Crystal structure of oxygen-evolving photosystem II at a resolution of 1.9 Å

@article{Umena2011CrystalSO,
  title={Crystal structure of oxygen-evolving photosystem II at a resolution of 1.9 {\AA}},
  author={Yasufumi Umena and Keisuke Kawakami and Jian-Ren Shen and Nobuo Kamiya},
  journal={Nature},
  year={2011},
  volume={473},
  pages={55-60},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:205224374}
}
The crystal structure of photosystem II is reported, finding that five oxygen atoms served as oxo bridges linking the five metal atoms, and that four water molecules were bound to the Mn4CaO5 cluster; some of them may therefore serve as substrates for dioxygen formation.
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