmic layers contains 9 chlorophyll a, whose positions and orientations are related by a local twofold rotation pseudo-C2 axis passing through the non-haem Fe2+. These chlorophyll a are arranged comparably to those in the antenna domains of PsaA and PsaB of cyanobacterial Photosystem I affirming an evolutionary relation. The chlorophyll a in the lumenal layer are less well conserved between Photosystems I and II and even between CP43 and CP47 with 4 chlorophyll a in the former and 7 in the latter.
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- Bernhard Loll
- Institute of Chemistry/Crystallography, Free University Berlin, Takustr. 6, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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Charge Transport and Catalysis by Molecules Confined in Polymeric Materialsand Application to Future Nanodevices for Energy Conversion. ADVANCES IN POLYMER SCIENCE 2005. [DOI: 10.1007/b136872] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/13/2023]
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Raval MK, Biswal B, Biswal UC. The mystery of oxygen evolution: analysis of structure and function of photosystem II, the water-plastoquinone oxido-reductase. PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH 2005; 85:267-93. [PMID: 16170631 DOI: 10.1007/s11120-005-8163-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2004] [Accepted: 05/26/2005] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Photosystem II (PS II) of thylakoid membrane of photosynthetic organisms has drawn attention of researchers over the years because it is the only system on Earth that provides us with oxygen that we breathe. In the recent past, structure of PS II has been the focus of research in plant science. The report of X-ray crystallographic structure of PS II complex by the research groups of James Barber and So Iwata in UK is a milestone in the area of research in photosynthesis. It follows the pioneering and elegant work from the laboratories of Horst Witt and W. Saenger in Germany, and J. Shen in Japan. It is time to analyze the historic events during the long journey made by the researchers to arrive at this point. This review makes an attempt to critically review the growth of the advancement of concepts and knowledge on the photosystem in the background of technological development. We conclude the review with perspectives on research and technology that should reveal the complete story of PS II of thylakoid in the future.
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- M K Raval
- P.G. Department of Chemistry, Government College, Sundargarh, Orissa, India.
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Kern J, Loll B, Lüneberg C, DiFiore D, Biesiadka J, Irrgang KD, Zouni A. Purification, characterisation and crystallisation of photosystem II from Thermosynechococcus elongatus cultivated in a new type of photobioreactor. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2005; 1706:147-57. [PMID: 15620375 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2004.10.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 129] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2004] [Revised: 10/08/2004] [Accepted: 10/14/2004] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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The thermophilic cyanobacterium Thermosynechococcus elongatus was cultivated under controlled growth conditions using a new type of photobioreactor, allowing us to optimise growth conditions and the biomass yield. A fast large-scale purification method for monomeric and dimeric photosystem II (PSII) solubilized from thylakoid membranes of this cyanobacterium was developed using fast protein liquid chromatography (FPLC). The obtained PSII core complexes (PSIIcc) were analysed for their pigment stoichiometry, photochemical and oxygen evolution activities, as well as lipid and detergent composition. Thirty-six chlorophyll a (Chla), 2 pheophytin a (Pheoa), 9+/- 1 beta-carotene (Car), 2.9+/-0.8 plastoquinone 9 (PQ9) and 3.8+/-0.5 Mn were found per active centre. For the monomeric and dimeric PSIIcc, 18 and 20 lipid as well as 145 and 220 detergent molecules were found in the detergent shell, respectively. The monomeric and dimeric complexes showed high oxygen evolution activity with 1/4 O(2) released per 37-38 Chla and flash in the best cases. Crystals were obtained from dimeric PSIIcc by a micro-batch method. They diffract synchrotron X-rays to a maximum resolution of 2.9-A, resulting in complete data sets of 3.2 A resolution.
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- J Kern
- Max-Volmer-Laboratory for Biophysical Chemistry and Biochemistry, Technical University Berlin, 10623 Berlin, Strasse des 17. Juni 135, Germany
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Kammel M, Kern J, Lubitz W, Bittl R. Photosystem II single crystals studied by transient EPR: the light-induced triplet state. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 2003; 1605:47-54. [PMID: 12907300 DOI: 10.1016/s0005-2728(03)00063-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Transient electron paramagnetic resonance (TR EPR) at 9.8 GHz has been used to study the light-induced triplet state in single crystals of Photosystem II (PS II). The crystals were grown from a solution of PS II core complexes from the thermophilic cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus. The core complexes contain at least 17 subunits, including the water-oxidizing complex, and 32 chlorophyll a molecules per PS II complex. The PS II complexes are active in light-induced electron transfer and water oxidation. The crystals belong to the orthorhombic space group P2(1)2(1)2(1), with four dimers of PS II complexes per unit cell. Laser excitation was used to generate the recombination triplet state in PS II which was then studied by EPR at low temperatures (10 K). The crystal spectra show the same magnitude of the zero-field splitting (ZFS) values D, E as spectra obtained earlier for the triplet state of PS II in frozen solution. The orientation of the ZFS tensor D of the triplet state with respect to the crystallographic axes has been deduced from the analysis of angular-dependent EPR spectra. Knowledge of the orientation of the D tensor component perpendicular to the plane of the chlorophyll (D(Z)) allows an assignment on which chlorophyll of the reaction centre the triplet state is localized at low temperatures. Furthermore, the orientation of the D(X) and D(Y) components of the D tensor yielded the in-plane orientation of the respective chlorophyll in the reaction centre providing first experimental evidence for the orientation of this molecule in the PS II.
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- Michael Kammel
- Max-Volmer-Laboratorium für Biophysikalische Chemie, Technische Universität Berlin, Strasse des 17. Juni 135, D-10623, Berlin, Germany
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Kamiya N, Shen JR. Crystal structure of oxygen-evolving photosystem II from Thermosynechococcus vulcanus at 3.7-A resolution. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2003; 100:98-103. [PMID: 12518057 PMCID: PMC140893 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0135651100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 851] [Impact Index Per Article: 40.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2002] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Photosystem II (PSII) is a multisubunit membrane protein complex performing light-induced electron transfer and water-splitting reactions, leading to the formation of molecular oxygen. The first crystal structure of PSII from a thermophilic cyanobacterium Thermosynechococcus elongatus was reported recently [Zouni, A., Witt, H. T., Kern, J., Fromme, P., Krauss, N., Saenger, W. & Orth, P. (2001) Nature 409, 739-743)] at 3.8-A resolution. To analyze the PSII structure in more detail, we have obtained the crystal structure of PSII from another thermophilic cyanobacterium, Thermosynechococcus vulcanus, at 3.7-A resolution. The present structure was built on the basis of the sequences of PSII large subunits D1, D2, CP47, and CP43; extrinsic 33- and 12-kDa proteins and cytochrome c550; and several low molecular mass subunits, among which the structure of the 12-kDa protein was not reported previously. This yielded much information concerning the molecular interactions within this large protein complex. We also show the arrangement of chlorophylls and cofactors, including two beta-carotenes recently identified in a region close to the reaction center, which provided important clues to the secondary electron transfer pathways around the reaction center. Furthermore, possible ligands for the Mn-cluster were determined. In particular, the C terminus of D1 polypeptide was shown to be connected to the Mn cluster directly. The structural information obtained here provides important insights into the mechanism of PSII reactions.
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- Nobuo Kamiya
- RIKEN Harima InstituteSPring-8, Kouto 1-1-1, Mikazuki-cho, Sayou-gun, Hyogo 679-5148, Japan.
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Fromme P, Kern J, Loll B, Biesiadka J, Saenger W, Witt HT, Krauss N, Zouni A. Functional implications on the mechanism of the function of photosystem II including water oxidation based on the structure of photosystem II. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2002; 357:1337-44; discussion 1344-5, 1367. [PMID: 12437872 PMCID: PMC1693044 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2002.1143] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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The structure of photosystem I at 3.8 A resolution illustrated the main structural elements of the water-oxidizing photosystem II complex, including the constituents of the electron transport chain. The location of the Mn cluster within the complex has been identified for the first time to our knowledge. At this resolution, no individual atoms are visible, however, the electron density of the Mn cluster can be used to discuss both the present models of the Mn cluster as revealed from various spectroscopic methods and the implications for the mechanisms of water oxidation. Twenty-six chlorophylls from the antenna system of photosystem II have been identified. They are arranged in two layers, one close to the stromal side and one close to the lumenal side. Comparing the structure of the antenna system of photosystem II with the chlorophyll arrangement in photosystem I, which was recently determined at 2.5 A resolution shows that photosystem II lacks the central domain of the photosystem I antenna, which is discussed in respect of the repair cycle of photosystem II due to photoinhibition.
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- Petra Fromme
- Max-Volmer-Laboratorium für Biophysikalische Chemie und Biochemie, Technische Universität Berlin, Strasse den 17 Juni 135, 10623 Berlin, Germany.
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Heathcote P, Fyfe PK, Jones MR. Reaction centres: the structure and evolution of biological solar power. Trends Biochem Sci 2002; 27:79-87. [PMID: 11852245 DOI: 10.1016/s0968-0004(01)02034-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 106] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Reaction centres are complexes of pigment and protein that convert the electromagnetic energy of sunlight into chemical potential energy. They are found in plants, algae and a variety of bacterial species, and vary greatly in their composition and complexity. New structural information has highlighted features that are common to the different types of reaction centre and has provided insights into some of the key differences between reaction centres from different sources. New ideas have also emerged on how contemporary reaction centres might have evolved and on the possible origin of the first chlorophyll-protein complexes to harness the power of sunlight.
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- Peter Heathcote
- School of Biological Sciences, Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road, London, UK E1 4NS
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Hillier W, Hendry G, Burnap RL, Wydrzynski T. Substrate water exchange in photosystem II depends on the peripheral proteins. J Biol Chem 2001; 276:46917-24. [PMID: 11595731 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m102954200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The (18)O exchange rates for the substrate water bound in the S(3) state were determined in different photosystem II sample types using time-resolved mass spectrometry. The samples included thylakoid membranes, salt-washed Triton X-100-prepared membrane fragments, and purified core complexes from spinach and cyanobacteria. For each sample type, two kinetically distinct isotopic exchange rates could be resolved, indicating that the biphasic exchange behavior for the substrate water is inherent to the O(2)-evolving catalytic site in the S(3) state. However, the fast phase of exchange became somewhat slower (by a factor of approximately 2) in NaCl-washed membrane fragments and core complexes from spinach in which the 16- and 23-kDa extrinsic proteins have been removed, compared with the corresponding rate for the intact samples. For CaCl(2)-washed membrane fragments in which the 33-kDa manganese stabilizing protein (MSP) has also been removed, the fast phase of exchange slowed down even further (by a factor of approximately 3). Interestingly, the slow phase of exchange was little affected in the samples from spinach. For core complexes prepared from Synechocystis PCC 6803 and Synechococcus elongatus, the fast and slow exchange rates were variously affected. Nevertheless, within the experimental error, nearly the same exchange rates were measured for thylakoid samples made from wild type and an MSP-lacking mutant of Synechocystis PCC 6803. This result could indicate that the MSP has a slightly different function in eukaryotic organisms compared with prokaryotic organisms. In all samples, however, the differences in the exchange rates are relatively small. Such small differences are unlikely to arise from major changes in the metal-ligand structure at the catalytic site. Rather, the observed differences may reflect subtle long range effects in which the exchange reaction coordinates become slightly altered. We discuss the results in terms of solvent penetration into photosystem II and the regional dielectric around the catalytic site.
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- W Hillier
- Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA.
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Wiklund R, Salih GF, Mäenpää P, Jansson C. Engineering of the protein environment around the redox-active TyrZ in photosystem II. The role of F186 and P162 in the D1 protein of Synechocystis 6803. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 2001; 268:5356-64. [PMID: 11606198 DOI: 10.1046/j.0014-2956.2001.02466.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The photosystem II reaction centre protein D1 is encoded by the psbA gene. By activation of the silent and divergent psbA1 gene in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis 6803, a novel D1 protein, D1', was produced [Salih, G. & Jansson, C. (1997) Plant Cell 9, 869-878]. The D1' protein was found to be fully operational although it deviates from the normal D1 protein in 54 out of 360 amino acids. Two notable amino-acid substitutions in D1' are the replacements of F186 by a leucine and P162 by a serine. The F186 and P162 positions are located in the vicinity of the reaction centre chlorophyll dimer P680 and the redox-active Y161 (TyrZ), and F186 has been implicated in the electron transfer between Y161 and P680. The importance of F186 was addressed by construction of engineered D1 proteins in Synechocystis 6803. F186 was replaced by leucine, serine, alanine, tyrosine or tryptophan. Only the leucine replacement yielded a functional D1 protein. Other substitutions did not support photoautotrophic growth and the corresponding mutants showed no or very poor oxygen evolving activity. In the F186Y and F186W mutants, the D1 protein failed to accumulate to appreciable levels in the thylakoid membrane. The F186S mutation severely increased the light sensitivity of the D1 protein, as indicated by the presence of a 16-kDa proteolytic degradation product. We conclude that the hydrophobicity and van der Waals volume are the most important features of the residue at position 186. Exchanging P162 for a serine yielded no observable phenotype.
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- R Wiklund
- Department of Plant Biology, The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
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Rhee KH. Photosystem II: the solid structural era. ANNUAL REVIEW OF BIOPHYSICS AND BIOMOLECULAR STRUCTURE 2001; 30:307-28. [PMID: 11340062 DOI: 10.1146/annurev.biophys.30.1.307] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Understanding the precise role of photosystem II as an element of oxygenic photosynthesis requires knowledge of the molecular structure of this membrane protein complex. The past few years have been particularly exciting because the structural era of the plant photosystem II has begun. Although the atomic structure has yet to be determined, the map obtained at 6 A resolution by electron crystallography allows assignment of the key reaction center subunits with their associated pigment molecules. In the following, we first review the structural details that have recently emerged and then discuss the primary and secondary photochemical reaction pathways. Finally, in an attempt to establish the evolutionary link between the oxygenic and the anoxygenic photosynthesis, a framework structure common to all photosynthetic reaction centers has been defined, and the implications have been described.
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- K H Rhee
- Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Medical Research Council, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 2QH, United Kingdom.
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Hofbauer W, Zouni A, Bittl R, Kern J, Orth P, Lendzian F, Fromme P, Witt HT, Lubitz W. Photosystem II single crystals studied by EPR spectroscopy at 94 GHz: the tyrosine radical Y(D)(*). Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2001; 98:6623-8. [PMID: 11381107 PMCID: PMC34403 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.101127598] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy at 94 GHz is used to study the dark-stable tyrosine radical Y(D)(*) in single crystals of photosystem II core complexes (cc) isolated from the thermophilic cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus. These complexes contain at least 17 subunits, including the water-oxidizing complex (WOC), and 32 chlorophyll a molecules/PS II; they are active in light-induced electron transfer and water oxidation. The crystals belong to the orthorhombic space group P2(1)2(1)2(1), with four PS II dimers per unit cell. High-frequency EPR is used for enhancing the sensitivity of experiments performed on small single crystals as well as for increasing the spectral resolution of the g tensor components and of the different crystal sites. Magnitude and orientation of the g tensor of Y(D)(*) and related information on several proton hyperfine tensors are deduced from analysis of angular-dependent EPR spectra. The precise orientation of tyrosine Y(D)(*) in PS II is obtained as a first step in the EPR characterization of paramagnetic species in these single crystals.
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- W Hofbauer
- Max-Volmer-Institut für Biophysikalische Chemie und Biochemie, Technische Universität Berlin, Strasse des 17, Juni 135, D-10623 Berlin, Germany
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In oxygenic photosynthesis, a highly oxidising chlorophyll species strips electrons out of two water molecules, generating molecular oxygen as a waste product. A recent study has provided new insights into the structure of the molecular machinery responsible for biological oxygen production.
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- M R Jones
- Department of Biochemistry, School of Medical Sciences, University of Bristol, University Walk, BS8 1TD, Bristol, UK
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Zouni A, Witt HT, Kern J, Fromme P, Krauss N, Saenger W, Orth P. Crystal structure of photosystem II from Synechococcus elongatus at 3.8 A resolution. Nature 2001; 409:739-43. [PMID: 11217865 DOI: 10.1038/35055589] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1643] [Impact Index Per Article: 71.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Oxygenic photosynthesis is the principal energy converter on earth. It is driven by photosystems I and II, two large protein-cofactor complexes located in the thylakoid membrane and acting in series. In photosystem II, water is oxidized; this event provides the overall process with the necessary electrons and protons, and the atmosphere with oxygen. To date, structural information on the architecture of the complex has been provided by electron microscopy of intact, active photosystem II at 15-30 A resolution, and by electron crystallography on two-dimensional crystals of D1-D2-CP47 photosystem II fragments without water oxidizing activity at 8 A resolution. Here we describe the X-ray structure of photosystem II on the basis of crystals fully active in water oxidation. The structure shows how protein subunits and cofactors are spatially organized. The larger subunits are assigned and the locations and orientations of the cofactors are defined. We also provide new information on the position, size and shape of the manganese cluster, which catalyzes water oxidation.
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- A Zouni
- Max-Volmer-Institut für Biophysikalische Chemie und Biochemie, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
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Katoh H, Ikeuchi M. Targeted disruption of psbX and biochemical characterization of photosystem II complex in the thermophilic cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus. PLANT & CELL PHYSIOLOGY 2001; 42:179-88. [PMID: 11230572 DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pce024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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PSII-X is a small hydrophobic protein, which is universally present in photosystem II (PSII) core complex among cyanobacteria and plants. The role of PSII-X was studied by directed mutagenesis and biochemical analysis in the thermophilic cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus. The psbX-disrupted mutant could grow photoautotrophically indicative of non-essential function, while it showed growth defect under low CO(2) conditions. An active O(2)-evolving PSII complex was successfully isolated from the mutant and wild type. Protein composition of the isolated PSII complex was the same as wild type except for the absence of PSII-X. O(2) evolution supported by artificial quinones was affected in the psbX-disrupted mutant. At high concentration of 2,6-dichlorobenzoquinone or 2,6-dimethylbenzoquinone, the mutant showed much lower activity than wild type, while not much difference was found at low concentration. These results imply that binding or turnover of quinones at the Q(B) site depends, at least in part, on PSII-X protein in the PSII complex. Gel filtration chromatography of the PSII complex revealed that the dimeric structure of the complex was not greatly affected in the psbX-disrupted mutant.
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- H Katoh
- Department of Life Sciences (Biology), University of Tokyo, Komaba 3-8-1, Meguro, Tokyo, 153-8902 Japan
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Photosystem II complex (PSII) of thylakoid membranes uses light energy to oxidise extremely stable water and produce oxygen (2H(2)O-->O(2)+4H(+)+4e(-)). PSII is compared with cytochrome c oxidase that catalyses the opposite reaction coupled to proton translocation. Cytochrome c oxidase has proton and water channels, and a tentative oxygen channel. I propose that functional PSII complexes also need a specific oxygen channel to direct O(2) from the water molecules bound to specific Mn atoms of the Mn cluster within PSII out to the membrane surface. The function of this channel will be to prevent oxygen being accessible to the radical pair P680(+)Pheo(-), thereby preventing singlet oxygen generation from the triplet P680 state in functional PSII. The important role of singlet oxygen in structurally perturbed non-functional photosystem II is also discussed.
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- J M Anderson
- Photobioenergetics, Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University, G.P.O. Box 475, 2601, Canberra, A.C.T., Australia.
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- M Yagi
- Faculty of Education and Human Sciences, Niigata University, Niigata 950-2181, Japan
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