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While light is required to drive the photochemical reactions, high light and high temperature can be damaging to PS II. To gain insight into potential structural consequences of such conditions, we performed an exploratory study where isolated PS II complexes (C2S2) from\n                    <jats:italic>Arabidopsis thaliana<\/jats:italic>\n                    were exposed to high light and elevated temperature and employed cryo-electron microscopy for structural determination. This resulted in a \u2018high light\u2019 structure (2.74 \u00c5 global resolution) which is compared to the published 2.44 \u00c5 structure of intact Arabidopsis-PSII vitrified under dim light conditions (control). The high light structure is missing several of the subunits present in the control, including the strongly bound light-harvesting antenna complexes as well as several small transmembrane and extrinsic subunits. Beyond the loss of subunits, the clearest evidence of specific photodamage was found on the acceptor side of the D1 and D2 subunits near the non-heme iron, including the loss of the bicarbonate ligand of the non-heme iron. 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