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Science 19 March 2004:
Vol. 303. no. 5665, pp. 1782 - 1784
DOI: 10.1126/science.1096767
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BIOCHEMISTRY:
Water Photolysis in Biology

A. W. Rutherford and A. Boussac

At the heart of photosynthesis, the main process by which solar energy enters the biosphere, is a fascinating enzyme that oxidizes water and as a side effect produces the oxygen in the atmosphere. In their perspective, Rutherford and Boussac describe how a structure of the enzyme determined by Ferreira et al. contributes to our understanding of photosynthesis. Besides providing the long-awaited structure of the catalytic site, the work provides constraints for future mechanistic models.

The authors are at the Service of Bioenergetics, CNRS URA 2096, Département de Biologie Joliot Curie, CEA Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France. E-mail: rutherford{at}dsvidf.cea.fr

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