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Selected publications in photosynthesis by Mel Klein

  • Britt RD and Klein MP (1992) Electron spin echo envelope modulation studies of mixed valence manganese complexes: Applications to the catalytic manganese cluster of photosynthetic oxygen evolution. In: Bagguley D (ed) Pulsed Magnetic Resonance: NMR, ESR and Optics: A Recognition of Erwin L. Hahn, pp 361–376. Clarendon Press, Oxford

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  • Britt RD, Zimmermann J-L, Sauer K and Klein MP (1989) Ammonia binds to the catalytic Mn of the oxygen-evolving complex of Photosystem II: Evidence by electron spin-echo envelope modulation spectroscopy. J Am Chem Soc 111: 3522–3532

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  • Burghaus O and Klein MP (1995) Coherent Raman Beat and ES-EEM EPR spectroscopy applied to a transition metal complex: Comparisons of sensitivity and spectral resolution. Chem Phys Lett 243: 480–485

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  • Cinco RM, Robblee JH, Sauer K, Yachandra VK and Klein MP (1998) Strontium EXAFS shows calcium cofactor proximity to the manganese cluster in oxygen-evolving Photosystem II. J Phys Chem B 102: 8257–8265 (Festschrift Issue of the Journal of Physical Chemistry B for Mel Klein and Ken Sauer)

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  • Dau H, Andrews JC, Yachandra VK, Roclofs TR, Latimer MJ, Liang W, Sauer K and Klein MP (1995) On the structure of the oxygen-evolving complex: X-ray absorption and dichroism of the ammonia-modified manganese cluster of Photosystem II. Biochemistry 34: 5274–5287

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  • DeRose VJ, Yachandra VK, McDermott AE, Britt RD, Sauer K and Klein MP (1991) Nitrogen ligation to manganese in the photosynthetic oxygen-evolving complex: Continuous wave and pulsed EPR studies of Photosystem II particles containing 14N or 15N. Biochemistry 30: 1335–1341

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  • DeRose VJ, Mukerji I, Latimer MJ, Yachandra VK, Sauer K and Klein MP (1994) EXAFS studies of manganese in the oxygen-evolving complex from Photosystem II of spinach and Synechococcus sp. Poised in the S1 and S2 States. J Am Chem Soc 116: 5239–5249

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  • Dexheimer SL and Klein MP (1992) Detection of a paramagnetic intermediate in the S1 state of the photosynthetic oxygen evolving complex. J Am Chem Soc 114: 2821–2826

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  • Goodin DB, Yachandra VK, Britt RD, Sauer K and Klein MP (1984) State of manganese in the photosynthetic apparatus. 3. Light-induced changes in X-ray absorption (K-edge) energies of manganese in photosynthetic membranes. Biochim Biophys Acta 767: 209–216

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  • Guiles RD, Zimmermann J-L, McDermott AE, Yachandra VK, Cole JL, Dexheimer SL, Britt RD, Wieghardt K, Bossek U, Sauer K and Klein MP (1990) The S3 state of Photosystem II: Differences between the structure of the manganese complex in the S2 and S3 states determined by X-ray absorption spectroscopy. Biochemistry 29: 471–485

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  • Kim DH, Britt RD, Klein MP and Sauer K (1990) The g = 4.1 EPR signal of the S2 state of the photosynthetic oxygen evolving complex arises from a multinuclear Mn cluster. J Am Chem Soc 112: 9389–9391

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  • Kirby JA, Robertson AS, Smith JP, Cooper SR and Klein MP (1981) The state of manganese in the photosynthetic apparatus I. EXAFS studies on chloroplasts and di-μ-oxo bridged di-manganese compounds. J Am Chem Soc 103: 5529–5537

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  • Klein MP, Sauer K and Yachandra VK (1993) Perspectives on the structure of the photosynthetic oxygen evolving Mn complex and its relation to the Kok cycle. Photosynth Res 38: 265–277

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  • Latimer MJ, DeRose VJ, Mukerji I, Yachandra VK, Sauer K and Klein MP (1995) Evidence for a calcium binding site in close proximity to the manganese cluster of the oxygen evolving complex: EXAFS Studies of strontium-substituted Photosystem II membranes. Biochemistry 34: 10898–10909

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  • Liang W, Roelofs TA, Cinco RM, Latimer MJ, Rompel A, Yu WO, Sauer K, Klein MP and Yachandra VK (2000) Structure of the Mn cluster in the oxygen-evolving complex of Photosystem II in the S3 state: Does it reflect the onset of water/substrate oxidation? Determination by X-ray absorption spectroscopy. J Am Chem Soc 122: 3399–3412

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  • McDermott AE, Yachandra VK, Guiles RD, Cole JL, Dexheimer SL, Britt RD, Sauer K and Klein MP (1988) Characterization of the Manganese O2-evolving complex and the iron-quinone acceptor complex in Photosystem II from a thermophilic cyanobacterium by electron paramagnetic resonance and X-ray absorption spectroscopy. Biochemistry 27: 4021–4031

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  • Messinger J, Robblee JH, Yu WO, Sauer K, Yachandra VK and Klein MP (1997) The S0 state of the oxygen evolving complex in Photosystem II is paramagnetic: Detection of an EPR multiline signal. J Am Chem Soc 119: 11349–11350

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  • Mukerji I, Andrews JC, DeRose VJ, Latimer MJ, Yachandra VK, Sauer K and Klein MP (1994) Orientation of the oxygen-evolving Mn complex in a Photosystem II membrane preparation: An X-ray absorption spectroscopy study. Biochemistry 33: 9712–9721

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  • Roelofs TA, Liang W, Andrews JC, Cinco RM, Rompel A, Yachandra VK, Sauer K and Klein MP (1996) The oxidation state of the manganese cluster during the flash-induced S-state cycle of the oxygen-evolving complex of Photosystem II. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 93: 3335–3340

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  • Rompel A, Andrews JC, Cinco RM, Wemple MW, Christou G, Law NA, Pecoraro VL, Sauer K, Yachandra VK and Klein MP (1997) Chlorine K-edge X-ray absorption spectroscopy as a probe of chlorine-metal bonding: Manganese-chloride model systems with relevance to the oxygen evolving complex in Photosystem II. J Am Chem Soc 119: 4465–4470

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  • Sauer K, Yachandra VK, Britt RD and Klein MP (1992) The photosynthetic water oxidation complex studied by EPR and X-ray absorption spectroscopy. In: Pecoraro VL (ed) Manganese Redox Enzymes, pp 141–175. VCH Publishers, New York

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  • Yachandra VK and Klein MP (1995) X-ray absorption spectroscopy: Determination of transition metal site structures in Photosynthesis. In: Amesz J and Hoff AJ (eds) Biophysical Techniques in Photosynthesis, pp 337–354, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands

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  • Yachandra VK, Guiles RD, McDermott AE, Cole JL, Britt RD, Dexheimer SL, Sauer K and Klein MP (1987) Comparison of the structure of the Manganese Complex in the S1 and S2 states of the photosynthetic oxygen evolving complex: An X-ray absorption spectroscopy study. Biochemistry 26: 5974–5891

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  • Yachandra VK, DeRose VJ, Latimer MJ, Mukerji I, Sauer K and Klein MP (1993) Where plants make oxygen: A structural model for the manganese cluster in the photosynthetic oxygen evolving complex. Science 260: 675–679

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  • Yachandra VK, Sauer K and Klein MP (1996) Manganese cluster in photosynthesis: Where plants oxidize water to dioxygen. Chem Rev 96: 2927–2950

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Remembering Melvin P. Klein. Photosynthesis Research 65, 201–206 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1017312803758

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