[HTML][HTML] Catalysis by Nature's photoenzymes

A Taylor, DJ Heyes, NS Scrutton - Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Photoenzymes use light to initiate biochemical reactions. Although rarely found in nature,
their study has advanced understanding of how light energy can be harnessed to facilitate …

Time-resolved infrared spectroscopy in the study of photosynthetic systems

A Mezzetti, W Leibl - Photosynthesis Research, 2017 - Springer
Abstract Time-resolved (TR) infrared (IR) spectroscopy in the nanosecond to second
timescale has been extensively used, in the last 30 years, in the study of photosynthetic …

Room temperature XFEL crystallography reveals asymmetry in the vicinity of the two phylloquinones in photosystem I

SM Keable, A Kölsch, PS Simon, M Dasgupta… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Photosystem I (PS I) has a symmetric structure with two highly similar branches of
pigments at the center that are involved in electron transfer, but shows very different …

Inverted-region electron transfer as a mechanism for enhancing photosynthetic solar energy conversion efficiency

H Makita, G Hastings - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
In all photosynthetic organisms, light energy is used to drive electrons from a donor
chlorophyll species via a series of acceptors across a biological membrane. These light …

A photosystem I monolayer with anisotropic electron flow enables Z-scheme like photosynthetic water splitting

F Zhao, P Wang, A Ruff, V Hartmann… - Energy & …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Photosynthetic protein complexes are attractive building blocks for the fabrication of semi-
artificial energy conversion devices. However, limitations in the efficiency of the …

Extended operational lifetime of a photosystem-based bioelectrode

F Zhao, A Ruff, M Rögner… - Journal of the …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The development of bioelectrochemical assemblies for sustainable energy transformation
constitutes an increasingly important field of research. Significant progress has been made …

Closing the Gap for Electronic Short‐Circuiting: Photosystem I Mixed Monolayers Enable Improved Anisotropic Electron Flow in Biophotovoltaic Devices

P Wang, A Frank, F Zhao, J Szczesny… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Well‐defined assemblies of photosynthetic protein complexes are required for an optimal
performance of semi‐artificial energy conversion devices, capable of providing …

Nanosecond time-resolved infrared spectroscopy for the study of electron transfer in photosystem I

SM Mäusle, N Agarwala, VG Eichmann, H Dau… - Photosynthesis …, 2024 - Springer
Microsecond time-resolved step-scan FTIR difference spectroscopy was used to study
photosystem I (PSI) from Thermosynechococcus vestitus BP-1 (T. vestitus, formerly known …

Energetics of the electron transfer pathways in the homodimeric photosynthetic reaction center

T Kanda, H Ishikita - Biochemistry, 2022 - ACS Publications
Photosynthetic reaction centers from a green sulfur bacterium (GsbRC), the PscA/PscA
proteins, and photosystem I (PSI), PsaA/PsaB proteins, share structural similarities. Here, we …

Kinetic modeling of electron transfer reactions in photosystem I complexes of various structures with substituted quinone acceptors

GE Milanovsky, AA Petrova, DA Cherepanov… - Photosynthesis …, 2017 - Springer
The reduction kinetics of the photo-oxidized primary electron donor P 700 in photosystem I
(PS I) complexes from cyanobacteria Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 were analyzed within the …