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Longjiang Yu：Function and regulation of photosynthetic membrane protein complex
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Prof. Long-Jiang Yu, Principle investigator, PhD supervisor, 2004, B.E., Tianjin University of Technology, China; 2007, M.E., Tianjin University of Technology, China; 2011, PhD, Ibaraki University, Japan. 2011-2014, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Ibaraki University, Japan; 2014-2018, Assistant Professor, Okayama University, Japan; 2018, joined IBCAS. He has published more than 30 papers in international journals such as Nature, Science, PNAS, JACS.
E-mail：longer@ibcas.ac.cn
TEL：010-62836429
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Function and regulation of photosynthetic membrane protein complex 
Paper
Liu XH, Liu PC, Li HJ, Xu Z, Jia L, Xia Y, Yu ML, Tang WQ, Zhu XL, Chen C, Zhang Y, Nango EK, Tanaka R, Luo FJ, Kato K, Nakajima Y, Kishi S, Yu HX, Matsubara N, Owada S, Tono K, Iwata S, Yu LJ*, Shen JR*, Wang JY* (2022). Excited-state intermediates in a designer protein encoding a phototrigger caught by an X-ray free-electron laser. Nat Chem. 14: 1054-1060. 
Zhang Y, Qi CH, Yamano N, Wang P, Yu LJ*, Wang-Otomo ZY, Zhang JP* (2022). Carotenoid Single-Molecular Singlet Fission and the Photoprotection of a Bacteriochlorophyll b-Type Core Light-Harvesting Antenna. J Phys Chem Lett. 13 (16):3534-3541. 
Tani K, Kanno R, Kurosawa K, Takaichi S, Nagashima KVP, Hall M, Yu LJ, Kimura Y, Madigan MT, Mizoguchi A, Humbel BM, Wang-Otomo Z-Y (2022). An LH1–RC photocomplex from an extremophilic phototroph provides insight into origins of two photosynthesis proteins. Commun Biol. 5 (1): 1197.  
Tani K, Kobayashi K, Hosogi N, Ji X C, Nagashima S, Nagashima KVP, Izumida A, Inoue K, Tsukatani Y, Kanno R, Hall M, Yu LJ, Ishikawa I, Okura Y, Madigan MT, Mizoguchi A, Humbel BM, Kimura Y, Wang-Otomo ZY (2022). A Ca2+-binding motif underlies the unusual properties of certain photosynthetic bacterial core light-harvesting complexes. J Biol Chem. 298 (6), 101967. 
Ma F#, Romero E, Jones MR, Novoderezhkin VI, Yu LJ#, van Grondelle R (2022). Dynamics of diverse coherences in primary charge separation of bacterial reaction center at 77 K revealed by wavelet analysis. Photosynth. Res. 151: 225-234. 
Kimura Y, Nojima S, Nakata K, Yamashita T, Wang XP, Takenaka S, Akimoto S, Kobayashi M, Madigan MT, Wang-Otomo ZY#, and Yu LJ.# (2021). Electrostatic charge controls the lowest LH1 Q(y) transition energy in the triply extremophilic purple phototrophic bacterium, Halorhodospira halochloris. Biochim. Biophys. Acta Bioenerg. 1862: 148473. (#co-respondent) 
Zheng DD*, Tao M*, Yu LJ*, Liu XH, Xia AD, Wang JY. (2021) Ultrafast Photoinduced Electron Transfer in a Photosensitizer Protein. CCS Chemistry. 3: 1580–1586. (*equal contribution) 
Yang ZH* Qi CH*, Liu WZ, Yin DB, Yu LJ#, Li LD#, Guo XF.# (2021) Revealing conformational transition dynamics of photosynthetic proteins in single-molecule electrical circuits. J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 12: 3853-3859. (*equal contribution, #co-respondent) 
Wang J*, Yu LJ*, Wang WD, Yan, QJ, Kuang TY, Qin XC, Shen J R. (2021) Structure of plant photosystem I-light harvesting complex I supercomplex at 2.4 A resolution. J. Integr. Plant Biol. 63: 1367-1381. (*equal contribution) 
Ma F#, Romero E, Jones MR, Novoderezhkin VI, Yu LJ#, van Grondelle R. (2021) Dynamic stark effect in two-dimensional spectroscopy revealing modulation of ultrafast charge separation in bacterial reaction centers by an inherent electric field. J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 12: 5526-5533. (#co-respondent) 
Kimura Y, Yamashita T, Seto R, Imanishi M, Honda M, Nakagawa S, Saga Y, Takenaka S, Yu LJ, Madigan MT, Wang-Otomo ZY. (2021) Circular dichroism and resonance Raman spectroscopies of bacteriochlorophyll b-containing LH1-RC complexes. Photosynth. Res. 148: 77-86. 
Kawakami T*, Yu LJ*#, Liang T, Okazaki K, Madigan MT, Kimura Y, Wang-Otomo Z Y#. (2021). Crystal structure of a photosynthetic LH1-RC in complex with its electron donor HiPIP. Nat. Commun. 12: 1104. (*equal contribution, # co-respondent). 
Yu LJ, Ma F. (2020) Recent Progress on the LH1-RC Complexes of Purple Photosynthetic Bacteria. In Microbial Photosynthesis, Springer: pp 53-72. 
Tani K, Kanno R, Makino Y, Hall M, Takenouchi M, Imanishi M, Yu LJ, Overmann J,  Madigan MT, Kimura Y, Mizoguchi A, Humbel BM, Wang-Otomo ZY. (2020) Cryo-EM structure of a Ca(2+)-bound photosynthetic LH1-RC complex containing multiple alphabeta-polypeptides. Nat. Commun. 11: 4955. 
Zou MJ, Mu Y, Chai X, Ouyang M, Yu LJ, Zhang LX, Meurer J, Chi W. (2020) The critical function of the plastid rRNA methyltransferase, CMAL, in ribosome biogenesis and plant development. Nucleic Acids Res. 48: 3195-3210. 
Wang W*, Yu LJ*, Xu C, Tomizaki T, Zhao S, Umena Y, Chen X, Qin X, Xin Y, Suga M, Han G, Kuang T,  Shen JR. (2019) Structural basis for blue-green light harvesting and energy dissipation in diatoms. Science. 363: eaav0365. (*equal contribution) 
Yu LJ, Suga M, Wang-Otomo ZY, Shen JR. (2018) Novel features of LH1-RC from Thermochromatium tepidum revealed from its atomic resolution structure. FEBS J. 285: 4359-4366. 
Yu LJ, Suga M, Wang-Otomo ZY, Shen JR. (2018). Structure of photosynthetic LH1-RC supercomplex at 1.9 Å resolution. Nature. 556: 209-213. 
Chen JH*, Yu LJ*, Boussac A, Wang-Otomo ZY, Kuang T, Shen JR. (2018) Properties and structure of a low-potential, penta-heme cytochrome c552 from a thermophilic purple sulfur photosynthetic bacterium Thermochromatium tepidum. Photosynth. Res. 139: 281-293. (*equal contribution) 
Kimura, Y.; Kawakami, T.; Arikawa, T.; Li, Y., Yu, L. J.; Ohno, T.; Madigan, M. T.; Wang-Otomo, Z. Y.(2018). C-terminal cleavage of the LH1 alpha-polypeptide in the Sr2+-cultured Thermochromatium tepidum. Photosynth. Res. 135: 23-31. 
Yu, J.; Fu, L. M.; Yu, L. J.; Shi, Y.; Wang, P.; Wang-Otomo, Z. Y.; Zhang, J. P.(2017). Carotenoid singlet fission reactions in bacterial light harvesting complexes as revealed by triplet excitation profiles. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 139: 15984-15993. 
Suga M, Akita F, Sugahara M, Kubo M, Nakajima Y, Nakane T, Yamashita K, Umena Y, Nakabayashi M, Yamane T, Nakano T, Suzuki M, Masuda T, Inoue S, Kimura T, Nomura T, Yonekura S, Yu LJ, Sakamoto T, Motomura T, Chen JH, Kato Y, Noguchi T, Tono K, Joti Y, Kameshima T, Hatsui T, Nango E, Tanaka R, Naitow H, Matsuura Y, Yamashita A, Yamamoto M, Nureki O, Yabashi M, Ishikawa T, Iwata S, Shen JR. (2017). Light-induced structural changes and the site of O=O bond formation in PSII caught by XFEL. Nature. 543: 131-135. 
Nagashima KVP, Sasaki M, Hashimoto K, Takaichi S, Nagashima S, Yu LJ, Abe Y, Gotou K, Kawakami T, Takenouchi M, Shibuya Y, Yamaguchi A, Ohno T, Shen JR, Inoue K, Madigan MT, Kimura Y, Wang-Otomo ZY. (2017). Probing structure–function relationships in early events in photosynthesis using a chimeric photocomplex. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 114: 10906-10911. 
Ma F, Yu LJ, Llansola-Portoles MJ, Robert B, Wang-Otomo ZY, van Grondelle R. (2017). Metal cations induced alphabeta-bchl a heterogeneity in lh1 as revealed by temperature-dependent fluorescence splitting. Chemphyschem. 18: 2295-2301. 
Ma F, Yu LJ, Hendrikx R, Wang-Otomo ZY, van Grondelle R. (2017) Excitonic and vibrational coherence in the excitation relaxation process of two lh1 complexes as revealed by two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy. J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 8: 2751-2756. 
Ma F, Yu LJ, Hendrikx R, Wang-Otomo ZY, van Grondelle R. (2017) Direct observation of energy detrapping in lh1-rc complex by two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 139: 591-594. 
Yu LJ, Kawakami T, Kimura Y, Wang-Otomo ZY. (2016) Structural basis for the unusual qy red-shift and enhanced thermostability of the lh1 complex from Thermochromatium tepidum. Biochemistry. 55: 6495-6504. 
Ma F, Yu LJ, Ma XH, Wang P, Wang-Otomo ZY, Zhang JP. (2016) Bacterial light-harvesting complexes showing giant second-order nonlinear optical response as revealed by hyper-rayleigh light scattering. J. Phys. Chem. B. 120: 9395-401. 
Kimura Y, Yura Y, Hayashi Y, Li Y, Onoda M, Yu LJ, Wang-Otomo ZY, Ohno T. (2016) Spectroscopic and thermodynamic characterization of the metal-binding sites in the lh1-rc complex from thermophilic photosynthetic bacterium Thermochromatium tepidum. J. Phys. Chem. B. 120: 12466-12473. 
Huo YL, Shi Y, Wang QY, Li L, Yu LJ, Wang P, Zhang JP, Wang, ZY (2016) Spectroscopic properties of LH2 from Thermochromatium tepidum in liposome and detergent micelles. Chem. J. Chin. Univ. 37: 1678-1685. 
Ma F, Yu LJ, Wang-Otomo ZY, van Grondelle R (2016) Temperature dependent LH1-->RC energy transfer in purple bacteria Tch. tepidum with shiftable LH1-Q band: A natural system to investigate thermally activated energy transfer in photosynthesis. Biochim. Biophys. Acta. 1857: 408-414. 
Kimura Y, Kawakami T, Yu LJ, Yoshimura M, Kobayashi M, Wang-Otomo ZY. (2015) Characterization of the quinones in purple sulfur bacterium Thermochromatium tepidum. FEBS Lett. 589: 1761-5. 
Ma F, Yu LJ, Wang-Otomo ZY, van Grondelle R.. (2015) The origin of the unusual Qy red shift in LH1-RC complexes from purple bacteria Thermochromatium tepidum as revealed by Stark absorption spectroscopy. Biochim. Biophys. Acta. 1847: 1479-1486. 
Niwa S*, Yu LJ*, Takeda K, Hirano Y, Kawakami T, Wang-Otomo ZY, Miki K. (2014) Structure of the LH1-RC complex from Thermochromatium tepidum at 3.0Å. Nature. 508: 228-32. (*equal contribution) 
Shi Y, Zhao NJ, Wang P, Fu LM, Yu LJ, Zhang JP, Wang-Otomo ZY. (2015) Thermal adaptability of the light-harvesting complex 2 from Thermochromatium tepidum: Temperature-dependent excitation transfer dynamics. J. Phys. Chem. B. 119: 14871-14879. 
Yu LJ, Unno M, Kimura Y, Yanagimoto K, Oh-oka H, Wang-Otomo ZY. (2013) Structure analysis and characterization of the cytochrome c-554 from thermophilic green sulfur photosynthetic bacterium Chlorobaculum tepidum. Photosynth. Res. 118: 249-258. 
Kimura Y, Inada Y, Yu L J, Ohno T, Wang Z. (2013) Strontium ions are functionally replaceable with calcium ions in the light-harvesting 1 reaction center core complex from thermophilic purple sulfur bacterium Thermochromatium tepidum. In Photosynthesis Research for Food, Fuel and the Future. (eds. Kuang, T. Y. et al.). 105-109 (Springer). 
Sekine F, Horiguchi K, Kashino Y, Shimizu Y, Yu LJ, Kobayashi M, Wang ZY. (2012) Gene sequencing and characterization of the light-harvesting complex 2 from thermophilic purple sulfur bacterium Thermochromatium tepidum. Photosynth. Res. 111: 9-18.
Yang F, Yu LJ, Wang P, Ai XC, Wang ZY, Zhang JP. (2011) Effects of Aggregation on the excitation dynamics of LH2 from Thermochromatium tepidum in aqueous phase and in chromatophores. J. Phys. Chem. B. 115: 7906-7913. 
Kimura Y, Inada Y, Yu LJ, Wang ZY, Ohno T.  (2011) A Spectroscopic variant of the light-harvesting 1 core complex from the thermophilic purple sulfur bacterium Thermochromatium tepidum. Biochemistry. 50: 3638-3648. 
Yu LJ, Kato S, Wang ZY. (2010) Examination of the putative Ca2+-binding site in the light-harvesting complex 1 of thermophilic purple sulfur bacterium Thermochromatium tepidum. Photosynth. Res. 106: 215-220. 
Yang F, Yu LJ, Wang P, Ai XC, Wang ZY, Zhang JP. (2010) Excitation Dynamics of the Light-Harvesting complex 2 from Thermochromatium tepidum. Acta. Phys-Chim. Sin. 26: 2021-2030. 
Kimura Y, Yu LJ, Hirano Y, Suzuki H, Wang ZY. (2009) Calcium Ions are required for the enhanced thermal stability of the light-harvesting-reaction center core complex from thermophilic purple sulfur bacterium Thermochromatium tepidum. J. Biol. Chem. 284: 93-99. 
Ma F, Kimura Y, Yu LJ, Wang P, Ai XC, Wang ZY, Zhang JP. (2009) Specific Ca2+-binding motif in the LH1 complex from photosynthetic bacterium Thermochromatium tepidum as revealed by optical spectroscopy and structural modeling. FEBS J. 276: 1739-1749. 
Kimura Y, Hirano Y, Yu LJ, Suzuki H, Kobayashi M, Wang ZY. (2008) Calcium ions are involved in the unusual red shift of the light-harvesting 1 Qy transition of the core complex in thermophilic purple sulfur bacterium Thermochromatium tepidum. J. Biol. Chem. 283: 13867-13873. 
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