Why Did Nature Choose Manganese over Cobalt to Make Oxygen Photosynthetically on the Earth?

Gates, Colin; Ananyev, Gennady; Roy-Chowdhury, Shatabdi; Cullinane, Brendan; Miller, Mathias; Fromme, Petra; Dismukes, G. Charles

doi:10.1021/acs.jpcb.2c00749

Why Did Nature Choose Manganese over Cobalt to Make Oxygen Photosynthetically on the Earth?

Journal Article · 21 April 2022 · Journal of Physical Chemistry. B, Condensed Matter, Materials, Surfaces, Interfaces and Biophysical Chemistry

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.2c00749· OSTI ID:1977988

^[1]; Ananyev, Gennady ^[2]; Roy-Chowdhury, Shatabdi ^[3]; Cullinane, Brendan ^[4]; Miller, Mathias ^[4]; Fromme, Petra ^[3]; ^[2]

Waksman Institute of Microbiology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, United States; Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, United States; Department of Computational Biology & Molecular Biophysics, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, United States; Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60660, United States
Waksman Institute of Microbiology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, United States; Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, United States
Biodesign Center for Applied Structural Discovery and School of Molecular Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85281, United States
Waksman Institute of Microbiology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, United States; Department of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, United States

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Research Organization:: Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC)

DOE Contract Number:: SC0019460

OSTI ID:: 1977988

Journal Information:: Journal of Physical Chemistry. B, Condensed Matter, Materials, Surfaces, Interfaces and Biophysical Chemistry, Vol. 126, Issue 17; ISSN 1520-6106

Publisher:: American Chemical Society

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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