Li junbai, research group of Institute of chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has made important progress in artificial simulation of chloroplast structure and function
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Last Update: 2019-02-21
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Photosynthetic phosphorylation is one of the most important links in photosynthesis in nature It determines the transformation of light energy to chemical energy fundamentally, and it is also the basis of chemical synthesis and energy transformation in the life activities of higher plants The efficiency of adenosine triphosphate synthetase (ATPase) catalyzing the production of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) is the most important parameter to evaluate photosynthesis In recent years, with the help of the biological activity of natural ATPase, the construction of supramolecular assembly system which can catalyze the production of ATP in vitro has become a hot spot in the field of chemistry, materials and biological science Li junbai's research group, Institute of chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has long been committed to the supramolecular assembly of the active biomolecular motor ATPase, and has made a series of original achievements The team co assembled the biomolecular motor ATPase and photosystem II in vitro, effectively simulating the structure and function of chloroplasts in nature (ACS Nano 2016, 10, 556; ACS Nano 2018, 12, 1455; adv funct Mater 2018, 28, 1706557) The team further assembled the biomolecular motor ATPase with the synthesized photoacid molecules or quantum dots, which significantly improved the conversion efficiency of light energy to chemical energy (ACS Nano 2017, 11, 10175; angelw Chem Int.ed 2017, 56, 12903; angelw Chem Int.ed 2018, 57, 6532) Based on the above research work, researchers have recently obtained a kind of multicavity mesoporous silica material with high efficiency of embedding photoacid molecules by using the sacrificial template method, and then recombined the phospholipid double layer containing ATPase on its surface, thus building a molecular assembly system of "artificial chloroplast" Further studies show that the above molecular assembly system can achieve controllable and efficient ATP synthesis in vitro The establishment of this system provides a new way and new idea for improving the utilization of light energy It is considered by the reviewers to be the closest synthetic system to the real chloroplast structure and function Relevant research results were published in angew Chem Int ed (angew Chem Int ed 2019, 58, 796) and selected as "hot paper".
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