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 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).