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Vittal K. Yachandra is affiliated with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Physics and Astronomy. Within these broad areas, their work focuses on subfields such as Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Radiation, and Structural Biology.

The main topics of Yachandra's research include Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms, Enzyme Structure and Function, Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies, Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications, Photoreceptor and Optogenetics Research, Advanced X-ray Imaging Techniques, and X-ray Spectroscopy and Fluorescence Analysis.

The scientist has contributed to several recent publications, with notable papers including:

  • Untangling the sequence of events during the S 2 → S 3 transition in photosystem II and implications for the water oxidation mechanism, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Structural evidence for intermediates during O2 formation in photosystem II, 2023, Nature
  • Structural dynamics in the water and proton channels of photosystem II during the S2 to S3 transition, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Using X-ray free-electron lasers for spectroscopy of molecular catalysts and metalloenzymes, 2021, Nature Reviews Physics
  • An on-demand, drop-on-drop method for studying enzyme catalysis by serial crystallography, 2021, Nature Communications

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Yachandra include Junko Yano, Jan Kern, Franklin D. Fuller, Philipp S. Simon, and Roberto Alonso-Mori. This collaboration network highlights multidisciplinary partnerships within the areas of photosynthesis and spectroscopy research.

Yachandra's work is published extensively across several key scientific journals such as Structural Dynamics, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature, Journal of the American Chemical Society, and Photosynthesis Research. These venues reflect the broad impact and interdisciplinary nature of their research activities.

Best Publications

  • Manganese Cluster in Photosynthesis: Where Plants Oxidize Water to Dioxygen

    Vittal K. Yachandra;Kenneth Sauer;Melvin P. Klein

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

    Junko Yano;Jan Kern;Kenneth Sauer;Kenneth Sauer;Matthew J. Latimer

  • Structure and valency of a cobalt-phosphate water oxidation catalyst determined by in situ X-ray spectroscopy.

    Matthew W. Kanan;Junko Yano;Yogesh Surendranath;Mircea Dincă

  • Structure–Activity Correlations in a Nickel–Borate Oxygen Evolution Catalyst

    D. Kwabena Bediako;Benedikt Lassalle-Kaiser;Yogesh Surendranath;Junko Yano

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

    Junko Yano;Jana Kern;Klaus−Dieter Irrgang;Matthew J. Latimer

  • Mn4Ca Cluster in Photosynthesis: Where and How Water is Oxidized to Dioxygen

    Junko Yano;Vittal Yachandra

  • In situ X-ray absorption spectroscopy investigation of a bifunctional manganese oxide catalyst with high activity for electrochemical water oxidation and oxygen reduction.

    Yelena Gorlin;Benedikt Lassalle-Kaiser;Jesse D. Benck;Sheraz Gul

  • Where plants make oxygen: a structural model for the photosynthetic oxygen-evolving manganese cluster

    Vittal K. Yachandra;Victoria J. DeRose;Matthew J. Latimer;Ishita Mukerji

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

    Jan Kern;Ruchira Chatterjee;Iris D. Young;Franklin D. Fuller

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

    Jan Kern;Jan Kern;Roberto Alonso-Mori;Rosalie Tran;Johan Hattne

  • X-ray absorption spectroscopy

    Junko Yano;Vittal K. Yachandra

  • Structure of photosystem II and substrate binding at room temperature

    Iris D. Young;Mohamed Ibrahim;Ruchira Chatterjee;Sheraz Gul

  • Absence of Mn-Centered Oxidation in the S2 → S3 Transition: Implications for the Mechanism of Photosynthetic Water Oxidation

    Johannes Messinger;John H. Robblee;Uwe Bergmann;Carmen Fernandez

  • Synthetic model of the asymmetric [Mn3CaO4] cubane core of the oxygen-evolving complex of photosystem II

    Shreya Mukherjee;Jamie A. Stull;Junko Yano;Theocharis C. Stamatatos

  • Oxidation states of the manganese cluster during the flash-induced S-state cycle of the photosynthetic oxygen-evolving complex.

    T. A. Roelofs;Wenchuan Liang;M. J. Latimer;R. M. Cinco

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

    Jan Kern;Rosalie Tran;Roberto Alonso-Mori;Sergey Koroidov

  • Structural changes in the Mn4Ca cluster and the mechanism of photosynthetic water splitting

    Yulia Pushkar;Junko Yano;Kenneth Sauer;Kenneth Sauer;Alain Boussac

  • Evidence from in Situ X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy for the Involvement of Terminal Disulfide in the Reduction of Protons by an Amorphous Molybdenum Sulfide Electrocatalyst

    Benedikt Lassalle-Kaiser;Daniel Merki;Heron Vrubel;Sheraz Gul

  • The Mn Cluster in the S0 State of the Oxygen-Evolving Complex of Photosystem II Studied by EXAFS Spectroscopy: Are There Three Di-μ-oxo-bridged Mn2 Moieties in the Tetranuclear Mn Complex?

    John H. Robblee;Johannes Messinger;Roehl M. Cinco;Karen L. McFarlane

  • X-ray spectroscopy-based structure of the Mn cluster and mechanism of photosynthetic oxygen evolution.

    John H Robblee;Roehl M Cinco;Roehl M Cinco;Vittal K Yachandra

Frequent Co-Authors

Junko Yano
Junko Yano Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Jan Kern
Jan Kern Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Kenneth Sauer
Kenneth Sauer Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Uwe Bergmann
Uwe Bergmann SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Johannes Messinger
Johannes Messinger Umeå University
Melvin P. Klein
Melvin P. Klein Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Athina Zouni
Athina Zouni Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Pieter Glatzel
Pieter Glatzel European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
Dimosthenis Sokaras
Dimosthenis Sokaras SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Paul D. Adams
Paul D. Adams Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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