Recent advances in activating surface reconstruction for the high-efficiency oxygen evolution reaction

L Gao, X Cui, CD Sewell, J Li, Z Lin - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
A climax in the development of cost-effective and high-efficiency transition metal-based
electrocatalysts has been witnessed recently for sustainable energy and related conversion …

Manganese compounds as water-oxidizing catalysts: from the natural water-oxidizing complex to nanosized manganese oxide structures

MM Najafpour, G Renger, M Hołynska… - Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
All cyanobacteria, algae, and plants use a similar water-oxidizing catalyst for water
oxidation. This catalyst is housed in Photosystem II, a membrane-protein complex that …

Mechanisms of pH-Dependent Activity for Water Oxidation to Molecular Oxygen by MnO2 Electrocatalysts

T Takashima, K Hashimoto… - Journal of the American …, 2012 - ACS Publications
Manganese oxides function as efficient electrocatalysts for water oxidation to molecular
oxygen in strongly alkaline conditions, but are inefficient at neutral pH. To provide new …

Water-splitting chemistry of photosystem II

JP McEvoy, GW Brudvig - Chemical reviews, 2006 - ACS Publications
Life on earth is almost entirely solar-powered. We can get some idea of the enormous
quantity of energy received from the sun by noting that during daylight hours, the sun …

Protein Radicals in Enzyme Catalysis. [Chem. Rev. 1998, 98, 705−762

JA Stubbe, WA van Der Donk - Chemical reviews, 1998 - ACS Publications
Protein Radicals in Enzyme Catalysis. [Chem. Rev. 1998, 98, 705−762 | Chemical Reviews ACS
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Tyrosine biosynthesis, metabolism, and catabolism in plants

CA Schenck, HA Maeda - Phytochemistry, 2018 - Elsevier
L-Tyrosine (Tyr) is an aromatic amino acid (AAA) required for protein synthesis in all
organisms, but synthesized de novo only in plants and microorganisms. In plants, Tyr also …

Recent advances in understanding the assembly and repair of photosystem II

PJ Nixon, F Michoux, J Yu, M Boehm… - Annals of …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background Photosystem II (PSII) is the light-driven water: plastoquinone
oxidoreductase of oxygenic photosynthesis and is found in the thylakoid membrane of …

[HTML][HTML] Chlorophyll a fluorescence induction

D Lazár - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Bioenergetics, 1999 - Elsevier
Chlorophyll a£ uorescence induction (FI) is now a widespread method used in
photosynthesis research. This is because FI is non-invasive and highly sensitive, fast and …

The manganese and calcium ions of photosynthetic oxygen evolution

RJ Debus - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Bioenergetics, 1992 - Elsevier
The. llltl'.. l inlportallt Itlnclioll o| nl; lllg, lllC~, C ill biology is to catalyze Iht conxcrsion ot water
to molecular oxygen. Thb, process t;. ikc~, place in l'tlolos~ Mem II near the lumenal surface …

Manganese clusters with relevance to photosystem II

S Mukhopadhyay, SK Mandal, S Bhaduri… - Chemical …, 2004 - ACS Publications
A tetramanganese cluster (Mn4) resides at the active site of photosystem II (PSII) in green
plants and in certain bacteria and algae. It catalyzes the light-driven water oxidation reaction …