Original Papers

1.        Shen J.-R., Satoh K. and Katoh S. (1988)  Calcium content of oxygen-evolving Photosystem II preparations from higher plants.  Effects of NaCl treatment.   Biochim. Biophys. Acta  933, 358-364.

2.        Shen J.-R., Satoh K. and Katoh S. (1988)  Isolation of an oxygen-evolving Photosystem II preparation containing only one tightly bound calcium atom from a chlorophyll b-deficient mutant of rice.  Biochim. Biophys. Acta 936, 386-394.

3.        Enami I., Miyaoka T., Mochizuki Y., Shen J.-R., Satoh K. and Katoh S. (1989) Nearest neighbor relationships among constituent proteins of oxygen-evolving Photosystem II membranes:  Binding and function of the extrinsic 33 kDa protein. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 973, 35-40.

4.        Enami I., Kamino K., Shen J.-R., Satoh K. and Katoh S. (1989) Isolation and characterization of Photosystem II complexes which lack light-harvesting chlorophyll a/b proteins but retain three extrinsic proteins related to oxygen evolution from spinach.  Biochim. Biophys. Acta  977, 33-39.

5.        Shen J.-R., Terashima I. and Katoh, S. (1990) Cause for dark, chilling-induced inactivation of photosynthetic oxygen-evolving system in cucumber leaves. Plant Physiol. 93, 1354-1357.

6.        Shen J.-R. and Katoh S. (1991)  Inactivation and calcium-dependent reactivation of oxygen evolution in photosystem II preparations treated at pH 3.0 or with high concentrations of NaCl.  Plant Cell Physiol. 32, 439-446.

7.        Shen J.-R. and Inoue Y. (1991)  Low pH-induced dissociation of three extrinsic proteins from O2-evolving photosystem II.  Plant Cell Physiol.  32, 453-457.

8.        Shen J.-R., Ikeuchi M. and Inoue Y. (1992)  Stoichiometric association of extrinsic cytochrome c-550 and 12 kDa protein with a highly purified oxygen-evolving photosystem II core complex from Synechococcus vulcanus.  FEBS Lett. 301, 145-149.

9.        Shen J.-R., Ono T.-A. and Inoue Y. (1992)  The role of light in formation of modified S2-state upon low pH-treatment of oxygen-evolving Photosystem II.  Photosyn. Res.  32, 71-78.

10.    Burnap R.L., Shen, J.-R., Jursinic P.A., Inoue Y. and Sherman L. (1992)  Oxygen yield and thermoluminescence characteristics of a cyanobacterium lacking the manganese-stabilizing protein of photosystem II.  Biochemistry  31, 7404-7410.

11.    Shen J.-R. and Inoue Y. (1993)  Binding and functional properties of two new extrinsic components, cytochrome c-550 and a 12 kDa protein, in cyanobacterial photosystem II.  Biochemistry  32, 1825-1832.

12.    Shen J.-R. and Inoue Y. (1993)  Cellular localization of cytochrome c-550. Its specific association with cyanobacterial photosystem II.  J. Biol. Chem.  268, 20408-20413.

13.    Gleiter H.M., Haag E., Shen J.-R., Eaton-Rye J.J., Inoue Y., Vermaas W.F.J. and Renger G. (1994) Functional characterization of mutant strains of the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 lacking short domains within the large, lumen-exposed loop of the chlorophyll protein CP47 in photosystem II.  Biochemistry 33, 12063-12071.

14.    Burnap R.L., Qian M., Shen J.-R., Inoue Y. and Sherman L.  (1994)  Role of disulfide linkage and putative intermolecular binding residues in the stability and binding of the extrinsic manganese-stabilizing protein to the photosystem II reacetion center.  Biochemistry 33, 13712-13718.

15.    Han K.-C., Shen J.-R., Ikeuchi M. and Inoue Y. (1994)  Chemical crosslinking studies of extrinsic proteins in cyanobacterial photosystem II.  FEBS Lett.  355, 121-124.

16.    Shen J.-R., Vermaas W. and Inoue Y. (1995)  The role of cytochrome c-550 as studied through reverse genetics and mutant characterization in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803.  J. Biol. Chem.  270, 6901-6907.

17.    Gleiter H.M., Haag E., Shen J.-R., Eatoh-Rye J.J., Seeliger A.G., Inoue Y., Vermaas W.F.J. and Renger G. (1995)  Involvement of the CP47 protein in stabilization and photoactivation of a functional water-oxidizing complex in the cyanobacterium   Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803.  Biochemistry  34, 6847-6856.

18.    Shen J-.R., Burnap R.L. and Inoue Y.  (1995) An independent role of cytochrome c-550 in cyanobacterial photosystem II as revealed by double-deletion mutagenesis of the psbO and psbV genes in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803.  Biochemistry  34, 12661-12668.

19.    Enami I., Murayama H., Ohta, H., Kamo, M., Nakazato K. and Shen J.-R. (1995)   Isolation and characterizaton of a photosystem II complex from a red alga Cyanidium caldarium:  Association of cytochrome c-550 and a 12 kDa protein with the complex.  Biochim. Biophys. Acta  1232, 208-216.

20.    Miura T., Shen J.-R., Takahashi S., Kamo M., Nakamura E., Ohta H., Kamei A., Inoue Ya., Domae N., Takio K., Nakazato K., Inoue Yo. and Enami I.  (1997)  Identification of domains on the extrinsic 33-kDa protein possibly involved in electrostatic interaction with photosystem II complex by means of chemical modification. J. Biol. Chem. 272, 3788-3798.

21.    Enami I., Tohri A., Kamo M., Ohta H. and Shen J.-R.  (1997)  Identification of domains on the 43 kDa chlorophyll-carrying protein (CP43) that are shielded from tryptic attack by binding of the extrinsic 33 kDa protein with photosystem II complex. Biochim. Biophys. Acta  1320, 17-26.

22.    Shen J.-R., Ikeuchi M. and Inoue Y. (1997)  Analysis of the psbU gene encoding the 12 kDa extrinsic protein of photosystem II and studies on its role by deletion mutagenesis inSynechocystis sp. PCC 6803.  J. Biol. Chem.  272, 17821-17826.

23.    Shen J.-R., Qian M., Inoue Y. and Burnap R.L.  (1998)  Functional characterization of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 ∆psbU and ∆psbV mutants reveals important roles of cytochrome c-550 in cyanobacterial PSII.  Biochemistry  37, 1551-1558.

24.    Enami I, Kikuchi S., Fukuda T., Ohta H. and Shen J.-R.  (1998)  Binding and functional properties of four extrinsic proteins of photosystem II from a red alga, cyanidium caldarium as studied by release-reconstitution experiments.  Biochemistry  37, 2787-2793.

25.    Ohta H., Okumura A., Okuyama S., Akiyama A., Iwai M., Yoshihara S., Shen J.-R., Kamo M. and Enami I.  (1999)  Cloning, expression of the psbU gene, and functional studies of the recombinant 12-kDa protein of photosystem II from a red alga Cyanidium caldarium.  Biochem. Biophys. Res. Comm.  260, 245-250.

26.    Al-Khaldi, S., Coker, J., Shen, J.-R., and R. L. Burnap  (2000)  Characterization of site-directed mutants in manganese-stabilizing protein (MSP) of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 unable to grow photoautotrophically in the absence of cytochrome c-550.   Plant Mol. Biol.  43, 33-41.

27.    Shen J.-R. and Kamiya N.  (2000)  Crystallization and the crystal properties of the oxygen-evolving photosystem II from Synechococcus vulcanus.  Biochemistry, 39, 14739-14744.

28.    Enami I., Yoshihara S., Tohri A., Okumura A., Ohta H. and Shen J.-R.  (2000)  Cross-reconstitution of various extrinsic proteins and photosystem II complexes from cyanobacteria, red algae and higher plants.  Plant Cell Physiol. 41, 1354-1364.

29.    Katoh H., Itoh S., Shen J.-R. and Ikeuchi M.  (2001)  Functional analysis of psbV and a novel c-type cytochrome gene psbV2 of the thermophilic cyanobacterium Thermosynechococcus elongatus strain BP-1. Plant Cell Physiol. 42, 599-607. 

30.    Tohri A., Suzuki T., Okuyama S., Kamino K., Motoki A., Hirano M., Ohta O., Shen J.-R., Yamamoto Y. and Enami I.  (2002) Comparison of the structure of the extrinsic 33 kDa protein from different organisms.  Plant Cell Physiol.   43, 429-439.

31.    Kamiya N. and Shen J.-R. (2003) Crystal structure of oxygen-evolving photosystem II from Thermosynechococcus vulcanus at 3.7 Å resolution.  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA  100, 98-103.

32.    Koulougliotis D., Shen J.-R., Ioannidis N. and Petrouleas V. (2003)  Near-IR irradiation of the S2 state of the water oxidizing complex of photosystem II at liquid helium temperatures produces the metalloradical intermediate attributed to S1YZ•  Biochemistry, 42, 3045-3053.

33.    Hayashi F., Suzuki H., Iwase R., Uzumaki T., Miyake A., Shen J.-R., Imada K., Furukawa Y., Yonekura K., Namba K. and Ishiura M. (2003)  ATP-induced hexameric ring structure of the cyanobacterial circadian clock protein KaiC.  Genes to Cells 8, 287-296.

34.    Henmi T., Yamasaki H., Sakuma S., Tomokawa Y., Tamura N., Shen J.-R. and Yamamoto Y. (2003)  Dynamic interaction between the D1 protein, CP43 and OEC33 at the lumenal side of photosystem II in spinach chloroplasts: Evidence from light-induced cross-linking of the proteins in the donor-side photoinhibition.  Plant Cell Physiol.   44, 451-456.

35.    Enami I., Iwai M., Akiyama A., Suzuki T., Okumura A., Katoh T., Tada O., Ohta H. and Shen J.-R. (2003)  Comparison of binding and functional properties of two extrinsic components, cytochrome c550 and a 12 kDa protein, in cyanobacterial PSII with those in red algal PSII.  Plant Cell Physiol.   44, 820-827.

36.    Ohta Hisataka, Suzuki Takehiro, Ueno Masaji , Okumura Akinori, Yoshihara Shizue, Shen Jian-Ren, and Enami Isao (2003)   Extrinsic proteins of photosystem II: An intermediate member of the PsbQ protein family in red algal PSII.  Euro. J. Biochem.  270, 4156-4163.

37.    Tan Cui-Yan, Xu Chun-He, Shen Jun-Ren, Sakuma Shinsuke, Yamamoto Yasushi, Balny Claude, Ruan Kang-Cheng (2003) Thermodynamic and Kinetic Analysis of Unfolding of P23k Protein Isolated from Spinach Photosystem II (in Chinese with English Abstract). Acta Biochimica et Biophysica Sinica, 35, 677-681.

38.    Vasil’ev Sergei, Shen Jian-Ren, Kamiya Nobuo and Bruce Doug (2004)  The orientations of core antenna chlorophylls in photosystem II are optimized to maximize the quantum yield of photosynthesis.  FEBS Lett. 561, 111-116.

39.    Weng Jun, Tan Cuiyan, Shen Jian-Ren, Yu Yong, Zeng Xiaomei, Xu Chunhe and Ruan Kangcheng (2004)  pH-induced conformational changes in the soluble manganese stabilizing protein of photosystem II.  Biochemistry, 43, 4855-4861.

40.    Hino T., Kanamori E., Shen J.-R. and Kouyama T. (2004)  An icosahedral assembly of the light-harvesting chlorophyll a/b protein complex from pea chloroplast thylakoid membranes.  Acta Crystallographica Section D, 60, 803-809.

41.    Tan C.Y., Xu C.H., Weng J, Shen J.-R, Sakuma S, Yamamoto Y, Lane R, Balny C and Ruan K.  (2005)  Pressure Equilibrium and Jump Study on Unfolding of 23kDa Protein from Spinach Photosystem II.  Biophys J.  88, 1264-1275.

42.    Sindra Perterson Årsköld, Paul J. Smith, Jian-Ren Shen, Ron J. Pace and Elmars Krausz  (2005)  Key cofactors of photosystem II cores from four organisms identified by 1.7-K absorption, CD and MCD.  Photosynthesis Res. 84, 309-316.

43.    Isao Enami, Takehiro Suzuki, Osamu Tada, Yoshiko Nakada, Kumi Nakamura, Akihiko Tohri, Hisataka Ohta, Isao Inoue and Jian-Ren Shen (2005) Distribution of the extrinsic proteins as a potential marker for the evolution of photosynthetic oxygen-evolving photosystem II.  FEBS Journal, 272, 5020-5030.

44.    Takashi Kamata, Hideki Hiramoto, Noriko Morita, Jian-Ren Shen, Nicholas H. Mann and Yasusi Yamamoto (2005)  Quality control of photosystem II: An FtsH protease plays an essential role in the turnover of the reaction center D1 protein in Synechocystis PCC 6803 under heat stress as well as light stress conditions.  Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences, 4, 983-990.

45.    Hideto Matsuoka, Ko Furukawa, Tatsuhisa Kato, Hiroyuki Mino, Jian-Ren Shen, and Asako Kawamori (2006) g-Anisotropy of the S2-state manganese cluster in single crystals of cyanobacterial photosystem II studied by W-band electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy. J Phys Chem B. 110, 13242-13247.

46.    Isamu Sakurai, Jian-Ren Shen, Jing Leng, Shunsuke Ohashi, Masami Kobayashi and Hajime Wada (2006) Lipids in Oxygen-Evolving Photosystem II Complexes of Cyanobacteria and Higher Plants.  J Biochem (Tokyo). 140, 201-209.

47.    Masahiro Nakano, Jian-Ren Shen, and Kei Kamino (2007) Self-assembling peptide inspired by a barnacle underwater adhesive protein.  Biomacromolecules, 8, 1830-1835.

48.    Keisuke Kawakami, Masako Iwai, Masahiko Ikeuchi, Nobuo Kamiya and Jian-Ren Shen (2007) Location of PsbY in oxygen-evolving photosystem II revealed by mutagenesis and X-ray crystallography. FEBS Lett. 581, 4983-4987.

49.    Akinori Okumura, Masanori Sano, Takehiro Suzuki, Hiroyasu Tanaka, Ryo Nagao, Katsuyoshi Nakazato, Masako Iwai, Hideyuki Adachi, Jian-Ren Shen and Isao Enami (2007) Aromatic structure of Tyrosine-92 in the extrinsic PsbU protein of red algal Photosystem II is important for its functioning. FEBS Lett. 581, 5255-5258.

50.    Takahiro Henmi, Masako Iwai, Masahiko Ikeuchi, Keisuke Kawakami, Jian-Ren Shen, Nobuo Kamiya (2008) X-ray crystallographic and biochemical characterizations of a mutant Photosystem II complex from Thermosynechococcus vulcanus with the psbTc gene inactivated by an insertion mutation. J. Synchrotron Rad. 15, 304-307.

51.    Han Bao, Chunxi Zhang, Keisuke Kawakami, Yanan Ren, Jian-Ren Shen, Jingquan Zhao (2008) Acceptor side effects on the electron transfer at cryogenic temperatures in intact photosystem II.  Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1777, 1109-1115.

52.    Jing Leng, Isamu Sakurai, Hajime Wada, Jian-Ren Shen (2008) Effects of phospholipase and lipase treatments on photosystem II core dimer from a thermophilic cyanobacterium.  Photosynthesis Research, 98, 469-478.

53.    Hideyuki Adachi, Yasushi Umena, Isao Enami, Takahiro Henmi, Nobuo Kamiya, Jian-Ren Shen (2009) Towards structural elucidation of eukaryotic photosystem II: Purification, crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction analysis of photosystem II from a red alga.  Biochim. Biophys. Acta  1787, 121-128.

54.    Yanan Ren, Chunxi Zhang, Han Bao, Jian-Ren Shen, Jingquan Zhao (2009) Probing tyrosine Z oxidation in photosystem II core complex isolated from spinach by EPR at liquid helium temperatures. Photosynthesis Research, 99, 127-138.

55.    Keisuke Kawakami, Yasufumi Umena, Nobuo Kamiya, Jian-Ren Shen (2009) Location of chloride and its possible functions in oxygen-evolving photosystem II revealed by X-ray crystallography. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA  106, 8567-8572.

56.    Kenji Takasaka, Masako Iwai, Yasufumi Umena, Keisuke Kawakami, Yukari Ohmori, Masahiko Ikeuchi, Yuichiro Takahashi, Nobuo Kamiya, Jian-Ren Shen (2010) Structural and functional studies on Ycf12 (Psb30) and PsbZ deletion mutants from a thermophilic cyanobacterium. Biochim. Biophys. Acta, 1797, 278-284.

57.    Nagao R, Suzuki T, Okumura A, Niikura A, Iwai M, Dohmae N, Tomo T, Shen JR, Ikeuchi M, Enami I. (2010) Topological analysis of the extrinsic PsbO, PsbP and PsbQ proteins in a green algal PSII complex by cross-linking with a water-soluble carbodiimide. Plant Cell Physiol. 51, 718-727.

58.    Ryo Nagao, Akira Moriguchi, Tatsuya Tomo, Ayako Niikura, Saori Nakajima, Takehiro Suzuki, Akinori Okumura, Masako Iwai, Jian-Ren Shen, Masahiko Ikeuchi and Isao Enami (2010) Binding and functional properties of five extrinsic proteins in oxygen-evolving Photosystem II from a marine centric diatom, Chaetoceros gracilis. J. Biol. Chem. 285, 29191-29199.

59.    Tomoyasu Noji, Chihiro Kamidaki, Keisuke Kawakami, Jian-Ren Shen, Tsutomu　Kajino, Yoshiaki Fukushima, Takeshi Sekitoh, and Shigeru Itoh (2011) Photosynthetic oxygen evolution in mesoporous silica material: Adsorption of photosystem II reaction center complex into 23-nm nanopores in SBA. Langmuir, 27, 705-713.

60.    Keisuke Kawakami, Yasufumi Umena, Masako Iwai, Yousuke Kawabata, Masahiko Ikeuchi, Nobuo Kamiya, Jian-Ren Shen (2011)  Roles of PsbI and PsbM in photosystem II dimer formation and stability studied by deletion mutagenesis and X-ray crystallography. Biochim. Biophys. Acta, 1807, 319-325.

61.    Matsuoka H., Shen J.-R, Kawamori A., Nishiyama K., Ohba Y., Yamauchi S. (2011) Proton-Coupled Electron-Transfer Processes in Photosystem II Probed by Highly Resolved g-Anisotropy of Redox-Active Tyrosine Y(Z). J. Am. Chem. Soc. 133, 4655-4660.

62.    Kanda K., Yamanaka S., Saito T., Umena Y., Kawakami K., Shen J.-R., Kamiya N., Okumura M., Nakamura H., Yamaguchi K. (2011) Labile electronic and spin states of the CaMn4O5 cluster in the PSII system refined to the 1.9 Å X-ray resolution. UB3LYP computational results. Chem. Phys. Lett. 506, 98-103.

63.    Umena Y., Kawakami K., *Shen J.-R., *Kamiya N. (2011) Crystal structure of oxygen-evolving photosystem II at a resolution of 1.9 Å. Nature,473, 55-60. (*corresponding authors)

64.    Kawakami K., Umena Y., Kamiya N., Shen J.-R. (2011) Structure of the catalytic, inorganic core of oxygen-evolving photosystem II at 1.9 Å resolution. J. Photochem. Photobiol. B, 104, 9-18.

65.    Ivan Rivalta, Muhamed Amin, Sandra Luber, Serguei Vassiliev, Ravi Pokhrel, Yasufumi Umena, Keisuke Kawakami, Jian-Ren Shen, Nobuo Kamiya, Doug Bruce, Gary W. Brudvig, M. R. Gunner, and Victor S. Batista (2011) Structural-functional role of chloride in photosystem II. Biochemistry, 50, 6312-6315.

66.    Sandra Luber, Ivan Rivalta, Yasufumi Umena, Keisuke Kawakami, Jian-Ren Shen, Nobuo Kamiya, Gary W. Brudvig,  and Victor S. Batista (2011) S1-state model of the O2-evolving complex of photosystem II. Biochemistry, 50, 6308-6311.

67.    S. Yamanaka, H. Isobe, K. Kanda, T. Saito, Y. Umena, K. Kawakami, J.-R. Shen, N. Kamiya, M. Okumura, H. Nakamura, K. Yamaguchi (2011) Possible mechanisms for the O-O bond formation in oxygen evolution reaction at the CaMn4O5(H2O)4 cluster of PSII refined to 1.9 A X-ray resolution. Chem. Phys. Lett. 511, 138-145.

68.    Saito K., Ishida T., Sugiura M., Kawakami K., Umena Y., Kamiya N., Shen J.-R., Ishikita H. (2011) Distribution of the cationic state over the chlorophyll pair of photosystem II reaction center. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 133, 14379-14388

69.    Saito K., Shen J.-R., Ishida T., Ishikita H. (2011) Short hydrogen bond between redox-active tyrosine y(z) and d1-his190 in the photosystem ii crystal structure. Biochemistry, 50, 9836-9844.

70.    T. Saito, S. Yamanaka, K. Kanda, H. Isobe, Y. Takano, Y. Shigeta, Y. Umena, K. Kawakami, J.-R. Shen, N. Kamiya, M. Okumura, M. Shoji, Y. Yoshioka, K. Yamaguchi (2012) Possible mechanisms of water splitting reaction based on proton and electron release pathways revealed for CaMn4O5 cluster of PSII refined to 1.9 Å X-ray resolution. International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, 112, 253–276.

71.    Yamanaka S., Saito T., Kanda K., Isobe H., Umena Y., Kawakami K., Shen J.-R.,  Kamiya N., Okumura M., Nakamura H., Yamaguchi K. (2012) Structure and reactivity of the mixed-alence CaMn4O5(H2O)4 and CaMn4O4(OH)(H2O)4 clusters at oxygen evolution complex of photosystem II. Hybrid DFT (UB3LYP and UBHANDHLYP) calculations. International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, 112, 321–343.

72.    Keisuke Saito, Jian-Ren Shen, and Hiroshi Ishikita (2012) Cationic state distribution over the chlorophyll d-containing PD1/PD2 pair in photosystem II. Biochim. Biophys. Acta, 1817, 1191-1195.

73.    Dmitriy Shevela , Julian J. Eaton-Rye, Jian-Ren Shen, Govindjee (2012) Photosystem II and the unique role of bicarbonate: A historical perspective. Biochim. Biophys. Acta, 1817, 1134-1151.

74.    Keisuke Saito, Yasufumi Umena, Keisuke Kawakami, Jian-Ren Shen, Nobuo Kamiya, and Hiroshi Ishikita (2012) Deformation of chlorin rings in the photosystem II crystal structure. Biochemistry, 51, 4290-4299.

75.    Keisuke Saito, Jian-Ren Shen, and Hiroshi Ishikita (2012) Influence of the axial ligand on the cationic properties of the chlorophyll pair in photosystem II from Thermosynechococcus vulcanus. Biophys. J. 102, 2634-2640.

76.    Yamanaka S., Kanda K., Saito T., Umena Y., Kawakami K., Shen, J.-R., Kamiya, N., Okumura, M., Nakamura, H., Yamaguchi, K. (2012)  Electronic and spin structures of the CaMn4O5(H2O)4 cluster in OEC of PSII refined to 1.9Å X-ray resolution. Advances in Quantum Chemistry, 64, 121-187.

77.    Sergey Milikisyants, Ruchira Chatterjee, Christopher S. Coates, Faisal H. M. Koua, Jian-Ren Shen, K. V. Lakshmi (2012) The structure and activation of substrate water molecules in the S2 state of photosystem II studied by hyperfine sublevel correlation spectroscopy. Energy Environ. Sci. 5, 7747-7756.

78.    Isobe H, Shoji M, Yamanaka S, Umena Y, Kawakami K, Kamiya N, Shen JR, Yamaguchi K. (2012) Theoretical illumination of water-inserted structures of the CaMn(4)O(5) cluster in the S(2) and S(3) states of oxygen-evolving complex of photosystem II: full geometry optimizations by B3LYP hybrid density functional. Dalton Trans. 41, 13727-13740.

79.    K. Yamaguchi, S. Yamanaka, H. Isobe, T. Saito, K. Kanda, Y. Umena, K. Kawakami, J.-R. Shen, N. Kamiya, M. Okumura, H. Nakamura, M. Shoji, Y. Yoshioka (2013) The nature of chemical bonds of the CaMn4O5 cluster in oxygen evolving complex of photosystem II: Jahn-Teller distortion and its suppression by Ca doping in cubane structures. International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, 113, 453-473.

80.    K. Yamaguchi, H. Isobe, S. Yamanaka, T. Saito, K. Kanda, M. Shoji, Y. Umena, K. Kawakami, J.-R. Shen, N. Kamiya, M. Okumura (2013) Full geometry optimizations of the mixed-valence CaMn4O4X(H2O)4 (X=OH or O) cluster in OEC of PS II: Degree of symmetry breaking of the labile Mn-X-Mn bond revealed by several hybrid DFT calculations. International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, 113, 525-541.

81.    Mizue Asada, Hiroki Nagashima, Faisal Hammad Mekky Koua, Jian-Ren Shen, Asako Kawamori  and Hiroyuki Mino (2013) Electronic structure of the S2 state of the oxygen-evolving complex of photosystem II studied by PELDOR. Biochim. Biophys. Acta, 1827, 438-445.

82.    Faisal Hammad Mekky Koua, Yasufumi Umena, Keisuke Kawakami, Jian-Ren Shen (2013) Structure of Sr-substituted photosystem II at 2.1 Å resolution and its implications in the mechanism of water oxidation. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 110, 3889-3894.

83.    Yutaka Shibata, Shunsuke Nishi, Keisuke Kawakami, Jian-Ren Shen, Thomas Renger (2013) Photosystem II does not possess a simple excitation energy funnel: Time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy meets theory. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 135, 6903-6914.

84.    Michihiro Suga, Thanh-Lan Lai, Miwa Sugiura, Jian-Ren Shen, Alain Boussac (2013) Crystal structure at 1.5 Å resolution of the PsbV2 cytochrome from the cyanobacterium Thermosynechococcus elongatus. FEBL Lett.587, 3267-3272.

85.    Wang W, Qin X, Sang M, Chen D, Wang K, Lin R, Lu C, Shen JR, Kuang T. (2013) Spectral and functional studies on siphonaxanthin-type light-harvesting complex of photosystem II from Bryopsis corticulans. Photosynth Res. 117, 267-279.

86.    Najafpour MM, Rahimi F, Sedigh DJ, Carpentier R, Eaton-Rye JJ, Shen JR, Allakhverdiev SI (2013) Gold or silver deposited on layered manganese oxide: a functional model for the water-oxidizing complex in photosystem II. Photosynth Res. 117, 423-429.

87.    Koeda S., Umezaki K., Noji T., Ikeda A., Kawakami K., Kondo M., Yamamoto Y., Shen J.-R.,  Taga K., Dewa T., Itoh S., Nango M., Tanaka T., Mizuno T. (2013) Application of Peptide Gemini Surfactants as Novel Solubilization Surfactants for Photosystems I and II of Cyanobacteria. Langmuir, 29, 11667-11680.

88.    Ryo Nagao, Michihiro Suga, Ayako Niikura, Akinori Okumura, Faisal Hammad Mekky Koua, Takehiro Suzuki, Tatsuya Tomo, Isao Enami, Jian-Ren Shen  (2013) Crystal structure of Psb31, a novel extrinsic protein of photosystem II from a marine centric diatom and implications for its binding and function. Biochemistry  52, 6646–6652.

89.    Miwa Sugiura, Kazumi Koyama, Yasufumi Umena, Keisuke Kawakami, Jian-Ren　Shen, Nobuo Kamiya,  Alain Boussac (2013) Evidence for an Unprecedented Histidine Hydroxyl Modification on D2-His336 in Photosystem II of Thermosynechoccocus vulcanus and Thermosynechoccocus elongatus. Biochemistry 52, 9426-9431.

90.    M. Shoji, H. Isobe, S. Yamanaka, Y. Umena, K. Kawakami, N. Kamiya, J.-R. Shen and K. Yamaguchi (2013) Theoretical insight in to hydrogen-bonding networks and proton wire for the CaMn4O5 cluster of photosystem II. Elongation of Mn–Mn distances with hydrogen bonds. Catal. Sci.e & Technol. 3, 1831-1848

91.    Jennifer Morton, Jeremy Hall, Paul Smith, Fusamichi Akika, Faisal Hammad Mekky Koua, Jian-Ren Shen, Elmars Krausz (2014) Determination of the PS I content of PS II core preparations using Selective Emission; a New Emission of PS II at 780 nm. Biochim. Biophys. Acta, 1837, 167-177.

92.    Najafpour MM, Ghobadi MZ, Haghighi B, Tomo T, Carpentier R, Shen JR, Allakhverdiev SI (2014) A nano-sized manganese oxide in a protein matrix as a natural water-oxidizing site. Plant Physiol. Biochem. doi: 10.1016/j.plaphy.2014.01.020. [Epub ahead of print].

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

 

Reviews and Book Chapters

 

1.       Terashima I., Shen J.-R. and Katoh S. (1989)  Chilling damage in cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) thylakoids.  In Plant Water Relations and Growth under Stress, Edited by Tazawa M., Katsumi M., Masuda Y. and Okamoto H., pp. 470-472, Yamada Science Foundation, Osaka and MYU, Tokyo.

2.       Arao S., Yamada S., Kawamori A., Shen J.-R., Ionnidis N. and Petrouleas V. (2002)  EPR studies of manganese spin centers in the even-number oxidation states of water oxidizing complex in photosystem II.  In EPR in the 21th Century: Basics and Applications to Material, Life and Earth Sciences, Edited by Kawamori A., Yamauchi J. and Ohta H., pp. 466-470.

3.       光合成事典（分担）、日本光合成研究会編、学会出版センター、２００３年。

4.       Yamamoto Y., Sakuma S. and Shen J.-R. (2004) Isolation of photosystem II-enriched membranes and the oxygen-evolving complex (OEC) subunit proteins from higher plants.  in Methods in Molecular Biology: Photosynthesis Protocols (ed. by R. Carpentier), 274: 29-36, Humana Press.

5.       Shen J.-R. and Kamiya N. (2005)  3D Crystal Structure of the Photosystem II Core, In Photosystem II:  The Light-Driven Water:Plastoquinone Oxidoreductase, Edited by T.J. Wydrzynski and K. Satoh, pp. 449-467, 2005, Springer, The Netherlands.

6.       神谷　信夫、　沈　建仁　（2005） 光化学系II複合体の構造と機能、「蛋白質　核酸　酵素」、Vol. 50, No. 10, 1174-1179.

7.       Shen J.-R., Henmi T. and Kamiya N. (2008) Structure and Function of Photosystem II, In Photosynthetic Protein Complexes, A Structural Approach, Edited by F. Fromme, WILEY-VCH, pp. 83-106.

8.       Isao Enami and Jian-Ren Shen (2008) A Brief Introduction of Kimiyuki Satoh.  Photosynthesis Research, 98, 7-11.

9.       Isao Enami, Akinori Okumura, Ryo Nagao, Masako Iwai, Takehiro Suzuki and Jian-Ren Shen   (2008) Structures and functions of the extrinsic proteins of photosystem II from different species.  Photosynthesis Research, 98, 349-363.

10.   沈　建仁、川上恵典 (2009)「光化学系IIの例から見る膜タンパク質複合体の結晶化と構造解析」光合成研究, 19(1), 19-25.

11.   沈　建仁・榎並　勲(2009) 「系II複合体の精製法」低温科学, 67, 275-283.

12.   沈　建仁 (2009)「電子伝達活性」低温科学, 67, 551-560.

13.   沈　建仁（分担執筆）、「現代生物学入門」、岡山大学出版会.

14.   Enami I., Adachi H. and Shen J.-R. (2010) Mechanisms Of Acido-Tolerance and Characteristcs of Photosynthesis in an Acido- and Thermophilic Red Alga, Cyanidium caldarium, In Red Algae in The Genomics Age, Edited by Joseph Seckbach, Springer, in press.

15.   Shen J.-R., Kawakami K. and Koike H. (2010) Purification and crystallization of oxygen-evolving photosystem II core complex from thermophilic cyanobacteria. In R. Carpentier (ed.) Methods in Molecular Biology: Photosynthesis Protocols, Humana Press, Springer NewYork Dordrecht Heidelberg London, pp. 41-51.

16.   Yasusi Yamamoto, Jing Leng and Jian-Ren Shen (2010) Isolation of photosystem II-enriched membranes and the oxygen-evolving complex (OEC) subunit proteins from higher plants. In R. Carpentier (ed.) Methods in Molecular Biology: Photosynthesis Protocols, Humana Press, Humana Press, Springer NewYork Dordrecht Heidelberg London, pp. 1-10.

17.   Jian-Ren Shen (2010) Location and function of chloride ions in oxygen-evolving photosystem II revealed by X-Ray crystallography, SPring-8 Research Frontiers 2009, 22-23.

18.   沈　建仁（2011）「光合成水分解・酸素発生を可能にする光化学系IIの原子構造」光合成研究, 21, 72-79.

19.   沈　建仁, 梅名泰史，川上恵典，神谷信夫 (2012)「高分解能構造から見えてきた光合成水分解の仕組み」、生物物理、52, 140-143.

20.   沈　建仁(2012)「高分解能結晶構造に基づく光合成水分解・酸素発生の分子機構」、酵素工学ニュース、67, 15-19.

21.   M. M. Najafpour, J. Barber, J-R. Shen, G. F. Moore & Govindjee (2012) Running on sun. Chemistry World, Nov. 2012, p.43.

22.   Mohammad Mahdi Najafpour, Atefeh Nemati Moghaddam, Jian-Ren Shen  and Govindjee (2013) Water Oxidation and Water Oxidizing Complex in Cyanobacteria, in Stress Biology of Cyanobacteria, Edited by Ashish Kumar Srivastava, Amar Nath Rai, Brett A. Neilan, Taylor & Francis Group, LCC, pp. 41-60 (2013).

23.   神谷信夫、川上恵典、梅名泰史、沈　建仁 (2013) 「光合成の水分解・酸素発生機構の解明に向けて」放射光学会誌、26-1、3-10.

24.   Allakhverdiev S. I., Shen J.-R, Edwards G. E. (2013) Special issues on Photosynthesis Education honoring Govindjee. Photosynth Res. 116, 107-110.