Manganese cluster in photosynthesis: where plants oxidize water to dioxygen

VK Yachandra, K Sauer, MP Klein - Chemical Reviews, 1996 - ACS Publications
The essential involvement of manganese in photosynthetic water oxidation was implicit in
the observation by Pirson in 1937 that plants and algae deprived of Mn in their growth …

The manganese and calcium ions of photosynthetic oxygen evolution

RJ Debus - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Bioenergetics, 1992 - Elsevier
The. llltl'.. l inlportallt Itlnclioll o| nl; lllg, lllC~, C ill biology is to catalyze Iht conxcrsion ot water
to molecular oxygen. Thb, process t;. ikc~, place in l'tlolos~ Mem II near the lumenal surface …

[HTML][HTML] Biochemical composition and organization of higher plant photosystem II light-harvesting pigment-proteins.

GF Peter, JP Thornber - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 1991 - Elsevier
The light-harvesting complex (LHC) of barley photosystem II (PS II) was fractionated by
Deriphat-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis into five different pigmented components: one …

Supramolecular structure of the photosystem II complex from green plants and cyanobacteria.

EJ Boekema, B Hankamer, D Bald… - Proceedings of the …, 1995 - National Acad Sciences
Photosystem II (PSII) complexes, isolated from spinach and the thermophilic cyanobacterium
Synechococcus elongatus, were characterized by electron microscopy and single-particle …

The extrinsic polypeptides of photosystem II

A Seidler - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Bioenergetics, 1996 - Elsevier
Photosystem lI (PSII) is a pigment-protein complex found in the thylakoid membranes of
plants, algae and cyanobacteria which drives light-induced electron transfer from water to …

Water oxidation in photosystem II: from radical chemistry to multielectron chemistry

GT Babcock, BA Barry, RJ Debus, CW Hoganson… - Biochemistry, 1989 - ACS Publications
Revised Manuscript Received July 6, 1989 e basic reactions in photosynthesis involve the
light-driven disruption of stable chemical bonds and transfer of the electrons in these bonds …

The structure and function of CPa-1 and CPa-2 in photosystem II

TM Bricker - Photosynthesis Research, 1990 - Springer
This review presents a summary of recent investigations examining the structure and
function of the chlorophyll-proteins CPa-1 (CP47) and CPa-2 (CP43). Comparisons of the …

A supramolecular light‐harvesting complex from chloroplast photosystem‐II membranes

R Bassi, P Dainese - European Journal of Biochemistry, 1992 - Wiley Online Library
In this study, we report on the composition of a photosystem‐II antenna preparation which
contains three chlorophyll‐a/b proteins (CP), CP29, CP24 and light‐harvesting complex …

Severity of mutant phenotype in a series of chlorophyll-deficient wheat mutants depends on light intensity and the severity of the block in chlorophyll synthesis

TG Falbel, JB Meehl, LA Staehelin - Plant physiology, 1996 - academic.oup.com
Analyses of a series of allelic chlorina mutants of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.), which have
partial blocks in chlorophyll (Chl) synthesis and, therefore, a limited Chl supply, reinforce the …

Spectroscopic properties of LHC-II, the main light-harvesting chlorophyll a/b protein complex from chloroplast membranes

PW Hemelrijk, SLS Kwa, R van Grondelle… - Biochimica et Biophysica …, 1992 - Elsevier
The major chlorophyll a/b light-harvesting complex LHC-II was isolated from spinach
thylakoid membranes after solubilization with the non-ionic detergent n-dodecyl-β-d …