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Takumi Noguchi
Hiroyuki Mino
Yuki Kato


Publications by Lab Members



2024

Y. Kato, H. Ito, and T. Noguchi
Reaction mechanism of the terminal plastoquinone QB in photosystem II as revealed by time-resolved infrared spectroscopy
Biochemistry, in press (2024).

S. Watanabe, and T. Noguchi
Intermediate formation via proton release during the photoassembly of the water-oxidizing Mn4CaO5 cluster in photosystem II
J. Phys. Chem. B 128, 8145-8161 (2024).

X. Zhang, R. Taniguchi, R. Nagao, T. Tomo, T. Noguchi, S. Ye, Y. Shibata
Access to the antenna system of photosystem I via single-molecule excitation-emission spectroscopy
J. Phys. Chem. B 128, 2664–2674 (2024).

T. Noguchi
Mechanism of proton transfer through the D1-E65/D2-E312 gate during photosynthetic water oxidation
J. Phys. Chem. B 128, 1866–1875 (2024)

K. Kamogawa, Y. Kato, Y. Tamaki, T. Noguchi, K. Nozaki, T. Nakagawa, and O. Ishitania
Overall reaction mechanism of photocatalytic CO2 reduction on Re(I)-complex catalyst unit of Ru(II)-Re(I) supramolecular photocatalyst
Chem. Sci. 15, 2074-2088 (2024)


2023

T. Matsubara, Y. Shimada, T. Kitajima-Ihara, R. Nagao, and T. Noguchi
Rapid-scan Fourier transform infrared monitoring of the photoactivation process in cyanobacterial photosystem II
J. Phys. Chem. B 127, 8150–8161 (2023)

A. Boussac, M. Sugiura, M. Nakamura, R. Nagao, T. Noguchi, S. Viola, A. W. Rutherford, and J. Sellés
Absorption changes in Photosystem II in the Soret band region upon the formation of the chlorophyll cation radical [PD1PD2]+
Photosynth. Res. in press (2023)

Saito, K. Nishii, S., Asada, M., Mino, H., and Ishikita, H.
Insights into the protonation state and spin structure for the g=2 multiline EPR signal of the oxygen-evolving complex
PNAS nexus 2, pgad244 (2023)

Kosaki, S. and Mino, H.
Molecular Structure Related to an S = 5/2 High-Spin S2 State Manganese Cluster of Photosystem II Investigated by Q-Band Pulse EPR Spectroscopy
J. Phys. Chem. B 127, 6441–6448 (2023)

野口 巧
太古の地球における酸素の起源:翻訳後アミノ酸変換による酸素発生系の形成
生化学 95, 341-345 (2023)

Mino, H.
Outline of EPR Spectroscopy
in Analytical Techniques for the Elucidation of Protein Function (2022) Wiley (Eds. Suetake,I.,Sharma, R.K., Hojo,H)

Komeyama, M., Kanno,K., Mino,H., Yasuno,Y., Shinada,T., Ito, T.and Hemmi, H.
A [4Fe-4S] cluster resides at the catalytic center of phosphomevalonate dehydratase, an enzyme responsible for the archaeal mevalonate pathway
Front. Microbiol.14, 1150353

T. Hayase, Y. Shimada, T. Mitomi, R. Nagao, and T. Noguchi
Triplet delocalization over the reaction center chlorophylls in photosystem II
J. Phys. Chem. B, 127, 1758–1770 (2023)


2022

野口 巧
光化学系Ⅱにおける翻訳後アミノ酸変換と光合成酸素発生の起源
光合成研究 32, 151-161 (2022)

Y. Shimada, A. Sugiyama, R. Nagao, and T. Noguchi
Role of D1-Glu65 in proton transfer during photosynthetic water oxidation in photosystem II
J. Phys. Chem. B 126, 8202–8213 (2022)

K. Imaizumi, T. Nishimura, R. Nagao, K. Saito, T. Nakano, H. Ishikita, T. Noguchi, and K. Ifuku
D139N mutation of PsbP enhances the oxygen-evolving activity of photosystem II through stabilized binding of a chloride ion
PNAS Nexus 1, 136 (2022)

Y. Shimada, T. Suzuki, T. Matsubara, T. Kitajima-Ihara, R. Nagao, N. Dohmae, and T. Noguchi
Post-translational amino acid conversion in photosystem II as a possible origin of photosynthetic oxygen evolution
Nat. Commun. 13, 4211 (2022)

T. Kobayashi, Y. Shimada, R. Nagao, and T. Noguchi
pH-dependent regulation of electron flow in photosystem II by a histidine residue at the stromal surface
Biochemistry 61, 1351–1362 (2022)

Y. Kato and T. Noguchi
Redox properties and regulatory mechanism of the iron-quinone electron acceptor in photosystem II as revealed by FTIR spectroelectrochemistry
Photosynth. Res. 152, 135–151 (2022)

Saito,K., Mino,H., Nishio, S. and Ishikita H.
Protonation structure of the closed-cubane conformation of the O2-evolving complex in photosystem II
PNAS nexus (2022),1(5), pgac221.

Toda,T., Ito,M., Takeda,J., Masuda, A, Mino, H., Hattori, N., Mohri, K. and Ohno, K.
Extremely low-frequency pulses of faint magnetic field, weaker than the geomagnetic field, induce mitophagy to rejuvenate mitochondria
Commun. Biol. (2022) 5, 453.

H. Mino and M. Asada
Location of two Mn2+ affinity sites in photosystem II detected by pulsed electron-electron double resonance
Photosyn. Res. 152, 289-295 (2022)


2021

三野広幸
パルスESR法を用いたタンパク質の構造、相互作用解
NMRによる有機材料分析とその試料前処理、データ解釈 技術情報協会 (2021)

野口巧
光の吸収と電子・プロトン移動
光合成(日本光合成学会編)、朝倉書店、東京 pp 29-34 (2021)

Y. Kato and T. Noguchi
Effects of stromal and lumenal side perturbations on the redox potential of the primary quinone electron acceptor QA in photosystem II
Biochemistry 60, 3697-3706 (2021).

Y. Kato, H. Watanabe, and T. Noguchi
ATR-FTIR spectroelectrochemical study on the mechanism of the pH dependence of the redox potential of the non-heme iron in photosystem II
Biochemistry 60, 2170–2178 (2021).

Y. Okamoto, Y. Shimada, R. Nagao, T. Noguchi
Proton and water transfer pathways in the S2→S3 transition of the water oxidizing complex in photosystem II: Time-resolved infrared analysis of the effects of D1-N298A mutation and NO3 substitution,
J. Phys. Chem. B 125,6864–6873 (2021).

T. Noguchi
Molecular mechanism of asymmetric electron transfer on the electron donor side of photosystem II
Photosynthesis: Molecular Approaches to Solar Energy Conversion (J.-R. Shen, K. Satoh, and S. I. Allakhverdiev, Eds.), Chapter 12, Springer (2021).

中村伸、野口巧、吉澤一成
量子力学/分子力学(QM/MM)計算による金属タンパク質の研究
生命金属ダイナミクス-生体内における金属の挙動と制御(城宜嗣、津本浩平 監修)、pp 423-432、エヌ・ティー・エス、東京 (2021)

M. Trinh, D. Miyazaki, S. Ono, J. Nomata, M. Kono, H. Mino, T. Niwa, Y. Okegawa, K. Motohashi, K. Taguchi, T. Hisabori, and S. Masuda
The Evolutionary Conserved Iron-Sulfur Protein TCR Controls P700 Oxidation in Photosystem I
iScience 24, 102059 (2021).

A. Sato, Y. Nakano, S. Nakamura, and T. Noguchi
Rapid-scan time-resolved ATR-FTIR study on the photoassembly of the water-oxidizing Mn4CaO5 cluster in photosystem II
J. Phys. Chem. B 125, 4031–4045 (2021).


2020

M. Kimura, Y. Kato, and T. Noguchi
Protonation state of a key histidine ligand in the iron-quinone complex of photosystem II as revealed by light-induced ATR-FTIR spectroscopy
Biochemistry 59, 4336–4343 (2020).

M. Yamamoto, S. Nakamura, and T. Noguchi
Protonation structure of the photosynthetic water oxidizing complex in the S0 state as revealed by normal mode analysis using quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics calculations
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 22, 24213–24225 (2020). (selected as a Hot Article)

S. Taguchi, L. Shen, G. Han, Y. Umena, J.-R. Shen, T. Noguchi, and H. Mino
Formation of the high-spin S2 state related to the extrinsic proteins in the oxygen evolving complex of photosystem II
J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 11, 8908–8913 (2020).

T. Tokano, Y. Kato, S. Sugiyama, T. Uchihashi, and T. Noguchi
Structural dynamics of a protein domain relevant to the water-oxidizing complex in photosystem II as visualized by high-speed atomic force microscopy
J. Phys. Chem. B 124, 5847–5857 (2020).

S. Taguchi, T. Noguchi, and H. Mino
Molecular Structure of the S2 state with a g = 5 signal in the oxygen evolving complex of photosystem II
J. Phys. Chem. B 124, 5531–5537 (2020).

K. Kawahara, N. Inoue-Kashino, K. Namie, Y. Kato, T. Tomo, Y. Shibata, Y. Kashino, and T. Noguchi
A gold nanoparticle conjugate with photosystem I and photosystem II for development of a biohybrid water-splitting photocatalyst
Biomed. Spectrosc. Imaging 9, 73-81 (2020).

H. Mino and H. Nagashima
Orientation of ligand field for dangling manganese in photosynthetic oxygen-evolving complex of photosystem II
J. Phys. Chem. B 124, 128-133 (2020).

Y. Shimada, T. Kitajima-Ihara, R. Nagao, and T. Noguchi
Role of the O4 channel in photosynthetic water oxidation as revealed by Fourier transform infrared difference and time-resolved infrared analysis of the D1-S169A mutant
J. Phys. Chem. B 124, 1470-1480 (2020).

Y. Kato, S. Haniu, Y. Nakajima, F. Akita, J.-R. Shen, and T. Noguchi
FTIR Microspectroscopic analysis of the water oxidation reaction in a single photosystem II microcrystal
J. Phys. Chem. B 124, 121-127 (2020).

T. Kitajima-Ihara, T. Suzuki, S. Nakamura, Y. Shimada, R. Nagao, N. Dohmae, and T. Noguchi
Fourier transform infrared and mass spectrometry analyses of a site-directed mutant of D1-Asp170 as a ligand to the water-oxidizing Mn4CaO5 cluster in photosystem II
Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1861, 148086 (2020).


2019

H. Takemoto, M. Sugiura, and T. Noguchi
Proton release process during the S2-to-S3 transition of photosynthetic water oxidation as revealed by the pH dependence of kinetics monitored by time-resolved infrared spectroscopy
Biochemistry 58, 4276-4283 (2019).

Y. Kato, A. Ohira, R. Nagao, and T. Noguchi
Does the water-oxidizing Mn4CaO5 cluster regulate the redox potential of the primary quinone electron acceptor QA in photosystem II? A study by Fourier transform infrared spectroelectrochemistry
Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1860, 148082 (2019).

S. Nakamura and T. Noguchi
Initial Mn2+ binding site in photoassembly of the water-oxidizing Mn4CaO5 cluster in photosystem II as studied by quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics calculations
Chem. Phys. Lett. 721, 62-67 (2019).

Y. Takegawa, M. Nakamura, S. Nakamura, T. Noguchi, J. Sellés, A. W. Rutherford, A. Boussac, and M. Sugiura
New insights on ChlD1 function in Photosystem II from site-directed mutants of D1/T179 in Thermosynechococcus elongatus
Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1860, 297-309 (2019).

S. Jana, T. Du, R. Nagao, T. Noguchi, and Y. Shibata
Redox-state dependent blinking of single photosystem I trimers at around liquid-nitrogen temperature
Biochim. Biophys. Acta, 1860, 30-40 (2019).


2018

H.Tsukuno, K. Ozeki, I. Kobayashi, O. Hisatomi, and H. Mino
Flavin radical formation in the light-oxygen-voltage-sensing domain of the photozipper blue-light sensor protein
J. Phys. Chem. B 122, 8819–8823 (2018).

T. Shimizu, M. Sugiura, and T. Noguchi
Mechanism of proton-coupled electron transfer in the S0-to-S1 transition of photosynthetic water oxidation as revealed by time-resolved infrared spectroscopy
J. Phys. Chem. B122, 9460-9470 (2018).

Y. Nakajima, Y. Umena, R. Nagao, K. Endo, K. Kobayashi, F. Akita, M. Suga, H. Wada, T. Noguchi, and J.-R. Shen
Thylakoid membrane lipid sulfoquinovosyl-diacylglycerol (SQDG) is required for full functioning of photosystem II in Thermosynechococcus elongatus
J. Biol. Chem. 293, 14786-14797 (2018).

H. Yata, and T. Noguchi
Mechanism of methanol inhibition of photosynthetic water oxidation as studied by Fourier transform infrared difference and time-resolved infrared spectroscopies
Biochemistry 57, 4803−4815 (2018).

Y. Nozawa, and T. Noguchi
pH-Dependent regulation of the relaxation rate of the radical anion of the secondary quinone electron acceptor QB in photosystem II as revealed by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy
Biochemistry 57, 2828-2836 (2018).

Y. Kato, F. Akita, Y. Nakajima, M. Suga, Y. Umena, J.-R. Shen, and T. Noguchi
Fourier transform infrared analysis of the S-state cycle of water oxidation in the microcrystals of photosystem II
J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 9, 2121-2126 (2018)

H. Nagashima, and H. Mino
Local structural modification of Ca2+-depleted photosystem II detected by proton matrix ENDOR
Applied Magnetic Resonance, in press (2018).

M. Asada, T. Nishimura, K. Ifuku, and H. Mino
Location of the extrinsic subunit PsbP in photosystem II studied by pulsed electron-electron double resonance
Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1859, 394-399 (2018).

K. Ozeki, H. Tsukuno, H. Nagashima, O. Hisatomi, and H. Mino
Dimeric structure of the blue light sensor protein photozipper in the active state
Biochemistry 57, 494-497 (2018).

H. Nagashima, M. Asada, and H. Mino
Magnetic structure of manganese cluster in photosystem II investigated by electron paramagnetic resonance
Biophys. Physicobiol. 15, 45-50 (2018).

R. Nagao, S. Kitazaki, and T. Noguchi
Evaluation of photosynthetic activities in thylakoid membranes by means of Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy
Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1859, 129–136 (2018).

J. Kondo, and T. Noguchi
PsbP-induced protein conformational changes around Cl ions in the water oxidizing center of photosystem II
Photosynthetica 56, 178-184 (2018).


2017

中村伸
光合成水分解反応の赤外分光解析
光合成研究, 27(3), 182-190 (2017).

加藤祐樹
光化学系IIにおける電子伝達制御機構の解明:分光電気化学法による機能分子の分子の酸化還元電位計測
化学と工業, 70(10), 935-936 (2017).

R. Nagao, H. Ueoka-Nakanishi, and T. Noguchi
D1-Asn-298 in photosystem II is involved in a hydrogen-bond network near the redox-active tyrosine YZ for proton exit during water oxidation
J. Biol. Chem. 292, 20046-20057 (2017).

S. Kishi, K. Saito, Y. Kato, and H. Ishikita
Redox potentials of ubiquinone, menaquinone, phylloquinone, and plastoquinone in aqueous solution
Photosynth. Res. 134, 193-200 (2017).

A. Zavafer, W. Koinuma, S. W. Chow, H. M. Cheah, and H. Mino
Mechanism of photodamage of the oxygen evolving Mn cluster of photosystem II by excessive light energy
Sci. Rep. 7, 7604 (2017).

S. Nakamura, and T. Noguchi
Infrared determination of the protonation state of a key histidine residue in the photosynthetic water oxidizing center
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 139, 9364-9375 (2017)

R. Nagao, M. Yamaguchi, S. Nakamura, H. Ueoka-Nakanishi, and T. Noguchi
Genetically introduced hydrogen bond interactions reveal an asymmetric charge distribution on the radical cation of the special-pair chlorophyll P680
J. Biol. Chem. 292, 7474–7486 (2017)

H. Nagashima, H. Kishimoto, R. Mutoh, N. Terashima, H. Oh-oka, G. Kurisu, and H. Mino
Hyperfine sublevel correlation spectroscopy studies of iron-sulfur cluster in Rieske protein from green sulfur bacterium Chlorobaculum tepidum
J. Phys. Chem. B 121, 2543-2553 (2017)

M. Hasegawa, H. Nagashima, R. Minobe, T. Tachikawa, H. Mino, and Y. Kobori
Regulated electron tunneling of photoinduced primary charge-separated state in the photosystem II reaction center
J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 8, 1179–1184 (2017)

H. Nagashima, and H. Mino
Location of methanol on the S2 state Mn cluster in photosystem II studied by proton matrix electron nuclear double resonance
J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 8, 621-625 (2017)

浅田瑞枝、長嶋宏樹、三野広幸
ESR分光法による光化学系IIの酸素発生系Mnクラスターの構造解析
生物物理 57, 011-014 (2017)

H. Sakamoto, T. Shimizu, R. Nagao, and T. Noguchi
Monitoring the reaction process during the S2→S3 transition in photosynthetic water oxidation using time-resolve infrared spectroscopy
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 139, 2022–2029 (2017)

M. Suga, F. Akita, M. Sugahara, M. Kubo,Y. Nakajima, T. Nakane, K. Yamashita, M. Nakabayashi, Y. Umena, T. Yamane, T. Nakano, M. Suzuki, T. Masuda, S. Inoue, T. Kimura, T. Nomura, S. Yonekura, L.-J. Yu, T. Sakamoto, T. Motomura, J.-H. Chen, Y. Kato, T. Noguchi, K. Tono, Y. Joti, T. Kameshima, T. Hatsui, E. Nango, R. Tanaka, H. Naitow , Y. Matsuura, A. Yamashita, M. Yamamoto, O. Nureki, M. Yabashi, T. Ishikawa, S. Iwata, J.-R. Shen
Light-induced structural changes and the site of O=O bond formation in PSII caught by XFEL
Nature 543, 131–135 (2017)

K. Tahara, A. Mohamed, K. Kawahara, R. Nagao, Y. Kato, H. Fukumura, Y. Shibata, and T. Noguchi
Fluorescence property of photosystem II protein complexes bound to a gold nanoparticle
Faraday Discuss. 198, 121-134 (2017)


2016

Y. Kato, R. Ishii, and T. Noguchi
Comparative analysis of the interaction of the primary quinone QA in intact and Mn-depleted photosystem II membranes using light-induced ATR-FTIR spectroscopy
Biochemistry 55, 6355–6358 (2016)

S. Nakamura, and T. Noguchi
Quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics simulation of the ligand vibrations of the water-oxidizing Mn4CaO5 cluster in photosystem II
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 113, 12727-12732 (2016)

Y. Kato and T. Noguchi
FTIR spectroelectrochemistry combined with a light-induced difference technique: Application to the iron-quinone electron acceptor in photosystem II
Biomedical Spectroscopy and Imaging 5, 269–2825 (2016)

野口巧
光合成の電子伝達
光と生命の事典、朝倉書店、東京 pp. 64-65 (2016)

T. Nishimura, R. Nagao, T. Noguchi, J. Nield, F. Sato, and K. Ifuku
The N-terminal sequence of the extrinsic PsbP protein modulates the redox potential of Cyt b559 in photosystem II
Sci. Rep. 6, 21490 (2016)

K. Ifuku and T. Noguchi
Structural coupling of extrinsic proteins with the oxygen-evolving center in photosystem II
Front. Plant Sci. 7, 84 (2016)

S. Nakamura, K. Ota, Y. Shibuya, and T. Noguchi
Role of a water network around the Mn4CaO5 cluster in photosynthetic water oxidation: A Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics calculation study
Biochemistry 55, 597-607 (2016)

A. Mohamed, R. Nagao, T. Noguchi, H. Fukumura, and Y. Shibata
Structure based modeling of fluorescence kinetics of photosystem II: Relation between its dimeric form and photoregulation
J. Phys. Chem. B 120, 365-376 (2016)

C. Azai, Y. Sano, Y. Kato, T. Noguchi, H. Oh-oka
Mutation-induced perturbation of the special pair P840 in the homodimeric reaction center in green sulfur bacteria,
Sci. Rep. 6, 19878 (2016)

Y. Kato, R. Nagao and T. Noguchi
Redox potential of the terminal quinone electron acceptor QB in photosystem II reveals the mechanism of electron-transfer regulation
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 113, 620−625 (2016).


2015

T. Noguchi
Spectroscopic analysis of the redox reactions of π-conjugated cofactors in photosynthetic reaction center
Chemical Science of π-Electron Systems (T. Akasaka, A. Osuka, S. Fukuzumi, H. Kandori, Y. Aso, Eds.), Chapter 40, pp. 675-694, Springer Japan (2015)

Nagashima,H., Nakajima, Y., Shen, J-R. and Mino, H.
Proton matrix ENDOR studies on Ca2+-depleted and Sr2+-substituted Mn cluster in photosystem II
J. Biol. Chem. 290, 28166-28174 (2015)

野口 巧
光合成による水分解:生命の巧みな光エネルギー変換のしくみ
日本物理学会誌、70巻、742-751(2015)

S. Nakamura and T. Noguchi
Infrared detection of a proton released from tyrosine YD to the bulk upon its photo-oxidation in photosystem II
Biochemistry 54, 5045−5053 (2015)

M. Asada, and H. Mino
Location of the High-Affinity Mn2+ Site in Photosystem II Detected by PELDOR
J. Phys. Chem. B., 119, 10139-10144 (2015)

Y. Yamanaka, Y. Kato, K. Hashimoto, K. Iida, K. Nagasawa, H. Nakayama, N. Dohmae, K. Noguchi, T. Noguchi, M. Yohda, and M. Odaka
Time-resolved crystal structures of the reaction intermediate of nitrile hydratase reveal a role for the cysteine-sulfenic acid ligand as a catalytic nucleophile
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 54, 10763–10767 (2015)

野口 巧
光合成水分解反応:水の酸化による酸素発生のメカニズム
光合成のエネルギー変換と物質変換、化学同人、京都、pp93-100 (2015)

三野 広幸
電子スピン共鳴法:Mn4CaO5クラスターを例にして
光合成のエネルギー変換と物質変換、化学同人、京都、p167-168 (2015)

加藤 祐樹
電子伝達分子の酸化還元電位計測法
光合成のエネルギー変換と物質変換、化学同人、京都、pp79-80 (2015)

R. Nagao, T. Tomo, and T. Noguchi
Effects of extrinsic proteins on the protein conformation of the oxygen-evolving center in cyanobacterial photosystem II as revealed by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy
Biochemistry 54, 2022−2031 (2015)

Y. Sano, K. Endo, T. Tomo, and T. Noguchi
Modified molecular interactions of the pheophytin and plastoquinone electron acceptors in photosystem II of chlorophyll d-containing Acaryochloris marina as revealed by FTIR spectroscopy
Photosynth. Res. 125, 105-114 (2015)

T. Noguchi
Fourier transform infrared difference and time-resolved infrared detection of the electron and proton transfer dynamics in photosynthetic water oxidation
Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1847, 35-45 (2015)


2014

Y. Kato and T. Noguchi
Long-range interaction between the Mn4CaO5 cluster and the non-heme iron center in photosystem II as revealed by FTIR spectroelectrochemistry
Biochemistry 53, 4914-4923 (2014)

S. Nakamura, R. Nagao, R. Takahashi, and T. Noguchi
Fourier transform infrared detection of a polarizable proton trapped between photooxidized tyrosine YZ and a coupled histidine in photosystem II: Relevance to the proton transfer mechanism of water oxidation
Biochemistry 53, 3131-3144 (2014)

R. Ashizawa and T. Noguchi
Effects of hydrogen bonding interactions on the redox potential and molecular vibrations of plastoquinone as studied by density functional theory calculations
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 16, 11864-11876 (2014)

Isobe,H., Shoji,M., Yamanaka,S., Mino, H., Umena,Y., Kawakami,K., Kamiya,N., Shen,J.-R. and Yamaguchi, K
Generalized approximate spin projection calculations of effective exchange integrals of the CaMn4O5 cluster in the S1 and S3 states of the oxygen evolving complex of photosystem II
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 16, 11911-119123 (2014)

Ishii,K.,Terauchi,S.,Murakami, R., Swain, J.V., Mutoh, R., Mino. H., Maki, K., Arata, T. and Ishiura, M.
Site-directed spin labeling-electron spin resonance mapping of the residues of cyanobacterial clock protein KaiA that are affected by KaiA–KaiC interaction
Genes to Cells 19, 297-324 (2014)

T. Nishimura, C. Uno, K. Ido, R. Nagao, T. Noguchi, F. Sato, K. Ifuku
Identification of the basic amino acid residues on the PsbP protein involved in the electrostatic interaction with photosystem II
Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1837, 1447-1453 (2014)

Y. Shibata, W. Katoh, T. Chiba, K. Namie, N. Ohnishi, J. Minagawa, H. Nakanishi, T. Noguchi, H. Fukumura
Development of a novel cryogenic microscope with numerical aperture of 0.9 and its application to photosynthesis research
Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1837, 880-887 (2014)

K. Hasegawa and T. Noguchi
Molecular interactions of the quinone electron acceptors QA, QB and QC in photosystem II as studied by the fragment molecular orbital method
Photosynth. Res. 120, 113-123 (2014)


2013

C. Uno, R. Nagao, H. Suzuki, T. Tomo, and T. Noguchi
Structural coupling of extrinsic proteins with the oxygen evolving center in red algal photosystem II as revealed by light-induced FTIR difference spectroscopy
Biochemistry 52, 5705−5707 (2013)

H. Suzuki, J. Yu, T. Kobayashi, H. Nakanishi, P. Nixon, T. Noguchi
Functional roles of D2-Lys317 and the interacting chloride ion in the water oxidation reaction of photosystem II as revealed by Fourier transform infrared analysis
Biochemistry 52, 4748–4757 (2013)

H. Nagashima and H. Mino
Highly resolved proton matrix ENDOR of oriented Photosystem II membranes in the S2 state
Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1827, 1165-1173 (2013)

T. Noguchi
Monitoring the reactions of photosynthetic water oxidation using infrared spectroscopy
Biomedical Spectroscopy and Imaging 2, 115-128 (2013)

M. Asada, H. Nagashima, F. H. M. Koua, J.-R. Shen, A. Kawamori, and H. Mino
Electronic structure of S2 state of the oxygen-evolving complex of photosystem II studied by PELDOR
Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1827, 438–445 (2013)

野口 巧
π系生体ナノ電極における光合成電子移動反応の分子制御機構
高次π空間の創発と機能開発、シーエムシー出版、東京、pp.229-232 (2013)


2012

H. Suzuki, M. Sugiura, and T. Noguchi
Determination of the miss probabilities of individual S-state transitions during photosynthetic water oxidation by monitoring electron flow in photosystem II using FTIR spectroscopy
Biochemistry 51, 6776–6785 (2012)

Y. Kato, T. Shibamoto, S. Yamamoto, T. Watanabe, N. Ishida, M. Sugiura, F. Rappaport, A. Boussac
Influence of the PsbA1/PsbA3, Ca2+/Sr2+ and Cl/Br exchanges on the redox potential of the primary quinone QA in Photosystem II from Thermosynechococcus elongatus as revealed by spectroelectrochemistry
Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1817, 1998-2004 (2012).

K. Ido, S. Kakiuchi, C. Uno, T. Nishimura, Y. Fukao, T. Noguchi, F. Sato, K. Ifuku
The conserved His-144 in the PsbP protein is important for the interaction between the PsbP N-terminus and the Cytb559 subunit of photosystem II
J. Biol. Chem. 287, 26377-26387 (2012).

T. Noguchi, H. Suzuki, M. Tsuno, M. Sugiura, and C. Kato
Time-resolved infrared detection of the proton and protein dynamics during photosynthetic oxygen evolution
Biochemistry 51, 3205-3214 (2012)

S. Kakiuchi, C. Uno, K. Ido, T. Nishimura, T. Noguchi, K. Ifuku, F. Sato
The PsbQ protein stabilizes the functional binding of the PsbP protein to photosystem II in higher plants
Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1817, 1346-1351 (2012).

J. Messinger,T. Noguchi, and J. Yano
Photosynthetic O2 Evolution
in Molecular Solar Fuels (T. Wydrzynski and W. Hillier, Eds.) Chapter 7, RSC Publishing, Cambridge UK, pp. 163-207 (2012)


2011

Y. Asada, R. Mutoh, M. Ishiura and H. Mino
Nonselective excitation of pulsed ELDOR using multi-frequency microwaves
Journal of Magnetic Resonance 213, 200-205 (2011).

T. Noji, H. Suzuki, T. Gotoh, M. Iwai, M. Ikeuchi, T. Tomo, and T. Noguchi
Photosystem II-gold nanoparticle conjugate as a nano-device for the development of artificial light-driven water-splitting systems
J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2, 2448-2452 (2011).

I. Idedan, T. Tomo, and T. Noguchi
Herbicide effect on the photodamage process of photosystem II: Fourier transform infrared study
Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1807, 1214-1220 (2011).

C. Azai, K. Kim, T. Kondo, J. Harada, S. Itoh, and H. Oh-oka
A heterogeneous tag-attachment to the homodimeric type 1 photosynthetic reaction center core protein in the green sulfur bacterium Chlorobaculum tepidum
Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1807, 803-812 (2011).

T. Kondo, S. Masuda, and H. Mino
Pulsed EPR analysis of the photo-induced triplet radical pair in the BLUF protein SyPixD: Determination of the protein-protein distance and orientation in the oligomeric protein
Applied Magnetic Resonance 40, 545-555 (2011).

H. Ishikita, K. Hasegawa, and T. Noguchi
How does the QB site influence propagate to the QA site in Photosystem II?
Biochemistry 50, 5436-5442 (2011).

R. Mutoh, H. Mino, R. Murakami, T. Uzumaki, and M. Ishiura
Thermodynamically induced conformational changes of the cyanobacterial circadian clock protein KaiB
Applied Magnetic Resonance 40, 525-535 (2011).

F. Mito, T. Yamasaki, Y. Ito, M. Yamato, H. Mino, H. Sadasue, C. Shirahama, K. Sakai, H. Utsumi, and K. Yamada
Monitoring the aggregation processes of amyloid-ß using a spin-labeled, fluorescent nitroxyl radical
Chem. Commun. 47, 5070–5072 (2011).

M. Tsuno, H. Suzuki, T. Kondo, H. Mino, and T. Noguchi
Interaction and inhibitory effect of ammonium cation in the oxygen evolving center of photosytem II
Biochemistry 50, 2506-2514 (2011).

Y. Shimada, H. Suzuki, T. Tsuchiya, M. Mimuro, and T. Noguchi
Structural coupling of an arginine side chain with the oxygen evolving Mn4Ca cluster in photosynstem II as revealed by isotope-edited Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 133, 3808-3811 (2011).

T. Ishizuka, A. Kamiya, H. Suzuki, R. Narikawa, T. Noguchi, T. Kohchi, K. Inomata, and M. Ikeuchi
The cyanobacteriochrome, TePixJ, isomerizes its own chromophore by converting phycocyanobilin to phycoviolobilin
Biochemistry 50, 953-961 (2011).

T. Noji, C. Kamidaki, K. Kawakami, J.-R. Shen, T. Kajino, Y. Fukushima, T. Sekitoh, and S. Itoh
Photosynthetic oxygen evolution in mesoporous silica material: Adsorption of photosystem II reaction center complex into 23-nm nanopores in SBA
Langmuir 27, 705-713 (2011).

T. Kondo, S. Masuda, K. Tsutsui, and H. Mino
Temperature dependence of relaxation time of a stable radical pair in SyPixD investigated by pulsed EPR
Chem. Phys. Lett. 501, 528-533 (2011).


2010

T. Kondo, J. Nomata, Y. Fujita, and S. Itoh
EPR study of 1Asp–3Cys ligated 4Fe–4S iron–sulfur cluster in NB-protein (BchN–BchB) of a dark-operative protochlorophyllide reductase complex
FEBS Lett. 585, 214-218 (2010).

Z. Zhou , Y. Hashimoto , T. Cui , Y. Washizawa , H. Mino, and M. Kobayashi
Unique Biogenesis of High-molecular-mass Multimeric Metalloenzyme Nitrile Hydratase: Intermediates, and a Proposed Mechanism for Self-Subunit Swapping Maturation
Biochemistry 49, 9638-9648 (2010).

S. Ishigure, T. Mitsui, S. Ito, Y. Kondo, S. Kawabe, M. Kondo, T. Dewa, H. Mino, S. Itoh, and M. Nango
Peroxide Decoloration of CI Acid Orange 7 Catalyzed by Manganese Chlorophyll Derivatives at the Surfaces of Micelles and Lipid Bilayers
Langmuir 26, 7774-7782 (2010).

R. Takahashi, K. Hasegawa, A. Takano, and T. Noguchi
The structures and binding sites of phenolic herbicides in the QB pocket of photosystem II
Biochemistry 49, 5445-5454 (2010).

M. Sugiura, Y. Kato, R. Takahashi, H. Suzuki, T. Watanabe, T. Noguchi, F. Rappaport, and A. Boussac
Energetics in photosystem II from Thermosynechococcus elongatus with a D1 protein encoded by either the psbA1 or psbA3 gene
Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1797, 1491-1499 (2010).

M. Iizasa, H. Suzuki, and T. Noguchi
Orientations of carboxylate groups coupled to the Mn cluster in the photosynthetic oxygen-evolving center as studied by polarized ATR-FTIR spectroscopy
Biochemistry 49, 3074-3082 (2010).

Y. Shibuya, R. Takahashi, T. Okubo, H. Suzuki, M. Sugiura, and T. Noguchi
Hydrogen bond interactions of the pheophytin electron acceptor and its radical anion in photosystem II as revealed by Fourier transform infrared difference spectroscopy
Biochemistry 49, 493-501 (2010).

T. Noguchi
Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy of special pair bacteriochlorophylls in homodimeric reaction centers of heliobacteria and green sulfur bacteria
Photosynth. Res. 104, 321-331 (2010).

R. Mutoh, H. Mino, R. Murakami, T. Uzumaki, A. Takabayashi, K. Ishii, and M. Ishiura
Direct interaction between KaiA and KaiB revealed by a site-directed spin labeling electron spin resonance analysis
Genes to Cells 15, 269-280 (2010)

A. Yamagishi, Y. Ikeda, M. Komura, H. Koike, K. Satoh, S. Itoh, and Y. Shibata
Shallow sink in an antenna pigment system of photosystem I of a marine centric diatom, Chaetoceros gracilis, revealed by ultrafast fluorescence spectroscopy at 17 K
J. Phys. Chem. B 114, 9031-9038 (2010).

Y. Kataoka, Y. Shibata, and H. Tamiaki
Intramolecular excitation energy transfer from visible-lightabsorbing chlorophyll derivatives to a near-infrared-light emitting borondipyrromethene moiety
Chem. Lett. 39, 953-955 (2010).

Y. Shibata, S. Tateishi, S. Nakabayashi, S. Itoh, and H. Tamiaki
Intensity borrowingvia excitonic couplings among Soret and Qy transitions of bacteriochlorophyllsin the pigment aggregates of chlorosomes, the light-harvesting antennaeof green sulfur bacteria
Biochemistry 49, 7504-7515 (2010).

M. Komura, A. Yamagishi, Y. Shibata, I. Iwasaki, and S. Itoh
Mechanism of strong quenching of photosystem II chlorophyll fluorescenceunder drought stress in a lichen, Physciella melanchla, studied by sub-picosecondfluorescence spectroscopy
Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1797, 331-338 (2010).

H. Tamiaki, S. Tateishi, S. Nakabayashi, Y. Shibata, and S. Itoh
Linearly polarized light absorption spectra of chlorosomes, light-harvesting antennas of photosynthetic green sulfur bacteria
Chem. Phys. Lett. 484, 333-337 (2010).

Y. Shibata, A. Yamagishi, S. Kawamoto, T. Noji, and S. Itoh
Kinetically Distinct Three Red Chlorophylls in Photosystem I of Thermosynechococcus elongatus Revealed by Femtosecond Time-Resolved Fluorescence Spectroscopy at 15 K
J. Phys. Chem. B 114, 2954-2963 (2010).

Y. Saga, Y. Shibata, and H. Tamiaki
Spectral properties of single light-harvesting complexes in bacterial photosynthesis
J. Photochem. Photobiol. C 11, 15-24 (2010).