Architecture of the Photosynthetic Oxygen-Evolving Center

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) - Tập 303 Số 5665 - Trang 1831-1838 - 2004
Kristina N. Ferreira1,2,3, T.M. Iverson1,2,3, Karim Maghlaoui1,2,3, James Barber1,2,3, So Iwata1,2,3
1ATP System Project, ERATO, Japan Science and Technology Corporation, 5800-3 Nagatsuta, Midori-ku, Yokohama 226-0026, Japan.
2Department of Biological Sciences, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK
3Division of Biomedical Sciences Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK

Tóm tắt

Photosynthesis uses light energy to drive the oxidation of water at an oxygen-evolving catalytic site within photosystem II (PSII). We report the structure of PSII of the cyanobacterium Thermosynechococcus elongatus at 3.5 angstrom resolution. We have assigned most of the amino acid residues of this 650-kilodalton dimeric multisubunit complex and refined the structure to reveal its molecular architecture. Consequently, we are able to describe details of the binding sites for cofactors and propose a structure of the oxygen-evolving center (OEC). The data strongly suggest that the OEC contains a cubane-like Mn 3 CaO 4 cluster linked to a fourth Mn by a mono-μ-oxo bridge. The details of the surrounding coordination sphere of the metal cluster and the implications for a possible oxygen-evolving mechanism are discussed.

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The authors dedicate this paper to G. T. Babcock and M. P. Klein. J.B. and S.I. acknowledge support from the Biotechnology and Biological Research Science Council. We thank the Centre for Structural Biology and Bioinformatics Facility at Imperial College London for technical support; and C. Schulze-Briese and T. Tomizaki at PX06SA/SLS Paul Scherrer Institute Villigen Switzerland; B. Shepard at ID29; and M. Iwata of the ERATO ATP System Project for help with data collections. T.M.I. has been a Life Sciences Research Foundation Fellow of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute a European Molecular Biology Organization Long-Term Fellow and a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Science Award Fellow and acknowledges support from D. C. Rees during the initial stages of the study. We wish to thank P. Siegbahn M. Lundberg P. Nixon C. Dismukes and A. Telfer for comments and helpful discussions. The coordinates together with the structure factors native Mn-edge and long wavelength (2.25 Å for Ca detection) and the experimental multi-wavelength anomalous dispersion (MAD) phases have been deposited in the Protein Data Bank (entry 1S5L) and will be available upon publication.