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Contents
Introduction
J. Barber and A. W. Rutherford
The structure of the Mn
4
Ca
2
C cluster of photosystem II and its protein environment as revealed by X-ray crystallography
J. Barber and J. W. Murray
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High-resolution structure of the photosynthetic Mn
4
Ca catalyst from X-ray spectroscopy 1139
J. Yano, J. Kern, Y. Pushkar, K. Sauer, P. Glatzel, U. Bergmann, J. Messinger, A. Zouni and V. K. Yachandra
1149 QM/MM computational studies of substrate water binding to the oxygen-evolving centre of photosystem II
E. M. Sproviero, K. Shinopoulos, J. A. Gasco´n, J. P. McEvoy, G. W. Brudvig and V. S. Batista
Multifrequency electron spin-echo envelope modulation studies of nitrogen ligation to the manganese cluster of photosystem II
G. J. Yeagle, M. L. Gilchrist Jr, L. M. Walker, R. J. Debus and R. D. Britt
Focusing the view on nature’s water-splitting catalyst
S. Zein, L. V. Kulik, J. Yano, J. Kern, Y. Pushkar, A. Zouni, V. K. Yachandra, W. Lubitz,
F. Neese and J. Messinger
Glutamate-354 of the CP43 polypeptide interacts with the oxygen-evolving Mn
4
Ca cluster of photosystem II: a preliminary characterization of the Glu354Gln mutant
M. A. Strickler, H. J. Hwang, R. L. Burnap, J. Yano, L. M. Walker, R. J. Service, R. D. Britt,
W. Hillier and R. J. Debus
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FTIR detection of water reactions in the oxygen-evolving centre of photosystem II
T. Noguchi
Site-directed mutations at D1-His198 and D1-Thr179 of photosystem II in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803: deciphering the spectral properties of the PSII reaction centre
E. Schlodder, W. J. Coleman, P. J. Nixon, R. O. Cohen, T. Renger and B. A. Diner
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Low-temperature photochemistry in photosystem II from Thermosynechococcus elongatus induced by visible and near-infrared light
A. Boussac, M. Sugiura, T. L. Lai and A. W. Rutherford
Water oxidation chemistry of photosystem II
G. W. Brudvig
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Mechanism and energy diagram for O-O bond formation in the oxygen-evolving complex in photosystem II
P. E. M. Siegbahn
Investigation of substrate water interactions at the high-affinity Mn site in the photosystem II oxygen-evolving complex
S. Singh, R. J. Debus, T. Wydrzynski and W. Hillier
On the structure of the manganese complex of photosystem II: extended-range EXAFS data and specific atomic-resolution models for four S-states
H. Dau, A. Grundmeier, P. Loja and M. Haumann
Redox interaction of Mn-bicarbonate complexes with reaction centres of purple bacteria
A. A. Khorobrykh, V. V. Terentyev, S. K. Zharmukhamedov and V. V. Klimov
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Calcium controls the assembly of the photosynthetic water-oxidizing complex: a cadmium(II) inorganic mutant of the Mn
4
Ca core
J. E. Bartlett, S. V. Baranov, G. M. Ananyev and G. C. Dismukes
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1263 Why did Nature choose manganese to make oxygen?
F. A. Armstrong
Using small molecule complexes to elucidate features of photosynthetic water oxidation
K. Meelich, C. M. Zaleski and V. L. Pecoraro
Coupled electron transfers in artificial photosynthesis
L. Hammarstro¨m and S. Styring
A ligand field chemistry of oxygen generation by the oxygen-evolving complex and synthetic active sites
T. A. Betley, Y. Surendranath, M. V. Childress, G. E. Alliger, R. Fu, C. C. Cummins and D. G. Nocera
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