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Title: Structural insights into the light-driven auto-assembly process of the water-oxidizing Mn4CaO5-cluster in photosystem II

Abstract

In plants, algae and cyanobacteria, Photosystem II (PSII) catalyzes the light-driven splitting of water at a protein-bound Mn4CaO5-cluster, the water-oxidizing complex (WOC). In the photosynthetic organisms, the light-driven formation of the WOC from dissolved metal ions is a key process because it is essential in both initial activation and continuous repair of PSII. Structural information is required for understanding of this chaperone-free metal-cluster assembly. For the first time, we obtained a structure of PSII from Thermosynechococcus elongatus without the Mn4CaO5-cluster. Surprisingly, cluster-removal leaves the positions of all coordinating amino acid residues and most nearby water molecules largely unaffected, resulting in a pre-organized ligand shell for kinetically competent and error-free photo-assembly of the Mn4CaO5-cluster. First experiments initiating (i) partial disassembly and (ii) partial re-assembly after complete depletion of the Mn4CaO5-cluster agree with a specific bi-manganese cluster, likely a di-µ-oxo bridged pair of Mn(III) ions, as an assembly intermediate.

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1];  [1];  [2];  [1];  [2];  [3];  [2]; ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [1]
  1. Humboldt Univ. of Berlin (Germany). Inst. of Biology
  2. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
  3. Freie Univ., Berlin (Germany)
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Research Org.:
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
OSTI Identifier:
1408448
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-05CH11231
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
eLife
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 6; Journal ID: ISSN 2050-084X
Publisher:
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd.
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
60 APPLIED LIFE SCIENCES; 59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Citation Formats

Zhang, Miao, Bommer, Martin, Chatterjee, Ruchira, Hussein, Rana, Yano, Junko, Dau, Holger, Kern, Jan, Dobbek, Holger, and Zouni, Athina. Structural insights into the light-driven auto-assembly process of the water-oxidizing Mn4CaO5-cluster in photosystem II. United States: N. p., 2017. Web. doi:10.7554/eLife.26933.
Zhang, Miao, Bommer, Martin, Chatterjee, Ruchira, Hussein, Rana, Yano, Junko, Dau, Holger, Kern, Jan, Dobbek, Holger, & Zouni, Athina. Structural insights into the light-driven auto-assembly process of the water-oxidizing Mn4CaO5-cluster in photosystem II. United States. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.26933
Zhang, Miao, Bommer, Martin, Chatterjee, Ruchira, Hussein, Rana, Yano, Junko, Dau, Holger, Kern, Jan, Dobbek, Holger, and Zouni, Athina. Tue . "Structural insights into the light-driven auto-assembly process of the water-oxidizing Mn4CaO5-cluster in photosystem II". United States. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.26933. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1408448.
@article{osti_1408448,
title = {Structural insights into the light-driven auto-assembly process of the water-oxidizing Mn4CaO5-cluster in photosystem II},
author = {Zhang, Miao and Bommer, Martin and Chatterjee, Ruchira and Hussein, Rana and Yano, Junko and Dau, Holger and Kern, Jan and Dobbek, Holger and Zouni, Athina},
abstractNote = {In plants, algae and cyanobacteria, Photosystem II (PSII) catalyzes the light-driven splitting of water at a protein-bound Mn4CaO5-cluster, the water-oxidizing complex (WOC). In the photosynthetic organisms, the light-driven formation of the WOC from dissolved metal ions is a key process because it is essential in both initial activation and continuous repair of PSII. Structural information is required for understanding of this chaperone-free metal-cluster assembly. For the first time, we obtained a structure of PSII from Thermosynechococcus elongatus without the Mn4CaO5-cluster. Surprisingly, cluster-removal leaves the positions of all coordinating amino acid residues and most nearby water molecules largely unaffected, resulting in a pre-organized ligand shell for kinetically competent and error-free photo-assembly of the Mn4CaO5-cluster. First experiments initiating (i) partial disassembly and (ii) partial re-assembly after complete depletion of the Mn4CaO5-cluster agree with a specific bi-manganese cluster, likely a di-µ-oxo bridged pair of Mn(III) ions, as an assembly intermediate.},
doi = {10.7554/eLife.26933},
journal = {eLife},
number = ,
volume = 6,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Jul 18 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Tue Jul 18 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
}

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