List of works by John T M Kennis

A base-catalyzed mechanism for dark state recovery in the Avena sativa phototropin-1 LOV2 domain

scientific article published on 21 February 2007

A mechanism of energy dissipation in cyanobacteria

scientific article published on March 2009

A photoactive carotenoid protein acting as light intensity sensor

scholarly article

A photochromic histidine kinase rhodopsin (HKR1) that is bimodally switched by ultraviolet and blue light

scientific article published on October 2012

A set of engineered Escherichia coli expression strains for selective isotope and reactivity labeling of amino acid side chains and flavin cofactors

scientific article

A simple artificial light-harvesting dyad as a model for excess energy dissipation in oxygenic photosynthesis

scholarly article

An alternative carotenoid-to-bacteriochlorophyll energy transfer pathway in photosynthetic light harvesting

scientific article

Bright blue-shifted fluorescent proteins with Cys in the GAF domain engineered from bacterial phytochromes: fluorescence mechanisms and excited-state dynamics

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Carotenoid photoprotection in artificial photosynthetic antennas

scientific article published on 14 April 2011

Carotenoids as electron or excited-state energy donors in artificial photosynthesis: an ultrafast investigation of a carotenoporphyrin and a carotenofullerene dyad

scientific article published in April 2013

Charge separation and energy transfer in a caroteno-C60 dyad: photoinduced electron transfer from the carotenoid excited states

scientific article published on 14 November 2006

Confinement in crystal lattice alters entire photocycle pathway of the Photoactive Yellow Protein

scientific article published on 25 August 2020

Conformational heterogeneity and propagation of structural changes in the LOV2/Jalpha domain from Avena sativa phototropin 1 as recorded by temperature-dependent FTIR spectroscopy

scientific article published in July 2009

Dual photoisomerization on distinct potential energy surfaces in a UV absorbing rhodopsin

scientific article published on 30 May 2020

Editorial: Optogenetic Tools in the Molecular Spotlight.

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Electronic and protein structural dynamics of a photosensory histidine kinase

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Energy transfer, excited-state deactivation, and exciplex formation in artificial caroteno-phthalocyanine light-harvesting antennas

scientific article published on 16 May 2007

Excitation Energy Transfer in Dimeric Light Harvesting Complex I: A Combined Streak-Camera/Fluorescence Upconversion Study

FTIR Spectroscopy Revealing Light-Dependent Refolding of the Conserved Tongue Region of Bacteriophytochrome

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Femto- to Microsecond Photodynamics of an Unusual Bacteriophytochrome

scientific article published on 30 December 2014

Flavin adenine dinucleotide chromophore charge controls the conformation of cyclobutane pyrimidine dimer photolyase α-helices

scientific article published on 09 September 2014

Fluorescence quantum yield and photochemistry of bacteriophytochrome constructs.

scientific article published on 25 May 2011

Helical Contributions Mediate Light-Activated Conformational Change in the LOV2 Domain of Avena sativa Phototropin 1

scientific article published on 15 January 2019

Hydrogen bond switching among flavin and amino acid side chains in the BLUF photoreceptor observed by ultrafast infrared spectroscopy

scientific article published on 15 August 2008

Hydrogen-bond switching through a radical pair mechanism in a flavin-binding photoreceptor

scholarly article

Identification of a mechanism of photoprotective energy dissipation in higher plants

scientific article published in November 2007

Identification of excited-state energy transfer and relaxation pathways in the peridinin-chlorophyll complex: an ultrafast mid-infrared study

scientific article published on 29 June 2010

Key residues for the light regulation of the blue light-activated adenylyl cyclase from Beggiatoa sp.

scientific article published on 28 July 2014

Kinetic isotope effect of proton-coupled electron transfer in a hydrogen bonded phenol-pyrrolidino[60]fullerene

scientific article published on 01 December 2015

Light-Induced Rearrangement of the β5 Strand in the BLUF Photoreceptor SyPixD (Slr1694).

scientific article published on 17 November 2015

Membrane matters: The impact of a nanodisc-bilayer or a detergent microenvironment on the properties of two eubacterial rhodopsins

scientific article published on 28 October 2019

Molecular Origin of Photoprotection in Cyanobacteria Probed by Watermarked Femtosecond Stimulated Raman Spectroscopy.

scientific article published on 26 March 2018

Molecular adaptation of photoprotection: triplet states in light-harvesting proteins

scientific article published on August 2011

NeoR, a near-infrared absorbing rhodopsin

scientific article published on 10 November 2020

On the mechanism of activation of the BLUF domain of AppA.

scientific article published on January 2006

On the role of aromatic side chains in the photoactivation of BLUF domains

scientific article published on 2 June 2007

On the role of excitonic interactions in carotenoid-phthalocyanine dyads and implications for photosynthetic regulation

scientific article published on 23 September 2011

On the signaling mechanism and the absence of photoreversibility in the AppA BLUF domain

scientific article published on 13 March 2008

Perturbation of the ground-state electronic structure of FMN by the conserved cysteine in phototropin LOV2 domains

scientific article

Photoactivation mechanism, timing of protein secondary structure dynamics and carotenoid translocation in the Orange Carotenoid Protein

scientific article published on 20 December 2018

Photoactivation mechanisms of flavin-binding photoreceptors revealed through ultrafast spectroscopy and global analysis methods

scientific article

Photoadduct Formation from the FMN Singlet Excited State in the LOV2 Domain of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Phototropin.

scientific article published on 21 October 2016

Photocycle of the flavin-binding photoreceptor AppA, a bacterial transcriptional antirepressor of photosynthesis genes

scientific article

Photoinduced formation of flavin radicals in BLUF domains lacking the central glutamine

scientific article published on 16 April 2015

Photoinduced transformation of UVR8 monitored by vibrational and fluorescence spectroscopy.

scientific article published in February 2015

Photoionization and electron radical recombination dynamics in photoactive yellow protein investigated by ultrafast spectroscopy in the visible and near-infrared spectral region.

scientific article published on 15 April 2013

Photoreaction Dynamics of Red-Shifting Retinal Analogues Reconstituted in Proteorhodopsin

scientific article published on 07 May 2019

Pigment-protein interactions in phytochromes probed by fluorescence line narrowing spectroscopy

scientific article published on 22 November 2013

Polarization-controlled optimal scatter suppression in transient absorption spectroscopy

scientific article published on 6 March 2017

Primary reactions of bacteriophytochrome observed with ultrafast mid-infrared spectroscopy

scientific article published on 30 December 2010

Primary reactions of the LOV2 domain of phototropin studied with ultrafast mid-infrared spectroscopy and quantum chemistry

scientific article published on July 2009

Primary reactions of the LOV2 domain of phototropin, a plant blue-light photoreceptor

scientific article published in April 2003

Proline 68 enhances photoisomerization yield in photoactive yellow protein

scientific article published on 04 May 2011

Proton transfer events in GFP.

scientific article published on 17 August 2011

Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Constitutes the Photoactivation Mechanism of the Plant Photoreceptor UVR8.

scientific article published on 22 May 2015

Proton-transfer and hydrogen-bond interactions determine fluorescence quantum yield and photochemical efficiency of bacteriophytochrome

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Reaction dynamics of the chimeric channelrhodopsin C1C2.

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Redox modulation of flavin and tyrosine determines photoinduced proton-coupled electron transfer and photoactivation of BLUF photoreceptors.

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Short hydrogen bonds and negative charge in photoactive yellow protein promote fast isomerization but not high quantum yield.

scientific article published on 29 August 2014

Spectral watermarking in femtosecond stimulated Raman spectroscopy: resolving the nature of the carotenoid S* state

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Spectroscopic Analysis of a Biomimetic Model of Tyr(Z) Function in PSII.

scientific article published on September 2015

Strong pH-Dependent Near-Infrared Fluorescence in a Microbial Rhodopsin Reconstituted with a Red-Shifting Retinal Analogue

scientific article published on 01 November 2018

Synthesis and photophysics of a red-light absorbing supramolecular chromophore system

scientific article published on 25 June 2014

Tetrapyrrole singlet excited state quenching by carotenoids in an artificial photosynthetic antenna

scientific article published on 01 December 2006

The LOV2 domain of phototropin: a reversible photochromic switch

scientific article published in April 2004

The femtosecond-to-second photochemistry of red-shifted fast-closing anion channelrhodopsin PsACR1.

scientific article published on 10 November 2017

The hydrogen-bond switch reaction of the Blrb Bluf domain of Rhodobacter sphaeroides

scientific article published on 31 May 2011

The photochemistry of sodium ion pump rhodopsin observed by watermarked femto- to submillisecond stimulated Raman spectroscopy.

scientific article published on 23 August 2016

The primary photophysics of the Avena sativa phototropin 1 LOV2 domain observed with time-resolved emission spectroscopy

scientific article published on 22 February 2011

The role of key amino acids in the photoactivation pathway of the Synechocystis Slr1694 BLUF domain

scientific article published in December 2009

The terminal phycobilisome emitter, LCM: A light-harvesting pigment with a phytochrome chromophore

scientific article

Triplet state dynamics in peridinin-chlorophyll-a-protein: a new pathway of photoprotection in LHCs?

scientific article published on 4 May 2007

Triplet-triplet annihilation upconversion followed by FRET for the red light activation of a photodissociative ruthenium complex in liposomes.

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Ultrafast excited-state dynamics and fluorescence deactivation of near-infrared fluorescent proteins engineered from bacteriophytochromes.

scientific article published on 6 August 2015

Ultrafast mid-infrared spectroscopy by chirped pulse upconversion in 1800-1000cm(-1) region

scientific article published in May 2012

Ultrafast proton shuttling in Psammocora cyan fluorescent protein

scientific article published on 19 April 2013

Ultrafast spectroscopy of biological photoreceptors.

scientific article published on 23 October 2007

Ultrafast transient absorption spectroscopy: principles and application to photosynthetic systems

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Uncovering the hidden ground state of green fluorescent protein

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Unfolding of the C-Terminal Jα Helix in the LOV2 Photoreceptor Domain Observed by Time-Resolved Vibrational Spectroscopy.

scientific article published on 18 August 2016

Unraveling the Carrier Dynamics of BiVO4: A Femtosecond to Microsecond Transient Absorption Study

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Unraveling the excited-state dynamics and light-harvesting functions of xanthophylls in the Light-Harvesting Complex II using femtosecond stimulated Raman spectroscopy

scientific article published on 03 September 2020

Wavelength-modulated femtosecond stimulated Raman spectroscopy-approach towards automatic data processing

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