Elucidation of the entire Kok cycle for photosynthetic water oxidation by the large-scale quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics calculations: Comparison with the experimental results by the recent serial femtosecond crystallography

摘要

The fully optimized geometrical structures of the CaMn4Ox (x = 5, 6) clusters in the Si (i = 0-3) states of the Kok cycle of photosynthetic water oxidation by the large-scale quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) calculations were compared to recent experimental results based on serial femtosecond crystallography (SFX). The Mn-Mn and Ca-Mn distances obtained by the QM/MM calculations were found to be totally comparable to the SFX experiments, elucidating the entire Kok cycle involving the S-4 transition state during the O-O bond formation for water oxidation in the oxygen evolving complex (OEC) of photosystem II (PSII).