Group Publications

2026

Biomimetic light harvesting systems

Rational design of pigment–polymer antenna
complexes

RSC: Chemical Science

Singlet fission-mediated augmentation of light harvesting

Singlet fission mediates carotenoid-to-bacteriochlorophyll energy transfer in purple photosynthetic bacteria

Nature Chemistry

Chlorophyll pathway review

The structural chemistry and biosynthesis of chlorophylls

RSC: Chemical Biology

Novel light harvesting designs explored

Improved Stability and Brightness Following Iterative Redesign of a De Novo Biliprotein

Biochemistry

2025

Role of carotenoids in triplet quenching

The Impact of Carotenoid Energy Levels on the Exciton Dynamics and Singlet–Triplet Annihilation in Isolated Bacterial Light-Harvesting 2 Complexes

J Phys Chem B

PGR5-dependent CET does not augment chloroplast ATP levels

Disequilibrium between chloroplast proton motive force and ATP levels in Arabidopsis

BioRxiv

Cobalamin-dependent methyltransferase described

Methionine synthesis and glycine betaine demethylation are intricately intertwined in cosmopolitan marine bacteria

PNAS

Chlorophyll synthase interacts with PSII assembly factors

High-light-inducible proteins control associations between chlorophyll synthase and the Photosystem II biogenesis factor Ycf39

Plant Physiology

New review on phototrophic metabolism in bacteria

The diversity of physiology and metabolism in chlorophototrophic bacteria

Advances in Microbial Physiology

Alternative redox carriers support photosynthesis

Using synthetic biology to switch electron donors

Cyanobacterial redox carriers support photosynthesis in a purple phototrophic bacterium

Biochemical Journal

Gene-edited algae reveal role of FNR location in CET

Rewiring photosynthesis with CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing

Tethering ferredoxin-NADP+ reductase to photosystem I promotes photosynthetic cyclic electron transfer

Plant Cell

Plant LHCII serves bacterial RC in new hybrid biofilm

Exciton-Diffusion Enhanced Energy Capture in an Integrated Nanoscale Platform

ACS Nano

General review of photosynthetic light reactions

Structure, regulation and assembly of the photosynthetic electron transport chain

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Cryo electron tomography of intact spinach chloroplasts

Cryo-Electron Tomography reveals the machinery of photosynthesis

Molecular architecture of thylakoid membranes within intact spinach chloroplasts

eLife

Proteomic analysis of photosystem stoichiometry

From cytoplasm to lumen—mapping the free pools of protein subunits of three photosynthetic complexes using quantitative mass spectrometry

FEBS Letters

New insights intro the origin and roles of chlorophyll red forms in PSI

Functional Connectivity of Red Chlorophylls in Cyanobacterial Photosystem I Revealed by Fluence-Dependent Transient Absorption

J Phys Chem

2024

Chromophore vibrations prevent energetic relaxation

Resonant Vibrational Enhancement of Downhill Energy Transfer in the C-Phycocyanin Chromophore Dimer

J Phys Chem Letts

Single-molecule detection of the encounter complex

Transient complex underpinning biological ET revealed

Single-Molecule Detection of the Encounter and Productive Electron Transfer Complexes of a Photosynthetic Reaction Center

J Am Chem Soc

Artificial protein mimics key reaction centre feature

De novo design of proteins housing excitonically coupled chlorophyll special pairs

Nature Chemical Biology

Lipid binding stablises RC-LH1 dimer

Sulfoquinovosyl diacylglycerol is required for dimerization of the Rhodobacter sphaeroides RC-LH1 core complex

Biochem J

De novo designed bilin-binding proteins

Generalized biomolecular modeling and design with RoseTTAFold All-Atom

Science

Recapitulation of bacterial membrane organisation in liposomes

Excitation energy transfer in proteoliposomes reconstituted with LH2 and RC-LH1 complexes from Rhodobacter sphaeroides

Bioscience Reports

Preventing photoinhibition of PSI

Photosynthetic control at the cytochrome b6f complex

Plant Cell

2023

Single molecule study on LHCII clustering

Single molecule study of LHCII interactions

Energetic driving force for LHCII clustering in plant membranes

Role of cyclic electron flow in suppressing carbon losses

PGR5 is required to avoid photosynthetic oscillations during light transitions

Probing the OCP for singlet fission

Twisted Carotenoids Do Not Support Efficient Intramolecular Singlet Fission in the Orange Carotenoid Protein

Energy transfer in cyanobacteria

Phycobilisome's Exciton Transfer Efficiency Relies on an Energetic Funnel Driven by Chromophore-Linker Protein Interactions

Elusive subunit of bc1 complex revealed

Cryo-EM structure of the four-subunit Rhodobacter sphaeroides cytochrome bc1 complex in styrene maleic acid nanodiscs

Commentary on function of the LH1 γ subunit

Photosynthesis in the near infrared: the γ subunit of Blastochloris viridis LH1 red-shifts absorption beyond 1000 nm

Comprehensive RC-LH1 Review

The structure and assembly of reaction centre-light-harvesting 1 complexes in photosynthetic bacteria

Thylakoid proteome in Cyanobacteria

Absolute quantification of cellular levels of photosynthesis-related proteins in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803

Hope2 is a high CET mutant of Arabidopsis

High cyclic electron transfer via the PGR5 pathway in the absence of photosynthetic control

Proteomic comparison of Arabidopsis phospho-mutants

STN7 is not essential for developmental acclimation of Arabidopsis to light intensity

2022

HLIPs as proteolytic substrates of FtsH4

FtsH4 protease controls the biogenesis of PSII complex by dual regulation of high light-inducible proteins

Dynamics of a light harvesting complex unveiled

Phasor Analysis Reveals Multicomponent Fluorescence Kinetics in the LH2 Complex from Marichromatium purpuratum

Augmentation of light harvesting spectral range

Enhancing the spectral range of plant and bacterial light-harvesting pigment-protein complexes with various synthetic chromophores incorporated into lipid vesicles

New LH2 structures show how nature tunes absorption

Cryo-EM structures of light-harvesting 2 complexes from Rhodopseudomonas palustris reveal the molecular origin of absorption tuning

R. eutropha strain engineered to grow using CO2 + Light

Engineering a Rhodopsin-Based Photo-Electrosynthetic System in Bacteria for CO2 Fixation

CO2-fixing microbes identified by single-cell Raman

Revealing CO2-Fixing SAR11 Bacteria in the Ocean by Raman-Based Single-Cell Metabolic Profiling and Genomics

Review on carotenoids in photosynthesis

Engineering purple bacterial carotenoid biosynthesis to study the roles of carotenoids in light-harvesting complexes

Killing Campy with Blue light

Exploiting Violet-Blue Light to Kill Campylobacter jejuni: Analysis of Global Responses, Modeling of Transcription Factor Activities, and Identification of Protein Targets