Solar energy conversion by photosystem II: principles and structures

D Shevela, JF Kern, G Govindjee, J Messinger - Photosynthesis Research, 2023‏ - Springer
Photosynthetic water oxidation by Photosystem II (PSII) is a fascinating process because it
sustains life on Earth and serves as a blue print for scalable synthetic catalysts required for …

Light harvesting in oxygenic photosynthesis: Structural biology meets spectroscopy

R Croce, H van Amerongen - Science, 2020‏ - science.org
BACKGROUND The harvesting of photons is the first step in photosynthesis, the biological
process that transforms solar energy into chemical energy. The photosynthetic membranes …

Structure of a unique PSII-Pcb tetrameric megacomplex in a chlorophyll d–containing cyanobacterium

L Shen, Y Gao, K Tang, R Qi, L Fu, JH Chen… - Science …, 2024‏ - science.org
Acaryochloris marina is a unique cyanobacterium using chlorophyll d (Chl d) as its major
pigment and thus can use far-red light for photosynthesis. Photosystem II (PSII) of A. marina …

Development perspectives of promising lignocellulose feedstocks for production of advanced generation biofuels: A review

CY Lin, C Lu - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Biofuels are environmentally friendly, renewable, and have a low carbon footprint. Industrial-
scale production technologies for advanced generation biofuels, though not yet fully mature …

High-resolution cryo-electron microscopy structure of photosystem II from the mesophilic cyanobacterium, Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803

CJ Gisriel, J Wang, J Liu, DA Flesher, KM Reiss… - Proceedings of the …, 2022‏ - pnas.org
Photosystem II (PSII) enables global-scale, light-driven water oxidation. Genetic
manipulation of PSII from the mesophilic cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 has …

Deep learning improves macromolecule identification in 3D cellular cryo-electron tomograms

E Moebel, A Martinez-Sanchez, L Lamm, RD Righetto… - Nature …, 2021‏ - nature.com
Cryogenic electron tomography (cryo-ET) visualizes the 3D spatial distribution of
macromolecules at nanometer resolution inside native cells. However, automated …

Structure of a diatom photosystem II supercomplex containing a member of Lhcx family and dimeric FCPII

Y Feng, Z Li, X Li, L Shen, X Liu, C Zhou, J Zhang… - Science …, 2023‏ - science.org
Diatoms rely on fucoxanthin chlorophyll a/c-binding proteins (FCPs) for their great success
in oceans, which have a great diversity in their pigment, protein compositions, and subunit …

Structure of cryptophyte photosystem II–light-harvesting antennae supercomplex

YZ Zhang, K Li, BY Qin, JP Guo, QB Zhang… - Nature …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Cryptophytes are ancestral photosynthetic organisms evolved from red algae through
secondary endosymbiosis. They have developed alloxanthin-chlorophyll a/c2-binding …

[HTML][HTML] Advances from chlorophyll biosynthesis to photosynthetic adaptation, evolution and signaling

F Gao, J Guo, Y Shen - Plant Stress, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Chlorophyll (Chl)-mediated oxygenic photosynthesis supports life on earth. From a view of
evolution,'survival of the fittest'facilitates oxygenic photosynthetic organisms evolved from …

Structure of photosystem I-LHCI-LHCII from the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii in State 2

Z Huang, L Shen, W Wang, Z Mao, X Yi… - Nature …, 2021‏ - nature.com
Abstract Photosystem I (PSI) and II (PSII) balance their light energy distribution absorbed by
their light-harvesting complexes (LHCs) through state transition to maintain the maximum …