Simulation of the isotropic EXAFS spectra for the S2 and S3 structures of the oxygen evolving complex in photosystem II

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Xichen LiUlf Ryde

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 S2 and S3 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 S2-S3 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 Å 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 Å. 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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Oct 30, 2016·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America·Shin Nakamura, Takumi Noguchi
Nov 13, 2015·Chemistry : a European Journal·Xichen Li, Per E M Siegbahn
Mar 1, 2018·Chemistry : a European Journal·Alessandro GenoniSimon Grabowsky
Nov 11, 2018·Journal of Computational Chemistry·Iori HaradaJun-Ya Hasegawa
May 1, 2016·Chemical Physics Letters·Makoto HatakeyamaShinichiro Nakamura
Aug 7, 2021·Biophysical Journal·Thomas J SummersNathan J DeYonker
Aug 16, 2021·Current Opinion in Structural Biology·Justin BergmannUlf Ryde

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