Publications

Experimental and theoretical mutation of exciton states on the smallest type-I photosynthetic reaction center complex of a green sulfur bacterium Chlorobaclum tepidum

Akihiro Kimura*, Hirotaka Kitoh-Nishioka, Toru Kondo, Hirozo Oh-oka, Shigeru Itoh, Chihiro Azai

Journal of Physical Chemistry B 128, 731–743 (2024)

Recent advances in single-molecule spectroscopy studies on light-harvesting processes in oxygenic photosynthesis

Toru Kondo*, Yutaka Shibata*

Biophysics and Physicobiology, e190013 (2022)

Energy transfer fluctuation observed by single-molecule spectroscopy of red-shifted bacteriochlorophyll in the homodimeric photosynthetic reaction center

Toru Kondo*, Risa Mutoh, Shun Arai, Genji Kurisu, Hirozo Oh-Oka, Satoru Fujiyoshi, Michio Matsushita

Journal of Chemical Physics 156, 105102 (2022)

Observation of robust energy transfer in the photosynthetic protein allophycocyanin using single-molecule pump–probe spectroscopy

Raymundo Moya, Audrey C Norris, Toru Kondo, Gabriela S Schlau-Cohen*

Nature Chemistry 14, 153–159 (2022)

** News & Views ** Nature Chemistry 14, 121–123 (2022)

Spectrally-tunable femtosecond single-molecule pump-probe spectroscopy

Raymundo Moya, Toru Kondo, Audrey C Norris, Gabriela S Schlau-Cohen*

Optics Express 29, 28246-28256 (2021)

Cryogenic single-molecule spectroscopy of the primary electron acceptor in the photosynthetic reaction center

Toru Kondo*, Risa Mutoh, Hiroaki Tabe, Genji Kurisu, Hirozo Oh-Oka, Satoru Fujiyoshi, Michio Matsushita

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 11, 3980-3986 (2020)

Microsecond and millisecond dynamics in the photosynthetic protein LHCSR1 observed by single-molecule correlation spectroscopy

Toru Kondo*, Jesse B Gordon, Alberta Pinnola, Luca Dall’Osto, Roberto Bassi, Gabriela S Schlau-Cohen*

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA 116, 11247-11252 (2019)

Cryogenic fluorescence localization microscopy of spectrally selected individual FRET pairs in a water matrix

Hiroaki Tabe, Kei Sukenobe, Toru Kondo, Atsunori Sakurai, Minako Maruo, Akari Shimauchi, Mitsuharu Hirano, Shin-nosuke Uno, Mako Kamiya, Yasuteru Urano, Michio Matsushita, Satoru Fujiyoshi*

Journal of Physical Chemistry B 122, 6906-6911 (2018)

Light-induced electron spin-polarized (ESP) EPR signal of the P800+ menaquinone– radical pair state in oriented membranes of Heliobacterium modesticaldum: Role/location of menaquinone in the homodimeric type I reaction center

Toru Kondo*, Masahiro Matsuoka, Chihiro Azai, Masami Kobayashi, Shigeru Itoh, Hirozo Oh-Oka*

Journal of Physical Chemistry B 122, 2536-2543 (2018)

Programmed coherent coupling in a synthetic DNA-based excitonic circuit

Étienne Boulais, Nicolas PD Sawaya, Rémi Veneziano, Alessio Andreoni, James L Banal, Toru Kondo, Sarthak Mandal, Su Lin, Gabriela S Schlau-Cohen, Neal W Woodbury, Hao Yan*, Alán Aspuru-Guzik*, Mark Bathe*

Nature Materials 17, 159-166 (2018)

** News & Views ** Nature Materials 17, 112–113 (2018)

Photophysics of J-aggregate-mediated energy transfer on DNA

James L Banal, Toru Kondo, Rémi Veneziano, Mark Bathe, Gabriela S Schlau-Cohen*

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 8, 5827-5833 (2017)

Single-molecule spectroscopy of LHCSR1 protein dynamics identifies two distinct states responsible for multi-timescale photosynthetic photoprotection

Toru Kondo, Alberta Pinnola, Wei Jia Chen, Luca Dall'Osto, Roberto Bassi, Gabriela S Schlau-Cohen*

Nature Chemistry 9, 772-778 (2017)

** News & Views ** Nature Chemistry 9, 728–730 (2017)

Single-molecule fluorescence spectroscopy of photosynthetic systems

Toru Kondo, Wei Jia Chen, Gabriela S Schlau-Cohen*

Chemical Reviews 117, 860-898 (2017)