TY - JOUR
T1 - Comparison of nano-sized Mn oxides with the Mn cluster of photosystem II as catalysts for water oxidation
AU - Najafpour, Mohammad Mahdi
AU - Ghobadi, Mohadeseh Zarei
AU - Haghighi, Behzad
AU - Tomo, Tatsuya
AU - Shen, Jian Ren
AU - Allakhverdiev, Suleyman
N1 - Funding Information:
MMN and MZG are grateful to the Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences and the National Elite Foundation for financial support. TT was supported by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Reserch ( 24370025 , 26220801 ), JRS was supported by a grant-in-aid for Specially Promoted Research No. 24000018 from JSPS, MEXT, Japan, and SIA was supported by grant from the Russian Science Foundation (No: 14-14-00039 ).
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2015/2
Y1 - 2015/2
N2 - "Back to Nature" is a promising way to solve the problems that we face today, such as air pollution and shortage of energy supply based on conventional fossil fuels. A Mn cluster inside photosystem II catalyzes light-induced water-splitting leading to the generation of protons, electrons and oxygen in photosynthetic organisms, and has been considered as a good model for the synthesis of new artificial water-oxidizing catalysts. Herein, we surveyed the structural and functional details of this cluster and its surrounding environment. Then, we review the mechanistic findings concerning the cluster and compare this biological catalyst with nano-sized Mn oxides, which are among the best artificial Mn-based water-oxidizing catalysts.
AB - "Back to Nature" is a promising way to solve the problems that we face today, such as air pollution and shortage of energy supply based on conventional fossil fuels. A Mn cluster inside photosystem II catalyzes light-induced water-splitting leading to the generation of protons, electrons and oxygen in photosynthetic organisms, and has been considered as a good model for the synthesis of new artificial water-oxidizing catalysts. Herein, we surveyed the structural and functional details of this cluster and its surrounding environment. Then, we review the mechanistic findings concerning the cluster and compare this biological catalyst with nano-sized Mn oxides, which are among the best artificial Mn-based water-oxidizing catalysts.
KW - Model complex
KW - Nano-sized manganese oxides
KW - Photosystem II
KW - Water oxidation
KW - Water-oxidizing complex
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U2 - 10.1016/j.bbabio.2014.11.006
DO - 10.1016/j.bbabio.2014.11.006
M3 - Review article
C2 - 25461976
AN - SCOPUS:84916920031
SN - 0005-2728
VL - 1847
SP - 294
EP - 306
JO - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Bioenergetics
JF - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Bioenergetics
IS - 2
ER -
