Philipp S. Simon

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory — United States

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Life Sciences

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Research Topics

Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms(24), Enzyme Structure and Function(13), Photoreceptor and optogenetics research(12), Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies(9), Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms(8)

Publications42 total

Structural basis of the promiscuity of the unusual Fe(II) and 2-oxoglutarate dependent human aspartate/asparagine-β-hydroxylase
Nature Communications·2026Open Access
Can ferric-oxyl excited states explain elongated iron-oxygen bonds in heme peroxidase catalytic intermediates?
Nature Communications·2026Open Access
BPS2026 – Crystal structure of the light-harvesting complex II: Looking at the mobility changes between dark and illuminated states
Biophysical Journal·2026
BPS2026 – Unravelling the mechanism of water oxidation in photosystem II with time-resolved X-ray crystallography
Biophysical Journal·2026
Three rate-determining protein roles in photosynthetic O2-evolution addressed by time-resolved experiments on genetically modified photosystems
Nature Communications·2025Open Access
Serial-femtosecond crystallography reveals how a phytochrome variant couples chromophore and protein structural changes
Science Advances·2025· 4 citedOpen Access
Structure of active methyl-CoM reductase, Earth’s main methane producer
2025· 1 citedOpen Access
X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy of Dilute Metalloenzymes at X-ray Free-Electron Lasers in a Shot-by-Shot Mode
The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters·2025· 3 citedOpen Access
Structural changes in Photosystem II using time-resolved X-ray free-electron (XFEL) crystallography and crystalline molecular dynamics.
Structural Dynamics·2025Open Access
The electrode–electrolyte interface of Cu <i>via</i> modulation excitation X-ray absorption spectroscopy
Energy & Environmental Science·2025· 3 citedOpen Access
Three rate-determining protein roles in photosynthetic O2-evolution addressed by time-resolved experiments on genetically modified photosystems
2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Author Correction: Structural evidence for intermediates during O2 formation in photosystem II
Nature·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Tracking the first electron transfer step at the donor side of oxygen-evolving photosystem II by time-resolved infrared spectroscopy
Photosynthesis Research·2023· 5 citedOpen Access
In Situ Structural Observation of a Substrate- and Peroxide-Bound High-Spin Ferric-Hydroperoxo Intermediate in the P450 Enzyme CYP121
Journal of the American Chemical Society·2023· 27 citedOpen Access
Going around the Kok cycle of the water oxidation reaction with femtosecond X-ray crystallography
IUCrJ·2023· 17 citedOpen Access
Structure of a ribonucleotide reductase R2 protein radical
Science·2023· 21 citedOpen Access
Tracking the first electron transfer step at the donor side of oxygen-evolving photosystem II by time-resolved infrared spectroscopy
Research Square (Research Square)·2023Open Access
Water Networks in Photosystem II Using Crystalline Molecular Dynamics Simulations and Room-Temperature XFEL Serial Crystallography
Journal of the American Chemical Society·2023· 33 citedOpen Access
Evolutionary diversity of proton and water channels on the oxidizing side of photosystem II and their relevance to function
Photosynthesis Research·2023· 28 citedOpen Access
Combining on-line spectroscopy with synchrotron and X-ray free electron laser crystallography
Current Opinion in Structural Biology·2023· 9 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Vittal K. Yachandra(29), Junko Yano(26), Jan Kern(25), Asmit Bhowmick(24), Aaron S. Brewster(19), Nicholas K. Sauter(19), Franklin D. Fuller(17), Isabel Bogacz(16), Roberto Alonso‐Mori(16), Ruchira Chatterjee(14), In‐Sik Kim(14), Hiroki Makita(14), A. Batyuk(13), Mun Hon Cheah(12), Uwe Bergmann(12), Margaret Doyle(12), Rana Hussein(11), Allen M. Orville(11), Kensuke Tono(11), Medhanjali Dasgupta(11)