| Literature DB >> 12390018 |
Roehl M Cinco1, Karen L McFarlane Holman, John H Robblee, Junko Yano, Shelly A Pizarro, Emanuele Bellacchio, Kenneth Sauer, Vittal K Yachandra.
Abstract
The proximity of Ca to the Mn cluster of the photosynthetic water-oxidation complex is demonstrated by X-ray absorption spectroscopy. We have collected EXAFS data at the Ca K-edge using active PS II membrane samples that contain approximately 2 Ca per 4 Mn. These samples are much less perturbed than previously investigated Sr-substituted samples, which were prepared after Ca depletion. The new Ca EXAFS clearly shows backscattering from Mn at 3.4 A, a distance that agrees with that surmised from previously recorded Mn EXAFS. This result is also consistent with earlier related experiments at the Sr K-edge, using samples that contained functional Sr, that show Mn is approximately 3.5 A distant from Sr. The totality of the evidence clearly advances the notion that the catalytic center of oxygen evolution is a Mn-Ca heteronuclear cluster.Entities:
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Year: 2002 PMID: 12390018 PMCID: PMC3947642 DOI: 10.1021/bi026569p
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Biochemistry ISSN: 0006-2960 Impact factor: 3.162