Manganese compounds as water-oxidizing catalysts: from the natural water-oxidizing complex to nanosized manganese oxide structures

MM Najafpour, G Renger, M Hołynska… - Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
All cyanobacteria, algae, and plants use a similar water-oxidizing catalyst for water
oxidation. This catalyst is housed in Photosystem II, a membrane-protein complex that …

The structure of photosystem II and the mechanism of water oxidation in photosynthesis

JR Shen - Annual review of plant biology, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Oxygenic photosynthesis forms the basis of aerobic life on earth by converting light energy
into biologically useful chemical energy and by splitting water to generate molecular oxygen …

The pigment-protein network of a diatom photosystem II–light-harvesting antenna supercomplex

X Pi, S Zhao, W Wang, D Liu, C Xu, G Han, T Kuang… - Science, 2019 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Photosystem II (PSII) is a pigment-protein complex and catalyzes light-
induced water splitting in photosynthesis, converting light energy from the Sun into chemical …

Recent advances in understanding the assembly and repair of photosystem II

PJ Nixon, F Michoux, J Yu, M Boehm… - Annals of …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background Photosystem II (PSII) is the light-driven water: plastoquinone
oxidoreductase of oxygenic photosynthesis and is found in the thylakoid membrane of …

Chloroplasts at work during plant innate immunity

I Serrano, C Audran, S Rivas - Journal of experimental botany, 2016 - academic.oup.com
The major role played by chloroplasts during light harvesting, energy production, redox
homeostasis, and retrograde signalling processes has been extensively characterized …

[HTML][HTML] An Integrated Analysis of Molecular Acclimation to High Light in the Marine Diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum

M Nymark, KC Valle, T Brembu, K Hancke, P Winge… - PloS one, 2009 - journals.plos.org
Photosynthetic diatoms are exposed to rapid and unpredictable changes in irradiance and
spectral quality, and must be able to acclimate their light harvesting systems to varying light …

[HTML][HTML] Light-induced quinone reduction in photosystem II

F Müh, C Glöckner, J Hellmich, A Zouni - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta …, 2012 - Elsevier
The photosystem II core complex is the water: plastoquinone oxidoreductase of oxygenic
photosynthesis situated in the thylakoid membrane of cyanobacteria, algae and plants. It …

Structural insights into a dimeric Psb27-photosystem II complex from a cyanobacterium Thermosynechococcus vulcanus

G Huang, Y Xiao, X Pi, L Zhao, Q Zhu… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Photosystem II (PSII) is a multisubunit pigment-protein complex and catalyzes light-driven
water oxidation, leading to the conversion of light energy into chemical energy and the …

[HTML][HTML] PGR5-PGRL1-dependent cyclic electron transport modulates linear electron transport rate in Arabidopsis thaliana

M Suorsa, F Rossi, L Tadini, M Colombo, P Jahns… - Molecular Plant, 2016 - cell.com
Plants need tight regulation of photosynthetic electron transport for survival and growth
under environmental and metabolic conditions. For this purpose, the linear electron …

[HTML][HTML] Photosystem II extrinsic proteins and their putative role in abiotic stress tolerance in higher plants

S Sasi, J Venkatesh, RF Daneshi, MA Gururani - Plants, 2018 - mdpi.com
Abiotic stress remains one of the major challenges in managing and preventing crop loss.
Photosystem II (PSII), being the most susceptible component of the photosynthetic …