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Three-dimensional structure of photosystem II from Thermosynechococcus elongates in complex with terbutryn

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Photosystem II is a key component of the photosynthetic pathway producing oxygen at the thylakoid membrane of cyanobacteria, green algae, and plants. The three-dimensional structure of photosystem II from the cyanobacterium Thermosynechococcus elongates in a complex with herbicide terbutryn (a photosynthesis inhibitor) was determined for the first time by X-ray diffraction and refined at 3.2 Å resolution (R factor = 26.9%, R free = 29.9%, rmsd for bond lengths is 0.013 Å, and rmsd for bond angles is 2.2°). The terbutryn molecule was located in the binding pocket of the mobile plastoquinone. The atomic coordinates of the refined structure of photosystem II in a complex with terbutryn were deposited in the Protein Data Bank.

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  1. Institute of Protein Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, Institutskaya ul. 4, Pushchino, Moscow region, 142290, Russia

    A. G. Gabdulkhakov & M. V. Dontsova

  2. Institute for Chemistry and Biochemistry/Crystallography, Free University of Berlin, Takustrasse 6, D-14195, Berlin, Germany

    W. Saenger

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Dedicated to the memory of N.V. Belov

Original Russian Text © A.G. Gabdulkhakov, M.V. Dontsova, W. Saenger, 2011, published in Kristallografiya, 2011, Vol. 56, No. 6, pp. 1123–1128.

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Gabdulkhakov, A.G., Dontsova, M.V. & Saenger, W. Three-dimensional structure of photosystem II from Thermosynechococcus elongates in complex with terbutryn. Crystallogr. Rep. 56, 1054–1059 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063774511050099

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