High-resolution structure of the photosynthetic Mn4Ca catalyst from X-ray spectroscopy

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 363, Issue 1494, 2008, Pages 1139-1147

  Yano, Junko ^a,b   Kern, Jan ^c   Pushkar, Yulia ^a,b   Sauer, Kenneth ^a,b   Glatzel, Pieter ^d   Bergmann, Uwe ^e   Messinger, Johannes ^f   Zouni, Athina ^c   Yachandra, Vittal K ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

^e SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^f MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ENERGY CONVERSION   (Germany)

Author keywords

Manganese; Oxygen evolving complex; Photosystem II; Photosystem II single crystals; Polarized X ray absorption fine structure; X ray absorption fine structure

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CATALYST; ELECTRON; MANGANESE; OXYGEN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; X-RAY DIFFRACTION; X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 38949100488     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2007.2209     Document Type: Article

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