The kinetics of metal oxide photoanodes from charge generation to catalysis

S Corby, RR Rao, L Steier, JR Durrant - Nature Reviews Materials, 2021 - nature.com
Generating charge carriers with lifetimes long enough to drive catalysis is a critical aspect for
photoelectrochemical and photocatalytic systems, and a key determinant of their efficiency …

Serial femtosecond crystallography

TRM Barends, B Stauch, V Cherezov… - Nature reviews Methods …, 2022 - nature.com
With the advent of X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs), new, high-throughput serial
crystallography techniques for macromolecular structure determination have emerged …

Structures of the intermediates of Kok's photosynthetic water oxidation clock

J Kern, R Chatterjee, ID Young, FD Fuller, L Lassalle… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Inspired by the period-four oscillation in flash-induced oxygen evolution of photosystem II
discovered by Joliot in 1969, Kok performed additional experiments and proposed a five …

Advances and challenges in time-resolved macromolecular crystallography

G Brändén, R Neutze - Science, 2021 - science.org
BACKGROUND Conformational changes are essential for the correct functioning of
biological macromolecules. Time-resolved x-ray crystallography extends an extremely …

Light-induced structural changes and the site of O= O bond formation in PSII caught by XFEL

M Suga, F Akita, M Sugahara, M Kubo, Y Nakajima… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Photosystem II (PSII) is a huge membrane-protein complex consisting of 20 different
subunits with a total molecular mass of 350 kDa for a monomer. It catalyses light-driven …

Native structure of photosystem II at 1.95 Å resolution viewed by femtosecond X-ray pulses

M Suga, F Akita, K Hirata, G Ueno, H Murakami… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Photosynthesis converts light energy into biologically useful chemical energy vital to life on
Earth. The initial reaction of photosynthesis takes place in photosystem II (PSII), a 700 …

Linac coherent light source: The first five years

C Bostedt, S Boutet, DM Fritz, Z Huang, HJ Lee… - Reviews of Modern …, 2016 - APS
A new scientific frontier opened in 2009 with the start of operations of the world's first x-ray
free-electron laser (FEL), the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), at SLAC National …

SwissFEL: the Swiss X-ray free electron laser

CJ Milne, T Schietinger, M Aiba, A Alarcon, J Alex… - Applied Sciences, 2017 - mdpi.com
The SwissFEL X-ray Free Electron Laser (XFEL) facility started construction at the Paul
Scherrer Institute (Villigen, Switzerland) in 2013 and will be ready to accept its first users in …

Untangling the sequence of events during the S2 → S3 transition in photosystem II and implications for the water oxidation mechanism

M Ibrahim, T Fransson, R Chatterjee… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
In oxygenic photosynthesis, light-driven oxidation of water to molecular oxygen is carried out
by the oxygen-evolving complex (OEC) in photosystem II (PS II). Recently, we reported the …

Structure of photosystem II and substrate binding at room temperature

ID Young, M Ibrahim, R Chatterjee, S Gul, FD Fuller… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Light-induced oxidation of water by photosystem II (PS II) in plants, algae and cyanobacteria
has generated most of the dioxygen in the atmosphere. PS II, a membrane-bound multi …