Water oxidation in oxygenic photosynthesis studied by magnetic resonance techniques

W Lubitz, DA Pantazis, N Cox - FEBS letters, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The understanding of light‐induced biological water oxidation in oxygenic photosynthesis is
of great importance both for biology and (bio) technological applications. The chemically …

Successes, challenges, and opportunities for quantum chemistry in understanding metalloenzymes for solar fuels research

M Orio, DA Pantazis - Chemical Communications, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Quantum chemical approaches today are a powerful tool to study the properties and
reactivity of metalloenzymes. In the field of solar fuels research these involve predominantly …

Nature of S-states in the oxygen-evolving complex resolved by high-energy resolution fluorescence detected X-ray absorption spectroscopy

M Chrysina, M Drosou, RG Castillo… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Photosystem II, the water splitting enzyme of photosynthesis, utilizes the energy of sunlight
to drive the four-electron oxidation of water to dioxygen at the oxygen-evolving complex …

Does serial femtosecond crystallography depict state-specific catalytic intermediates of the oxygen-evolving complex?

M Drosou, G Comas-Vilà, F Neese… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Recent advances in serial femtosecond crystallography (SFX) of photosystem II (PSII),
enabled by X-ray free electron lasers (XFEL), provided the first geometric models of distinct …

Orientational Jahn–teller isomerism in the dark‐stable state of Nature's water oxidase

M Drosou, G Zahariou, DA Pantazis - Angewandte Chemie, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The tetramanganese–calcium cluster of the oxygen‐evolving complex of photosystem II
adopts electronically and magnetically distinct but interconvertible valence isomeric forms in …

Independent Mutation of Two Bridging Carboxylate Ligands Stabilizes Alternate Conformers of the Photosynthetic O2-Evolving Mn4CaO5 Cluster in Photosystem II

RJ Debus, PH Oyala - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2024 - ACS Publications
The O2-evolving Mn4CaO5 cluster in photosystem II is ligated by six carboxylate residues.
One of these is D170 of the D1 subunit. This carboxylate bridges between one Mn ion (Mn4) …

Redox Isomerism in the S3 State of the Oxygen‐Evolving Complex Resolved by Coupled Cluster Theory

M Drosou, DA Pantazis - Chemistry–A European Journal, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The electronic and geometric structures of the water‐oxidizing complex of photosystem II in
the steps of the catalytic cycle that precede dioxygen evolution remain hotly debated. Recent …

CaMn3IVO4 Cubane Models of the Oxygen‐Evolving Complex: Spin Ground States S<9/2 and the Effect of Oxo Protonation

HB Lee, AA Shiau, DA Marchiori, PH Oyala… - Angewandte …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We report the single crystal XRD and MicroED structure, magnetic susceptibility, and EPR
data of a series of CaMn3IVO4 and YMn3IVO4 complexes as structural and spectroscopic …

Roles of the Flexible Primary Coordination Sphere of the Mn4CaOx Cluster: What Are the Immediate Decay Products of the S3 State?

H Isobe, M Shoji, T Suzuki, JR Shen… - The Journal of …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The primary coordination sphere of the multinuclear cofactor (Mn4CaO x) in the oxygen-
evolving complex (OEC) of photosystem II is absolutely conserved to maintain its structure …

S3 State Models of Nature's Water Oxidizing Complex: Analysis of Bonding and Magnetic Exchange Pathways, Assessment of Experimental Electron Paramagnetic …

TA Corry, PJ O'Malley - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2021 - ACS Publications
Broken symmetry density functional theory (BS-DFT) calculations on large models of
Nature's water oxidizing complex (WOC) are used to investigate the electronic structure and …