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Su Lin

Su Lin

Director, Ultrafast Laser Facility, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

slin@asu.edu

480-965-0675

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Arizona State University
PO Box 871604
Tempe, AZ 85287-1604
USA

Titles

  • Director, Ultrafast Laser Facility, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Journal Articles

2018

Boulais, E., N. P. Sawaya, R. Veneziano, A. Andreoni, J. L. Banal, T. Kondo, S. Mandal, S. Lin, G. S. Schlau-Cohen, N. W. Woodbury, H. Yan, A. Aspuru-Guzik and M. Bathe. 2018. Programmed coherent coupling in a synthetic DNA-based excitonic circuit. Nature Materials 17:159-166. DOI: 10.1038/nmat5033. (link )

2017

Andreoni, A., S. Lin, H. Liu, R. E. Blankenship, H. Yan and N. W. Woodbury. 2017. Orange carotenoid protein as a control element in an antenna system based on a DNA nanostructure. Nano Letters 17(2):1174-1180. DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b04846. (link )

Carey, A., H. Zhang, M. Liu, D. Sharaf, N. Akram, H. Yan, S. Lin, N. W. Woodbury and D. Seo. 2017. Enhancing photocurrent generation in photosynthetic reaction center-based photoelectrochemical cells with biomimetic DNA antenna. ChemSusChem 10(22):4457-5560. DOI: 10.1002/cssc.201701390. (link )

Mandal, S., A. Carey, J. Locsin, B. Gao, J. C. Williams, J. P. Allen, S. Lin and N. W. Woodbury. 2017. Mechanism of triplet energy transfer in photosynthetic bacterial reaction centers. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 121(27):6499-6510. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.7b03373. (link )

Zhang, H., A. Carey, K. Jeon, M. Liu, T. D. Murrell, J. Locsin, S. Lin, H. Yan, N. Woodbury and D. Seo. 2017. A highly stable and scalable photosynthetic reaction center–graphene hybrid electrode system for biomimetic solar energy transduction. Journal of Materisls Chemistry A 5(13):6038-6041. DOI: 10.1039/C6TA10458D. (link )

2016

Andreoni, A., S. Lin, H. Liu, R. E. Blankenship and N. W. Woodbury. 2016. Light-activated photo protection in an artificial antenna system. Biophysical Journal 110(3, Suppl. 1):198A-199A. DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2015.11.1110. (link )

Boulais, E., N. P. Sawaya, R. Veneziano, A. Andreoni, S. Lin, N. W. Woodbury, H. Yan, A. Aspuru-Guzik and M. Bathe. 2016. A DNA-based building block for designer excitonic circuits. Biophysical Journal 110(3, Suppl. 1):313a. DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2015.11.1681. (link )

Sun, C., A. Carey, B. Gao, C. A. Wraight, N. W. Woodbury and S. Lin. 2016. Ultrafast electron transfer kinetics in the LM dimer of bacterial photosynthetic reaction center from Rhodobacter sphaeroides. Journal of Physical Chemistry B 120(24):5395-5404. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.6b05082. (link )

2014

Driscoll, B., C. Lunceford, S. Lin, K. Woronowicz, R. A. Niederman and N. W. Woodbury. 2014. Energy transfer properties of Rhodobacter sphaeroides chromatophores during adaptation to low light intensity. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 16:17133-17141. DOI: 10.1039/C4CP01981D. (link )

Dutta, P. K., S. Lin, A. Loskutov, S. Levenberg, D. Jun, R. Saer, T. Beatty, Y. Liu, H. Yan and N. W. Woodbury. 2014. Reengineering the optical absorption cross-section of photsynthetic reaction centers. Journal of the American Chemical Society 136(12):4599-4604. DOI: 10.1021/ja411843k. (link )

Flory, J. D., T. Johnson, C. R. Simmons, S. Lin, G. Ghirlanda and P. Fromme. 2014. Purification and assembly of thermostable Cy5 labeled γ-PNAs into a 3D DNA nanocage. Artificial DNA: PNA & XNA 5(3):e992181. DOI: 10.4161/1949095X.2014.992181. (link )

Saer, R., J. Pan, A. Hardjasa, S. Lin, F. Rosell, A. G. Mauk, N. W. Woodbury, M. E. Murphy and J. T. Beatty. 2014. Structural and kinetic properties of Rhodobacter sphaeroides photosynthetic reaction centers containing exclusively Zn-coordinated bacteriochlorophyll as bacteriochlorin cofactors. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics 1837(3):366-374. DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2013.11.015. (link )

2013

Flory, J. D., S. Shinde, S. Lin, Y. Liu, G. Ghirlanda and P. Fromme. 2013. PNA-peptide assembly in a 3D DNA nanocage at room temperature. Journal of the American Chemical Society 135(18):6985-6993. DOI: 10.1021/ja400762c. (link )

Guo, Z., S. Lin and N. W. Woodbury. 2013. Utilizing the dynamic start shift as a probe for dielectric relaxation in photosynthetic reaction centers during charge separation. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 117(38):11383-11390. DOI: 10.1021/jp4037843. (link )

LeBard, D. N., D. R. Martin, S. Lin, N. W. Woodbury and D. V. Matyushov. 2013. Protein dynamics to optimize and control bacterial photosynthesis. Chemical Science 4:4127-4136. DOI: 10.1039/C3SC51327K. (link )

Pan, J., R. Saer, S. Lin, Z. Guo, J. T. Beatty and N. W. Woodbury. 2013. The protein environment of the bacteriopheophytin anion modulates charge separation and charge recombination in bacterial reaction centers. THe Journal of Physical Chemistry B 117(24):7179-7189. DOI: 10.1021/jp400132k. (link )

2012

Guo, Z., N. W. Woodbury, J. Pan and S. Lin. 2012. Protein dielectric environmental modulates the electron-transfer pathway in photosynthetic reaction centers. Biophysical Journal 103(9):P1979-1988. DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2012.09.027. (link )

Pan, J., S. Lin and N. W. Woodbury. 2012. Bacteriochlorophyll excited-state quenching pathways in bacterial reaction centers with the primary donor oxidized. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 116(6):2014-2022. DOI: 10.1021/jp212441b. (link )

Wang, H., Y. Hao, Y. Jiang, S. Lin and N. W. Woodbury. 2012. Role of protein dynamics in guiding electron-transfer pathways in reaction centers from Rhodobacter sphaeroides. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 116(1):711-717. DOI: 10.1021/jp211702b. (link )

2011

Guo, Z., S. Lin, Y. Xin, H. Wang, R. E. Blankenship and N. W. Woodbury. 2011. Comparing the temperature dependence of photosynthetic electron transfer in Chloroflexus aurantiacus and Rhodobactor sphaeroides reaction centers. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 115(38):11230-11238. DOI: 10.1021/jp204239v. (link )

Pan, J., S. Lin, J. P. Allen, J. C. Williams, H. A. Frank and N. W. Woodbury. 2011. Carotenoid excited-state properties in photosynthetic purple bacterial reaction centers: Effects of the protein environment. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 115(21):7059-7068. DOI: 10.1021/jp200077e. (link )

2009

Dutta, P. K., S. Levenberg, A. Loskutov, D. Jun, R. Saer, T. Beatty, S. Lin, Y. Liu, N. W. Woodbury and H. Yan. 2009. A DNA-directed light-harvesting/reaction center system. Journal of the American Chemical Society 136(47):16618-16625. DOI: 10.1021/ja509018g. (link )

Giera, W., K. Gibasiewicz, V. M. Ramesh, S. Lin and A. N. Webber. 2009. Electron transfer from A−0 to A1 in Photosystem I from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii occurs in both the A and B branch with 25–30-ps lifetime. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 11:5186-5191. DOI: 10.1039/B822938D. (link )

Lin, S., P. R. Jaschke, H. Wang, M. Paddock, A. Tufts, J. P. Allen, F. I. Rosell, A. G. Mauk, N. W. Woodbury and J. T. Beatty. 2009. Electron transfer in the Rhodobacter sphaeroides reaction center assembled with zinc bacteriochlorophyll. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the United States of America 106(21):8537-8542. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0812719106. (link )

Wang, H., S. Lin, E. Katilius, C. Laser, J. P. Allen, J. C. Williams and N. W. Woodbury. 2009. Unusual temperature dependence of photosynthetic electron transfer due to protein dynamics. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 113(3):818-824. DOI: 10.1021/jp807468c. (link )

2008

Wang, H., S. Lin and N. W. Woodbury. 2008. Excitation wavelength dependence of primary charge separation in reaction centers from Rhodobacter sphaeroides. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 112(45):14296-14301. DOI: 10.1021/jp8058799. (link )

2007

Gibasiewicz, K., V. M. Ramesh, S. Lin, K. Redding, N. W. Woodbury and A. N. Webber. 2007. Two equilibration pools of chlorophylls in the Photosystem I core antenna of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Photosynthesis Research 92:55-63. DOI: 10.1007/s11120-006-9125-1. (link )

Ramesh, V. M., K. Gibasiewicz, S. Lin, S. E. Bingham and A. N. Webber. 2007. Replacement of the methionine axial ligand to the primary electron acceptor A0 slows the A0- reoxidation dynamics in Photosystem I. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics 1767(2):151-160. DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2006.12.013. (link )

Wang, H., S. Lin, J. P. Allen, J. C. Williams, S. Blankert, C. Laser and N. W. Woodbury. 2007. Protein dynamics control the kinetics of initial electron transfer in photosynthesis. Science 316(5825):747-750. (link )

2006

Lin, S., E. Katilius, R. P. Ilagan, G. N. Gibson, H. A. Frank and N. W. Woodbury. 2006. Mechanism of carotenoid singlet excited state energy transfer in modified bacterial reaction centers. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 110(31):15556-15563. DOI: 10.1021/jp061201d. (link )

Li, Y., A. van der Est, M. G. Lucas, V. M. Ramesh, F. Gu, A. Petrenko, S. Lin, A. N. Webber, F. Rappapport and K. Redding. 2006. Directing electron transfer within Photosystem I by breaking H-bonds in the cofactor branches. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 103(7):2144-2149. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0506537103. (link )

Wang, H., S. Lin and N. W. Woodbury. 2006. Electronic transitions of the Soret band of reaction centers from Rhodobacter sphaeroides studied by femtosecond transient absorbance spectroscopy. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 110(13):6956-6961. DOI: 10.1021/jp054850i. (link )

2005

Haffa, A. L., S. Lin, R. LoBrutto, J. C. Williams, A. K. Taguchi, J. P. Allen and N. W. Woodbury. 2005. Environmental control of primary photochemistry in a mutant bacterial reaction center. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 109(42):19923-19928. DOI: 10.1021/jp052007e. (link )

2004

Haffa, A. L., S. Lin, J. C. Williams, B. P. Bowen, A. K. Taguchi, J. P. Allen and N. W. Woodbury. 2004. Controlling the pathway of photosynthetic charge separation in bacterial reaction centers. The Journal of Physical CHemistry B 108(1):4-7. DOI: 10.1021/jp035904w. (link )

Katilius, E., J. L. Babendure, S. Lin and N. W. Woodbury. 2004. Electron transfer dynamics in Rhodobacter sphaeroides reaction center mutants with a modified ligand for the monomer bacterochlorophyll on the active side. Photosynthetic Research 81:165-180. DOI: 10.1023/B:PRES.0000035048.10358.90. (link )

Ramesh, V. M., K. Gibasiewicz, S. Lin, S. E. Bingham and A. N. Webber. 2004. Bidirectional electron transfer in photosystem I: Accumulation of A0- in A-side and B-side mutants of the axial ligand to chlorophyll A0. Biochemistry 43(5):`369-1375. DOI: 10.1021/bi0354177. (link )

Sension, R. J., A. G. Cole, A. D. Harris, C. C. Fox, N. W. Woodbury, S. Lin and E. G. Marsh. 2004. Photolysis and recombination of adenosylcobalamin bound to glutamate mutase. Journal of the American Chemical Society 126(6):1598-1599. DOI: 10.1021/ja0396910. (link )

2003

Gibasiewicz, K., V. M. Ramesh, S. Lin, K. Redding, N. W. Woodbury and A. N. Webber. 2003. Excitonic interactions in wild-type and mutant PSI reaction centers. Biophysical Journal 85(4):P2547-2559. DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(03)74677-3. (link )

Haffa, A. L., S. Lin, J. C. Williams, A. K. Taguchi, J. P. Allen and N. W. Woodbury. 2003. High yield of long-lived B-side charge separation at room temperature in mutant bacterial reaction centers. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 107(45):12503-12510. DOI: 10.1021/jp034703p. (link )

Katilius, E., J. L. Babendure, Z. Katiliene, S. Lin, A. K. Taguchi and N. W. Woodbury. 2003. Manipulations of the B-side charge-separated states' energetics in the Rhodobacter sphaeroides reaction center. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 107(43):12029-12034. DOI: 10.1021/jp035013o. (link )

Lin, S., E. Katilius, A. K. Taguchi and N. W. Woodbury. 2003. Extraction energy transfer from carotenoid to bacteriochlorophyll in the photosynthetic purple bacterial reaction center of Rhodobacter sphaeroides. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 107(50):14103-14108. DOI: 10.1021/jp036130m. (link )

2002

Gibasiewicz, K., V. M. Ramesh, S. Lin, N. W. Woodbury and A. N. Webber. 2002. Excitation dynamics in eukaryotic PSI from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii CC 2692 at 10 K. Direct detection of the reaction center exciton states. Journal of Physical Chemistry B 106(24):6322-6330. DOI: 10.1021/jp014608l. (link )

Haffa, A. L., S. Lin, E. Katilius, J. C. Williams, A. K. Taguchi, J. P. Allen and N. W. Woodbury. 2002. The dependence of the initial electron-transfer rate on driving force in Rhodobacter sphaeroides reaction centers. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 106(29):7376-7384. DOI: 10.1021/jp0257552. (link )

Katilius, E., Z. Katiliene, S. Lin, A. K. Taguchi and N. W. Woodbury. 2002. B side electron transfer in a Rhodobacter sphaeroides reaction center mutant in which the B side monomer bacteriochlorophyll is replaced with bacteriopheophytin: Low-temperature study and energetics of charge-separated states. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 106(6):1471-1475. DOI: 10.1021/jp013265o. (link )

Katilius, E., Z. Katiliene, S. Lin, A. K. Taguchi and N. W. Woodbury. 2002. B-side electron transfer in the HE(M182) reaction center mutant from R=Rhodobacter sphaeroides. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 106(47):12344-12350. DOI: 10.1021/jp026388x. (link )

2001

Devanathan, S., S. Lin, M. A. Cusanovich, N. Woodbury and G. Tollin. 2001. Early photocycle kinetic behavior of the E46A and Y42F mutants of photoactive yellow protein: Femtosecond spectroscopy. Biophysical Journal 81(4):2314-2319. DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(01)75877-8. (link )

Gibasiewicz, K., V. M. Ramesh, A. N. Melkozernov, S. Lin, N. W. Woodbury, R. E. Blankenship and A. N. Webber. 2001. Excitation dynamics in the core antenna of PS I from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii CC 2696 at room temperature. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 105(45):11,498-11,506. DOI: 10.1021/jp012089g. (link )

Lin, S., E. Katilius, A. L. Haffa, A. K. Taguchi and N. W. Woodbury. 2001. Blue light drives B-side electron transfer in bacterial photosynthetic reaction centers. Biochemistry 40(46):13767-13773. DOI: 0.1021/bi015612q. (link )

2000

Devanathan, S., S. Lin, M. A. Cusanovich, N. W. Woodbury and G. Tollin. 2000. Early intermediates in the photocycle of the Glu46Gln mutant of photoactive yellow protein: Femtosecond spectroscopy. Biophysical Journal 79(4):2132-2137. DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(00)76460-5. (link )

Eastman, J. E., A. K. Taguchi, S. Lin, J. A. Jackson and N. W. Woodbury. 2000. Characterization of a Rhodobacter sphaeroides reaction center mutant that enhances the distinction between spectral forms of the initial electron donor. Biochemistry 39(48):14787-14798. DOI: 10.1021/bi0005254. (link )

1999

Devanathan, S., A. Pacheco, L. Ujj, M. A. Cusanovich, G. Tollin, S. Lin and N. Woodbury. 1999. Fentosecond spectroscopic obsevations on initial intermediates in the photocycle of the photoactive yellow protein from Ectothiorhodospira halphila. Biophysical Journal 77(2):1017-1023. DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(99)76952-3. (link )

Katilius, E., T. Turanchik, S. Lin, A. K. Taguchi and N. W. Woodbury. 1999. B-side electron transfer in a Rhodobacter sphaeroides reaction center mutant in which the B-side monomer bacteriochlorophyll is replaced with bacteriopheophytin. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 103(35):7386-7389. DOI: 10.1021/jp991670y. (link )

Lin, S., J. A. Jackson, A. K. Taguchi and N. W. Woodbury. 1999. B-side electron transfer promoted by absorbance of multiple photos in Rhodobacter sphaeroides R-26 reaction centers. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 103(22):4757-4763. DOI: 10.1021/jp990303j. (link )

1998

Freiberg, A., J. A. Jackson, S. Lin and N. W. Woodbury. 1998. Subpicosecond pump-supercontinuum probe spectroscopy of LH2 photosynthetic antenna proteins at low temperature. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A 102(23):4372-4380. DOI: 10.1021/jp980028l. (link )

Freiberg, A., K. Timpmann, S. Lin and N. W. Woodbury. 1998. Exciton relaxation and transfer in the LH2 antenna network of photosynthetic bacteria. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 102(52):10974-`10982. DOI: 10.1021/jp982265u. (link )

Lin, S., J. Jackson, A. K. Taguchi and N. W. Woodbury. 1998. Excitation wavelength dependent spectral evolution in Rhodobacter sphaeroides R-26 reaction centers at low temperatures: the Qy transition region. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 102(20):4016-4022. DOI: 10.1021/jp980360x. (link )

1997

Jackson, J. A., S. Lin, A. K. Taguchi, J. C. Williams, J. P. Allen and N. W. Woodbury. 1997. Energy transfer in Rhodobacter sphaeroides reaction centers with the initial electron donor oxidized or missing. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 101(29):5747-5754. DOI: 10.1021/jp970380j. (link )

Melkozernov, A. N., H. Su, S. Lin, S. E. Bingham, A. N. Webber and R. E. Blankenship. 1997. Specific mutation near the primary donor in photosystem I from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii alters the trapping time and spectroscopic properties of P700. Biochemistry 36(10):2. DOI: 10.1021/bi962235m. (link )

Conference Papers

2001

Gibasiewicz, K., V. M. Ramesh, S. Lin, K. Redding, N. W. Woodbury and A. N. Webber. 2001. Mutation of ligands to connecting chlorophylls perturbs excitation dynamics in the core antenna of PS I from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Proceedings of the 12th International Congress on Photosynthesis. 12th International Congress on Photosynthesis. (link )