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- Li, Xichen, et al.
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Simulation of the isotropic EXAFS spectra for the S-2 and S-3 structures of the oxygen evolving complex in photosystem II
- 2015
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. - : Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. - 0027-8424 .- 1091-6490. ; 112:13, s. 3979-3984
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Most of the main features of water oxidation in photosystem II are now well understood, including the mechanism for O-O bond formation. For the intermediate S-2 and S-3 structures there is also nearly complete agreement between quantum chemical modeling and experiments. Given the present high degree of consensus for these structures, it is of high interest to go back to previous suggestions concerning what happens in the S-2-S-3 transition. Analyses of extended X-ray adsorption fine structure (EXAFS) experiments have indicated relatively large structural changes in this transition, with changes of distances sometimes larger than 0.3 angstrom and a change of topology. In contrast, our previous density functional theory (DFT)(B3LYP) calculations on a cluster model showed very small changes, less than 0.1 angstrom. It is here found that the DFT structures are also consistent with the EXAFS spectra for the S2 and S3 states within normal errors of DFT. The analysis suggests that there are severe problems in interpreting EXAFS spectra for these complicated systems.
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- Li, Xichen, et al.
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Theoretical EXAFS studies of a model of the oxygen-evolving complex of photosystem II obtained with the quantum cluster approach
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Ingår i: International Journal of Quantum Chemistry. - : Wiley. - 0020-7608 .- 1097-461X. ; 113:4, s. 474-478
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The oxygen-evolving complex (OEC) of photosystem II is the only natural system that can form O2 from water and sunlight and it consists of a Mn4Ca cluster. In a series of publications, Siegbahn has developed a model of the OEC with the quantum mechanical (QM) cluster approach that is compatible with available crystal structures, able to form O2 with a reasonable energetic barrier, and has a significantly lower energy than alternative models. In this investigation, we present a method to restrain a QM geometry optimization toward experimental polarized extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) data. With this method, we show that the cluster model is compatible with the EXAFS data and we obtain a refined cluster model that is an optimum compromise between QM and polarized EXAFS data.
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