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Recent magnetic-resonance work on YŻ suggests that this species exhibits considerable motional flexibility in its functional site and that its phenol oxygen is not involved in a well-ordered hydrogen-bond interaction (Tang et al., submitted; Tommos et al., in press). Both of these observations are inconsistent with a simple electron-transfer function for this radical in photosynthetic water oxidation. By considering the roles of catalytically active amino acid radicals in other enzymes and recent data on the water-oxidation process in Photosystem II, we rationalize these observations by suggesting that YŻ functions to abstract hydrogen atoms from aquo- and hydroxy-bound managanese ions in the (Mn)4 cluster on each S-state transition. The hydrogen-atom abstraction process may occur either by sequential or concerted kinetic pathways. Within this model, the (Mn)4/YZ center forms a single catalytic center that comprises the Oxygen Evolving Complex in Photosystem II.
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Hoganson, C.W., Lydakis-Simantiris, N., Tang, XS. et al. A hydrogen-atom abstraction model for the function of YZ in photosynthetic oxygen evolution. Photosynth Res 46, 177–184 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00020428
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