TY - JOUR
T1 - A nano-sized manganese oxide in a protein matrix as a natural water-oxidizing site
AU - Najafpour, Mohammad Mahdi
AU - Ghobadi, Mohadeseh Zarei
AU - Haghighi, Behzad
AU - Tomo, Tatsuya
AU - Carpentier, Robert
AU - Shen, Jian Ren
AU - Allakhverdiev, Suleyman
N1 - Funding Information:
Authors (MMN, MZG, BH) are grateful to Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences and the National Elite Foundation for financial support. This work was also supported by grants from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (Nos: 13-04-91372 ; 14-04-01549 ; 14-04-92690 ), and by Molecular and Cell Biology Programs of the Russian Academy of Sciences , and by BMBF (no. 8125 ) Bilateral Cooperation between Germany and Russia to SIA. This work was also supported by Grant-in-Aids for Scientific Research from the Ministry of Education of Japan ( 21570038 and 22370017 ), and grant from JST PRESTO to TT.
PY - 2014/8
Y1 - 2014/8
N2 - The purpose of this review is to present recent advances in the structural and functional studies of water-oxidizing center of Photosystem II and its surrounding protein matrix in order to synthesize artificial catalysts for production of clean and efficient hydrogen fuel.
AB - The purpose of this review is to present recent advances in the structural and functional studies of water-oxidizing center of Photosystem II and its surrounding protein matrix in order to synthesize artificial catalysts for production of clean and efficient hydrogen fuel.
KW - Artificial photosynthesis
KW - Nano-layered Mn oxide
KW - Nano-sized Mn-Ca cluster
KW - Oxygen evolution
KW - Photosystem II
KW - Water-oxidizing center
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U2 - 10.1016/j.plaphy.2014.01.020
DO - 10.1016/j.plaphy.2014.01.020
M3 - Review article
C2 - 24560883
AN - SCOPUS:84904175197
SN - 0981-9428
VL - 81
SP - 3
EP - 15
JO - Plant Physiology and Biochemistry
JF - Plant Physiology and Biochemistry
ER -