2003 - 2008  B.Agr. Hebei Agricultural university, Baoding,China

2008 - 2011  M.Agr. Nanjing Agricultural university, Nanjing, China

2011 - 2013  Research assistant,National Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

2014 - 2016  Assistant Professor, National Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

2017 -           Associate Professor, National Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

My research mainly focuses on photosynthesis related membrane protein complex.

Photosynthesis is regarded as the most important chemical reactions on earth, this process requires the synergy of multiple protein complexes, including two membrane protein complexes that binding pigments: photosystem I and photosystem II (PSI/PSII). The initial reaction happened in PSII. PSII can absorb light energy, split water molecules, release oxygen and proton, transfer electron to the downstream. PSI can also absorbs light energy and plays an important role in electron transfer, and it has very high electron transfer efficiency. PSII's antenna is LHCII, and PSI's antenna is LHCI, in some specific light environment, some LHCII can specifically bind to PSI, which can balance energy between PSI and PSII, this process is called state transition. I manily studied the structure and function of photosynthesis-related protein complexes through cryo-electron microscopy and crystallography methods, and so far we have obtained a series of important achievements in this field.

1. Su X^#, Ma J^#, Pan X^#, Zhao X, Chang W, Liu Z, Zhang X* and Li M*, Antenna arrangement and energy transfer pathways of a green algal photosystem-I-LHCI supercomplex, Natue Plants, 2019, 5: p.273-281

2. Pan X^#, Ma J^#, Su X^#, Cao P, Chang W, Liu Z, Zhang X*, Li M*, Structure of the maize photosystem I supercomplex with light-harvesting complex I and II, Science, 2018. 360 (6393): p.1109-1113

3. Su X^#, Ma J^#, Wei X^#, Cao P^#, Zhu D, Chang W, Liu Z*, Zhang X*, Li M*, Structure and assembly mechanism of plant C₂S₂M₂ type PSII-LHCII supercomplex. Science, 2017. 357(6353): p. 815-820

4. Wei X^#, Su X^#, Cao P, Liu X, Chang W, Li M*, Zhang X*, Liu Z*, Structure of spinach photosystem II-LHCII supercomplex at 3.2 Å resolution. Nature, 2016, 534(7605): p. 69-74

5. Ailing Yu, Yuan Xie, Xiaowei Pan, Hongmei Zhang, Peng Cao, Xiaodong Su, Wenrui Chang, and Mei Li, Photosynthetic Phosphoribulokinase Structures: Enzymatic Mechanisms and the Redox Regulation of the Calvin-Benson-Bassham Cycle, The Plant Cell, 2020, 32: 1556-73

6. Cao Peng^#; Cao Duanfang^#; Si Long; Su Xiaodong; Tian Lijin; Chang Wenrui; Liu Zhenfeng; Zhang Xinzheng*; Li Mei*; Structural basis for energy and electron transfer of the photosystem I-IsiA-flavodoxin supercomplex, Nature plants, 2020, 6(2): 167-176

7. Pan Xiaowei^#; Cao Duanfang^#; Xie Fen^#; Xu Fang^#; Su Xiaodong; Mi Hualing *; Zhang Xinzheng*; Li Mei*; Structural basis for electron transport mechanism of complex I-like photosynthetic NAD(P)H dehydrogenase, Nature Communications, 2020, 11(1): 1-11

8. Cao P^#, Xie Y^#, Li M*, Pan X, Zhang H, Zhao X, Su X, Cheng T, Chang W*, Crystal structure analysis of extrinsic PsbP protein of photosystem II reveals a manganese-induced conformational change. Mol Plant, 2015, 8(4): p. 664-666

9. Deng W, Guan C, Liu K, Zhang X, Feng X, Zhou B, Su X, Chen P, Fine mapping of a linear epitope on EDIII of Japanese encephalitis virus using a novel neutralizing monoclonal antibody. Virus Research, 2014,179:p.133- 139

10. Feng X, Su X, Wang F, Wei J, Wang F, Cao R, Zhou B, Mao X, Zheng Q, Chen P, Isolation and potential immunological characterization of TPSGLVY, a novel bursal septpeptide isolated from the bursa of Fabricius. Peptides, 2010, 31(8): p. 1562-8

11. Su X, Cao R*, Zhang Y, Liu W, Chen H, Zhu C, Chen P*, Development of an indirect ELISA menthod for detection of antibody to duck circovirus. Journal of Nanjing Agricultural University, 2011, 34(5): p. 117-121

Review：

1. Cao P, Su X, Pan X, Liu Z, Chang W, Li M, Structure, assembly and energy transfer of plant photosystem II supercomplex, BBA-Bioenergetics, 2018. 1859: p.633-644

2. Pan X, Cao P, Su X, Liu Z, Li M, Structural analysis and comparison of light-harvesting complexes I and II, BBA-Bioenergetics, 2019

3. Peng Cao, Xiaowei Pan, Xiaodong Su, Zhenfeng Liu, and Mei Li, Assembly of eukaryotic photosystem II with diverse light-harvesting antennas, Curr. Opin. Struct. Biol, 2020, 63:49-57

4. Su Xiaodong, Li Mei. Advances in structural biology of photosystem complexes in higher plants[J]. Chinese Journal of Nature, 2021, 43(03):165-175.

(From Xiaodong Su, November 2, 2021)