Photosystem II: the solid structural era

Annual Review of Biophysics and Biomolecular Structure
K H Rhee

Abstract

Understanding the precise role of photosystem II as an element of oxygenic photosynthesis requires knowledge of the molecular structure of this membrane protein complex. The past few years have been particularly exciting because the structural era of the plant photosystem II has begun. Although the atomic structure has yet to be determined, the map obtained at 6 A resolution by electron crystallography allows assignment of the key reaction center subunits with their associated pigment molecules. In the following, we first review the structural details that have recently emerged and then discuss the primary and secondary photochemical reaction pathways. Finally, in an attempt to establish the evolutionary link between the oxygenic and the anoxygenic photosynthesis, a framework structure common to all photosynthetic reaction centers has been defined, and the implications have been described.

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Methods Mentioned

BETA
electron microscopy
X-ray
electron
electron crystallography
protein folding

Software Mentioned

MRC
LMB
SWISSPROT

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