The manganese site of the photosynthetic oxygen-evolving complex probed by EPR spectroscopy of oriented photosystem II membranes: the g = 4 and g = 2 multiline signals

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Abstract

The g = 4 and g = 2 multiline EPR signals arising from the Mn cluster of the photosynthetic oxygen-evolving complex (OEC) in the S2 state were studied in preparations of oriented photosystem II (PSII) membranes. The ammonia-modified forms of these two signals were also examined. The g = 4 signal obtained in oriented PSII membranes treated with NH4Cl at pH 7.5 displays at least 16 partially resolved Mn hyperfine transitions with a regular spacing of 36 G [Kim, D.H., Britt, R.D., Klein, M.P., & Sauer, K. (1990) J. Am. Chem. Soc. 112, 9389-9391]. The observation of this g = 4 "multiline signal" provides strong spectral evidence for a tetranuclear Mn origin for the g = 4 signal and is strongly suggestive of a model in which different spin state configurations of a single exchange-coupled Mn cluster give rise to the g = 4 and g = 2 multiline signals. A simulation shows the observed spectrum to be consistent with an S = 3/2 or S = 5/2 state of a tetranuclear Mn complex. The resolution of hyperfine structure on the NH3-modified g = 4 signal is strongly dependent on sample orientation, with no resolved hyperfine structure when the membrane normal is oriented perpendicular to the applied magnetic field. The dramatic NH3-induced changes in the g = 4 signal resolved in the spectra of oriented samples are suggestive that NH3 binding at the Cl- site of the OEC may represent direct coordination of NH3 to the Mn cluster.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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