Conformational control of cofactors in nature – the influence of protein-induced macrocycle distortion on the biological function of tetrapyrroles

Reaction Mechanism of Cytochrome c Oxidase

(2015) Shinya Yoshikawa et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

How green is green chemistry? Chlorophylls as a bioresource from biorefineries and their commercial potential in medicine and photovoltaics

(2015) Aoife A. Ryan et al.   PHOTOCHEMICAL & PHOTOBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Saddle-shaped porphyrins for dye-sensitized solar cells: new insight into the relationship between nonplanarity and photovoltaic properties

(2015) Hashem Shahroosvand et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Colorimetric “naked eye” detection of CN−, F−, CH3COO− and H2PO4− ions by highly nonplanar electron deficient perhaloporphyrins

(2015) Nivedita Chaudhri et al.   RSC Advances

Anthracenylporphyrins

(2015) Mia Davis et al.   ZEITSCHRIFT FUR NATURFORSCHUNG SECTION B-A JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL SCIENCES

Molecular basis of the selective methylation of histone H3.1

(2015) Jean-Francois Couture   Acta Crystallographica A-Foundation and Advances

The characterization of the saddle shaped nickel(iii) porphyrin radical cation: an explicative NMR model for a ferromagnetically coupled metallo-porphyrin radical

(2014) Ru-Jen Cheng et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Phyllobilins – the abundant bilin-type tetrapyrrolic catabolites of the green plant pigment chlorophyll

(2014) Bernhard Kräutler   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Impact of Substituents and Nonplanarity on Nickel and Copper Porphyrin Electrochemistry: First Observation of a CuII/CuIII Reaction in Nonaqueous Media

(2014) Yuanyuan Fang et al.   INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Generation of New Artificial Metalloproteins by Cofactor Modification of Native Hemoproteins

(2014) Takashi Hayashi et al.   ISRAEL JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY

Synthesis of Phosphorescent Asymmetrically π-Extended Porphyrins for Two-Photon Applications

(2014) Tatiana V. Esipova et al.   JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

The 2-Methoxy Group Orientation Regulates the Redox Potential Difference between the Primary (QA) and Secondary (QB) Quinones of Type II Bacterial Photosynthetic Reaction Centers

(2014) Wagner B. de Almeida et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Phytochromes: An Atomic Perspective on Photoactivation and Signaling

(2014) E. Sethe Burgie et al.   PLANT CELL

Crystal structure of the photosensing module from a red/far-red light-absorbing plant phytochrome

(2014) E. S. Burgie et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Chlorophylls, Symmetry, Chirality, and Photosynthesis

(2014) Mathias Senge et al.   Symmetry-Basel

The structure of allophycocyanin B fromSynechocystisPCC 6803 reveals the structural basis for the extreme redshift of the terminal emitter in phycobilisomes

(2014) Pan-Pan Peng et al.   ACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA SECTION D-BIOLOGICAL CRYSTALLOGRAPHY

Specificity in Transition State Binding: The Pauling Model Revisited

(2013) Tina L. Amyes et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

Heme Degradation by Staphylococcus aureus IsdG and IsdI Liberates Formaldehyde Rather Than Carbon Monoxide

(2013) Toshitaka Matsui et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

Conformational Differences between the Methoxy Groups of QA and QB Site Ubisemiquinones in Bacterial Reaction Centers: A Key Role for Methoxy Group Orientation in Modulating Ubiquinone Redox Potential

(2013) Alexander T. Taguchi et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

Computational Quantification of the Physicochemical Effects of Heme Distortion: Redox Control in the Reaction Center Cytochrome Subunit of Blastochloris viridis

(2013) Stuart A. MacGowan et al.   INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Porphyrin-Substituted H-NOX Proteins as High-Relaxivity MRI Contrast Agents

(2013) Michael B. Winter et al.   INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

The D-ring, Not the A-ring, Rotates inSynechococcusOS-B′ Phytochrome

(2013) Chen Song et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Electron density deformations provide new insights into the spectral shift of rhodopsins

(2013) Erix Wiliam Hernández-Rodríguez et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY

Green/red cyanobacteriochromes regulate complementary chromatic acclimation via a protochromic photocycle

(2013) Y. Hirose et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Structure of Sr-substituted photosystem II at 2.1 A resolution and its implications in the mechanism of water oxidation

(2013) F. H. M. Koua et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Simultaneous Femtosecond X-ray Spectroscopy and Diffraction of Photosystem II at Room Temperature

(2013) J. Kern et al.   SCIENCE

Nitric oxide-sensing H-NOX proteins govern bacterial communal behavior

(2013) Lars Plate et al.   TRENDS IN BIOCHEMICAL SCIENCES

The Structural Chemistry of Metallocorroles: Combined X-ray Crystallography and Quantum Chemistry Studies Afford Unique Insights

(2012) Kolle E. Thomas et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

[5,15-Bis(2-methylpropyl)porphyrinato]nickel(II)

(2012) Mathias O. Senge   ACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA SECTION E-STRUCTURE REPORTS ONLINE

The Qy Absorption Spectrum of the Light-Harvesting Complex II As Determined by Structure-Based Analysis of Chlorophyll Macrocycle Deformations

(2012) Giuseppe Zucchelli et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

Deformation of Chlorin Rings in the Photosystem II Crystal Structure

(2012) Keisuke Saito et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

Adenosylcobalamin enzymes: Theory and experiment begin to converge

(2012) E. Neil G. Marsh et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-PROTEINS AND PROTEOMICS

Inactivation of the Heme Degrading Enzyme IsdI by an Active Site Substitution That Diminishes Heme Ruffling

(2012) Georgia Ukpabi et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Heme Flattening Is Sufficient for Signal Transduction in the H-NOX Family

(2012) Sandhya Muralidharan et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Metal-Porphyrin Orbital Interactions in Paramagnetic Iron Complexes Having Planar and Deformed Porphyrin Ring

(2012) Mikio Nakamura et al.   JOURNAL OF THE CHINESE CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Out of Plane Distortions of the Heme b of Escherichia coli Succinate Dehydrogenase

(2012) Quang M. Tran et al.   PLoS One

Room temperature femtosecond X-ray diffraction of photosystem II microcrystals

(2012) J. Kern et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Improving the Accuracy of Macromolecular Structure Refinement at 7 Å Resolution

(2012) Axel T. Brunger et al.   STRUCTURE

(5-tert-Butylporphyrinato)copper(II), a nonplanar porphyrin with only one sterically demandingmesoresidue

(2011) Mathias O. Senge   ACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA SECTION C-CRYSTAL STRUCTURE COMMUNICATIONS

Crystal structure of small protein crambin at 0.48 Å resolution

(2011) Andrea Schmidt et al.   Acta Crystallographica Section F-Structural Biology and Crystallization Communications

Nickel(II) Chelatase Variants Directly Evolved from Murine Ferrochelatase: Porphyrin Distortion and Kinetic Mechanism

(2011) Neil R. McIntyre et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

Conformational control of cofactors in nature—functional tetrapyrrole conformations in the photosynthetic reaction centers of purple bacteria

(2011) Stuart A. MacGowan et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Stirring the porphyrin alphabet soup—functionalization reactions for porphyrins

(2011) Mathias O. Senge   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Vitamin B12-derivatives—enzyme cofactors and ligands of proteins and nucleic acids

(2011) Karl Gruber et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Förster Energy Transfer Theory as Reflected in the Structures of Photosynthetic Light-Harvesting Systems

(2011) Melih Şener et al.   CHEMPHYSCHEM

Bacterial phytochromes: More than meets the light

(2011) Michele E. Auldridge et al.   CRITICAL REVIEWS IN BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Modulation of Ligand-Field Parameters by Heme Ruffling in CytochromescRevealed by EPR Spectroscopy

(2011) Mehmet Can et al.   INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Structural Basis of Cyanobacterial Photosystem II Inhibition by the Herbicide Terbutryn

(2011) Matthias Broser et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Probing the local electronic and geometric properties of the heme iron center in a H-NOX domain

(2011) Zhou Dai et al.   JOURNAL OF INORGANIC BIOCHEMISTRY

Comparison of the Photophysical Properties of a Planar, PtOEP, and a Nonplanar, PtOETPP, Porphyrin in Solution and Doped Films

(2011) Fotis Nifiatis et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A

Quantum Chemical Simulations of Excited-State Absorption Spectra of Photosynthetic Bacterial Reaction Center and Antenna Complexes

(2011) J. Linnanto et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Understanding Rhodopsin Mutations Linked to the Retinitis pigmentosa Disease: a QM/MM and DFT/MRCI Study

(2011) Erix Wiliam Hernández-Rodríguez et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Distribution of the Cationic State over the Chlorophyll Pair of the Photosystem II Reaction Center

(2011) Keisuke Saito et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Structural Analysis of a Ni-Methyl Species in Methyl-Coenzyme M Reductase fromMethanothermobacter marburgensis

(2011) Peder E. Cedervall et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

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

(2011) Yasufumi Umena et al.   NATURE

Femtosecond X-ray protein nanocrystallography

(2011) Henry N. Chapman et al.   NATURE

Electronic properties of the highly ruffled heme bound to the heme degrading enzyme IsdI

(2011) Shin-ichi J. Takayama et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Two ground state isoforms and a chromophore D-ring photoflip triggering extensive intramolecular changes in a canonical phytochrome

(2011) C. Song et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

(5,15-Dianthracen-9-yl-10,20-dihexylporphyrinato)nickel(II): a planar nickel(II) porphyrin

(2010) Mathias O. Senge et al.   ACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA SECTION E-STRUCTURE REPORTS ONLINE

Structural Insight into Methyl-Coenzyme M Reductase Chemistry Using Coenzyme B Analogues,

(2010) Peder E. Cedervall et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

Chlorophyll breakdown in higher plants

(2010) Stefan Hörtensteiner et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

Variation and Analysis of Second-Sphere Interactions and Axial Histidinate Character inc-type Cytochromes

(2010) Sarah E. J. Bowman et al.   INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Activated RhoA Binds to the Pleckstrin Homology (PH) Domain of PDZ-RhoGEF, a Potential Site for Autoregulation

(2010) Zhe Chen et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Large-scale Domain Dynamics and Adenosylcobalamin Reorientation Orchestrate Radical Catalysis in Ornithine 4,5-Aminomutase

(2010) Kirsten R. Wolthers et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Crystal Structures of Ethanolamine Ammonia-lyase Complexed with Coenzyme B12Analogs and Substrates

(2010) Naoki Shibata et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Role of Heme Distortion on Oxygen Affinity in Heme Proteins: The Protoglobin Case

(2010) Damián E. Bikiel et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

NMR and DFT Investigation of Heme Ruffling: Functional Implications for Cytochromec

(2010) Matthew D. Liptak et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Ru-Porphyrin Protein Scaffolds for Sensing O2

(2010) Michael B. Winter et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Modulating Heme Redox Potential through Protein-Induced Porphyrin Distortion

(2010) Charles Olea et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Engineering of the Heme Pocket of an H-NOX Domain for Direct Cyanide Detection and Quantification

(2010) Zhou Dai et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

The Proapoptotic G41S Mutation to Human CytochromecAlters the Heme Electronic Structure and Increases the Electron Self-Exchange Rate

(2010) Matthew D. Liptak et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Metal-Substituted Protein MRI Contrast Agents Engineered for Enhanced Relaxivity and Ligand Sensitivity

(2010) Victor S. Lelyveld et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

The IsdG-family of haem oxygenases degrades haem to a novel chromophore

(2010) Michelle L. Reniere et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Structural basis for the photoconversion of a phytochrome to the activated Pfr form

(2010) Andrew T. Ulijasz et al.   NATURE

Correlation of photophysical parameters with macrocycle distortion in porphyrins with graded degree of saddle distortion

(2010) Beate Röder et al.   PHOTOCHEMICAL & PHOTOBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The cell biology of tetrapyrroles: a life and death struggle

(2010) Nobuyoshi Mochizuki et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Solar Fuels via Artificial Photosynthesis

(2009) Devens Gust et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Resonance Raman Spectra of an O2-Binding H-NOX Domain Reveal Heme Relaxation upon Mutation

(2009) Rosalie Tran et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

Structure Determination and Improved Model of Plant Photosystem I

(2009) Alexey Amunts et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Cyanobacterial photosystem II at 2.9-Å resolution and the role of quinones, lipids, channels and chloride

(2009) Albert Guskov et al.   NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Evolution of opsins and phototransduction

(2009) Y. Shichida et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Theory of excitation energy transfer: from structure to function

(2009) Thomas Renger   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

Location of chloride and its possible functions in oxygen-evolving photosystem II revealed by X-ray crystallography

(2009) K. Kawakami et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Probing the Function of Heme Distortion in the H-NOX Family

(2008) Charles Olea et al.   ACS Chemical Biology

Merging Porphyrins with Organometallics: Synthesis and Applications

(2008) Bart M. J. M. Suijkerbuijk et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

The Q-cycle reviewed: How well does a monomeric mechanism of the bc1 complex account for the function of a dimeric complex?

(2008) Antony R. Crofts et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

Mutational Analysis ofDeinococcus radioduransBacteriophytochrome Reveals Key Amino Acids Necessary for the Photochromicity and Proton Exchange Cycle of Phytochromes

(2008) Jeremiah R. Wagner et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Structure of the Dissimilatory Sulfite Reductase from the Hyperthermophilic Archaeon Archaeoglobus fulgidus

(2008) Alexander Schiffer et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Effects of Structural Deformations on Optical Properties of Tetrabenzoporphyrins: Free-Bases and Pd Complexes

(2008) Artem Y. Lebedev et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A

Function and distribution of bilin biosynthesis enzymes in photosynthetic organisms

(2008) Thorben Dammeyer et al.   PHOTOCHEMICAL & PHOTOBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The structure of a complete phytochrome sensory module in the Pr ground state

(2008) L.-O. Essen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Crystal structure of Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteriophytochrome: Photoconversion and signal transduction

(2008) X. Yang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Ligand preference and orientation in b- and c-type heme-binding proteins

(2008) Christian Fufezan et al.   PROTEINS-STRUCTURE FUNCTION AND BIOINFORMATICS

Analysis of the electrochemistry of hemes withEms spanning 800 mV

(2008) Zhong Zheng et al.   PROTEINS-STRUCTURE FUNCTION AND BIOINFORMATICS