Dr Gustaf Degen

Journal articles

• Emrich-Mills TZ, Proctor MS, Degen GE, Jackson PJ, Richardson KH, Hawkings FR, Buchert F, Hitchcock A, Hunter CN, Mackinder LCM , Hippler M et al (2025) Tethering ferredoxin-NADP+ reductase to photosystem I promotes photosynthetic cyclic electron transfer. The Plant Cell, 37(3). View this article in WRRO
• Degen GE (2024) Light-driven dynamics: unravelling thiol-redox networks in plants through proteomics. Plant Physiology, 195(2), 1111-1113.
• Degen GE, Pastorelli F & Johnson MP (2024) Proton Gradient Regulation 5 is required to avoid photosynthetic oscillations during light transitions. Journal of Experimental Botany, 75(3), 947-961.
• Burgess AJ & Degen GE (2023) The long and the short of it: Adaptation of carbon uptake and metabolic flux to different daylengths. Plant Physiology, 194(1), 317-318.
• Burgess AJ & Degen GE (2023) Pod power: Soybean pod and seed photosynthesis contributes to yield. Plant Physiology, 193(2), 886-887.
• Degen GE (2023) A tale of two CETs: Untangling cyclic electron transfer. Plant Physiology, 192(1), 7-9.
• Degen GE, Jackson PJ, Proctor MS, Zoulias N, Casson SA & Johnson MP (2023) High cyclic electron transfer via the PGR5 pathway in the absence of photosynthetic control. Plant Physiology, 192(1), 370-386. View this article in WRRO
• Degen GE (2022) A deep dive into seagrass Rubisco catalytic properties uncovers a distinct evolutionary trajectory. Plant Physiology.
• Degen GE (2022) Under (stromal redox) pressure: NADP+ synthesis regulates photosystem I biogenesis. Plant Physiology, 189(4), 1890-1892.
• Zoulias N, Rowe J, Thomson EE, Dabrowska M, Sutherland H, Degen GE, Johnson MP, Sedelnikova SE, Hulmes GE, Hettema EH & Casson SA (2021) Inhibition of Arabidopsis stomatal development by plastoquinone oxidation. Current Biology, 31(24), 5622-5632.e7. View this article in WRRO
• Degen GE, Orr DJ & Carmo‐Silva E (2021) Heat‐induced changes in the abundance of wheat Rubisco activase isoforms. New Phytologist, 229(3), 1298-1311.
• Degen GE, Worrall D & Carmo‐Silva E (2020) An isoleucine residue acts as a thermal and regulatory switch in wheat Rubisco activase. The Plant Journal, 103(2), 742-751.
• Perdomo JA, Degen GE, Worrall D & Carmo-Silva E (2019) Rubisco activation by wheat Rubisco activase isoform 2β is insensitive to inhibition by ADP. Biochemical Journal, 476(18), 2595-2606.
• Andralojc PJ, Carmo-Silva E, Degen GE & Parry MAJ (2018) Increasing metabolic potential: C-fixation. Essays in Biochemistry, 62(1), 109-118.
• Degen GE & Johnson MP () Photosynthetic control at the cytochrome b6f complex. The Plant Cell.

Book chapters

• Sales CRG, Degen GE, da Silva AB & Carmo-Silva E (2018) Spectrophotometric Determination of RuBisCO Activity and Activation State in Leaf Extracts, Methods in Molecular Biology (pp. 239-250). Springer New York

Preprints

• Emrich-Mills TZ, Proctor MS, Degen GE, Jackson PJ, Richardson KH, Hawkings FR, Buchert F, Hitchcock A, Hunter CN, Mackinder LCM , Hippler M et al (2024) Tethering ferredoxin-NADP⁺reductase to photosystem I promotes photosynthetic cyclic electron transfer, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
• Degen GE, Pastorelli F & Johnson MP (2023) PGR5 is required to avoid photosynthetic oscillations during light transitions, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
• Degen GE, Jackson PJ, Proctor MS, Zoulias N, Casson SA & Johnson MP (2022) Supercharged PGR5-dependent cyclic electron transfer compensates for mis-regulated chloroplast ATP synthase, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.