2023
Tani, K., Kanno, R., Kurosawa, K., Ji, X.-C., Satoh, I., Kobayashi, Y., Hall, M., Yu, L.-J., Kimura, Y., Mizoguchi, A., Humbel, B. M., Madigan, M. T. & Wang-Otomo, Z.-Y. (2023) Rhodobacter capsulatus forms a compact crescent-shaped LH1–RC photocomplex. Nat. Commun. 14, 846.

Kimura, Y., Tani, K., Madigan, M. T. & Wang-Otomo, Z.-Y. (2023) Advances in the spectroscopic and structural characterization of core light-harvesting complexes from purple phototrophic bacteria. J. Phys. Chem. B 127, 6-17.

Satoh, I., Gotou, K., Nagatsuma, S., Nagashima, K. V. P., Kobayashi, M., Yu, L.-J., Madigan, M. T., Kimura, Y. & Wang-Otomo, Z.-Y. (2023) Selective expression of light-harvesting complexes alters phospholipid composition in the intracytoplasmic membrane and core complex of purple phototrophic bacteria. Biochim. Biophys. Acta Bioenergetics 1864, 149001.

Madigan, M. T., Bender, K. S., Sanguedolce, S. A., Parenteau, M. N., Mayer, M. H., Kimura, Y., Wang-Otomo, Z.-Y. & Sattley, W. M. (2023) Genomic basis for the unique phenotype of the alkaliphilic purple nonsulfur bacterium Rhodobaca bogoriensis. Extremophiles 27, 19.

Qi, C.-H., Wang, G.-L., Wang, F.-F., Xin, Y., Zou, M.-J., Madigan, M. T., Wang-Otomo, Z.-Y., Ma, F. & Yu, L.-J. (2023) New insights on the photocomplex of Roseiflexus castenholzii revealed from comparisons of native and carotenoid-depleted complexes. J. Biol. Chem. 299, 105057.

Morimoto, M., Hirao, H., Kondo, M., Dewa, T., Kimura, Y., Wang-Otomo, Z.-Y., Asakawa, H. & Saga, Y. (2023) Atomic force microscopic analysis of the light-harvesting complex 2 from purple photosynthetic bacterium Thermochromatium tepidum. Photosynth. Res. 157, 13-20.

Rätsep, M., Lehtmets, A., Kangur, L., Timpmann, K., Leiger, K., Wang-Otomo, Z.-Y. & Freiberg, A. (2023) Evaluation of the relationship between color-tuning of photosynthetic excitons and thermodynamic stability of light-harvesting chromoproteins. Photosynthetica 61, 45-54.

2022
Tani, K., Kanno, R., Kurosawa, K., Takaichi, S., Nagashima, K. V. P., Hall, M., Yu, L.-J., Kimura, Y., Madigan, M. T., Mizoguchi, A., Humbel, B. M. & Wang-Otomo, Z.-Y. (2022) An LH1–RC photocomplex from an extremophilic phototroph provides insight into origins of two photosynthesis proteins. Commun. Biol. 5, 1197.

Asaka, R., Ohshima, K., Kawasaki, S., Maoka, T., Tode, C., Wang-Otomo, Z.-Y. & Takaichi, S. (2022) Major carotenoids of Meiothermus ruber are deinoxanthin glucoside esters, not meiothermoxanthin glucoside esters. J. Nat. Prod. 85, 2266-2273.

Tani, K., Kanno, R., Kikuchi, R., Kawamura, S., Nagashima, K. V. P., Hall, M., Takahashi, A., Yu, L.-J., Kimura, Y., Madigan, M. T., Mizoguchi, A., Humbel, B. M. & Wang-Otomo, Z.-Y. (2022) Asymmetric structure of the native Rhodobacter sphaeroides dimeric LH1-RC complex. Nat. Commun. 13, 1904.

Zhang, Y., Qi, C.-H., Yamano, N., Wang, P., Yu, L.-J., Wang-Otomo, Z.-Y., Zhang, J.-P. (2022) Carotenoid single-molecular singlet fission and the photoprotection of a bacteriochlorophyll b-type core light-harvesting antenna. J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 13, 3534-3541.

Tani, K., Kobayashi, K., Hosogi, N., Ji, X.-C., Nagashima, S., Nagashima, K. V. P., Izumida, A., Inoue, K., Tsukatani, Y., Kanno, R., Hall, M., Yu, L.-J., Ishikawa, I., Okura, Y., Madigan, M.. T., Mizoguchi, A., Humbel, B., M. Kimura, Y. & Wang-Otomo, Z.-Y. (2022) A Ca2+-binding motif underlies the unusual properties of certain photosynthetic bacterial core light-harvesting complexes. J. Biol. Chem. 298, 101967.

Kimura, Y., Nakata, K., Nojima, S., Takenaka, S., Madigan, M. T. & Wang-Otomo, Z.-Y. (2022) Salt- and pH-dependent thermal stability of photocomplexes from extremophilic bacteriochlorophyll b-containing Halorhodospira species. Microoganisms 10, 959.

Kimura, Y., Imanishi, M., Li, Y., Yura, Y., Ohno, T., Saga, Y., Madigan, M. T. & Wang-Otomo, Z.-Y. (2022) Identification of metal-sensitive structural changes in the Ca2+-binding photocomplex from Thermochromatium tepidum by isotope-edited vibrational spectroscopy. J. Chem. Phys. 156, 105101.

Madigan, M. T., Absher, J. N., Mayers, J. E., Asao, M., Jung, D. O., Bender, K.. S., Kempher, M.. L., Hayward, M. K., Sanguedolce, S. A., Brown, A.. C., Takaichi, S., Kurokawa, K., Toyoda, A., Mori, H., Tsukatani, Y., Wang-Otomo, Z.-Y., Ward, D. M. & Sattley, W..M.. (2022) Allochromatium tepidum, sp. nov., a hot spring species of purple sulfur bacteria. Arch. Microbiol. 204, 115.

Sattley, W. M., Swingley, W. D., Burchell, B. M., Dewey, E. D., Hayward, M. K., Renbarger, T. L., Shaffer, K. N., Stokes, L. M., Gurbani, S. A., Kujawa, C. M., D. Nuccio, A., Schladweiler, J., Wang-Otomo, Z.-Y., Blankenship, R. E. and Madigan, M. T. (2022) Complete genome sequence of the thermophilic purple sulfur bacterium Thermochromatium tepidum contrasted with that of the mesophilic Allochromatium vinosum. Photosynth. Res., 151, 125-142.

2021
Tani, K., Nagashima, K. V. P., Kanno, R., Kawamura, S., Kikuchi, R., Hall, M., Yu, L.-J., Kimura, Y., Madigan, M. T., Mizoguchi, A., Humbel, B. M. & Wang-Otomo, Z.-Y. (2021) A previously unrecognized membrane protein in the Rhodobacter sphaeroides LH1-RC photocomplex. Nat. Commun. 12, 6300.

Nagashima, K. V. P., Nagashima, S., Kitashima, M., Inoue, K., Madigan, M. T., Kimura, Y. & Wang-Otomo, Z.-Y. (2021) Photosynthetic growth and energy conversion in an engineered phototroph containing Thermochromatium tepidum light-harvesting 1 complex and Rhodobacter sphaeroides reaction center complex. Biochemistry 60, 2685-2690.

Tani, K., Kanno, R., Ji, X.-C., Hall, M., Yu, L.-J., Kimura, Y., Madigan, M. T., Mizoguchi, A., Humbel, B. M. & Wang-Otomo, Z.-Y. (2021) Cryo-EM structure of the photosynthetic LH1-RC complex from Rhodospirillum rubrum. Biochemistry 60, 2483-2491.

Kimura, Y., Nojima, S., Nakata, K., Yamashita, T., Wang, X.-P., Takenaka, S., Akimoto, S., Kobayashi, M., Madigan, M. T., Wang-Otomo, Z.-Y. & Yu, L.-J. (2021) Electrostatic charge controls the lowest LH1 Qy transition energy in the triply extremophilic purple phototrophic bacterium, Halorhodospira halochloris. Biochim. Biophys. Acta –Bioenergetics 1862, 148473.

Timpmann, K., Rätsep, M., Kangur, L., Lehtmets, A., Wang-Otomo, Z.-Y. & Freiberg, A. (2021) Exciton origin of color-tuning in Ca2+-binding photosynthetic bacteria. Int. J. Mol. Sci., 22, 7338.

Kimura, Y., Yamashita, T., Seto, R., Imanishi, M., Honda, M., Nakagawa, S., Saga, Y., Takenaka, S., Yu, L.-J., Madigan, M. T. & Wang-Otomo, Z.-Y. (2021) Circular dichroism and resonance Raman spectroscopies of bacteriochlorophyll b-containing LH1-RC complexes. Photosynth. Res., 148, 77-86.

Kawakami, T., Yu, L.-J., Liang, T., Okazaki, K., Madigan, M. T., 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

Kishi, R., Imanishi, M., Kobayashi, M., Takenaka, S., Madigan, M. T., Wang-Otomo, Z.-Y. & Kimura (2021) Monitoring of quinone exchange in light-harvesting 1 reaction center complexes from purple photosynthetic bacteria. Biochim. Biophys. Acta –Bioenergetics 1862, 148307.


2019-2020
Tani, K., Kanno, R., Makino, Y., Hall, M., Takenouchi, M., Imanishi, M., Yu, L.-J., Overmann, J., Madigan, M. T., Kimura, Y., Mizoguchi, A., Humbel, B. M. & Wang-Otomo, Z.-Y. (2020) Cryo-EM structure of a Ca2+-bound photosynthetic LH1-RC complex containing multiple αβ-polypeptides. Nat. Commun. 11, 4955.

Seto, R., Takaichi, S., Kurihara, T., Kishi, R., Honda, M., Takenaka, S., Tsukatani, Y., Madigan, M. T., Overmann, J., Wang-Otomo, Z.-Y. & Kimura, Y. (2020) Lycopene-family carotenoids confer thermostability on photocomplexes from a new thermophilic purple bacterium. Biochemistry 59, 2351-2358.

Kangur, L., Räsep, M., Timpmann, K., Wang-Otomo, Z.-Y. & Freiberg, A. (2020) The two light-harvesting membrane chromoproteins of Thermochromatium tepidum expose distinct robustness against temperature and pressure. Biochim. Biophys. Acta –Bioenergetics 1861, 148205.

Takaichi, S., Okoshi, A., Otomo, S., Misumi, M., Sonoike, K. and Harada, J. (2020) Direct injection of pigment–protein complexes and membrane fragments suspended in water from phototrophs to C18 HPLC. Photosynth. Res., 144, 101-107.

Nagatsuma, S., Gotou, K., Yamashita, T., Yu, L.-J., Shen, J.-R., Madigan, M. T., Kimura, Y. & Wang-Otomo, Z.-Y. (2019) Phospholipid distributions in purple phototrophic bacteria and LH1-RC core complexes. Biochim. Biophys. Acta –Bioenergetics 1860, 461-468.

Imanishi, M., Takenouchi, M., Takaichi, S., Nakagawa, S., Saga, Y., Takenaka, S., Madigan, M., Overmann, J., Wang-Otomo, Z.-Y., Kimura, Y. (2019) A dual role for Ca2+ in expanding the spectral diversity and stability of LH1-RC photocomplexes of purple phototrophic bacteria. Biochemistry 58, 2844-2852.

Madigan, M. T, Resnick, S. M., Kempher, M, L., Dolnalkova, A. C., Takaichi, S., Wang-Otomo, Z.-Y., Toyoda, A., Kurokawa, K., Mori, H. and Tsukatani, Y. (2019) Blastochloris tepida, sp. nov., a thermophilic species of the bacteriochlorophyll b-containing genus Blastochloris. Arch. Microbiol. 201, 1351-1359.

Chen, J.-H., Yu, L.-J., Boussac, A., Wang-Otomo, Z.-Y., Kuang, T. & Shen, J.-R. (2019) Properties and structure of a low-potential, penta-heme cytochrome c 552 from a thermophilic purple sulfur photosynthetic bacterium Thermochromatium tepidum. Photosynth. Res. 139, 281-293.



2018
Yu, L.-J., Suga, M., Wang-Otomo, Z.-Y. & Shen, J.-R. (2018) Structure of photosynthetic LH1-RC super-complex at 1.9 Å resolution. Nature 508, 228-232. [Abstract]

Kimura, Y., Hashimoto, K., Akimoto, S., Takenouchi, M., Suzuki, K., Kishi, R., Imanishi, M., Takenaka, S., Madigan, T. M., Nagashima, K. & Wang-Otomo, Z.-Y. (2018) Biochemical and spectroscopic characterizations of a hybrid light-harvesting-reaction center core complex. Biochemistry 57, 4496-4503.

Yu, L.-J., Suga, M., Wang-Otomo, Z.-Y. & Shen, J.-R. (2018) Novel features of LH1-RC from Thermochromatium tepidum revealed from its atomic resolution structure. FEBS J., 285, 4359-4366.

Yu, J., Tan, L.-M., Kawakami, T., Wang, P., T., Fu, L.-M., Wang-Otomo, Z.-Y. & Zhang, J.-P. (2018) Cooperative photoprotection by multicompositional carotenoids in the LH1 antenna from a mutant strain of Rhodobacter sphaeroides. J. Phys. Chem. B 122, 8028-8036.

Tan, L.-M., Yu, J., Kawakami, T., Kobayashi, M., Wang, P., Wang-Otomo, Z.-Y. & Zhang, J.-P. (2018) New insights into the mechanism of uphill excitation energy transfer from core antenna to reaction center in purple photosynthetic bacteria. J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 9, 3278-3284.

Dai, L., Tan, L.-M., Jiang, Y.-L., Shi, Y., Wang, P., Zhang, J.-P. & Otomo, Z.-Y. (2018) Orientation assignment of LH2 and LH1-RC complexes from Thermochromatium tepidum reconstituted in PC liposome and their ultrafast excitation dynamics comparison between in artificial and in natural chromatophores. Chem. Phys. Lett. 705, 78-84.

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.


2017
Nagashima, K. V. P., Sasaki, M., Hashimoto, K., Takaichi, S., Nagashima, S., Yu, L.-J., Abe, Y., Gotou, K., Kawakami, T., Takenouchi, M., Shibuya, Y., Yamaguchi, A., Ohno, T., Shen, J.-R., Inoue, K., Madigan, M. T., Kimura Y., Wang-Otomo, Z.-Y. (2017) Probing structure–function relationships in early events in photosynthesis using a chimeric photocomplex, Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 114, 10906-10911. [Abstract]

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. [Abstract]

Räsep, M., Timpmann, K., Kawakami, T., Wang-Otomo, Z.-Y. & Freiberg, A. (2017) Spectrally selective spectroscopy of native Ca-containing and Ba-substituted LH1-RC core complexes from Thermochromatium tepidum. J. Phys. Chem. B 121, 10318-10326. [Abstract]

Ma, F., Yu, L.-J., Hendrikx, R., Robert, B., Wang-Otomo, Z.-Y., van Grondelle, R. (2017) Metal cations induced ab-BChl a heterogeneity in LH1 as revealed by temperature-dependent fluorescence splitting. ChemPhysChem. 18, 2295-2301. [Abstract]

Ma, F., Yu, L.-J., Hendrikx, R., Wang-Otomo, Z.-Y., 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. [Abstract]

Kimura, Y., Lyu, S., Okoshi, A., Okazaki, K., Nakamura, N., Ohashi, A., Ohno, T., Kobayashi, M., Imanishi, M., Takaichi, S., Madigan, M. T., Wang-Otomo, Z.-Y. (2017) Effects of calcium ions on the thermostability and spectroscopic properties of the LH1-RC complex from a new thermophilic purple bacterium Allochromatium tepidum. J. Phys. Chem. B 121, 5025-5032. [Abstract]

Shi, Y., Yu, J., Yu, L.-J., Wang, P., Fu, L., Zhang, J.-P., Wang-Otomo, Z.-Y. (2017) Dependence of the hydration status of bacterial light-harvesting complex 2 on polyol cosolvents. Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 16, 795-807.[Abstract]

Ma, F., Yu, L.-J., Wang-Otomo, Z.-Y., 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. [Abstract]


2015 ~ 2016

Yu, L.-J., Kawakami, T., Kimura, Y., Wang-Otomo, Z.-Y. (2016) Structural basis for the unusual Qy red-shift and enhanced thermostability of the LH1 complex from Thermochromatium tepidum. Biochemistry 55, 6495-6504. [Abstract]

Ma, F., Yu, L.-J., Ma, X.-H., Wang, P., Wang-Otomo, Z.-Y. & Zhang, J.-P. (2016) Bacterial light-harvesting complexes showing giant second-order nonlinear optical response as revealed by hyper-Rayleigh light scattering. J. Phys. Chem. B 120, 9395-9401. [Abstract]

Kimura, Y., Yura, Y., Hayashi, Y., Li, Y., Onoda, M., Yu, L.-J., Wang-Otomo, Z.-Y., Ohno, T. (2016) Spectroscopic and thermodynamic characterization of the metal-binding sites in the LH1-RC complex from thermophilic photosynthetic bacterium. J. Phys. Chem. B 120, 12466-12473. [Abstract]

Ma, F., Yu, L.-J., Wang-Otomo, Z.-Y. & Van Grondelle, R. (2016) Temperature dependent LH1→RC energy transfer in purple bacteria Tch. tepidum with shiftable LH1-Qy band: A natural system to investigate thermally activated energy transfer in photosynthesism. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1857, 408-414. [Abstract]

Reimers, J. R., Biczysko, M., Bruce, D., Coker, D., Frankcombe, T., Hashimoto, H., Hauer, J., Jankowiak, R., Kramer, T., Linnanto, J., Mamedov, F., Müh, F., Rätsep, M., Renger, T., Styring, S., Wan, J., Wang, Z., Wang-Otomo, Z.-Y., Weng, Y.-X., Yang, C., Zhang, J.-P., Freiberg, A., and Krausz, E. (2016) Challenges facing an understanding of the nature of low-energy excited states in photosynthesis. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1857, 1627-1640. [Abstract]

Wang-Otomo, Z.-Y. (2016) Fundamentals of Photosynthesis for Energy Storage in Solar to Chemical Energy Conversion (Eds Sugiyama M. et al), pp. 369-377, Springer International Publishing Switzerland. [Cover and Table Contents]

Wang-Otomo, Z.-Y. (2016) Recent Understanding on the Photosystem of Purple Photosynthetic Bacteria in Solar to Chemical Energy Conversion (Eds Sugiyama M. et al), pp. 379-390, Springer International Publishing Switzerland. [Cover and Table Contents]

Kimura, Y., Kawakami, T., Yu, L.-J., Yoshimura, Y., Kobayashi, M. & Wang-Otomo, Z.-Y. (2015) Characterization of the quinones in purple sulfur bacterium Thermochromatium tepidum. FEBS Lett. 589, 1761-1765. [Abstract]

Ma, F., Yu, L.-J., Wang-Otomo, Z.-Y. & 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, 1479-1485. [Abstract]

Shi, Y., Zhao, N.-J., Wang, P., Fu, L.-M., Yu, L.-J., Zhang, J.-P. & Wang-Otomo, Z.-Y. (2015) Thermal adaptability of the light-harvesting complex 2 from Thermochromatium tepidum: Temperature dependent excitation transfer dynamics. J. Phys. Chem. B 119, 14871-14879. [Abstract]

Kimura, Y., Kasuga, S., Unno, M., Furusawa, T., Osoegawa, S., Sasaki, Y., Ohno, T. & Wang-Otomo, Z.-Y. (2015) The roles of C-terminal residues on the thermal stability and local heme environment of cytochrome c’ from the thermophilic purple sulfur bacterium Thermochromatium tepidum. Photosynth. Res. 124, 19-29. [Abstract]


2012 ~2014

Niwa, S., Yu, L.-J., Takeda, K., Hirano, Y., Kawakami, T., Wang-Otomo, Z.-Y., Miki, K. (2014) Structure of the LH1-RC complex from Thermochromatium tepidum at 3.0 Å. Nature 508, 228-232. [Abstract]

大友征宇 (2014) 光捕集複合体の構造と機能解析 光合成研究と産業応用最前線 第1編 第1章 第1節, pp11-19, (株)エヌ・ティー・エス. [Cover]

Carey, A.-M., Hacking, K., Picken, N., Honkanen. S., Kelly, S., Niedzwiedzki, D. M., Blankenship, R. E., Shimizu, Y., Wang-Otomo, Z.-Y., Cogdell, R. J. (2014) Characterisation of the LH2 spectral variants produced by the photosynthetic purple sulphur bacterium Allochromatium vinosum. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1837, 1849-1860. [Abstract]

Li, Y., Kimura, Y., Arikawa, T., Wang-Otomo, Z.-Y. & Ohno, T. (2013) ATR-FTIR detection of the metal-sensitive structural changes in the light-harvesting 1 reaction center complex from the thermophilic purple sulfur bacterium Thermochromatium tepidum. Biochemistry 52, 9001-9008. [Abstract]

Yu, L.-J., Unno, M., Kimura, Y., Yanagimoto, K., Oh-Oka, H., Wang-Otomo, Z.-Y. (2013) Structure analysis and characterization of the cytochrome c-554 from thermophilic green sulfur photosynthetic bacterium Chlorobaculum tepidum. Photosynth. Res. 118, 249-258. [Abstract]

Hirano, Y., Kimura, Y., Suzuki, H., Miki, K. & Wang, Z.-Y. (2012) Structure analysis and comparative characterization of the cytochrome c’ and flavocytochrome c from thermophilic purple photosynthetic bacterium Thermochromatium tepidum. Biochemistry 51, 6556-6567. [Abstract]

Kimura, Y., Inada, Y., Numata, T., Arikawa, T., Li, Y., Zhang, J.-P., Wang, Z.-Y. & Ohno, T. (2012) Metal cations modulate the bacteriochlorophyll-protein interaction in the light-harvesting 1 core complex from Thermochromatium tepidum. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1817, 1022-1029. [Abstract]

Sekine, F., Horiguchi, K., Kashino, Y., Shimizu, Y., Yu, L.-J., Kobayashi, M. & Wang, Z.-Y. (2012) Gene sequencing and characterization of the light-harvesting complex 2 from thermophilic purple sulfur bacterium Thermochromatium tepidum. Photosynth. Res. 111, 9-18. [Abstract]


2009 ~2011

Kimura, Y., Inada, Y., Yu, L.-J., Wang, Z.-Y. & 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. [Abstract]

Yang, F., Yu, L.-J., Wang, P., Ai, X.-C., Wang, Z.-Y. & Zhang, J.-P. (2011) Effect of aggregation on the excitation dynamics of LH2 from Thermochromatium tepidum in aqueous phase and in chromatophores. J. Phys. Chem. B 115, 7906-7913. [Abstract]

大友征宇 (2010) 紅色光合成細菌における光捕集タンパク質の多様性 光合成研究 20, 109. [PDF]

Hirano, Y., Higuchi, M., Azai, C., Oh-oka, H., Miki, K. & Wang, Z.-Y. (2010) Crystal structure of the electron carrier domain of the reaction center cytochrome cz subunit from green photosynthetic bacterium Chlorobium tepidum. J. Mol. Biol. 397, 1175-1187. [Abstract]

Yu, L.-J., Kato, S. & Wang, Z.-Y. (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. [Abstract]

Yang, F., Yu, L.-J., Wang, P., Ai, X.-C., Wang, Z.-Y. & Zhang, J.-P. (2010) Excitation dynamics of the LH2 complex from Thermochromatium tepidum. Acta Phys. Chim. Sin. 26, 2021-2030. [Abstract]

Kimura, Y., Yu, L.-J., Hirano, Y., Suzuki, H., and Wang, Z.-Y. (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. [Abstract]

Higuchi, M., Hirano, Y., Kimura, Y., Oh-oka, H., Miki, K. & Wang, Z.-Y. (2009) Overexpression, characterization, and crystallization of the functional domain of cytochrome cz from Chlorobium tepidum. Photosynth. Res. 102, 77-84. [Abstract]

Ma, F., Kimura, Y., Yu, L.-J., Wang, P., Ai, X.-C., Wang, Z.-Y. & Zhang, J.-P. (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. [Abstract]


2005 ~ 2008

Kimura, Y., Hirano, Y., Yu, L.-J., Suzuki, H., Kobayashi, M. & Wang, Z.-Y.(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. [Abstract]

Ma, F., Kimura, Y., Zhao, X.-H., Wu, Y.-S., Wang, P., Fu, L.-M., Wang, Z.-Y. & , Zhang, J.-P. (2008). Excitation dynamics of two spectral forms of the core complexes from photosynthetic bacterium Thermochromatium tepidum. Biophys. J. 95, 3349-3357. [Abstract]

Suzuki, H., Hirano, Y., Kimura, Y., Takaichi, S., Kobayashi, M., Miki, K. & Wang, Z.-Y.(2007). Purification, characterization and crystallization of the core complex from thermophilic purple sulfur bacterium Thermochromatium tepidum. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1767, 1057-1063. [Abstract]

Wang, Z.-Y., Suzuki, H., Kobayashi, M. & Nozawa, T. (2007). Solution structure of the Rhodobacter sphaeroides PufX membrane protein: Implications for the quinone exchange and protein-protein interactions. Biochemistry 46, 3635-3642. [Abstract]


Onodera, S., Suzuki, H., Shimada, Y., Kobayashi, M., Nozawa, T. & Wang, Z.-Y. (2007). Overexpression and characterization of the Rhodobacter sphaeroides PufX membrane protein in Escherichia coli. Photochem. Photobiol. 83, 139-144. [Abstract]

Wang, Z.-Y., Gokan., Kobayashi, M. & Nozawa, T. (2005). Solution structures of the core light-harvesting a and b polypeptides from Rhodospirillum rubrum: Implications for the pigment-protein and protein-protein interactions. J. Mol. Biol. 347, 465-477. [Abstract]

Suzuki, H., Shimada, Y., Kobayashi, M., Kudo, M., Nozawa, T. & Wang, Z.-Y. (2005). Isotopic labeling of proteins by utilizing photosynthetic bacteria. Anal. Biochem. 347, 324-326. [PDF]

Kobayashi, M., Fujioka, Y., Mori, T., Terashima, M., Suzuki, H., Shimada, Y., Saito, T., Wang, Z.-Y. & Nozawa, T. (2005). Reconstitution of photosynthetic reaction centers and core antenna-reaction center complexes in liposomes and their thermal stability. Biosci. Biotechnol. Biochem. 69, 1130-1136.

Kobayashi, M., Saito, T., Takahashi, K., Wang, Z.-Y. & Nozawa, T. (2005). Electron properties and thermal stability of soluble redox proteins from a thermophilic purple sulfur photosynthetic bacterium, Thermochromatium tepidumBull. Chem. Soc. Jpn. 78, 2164-2170.


2004

Wang, Z.-Y., Kadota, T., Kobayashi, M. & Nozawa, T. (2004). NMR relaxation study of the bacteriochlorophyll c in solutions. J. Phys. Chem. B108, 15422-15428. [PDF]

Kobayashi, M., Takaya, A., Kanai, N., Ota, Y., Saito, T., Wang, Z.-Y. & Nozawa, T. (2004). Reconstitution and replacement of bacteriochlorophyll a molecules in photosynthetic reaction centers. J. Biochem. 136, 363-369.

Shimada, Y., Wang, Z.-Y., Mochizuki, Y., Kobayashi, M. & Nozawa, T. (2004). Functional expression and characterization of a bacterial light-harvesting membrane protein in Escherichia coli and cell-free synthesis system. Biosci. Biotechnol. Biochem. 68, 1942-1948. [Abstract]

Umetsu, M., Hollander, J. G., Matysik, J., Wang, Z.-Y., Adschiri, T., Nozawa, T. & de Groot, H. J. M. (2004). Magic-angle spinning nuclear magnetic resonance under ultrahigh field reveals two forms of intermolecular interaction within CH2Cl2-treated (31R)-type bacteriochlorophyll c solid aggregate. J. Phys. Chem. B108, 2726-2734.


2003

Wang, Z.-Y., Muraoka, Y., Nagao, M.,Shibayama, M., Kobayashi, M. & Nozawa, T. (2003). Determination of the B820 subunit size of a bacterial corelight-harvesting complex by small-angle neutron scattering. Biochemistry 42,11555-11560. [PDF]

Wang, Z.-Y., Shimonaga, M., Suzuki, H., Muraoka, Y., Kobayashi, M.& Nozawa, T. (2003). Purification andcharacterization of the polypeptides of core light-harvesting complexes frompurple sulfur bacteria. Photosynth. Res. 78, 133-141. [PDF]

Umetsu, M., Seki, R., Kadota, T., Wang, Z.-Y., Adschiri, T. & Nozawa, T. (2003). Dynamic exchange properties of the antiparallel bacteriochlorophyll c dimers. J.Phys. Chem. B107, 9876-9882.

Suzuki, H., Wang, Z.-Y., Yamakoshi, M., Kobayashi, M. & Nozawa,T. (2003). Probing the transmembrane potential of bacterial cells by voltage-sensitive dyes. Analytical Sciences, 19 1239-1242.


2002

Wang, Z.-Y., Muraoka, Y., Shimonaga, M.,Kobayashi, M. & Nozawa, T. (2002). Selective detection and assignment of the solution NMR signals of bacteriochlorophyll a in a reconstituted subunit of a light-harvesting complex. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 124, 1072-1078. [PDF]

Wang, Z.-Y., Shimonaga, M., Kobayashi, M. &Nozawa, T. (2002). N-terminal methylation of the core light-harvesting complex in purple photosynthetic bacteria. FEBS Lett., 519, 164-168. [PDF]

Umetsu, M., Seki, R., Wang, Z.-Y., Kumagai, I. & Nozawa, T.(2002). Circular and magnetic circular dichroism studies of bacteriochlorophyll c aggregates: T-shaped and antiparallel dimers. J. Phys. Chem. B106, 3987-3995.

Xu, Q.-M., Wan, L.-J., Yin, S.-X., Wang, C.,Bai, C.-L., Ishii, T., Uehara, K., Wang, Z.-Y., & Nozawa, T. (2002). A dimeric structure of bacteriochlorophyllide c molecules studied by scanning tunnelingmicroscopy. J. Phys. Chem. B106, 3037-3040.


2001

Wang, Z.-Y., Shimonaga, M., Muraoka, Y., Kobayashi, M. & Nozawa,T. (2001). Methionine oxidation and its effect on the stability of reconstituted subunit of light-harvesting complex from Rhodospirillum rubrum. Eur. J. Biochem. 268, 3375-3382. [PDF]

Wang, Z.-Y., Shimonaga, M., Muraoka, Y., Kobayashi, M. & Nozawa,T. (2001). Re-identification of the N-terminal amino acid residue and its modification of b-polypeptide of light-harvesting complex I from Rhodospirillum rubrum. Photosynth. Res. 70(3), 321-323. [PDF]

Luo, S., Wang, Z.-Y., Kobayashi, M. & Nozawa, T. (2001). The dimerization of folded monomers of ribulose-1,5-bisphosphatecarboxylase/oxygenase. J. Biol. Chem. 276, 7023-7026. [PDF]

Umetsu, M., Wang, Z.-Y. & Nozawa, T. (2001). A new approach of magnetic circular dichroism to the electronic state analysis of intact photosynthetic pigments. Recent Res. Devel. Phys. Chem. 5, 185-208.

Xu, Q.-M., Wan, L.-J., Wang, C., Bai, C.-L., Wang, Z.-Y. &Nozawa, T. (2001). New structure of L-cysteine self-assembled monolayer on Au(111): studies by in situ scanning tunneling microscopy. Langmuir 17, 6203-6206.



2000

Albrecht, M., Takaichi, S., Steiger, S., Wang, Z.-Y. & Sandmann,G. (2000). Novel hydroxycarotenoids with improved antioxidative properties produced by gene combination in Escherichia coli. Nature Biotechnology 18, 843-846.

Kashiwada, A., Takeuchi, Y., Watanabe, H., Mizuno, T., Yasue, H., Kitagawa, K., Iida, K., Wang, Z.-Y., Nozawa, T., Kawai, H., Nagamura, T., Kurono, Y. & Nango, M. (2000). Molecular assembly of covalently-linked mesoporphyrin dimers with light-harvesting polypeptides. Tetrahedron Lett. 41, 2115-2120.

Umetsu, M., Wang, Z.-Y., Yoza, K., Kobayashi, M. & Nozawa, T.(2000). Interaction of photosynthetic pigments with various organic solvents: 2 Application of magnetic circular dichroism to bacteriochlorophyll a and light-harvesting complex 1. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1457(3), 106-117.



1999

Wang, Z.-Y., Umetsu, M., Kobayashi, M. & Nozawa, T. (1999). 13C-,and 15N-NMR studies on the intact bacteriochlorophyll c dimers in solutions. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 121, 9363-9369. [PDF]

Wang, Z.-Y., Umetsu, M., Kobayashi, M. & Nozawa, T. (1999).Complete assignment of 1H NMR spectra and structural analysis of intact bacteriochlorophyll c dimer in solution. J. Phys. Chem. B103,3742-3753. [PDF]

Kashiwada, A., Nishino, N., Wang, Z.-Y., Nozawa, T., Kobayashi, M.& Nango, M. (1999). Molecular assembly of bacteriochlorophyll a and its analogues by synthetic 4-a-helix polypeptides. Chem. Lett., 1301-1302.

Umetsu, M., Wang, Z.-Y., Kobayashi, M. & Nozawa, T. (1999).Interaction of photosynthetic pigments with various organic solvents magnetic circular dichroism approach and application to chlorosomes. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1410,19-31.

Umetsu, M., Wang, Z.-Y., Zhang, J., Ishii, T., Uehara, K., Inoko,Y., Kobayashi, M. & Nozawa, T. (1999). How the formation process influences the structure of BChl c aggregates. Photosynth. Res. 60, 229-239.



1998

Wang, Z.-Y., Luo, S., Sato, K., Kobayashi, M. & Nozawa, T.(1998). In situ measurements of ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase activity by NMR. Anal. Biochem. 257, 26-32.

Wang, Z.-Y., Luo, S., Sato, K., Kobayashi, M. & Nozawa, T.(1998). Measurements of the CO2/O2 specificity of ribulose 1,5 bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase by 31P- and 1H-NMR. Photosynth. Res. 58, 103-109.

Fathir, I., Ashikaga, M., Tanaka, K., Katano, T., Nirasawa, T.,Kobayashi, M., Wang, Z.-Y. & Nozawa, T. (1998). Biochemical and spectral characterization of the core light harvesting complex 1 (LH1) from the thermophilic purple sulfur bacterium Chromatium tepidum. Photosynth. Res. 58, 193-202.

Oba, T., Furukawa, H., Wang, Z.-Y., Nozawa, T., Mimuro, M., Tamiaki,H. & Watanabe, T. (1998). Supramolecular structures of the chlorophyll a' aggregate and the origin of diastereoselective separation of chlorophyll a and a'. J. Phys. Chem. B102, 7882-7889.

梅津光央, 王 征宇 & 野澤庸則. (1998). 生体色素への磁気円偏光二色性の新たな展開-クロロフィル・バクテリオクロロフィルにおける配位・会合構造解明の新手法. 生物物理  38(5), 197-202.



1997

Wang, Z.-Y., Kudoh, M., Ohama, Y., Nakatani, H.,Kobayashi, M. & Nozawa, T. (1997). Size distribution and photophosphorylation of chromatophores from Rhodospirillum rubrum. Photosynth. Res. 51, 51-59.

Wang, Z.-Y., Umetsu, M., Yoza, K., Imai, M., Matsushita, Y.,Niimura, N. & Nozawa, T. (1997). A small-angle neutron scattering study on the small aggregates of bacteriochlorophylls in solutions. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1320, 73-82.

Wang, Z.-Y., Reynolds, P. A., Gilbert, E.& White, J. W. (1997). Small-angle X-ray scattering from phase separating n-paraffin binary mixtures. Molecular Physics 91(6), 1025-1037.

Yoza, K., Wang, Z.-Y., Kobayashi, M. & Nozawa, T. (1997). High-resolutionsolid-state 13C NMR of the LH1 from Rhodospirillum rubrum.Photosynth. Res. 52,167-173.

Oba, T., Mimuro, M., Wang, Z.-Y., Nozawa, T., Yoshida, S. &Watanabe, T. (1997). Spectral characteristics and colloidal properties of chlorophyll a' in aqueous methanol. J. Phys. Chem. B101, 3261-3268.

Fathir, I., Tanaka, K., Yoza, K., Kojima, A., Kobayashi, M., Wang,Z.-Y., Lottspeich, F. & Nozawa, T. (1997). The genes coding for the L, M and cytochrome subunits of photosynthetic reaction center from the thermophilic purple sulfur bacterium Chromatium tepidum. Photosynth. Res. 51, 71-82.

Takaichi, S., Wang, Z.-Y., Umetsu, M., Nozawa, T., Shimada, K. &Madigan, M. T. (1997). New carotenoids from the thermophilic green sulfurbacterium Chlorobium tepidum: 1’, 2’-dihydro-g-carotene, 1’, 2’-dihydrochlorobacteneand OH-chlorobactene glucoside ester, and the carotenoid composition of different strains. Arch. Microbiol. 168, 270-276.

Zheng, H., Zhang, H., Zhang, Q., Wang, Z.-Y., Konno, M. & Saito,S. (1997). Interaction modes in sol-gel transition of alginate solutions by the addition of cupric ions. Polym. Adv. Technol. 8, 717-721.



1996

王 征宇 & 野澤庸則. (1996). 光合成アンテナの構造と機能はどこまでわかってきたか-光合成細菌の研究から . 生物物理 36, 85-89.

Kato, M., Takahashi, S., Nakano, T., Wang, Z.-Y. & Nozawa, T.(1996). Plant growth regulation by chemicals: Screening of plant growth regulators on Arabidopsis. Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Biochemistry 60, 34-38.

Kobayashi, M., Wang, Z.-Y., Yoza, K., Umetsu, M., Konami, H.,Mimuro, M. & Nozawa, T. (1996). Molecular structures and optical properties of aggregated forms of chlorophylls analyzed by means of magnetic circular dichroism. Spectrochimica Acta A51, 585-598.

Mimuro, M., Nishmura, Y., Yamazaki, I., Kobayashi, M., Wang, Z.-Y., Nozawa, T., Hanada, S., Shimada, K. & Matsumura, K. (1996). Excitation energy transfer in the green photosynthetic bacterium Chloroflexus aurantiacus: A specific effect of 1-hexanol on the optical properties of base plate and energy transfer processes. Photosynth. Res. 48, 263-270.



1995

Wang, Z.-Y., Marx, G., Umetsu, M., Kobayashi, M., Mimuro, M. &Nozawa, T. (1995). Morphology and spectroscopy of chlorosomes from Chlorobium tepidum by alcohol treatments. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1232, 187-196.

Wang, Z.-Y., White, J. W., Konno, M., Saito, S. & Nozawa, T.(1995). A small-angle X-ray scattering study on alginate solution and its sol-gel transition by addition of divalent cations. Biopolymers 35, 227-238.

Nozawa, T., Kobayashi, M., Wang, Z.-Y., Itoh, S., Iwaki, M., Mimuro,M. & Satoh, K. (1995). Magnetic circular dichroism investigation on chromophores in reaction centers of photosystem I and II of green plantphotosynthesis. Spectrochimica Acta 51A, 125-134.



1994

Nozawa, T., Ohtomo, K., Suzuki, M., Nakagawa, H., Shimada, Y.,Konami, H. & Wang, Z.-Y. (1994). Structures of chlorosomes and aggregated BChl c in Chlorobium tepidum from solid state high resolution CP/MAS 13C NMR. Photosynth. Res. 41, 211-223.

Wang, J.-Y., Wang, Z.-Y., Kouyama, T., Shibata, T. & Ueki, T. (1994). Significance of amino groups of phosphatidylethanolamine in phospholipid peroxidation of mixed liposomes. Chem. Phys. Lipid 71, 197-203.

Wang, Z.-Y, Zhang, Q.-Z., Konno, M. & Saito, S. (1994). Sol-gel transition of alginate solution by the addition of various divalent cations: A rheological study. Biopolymers 34, 737-746.


1993

Wang, Z.-Y., Konno, M. & Saito, S. (1993). Kinetics of phase separation in polymer blends: calculations based on nonlinear theory. J. Polymer Sci.: Polymer Phys. 31, 461-466.

Wang, Z.-Y., Zhang, Q.-Z., Konno, M. & Saito, S. (1993). Sol-gel transition of alginate solution by addition of calcium ions: alginate concentration dependence of gel point. J. Phys. II France 3, 1-7.

Wang, Z.-Y., Zhang, Q.-Z., Konno, M. & Saito, S. (1993). Sol-gel transition of alginate solution by addition of various divalent cations: 13C-NMR spectroscopic study. Biopolymers 33, 703-711.



1992

Wang, J. Y., Miyazawa, T., Fujimoto, K.,Wang, Z.-Y. & Nozawa, T. (1992). The inverted hexagonal phase is more sensitive to hydroperoxidation than the multilamellar phase in phosphatidylcholine and phosphatidylethanolamine aqueous dispersions. FEBS Lett. 310, 106-110.



1991

Wang, Z.-Y., Konno, M. & Saito, S. (1991). Application of digital image analysis to the characterization of phase-separated structures in polymer. J. Chem. Eng. Japan 24, 256-258.

Wang, Z.-Y., Konno, M. & Saito, S. (1991). Theoretical study of spinodal decomposition at intermediate stages. Phys. Rev. A 44, 5058-5063.

Wang, Z.-Y., Konno, M. & Saito, S. (1991). Sol-gel transition of alginate solution by addition of various divalent cations: Critical behavior of relative viscosity. Chem. Phys. Lett. 186, 463-466.



1990

Konno, M., Wang, Z.-Y. & Saito, S. (1990). Dynamical study on the late stage of demixing in poly(methyl methacrylate) and poly(vinyl acetate) blends. Polymer 31, 2329-2332.



1989

Wang, Z.-Y., Konno, M. & Saito, S. (1989). Small-angle light scattering of phase separation structures in polymer blends. J. Chem. Phys. 90, 1281-1284.

Wang, Z.-Y., Konno, M. & Saito, S. (1989). Phase separation processes of poly(methylmethacrylate)/poly(vinyl acetate) blend. J. Chem. Eng. Japan 22, 429-432.



1987

大塚康夫、大友征宇、 富田 彰 (1987). アルカリ処理による石炭中の鉱物質の脱離挙動に関する研究 燃料協会誌 66, 189-195.



1986

Wang, Z.-Y., Ohtsuka, Y. & Tomita, A. (1986). Removal of mineral matter from coal by alkali treatment.  Fuel Processing Technology 13, 279-289.



Books

大友征宇、小林正幸、大岡宏造 (2008)

 光合成細菌の反応中心・アンテナ複合体 「光合成研究法」3章 単離・精製・活性測定 4.タンパク質複合体の単離 低温科学 67, 289-294.

野澤庸則、大友征宇 (2004)

「ライフサイエンス系の高分子化学」第三章 タンパク質、三共出版

Wang, Z.-Y. & Nozawa, T. (2000). In situ measurements of enzyme activities by NMR. In NMR in Microbiology: Theory and Applications (J.-N. Barbotin, J.-C. Portais, ed.), pp. 221-241. Horizon Scientific Press, Wymondham, UK.