Ultrafast Dynamics of Photosynthetic Light Harvesting: Strategies for Acclimation Across Organisms

Observation of robust energy transfer in the photosynthetic protein allophycocyanin using single-molecule pump–probe spectroscopy

(2022) Raymundo Moya et al.   Nature Chemistry

Structure of the stress-related LHCSR1 complex determined by an integrated computational strategy

(2022) Ingrid Guarnetti Prandi et al.   Communications Biology

Combined contributions of carotenoids and chlorophylls in two-photon spectra of photosynthetic pigment–protein complexes—A new way to quantify carotenoid dark state to chlorophyll energy transfer?

(2022) Julia Nowak et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

The antenna of far-red absorbing cyanobacteria increases both absorption and quantum efficiency of Photosystem II

(2022) Vincenzo Mascoli et al.   Nature Communications

Identification of distinct pH-and zeaxanthin-dependent quenching in LHCSR3 from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

(2021) Julianne M Troiano et al.   eLife

Intraband dynamics and exciton trapping in the LH2 complex of Rhodopseudomonas acidophila

(2021) Erling Thyrhaug et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

A Novel Mode of Photoprotection Mediated by a Cysteine Residue in the Chlorophyll Protein IsiA

(2021) Hui-Yuan Steven Chen et al.   mBio

Structure of Phycobilisomes

(2021) Sen-Fang Sui   Annual Review of Biophysics

Transient Absorption of Chlorophylls and Carotenoids after Two-Photon Excitation of LHCII

(2021) Václav Šebelík et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

The PsbS protein and low pH are necessary and sufficient to induce quenching in the light-harvesting complex of plants LHCII

(2021) Lauren Nicol et al.   Scientific Reports

Dissipation of Light Energy Absorbed in Excess: The Molecular Mechanisms

(2021) Roberto Bassi et al.   Annual Review of Plant Biology

Membrane-dependent heterogeneity of LHCII characterized using single-molecule spectroscopy

(2021) Premashis Manna et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Broadband 2DES detection of vibrational coherence in the Sx state of canthaxanthin

(2021) Nila Mohan T. M. et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Protein–Protein Interactions Induce pH-Dependent and Zeaxanthin-Independent Photoprotection in the Plant Light-Harvesting Complex, LHCII

(2021) Minjung Son et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

A different perspective for nonphotochemical quenching in plant antenna complexes

(2021) Edoardo Cignoni et al.   Nature Communications

Binding of red form of Orange Carotenoid Protein (OCP) to phycobilisome is not sufficient for quenching

(2020) Wenjing Lou et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

Comparison of the Energy-Transfer Rates in Structural and Spectral Variants of the B800–850 Complex from Purple Bacteria

(2020) Ashley L. Tong et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Ultrafast excited-state dynamics in land plants Photosystem I core and whole supercomplex under oxidised electron donor conditions

(2020) Mattia Russo et al.   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

Observation of dissipative chlorophyll-to-carotenoid energy transfer in light-harvesting complex II in membrane nanodiscs

(2020) Minjung Son et al.   Nature Communications

Zeaxanthin independence of photophysics in light-harvesting complex II in a membrane environment

(2020) Minjung Son et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

Investigations of the Energy Transfer in the Phycobilisome Antenna of Arthrospira platensis Using Femtosecond Spectroscopy

(2020) Alexandra Fălămaș et al.   Applied Sciences-Basel

Accurate Computation of the Absorption Spectrum of Chlorophyll a with Pair Natural Orbital Coupled Cluster Methods

(2020) Abhishek Sirohiwal et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Unraveling the Excited-State Dynamics and Light-Harvesting Functions of Xanthophylls in Light-Harvesting Complex II Using Femtosecond Stimulated Raman Spectroscopy

(2020) Juan M. Artes Vivancos et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

The Electronic Structure of Lutein 2 Is Optimized for Light Harvesting in Plants

(2019) Minjung Son et al.   Chem

Chlorophyll–carotenoid excitation energy transfer and charge transfer in Nannochloropsis oceanica for the regulation of photosynthesis

(2019) Soomin Park et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Molecular Mechanisms of Nonphotochemical Quenching in the LHCSR3 Protein of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

(2019) Gabriel de la Cruz Valbuena et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

The structure of the stress-induced photosystem I–IsiA antenna supercomplex

(2019) Hila Toporik et al.   NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Microsecond and millisecond dynamics in the photosynthetic protein LHCSR1 observed by single-molecule correlation spectroscopy

(2019) Toru Kondo et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The amazing phycobilisome

(2019) Noam Adir et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

Monomeric light harvesting complexes enhance excitation energy transfer from LHCII to PSII and control their lateral spacing in thylakoids

(2019) Luca Dall'Osto et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

Phospholipid distributions in purple phototrophic bacteria and LH1-RC core complexes

(2019) S. Nagatsuma et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

Dependence of chlorophyll fluorescence quenching on the lipid-to-protein ratio in reconstituted light-harvesting complex II membranes containing lipid labels

(2019) Parveen Akhtar et al.   CHEMICAL PHYSICS

The rise and fall of Light-Harvesting Complex Stress-Related proteins as photoprotection agents during evolution

(2019) Alberta Pinnola   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Capturing the Quenching Mechanism of Light-Harvesting Complexes of Plants by Zooming in on the Ensemble

(2019) Vincenzo Mascoli et al.   Chem

Redox Regulation of a Light-Harvesting Antenna Complex in an Anoxygenic Phototroph

(2019) Kathryn R. Fixen et al.   mBio

Flipping a Protein Switch: Carotenoid-Mediated Quenching in Plants

(2019) Minjung Son et al.   Chem

The causes of altered chlorophyll fluorescence quenching induction in the Arabidopsis mutant lacking all minor antenna complexes

(2018) Alexandra J. Townsend et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

Apoprotein heterogeneity increases spectral disorder and a step-wise modification of the B850 fluorescence peak position

(2018) Cristian Ilioaia et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

Computational Modeling of Exciton-Bath Hamiltonians for Light Harvesting 2 and Light Harvesting 3 Complexes of Purple Photosynthetic Bacteria at Room Temperature

(2018) Daniel Montemayor et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Revisiting the Role of Xanthophylls in Nonphotochemical Quenching

(2018) Bart van Oort et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Energy transfer in purple bacterial photosynthetic units from cells grown in various light intensities

(2018) Dariusz M. Niedzwiedzki et al.   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

Function, regulation and distribution of IsiA, a membrane-bound chlorophyll a-antenna protein in cyanobacteria

(2018) H.-Y.S. Chen et al.   PHOTOSYNTHETICA

Impact of the lipid bilayer on energy transfer kinetics in the photosynthetic protein LH2

(2018) John I. Ogren et al.   Chemical Science

Chlorophyll-Carotenoid Excitation Energy Transfer in High-Light-Exposed Thylakoid Membranes Investigated by Snapshot Transient Absorption Spectroscopy

(2018) Soomin Park et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Snapshot Transient Absorption Spectroscopy of Carotenoid Radical Cations in High-Light-Acclimating Thylakoid Membranes

(2017) Soomin Park et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Single-molecule spectroscopy of LHCSR1 protein dynamics identifies two distinct states responsible for multi-timescale photosynthetic photoprotection

(2017) Toru Kondo et al.   Nature Chemistry

Ultrabroadband 2D electronic spectroscopy with high-speed, shot-to-shot detection

(2017) Minjung Son et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Characterisation of a pucBA deletion mutant from Rhodopseudomonas palustris lacking all but the pucBAd genes

(2017) June Southall et al.   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

Energy transfer and trapping in Synechococcus WH 7803

(2017) Alonso M. Acuña et al.   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

Mapping the ultrafast flow of harvested solar energy in living photosynthetic cells

(2017) Peter D. Dahlberg et al.   Nature Communications

Different carotenoid conformations have distinct functions in light-harvesting regulation in plants

(2017) Nicoletta Liguori et al.   Nature Communications

Exciton Transport in Molecular Aggregates - From Natural Antennas to Synthetic Chromophore Systems

(2017) Tobias Brixner et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Fast Photochemical Oxidation of Proteins Maps the Topology of Intrinsic Membrane Proteins: Light-Harvesting Complex 2 in a Nanodisc

(2016) Yue Lu et al.   ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

Cyanobacterial high-light-inducible proteins — Protectors of chlorophyll–protein synthesis and assembly

(2016) Josef Komenda et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

Characterization of red-shifted phycobilisomes isolated from the chlorophyll f -containing cyanobacterium Halomicronema hongdechloris

(2016) Yaqiong Li et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

Electron transfer between carotenoid and chlorophyll contributes to quenching in the LHCSR1 protein from Physcomitrella patens

(2016) Alberta Pinnola et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

Carotenoid-induced non-photochemical quenching in the cyanobacterial chlorophyll synthase–HliC/D complex

(2016) Dariusz M. Niedzwiedzki et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

Excitation dynamics and structural implication of the stress-related complex LHCSR3 from the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

(2016) Nicoletta Liguori et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

Light Absorption and Energy Transfer in the Antenna Complexes of Photosynthetic Organisms

(2016) Tihana Mirkovic et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Broadband 7-fs diffractive-optic-based 2D electronic spectroscopy using hollow-core fiber compression

(2016) Xiaonan Ma et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Far-red light photoacclimation (FaRLiP) in Synechococcus sp. PCC 7335. II.Characterization of phycobiliproteins produced during acclimation to far-red light

(2016) Ming-Yang Ho et al.   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

Orange carotenoid protein burrows into the phycobilisome to provide photoprotection

(2016) Dvir Harris et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

Coherence in Energy Transfer and Photosynthesis

(2015) Aurélia Chenu et al.   Annual Review of Physical Chemistry

PSI–LHCI of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii : Increasing the absorption cross section without losing efficiency

(2015) Clotilde Le Quiniou et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

Light-harvesting II antenna trimers connect energetically the entire photosynthetic machinery — including both photosystems II and I

(2015) Michele Grieco et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

Single-Molecule Identification of Quenched and Unquenched States of LHCII

(2015) Gabriela S. Schlau-Cohen et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Mechanism of photoprotection in the cyanobacterial ancestor of plant antenna proteins

(2015) Hristina Staleva et al.   Nature Chemical Biology

Plants Actively Avoid State Transitions upon Changes in Light Intensity: Role of Light-Harvesting Complex II Protein Dephosphorylation in High Light

(2015) Nageswara Rao Mekala et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

From light-harvesting to photoprotection: structural basis of the dynamic switch of the major antenna complex of plants (LHCII)

(2015) Nicoletta Liguori et al.   Scientific Reports

Natural strategies for photosynthetic light harvesting

(2014) Roberta Croce et al.   Nature Chemical Biology

Pathways of energy transfer in LHCII revealed by room-temperature 2D electronic spectroscopy

(2014) Kym L. Wells et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Extensive remodeling of a cyanobacterial photosynthetic apparatus in far-red light

(2014) F. Gan et al.   SCIENCE

Chlorophylls, Symmetry, Chirality, and Photosynthesis

(2014) Mathias Senge et al.   Symmetry-Basel

Energy transfer and clustering of photosynthetic light-harvesting complexes in reconstituted lipid membranes

(2013) Takehisa Dewa et al.   CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Influence of Phospholipid Composition on Self-Assembly and Energy-Transfer Efficiency in Networks of Light-Harvesting 2 Complexes

(2013) Ayumi Sumino et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

A Structure-Based Model of Energy Transfer Reveals the Principles of Light Harvesting in Photosystem II Supercomplexes

(2013) Doran I. G. Bennett et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Models and measurements of energy-dependent quenching

(2013) Julia Zaks et al.   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

Single-molecule spectroscopy reveals photosynthetic LH2 complexes switch between emissive states

(2013) G. S. Schlau-Cohen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

From red to blue to far-red in Lhca4: How does the protein modulate the spectral properties of the pigments?

(2012) Emilie Wientjes et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

Adaptation of intracytoplasmic membranes to altered light intensity in Rhodobacter sphaeroides

(2012) Peter G. Adams et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

Picosecond Kinetics of Light Harvesting and Photoprotective Quenching in Wild-Type and Mutant Phycobilisomes Isolated from the Cyanobacterium Synechocystis PCC 6803

(2012) Lijin Tian et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Evolution of low-light adapted peripheral light-harvesting complexes in strains of Rhodopseudomonas palustris

(2012) Abhay Kotecha et al.   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

Salt Stress-Induced Changes in the Transcriptome, Compatible Solutes, and Membrane Lipids in the Facultatively Phototrophic Bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides

(2011) Minoru Tsuzuki et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

ApcD, ApcF and ApcE are not required for the Orange Carotenoid Protein related phycobilisome fluorescence quenching in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis PCC 6803

(2011) Denis Jallet et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

The orange carotenoid protein in photoprotection of photosystem II in cyanobacteria

(2011) Diana Kirilovsky et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

Excitation Energy Transfer and Trapping in Higher Plant Photosystem II Complexes with Different Antenna Sizes

(2011) Stefano Caffarri et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Design principles of photosynthetic light-harvesting

(2011) Graham R. Fleming et al.   FARADAY DISCUSSIONS

Ultrafast Multidimensional Spectroscopy: Principles and Applications to Photosynthetic Systems

(2011) G. S. Schlau-Cohen et al.   IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN QUANTUM ELECTRONICS

Fluorescence Intermittency from the Main Plant Light-Harvesting Complex: Resolving Shifts between Intensity Levels

(2011) Tjaart P. J. Krüger et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Vibronic Enhancement of Exciton Sizes and Energy Transport in Photosynthetic Complexes

(2011) Jordan M. Womick et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Photoprotective Energy Dissipation Involves the Reorganization of Photosystem II Light-Harvesting Complexes in the Grana Membranes of Spinach Chloroplasts

(2011) Matthew P. Johnson et al.   PLANT CELL

Role of PSBS and LHCSR in Physcomitrella patens acclimation to high light and low temperature

(2011) CATERINA GEROTTO et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Expanding the solar spectrum used by photosynthesis

(2011) Min Chen et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

The light-harvesting function of carotenoids in the cyanobacterial stress-inducible IsiA complex

(2010) Rudi Berera et al.   CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Toward the origin of exciton electronic structure in phycobiliproteins

(2010) Jordan M. Womick et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Quantum coherence and its interplay with protein environments in photosynthetic electronic energy transfer

(2010) Akihito Ishizaki et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Antenna mixing in photosynthetic membranes from Phaeospirillum molischianum

(2010) C. Mascle-Allemand et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Atomic Force Microscopy Studies of Native Photosynthetic Membranes†

(2009) James N. Sturgis et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

A Mechanism of Energy Dissipation in Cyanobacteria

(2009) Rudi Berera et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Low Light Adaptation: Energy Transfer Processes in Different Types of Light Harvesting Complexes from Rhodopseudomonas palustris

(2009) Vladimíra Moulisová et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Dark excited states of carotenoids: Consensus and controversy

(2009) Tomáš Polívka et al.   CHEMICAL PHYSICS LETTERS

Pigment Organization and Energy Level Structure in Light-Harvesting Complex 4: Insights from Two-Dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy

(2009) Elizabeth L. Read et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Exciton Coherence and Energy Transport in the Light-Harvesting Dimers of Allophycocyanin

(2009) Jordan M. Womick et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Pathways of Energy Flow in LHCII from Two-Dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy

(2009) Gabriela S. Schlau-Cohen et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

An ancient light-harvesting protein is critical for the regulation of algal photosynthesis

(2009) Graham Peers et al.   NATURE

Ultrafast transient absorption spectroscopy: principles and application to photosynthetic systems

(2009) Rudi Berera et al.   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

Effect of carotenoid structure on excited-state dynamics of carbonyl carotenoids

(2009) Pavel Chábera et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Far-red fluorescence: A direct spectroscopic marker for LHCII oligomer formation in non-photochemical quenching

(2008) Yuliya Miloslavina et al.   FEBS LETTERS

Architecture of a Charge-Transfer State Regulating Light Harvesting in a Plant Antenna Protein

(2008) T. K. Ahn et al.   SCIENCE