Affiliation:
1. Photobioenergetics, Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University, GPO Box 475, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia
Abstract
Given the unique problem of the extremely high potential of the oxidant P
+
680
that is required to oxidize water to oxygen, the photoinactivation of photosystem II in vivo is inevitable, despite many photoprotective strategies. There is, however, a robustness of photosystem II, which depends partly on the highly dynamic compositional and structural heterogeneity of the cycle between functional and non–functional photosystem II complexes in response to light level. This coordinated regulation involves photon usage (energy utilization in photochemistry) and excess energy dissipation as heat, photoprotection by many molecular strategies, photoinactivation followed by photon damage and ultimately the D1 protein dynamics involved in the photosystem II repair cycle. Compelling, though indirect evidence suggests that the radical pair P
+
680
Pheo
–
in functional PSII should be protected from oxygen. By analogy to the tentative oxygen channel of cytochrome
c
oxidase, oxygen may be liberated from the two water molecules bound to the catalytic site of the Mn cluster, via a specific pathway to the membrane surface. The function of the proposed oxygen pathway is to prevent O
2
from having direct access to P
+
680
Pheo
–
and prevent the generation of singlet oxygen via the triplet–P
680
state in functional photosytem IIs. Only when the, as yet unidentified, potential trigger with a fateful first oxidative step destroys oxygen evolution, will the ensuing cascade of structural perturbations of photosystem II destroy the proposed oxygen, water and proton pathways. Then oxygen has direct access to P
+
680
Pheo
–
, singlet oxygen will be produced and may successively oxidize specific amino acids of the phosphorylated D1 protein of photosystem II dimers that are confined to appressed granal domains, thereby targeting D1 protein for eventual degradation and replacement in non–appressed thylakoid domains.
Subject
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
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