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Nano-sized manganese-calcium cluster in photosystem II

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Cyanobacteria, algae, and plants are the manufacturers that release O2 via water oxidation during photosynthesis. Since fossil resources are running out, researchers are now actively trying to use the natural catalytic center of water oxidation found in the photosystem II (PS II) reaction center of oxygenic photosynthetic organisms to synthesize a biomimetic supercatalyst for water oxidation. Success in this area of research will transcend the current bottleneck for the development of energy-conversion schemes based on sunlight. In this review, we go over the structure and function of the water-oxidizing complex (WOC) found in Nature by focusing on the recent advances made by the international research community dedicated to achieve the goal of artificial water splitting based on the WOC of PS II.

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  1. Department of Chemistry, Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences (IASBS), Zanjan, 45137-66731, Iran

    M. M. Najafpour, M. Z. Ghobadi & B. Haghighi

  2. Center of Climate Change and Global Warming, Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences (IASBS), Zanjan, 45137-66731, Iran

    M. M. Najafpour & B. Haghighi

  3. Department of Biochemistry, University of Otago, P. O. Box 56, Dunedin, 9054, New Zealand

    J. J. Eaton-Rye

  4. Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Tokyo University of Science, Kagurazaka 1-3, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 162-8601, Japan

    T. Tomo

  5. PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), 4-1-8 Honcho Kawaguchi, Saitama, 332-0012, Japan

    T. Tomo

  6. Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Faculty of Science, Photosynthesis Research Center, Okayama University, Okayama, 700-8530, Japan

    J. -R. Shen

  7. Controlled Photobiosynthesis Laboratory, Institute of Plant Physiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Botanicheskaya 35, 127276, Moscow, Russia

    S. I. Allakhverdiev

  8. Institute of Basic Biological Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, 142290, Pushchino, Moscow Region, Russia

    S. I. Allakhverdiev

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This review is dedicated to the memory of Academician Alexander A. Krasnovsky, one of the great pioneering figures in the field of photosynthesis research who was the Ph.D. supervisor of one of the authors (SIA).

Published in Russian in Biokhimiya, 2014, Vol. 79, No. 4, pp. 413–428.

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Najafpour, M.M., Ghobadi, M.Z., Haghighi, B. et al. Nano-sized manganese-calcium cluster in photosystem II. Biochemistry Moscow 79, 324–336 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0006297914040026

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