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Natural variants of photosystem II subunit D1 tune photochemical fitness to solar intensity.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 22 Feb 2013
Vinyard David J, Gimpel Javier, Ananyev Gennady M, Cornejo Mario A, Golden Susan S, Mayfield Stephen P, Dismukes G Charles
Abstract excerpt
Photosystem II (PSII) is composed of six core polypeptides that make up the minimal unit capable of performing the primary photochemistry of light-driven charge separation and water oxidation in all oxygenic phototrophs. The D1 subunit of this complex contains most of the ligating amino acid residues for the Mn(4)CaO(5) core of the water-oxidizing complex (WOC). Most cyanobacteria have 3-5 copies of the psbA gene...
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