Ultrafast Molecular Structural Dynamics

Project Information

MolStrucDyn

Grant agreement ID: 725642

DOI 10.3030/725642

Project closed

EC signature date 16 May 2017

Start date 1 June 2017

End date 31 May 2023

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 2 000 000,00

EU contribution € 2 000 000,00

Coordinated by

GOETEBORGS UNIVERSITET
Sweden

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (10)

Coordination of the biliverdin D-ring in bacteriophytochromes

Author(s): Nils Lenngren, Petra Edlund, Heikki Takala, Brigitte Stucki-Buchli, Jessica Rumfeldt, Ivan Peshev, Heikki Häkkänen, Sebastian Westenhoff, Janne A. Ihalainen
Published in: Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Issue 20/27, 2018, Page(s) 18216-18225, ISSN 1463-9076
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/c8cp01696h

Time-Resolved X-Ray Solution Scattering Reveals the Structural Photoactivation of a Light-Oxygen-Voltage Photoreceptor

Author(s): Oskar Berntsson, Ralph P Diensthuber, Matthijs R Panman, Alexander Björling, Ashley J Hughes, Léocadie Henry, Stephan Niebling, Gemma Newby, Marianne Liebi, Andreas Menzel, Robert Henning, Irina Kosheleva, Andreas Möglich, Sebastian Westenhoff
Published in: Structure, Issue 25 / 6, 2017, Page(s) 933-938, ISSN 0969-2126
Publisher: CellPress
DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2017.04.006

Sequential conformational transitions and α-helical supercoiling regulate a sensor histidine kinase

Author(s): Oskar Berntsson, Ralph P. Diensthuber, Matthijs R. Panman, Alexander Björling, Emil Gustavsson, Maria Hoernke, Ashley J. Hughes, Léocadie Henry, Stephan Niebling, Heikki Takala, Janne A. Ihalainen, Gemma Newby, Silke Kerruth, Joachim Heberle, Marianne Liebi, Andreas Menzel, Robert Henning, Irina Kosheleva, Andreas Möglich, Sebastian Westenhoff
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 8/1, 2017, Page(s) 1-8, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-00300-5

On the (un)coupling of the chromophore, tongue interactions, and overall conformation in a bacterial phytochrome

Author(s): Heikki Takala, Heli K. Lehtivuori, Oskar Berntsson, Ashley Hughes, Rahul Nanekar, Stephan Niebling, Matthijs Panman, Léocadie Henry, Andreas Menzel, Sebastian Westenhoff, Janne A. Ihalainen
Published in: Journal of Biological Chemistry, Issue 293/21, 2018, Page(s) 8161-8172, ISSN 0021-9258
Publisher: American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Inc.
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.ra118.001794

Structural basis for light control of cell development revealed by crystal structures of a myxobacterial phytochrome

Author(s): Nicole C. Woitowich, Andrei S. Halavaty, Patricia Waltz, Christopher Kupitz, Joseph Valera, Gregory Tracy, Kevin D. Gallagher, Elin Claesson, Takanori Nakane, Suraj Pandey, Garrett Nelson, Rie Tanaka, Eriko Nango, Eiichi Mizohata, Shigeki Owada, Kensure Tono, Yasumasa Joti, Angela C. Nugent, Hardik Patel, Ayesha Mapara, James Hopkins, Phu Duong, Dorina Bizhga, Svetlana E. Kovaleva, Rachael St. Pet
Published in: IUCrJ, Issue 5/5, 2018, Page(s) 619-634, ISSN 2052-2525
Publisher: International Union of Crystallography
DOI: 10.1107/s2052252518010631

Photoactivation of Drosophila melanogaster cryptochrome through sequential conformational transitions

Author(s): Oskar Berntsson, Ryan Rodriguez, Léocadie Henry, Matthijs R. Panman, Ashley J. Hughes, Christopher Einholz, Stefan Weber, Janne A. Ihalainen, Robert Henning, Irina Kosheleva, Erik Schleicher, Sebastian Westenhoff
Published in: Science Advances, Issue 5/7, 2019, Page(s) eaaw1531, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aaw1531

Chromophore–Protein Interplay during the Phytochrome Photocycle Revealed by Step-Scan FTIR Spectroscopy

Author(s): Janne A. Ihalainen, Emil Gustavsson, Lea Schroeder, Serena Donnini, Heli Lehtivuori, Linnéa Isaksson, Christian Thöing, Vaibhav Modi, Oskar Berntsson, Brigitte Stucki-Buchli, Alli Liukkonen, Heikki Häkkänen, Elina Kalenius, Sebastian Westenhoff, Tilman Kottke
Published in: Journal of the American Chemical Society, Issue 140/39, 2018, Page(s) 12396-12404, ISSN 0002-7863
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b04659

A simple adaptation to a protein crystallography station to facilitate difference X-ray scattering studies

Author(s): Amit Sharma, Peter Berntsen, Rajiv Harimoorthy, Roberto Appio, Jennie Sjöhamn, Michael Järvå, Alexander Björling, Greger Hammarin, Sebastian Westenhoff, Gisela Brändén, Richard Neutze
Published in: Journal of Applied Crystallography, Issue 52/2, 2019, Page(s) 378-386, ISSN 1600-5767
Publisher: IUCr
DOI: 10.1107/s1600576719001900

High-resolution crystal structures of a myxobacterial phytochrome at cryo and room temperatures

Author(s): Juan C. Sanchez, Melissa Carrillo, Suraj Pandey, Moraima Noda, Luis Aldama, Denisse Feliz, Elin Claesson, Weixiao Yuan Wahlgren, Gregory Tracy, Phu Duong, Angela C. Nugent, Andrew Field, Vukica Šrajer, Christopher Kupitz, So Iwata, Eriko Nango, Rie Tanaka, Tomoyuki Tanaka, Luo Fangjia, Kensuke Tono, Shigeki Owada, Sebastian Westenhoff, Marius Schmidt, Emina A. Stojković
Published in: Structural Dynamics, Issue 6/5, 2019, Page(s) 054701, ISSN 2329-7778
Publisher: AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/1.5120527

Solvent-Dependent Structural Dynamics in the Ultrafast Photodissociation Reaction of Triiodide Observed with Time-Resolved X-ray Solution Scattering

Author(s): Amke Nimmrich, Matthijs R. Panman, Oskar Berntsson, Elisa Biasin, Stephan Niebling, Jonas Petersson, Maria Hoernke, Alexander Björling, Emil Gustavsson, Tim B. van Driel, Asmus O. Dohn, Mads Laursen, Diana B. Zederkof, Kensuke Tono, Tetsuo Katayama, Shigeki Owada, Martin M. Nielsen, Jan Davidsson, Jens Uhlig, Jochen S. Hub, Kristoffer Haldrup, and Sebastian Westenhoff
Published in: Journal of the american chemical society, 2023, ISSN 0002-7863
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c00484

Other (1)

The primary structural photoresponse of phytochrome proteins captured by a femtosecond X-ray laser

Author(s): Elin Claesson, Weixiao Yuan Wahlgren, Heikki Takala, Suraj Pandey, Leticia Castillon, Valentyna Kuznetsova, Léocadie Henry, Melissa Carrillo, Matthijs Panman, Joachim Kubel, Rahul Nanekar, Linnéa Isaksson, Amke Nimmrich, Andrea Cellini, Dmitry Morozov, Michal Maj, Moona Kurttila, Robert Bosman, Eriko Nango, Rie Tanaka, Tomoyuki Tanaka, Luo Fangjia, So Iwata, Shigeki Owada, Keith Moffat, Gerrit G
Published in: 2019
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
DOI: 10.1101/789305