TY - JOUR
T1 - The biological water-oxidizing complex at the nano-bio interface
AU - Najafpour, Mohammad Mahdi
AU - Ghobadi, Mohadeseh Zarei
AU - Larkum, Anthony W.
AU - Shen, Jian Ren
AU - Allakhverdiev, Suleyman
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors thank Drs Nick Cox, Wolfgang Lubitz, and Susanne Brink for their helpful and valuable suggestions, discussions, comments, and corrections regarding this work. M.M.N. and M.Z.G. are grateful to the Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences and the National Elite Foundation for financial support. J-R.S. was supported by a grant-in-aid for Specially Promoted Research No. 24000018 from JSPS, MEXT, Japan, and S.I.A. was supported by a grant from the Russian Science Foundation (no. 14-14-00039).
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© 2015 Elsevier Ltd.
PY - 2015/9/1
Y1 - 2015/9/1
N2 - Photosynthesis is one of the most important processes on our planet, providing food and oxygen for the majority of living organisms on Earth. Over the past 30 years scientists have made great strides in understanding the central photosynthetic process of oxygenic photosynthesis, whereby water is used to provide the hydrogen and reducing equivalents vital to CO2 reduction and sugar formation. A recent crystal structure at 1.9-1.95Å has made possible an unparalleled map of the structure of photosystem II (PSII) and particularly the manganese-calcium (Mn-Ca) cluster, which is responsible for splitting water. Here we review how knowledge of the water-splitting site provides important criteria for the design of artificial Mn-based water-oxidizing catalysts, allowing the development of clean and sustainable solar energy technologies.
AB - Photosynthesis is one of the most important processes on our planet, providing food and oxygen for the majority of living organisms on Earth. Over the past 30 years scientists have made great strides in understanding the central photosynthetic process of oxygenic photosynthesis, whereby water is used to provide the hydrogen and reducing equivalents vital to CO2 reduction and sugar formation. A recent crystal structure at 1.9-1.95Å has made possible an unparalleled map of the structure of photosystem II (PSII) and particularly the manganese-calcium (Mn-Ca) cluster, which is responsible for splitting water. Here we review how knowledge of the water-splitting site provides important criteria for the design of artificial Mn-based water-oxidizing catalysts, allowing the development of clean and sustainable solar energy technologies.
KW - Artificial photosynthesis
KW - Nano-sized Mn-Ca oxido cluster
KW - Photosynthesis
KW - Water oxidation
KW - Water-oxidizing complex
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U2 - 10.1016/j.tplants.2015.06.005
DO - 10.1016/j.tplants.2015.06.005
M3 - Review article
C2 - 26183174
AN - SCOPUS:84940872118
SN - 1360-1385
VL - 20
SP - 559
EP - 568
JO - Trends in Plant Science
JF - Trends in Plant Science
IS - 9
M1 - 1329
ER -
