Publications of Wolfgang Lubitz

Cox, N.; Pantazis, D. A.; Lubitz, W. Current Understanding of the Mechanism of Water Oxidation in Photosystem II and Its Relation to XFEL Data. Annual Review of Biochemistry 2020, 89, 795–820.

Chrysina, M.; Heyno, E.; Kutin, Y.; Reus, M.; Nilsson, H.; Nowaczyk, M. M.; DeBeer, S.; Neese, F.; Messinger, J.; Lubitz, W.; Cox, N. Five-Coordinate Mn^IV Intermediate in the Activation of Nature’s Water Splitting Cofactor. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2019, 116, 16841–16846.

Lohmiller, T.; Krewald, V.; Sedoud, A.; Rutherford, A. W.; Neese, F.; Lubitz, W.; Pantazis, D. A.; Cox, N. The First State in the Catalytic Cycle of the Water-Oxidizing Enzyme: Identification of a Water-Derived μ-Hydroxo Bridge. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2017, 139, 14412–14424.

Hugenbruch, S.; Shafaat, H. S.; Krämer, T.; Delgado-Jaime, M. U.; Weber, K.; Neese, F.; Lubitz, W.; DeBeer, S. In Search of Metal Hydrides: an X-Ray Absorption and Emission Study of [NiFe] Hydrogenase Model Complexes. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 2016, 18, 10688–10699.

Pérez-Navarro, M.; Neese, F.; Lubitz, W.; Pantazis, D. A.; Cox, N. Recent Developments in Biological Water Oxidation. Current Opinion in Chemical Biology 2016, 31, 113–119.

Krewald, V.; Retegan, M.; Neese, F.; Lubitz, W.; Pantazis, D. A.; Cox, N. Spin State as a Marker for the Structural Evolution of Nature’s Water-Splitting Catalyst. Inorganic Chemistry 2016, 55, 488–501.

Retegan, M.; Krewald, V.; Mamedov, F.; Neese, F.; Lubitz, W.; Cox, N.; Pantazis, D. A. A Five-Coordinate Mn(IV) Intermediate in Biological Water Oxidation: Spectroscopic Signature and a Pivot Mechanism for Water Binding. Chemical Science 2016, 7, 72–84.

Ogata, H.; Krämer, T.; Wang, H.; Schilter, D.; Pelmenschikov, V.; van Gastel, M.; Neese, F.; Rauchfuss, T. B.; Gee, L. B.; Scott, A. D.; Yoda, Y.; Tanaka, Y.; Lubitz, W.; Cramer, S. P. Hydride Bridge in [NiFe]-Hydrogenase Observed by Nuclear Resonance Vibrational Spectroscopy. Nature Communications 2015, 6, 7890.

Cox, N.; Pantazis, D. A.; Neese, F.; Lubitz, W. Artificial Photosynthesis: Understanding Water Splitting in Nature. Interface Focus 2015, 5, 20150009.

Krewald, V.; Retegan, M.; Cox, N.; Messinger, J.; Lubitz, W.; DeBeer, S.; Neese, F.; Pantazis, D. A. Metal Oxidation States in Biological Water Splitting. Chemical Science 2015, 6, 1676–1695.

Shafaat, H. S.; Griese, J. J.; Pantazis, D. A.; Roos, K.; Andersson, C. S.; Popović-Bijelić, A.; Gräslund, A.; Siegbahn, P. E. M.; Neese, F.; Lubitz, W.; Högbom, M.; Cox, N. Electronic Structural Flexibility of Heterobimetallic Mn/Fe Cofactors: R2lox and R2c Proteins. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2014, 136, 13399–13409.

Cox, N.; Retegan, M.; Neese, F.; Pantazis, D. A.; Boussac, A.; Lubitz, W. Electronic Structure of the Oxygen-Evolving Complex in Photosystem II Prior to O-O Bond Formation. Science 2014, 345, 804–808.

Lohmiller, T.; Krewald, V.; Pérez Navarro, M.; Retegan, M.; Rapatskiy, L.; Nowaczyk, M. M.; Boussac, A.; Neese, F.; Lubitz, W.; Pantazis, D. A.; Cox, N. Structure, Ligands and Substrate Coordination of the Oxygen-Evolving Complex of Photosystem II in the S₂ State: a Combined EPR and DFT Study. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 2014, 16, 11877–11892.

Retegan, M.; Cox, N.; Lubitz, W.; Neese, F.; Pantazis, D. A. The First Tyrosyl Radical Intermediate Formed in the S₂–S₃ Transition of Photosystem II. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 2014, 16, 11901–11910.

Pérez Navarro, M.; Ames, W. M.; Nilsson , H.; Lohmiller, T.; Pantazis, D. A.; Rapatskiy, L.; Nowaczyk, M. M.; Neese, F.; Boussac, A.; Messinger, J.; Lubitz, W.; Cox, N. Ammonia Binding to the Oxygen-Evolving Complex of Photosystem II Identifies the Solvent-Exchangeable Oxygen Bridge (μ-Oxo) of the Manganese Tetramer. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2013, 110, 15561–15566.

Krämer, T.; Kampa, M.; Lubitz, W.; van Gastel, M.; Neese, F. Theoretical Spectroscopy of the Ni^II Intermediate States in the Catalytic Cycle and the Activation of [NiFe] Hydrogenases. ChemBioChem: A European Journal of Chemical Biology 2013, 14, 1898–1905.

Cox, N.; Pantazis, D. A.; Neese, F.; Lubitz, W. Biological Water Oxidation. Accounts of Chemical Research 2013, 46, 1588–1596.

Pandelia, M.-E.; Bykov, D.; Izsak, R.; Infossi, P.; Giudici-Orticoni, M.-T.; Bill, E.; Neese, F.; Lubitz, W. Reply to Mouesca et al.: Electronic Structure of the Proximal [4Fe-3S] Cluster of O₂-Tolerant [NiFe] Hydrogenases. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2013, 110, E2539.

Kampa, M.; Pandelia, M.-E.; Lubitz, W.; van Gastel, M.; Neese, F. A Metal–Metal Bond in the Light-Induced State of [NiFe] Hydrogenases with Relevance to Hydrogen Evolution. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2013, 135, 3915–3925.

Pandelia, M.-E.; Bykov, D.; Izsak, R.; Infossi, P.; Giudici-Orticoni, M.-T.; Bill, E.; Neese, F.; Lubitz, W. Electronic Structure of the Unique [4Fe-3S] Cluster in O₂-Tolerant Hydrogenases Characterized by ⁵⁷Fe Mössbauer and EPR Spectroscopy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2013, 110, 483–488.