Recent advances in the structural diversity of reaction centers

Photosynthesis tunes quantum-mechanical mixing of electronic and vibrational states to steer exciton energy transfer

(2021) Jacob S. Higgins et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The evolution of oxygen-utilizing enzymes suggests early biosphere oxygenation

(2021) Jagoda Jabłońska et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

A unique photosystem I reaction center from a chlorophyll d ‐containing cyanobacterium Acaryochloris marina

(2021) Caihuang Xu et al.   Journal of Integrative Plant Biology

Structure of the far-red light utilizing photosystem I of Acaryochloris marina

(2021) Tasuku Hamaguchi et al.   Nature Communications

Time-resolved comparative molecular evolution of oxygenic photosynthesis

(2021) Thomas Oliver et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

IQ-TREE 2: New Models and Efficient Methods for Phylogenetic Inference in the Genomic Era

(2020) Bui Quang Minh et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

A complete domain-to-species taxonomy for Bacteria and Archaea

(2020) Donovan H. Parks et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Anaerobic energy dissipation by glycosylated carotenoids in the green sulfur bacterium Chlorobaculum tepidum

(2020) Chihiro Azai et al.   JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY A-CHEMISTRY

Reaction centers of the thermophilic microaerophile, Chloracidobacterium thermophilum (Acidobacteria) I: biochemical and biophysical characterization

(2019) Zhihui He et al.   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

Evolution of Photochemical Reaction Centres: More Twists?

(2019) Tanai Cardona et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Evolutionary Implications of Anoxygenic Phototrophy in the Bacterial Phylum Candidatus Eremiobacterota (WPS-2)

(2019) Lewis M. Ward et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Photosynthesis on exoplanets and exomoons from reflected light

(2019) Manasvi Lingam et al.   International Journal of Astrobiology

Evolution of photosynthetic reaction centers: insights from the structure of the heliobacterial reaction center

(2018) Gregory S. Orf et al.   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

Light-driven quinone reduction in heliobacterial membranes

(2018) Trevor S. Kashey et al.   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

15N photo-CIDNP MAS NMR analysis of reaction centers of Chloracidobacterium thermophilum

(2018) Jeremias C. Zill et al.   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

Structure of photosynthetic LH1–RC supercomplex at 1.9 Å resolution

(2018) Long-Jiang Yu et al.   NATURE

Early Archean origin of Photosystem II

(2018) Tanai Cardona et al.   Geobiology

Structure of a symmetric photosynthetic reaction center–photosystem

(2017) Christopher Gisriel et al.   SCIENCE

Evolution of Oxygenic Photosynthesis

(2016) Woodward W. Fischer et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Thermodynamics of the Electron Acceptors in Heliobacterium modesticaldum: An Exemplar of an Early Homodimeric Type I Photosynthetic Reaction Center

(2016) Bryan Ferlez et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

Origin of Bacteriochlorophyll a and the Early Diversification of Photosynthesis

(2016) Tanai Cardona   PLoS One

Evidence for a cysteine-mediated mechanism of excitation energy regulation in a photosynthetic antenna complex

(2016) Gregory S. Orf et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mutation-induced perturbation of the special pair P840 in the homodimeric reaction center in green sulfur bacteria

(2016) Chihiro Azai et al.   Scientific Reports

Chloracidobacterium thermophilum gen. nov., sp. nov.: an anoxygenic microaerophilic chlorophotoheterotrophic acidobacterium

(2015) M. Tank et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Reference sequence (RefSeq) database at NCBI: current status, taxonomic expansion, and functional annotation

(2015) Nuala A. O'Leary et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Native FMO-reaction center supercomplex in green sulfur bacteria: an electron microscopy study

(2015) David Bína et al.   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

Structural Analysis of the Homodimeric Reaction Center Complex from the Photosynthetic Green Sulfur Bacterium Chlorobaculum tepidum

(2014) Guannan He et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

Expression and characterization of cytochrome c 553 from Heliobacterium modesticaldum

(2014) Trevor S. Kashey et al.   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

Back-reactions, short-circuits, leaks and other energy wasteful reactions in biological electron transfer: Redox tuning to survive life in O2

(2012) A. William Rutherford et al.   FEBS LETTERS

Chlorophyll Biosynthesis Gene Evolution Indicates Photosystem Gene Duplication, Not Photosystem Merger, at the Origin of Oxygenic Photosynthesis

(2012) Filipa L. Sousa et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

A heterogeneous tag-attachment to the homodimeric type 1 photosynthetic reaction center core protein in the green sulfur bacterium Chlorobaculum tepidum

(2011) Chihiro Azai et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

Two tyrosines that changed the world: Interfacing the oxidizing power of photochemistry to water splitting in photosystem II

(2011) Stenbjörn Styring et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

Cationic State Distribution over the P700 Chlorophyll Pair in Photosystem I

(2011) Keisuke Saito et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Isolation and Characterization of Homodimeric Type-I Reaction Center Complex fromCandidatusChloracidobacterium thermophilum, an Aerobic Chlorophototroph

(2011) Yusuke Tsukatani et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Fast, scalable generation of high-quality protein multiple sequence alignments using Clustal Omega

(2011) F. Sievers et al.   Molecular Systems Biology

Crystal structure of oxygen-evolving photosystem II at a resolution of 1.9 Å

(2011) Yasufumi Umena et al.   NATURE

OPM database and PPM web server: resources for positioning of proteins in membranes

(2011) Mikhail A. Lomize et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Crystal Structure of the Electron Carrier Domain of the Reaction Center Cytochrome cz Subunit from Green Photosynthetic Bacterium Chlorobium tepidum

(2010) Yu Hirano et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy of special pair bacteriochlorophylls in homodimeric reaction centers of heliobacteria and green sulfur bacteria

(2010) Takumi Noguchi   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

C-type cytochromes in the photosynthetic electron transfer pathways in green sulfur bacteria and heliobacteria

(2010) Chihiro Azai et al.   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

Revisiting the optical properties of the FMO protein

(2010) Maaike T. W. Milder et al.   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

Early Evolution of Photosynthesis

(2010) R. E. Blankenship   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Independent initiation of primary electron transfer in the two branches of the photosystem I reaction center

(2010) M. G. Muller et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Multiple antioxidant proteins protect Chlorobaculum tepidum against oxygen and reactive oxygen species

(2009) Hui Li et al.   ARCHIVES OF MICROBIOLOGY

Membrane orientation of the FMO antenna protein from Chlorobaculum tepidum as determined by mass spectrometry-based footprinting

(2009) J. Wen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Parallel electron donation pathways to cytochrome cz in the type I homodimeric photosynthetic reaction center complex of Chlorobium tepidum

(2008) Yusuke Tsukatani et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS