Solar energy conversion by photosystem II: principles and structures. Shevela, D., Kern, J. F., Govindjee, G., & Messinger, J. Photosynthesis Research, 156(3):279–307, June, 2023. ![Solar energy conversion by photosystem II: principles and structures [link]](https://bibbase.org/img/filetypes/link.svg "link")
Paper doi abstract bibtex Photosynthetic water oxidation by Photosystem II (PSII) is a fascinating process because it sustains life on Earth and serves as a blue print for scalable synthetic catalysts required for renewable energy applications. The biophysical, computational, and structural description of this process, which started more than 50 years ago, has made tremendous progress over the past two decades, with its high-resolution crystal structures being available not only of the dark-stable state of PSII, but of all the semi-stable reaction intermediates and even some transient states. Here, we summarize the current knowledge on PSII with emphasis on the basic principles that govern the conversion of light energy to chemical energy in PSII, as well as on the illustration of the molecular structures that enable these reactions. The important remaining questions regarding the mechanism of biological water oxidation are highlighted, and one possible pathway for this fundamental reaction is described at a molecular level.
@article{shevela_solar_2023,
title = {Solar energy conversion by photosystem {II}: principles and structures},
volume = {156},
issn = {1573-5079},
shorttitle = {Solar energy conversion by photosystem {II}},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s11120-022-00991-y},
doi = {10.1007/s11120-022-00991-y},
abstract = {Photosynthetic water oxidation by Photosystem II (PSII) is a fascinating process because it sustains life on Earth and serves as a blue print for scalable synthetic catalysts required for renewable energy applications. The biophysical, computational, and structural description of this process, which started more than 50 years ago, has made tremendous progress over the past two decades, with its high-resolution crystal structures being available not only of the dark-stable state of PSII, but of all the semi-stable reaction intermediates and even some transient states. Here, we summarize the current knowledge on PSII with emphasis on the basic principles that govern the conversion of light energy to chemical energy in PSII, as well as on the illustration of the molecular structures that enable these reactions. The important remaining questions regarding the mechanism of biological water oxidation are highlighted, and one possible pathway for this fundamental reaction is described at a molecular level.},
language = {en},
number = {3},
urldate = {2024-10-16},
journal = {Photosynthesis Research},
author = {Shevela, Dmitry and Kern, Jan F. and Govindjee, Govindjee and Messinger, Johannes},
month = jun,
year = {2023},
keywords = {Educational review, Function of Photosystem II, Mechanism of water oxidation, Oxygen evolution, Photosynthesis, Primary photochemistry},
pages = {279--307},
}
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