List of works - Johannes Messinger

'Birth defects' of photosystem II make it highly susceptible to photodamage during chloroplast biogenesis

scientific article published on 27 February 2019

55Mn pulse ENDOR at 34 GHz of the S0 and S2 states of the oxygen-evolving complex in photosystem II

scientific article published on 01 March 2005

A microstructured p-Si photocathode outcompetes Pt as a counter electrode to hematite in photoelectrochemical water splitting

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

A new quantum chemical approach to the magnetic properties of oligonuclear transition-metal complexes: application to a model for the tetranuclear manganese cluster of photosystem II.

scientific article published in January 2009

Accurate macromolecular structures using minimal measurements from X-ray free-electron lasers

scientific article

Ammonia binding to the oxygen-evolving complex of photosystem II identifies the solvent-exchangeable oxygen bridge (μ-oxo) of the manganese tetramer

scientific article

Artificial photosynthesis as a frontier technology for energy sustainability

article

Assessment of the manganese cluster's oxidation state via photoactivation of photosystem II microcrystals

scientific article published on 17 December 2019

Bicarbonate-Mediated CO2 Formation on Both Sides of Photosystem II

scientific article published on 23 June 2020

Biogenesis of water splitting by photosystem II during de-etiolation of barley (Hordeum vulgare L.).

scientific article published on 2 February 2016

Calcium manganese oxides as oxygen evolution catalysts: O2 formation pathways indicated by 18O-labelling studies

scientific article published on 4 April 2011

Catalysts for solar water splitting

scientific article published on 01 January 2009

Cationic Vacancy Defects in Iron Phosphide: A Promising Route toward Efficient and Stable Hydrogen Evolution by Electrochemical Water Splitting.

scientific article published on 5 October 2017

Characterization of the water oxidizing complex of photosystem II of the Chl d-containing cyanobacterium Acaryochloris marina via its reactivity towards endogenous electron donors and acceptors

scientific article published on 20 June 2006

Cobalt-doped hematite thin films for electrocatalytic water oxidation in highly acidic media

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

Crystal structure and functional characterization of photosystem II-associated carbonic anhydrase CAH3 in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.

scientific article published on 23 January 2015

Detection of the water-binding sites of the oxygen-evolving complex of Photosystem II using W-band 17O electron-electron double resonance-detected NMR spectroscopy

scientific article

Dinuclear manganese complexes for water oxidation: evaluation of electronic effects and catalytic activity.

scientific article

Drop-on-demand sample delivery for studying biocatalysts in action at X-ray free-electron lasers

scientific article

Effect of Ca2+/Sr2+ substitution on the electronic structure of the oxygen-evolving complex of photosystem II: a combined multifrequency EPR, 55Mn-ENDOR, and DFT study of the S2 state

scientific article published on 22 February 2011

Effect of Ca2+/Sr2+Substitution on the Electronic Structure of the Oxygen-Evolving Complex of Photosystem II: A Combined Multifrequency EPR,55Mn-ENDOR, and DFT Study of the S2State

article

Effects of methanol on the Si-state transitions in photosynthetic water-splitting

scientific article published on 26 September 2008

Efficiency of photosynthetic water oxidation at ambient and depleted levels of inorganic carbon

scientific article published on 05 July 2013

Electrocatalytic Water Oxidation by MnOx /C: In Situ Catalyst Formation, Carbon Substrate Variations, and Direct O2 /CO2 Monitoring by Membrane-Inlet Mass Spectrometry

scientific article published on 4 September 2017

Electrochemically produced hydrogen peroxide affects Joliot-type oxygen-evolution measurements of photosystem II.

scientific article published on 29 January 2014

Electronic Structure of a Weakly Antiferromagnetically Coupled MnIIMnIIIModel Relevant to Manganese Proteins: A Combined EPR,55Mn-ENDOR, and DFT Study

article

Electronic and geometric structure effects on one-electron oxidation of first-row transition metals in the same ligand framework

scientific article published on 16 December 2020

Electronic structural changes of Mn in the oxygen-evolving complex of photosystem II during the catalytic cycle

scientific article published on 06 May 2013

Electronic structure of the Mn4OxCa cluster in the S0 and S2 states of the oxygen-evolving complex of photosystem II based on pulse 55Mn-ENDOR and EPR spectroscopy

scientific article

Energy-dispersive X-ray emission spectroscopy using an X-ray free-electron laser in a shot-by-shot mode

scientific article

Erratum: Corrigendum: Accurate macromolecular structures using minimal measurements from X-ray free-electron lasers

scholarly article published in Nature Methods

Estimation of the driving force for dioxygen formation in photosynthesis.

scientific article published in October 2015

Evidence that bicarbonate is not the substrate in photosynthetic oxygen evolution

scientific article published on 21 October 2005

Five-coordinate MnIV intermediate in the activation of nature's water splitting cofactor

scientific article published on 07 August 2019

Focusing the view on nature's water-splitting catalyst

scientific article

Functional differences of photosystem II from Synechococcus elongatus and spinach characterized by flash induced oxygen evolution patterns

scientific article published in August 2003

Gernot Renger (1937-2013): his life, Max-Volmer Laboratory, and photosynthesis research

scientific article published on 16 June 2016

High-resolution Mn EXAFS of the oxygen-evolving complex in photosystem II: structural implications for the Mn4Ca cluster

scientific article

High-resolution structure of the photosynthetic Mn4Ca catalyst from X-ray spectroscopy.

scientific article published on March 2008

Hydration of the oxygen-evolving complex of photosystem II probed in the dark-stable S1 state using proton NMR dispersion profiles

scientific article

Hydrogencarbonate is not a tightly bound constituent of the water-oxidizing complex in photosystem II.

scientific article published on 7 April 2008

Importance of post-translational modifications for functionality of a chloroplast-localized carbonic anhydrase (CAH1) in Arabidopsis thaliana.

scientific article

Improving BiVO4 photoanodes for solar water splitting through surface passivation

scientific article published in June 2014

Interactions of photosystem II with bicarbonate, formate and acetate

scientific article published on 25 July 2007

Is Mn-Bound Substrate Water Protonated in the S(2) State of Photosystem II?

scientific article published on 13 November 2009

L-Edge X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy of Dilute Systems Relevant to Metalloproteins Using an X-ray Free-Electron Laser.

scientific article published on October 2013

Light-dependent production of dioxygen in photosynthesis

scientific article published on January 2015

Liquid-Phase Measurements of Photosynthetic Oxygen Evolution

scientific article published on 01 January 2018

Membrane-inlet mass spectrometry reveals a high driving force for oxygen production by photosystem II

scientific article

Metal oxidation states in biological water splitting

scientific article published on 9 January 2015

Metal oxidation states in biological water splitting† †Electronic supplementary information (ESI) available: Additional methodological details and discussion, Tables S1–S10, Fig. S1–S16, spin populations, parameters of optimized structures, experime

scientific article published on 9 January 2015

Mobile hydrogen carbonate acts as proton acceptor in photosynthetic water oxidation.

scientific article

More than protection: the function of TiO2 interlayers in hematite functionalized Si photoanodes

scientific article published on 09 December 2020

Nanoflow electrospinning serial femtosecond crystallography

scientific article

Nitric oxide-induced formation of the S-2 state in the oxygen-evolving complex of photosystem II from Synechococcus elongatus

scientific article published in February 2003

No observable conformational changes in PSII.

scientific article published on 18 May 2016

On-line mass spectrometry: membrane inlet sampling

scientific article

Orientation of calcium in the Mn4Ca cluster of the oxygen-evolving complex determined using polarized strontium EXAFS of photosystem II membranes

scientific article published on October 2004

Oxygen Evolving Reactions by Synthetic Manganese Complexes

Photo-catalytic oxidation of a di-nuclear manganese centre in an engineered bacterioferritin 'reaction centre'.

scientific article published on 3 May 2009

Photosynthesis: from natural to artificial

scientific article

Probing S-state advancements and recombination pathways in photosystem II with a global fit program for flash-induced oxygen evolution pattern

scientific article published on 28 March 2016

Probing mode and site of substrate water binding to the oxygen-evolving complex in the S2 state of photosystem II by 17O-HYSCORE spectroscopy

scientific article published on 01 January 2008

Probing the turnover efficiency of photosystem II membrane fragments with different electron acceptors.

scientific article published on 6 April 2012

Pulse EPR, 55Mn-ENDOR and ELDOR-detected NMR of the S2-state of the oxygen evolving complex in photosystem II

scientific article published on 01 June 2005

Recent pulsed EPR studies of the photosystem II oxygen-evolving complex: implications as to water oxidation mechanisms

scientific article published on April 2004

Reflections on substrate water and dioxygen formation.

scientific article published on February 2013

Reversible Structural Isomerization of Nature’s Water Oxidation Catalyst Prior to O–O Bond Formation

scientific article published in 2022

Room temperature femtosecond X-ray diffraction of photosystem II microcrystals

scientific article

Simultaneous Femtosecond X-ray Spectroscopy and Diffraction of Photosystem II at Room Temperature

scientific article

Soft x-ray absorption spectroscopy of metalloproteins and high-valent metal-complexes at room temperature using free-electron lasers

scientific article published on September 2017

Special educational issue on 'Basics and application of biophysical techniques in photosynthesis and related processes'

scientific article published on 01 August 2009

Special educational issue on 'Basics and application of biophysical techniques in photosynthesis and related processes'--part B

scientific article published on 01 November 2009

Spin transition in a ferrous chloride complex supported by a pentapyridine ligand

scientific article published on 14 February 2020

Structural dynamics in the water and proton channels of photosystem II during the S2 to S3 transition

scientific article published on 11 November 2021

Structural isomers of the S2 state in photosystem II: do they exist at room temperature and are they important for function?

scientific article published on 15 March 2019

Structure and orientation of the Mn4Ca cluster in plant photosystem II membranes studied by polarized range-extended x-ray absorption spectroscopy

scientific article published on 26 December 2006

Structure of photosystem II and substrate binding at room temperature.

scientific article

Structure of the oxygen-evolving complex of photosystem II: information on the S(2) state through quantum chemical calculation of its magnetic properties.

scientific article published on 23 June 2009

Structures of the intermediates of Kok's photosynthetic water oxidation clock

scientific article published in Nature

Studying the oxidation of water to molecular oxygen in photosynthetic and artificial systems by time-resolved membrane-inlet mass spectrometry

scientific article

Substrate water exchange in photosystem II core complexes of the extremophilic red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae

scientific article

Substrate water exchange in the S2 state of photosystem II is dependent on the conformation of the Mn4Ca cluster

scientific article published on 06 May 2020

Substrate-water exchange in photosystem II is arrested before dioxygen formation

scientific article published on 4 July 2014

Taking snapshots of photosynthetic water oxidation using femtosecond X-ray diffraction and spectroscopy.

scientific article

The D1-V185N mutation alters substrate water exchange by stabilizing alternative structures of the Mn4Ca-cluster in photosystem II

scientific article published on 23 September 2020

The Mn cluster in the S(0) state of the oxygen-evolving complex of photosystem II studied by EXAFS spectroscopy: are there three Di-mu-oxo-bridged Mn(2) moieties in the tetranuclear Mn complex?

scientific article published on June 2002

The Mn₄Ca photosynthetic water-oxidation catalyst studied by simultaneous X-ray spectroscopy and crystallography using an X-ray free-electron laser.

scientific article

The S0 State of the Oxygen-Evolving Complex in Photosystem II Is Paramagnetic: Detection of an EPR Multiline Signal

scientific article

The basic properties of the electronic structure of the oxygen-evolving complex of photosystem II are not perturbed by Ca2+ removal

scientific article published on May 2012

The electronic structures of the S(2) states of the oxygen-evolving complexes of photosystem II in plants and cyanobacteria in the presence and absence of methanol

scientific article published on 22 March 2011

Theoretical evaluation of structural models of the S2 state in the oxygen evolving complex of Photosystem II: protonation states and magnetic interactions

scientific article published on 17 November 2011

Thomas John Wydrzynski (8 July 1947-16 March 2018)

scientific article published on 26 November 2018

Tumor antigen glycosaminoglycan modification regulates antibody-drug conjugate delivery and cytotoxicity.

scientific article published on 7 April 2017

Unequal misses during the flash-induced advancement of photosystem II: effects of the S state and acceptor side cycles

scientific article published on 06 September 2018

Untangling the sequence of events during the S2 → S3 transition in photosystem II and implications for the water oxidation mechanism

scientific article published on 20 May 2020

Valence-to-Core X-Ray Emission Spectroscopy as a Tool for Investigation of Organometallic Systems

Warwick Hillier: a tribute

scientific article

Water oxidation by photosystem II is the primary source of electrons for sustained H2 photoproduction in nutrient-replete green algae

scientific article published on 09 November 2020

Where water is oxidized to dioxygen: structure of the photosynthetic Mn4Ca cluster

scientific article

X-ray damage to the Mn4Ca complex in single crystals of photosystem II: a case study for metalloprotein crystallography

scientific article

X-ray emission spectroscopy to study ligand valence orbitals in Mn coordination complexes

scientific article published on September 2009

XANES and EXAFS of dilute solutions of transition metals at XFELs

scientific article published on 07 August 2019

List of works by Johannes Messinger

'Birth defects' of photosystem II make it highly susceptible to photodamage during chloroplast biogenesis

55Mn pulse ENDOR at 34 GHz of the S0 and S2 states of the oxygen-evolving complex in photosystem II

A microstructured p-Si photocathode outcompetes Pt as a counter electrode to hematite in photoelectrochemical water splitting

A new quantum chemical approach to the magnetic properties of oligonuclear transition-metal complexes: application to a model for the tetranuclear manganese cluster of photosystem II.

Accurate macromolecular structures using minimal measurements from X-ray free-electron lasers

Ammonia binding to the oxygen-evolving complex of photosystem II identifies the solvent-exchangeable oxygen bridge (μ-oxo) of the manganese tetramer

Artificial photosynthesis as a frontier technology for energy sustainability

Assessment of the manganese cluster's oxidation state via photoactivation of photosystem II microcrystals

Bicarbonate-Mediated CO2 Formation on Both Sides of Photosystem II

Biogenesis of water splitting by photosystem II during de-etiolation of barley (Hordeum vulgare L.).

Calcium manganese oxides as oxygen evolution catalysts: O2 formation pathways indicated by 18O-labelling studies

Catalysts for solar water splitting

Cationic Vacancy Defects in Iron Phosphide: A Promising Route toward Efficient and Stable Hydrogen Evolution by Electrochemical Water Splitting.

Characterization of the water oxidizing complex of photosystem II of the Chl d-containing cyanobacterium Acaryochloris marina via its reactivity towards endogenous electron donors and acceptors

Cobalt-doped hematite thin films for electrocatalytic water oxidation in highly acidic media

Crystal structure and functional characterization of photosystem II-associated carbonic anhydrase CAH3 in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.

Detection of the water-binding sites of the oxygen-evolving complex of Photosystem II using W-band 17O electron-electron double resonance-detected NMR spectroscopy

Dinuclear manganese complexes for water oxidation: evaluation of electronic effects and catalytic activity.

Drop-on-demand sample delivery for studying biocatalysts in action at X-ray free-electron lasers

Effect of Ca2+/Sr2+ substitution on the electronic structure of the oxygen-evolving complex of photosystem II: a combined multifrequency EPR, 55Mn-ENDOR, and DFT study of the S2 state

Effect of Ca2+/Sr2+Substitution on the Electronic Structure of the Oxygen-Evolving Complex of Photosystem II: A Combined Multifrequency EPR,55Mn-ENDOR, and DFT Study of the S2State

Effects of methanol on the Si-state transitions in photosynthetic water-splitting

Efficiency of photosynthetic water oxidation at ambient and depleted levels of inorganic carbon

Electrocatalytic Water Oxidation by MnOx /C: In Situ Catalyst Formation, Carbon Substrate Variations, and Direct O2 /CO2 Monitoring by Membrane-Inlet Mass Spectrometry

Electrochemically produced hydrogen peroxide affects Joliot-type oxygen-evolution measurements of photosystem II.

Electronic Structure of a Weakly Antiferromagnetically Coupled MnIIMnIIIModel Relevant to Manganese Proteins: A Combined EPR,55Mn-ENDOR, and DFT Study

Electronic and geometric structure effects on one-electron oxidation of first-row transition metals in the same ligand framework

Electronic structural changes of Mn in the oxygen-evolving complex of photosystem II during the catalytic cycle

Electronic structure of the Mn4OxCa cluster in the S0 and S2 states of the oxygen-evolving complex of photosystem II based on pulse 55Mn-ENDOR and EPR spectroscopy

Energy-dispersive X-ray emission spectroscopy using an X-ray free-electron laser in a shot-by-shot mode

Erratum: Corrigendum: Accurate macromolecular structures using minimal measurements from X-ray free-electron lasers

Estimation of the driving force for dioxygen formation in photosynthesis.

Evidence that bicarbonate is not the substrate in photosynthetic oxygen evolution

Five-coordinate MnIV intermediate in the activation of nature's water splitting cofactor

Focusing the view on nature's water-splitting catalyst

Functional differences of photosystem II from Synechococcus elongatus and spinach characterized by flash induced oxygen evolution patterns

Gernot Renger (1937-2013): his life, Max-Volmer Laboratory, and photosynthesis research

High-resolution Mn EXAFS of the oxygen-evolving complex in photosystem II: structural implications for the Mn4Ca cluster

High-resolution structure of the photosynthetic Mn4Ca catalyst from X-ray spectroscopy.

Hydration of the oxygen-evolving complex of photosystem II probed in the dark-stable S1 state using proton NMR dispersion profiles

Hydrogencarbonate is not a tightly bound constituent of the water-oxidizing complex in photosystem II.

Importance of post-translational modifications for functionality of a chloroplast-localized carbonic anhydrase (CAH1) in Arabidopsis thaliana.

Improving BiVO4 photoanodes for solar water splitting through surface passivation

Interactions of photosystem II with bicarbonate, formate and acetate

Is Mn-Bound Substrate Water Protonated in the S(2) State of Photosystem II?

L-Edge X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy of Dilute Systems Relevant to Metalloproteins Using an X-ray Free-Electron Laser.

Light-dependent production of dioxygen in photosynthesis

Liquid-Phase Measurements of Photosynthetic Oxygen Evolution

Membrane-inlet mass spectrometry reveals a high driving force for oxygen production by photosystem II

Metal oxidation states in biological water splitting

Metal oxidation states in biological water splitting† †Electronic supplementary information (ESI) available: Additional methodological details and discussion, Tables S1–S10, Fig. S1–S16, spin populations, parameters of optimized structures, experime

Mobile hydrogen carbonate acts as proton acceptor in photosynthetic water oxidation.

More than protection: the function of TiO<sub>2</sub> interlayers in hematite functionalized Si photoanodes

Nanoflow electrospinning serial femtosecond crystallography

Nitric oxide-induced formation of the S-2 state in the oxygen-evolving complex of photosystem II from Synechococcus elongatus

No observable conformational changes in PSII.

On-line mass spectrometry: membrane inlet sampling

Orientation of calcium in the Mn4Ca cluster of the oxygen-evolving complex determined using polarized strontium EXAFS of photosystem II membranes

Oxygen Evolving Reactions by Synthetic Manganese Complexes

Photo-catalytic oxidation of a di-nuclear manganese centre in an engineered bacterioferritin 'reaction centre'.

Photosynthesis: from natural to artificial

Probing S-state advancements and recombination pathways in photosystem II with a global fit program for flash-induced oxygen evolution pattern

Probing mode and site of substrate water binding to the oxygen-evolving complex in the S2 state of photosystem II by 17O-HYSCORE spectroscopy

Probing the turnover efficiency of photosystem II membrane fragments with different electron acceptors.

Pulse EPR, 55Mn-ENDOR and ELDOR-detected NMR of the S2-state of the oxygen evolving complex in photosystem II

Recent pulsed EPR studies of the photosystem II oxygen-evolving complex: implications as to water oxidation mechanisms

Reflections on substrate water and dioxygen formation.

Reversible Structural Isomerization of Nature’s Water Oxidation Catalyst Prior to O–O Bond Formation

Room temperature femtosecond X-ray diffraction of photosystem II microcrystals

Simultaneous Femtosecond X-ray Spectroscopy and Diffraction of Photosystem II at Room Temperature

Soft x-ray absorption spectroscopy of metalloproteins and high-valent metal-complexes at room temperature using free-electron lasers

Special educational issue on 'Basics and application of biophysical techniques in photosynthesis and related processes'

Special educational issue on 'Basics and application of biophysical techniques in photosynthesis and related processes'--part B

Spin transition in a ferrous chloride complex supported by a pentapyridine ligand

Structural dynamics in the water and proton channels of photosystem II during the S<sub>2</sub> to S<sub>3</sub> transition

Structural isomers of the S2 state in photosystem II: do they exist at room temperature and are they important for function?

Structure and orientation of the Mn4Ca cluster in plant photosystem II membranes studied by polarized range-extended x-ray absorption spectroscopy

Structure of photosystem II and substrate binding at room temperature.

Structure of the oxygen-evolving complex of photosystem II: information on the S(2) state through quantum chemical calculation of its magnetic properties.