Biological water oxidation: Lessons from Nature

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics - Tập 1817 - Trang 1110-1121 - 2012
Mohammad Mahdi Najafpour1,2, Atefeh Nemati Moghaddam1, Suleyman I. Allakhverdiev3,4, Govindjee5
1Department of Chemistry, Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences (IASBS), Zanjan, Iran
2Center of Climate Change and Global Warming, Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences (IASBS), Zanjan, Iran
3Institute of Plant Physiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Botanicheskaya Street 35, Moscow 127276, Russia
4Institute of Basic Biological Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Moscow region, 142290, Russia,
5Departments of Plant Biology, and of Biochemistry, and Center of Biophysics & Computational Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 265 Morrill Hall, 505 South Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801-3707, USA

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