Life on earth is almost entirely solar-powered. We can get some idea of the enormous
quantity of energy received from the sun by noting that during daylight hours, the sun …

Conspectus Efficient photoelectrochemical water oxidation may open a way to produce
energy from renewable solar power. In biology, generation of fuel due to water oxidation …

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 …

Photosynthetic water oxidation proceeds at a pentanuclear Mn4Ca complex bound to amino
acid residues in the interior of photosystem II (PSII). It involves the binding of two water …

Cyanobacteria, green algae, and higher plants provide the major part of molecular O 2 of
Earth atmosphere via water oxidation of oxygenic photosynthesis. The water-oxidizing …

The electronic structures of the native Mn4O x Ca cluster and the biosynthetically substituted
Mn4O x Sr cluster of the oxygen evolving complex (OEC) of photosystem II (PSII) core …

The assignment of the two substrate water sites of the tetra-manganese penta-oxygen
calcium (Mn4O5Ca) cluster of photosystem II is essential for the elucidation of the …

Chloride binding in photosystem II (PSII) is essential for photosynthetic water oxidation.
However, the functional roles of chloride and possible binding sites, during oxygen …

The recently-published 3.5 Å resolution X-ray crystal structure of a cyanobacterial
photosystem II (PDB entry 1S5L) provides a detailed architecture of the oxygen-evolving …

The mechanism by which the Mn-containing oxygen evolving complex (OEC) produces
oxygen from water has been of great interest for over 40 years. This review focuses on how …