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Solar energy conversion by photosystem II: principles and structures
Photosynthetic water oxidation by Photosystem II (PSII) is a fascinating process because it sustains life on Earth and serves as a blue print for scalable synthetic catalysts required for renewable energy applications. The biophysical, computational, and structural description of this process, which...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10203033/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36826741 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11120-022-00991-y |
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author | Shevela, Dmitry Kern, Jan F. Govindjee, Govindjee Messinger, Johannes |
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description | Photosynthetic water oxidation by Photosystem II (PSII) is a fascinating process because it sustains life on Earth and serves as a blue print for scalable synthetic catalysts required for renewable energy applications. The biophysical, computational, and structural description of this process, which started more than 50 years ago, has made tremendous progress over the past two decades, with its high-resolution crystal structures being available not only of the dark-stable state of PSII, but of all the semi-stable reaction intermediates and even some transient states. Here, we summarize the current knowledge on PSII with emphasis on the basic principles that govern the conversion of light energy to chemical energy in PSII, as well as on the illustration of the molecular structures that enable these reactions. The important remaining questions regarding the mechanism of biological water oxidation are highlighted, and one possible pathway for this fundamental reaction is described at a molecular level. |
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spelling | pubmed-102030332023-05-24 Solar energy conversion by photosystem II: principles and structures Shevela, Dmitry Kern, Jan F. Govindjee, Govindjee Messinger, Johannes Photosynth Res Review Photosynthetic water oxidation by Photosystem II (PSII) is a fascinating process because it sustains life on Earth and serves as a blue print for scalable synthetic catalysts required for renewable energy applications. The biophysical, computational, and structural description of this process, which started more than 50 years ago, has made tremendous progress over the past two decades, with its high-resolution crystal structures being available not only of the dark-stable state of PSII, but of all the semi-stable reaction intermediates and even some transient states. Here, we summarize the current knowledge on PSII with emphasis on the basic principles that govern the conversion of light energy to chemical energy in PSII, as well as on the illustration of the molecular structures that enable these reactions. The important remaining questions regarding the mechanism of biological water oxidation are highlighted, and one possible pathway for this fundamental reaction is described at a molecular level. Springer Netherlands 2023-02-24 2023 /pmc/articles/PMC10203033/ /pubmed/36826741 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11120-022-00991-y Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Review Shevela, Dmitry Kern, Jan F. Govindjee, Govindjee Messinger, Johannes Solar energy conversion by photosystem II: principles and structures |
title | Solar energy conversion by photosystem II: principles and structures |
title_full | Solar energy conversion by photosystem II: principles and structures |
title_fullStr | Solar energy conversion by photosystem II: principles and structures |
title_full_unstemmed | Solar energy conversion by photosystem II: principles and structures |
title_short | Solar energy conversion by photosystem II: principles and structures |
title_sort | solar energy conversion by photosystem ii: principles and structures |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10203033/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36826741 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11120-022-00991-y |
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