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Mohammadi MR, Aleshkevych P, Mousazade Y, Tasbihi M, Dau H, Najafpour MM. Innovative Insights into Water-Oxidation Mechanism: Investigating Birnessite's Reaction with Cerium(IV) Ammonium Nitrate. Inorg Chem 2024; 63:12200-12206. [PMID: 38904100 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.4c01461] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/22/2024]
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Developing Mn-based water-oxidation reaction (WOR) catalysts is key for renewable energy storage, utilizing Mn's abundance, cost-effectiveness, and natural role. Cerium(IV) ammonium nitrate (CAN) has been widely utilized as a sacrificial oxidant in the exploration of WOR catalysts. In this study, advanced techniques, such as X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS), in situ Raman spectroscopy, and in situ electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR), to delve into the WOR facilitated by CAN and birnessite were employed. XANES analysis has demonstrated that the average oxidation states (AOSs) of Mn in birnessite, a birnessite/CAN mixture, and in the birnessite/CAN mixture postwater addition are 3.7, 3.8, and 3.9, respectively. In situ Raman spectroscopy performed in the presence of birnessite and CAN revealed a distinct peak at 784 cm-1, which is attributed to Mn(IV)═O. A shift of this peak to 769 cm-1 in H218O confirms its association with Mn(IV)═O. No change in this peak was observed in D2O, further supporting the notion that it is linked to Mn(IV)═O rather than Mn-OH (D). Furthermore, EPR spectroscopy shows the presence of Mn(IV). It is suggested that the WOR mechanism initiates with the oxidation of birnessite by CAN, which enhances the concentration of Mn(IV) sites in the birnessite structure. Under acidic conditions, birnessite, enriched in Mn(IV), facilitates oxygen evolution and subsequently transitions into a form with reduced Mn(IV) levels. This process highlights the critical function of the Mn (hydr)oxide structure, similar to its role in the water-oxidizing complex of Photosystem II, where it serves as charge storage for oxidizing equivalents from CAN, paving the way for a four-electron reaction that drives the WOR.
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- Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw 02-668, Poland
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- Department of Physics, University of Sistan and Baluchestan, Zahedan 98167-45845, Iran
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- Department of Chemistry, Technische Universität Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni 124, Berlin 10623, Germany
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- Fachbereich Physik, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 14, Berlin 14195, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran 11155-9516, Iran
- Department of Chemistry, Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences (IASBS), Zanjan 45137-66731, Iran
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Guo Y, Messinger J, Kloo L, Sun L. Alternative Mechanism for O 2 Formation in Natural Photosynthesis via Nucleophilic Oxo-Oxo Coupling. J Am Chem Soc 2023; 145:4129-4141. [PMID: 36763485 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c12174] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/11/2023]
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O2 formation in photosystem II (PSII) is a vital event on Earth, but the exact mechanism remains unclear. The presently prevailing theoretical model is "radical coupling" (RC) involving a Mn(IV)-oxyl unit in an "open-cubane" Mn4CaO6 cluster, which is supported experimentally by the S3 state of cyanobacterial PSII featuring an additional Mn-bound oxygenic ligand. However, it was recently proposed that the major structural form of the S3 state of higher plants lacks this extra ligand, and that the resulting S4 state would feature instead a penta-coordinate dangler Mn(V)=oxo, covalently linked to a "closed-cubane" Mn3CaO4 cluster. For this proposal, we explore here a large number of possible pathways of O-O bond formation and demonstrate that the "nucleophilic oxo-oxo coupling" (NOOC) between Mn(V)=oxo and μ3-oxo is the only eligible mechanism in such a system. The reaction is facilitated by a specific conformation of the cluster and concomitant water binding, which is delayed compared to the RC mechanism. An energetically feasible process is described starting from the valid S4 state through the sequential formation of peroxide and superoxide, followed by O2 release and a second water insertion. The newly found mechanism is consistent with available experimental thermodynamic and kinetic data and thus a viable alternative pathway for O2 formation in natural photosynthesis, in particular for higher plants.
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- Yu Guo
- Center of Artificial Photosynthesis for Solar Fuels and Department of Chemistry, School of Science, Westlake University, Hangzhou 310024, China
- Institute of Natural Sciences, Westlake Institute for Advanced Study, Hangzhou 310024, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Umeå University, Linnaeus väg 6 (KBC huset), Umeå SE-90187, Sweden
- Molecular Biomimetics, Department of Chemistry─Ångström Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala SE-75120, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry, School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology and Health, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm SE-10044, Sweden
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- Center of Artificial Photosynthesis for Solar Fuels and Department of Chemistry, School of Science, Westlake University, Hangzhou 310024, China
- Institute of Natural Sciences, Westlake Institute for Advanced Study, Hangzhou 310024, China
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Guo SX, Lee CY, Zhang J, Bond AM, Geletii YV, Hill CL. Mediator enhanced water oxidation using Rb4[Ru(II)(bpy)3]5[{Ru(III)4O4(OH)2(H2O)4}(γ-SiW10O36)2] film modified electrodes. Inorg Chem 2014; 53:7561-70. [PMID: 25000486 DOI: 10.1021/ic500878w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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The water insoluble complex Rb4[Ru(II)(bpy)3]5[{Ru(III)4O4(OH)2(H2O)4}(γ-SiW10O36)2], ([Ru(II)bpy]5[Ru(III)4POM]), was synthesized from Rb8K2[{Ru(IV)4O4(OH)2(H2O)4}(γ-SiW10O36)2] and used for electrocatalytic water oxidation under both thin- and thick-film electrode conditions. Results demonstrate that the [Ru(II)bpy]5[Ru(III)4POM] modified electrode enables efficient water oxidation to be achieved at neutral pH using thin-film conditions, with [Ru(bpy)3](3+)([Ru(III)bpy]) acting as the electron transfer mediator and [Ru(V)4POM] as the species releasing O2. The rotating ring disc electrode (RRDE) method was used to quantitatively determine the turnover frequency (TOF) of the catalyst, and a value of 0.35 s(-1) was obtained at a low overpotential of 0.49 V (1.10 V vs Ag/AgCl) at pH 7.0. The postulated mechanism for the mediator enhanced catalytic water process in a pH 7 buffer containing 0.1 M LiClO4 as an additional electrolyte includes the following reactions (ion transfer for maintaining charge neutrality is omitted for simplicity): [Ru(II)bpy]5[Ru(III)4POM] → [Ru(III)bpy]5[Ru(V)4POM] + 13 e(-) and [Ru(III)bpy]5[Ru(V)4POM] + 2H2O → [Ru(III)bpy]5[Ru(IV)4POM] + O2 + 4H(+). The voltammetry of related water insoluble [Ru(II)bpy]2[S2M18O62] (M = W and Mo) and [Fe(II)Phen]x[Ru(III)4POM] materials has also been studied, and the lack of electrocatalytic water oxidation in these cases supports the hypothesis that [Ru(III)bpy] is the electron transfer mediator and [Ru(V)4POM] is the species responsible for oxygen evolution.
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- Si-Xuan Guo
- School of Chemistry, Monash University Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia
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Alterations in Structural Organization Affect the Functional Ability of Photosynthetic Apparatus. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2014. [DOI: 10.1201/b16675-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register]
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Liu X, Wang F. Transition metal complexes that catalyze oxygen formation from water: 1979–2010. Coord Chem Rev 2012. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2012.01.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 202] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Vladkova R, Dobrikova AG, Singh R, Misra AN, Apostolova E. Photoelectron transport ability of chloroplast thylakoid membranes treated with NO donor SNP: changes in flash oxygen evolution and chlorophyll fluorescence. Nitric Oxide 2011; 24:84-90. [PMID: 21167290 DOI: 10.1016/j.niox.2010.12.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2010] [Revised: 11/11/2010] [Accepted: 12/12/2010] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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The nitric oxide (NO) donor sodium nitroprusside (SNP) is frequently used in plant science in vivo. The present in vitro study reveals its effects on the photosynthetic oxygen evolution and the chlorophyll fluorescence directly on isolated pea thylakoid membranes. It was found that even at very low amounts of SNP (chlorophyll/SNP molar ratio∼67:1), the SNP-donated NO stimulates with more than 50% the overall photosystem II electron transport rate and diminishes the evolution of molecular oxygen. It was also found that the target site for SNP-donated NO is the donor side of photosystem II. Compared with other NO-donors used in plant science, SNP seems to be the only one exhibiting stimulation of electron transport through photosystem II.
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- Radka Vladkova
- Institute of Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering, Bulgarian Academy of Science, Acad. G. Bonchev Str., Bl. 21, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria
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Membrane-inlet mass spectrometry reveals a high driving force for oxygen production by photosystem II. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2011; 108:3602-7. [PMID: 21321223 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1014249108] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Oxygenic photosynthesis is the basis for aerobic life on earth. The catalytic Mn(4)O(x)CaY(Z) center of photosystem II (PSII), after fourfold oxidation, extracts four electrons from two water molecules to yield dioxygen. This reaction cascade has appeared as a single four-electron transfer that occurs in typically 1 ms. Inevitable redox intermediates have so far escaped detection, probably because of very short lifetime. Previous attempts to stabilize intermediates by high O(2)-back pressure have revealed controversial results. Here we monitored by membrane-inlet mass spectrometry (MIMS) the production of from (18)O-labeled water against a high background of in a suspension of PSII-core complexes. We found neither an inhibition nor an altered pattern of O(2) production by up to 50-fold increased concentration of dissolved O(2). Lack of inhibition is in line with results from previous X-ray absorption and visible-fluorescence experiments, but contradictory to the interpretation of previous UV-absorption data. Because we used essentially identical experimental conditions in MIMS as had been used in the UV work, the contradiction was serious, and we found it was not to be resolved by assuming a significant slowdown of the O(2) release kinetics or a subsequent slow conformational relaxation. This calls for reevaluation of the less direct UV experiments. The direct detection of O(2) release by MIMS shows unequivocally that O(2) release in PSII is highly exothermic. Under the likely assumption that one H(+) is released in the S(4) → S(0) transition, the driving force at pH 6.5 and atmospheric O(2) pressure is at least 220 meV, otherwise 160 meV.
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McGuinness ET. Some Molecular Moments of the Hadean and Archaean Aeons: A Retrospective Overview from the Interfacing Years of the Second to Third Millennia. Chem Rev 2010; 110:5191-215. [DOI: 10.1021/cr050061l] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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- Eugene T. McGuinness
- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey 07079-2690
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Clausen J, Junge W. The terminal reaction cascade of water oxidation: proton and oxygen release. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2008; 1777:1311-8. [PMID: 18640091 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2008.06.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2008] [Revised: 06/09/2008] [Accepted: 06/12/2008] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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In cyanobacteria, algae and plants Photosystem II produces the oxygen we breathe. Driven and clocked by light quanta, the catalytic Mn(4)Ca-tyrosine centre accumulates four oxidising equivalents before it abstracts four electrons from water, liberating dioxygen and protons. Aiming at intermediates of the terminal four-electron cascade, we previously have suppressed this reaction by elevating the oxygen pressure, thereby stabilising one redox intermediate. Here, we established a similar suppression by increasing the proton concentration. Data were analysed in terms of only one (peroxy) redox intermediate between the fourfold oxidised Mn(4)Ca-tyrosine centre and oxygen release. The surprising result was that the release into the bulk of one proton per dioxygen is linked to the first and rate-limiting electron transfer in the cascade rather than to the second which produces free oxygen. The penultimate intermediate might thus be conceived as a fully deprotonated peroxy-moiety.
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- Juergen Clausen
- Abteilung Biophysik, Fachbereich Biologie/Chemie, Universität Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany
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- My Hang V Huynh
- DE-1: High Explosive Science and Technology Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA
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Meyer TJ, Huynh MHV, Thorp HH. The Possible Role of Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer (PCET) in Water Oxidation by Photosystem II. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2007; 46:5284-304. [PMID: 17604381 DOI: 10.1002/anie.200600917] [Citation(s) in RCA: 419] [Impact Index Per Article: 23.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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All higher life forms use oxygen and respiration as their primary energy source. The oxygen comes from water by solar-energy conversion in photosynthetic membranes. In green plants, light absorption in photosystem II (PSII) drives electron-transfer activation of the oxygen-evolving complex (OEC). The mechanism of water oxidation by the OEC has long been a subject of great interest to biologists and chemists. With the availability of new molecular-level protein structures from X-ray crystallography and EXAFS, as well as the accumulated results from numerous experiments and theoretical studies, it is possible to suggest how water may be oxidized at the OEC. An integrated sequence of light-driven reactions that exploit coupled electron-proton transfer (EPT) could be the key to water oxidation. When these reactions are combined with long-range proton transfer (by sequential local proton transfers), it may be possible to view the OEC as an intricate structure that is "wired for protons".
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- Thomas J Meyer
- Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
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Meyer T, Huynh M, Thorp H. Zur möglichen Rolle des protonengekoppelten Elektronentransfers (PCET) bei der Oxidation von Wasser durch das Photosystem II. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2007. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.200600917] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Collomb MN, Mantel C, Romain S, Duboc C, Leprêtre JC, Pécaut J, Deronzier A. Redox-Induced μ-Acetato and μ-Oxo Core Interconversions in Dinuclear Manganese Tris(2-methylpyridyl)amine (tpa) Complexes: Isolation and Characterization of [Mn2III(μ-O)(μ-O2CCH3)(tpa)2]3+. Eur J Inorg Chem 2007. [DOI: 10.1002/ejic.200601089] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Dau H, Haumann M. Eight steps preceding O-O bond formation in oxygenic photosynthesis--a basic reaction cycle of the Photosystem II manganese complex. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2007; 1767:472-83. [PMID: 17442260 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2007.02.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 130] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2006] [Revised: 02/16/2007] [Accepted: 02/28/2007] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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In oxygenic photosynthesis, water is split at a Mn(4)Ca complex bound to the proteins of photosystem II (PSII). Powered by four quanta of visible light, four electrons and four protons are removed from two water molecules before dioxygen is released. By this process, water becomes an inexhaustible source of the protons and electrons needed for primary biomass formation. On the basis of structural and spectroscopic data, we recently have introduced a basic reaction cycle of water oxidation which extends the classical S-state cycle [B. Kok, B. Forbush, M. McGloin, Cooperation of charges in photosynthetic O2 evolution- I. A linear four-step mechanism, Photochem. Photobiol. 11 (1970) 457-475] by taking into account also the role and sequence of deprotonation events [H. Dau, M. Haumann, Reaction cycle of photosynthetic water oxidation in plants and cyanobacteria, Science 312 (2006) 1471-1472]. We propose that the outwardly convoluted and irregular events of the classical S-state cycle are governed by a simple underlying principle: protons and electrons are removed strictly alternately from the Mn complex. Starting in I(0), eight successive steps of alternate proton and electron removal lead to I(8) and only then the O-O bond is formed. Thus not only four oxidizing equivalents, but also four bases are accumulated prior to the onset of dioxygen formation. After reviewing the kinetic properties of the individual S-state transition, we show that the proposed basic model explains a large body of experimental results straightforwardly. Furthermore we discuss how the I-cycle model addresses the redox-potential problem of PSII water oxidation and we propose that the accumulated bases facilitate dioxygen formation by acting as proton acceptors.
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- Holger Dau
- Freie Universität Berlin, FB PhysikArnimallee 14, D-14195 Berlin, Germany.
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Apostolova EL, Dobrikova AG, Ivanova PI, Petkanchin IB, Taneva SG. Relationship between the organization of the PS II super complex and the functions of the photosynthetic apparatus. JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY. B, BIOLOGY 2006; 83:114-22. [PMID: 16464603 DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotobiol.2005.12.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2005] [Revised: 12/20/2005] [Accepted: 12/20/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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The chlorophyll fluorescence and the photosynthetic oxygen evolution (flash-induced oxygen yield patterns and oxygen bursts under continuous irradiation) were investigated in the thylakoid membranes with different stoichiometry and organization of the chlorophyll-protein complexes. Data show that the alteration in the organization of the photosystem II (PS II) super complex, i.e. the amount and the organization of the light-harvesting chlorophyll a/b protein complex (LHCII), which strongly modifies the electric properties of the membranes, influences both the energy redistribution between the two photosystems and the oxygen production reaction. The decrease of surface electric parameters (charge density and dipole moments), associated with increased degree of LHCII oligomerization, correlates with the strong reduction of the energy transfer from PS II to PSI. In the studied pea thylakoid membranes (wild types Borec, Auralia and their mutants Coeruleovireus 2/16, Costata2/133, Chlorotica XV/1422) with enhanced degree of oligomerization of LHCII was observed: (i) an increase of the S(0) populations of PS II in darkness; (ii) an increase of the misses; (iii) an alteration of the decay kinetics of the oxygen bursts under continuous irradiation. There is a strict correlation between the degree of LHCII oligomerization in the investigated pea mutants and the ratio of functionally active PS II alpha to PS II beta centers, while in thylakoid membranes without oligomeric structure of LHCII (Chlorina f2 barley mutant) the PS II alpha centers are not registered.
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- Emilia L Apostolova
- Institute of Biophysics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Acad. G. Bonchev Str., Bl.21, Sofia 1113, Bulgaria.
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