在S1,S2和S3状态下,PSII中氧气演变复合物的基板水交换
1Department of Organic Chemistry, Arrhenius Laboratory, Stockholm University, Stockholm SE-106 91, Sweden. ps@physto.se
Journal of the American Chemical Society
|June 8, 2013
概括
详细的DFT计算澄清了光系统II的氧气进化复合体中的基质水交换. 这些发现支持一种特定的水氧化机制,解决了长期存在的实验解释.
科学领域:
- 生物化学 生物化学
- 计算化学计算化学
- 光合作用研究研究 光合作用研究
背景情况:
- 光系II的氧气进化复合体 (OEC) 中的基质水交换对于水的氧化至关重要.
- 现有对实验数据的解释导致对OEC机制有相矛盾的看法.
- 涉及桥梁oxo和oxyl基的DFT建议的机制面临着由于感知到缓慢的连接物交换率的挑战.
研究的目的:
- 用大型DFT模型阐明OEC中基板水交换的详细机制.
- 为了使计算结果与水交换率的实验观测相协调.
- 为DFT提出的水氧化机制提供强有力的支持.
主要方法:
- 使用密度函数理论 (DFT) 的计算.
- 使用了氧气进化复合体的大型模型.
- 计算的重点是重现不同S状态的实验观察到的水交换率.
主要成果:
- 为三个S状态计算的水交换率准确地重现了实验结果.
- 与S2相比,S1状态的水交换速度较慢的令人惊的观察得到了复制和机械解释.
- 速度差异归因于特定中心 (Mn3) 的简化,从而促进基板水释放.
- 在S2和S3中类似的缓慢汇率通过将实验数据与新计算相结合来合理化.
结论:
- 这项研究强烈支持之前提出的基于DFT的光系统II的水氧化机制.
- 这些发现解决了计算模型和实验水交换数据之间的差异.
- 澄清了基板水释放的机制,包括中心的减少.
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