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T. N. Thao†, N. Mitani-Ueno†, R. Urano, Y. Saitoh, P. Wang, N. Yamaji, J.-R. Shen, W. Shinoda, J. F. Ma*, and M. Suga*. Structural insights into a citrate transporter that mediates aluminum tolerance in barley. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 122 (32), e2501933122 (2025). Open Access. LINK
H Li†, Y Nakajima†, E Nango, S Owada, D Yamada, K Hashimoto, F Luo, R Tanaka, F Akita, K Kato, J Kang, Y Saitoh, S Kishi, H Yu, N Matsubara, H Fujii, M Sugahara, M Suzuki, T Masuda, T Kimura, T N Thao, S Yonekura, L-J Yu, T Tosha, K Tono, Y Joti, T Hatsui, M Yabashi, M Kubo, S Iwata, H Isobe, K Yamaguchi, M Suga* and JR Shen*. Oxygen-evolving photosystem II structures during S1-S2-S3 transitions. Nature, 626, 670-677 (2024). Open Access. LINK
Y Saitoh†, N Mitani-Ueno†, K Saito†, K Matsuki, S Huang, L Yang, N Yamaji, H Ishikita, JR Shen, JF Ma*, and M Suga*. Structural basis for high selectivity of a rice silicon channel Lsi1. Nature Communications, 12, 6236 (2021). Open Access. LINK
M Suga†*, F Akita†, K Yamashita, Y Nakajima, G Ueno, H Li, T Yamane, K Hirata, Y Umena, S Yonekura, LJ Yu, H Murakami, T Nomura, T Kimura, M Kubo, S Baba, T Kumasaka, K Tono, M Yabashi, H Isobe, K Yamaguchi, M Yamamoto, H Ago* and JR Shen*. An oxyl/oxo mechanism for dioxygen formation in PSII revealed by X-ray free electron lasers. Science, 366, 334-338 (2019).
M Suga†, SI Ozawa†, K Yoshida-Motomura, F Akita, N Miyazaki*, Y Takahashi*. Structure of the green algal photosystem I supercomplex with a decameric light-harvesting complex I. Nature plants, 5, 626-636 (2019).
LJ Yu, M Suga, ZY Otomo and JR Shen*. Structure of photosynthetic LH1-RC supercomplex at 1.9 Å resolution. Nature, 556, 209-213 (2018).
M Suga†, F Akita†, M Sugahara†, M Kubo†, Y Nakajima†, T Nakane, K Yamashita, Y Umena, M Nakabayashi, T Yamane, T Nakano, M Suzuki, T Masuda, S Inoue, T Kimura, T Nomura, S Yonekura, LJ Yu, T Sakamoto, T Motomura, JH 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* and JR Shen*. Light-induced structural changes and the site of O=O bond formation in PSII caught by XFEL. Nature, 543, 131-135 (2017).
X Qin†, M Suga†, T Kuang* and JR Shen*. Structural basis for energy transfer pathways in the plant PSI-LHCI super-complex. Science, 348, 989-995 (2015).
M Suga†, F Akita†, K Hirata, G Ueno, H Murakami, Y Nakajima, T Shimizu, K Yamashita, M Yamamoto*, H Ago* and JR Shen*. Native structure of photosystem II at 1.95 Å resolution viewed by femtosecond X-ray pulses. Nature, 517, 99-103 (2015).
S Maeda, S Nakagawa, M Suga, E Yamashita, A Oshima, Y Fujiyoshi and T Tsukihara*. Structure of the connexin 26 gap junction channel at 3.5 Å resolution. Nature, 458, 597-602 (2009).
M. Suga*. Illuminating DNA repair in action: structural insights into a photocaged glycosylase complex. IUCrJ, 12, 513-514, (2025). Open Access. LINK
T. N. Thao†, N. Mitani-Ueno†, R. Urano, Y. Saitoh, P. Wang, N. Yamaji, J.-R. Shen, W. Shinoda, J. F. Ma*, and M. Suga*. Structural insights into a citrate transporter that mediates aluminum tolerance in barley. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 122 (32), e2501933122 (2025). Open Access. LINK
H. Isobe*, T. Suzuki, M. Suga, J.-R. Shen, K. Yamaguchi. Collective motions in the primary coordination sphere: a critical functional framework for catalytic activity of the oxygen-evolving complex of photosystem II. Chem. Sci., 16, 12024-12042 (2025). Open Access. LINK
M. Utsumi, A. Fujiwara, H. Goto, H. Okamoto, N. Takeyasu, Y. Saitoh, M. Suga, Y. Takahashi, H. Imanaka, H. Taniguchi, S. Yasui, R. Eguchi, and Y. Kubozono*. Biosensor Application of CMOS Inverter and Ring Oscillator with Organic Field-Effect Transistors. ACS Appl. Electron. Mater., 7, 1483-1492 (2025). LINK
H. Isobe*, T. Suzuki, M. Suga, J.-R. Shen, K. Yamaguchi. Conformational Flexibility of D1-Glu189: A Crucial Determinant in Substrate Water Selection, Positioning, and Stabilization within the Oxygen-Evolving Complex of Photosystem II. ACS omega, 9, 50, 50041-50048 (2024). Open Access. LINK
A. M. Orville, E. Nango, S. Iwata, S. Mous, J. Standfuss, P. Nogly, M. Suga, J.-R. Shen, M. Kubo. Time-Resolved Studies of Protein Structural Dynamics. Ultrafast Electronic and Structural Dynamics, 439-476 (2024).
H. Li†, Y. Nakajima†, E. Nango, S. Owada, D. Yamada, K. Hashimoto, F. Luo, R. Tanaka, F. Akita, K. Kato, J. Kang, Y. Saitoh, S. Kishi, H. Yu, N. Matsubara, H. Fujii, M. Sugahara, M. Suzuki, T. Masuda, T. Kimura, T. N. Thao, S. Yonekura, L.-J. Yu, T. Tosha, K. Tono, Y. Joti, T. Hatsui, M. Yabashi, M. Kubo, S. Iwata, H. Isobe, K. Yamaguchi, M. Suga* and J.-R. Shen*. Oxygen-evolving photosystem II structures during S1-S2-S3 transitions. Nature, 626, 670-677 (2024). Open Access. LINK
Y Nakajima, N Ugai-Amo, N Tone, A Nakagawa, M Iwai, M Ikeuchi, M Sugiura, M Suga,* and JR Shen*. Crystal structures of photosystem II from a cyanobacterium expressing psbA2 in comparison to psbA3 reveal differences in the D1 subunit. J. Biol. Chem., 298 (12), 102668, 1-11 (2022). LINK
Y Saitoh and M Suga*. Structure and function of a silicic acid channel Lsi1. Front. Plant. Sci., 13:982068, (2022). Open Access, Review Paper. LINK
K Yamaguchi*, M Shoji, H Isobe, T Kawakami, K Miyagawa, M Suga, F Akita, and JR Shen*. Geometric, electronic and spin structure of the CaMn4O5 catalyst for water oxidation in oxygen-evolving photosystem II. Interplay between experiments and theoretical computations. Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 471, 214742 (2022). LINK
Y Saitoh†, N Mitani-Ueno†, K Saito†, K Matsuki, S Huang, L Yang, N Yamaji, H Ishikita, JR Shen, JF Ma*, and M Suga*. Structural basis for high selectivity of a rice silicon channel Lsi1. Nature Communications, 12, 6236 (2021). Open Access. LINK
H Li†, Y Nakajima†, T Nomura, M Sugahara, S Yonekura, SK Chan, T Nakane, T Yamane, Y Umena, M Suzuki, T Masuda, T Motomura, H Naitow, Y Matsuura, T Kimura, K Tono, S Owada, Y Joti, R Tanaka, E Nango, F Akita, M Kubo, S Iwata, JR Shen* and M Suga*. Capturing structural changes of the S1 to S2 transition of photosystem II using time-resolved serial femtosecond crystallography. IUCrJ, 8, 431-443 (2021). Open Access. LINK
M Suga, and JR Shen*. Structural variations of photosystem I-antenna supercomplex in response to adaptations to different light environments. Current opinion in structural biology, 63, 10-17 (2020). LINK
M Suga*, A Shimada*, F Akita, JR Shen, T Tosha, and H Sugimoto*. Time-resolved studies of metalloproteins using X-ray free electron laser radiation at SACLA. BBA, 1864(2) 129466 (2020). Open Access. LINK
M Suga†*, F Akita†, K Yamashita, Y Nakajima, G Ueno, H Li, T Yamane, K Hirata, Y Umena, S Yonekura, L-J Yu, H Murakami, T Nomura, T Kimura, M Kubo, S Baba, T Kumasaka, K Tono, M Yabashi, H Isobe, K Yamaguchi, M Yamamoto, H Ago* and JR Shen*. An oxyl/oxo mechanism for dioxygen formation in PSII revealed by X-ray free electron lasers. Science, 366, 334-338 (2019).
M Suga†, SI Ozawa†, K Yoshida-Motomura, F Akita, N Miyazaki*, Y Takahashi*. Structure of the green algal photosystem I supercomplex with a decameric light-harvesting complex I. Nature plants, 5, 626-636 (2019).
M Shoji, H Isobe, JR Shen, M Suga, F Akita, K Miyagawa, Y Shigeta and K Yamaguchi*. Elucidation of the entire Kok cycle for photosynthetic water oxidation by the large-scale quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics calculations: Comparison with the experimental results by the recent serial femtosecond crystallography. Chemical Physics Letters, 730, 416-425 (2019).
W Wang, LJ Yu, C Xu, T Tomizaki, S Zhao, Y Umena, X Chen, X Qin, Y Xin, M Suga, G Han, T Kuang and JR Shen*. Structural basis for blue-green light harvesting and energy dissipation in diatoms. Science, 363, eaav0365 (2019).
LJ Yu, M Suga, ZY Wang-Otomo, JR Shen*. Novel features of LH1‐RC from Thermochromatium tepidum revealed from its atomic resolution structure. The FEBS journal, 285, 4359-4366 (2018).
Y Nakajima, Y Umena, R Nagao, K Endo, K Kobayashi, F Akita, M Suga, H Wada, T Noguchi, and JR Shen*. Thylakoid membrane lipid sulfoquinovosyl-diacylglycerol (SQDG) is required for full functioning of photosystem II in Thermosynechococcus elongatus. Journal of Bio. Chem., 293, 14786-14797 (2018).
LJ Yu, M Suga, ZY Otomo and JR Shen*. Structure of photosynthetic LH1-RC supercomplex at 1.9 Å resolution. Nature, 556, 209-213 (2018).
Y Kato, F Akita, Y Nakajima, M Suga, Y Umena, JR 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).
T Motomura†, M Suga†, R Hienerwadel, A Nakagawa, TL Lai, W Nitschke, T Kuma, M Sugiura, A Boussac and JR Shen*. Crystal structure and redox properties of a novel cyanobacterial heme protein with a His/Cys heme axial ligation and a Per-Arnt-Sim (PAS)-like domain. Journal of Bio. Chem., 292, 9599-9612 (2017).
M Suga†, F Akita†, M Sugahara†, M Kubo†, Y Nakajima†, T Nakane, K Yamashita, Y Umena, M Nakabayashi, T Yamane, T Nakano, M Suzuki, T Masuda, S Inoue, T Kimura, T Nomura, S Yonekura, LJ Yu, T Sakamoto, T Motomura, JH 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* and JR Shen*. Light-induced structural changes and the site of O=O bond formation in PSII caught by XFEL. Nature, 543, 131-135 (2017).
M Shoji M, H Isobe, T Nakajima, Y Shigeta, M Suga, F Akita, JR Shen and K Yamazaki*. Large-scale QM/MM calculations of the CaMn4O5 cluster in the S3 state of the oxygen evolving complex of photosystem II. Comparison between water-inserted and no water-inserted structures. Faraday Discussions, 198, 83-106 (2017).
M Suga, X Qin, T Kuang, JR Shen*. Structure and energy transfer pathways of the plant photosystem I-LHCI supercomplex. Current opinion in structural biology, 39, 46-53 (2016).
X Qin†, M Suga†, T Kuang* and JR Shen*. Structural basis for energy transfer pathways in the plant PSI-LHCI super-complex. Science, 348, 989-995 (2015).
M Shoji, H Isobe, S Yamanaka, M Suga, F Akita, JR Shen and K Yamaguchi*. On the guiding principles for lucid understanding of the damage-free S1 structure of the CaMn4O5 cluster in the oxygen evolving complex of photosystem II. Chem Phys Lett, 627, 44-52 (2015).
M Suga†, F Akita†, K Hirata, G Ueno, H Murakami, Y Nakajima, T Shimizu, K Yamashita, M Yamamoto*, H Ago* and JR Shen*. Native structure of photosystem II at 1.95 Å resolution viewed by femtosecond X-ray pulses. Nature, 517, 99-103 (2015).
M Shoji, H Isobe, S Yamanaka, M Suga, F Akita, JR Shen and K Yamaguchi*. Theoretical studies of the damage-free S1 structure of the CaMn4O5 cluster in oxygen-evolving complex of photosystem II. Chem Phys Lett, 623, 1-7 (2015).
M Suga, A Lai, M Sugiura, JR Shen* and A Boussac*. Crystal structure at 1.5 Å resolution of the PsbV2 cytochrome from the cyanobacterium Thermosynechococcus elongatus. FEBS Letters, 587, 3267-3272 (2013).
R Nagao†, M Suga†, A Niikura, A Okumura, F Koua, T Suzuki, T Tomo, I Enami and JR Shen*. 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 (2013).
M Suga†, N Yano†, K Shinzawa-Ito, T Maeda, E Yamashita, T Tsukihara and S Yoshikawa*. Distinguishing between Cl- and O22- as the bridging element between Fe3+ and Cu2+ in resting-oxidized cytochrome c oxidase. Acta Cryst. D, 67, 742-744 (2011).
K Takeshita, I Suetake, E Yamashita, M Suga, H Narita, A Nakagawa* and S Tajima*. Structural insight into maintenance methylation by mouse DNA methyltransferase 1 (Dnmt1). Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci USA, 108, 9055-9059 (2011).
M Suga, S Maeda, S Nakagawa, E Yamashita and T Tsukihara*. A description of the structural determination procedures of a gap junction channel at 3.5 Å resolution. Acta Cryst. D, 65, 758-766 (2009).
S Maeda, S Nakagawa, M Suga, E Yamashita, A Oshima, Y Fujiyoshi and T Tsukihara*. Structure of the connexin 26 gap junction channel at 3.5 Å resolution. Nature, 458, 597-602 (2009).
S Kim, M Suga, K Ogasawara, T Ikegami, Y Minami, T Yubisui and T Tsukihara*. Structure of Physarum polycephalum cytochrome b5 reductase at 1.56 Å resolution. Acta Cryst. F, 63 274-279 (2007).