Photosynthesis ResearchPub Date : 2024-12-01Epub Date: 2024-03-15DOI: 10.1007/s11120-024-01079-5
Frank Müh, Adrian Bothe, Athina Zouni
{"title":"Towards understanding the crystallization of photosystem II: influence of poly(ethylene glycol) of various molecular sizes on the micelle formation of alkyl maltosides.","authors":"Frank Müh, Adrian Bothe, Athina Zouni","doi":"10.1007/s11120-024-01079-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11120-024-01079-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The influence of poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) polymers H-(O-CH<sub>2</sub>-CH<sub>2</sub>)<sub>p</sub>-OH with different average molecular sizes <math><mi>p</mi></math> on the micelle formation of n-alkyl-β-D-maltoside detergents with the number of carbon atoms in the alkyl chain ranging from <math><mrow><mn>10</mn></mrow> </math> to <math><mrow><mn>12</mn></mrow> </math> is investigated with the aim to learn more about the detergent behavior under conditions suitable for the crystallization of the photosynthetic pigment-protein complex photosystem II. PEG is shown to increase the critical micelle concentration (CMC) of all three detergents in the crystallization buffer in a way that the free energy of micelle formation increases linearly with the concentration of oxyethylene units (O-CH<sub>2</sub>-CH<sub>2</sub>) irrespective of the actual molecular weight of the polymer. The CMC shift is modeled by assuming for simplicity that it is dominated by the interaction between PEG and detergent monomers and is interpreted in terms of an increase of the transfer free energy of a methylene group of the alkyl chain by 0.2 kJ mol<sup>-1</sup> per 1 mol L<sup>-1</sup> increase of the concentration of oxyethylene units at 298 K. Implications of this effect for the solubilization and crystallization of protein-detergent complexes as well as detergent extraction from crystals are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":20130,"journal":{"name":"Photosynthesis Research","volume":" ","pages":"273-289"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11615006/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140137093","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Photosynthesis ResearchPub Date : 2024-12-01Epub Date: 2023-09-25DOI: 10.1007/s11120-023-01047-5
Christopher J Gisriel, David A Flesher, Zhuoran Long, Jinchan Liu, Jimin Wang, Donald A Bryant, Victor S Batista, Gary W Brudvig
{"title":"A quantitative assessment of (bacterio)chlorophyll assignments in the cryo-EM structure of the Chloracidobacterium thermophilum reaction center.","authors":"Christopher J Gisriel, David A Flesher, Zhuoran Long, Jinchan Liu, Jimin Wang, Donald A Bryant, Victor S Batista, Gary W Brudvig","doi":"10.1007/s11120-023-01047-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11120-023-01047-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Chlorophylls and bacteriochlorophylls are the primary pigments used by photosynthetic organisms for light harvesting, energy transfer, and electron transfer. Many molecular structures of (bacterio)chlorophyll-containing protein complexes are available, some of which contain mixtures of different (bacterio)chlorophyll types. Differentiating these, which sometimes are structurally similar, is challenging but is required for leveraging structural data to gain functional insight. The reaction center complex from Chloroacidobacterium thermophilum has a hybrid (bacterio)chlorophyll antenna system containing both chlorophyll a and bacteriochlorophyll a molecules. The recent availability of its cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) structure provides an opportunity for a quantitative analysis of their identities and chemical environments. Here, we describe a theoretical basis for differentiating chlorophyll a and bacteriochlorophyll a in a cryo-EM map, and apply the approach to the experimental cryo-EM maps of the (bacterio)chlorophyll sites of the chloroacidobacterial reaction center. The comparison reveals that at ~ 2.2-Å resolution, chlorophyll a and bacteriochlorophyll a are easily distinguishable, but the orientation of the bacteriochlorophyll a acetyl moiety is not; however, the latter can confidently be assigned by identifying a hydrogen bond donor from the protein environment. This study reveals the opportunities and challenges in assigning (bacterio)chlorophyll types in structural biology, the accuracy of which is vital for downstream investigations.</p>","PeriodicalId":20130,"journal":{"name":"Photosynthesis Research","volume":" ","pages":"187-196"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41149032","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Photosynthesis ResearchPub Date : 2024-12-01Epub Date: 2024-03-05DOI: 10.1007/s11120-023-01072-4
Lisa M Utschig, Colin L Duckworth, Jens Niklas, Oleg G Poluektov
{"title":"EPR studies of ferredoxin in spinach and cyanobacterial thylakoids related to photosystem I-driven NADP<sup>+</sup> reduction.","authors":"Lisa M Utschig, Colin L Duckworth, Jens Niklas, Oleg G Poluektov","doi":"10.1007/s11120-023-01072-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11120-023-01072-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Photosynthetic light-dependent reactions occur in thylakoid membranes where embedded proteins capture light energy and convert it to chemical energy in the form of ATP and NADPH for use in carbon fixation. One of these integral membrane proteins is Photosystem I (PSI). PSI catalyzes light-driven transmembrane electron transfer from plastocyanin (Pc) to oxidized ferredoxin (Fd). Electrons from reduced Fd are used by the enzyme ferredoxin-NADP<sup>+</sup> reductase (FNR) for the reduction of NADP<sup>+</sup> to NADPH. Fd and Pc are both small soluble proteins whereas the larger FNR enzyme is associated with the membrane. To investigate electron shuttling between these diffusible and embedded proteins, thylakoid photoreduction of NADP<sup>+</sup> was studied. As isolated, both spinach and cyanobacterial thylakoids generate NADPH upon illumination without extraneous addition of Fd. These findings indicate that isolated thylakoids either (i) retain a \"pool\" of Fd which diffuses between PSI and membrane bound FNR or (ii) that a fraction of PSI is associated with Fd, with the membrane environment facilitating PSI-Fd-FNR interactions which enable multiple turnovers of the complex with a single Fd. To explore the functional association of Fd with PSI in thylakoids, electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopic methodologies were developed to distinguish the signals for the reduced Fe-S clusters of PSI and Fd. Temperature-dependent EPR studies show that the EPR signals of the terminal [4Fe-4S] cluster of PSI can be distinguished from the [2Fe-2S] cluster of Fd at > 30 K. At 50 K, the cw X-band EPR spectra of cyanobacterial and spinach thylakoids reduced with dithionite exhibit EPR signals of a [2Fe-2S] cluster with g-values g<sub>x</sub> = 2.05, g<sub>y</sub> = 1.96, and g<sub>z</sub> = 1.89, confirming that Fd is present in thylakoid preparations capable of NADP<sup>+</sup> photoreduction. Quantitation of the EPR signals of P<sub>700</sub><sup>+</sup> and dithionite reduced Fd reveal that Fd is present at a ratio of ~ 1 Fd per PSI monomer in both spinach and cyanobacterial thylakoids. Light-driven electron transfer from PSI to Fd in thylakoids confirms Fd is functionally associated (< 0.4 Fd/PSI) with the acceptor end of PSI in isolated cyanobacterial thylakoids. These EPR experiments provide a benchmark for future spectroscopic characterization of Fd interactions involved in multistep relay of electrons following PSI charge separation in the context of photosynthetic thylakoid microenvironments.</p>","PeriodicalId":20130,"journal":{"name":"Photosynthesis Research","volume":" ","pages":"239-250"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140028725","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Photosynthesis ResearchPub Date : 2024-12-01Epub Date: 2023-09-26DOI: 10.1007/s11120-023-01049-3
Alain Boussac, Miwa Sugiura, Makoto Nakamura, Ryo Nagao, Takumi Noguchi, Stefania Viola, A William Rutherford, Julien Sellés
{"title":"Absorption changes in Photosystem II in the Soret band region upon the formation of the chlorophyll cation radical [P<sub>D1</sub>P<sub>D2</sub>]<sup />.","authors":"Alain Boussac, Miwa Sugiura, Makoto Nakamura, Ryo Nagao, Takumi Noguchi, Stefania Viola, A William Rutherford, Julien Sellés","doi":"10.1007/s11120-023-01049-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11120-023-01049-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Flash-induced absorption changes in the Soret region arising from the [P<sub>D1</sub>P<sub>D2</sub>]<sup>+</sup> state, the chlorophyll cation radical formed upon light excitation of Photosystem II (PSII), were measured in Mn-depleted PSII cores at pH 8.6. Under these conditions, Tyr<sub>D</sub> is i) reduced before the first flash, and ii) oxidized before subsequent flashes. In wild-type PSII, when Tyr<sub>D</sub><sup>●</sup> is present, an additional signal in the [P<sub>D1</sub>P<sub>D2</sub>]<sup>+</sup>-minus-[P<sub>D1</sub>P<sub>D2</sub>] difference spectrum was observed when compared to the first flash when Tyr<sub>D</sub> is not oxidized. The additional feature was \"W-shaped\" with troughs at 434 nm and 446 nm. This feature was absent when Tyr<sub>D</sub> was reduced, but was present (i) when Tyr<sub>D</sub> was physically absent (and replaced by phenylalanine) or (ii) when its H-bonding histidine (D2-His189) was physically absent (replaced by a Leucine). Thus, the simple difference spectrum without the double trough feature at 434 nm and 446 nm, seemed to require the native structural environment around the reduced Tyr<sub>D</sub> and its H bonding partners to be present. We found no evidence of involvement of P<sub>D1</sub>, Chl<sub>D1</sub>, Phe<sub>D1</sub>, Phe<sub>D2</sub>, Tyr<sub>Z</sub>, and the Cytb<sub>559</sub> heme in the W-shaped difference spectrum. However, the use of a mutant of the P<sub>D2</sub> axial His ligand, the D2-His197Ala, shows that the P<sub>D2</sub> environment seems involved in the formation of \"W-shaped\" signal.</p>","PeriodicalId":20130,"journal":{"name":"Photosynthesis Research","volume":" ","pages":"211-223"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41148546","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Photosynthesis ResearchPub Date : 2024-12-01Epub Date: 2024-03-21DOI: 10.1007/s11120-024-01084-8
Petko Chernev, A Orkun Aydin, Johannes Messinger
{"title":"On the simulation and interpretation of substrate-water exchange experiments in photosynthetic water oxidation.","authors":"Petko Chernev, A Orkun Aydin, Johannes Messinger","doi":"10.1007/s11120-024-01084-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11120-024-01084-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Water oxidation by photosystem II (PSII) sustains most life on Earth, but the molecular mechanism of this unique process remains controversial. The ongoing identification of the binding sites and modes of the two water-derived substrate oxygens ('substrate waters') in the various intermediates (S<sub>i</sub> states, i = 0, 1, 2, 3, 4) that the water-splitting tetra-manganese calcium penta-oxygen (Mn<sub>4</sub>CaO<sub>5</sub>) cluster attains during the reaction cycle provides central information towards resolving the unique chemistry of biological water oxidation. Mass spectrometric measurements of single- and double-labeled dioxygen species after various incubation times of PSII with H<sub>2</sub><sup>18</sup>O provide insight into the substrate binding modes and sites via determination of exchange rates. Such experiments have revealed that the two substrate waters exchange with different rates that vary independently with the S<sub>i</sub> state and are hence referred to as the fast (W<sub>f</sub>) and the slow (W<sub>S</sub>) substrate waters. New insight for the molecular interpretation of these rates arises from our recent finding that in the S<sub>2</sub> state, under special experimental conditions, two different rates of W<sub>S</sub> exchange are observed that appear to correlate with the high spin and low spin conformations of the Mn<sub>4</sub>CaO<sub>5</sub> cluster. Here, we reexamine and unite various proposed methods for extracting and assigning rate constants from this recent data set. The analysis results in a molecular model for substrate-water binding and exchange that reconciles the expected non-exchangeability of the central oxo bridge O5 when located between two Mn(IV) ions with the experimental and theoretical assignment of O5 as W<sub>S</sub> in all S states. The analysis also excludes other published proposals for explaining the water exchange kinetics.</p>","PeriodicalId":20130,"journal":{"name":"Photosynthesis Research","volume":" ","pages":"413-426"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11639282/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140185205","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Photosynthesis ResearchPub Date : 2024-12-01Epub Date: 2024-05-03DOI: 10.1007/s11120-024-01094-6
Alice Haddy, Shilpa Beravolu, Jeremiah Johnston, Hannah Kern, Monica McDaniel, Brandon Ore, Rachel Reed, Henry Tai
{"title":"Exploring the interdependence of calcium and chloride activation of O<sub>2</sub> evolution in photosystem II.","authors":"Alice Haddy, Shilpa Beravolu, Jeremiah Johnston, Hannah Kern, Monica McDaniel, Brandon Ore, Rachel Reed, Henry Tai","doi":"10.1007/s11120-024-01094-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11120-024-01094-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Calcium and chloride are activators of oxygen evolution in photosystem II (PSII), the light-absorbing water oxidase of higher plants, algae, and cyanobacteria. Calcium is an essential part of the catalytic Mn<sub>4</sub>CaO<sub>5</sub> cluster that carries out water oxidation and chloride has two nearby binding sites, one of which is associated with a major water channel. The co-activation of oxygen evolution by the two ions is examined in higher plant PSII lacking the extrinsic PsbP and PsbQ subunits using a bisubstrate enzyme kinetics approach. Analysis of three different preparations at pH 6.3 indicates that the Michaelis constant, K<sub>M</sub>, for each ion is less than the dissociation constant, K<sub>S</sub>, and that the affinity of PSII for Ca<sup>2+</sup> is about ten-fold greater than for Cl<sup>-</sup>, in agreement with previous studies. Results are consistent with a sequential binding model in which either ion can bind first and each promotes the activation by the second ion. At pH 5.5, similar results are found, except with a higher affinity for Cl<sup>-</sup> and lower affinity for Ca<sup>2+</sup>. Observation of the slow-decaying Tyr Z radical, Y<sub>Z</sub>•, at 77 K and the coupled S<sub>2</sub>Y<sub>Z</sub>• radical at 10 K, which are both associated with Ca<sup>2+</sup> depletion, shows that Cl<sup>-</sup> is necessary for their observation. Given the order of electron and proton transfer events, this indicates that chloride is required to reach the S<sub>3</sub> state preceding Ca<sup>2+</sup> loss and possibly for stabilization of Y<sub>Z</sub>• after it forms. Interdependence through hydrogen bonding is considered in the context of the water environment that intervenes between Cl<sup>-</sup> at the Cl-1 site and the Ca<sup>2+</sup>/Tyr Z region.</p>","PeriodicalId":20130,"journal":{"name":"Photosynthesis Research","volume":" ","pages":"385-400"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11615033/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140850963","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Photosynthesis ResearchPub Date : 2024-12-01Epub Date: 2024-11-13DOI: 10.1007/s11120-024-01119-0
Junko Yano, Jan Kern, Robert E Blankenship, Johannes Messinger, Vittal K Yachandra
{"title":"Tribute to Kenneth Sauer (1931-2022): a mentor, a role-model, and an inspiration to all in the field of photosynthesis.","authors":"Junko Yano, Jan Kern, Robert E Blankenship, Johannes Messinger, Vittal K Yachandra","doi":"10.1007/s11120-024-01119-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11120-024-01119-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Kenneth (Ken) Sauer was a mainstay of research in photosynthesis at the University of California, Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) for more than 50 years. Ken will be remembered by his colleagues, and other workers in the field of photosynthesis as well, for his pioneering work that introduced the physical techniques whose application have enriched our understanding of the basic reactions of oxygenic photosynthesis. His laboratory was a training ground for many students and postdocs who went on to success in the field of photosynthesis and many others. Trained as a physical chemist, he always brought that quantitative approach to research questions and used several spectroscopic methods in his research. His broad scientific interests concerned the role of manganese in oxygen evolution, electronic properties of chlorophylls, energy transport in antenna complexes, and electron transport reactions. He was also an enthusiastic teacher, an enormously successful mentor who leaves behind a legion of scientists as his abiding legacy, a lover of music and the outdoors with many interests beyond science, and a dedicated family man with a great sense of humility. In this tribute, we summarize some aspects of Ken Sauer's life and career, illustrated with selected research achievements, and describe his approach to research and life as we perceived it, which is complemented by reminiscences of several current researchers in photosynthesis and other fields. The supporting material includes Ken Sauers's CV and publication list, as well as a list of the graduate students and postdocs he trained and of researchers that spent a sabbatical in his lab.</p>","PeriodicalId":20130,"journal":{"name":"Photosynthesis Research","volume":" ","pages":"103-138"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11615026/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142625993","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Junko Yano, Jan Kern, Robert E Blankenship, Johannes Messinger, Vittal K Yachandra
{"title":"Editorial for the Special Issue 'Energy Conversion Reactions in Natural and Artificial Photosynthesis': A Tribute to Ken Sauer.","authors":"Junko Yano, Jan Kern, Robert E Blankenship, Johannes Messinger, Vittal K Yachandra","doi":"10.1007/s11120-024-01121-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11120-024-01121-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20130,"journal":{"name":"Photosynthesis Research","volume":" ","pages":"101-102"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142392478","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Photosynthesis ResearchPub Date : 2024-12-01Epub Date: 2023-09-29DOI: 10.1007/s11120-023-01048-4
Christopher J Gisriel, Eduard Elias, Gaozhong Shen, Nathan T Soulier, Gary W Brudvig, Roberta Croce, Donald A Bryant
{"title":"Structural comparison of allophycocyanin variants reveals the molecular basis for their spectral differences.","authors":"Christopher J Gisriel, Eduard Elias, Gaozhong Shen, Nathan T Soulier, Gary W Brudvig, Roberta Croce, Donald A Bryant","doi":"10.1007/s11120-023-01048-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11120-023-01048-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Allophycocyanins are phycobiliproteins that absorb red light and transfer the energy to the reaction centers of oxygenic photosynthesis in cyanobacteria and red algae. Recently, it was shown that some allophycocyanins absorb far-red light and that one subset of these allophycocyanins, comprising subunits from the ApcD4 and ApcB3 subfamilies (FRL-AP), form helical nanotubes. The lowest energy absorbance maximum of the oligomeric ApcD4-ApcB3 complexes occurs at 709 nm, which is unlike allophycocyanin (AP; ApcA-ApcB) and allophycocyanin B (AP-B; ApcD-ApcB) trimers that absorb maximally at ~ 650 nm and ~ 670 nm, respectively. The molecular bases of the different spectra of AP variants are presently unclear. To address this, we structurally compared FRL-AP with AP and AP-B, performed spectroscopic analyses on FRL-AP, and leveraged computational approaches. We show that among AP variants, the α-subunit constrains pyrrole ring A of its phycocyanobilin chromophore to different extents, and the coplanarity of ring A with rings B and C sets a baseline for the absorbance maximum of the chromophore. Upon oligomerization, the α-chromophores of all AP variants exhibit a red shift of the absorbance maximum of ~ 25 to 30 nm and band narrowing. We exclude excitonic coupling in FRL-AP as the basis for this red shift and extend the results to discuss AP and AP-B. Instead, we attribute these spectral changes to a conformational alteration of pyrrole ring D, which becomes more coplanar with rings B and C upon oligomerization. This study expands the molecular understanding of light-harvesting attributes of phycobiliproteins and will aid in designing phycobiliproteins for biotechnological applications.</p>","PeriodicalId":20130,"journal":{"name":"Photosynthesis Research","volume":" ","pages":"157-170"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11614940/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41145540","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Photosynthesis ResearchPub Date : 2024-12-01Epub Date: 2023-11-23DOI: 10.1007/s11120-023-01057-3
Mohamad Yahia Dekmak, Sarah M Mäusle, Janosch Brandhorst, Philipp S Simon, Holger Dau
{"title":"Tracking the first electron transfer step at the donor side of oxygen-evolving photosystem II by time-resolved infrared spectroscopy.","authors":"Mohamad Yahia Dekmak, Sarah M Mäusle, Janosch Brandhorst, Philipp S Simon, Holger Dau","doi":"10.1007/s11120-023-01057-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11120-023-01057-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In oxygen-evolving photosystem II (PSII), the multi-phasic electron transfer from a redox-active tyrosine residue (TyrZ) to a chlorophyll cation radical (P680<sup>+</sup>) precedes the water-oxidation chemistry of the S-state cycle of the Mn<sub>4</sub>Ca cluster. Here we investigate these early events, observable within about 10 ns to 10 ms after laser-flash excitation, by time-resolved single-frequency infrared (IR) spectroscopy in the spectral range of 1310-1890 cm<sup>-1</sup> for oxygen-evolving PSII membrane particles from spinach. Comparing the IR difference spectra at 80 ns, 500 ns, and 10 µs allowed for the identification of quinone, P680 and TyrZ contributions. A broad electronic absorption band assignable P680<sup>+</sup> was used to trace largely specifically the P680<sup>+</sup> reduction kinetics. The experimental time resolution was taken into account in least-square fits of P680<sup>+</sup> transients with a sum of four exponentials, revealing two nanosecond phases (30-46 ns and 690-1110 ns) and two microsecond phases (4.5-8.3 µs and 42 µs), which mostly exhibit a clear S-state dependence, in agreement with results obtained by other methods. Our investigation paves the road for further insight in the early events associated with TyrZ oxidation and their role in the preparing the PSII donor side for the subsequent water oxidation chemistry.</p>","PeriodicalId":20130,"journal":{"name":"Photosynthesis Research","volume":" ","pages":"353-369"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11615052/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138295768","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}