Zheng MY#, Pang XJ#, Chen M, Tian LJ*. (2024). Ultrafast energy quenching mechanism of LHCSR3-dependent photoprotection in Chlamydomonas. Nature Communications. 15(1): 4437.
Zhu SQ, Yang HL, Bin S, Wang MM, You TT, Li XB, Tian LJ, Arthur R. G., Lu S*, Yang WQ*. (2024). GreenCut protein LPB1 is required for SQDG accumulation and optimal photosynthetic electron transfer from QA to QB in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Algal Research. 79(1): 103456.
Li AJ, You TT, Pang XJ, Wang YD, Tian LJ, Li XB*, Liu ZF*. (2024). Structural basis for an early stage of the photosystem II repair cycle in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Nature Communications. 15(1):5211.
Zhang H, Xiong XF, Guo KN, Zheng MY, Cao TJ, Yang YQ, Song JJ, Cen J, Zhang JH, Jiang YY, Feng S, Tian LJ, Li XB*. (2024). A rapid aureochrome opto-switch enables diatom acclimation to dynamic light. Nature Communications. 15(1): 5578.
Zheng MY#, Zhou CC#, Wang WD*, Kuang TY, Shen JR, Tian LJ*. (2023). Origin of energy dissipation in the oligomeric fucoxanthin-chlorophyll a/c binding proteins. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c01633.
Pang XJ#, Nawrocki WJ, Cardol P, Zheng MY, Jiang JJ, Fang Y, Yang WQ, Croce R, Tian LJ*. (2023). Weak acids produced during anaerobic respiration suppress both photosynthesis and aerobic respiration. Nature Communications. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-39898-0.
Fang Y, Liu DY, Jiang JJ, He AX, Zhu R, Tian LJ* (2022). Photoprotective energy quenching in the red alga Porphyridium purpureum occurs at the core antenna of the photosystem II but not at its reaction center. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 101783.
Nami F, Tian LJ, Huber M, Croce R, Pandit A* (2021). Lipid and protein dynamics of stacked and cation-depletion induced unstacked thylakoid membranes. BBA Advances. 1:100015.
Xie YR, Chen L, Sun T*, Jiang JJ, Tian LJ, Cui JY, Zhang WW* (2021). A transporter Slr1512 involved in bicarbonate and pH-dependent acclimation mechanism to high light stress in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. BBA Bioenergetics. 1862: 148336.
Lijin Tian (2020). Entropy provides an unexpected shield in photosynthesis. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 295(43): 14546–14547.
Peng Cao, Duanfang Cao, Long Si, Xiaodong Su, Lijin Tian, Wenrui Chang, Zhenfeng Liu, Xinzheng Zhang, Mei Li (2020). Structural basis for energy and electron transfer of the photosystem I-IsiA-flavodoxin supercomplex. Nature Plants. 6(2):167-176.
Lijin Tian*, Wojciech J. Nawrocki, Xin Liu, Iryna Polukhina, Ivo H. M. van Stokkum, and Roberta Croce* (2019). pH dependence, kinetics and light-harvesting regulation of nonphotochemical quenching in Chlamydomonas. PNAS. 116 (17): 8320-8325.
Ivo H. M. van Stokkum*, Michal Gwizdala, Lijin Tian, Joris J. Snellenburg, Rienk van Grondelle,Herbert van Amerongen, Rudi Berera (2018). A functional compartmental model of the Synechocystis PCC 6803 phycobilisome. Photosynthesis Research. 135 (1-3): 87-102.
Inge Bos, Kaitlyn M. Bland, Lijin Tian, Roberta Croce, Laurie K. Frankel, Herbert van Amerongen, Terry M. Bricker, Emilie Wientjes (2017). Multiple LHCII antennae can transfer energy efficiently to a single Photosystem I. BBA. 1858(5): 371-378.
Lijin Tian#, Pengqi Xu#, Volha U. Chukhutsina, Alfred R. Holzwarth, and Roberta Croce (2017). Zeaxanthin-dependent nonphotochemical quenching does not occur in photosystem I in the higher plant Arabidopsis thaliana. PNAS. 114 (18): 4828-4832.
Emine Dinc#, Lijin Tian#, Laura M. Roy, Robyn Roth, Ursula Goodenough, Roberta Croce (2016). LHCSR1 induces a fast and reversible pH-dependent fluorescence quenching in LHCII in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii cells, PNAS. 113(27): 7673-7678.
Lijin Tian, Emine Dinc, Roberta Croce (2015). LHCII populations in different quenching states are present in the thylakoid membranes in a ratio that depends on the light conditions. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 6(12): 2339-2344.
Pengqi Xu, Lijin Tian, Miroslav Kloz, Roberta Croce (2015). Molecular insights into zeaxanthin dependent quenching in higher plants. Scientific Reports. 5:13679.
Clotilde Le Quiniou, Lijin Tian, Bartlomiej Drop, Emilie Wientjes, Ivo H.M. van Stokkum, Bart van Oort, and Roberta Croce (2015). PSI-LHCI of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii: Increasing the absorption cross section without losing efficiency. BBA.1847 (4): 458-467.
V. V. Chukhutsina, Lijin Tian, Ghada. Ajlani, and H. van Amerongen (2013). Time-resolved fluorescence of photosystem i in vivo: global and target analysis. Proceedings of the 15th International Congress on Photosynthesis August 22-27, 2010 Beijing, China
Ron Gill, Lijin Tian, Herbert van Amerongen, Vinod Subramaniam (2013). Emission enhancement and lifetime modification of phosphorescence on silver nanoparticle aggregates. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 15: 15734-15739.
Lijin Tian, Shazia Farooq, Herbert van Amerongen (2013). Probing the picosecond kinetics of the photosystem II core complex in vivo. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 15(9):3146-3154.
Lijin Tian, Ivo H M van Stokkum, Rob B M Koehorst, Herbert van Amerongen (2013). Light harvesting and blue-green light induced non-photochemical quenching in two different C-phycocyanin mutants of Synechocystis PCC 6803. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 117(38):11000-11006.
R. Gill, Lijin Tian, W. R. C. Somerville, E. C. Le Ru, Herbert van Amerongen, and Vinod Subramaniam (2012). Silver nanoparticle aggregates as highly efficient plasmonic antennas for fluorescence enhancement. Journal of Physical Chemistry. 116 (31): 16687-16693.
Lijin Tian, Michal Gwizdala, Ivo H. M. van Stokkum, Rob B. M. Koehorst, Diana Kirilovsky, and Herbert van Amerongen (2012). Picosecond kinetics of light harvesting and photoprotective quenching in wild-type and mutant phycobilisomes isolated from the cyanobacterium Synechocystis PCC 6803. Biophysical Journal. 102(7): 1692-1700.
Lijin Tian, Ivo H. M. van Stokkum, Rob B. M. Koehorst, Aniek Jongerius, Diana Kirilovsky, and Herbert van Amerongen (2011). Site, rate, and mechanism of photoprotective quenching in cyanobacteria. Journal of The American Chemical Society. 133 (45), 18304-18311.
Kai Song, Lijin Tian, Xianggui Kong, Kai Liu, Qingbin Zhang, Chuang Du, Qinghui Zeng, Yajuan Sun, Xiaomin Liu. (2010). Preparation, characterization and specific biological labeling of silica coated up-conversion fluorescent nanocrystals. Spec. Spectra. Anal. 30 (1): 133-136.
Lijin Tian, Y. Sun, Y. Yu, X. Kong, and H. Zhang (2008). Surface effect of nano-phosphors studied by time-resolved spectroscopy of Ce3+. Chemical Physics Letters. 452(1-3), 188-192.
Y. Sun, Y. Chen, Lijin Tian, Y. Yu, X.Kong, Q. Zeng, Y. Zhang, and H. Zhang (2007). Morphology dependent upconversion luminescence of ZnO:Er3+ nanocrystals. Journal oF Luminescence. 128 (15).
Y. Sun, Y. Chen, Lijin Tian, Y.Yu , X. Kong , J. Zhao, and H. Zhang(2008). Controlled synthesis and morphology dependent upconversion luminescence of NaYF4:Yb, Er nanocrystals. NANOTECH. 18 (27).
Y Yang, Y Yu, Y Sun, Y Zhang, Q Zeng, X Liu, Lijin Tian, X Kong, H Zhang (2008). Assembly and chemical luminescence of porous nano-silica with luminal. LUMIN. 23 (2), 105.
J.Zhao, Y.Sun, X. Kong, Lijin Tian, Y. Wang, L. Tu and H. Zhang (2008). controlled synthesis, formation mechanism and great enhancement of red upconversion luminescence of NaYF4:Yb3+, Er3+ nanocrystals/sub-microplates at low doping level. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 112 15666-15672.
I Bos, KM Bland, Lijin Tian, R Croce, LK Frankel, H van Amerongen, TM Bricker, E Wientjes (2017). Multiple LHCII antennae can transfer energy efficiently to a single Photosystem I. BBA. 371-378.
Lijin Tian*, P. Xu*, V. V. Chukhutsina, A.Holzwarth and R. Croce (2017). Zeaxanthin and PsbS-dependent non-photochemical quenching do not occur in Photosystem I. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 4828-4832.
I. van Stokkum, M.Gwizdalaa, Lijin Tian, J. Snellenburga, R. van Grondelle, D. Kirilovsky, H.van Amerongen, Rudi Berera (2017). A functional compartmental model of the Synechocystis PCC 6803 phycobilisome. Photosynthesis Research. 135 (1-3), 87-102.
Lijin Tian*, W.J.Nawrocki, I.Polukhina, I.H.M.van Stokkum and R.Croce* (2019). pH dependence, kinetics and light-harvesting regulation of nonphotochemical quenching in Chlamydomonas, PNAS. 116 (17), 8320-8325. *co-corresponding author