Professor Neil Hunter FRS
School of Biosciences
Krebs Professor of Biochemistry
- Profile
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- 2008 - present: Krebs Chair in Biochemistry, School of Biosciences, University of Sheffield
- 1993 - 2008: Professor, MBB, University of Sheffield
- 1990 - 1993: Reader, MBB, University of Sheffield
- 1988 - 1990: Senior Lecturer, Dept of Mol. Biology and Biotechnology (MBB), University of Sheffield
- 1984 - 1988: Lecturer, Department of Pure and Applied Biology, Imperial College, London.
- 1983 - 1984: Postdoctoral Research Assistant, Department of Microbiology, Bristol University.
- 1981 - 1982: SERC Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biochemistry, Bristol University.
- 1979 - 1980: Research Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry, Rutgers University, N.J., USA.
- 1978 - 1979: Busch Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept of Microbiology, Rutgers University, N.J., U.S.A.
- Research interests
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Overview
Photosynthesis powers life on Earth; it supplies the oxygen we breathe, and it converts waste carbon dioxide into food and fuel. However, sunlight is a diffuse energy source so an extensive light-harvesting (LH) antenna, consisting of thousands of pigment molecules, is required to absorb this energy and funnel it to specialised chlorophyll protein complexes called reaction centres. Here, the absorbed energy initiates a series of electron transfer reactions that capture some of the solar energy, prior to its storage in a chemical form that powers cellular metabolism.
We exploit the relative simplicity of photosynthetic bacteria to study the biosynthesis of chlorophyll pigments, and we also investigate the assembly, structure membrane organisation and nanotechnology of photosynthetic pigment-protein complexes.
We use a variety of approaches - molecular genetics, protein engineering, atomic force microscopy as well as structural and spectroscopic methods - for our studies of the biogenesis, structure and function of photosynthetic membranes. In addition, we are fortunate to have collaborations with many scientists in the UK, Europe, USA and China.
Chlorophyll biosynthesis in bacteria and plants
Billions of tonnes of chlorophyll are made every year, on land and in the oceans, colouring the Earth and providing plants, algae and photosynthetic bacteria with the nanoscopic solar panels that absorb sunlight. Over decades of research we have identified and cloned the genes for the enzymes of chlorophyll biosynthesis, and we have overexpressed them in E. coli, so we can purify each enzyme and find out how it works. We have put the complete set of chlorophyll biosynthesis genes into E. coli, which turns the cells green, so now we know we can assemble all the chlorophyll biosynthesis enzymes in a foreign cell, and that they work together to make chlorophyll. This metabolic engineering not only addresses important biological problems such as the concept of the minimal amount of genetic information required for photosynthetic life but also lays the groundwork for engineering cell factories with light-powered metabolism.
Protein engineering, biochemical and structural studies of light-harvesting and reaction centre complexes
We developed a versatile system for the mutagenesis and expression of genetically altered photosynthetic complexes, which allows us to examine protein-protein and pigment-protein interactions, such as those that establish hydrogen-bonding networks that tune the light-absorbing and energy transferring properties of bacterial light-harvesting (LH) complexes.
We purify photosynthetic complexes from photosynthetic bacteria and plants, and with our collaborators we use cryo-electron microscopy to determine the structures of these complexes to find out how they work.
Assembly and organisation of photosynthetic membranes
Chlorophyll protein complexes are embedded in lamellar, tubular or spherical membranes, which increase the surface area for harvesting, trapping and storing solar energy. It is important to find out how photosynthetic complexes are organised in membranes, so we use atomic force microscopy to image the nanoscale spatial organisation of the photosynthetic apparatus in bacteria and plants.
Bionanotechnology of light harvesting complexes
Atomic-level structural models of whole membrane assemblies have been constructed by collaborators Klaus Schulten and Melih Sener at the Beckman Institute, Illinois, USA, using a combination of crystallographic, AFM and electron microscopy data allied to petascale computational modelling.
Such models, now at the 100 million atom scale, are starting to address the collective behaviour of whole membrane assemblies, to make predictions of the energy transfer and trapping behaviour of large-scale arrays, and to identify desirable design motifs for artificial photosynthetic systems.
New surface chemistries and nanopatterning methods are being developed in collaboration with Professor Graham Leggett (Sheffield) to facilitate the construction of innovative architectures for coupled energy transfer and trapping. Nanometre-scale patterns of photosynthetic complexes have been fabricated on self-assembled monolayers deposited on either gold or glass using several lithographic methods.
Such artificial light-harvesting arrays will advance our understanding of natural energy-converting systems, and could guide the design and production of proof-of-principle devices for biomimetic systems to capture, convert and store solar energy.
- Publications
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Journal articles
- Sulfoquinovosyl diacylglycerol is required for dimerisation of the Rhodobacter sphaeroides reaction centre-light harvesting 1 core complex. Biochemical Journal, 481(13), 823-838.
- Excitation energy transfer in proteoliposomes reconstituted with LH2 and RC-LH1 complexes from Rhodobacter sphaeroides. Bioscience Reports, 44(2).
- Twisted Carotenoids Do Not Support Efficient Intramolecular Singlet Fission in the Orange Carotenoid Protein.. J Phys Chem Lett, 6135-6142.
- The structure and assembly of reaction centre-light-harvesting 1 complexes in photosynthetic bacteria. Bioscience Reports, 43(5).
- Photosynthesis in the near infrared: the γ subunit of Blastochloris viridis LH1 red-shifts absorption beyond 1000 nm. Biochemical Journal, 480(6), 455-460.
- Cryo-EM structure of the four-subunit
Rhodobacter sphaeroides
cytochrome
bc
1
complex in styrene maleic acid nanodiscs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(12).
- Revealing CO2-fixing SAR11 bacteria in the ocean by Raman-based single-cell metabolic profiling and genomics. BioDesign Research, 2022, 1-16. View this article in WRRO
- Engineering a rhodopsin-based photo-electrosynthetic system in bacteria for CO2 fixation. ACS Synthetic Biology.
- Cryo-EM structures of light-harvesting 2 complexes from
Rhodopseudomonas palustris
reveal the molecular origin of absorption tuning. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(43).
- Enhancing the spectral range of plant and bacterial light-harvesting pigment-protein complexes with various synthetic chromophores incorporated into lipid vesicles. Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology, 237, 112585-112585.
- 2.4-Å structure of the double-ring
Gemmatimonas phototrophica
photosystem. Science Advances, 8(7).
- Changes in supramolecular organization of cyanobacterial thylakoid membrane complexes in response to far-red light photoacclimation.. Sci Adv, 8(6), eabj4437.
- FRET measurement of cytochrome bc1 and reaction centre complex proximity in live Rhodobacter sphaeroides cells. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics, 1863(2), 148508-148508.
- Redesigning the photosynthetic light reactions to enhance photosynthesis – the PhotoRedesign consortium. The Plant Journal. View this article in WRRO
- Cryo-EM structure of the dimeric Rhodobacter sphaeroides RC-LH1 core complex at 2.9 Å : the structural basis for dimerisation. Biochemical Journal, 478(21), 3923-3937.
- Cryo-EM structure of the monomeric Rhodobacter sphaeroides RC–LH1 core complex at 2.5 Å. Biochemical Journal, 478(20), 3775-3790.
- Comparative proteomics of thylakoids from
Arabidopsis
grown in laboratory and field conditions. Plant Direct, 5(10).
- Cryo-EM structure of the Rhodospirillum rubrum RC–LH1 complex at 2.5 Å. Biochemical Journal, 478(17), 3253-3263.
- Multiscale modeling and cinematic visualization of photosynthetic energy conversion processes from electronic to cell scales. Parallel Computing, 102.
- Evolution of Ycf54-independent chlorophyll biosynthesis in cyanobacteria. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(10), e2024633118-e2024633118.
- How the O2-dependent Mg-protoporphyrin monomethyl ester cyclase forms the fifth ring of chlorophylls. Nature Plants, 7(3), 365-375.
- The 2.4 Å cryo-EM structure of a heptameric light-harvesting 2 complex reveals two carotenoid energy transfer pathways. Science Advances, 7(7).
- Cytochrome b6f – Orchestrator of photosynthetic electron transfer. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics, 148380-148380.
- Structures of Rhodopseudomonas palustris RC-LH1 complexes with open or closed quinone channels. Science Advances, 7(3), eabe2631-eabe2631.
- The active site of magnesium chelatase. Nature Plants. View this article in WRRO
- Xanthophyll carotenoids stabilise the association of cyanobacterial chlorophyll synthase with the LHC-like protein HliD. Biochemical Journal, 477(20), 4021-4036. View this article in WRRO
- Developmental acclimation of the thylakoid proteome to light intensity in Arabidopsis. The Plant Journal. View this article in WRRO
- A thermostable protein matrix for spectroscopic analysis of organic semiconductors. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 142(32), 13898-13907. View this article in WRRO
- Excitation energy transfer between monomolecular layers of light harvesting LH2 and LH1-reaction centre complexes printed on a glass substrate. Lab on a Chip, 20(14), 2529-2538. View this article in WRRO
- Protochlorophyllide synthesis by recombinant cyclases from eukaryotic oxygenic phototrophs and the dependence on Ycf54. Biochemical Journal, 477(12), 2313-2325. View this article in WRRO
- Biosynthesis of the modified tetrapyrroles—the pigments of life. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 295(20), 6888-6925. View this article in WRRO
- A photosynthetic antenna complex foregoes unity carotenoid-to-bacteriochlorophyll energy transfer efficiency to ensure photoprotection. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(12), 6502-6508. View this article in WRRO
- Chromosome-free bacterial cells are safe and programmable platforms for synthetic biology. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(12), 6752-6761. View this article in WRRO
- Proteorhodopsin overproduction enhances the long-term viability of Escherichia coli. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 86(1). View this article in WRRO
- Extensive remodeling of the photosynthetic apparatus alters energy transfer among photosynthetic complexes when cyanobacteria acclimate to far-red light. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics, 1861(4), 148064-148064.
- Progress and challenges in engineering cyanobacteria as chassis for light-driven biotechnology.. Microbial Biotechnology. View this article in WRRO
- Atoms to phenotypes: Molecular design principles of cellular energy metabolism. Cell, 179(5), 1098-1111.e23. View this article in WRRO
- Cryo-EM structure of the spinach cytochrome b6 f complex at 3.6 Å resolution. Nature. View this article in WRRO
- Depletion of the FtsH1/3 Proteolytic Complex Suppresses the Nutrient Stress Response in the Cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp strain PCC 6803. The Plant Cell, 31(12), 2912-2928.
- Dissecting the cytochrome c(2)–reaction centre interaction in bacterial photosynthesis using single molecule force spectroscopy. Biochemical Journal, 476(15), 2173-2190. View this article in WRRO
- Membrane organization of photosystem I complexes in the most abundant phototroph on Earth. Nature Plants, 5(8), 879-889. View this article in WRRO
- Phosphite binding by the HtxB periplasmic binding protein depends on the protonation state of the ligand. Scientific Reports, 9(1). View this article in WRRO
- Dynamic thylakoid stacking is regulated by LHCII phosphorylation but not its interaction with PSI. Plant Physiology, 180(4), 2152-2166. View this article in WRRO
- Single-molecule study of redox control involved in establishing the spinach plastocyanin-cytochrome b6f electron transfer complex. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics, 1860(7), 591-599. View this article in WRRO
- Turning the Challenge of Quantum Biology On its Head Biological Control of Quantum Optical Systems. Faraday Discussions, 216, 57-71. View this article in WRRO
- The ChlD subunit links the motor and porphyrin binding subunits of magnesium chelatase. Biochemical Journal. View this article in WRRO
- Engineering of B800 bacteriochlorophyll binding site specificity in the Rhodobacter sphaeroides LH2 antenna. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics, 1860(3), 209-223. View this article in WRRO
- Picosecond Dynamical Response to a Pressure-Induced Break of the Tertiary Structure Hydrogen Bonds in a Membrane Chromoprotein. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 123(9), 2087-2093.
- Orientational Dynamics of Transition Dipoles and Exciton Relaxation in LH2 from Ultrafast Two-Dimensional Anisotropy. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 10(2), 270-277.
- Correlated fluorescence quenching and topographic mapping of Light-Harvesting Complex II within surface-assembled aggregates and lipid bilayers. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics, 1859(10), 1075-1085. View this article in WRRO
- A paralog of a bacteriochlorophyll biosynthesis enzyme catalyzes the formation of 1,2-dihydrocarotenoids in green sulfur bacteria. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 293(39), 15233-15242. View this article in WRRO
- Plant and algal chlorophyll synthases function in Synechocystis and interact with the YidC/Alb3 membrane insertase. FEBS Letters, 592(18), 3062-3073. View this article in WRRO
- A synthetic biological quantum optical system. Nanoscale, 10(27), 13064-13073. View this article in WRRO
- Author Correction: Dynamic thylakoid stacking regulates the balance between linear and cyclic photosynthetic electron transfer. Nature Plants, 4(6), 391-391. View this article in WRRO
- Probing the quality control mechanism of the Escherichia coli twin-arginine translocase with folding variants of a de novo–designed heme protein. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 293(18), 6672-6681. View this article in WRRO
- Cryo-EM structure of the Blastochloris viridis LH1-RC complex at 2.9 Å. Nature, 556(7700), 203-208.
- Probing the local lipid environment of the Rhodobacter sphaeroides cytochrome bc1 and Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 cytochrome b6f complexes with styrene maleic acid. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics, 1859(3), 215-225. View this article in WRRO
- Carotenoid to bacteriochlorophyll energy transfer in the RC–LH1–PufX complex from Rhodobacter sphaeroides containing the extended conjugation keto-carotenoid diketospirilloxanthin. Photosynthesis Research. View this article in WRRO
- Engineered biosynthesis of bacteriochlorophyll gF in Rhodobacter sphaeroides. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics, 1859(7), 501-509.
- Identification of protein W, the elusive sixth subunit of the Rhodopseudomonas palustris reaction center-light harvesting 1 core complex. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics, 1859(2), 119-128. View this article in WRRO
- Dynamic thylakoid stacking regulates the balance between linear and cyclic photosynthetic electron transfer. Nature Plants, 4, 116-127. View this article in WRRO
- Complete enzyme set for chlorophyll biosynthesis in Escherichia coli. Science Advances, 4(1). View this article in WRRO
- Fabrication of microstructured binary polymer brush “corrals” with integral pH sensing for studies of proton transport in model membrane systems. Chemical Science, 9, 2238-2251. View this article in WRRO
- Repurposing a photosynthetic antenna protein as a super-resolution microscopy label. Scientific Reports, 7(1). View this article in WRRO
- The molecular basis of phosphite and hypophosphite recognition by ABC-transporters. Nature Communications, 8(1). View this article in WRRO
- Engineering of a calcium-ion binding site into the RC-LH1-PufX complex of Rhodobacter sphaeroides to enable ion-dependent spectral red-shifting. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics, 1858(11), 927-938. View this article in WRRO
- Mapping the ultrafast flow of harvested solar energy in living photosynthetic cells. Nature Communications, 8(1). View this article in WRRO
- PufQ regulates porphyrin flux at the haem/bacteriochlorophyll branchpoint of tetrapyrrole biosynthesis via interactions with ferrochelatase.. Molecular Microbiology. View this article in WRRO
- Communication: Broad manifold of excitonic states in light-harvesting complex 1 promotes efficient unidirectional energy transfer in vivo. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 147(13). View this article in WRRO
- From Monochrome to Technicolor: Simple Generic Approaches to Multicomponent Protein Nanopatterning Using Siloxanes with Photoremovable Protein-Resistant Protecting Groups.. Langmuir, 33(35), 8829-8837. View this article in WRRO
- Origin of the S* Excited State Feature of Carotenoids in Light-Harvesting Complex 1 from Purple Photosynthetic Bacteria. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 121(32), 7571-7585.
- Development of SimCells as a novel chassis for functional biosensors. Scientific Reports, 7. View this article in WRRO
- Correction to “Determination of Cell Doubling Times from the Return-on-Investment Time of Photosynthetic Vesicles Based on Atomic Detail Structural Models”. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 121(28), 6979-6979.
- CORRECTION. The Plant Cell, 29(7), 1794-1794.
- The C-terminus of PufX plays a key role in dimerisation and assembly of the reaction center light-harvesting 1 complex from Rhodobacter sphaeroides.. Biochim Biophys Acta. View this article in WRRO
- Three classes of oxygen-dependent cyclase involved in chlorophyll and bacteriochlorophyll biosynthesis.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(24), 6280-6285.
- Lateral Segregation of Photosystem I in Cyanobacterial Thylakoids. The Plant cell, 29(5), 1119-1136. View this article in WRRO
- Determination of Cell Doubling Times from the Return-on-Investment Time of Photosynthetic Vesicles Based on Atomic Detail Structural Models.. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 121(15), 3787-3797. View this article in WRRO
- Micrometre and nanometre scale patterning of binary polymer brushes, supported lipid bilayers and proteins. Chem. Sci., 8(6), 4517-4526. View this article in WRRO
- Simple, Direct Routes to Polymer Brush Traps and Nanostructures for Studies of Diffusional Transport in Supported Lipid Bilayers. Langmuir, 33(15), 3672-3679. View this article in WRRO
- Controlling transmembrane protein concentration and orientation in supported lipid bilayers. Chem. Commun., 53(30), 4250-4253. View this article in WRRO
- A Novel Application of Non-Destructive Readout Technology to Localisation Microscopy.. Scientific Reports, 7. View this article in WRRO
- The PufX quinone channel enables the light-harvesting 1 antenna to bind more carotenoids for light collection and photoprotection. FEBS Letters. View this article in WRRO
- Direct Imaging of Protein Organization in an Intact Bacterial Organelle Using High-Resolution Atomic Force Microscopy. ACS Nano, 11(1), 126-133. View this article in WRRO
- Augmenting light coverage for photosynthesis through YFP-enhanced charge separation at the Rhodobacter sphaeroides reaction centre. Nature Communications, 8. View this article in WRRO
- Conserved Residues in Ycf54 are required for Protochlorophyllide Formation in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. Biochemical Journal. View this article in WRRO
- New insights into the photochemistry of carotenoid spheroidenone in light-harvesting complex 2 from the purple bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides. Photosynthesis Research. View this article in WRRO
- Strong Coupling of Localized Surface Plasmons to Excitons in Light-Harvesting Complexes.. Nano Letters, 16(11), 6850-6856. View this article in WRRO
- Evaluating the Nature of So-Called S*-State Feature in Transient Absorption of Carotenoids in Light-Harvesting Complex 2 (LH2) from Purple Photosynthetic Bacteria. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 120(43), 11123-11131. View this article in WRRO
- Single-cell genomics based on Raman sorting reveals novel carotenoid-containing bacteria in the Red Sea.. Microb Biotechnol. View this article in WRRO
- Biosynthesis of Chlorophyll a in a Purple Bacterial Phototroph and Assembly into a Plant Chlorophyll–Protein Complex. ACS Synthetic Biology, 5(9), 948-954. View this article in WRRO
- Overall energy conversion efficiency of a photosynthetic vesicle. eLife, 5. View this article in WRRO
- The catalytic power of magnesium chelatase: a benchmark for the AAA(+) ATPases.. FEBS Letters, 590(12), 1687-1693. View this article in WRRO
- Quenching Capabilities of Long-Chain Carotenoids in Light-Harvesting-2 Complexes from Rhodobacter sphaeroides with an Engineered Carotenoid Synthesis Pathway. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. View this article in WRRO
- Electronic Structure and Dynamics of Higher-Lying Excited States in Light Harvesting Complex 1 from Rhodobacter sphaeroides. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 120(24), 4124-4130. View this article in WRRO
- Dimerization of core complexes as an efficient strategy for energy trapping in Rhodobacter sphaeroides. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics, 1857(6), 634-642.
- Nanomechanical and thermophoretic analyses of the nucleotide-dependent interactions between the AAA+ subunits of magnesium chelatase. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 138(20), 6591-6597. View this article in WRRO
- Absence of the cbb 3 terminal oxidase reveals an active oxygen-dependent cyclase involved in bacteriochlorophyll biosynthesis in Rhodobacter sphaeroides. Journal of Bacteriology. View this article in WRRO
- Two Unrelated 8-Vinyl Reductases Ensure Production of Mature Chlorophylls in Acaryochloris marina. Journal of Bacteriology, 198(9), 1393-1400. View this article in WRRO
- Synthesis of Chlorophyll-Binding Proteins in a Fully Segregated Δycf54 Strain of the Cyanobacterium Synechocystis PCC 6803. Frontiers in Plant Science, 7. View this article in WRRO
- Fabrication of Nanometer and Micrometer Scale Protein Structures by Site-Specific Immobilization of Histidine-Tagged Proteins to Aminosiloxane Films with Photoremovable Protein-Resistant Protecting Groups. Langmuir. View this article in WRRO
- Supramolecular organization of photosynthetic complexes in membranes of Roseiflexus castenholzii. Photosynthesis Research, 127(1), 117-130.
- Atomic detail visualization of photosynthetic membranes with GPU-accelerated ray tracing. Parallel Computing, 55, 17-27. View this article in WRRO
- An intact light harvesting complex I antenna system is required for complete state transitions in Arabidopsis. Nature Plants, 1(12). View this article in WRRO
- Five Glutamic Acid Residues in the C-Terminal Domain of the ChlD Subunit Play a Major Role in Conferring Mg2+Cooperativity upon Magnesium Chelatase. Biochemistry, 54(44), 6659-6662. View this article in WRRO
- Porphyrin Binding to Gun4 Protein, Facilitated by a Flexible Loop, Controls Metabolite Flow through the Chlorophyll Biosynthetic Pathway. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 290(47), 28477-28488. View this article in WRRO
- Interference lithographic nanopatterning of plant and bacterial light-harvesting complexes on gold substrates. Interface Focus, 5(4). View this article in WRRO
- Fabrication of Self-Cleaning, Reusable Titania Templates for Nanometer and Micrometer Scale Protein Patterning. ACS Nano, 9(6), 6262-6270. View this article in WRRO
- Functional characteristics of spirilloxanthin and keto-bearing Analogues in light-harvesting LH2 complexes from Rhodobacter sphaeroides with a genetically modified carotenoid synthesis pathway. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics, 1847(6-7), 640-655.
- Assembly of functional photosystem complexes in Rhodobacter sphaeroides incorporating carotenoids from the spirilloxanthin pathway. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics, 1847(2), 189-201. View this article in WRRO
- Stark absorption spectroscopy on the carotenoids bound to B800–820 and B800–850 type LH2 complexes from a purple photosynthetic bacterium, Phaeospirillum molischianum strain DSM120. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics, 572, 158-166.
- Structural and functional consequences of removing the N-terminal domain from the magnesium chelatase ChlH subunit of Thermosynechococcus elongatus. Biochemical Journal, 464(3), 315-322. View this article in WRRO
- Aberrant Assembly Complexes of the Reaction Center Light-harvesting 1 PufX (RC-LH1-PufX) Core Complex ofRhodobacter sphaeroidesImaged by Atomic Force Microscopy. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 289(43), 29927-29936. View this article in WRRO
- Integration of energy and electron transfer processes in the photosynthetic membrane of Rhodobacter sphaeroides.. Biochim Biophys Acta, 1837(10), 1769-1780. View this article in WRRO
- Elucidation of the preferred routes of C8-vinyl reduction in chlorophyll and bacteriochlorophyll biosynthesis. Biochemical Journal, 462(3), 433-440. View this article in WRRO
- Fast, Simple, Combinatorial Routes to the Fabrication of Reusable, Plasmonically Active Gold Nanostructures by Interferometric Lithography of Self-Assembled Monolayers. ACS Nano, 8(8), 7858-7869. View this article in WRRO
- Engineered biosynthesis of bacteriochlorophyll b in Rhodobacter sphaeroides. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics, 1837(10), 1611-1616. View this article in WRRO
- Nanodomains of Cytochrome b6f and Photosystem II Complexes in Spinach Grana Thylakoid Membranes. The Plant Cell, 26(7), 3051-3061. View this article in WRRO
- Reversible switching between nonquenched and quenched states in nanoscale linear arrays of plant light-harvesting antenna complexes.. Langmuir, 30(28), 8481-8490.
- Integration of energy and electron transfer processes in the photosynthetic membrane of Rhodobacter sphaeroides. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics, 1837, e118-e118.
- Integration of energy and electron transfer reactions in plant thylakoids. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics, 1837, e122-e122.
- Zwitterionic poly(amino acid methacrylate) brushes.. J Am Chem Soc, 136(26), 9404-9413. View this article in WRRO
- Efficiency of light harvesting in a photosynthetic bacterium adapted to different levels of light.. Biochim Biophys Acta, 1837(10), 1835-1846.
- A mutation leading to super-assembly of twin-arginine translocase (Tat) protein complexes.. Biochim Biophys Acta, 1843(9), 1978-1986.
- A cyanobacterial chlorophyll synthase-HliD complex associates with the Ycf39 protein and the YidC/Alb3 insertase.. Plant Cell, 26(3), 1267-1279.
- Characterization of the magnesium chelatase from Thermosynechococcus elongatus.. Biochem J, 457(1), 163-170.
- Nano-mechanical mapping of the interactions between surface-bound RC-LH1-PufX core complexes and cytochrome c 2 attached to an AFM probe.. Photosynth Res, 120(1-2), 169-180. View this article in WRRO
- Three-dimensional structure of the Rhodobacter sphaeroides RC-LH1-PufX complex: dimerization and quinone channels promoted by PufX.. Biochemistry, 52(43), 7575-7585.
- Integration of multiple chromophores with native photosynthetic antennas to enhance solar energy capture and delivery. Chemical Science, 4(10), 3924-3933.
- Photocatalytic nanolithography of self-assembled monolayers and proteins.. ACS Nano, 7(9), 7610-7618. View this article in WRRO
- Comparison of the physical characteristics of chlorosomes from three different phyla of green phototrophic bacteria.. Biochim Biophys Acta, 1827(10), 1235-1244.
- Identification of an 8-vinyl reductase involved in bacteriochlorophyll biosynthesis in Rhodobacter sphaeroides and evidence for the existence of a third distinct class of the enzyme.. Biochem J, 450(2), 397-405.
- Structural implications of hydrogen-bond energetics in membrane proteins revealed by high-pressure spectroscopy. Biophysical Journal, 103(11), 2352-2360.
- Micrometer and nanometer scale photopatterning of proteins on glass surfaces by photo-degradation of films formed from oligo(ethylene glycol) terminated silanes.. Biointerphases, 7(1-4), 54.
- Conserved chloroplast open-reading frame ycf54 is required for activity of the magnesium protoporphyrin monomethylester oxidative cyclase in Synechocystis PCC 6803.. J Biol Chem, 287(33), 27823-27833.
- Highly confined surface imaging by solid immersion total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy.. Opt Express, 20(3), 3311-3324.
- Quantitative proteomic analysis of intracytoplasmic membrane development in Rhodobacter sphaeroides.. Mol Microbiol, 84(6), 1062-1078.
- Adaptation of intracytoplasmic membranes to altered light intensity in Rhodobacter sphaeroides. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Bioenergetics, 1817(9), 1616-1627.
- Highly confined surface imaging by solid immersion total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy. Optics Express, 20(3), 3311-3324.
- Photoprotection in a purple phototrophic bacterium mediated by oxygen-dependent alteration of carotenoid excited-state properties. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 109(22), 8570-8575.
- Spectroscopic characterization of the first ultrafast catalytic intermediate in protochlorophyllide oxidoreductase. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 14(2), 616-625.
- Structure of the cyanobacterial Magnesium Chelatase H subunit determined by single particle reconstruction and small-angle X-ray scattering.. J Biol Chem, 287(7), 4946-4956.
- Rapid resonance Raman microspectroscopy to probe carbon dioxide fixation by single cells in microbial communities.. ISME J, 6(4), 875-885.
- A bchD (Magnesium Chelatase) Mutant of Rhodobacter sphaeroides Synthesizes Zinc Bacteriochlorophyll through Novel Zinc-containing Intermediates. J BIOL CHEM, 286(23), 20313-20322.
- Carotenoids are essential for normal levels of dimerisation of the RC-LH1-PufX core complex of Rhodobacter sphaeroides: Characterisation of R-26 as a crtB (phytoene synthase) mutant. BBA-BIOENERGETICS, 1807(9), 1056-1063.
- Direct Visualization of Exciton Reequilibration in the LH1 and LH2 Complexes of Rhodobacter sphaeroides by Multipulse Spectroscopy. BIOPHYS J, 100(9), 2226-2233.
- Functional Assignments for the Carboxyl-Terminal Domains of the Ferrochelatase from Synechocystis PCC 6803: The CAB Domain Plays a Regulatory Role, and Region II Is Essential for Catalysis. PLANT PHYSIOL, 155(4), 1735-1747.
- Use of Engineered Unique Cysteine Residues to Facilitate Oriented Coupling of Proteins Directly to a Gold Substrate. Photochemistry and Photobiology.
- Use of engineered unique cysteine residues to facilitate oriented coupling of proteins directly to a gold substrate.. Photochem Photobiol, 87(5), 1050-1057.
- Monomeric RC-LH1 core complexes retard LH2 assembly and intracytoplasmic membrane formation in PufX-minus mutants of Rhodobacter sphaeroides. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Bioenergetics, 1807(9), 1044-1055.
- Förster energy transfer theory as reflected in the structures of photosynthetic light-harvesting systems. ChemPhysChem, 12(3), 518-531.
- Abolition of magnesium chelatase activity by the gun5 mutation and reversal by Gun4. FEBS Letters, 585(1), 183-186.
- Enzyme activation and catalysis: Characterisation of the vibrational modes of substrate and product in protochlorophyllide oxidoreductase. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 13(6), 2307-2313.
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- PROTEIN ENGINEERING OF THE REACTION CENTRE/LH1 CORE COMPLEX FROM RHODOBACTER-SPHAEROIDES. PHOTOSYNTH RES, 34(1), 187-187.
- SPECTROSCOPIC CHARACTERIZATION OF B820 SUBUNITS FROM LIGHT-HARVESTING COMPLEX-I OF RHODOSPIRILLUM-RUBRUM AND RHODOBACTER-SPHAEROIDES PREPARED WITH THE DETERGENT N-OCTYL-RAC-2,3-DIPROPYLSULFOXIDE. BIOCHIM BIOPHYS ACTA, 1100(3), 259-266.
- Isolation and characterization of a putative transcription factor involved in the regulation of the Rhodobacter sphaeroides pucBA operon.. J Biol Chem, 267(16), 11098-11103.
- Construction and characterization of a mutant of Rhodobacter sphaeroides with the reaction center as the sole pigment-protein complex.. Biochemistry, 31(18), 4458-4465.
- Mutants of Rhodobacter sphaeroides lacking one or more pigment-protein complexes and complementation with reaction-centre, LH1, and LH2 genes.. Mol Microbiol, 6(9), 1173-1184.
- Genetically modified photosynthetic antenna complexes with blueshifted absorbance bands.. Nature, 355(6363), 848-850.
- DNA sequencing and complementation/deletion analysis of the bchA-puf operon region of Rhodobacter sphaeroides: in vivo mapping of the oxygen-regulated puf promoter.. Mol Microbiol, 5(11), 2649-2661.
- Localized transposon Tn5 mutagenesis of the photosynthetic gene cluster of Rhodobacter sphaeroides.. Mol Microbiol, 4(6), 977-989.
- ENERGY-TRANSFER DYNAMICS IN 3 LIGHT-HARVESTING MUTANTS OF RHODOBACTER-SPHAEROIDES - A PICOSECOND SPECTROSCOPY STUDY. BIOCHEMISTRY-US, 29(13), 3203-3207.
- MOLECULAR-CLONING, SEQUENCING AND EXPRESSION OF CYTOCHROME-C2 FROM RHODOSPIRILLUM-RUBRUM. BIOCHEM J, 265(2), 599-604.
- TEMPERATURE-DEPENDENCE OF ENERGY-TRANSFER FROM THE LONG WAVELENGTH ANTENNA BCHL-896 TO THE REACTION CENTER IN RHODOSPIRILLUM-RUBRUM, RHODOBACTER-SPHAEROIDES (WT AND M21 MUTANT) FROM 77 TO 177K, STUDIED BY PICOSECOND ABSORPTION-SPECTROSCOPY. PHOTOSYNTH RES, 22(3), 211-217.
- psbG is not a photosystem two gene but may be an ndh gene.. The Journal of biological chemistry, 264(24), 14129-14135.
- Characterization and Complementation of a Mutant of Rhodobacter sphaeroides with a Chromosomal Deletion in the Light-harvesting (LH2) Genes. Microbiology, 135(7), 1809-1816.
- Construction of a physical map of the 45 kb photosynthetic gene cluster of Rhodobacter sphaeroides. Archives of Microbiology, 151(5), 454-458.
- PHOTOSYNTHETIC ANTENNA PROTEINS - 100 PS BEFORE PHOTOCHEMISTRY STARTS. TRENDS BIOCHEM SCI, 14(2), 72-75.
- The construction and properties of a mutant of Rhodobacter sphaeroides with the LH1 antenna as the sole pigment protein. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics, 973(3), 383-389.
- Oligomerization states and associations of light-harvesting pigment-protein complexes of Rhodobacter sphaeroides as analyzed by lithium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Biochemistry, 27(9), 3459-3467.
- The organization of the photosynthetic apparatus of Rhodobacter sphaeroides: Studies of antenna mutants using singlet-singlet quenching. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics, 933(1), 132-140.
- Spectroscopic properties of antenna complexes of Rhodobacter sphaeroides in vivo. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics, 932, 179-188.
- SPECTRA AND EXTINCTION COEFFICIENTS OF NEAR-INFRARED ABSORPTION BANDS IN MEMBRANES OF Rhodobacter sphaeroides MUTANTS LACKING LIGHT-HARVESTING AND REACTION CENTER COMPLEXES. Photochemistry and Photobiology, 48(2), 243-247.
- Cloning, nucleotide sequence and transfer of genes for the B800-850 light harvesting complex of Rhodobacter sphaeroides. FEBS Letters, 213(2), 245-248.
- Effect of oxygen on levels of mRNA coding for reaction-centre and light-harvesting polypeptides of Rhodobacter sphaeroides. Biochemical Journal, 247(2), 489-492.
- Immunological evidence for the presence of the D1 and D2 proteins in PS II cores of higher plants. FEBS Letters, 209(1), 83-86.
- Linear dichroism and fluorescence emission of antenna complexes during photosynthetic unit assembly in Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics, 807(1), 44-51.
- Lipid biosynthesis in synchronized cultures of the photosynthetic bacterium Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides. Biochemical Journal, 229(3), 701-710.
- Acyl lipid changes in photosynthetic mutants of Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides correlate with blocks in bacteriochlorophyll synthesis. FEMS Microbiology Letters, 27(2), 155-159.
- Photosynthetic membrane development in rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides. Spectral and kinetic characterization of redox components of light-driven electron flow in apparent photosynthetic membrane growth initiation sites. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 260(6), 3295-3304.
- Acyl lipid changes in photosynthetic mutants ofRhodopseudomonas sphaeroidescorrelate with blocks in bacteriochlorophyll synthesis. FEMS Microbiology Letters, 27(2), 155-159.
- Pigment organization of the B800–850 antenna complex of Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics, 765(2), 156-165.
- Size and structure of antenna complexes of photosynthetic bacteria as studied by singlet-singlet quenching of the bacteriochlorophyll fluorescence yield. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics, 723(1), 30-36.
- Changes in the cytochrome composition of Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides grown aerobically, photosynthetically and on dimethyl sulphoxide. Biochemical Journal, 212(3), 783-790.
- The effects of light and oxygen on membrane assembly in the photosynthetic bacteria. Biochemical Society Transactions, 11(4), 340-343.
- Assembly and structural organization of pigment-protein complexes in membranes of Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides.. Progress in clinical and biological research, 102 Pt B, 257-265.
- LINEAR AND CIRCULAR DICHROISM AND FLUORESCENCE POLARIZATION OF THE B875 LIGHT-HARVESTING BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLL-PROTEIN COMPLEX FROM RHODOPSEUDOMONAS SPHAEROIDES. Photochemistry and Photobiology, 34(5), 653-656.
- Identification of the pigment pool responsible for the flash-induced carotenoid band shift in Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides
chromatophores. FEBS Letters, 115(1), 43-48.
- Detection of cytochrome b+50 in membranes of Rhodospirillum rubrum isolated from aerobically and phototrophically grown cells. Biochemical Journal, 186(2), 453-459.
- Isolation and characterization of the pigment-protein complexes of Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides by lithium dodecyl sulfate/polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 77(1), 87-91.
- The reconstitution of energy transfer in membranes from a bacteriochlorophyll-less mutant of Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides by addition of light-harvesting and reaction centre pigment-protein complexes. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics, 548(3), 458-470.
- Membranes of Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides VII. Photochemical properties of a fraction enriched in newly synthesized bacteriochlorophyll a-protein complexes. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics, 548(2), 253-266.
- The incorporation of reaction centres into membranes from a bacteriochlorophyll-less mutant of Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics, 545(2), 325-338.
- The kinetics of flash-induced electron flow in bacteriochlorophyll-less membranes of Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides reconstituted with reaction centres. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics, 545(2), 339-351.
- FLUORESCENCE YIELD PROPERTIES OF A FRACTION ENRICHED IN NEWLY SYNTHESIZED BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLL U-PROTEIN COMPLEXES FROM RHODOPSEUDOMONAS SPHAEROIDES. Photochemistry and Photobiology, 30(2), 313-316.
- Properties of a cytochrome c-enriched light particulate fraction isolated from the photosynthetic bacterium Rhodopseudomonas spheroides. Biochemical Journal, 174(1), 267-275.
- Effect of Added Light-Harvesting Pigments on the Reconstruction of Photosynthetic Reactions in Membranes from Bacteriochlorophyll-Less Mutants of Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides. Biochemical Society Transactions, 4(4), 669-670.
- Changes in the capacity for protein-synthesis in embryonic axes of hazel fruits during the breaking of dormancy by GA3. Planta, 101(2), 174-179.
- Single-Molecule Detection of the Encounter and Productive Electron Transfer Complexes of a Photosynthetic Reaction Center. Journal of the American Chemical Society.
- De novo design of proteins housing excitonically coupled chlorophyll special pairs. Nature Chemical Biology.
- Generalized biomolecular modeling and design with RoseTTAFold All-Atom. Science.
- Structured Excitation Energy Transfer: Tracking Exciton Diffusion below Sunlight Intensity. ACS Photonics.
- Engineering Chlorophyll, Bacteriochlorophyll, and Carotenoid Biosynthetic Pathways in Escherichia coli. ACS Synthetic Biology.
- Phycobilisome’s Exciton Transfer Efficiency Relies on an Energetic Funnel Driven by Chromophore–Linker Protein Interactions. Journal of the American Chemical Society.
- STN7 is not essential for developmental acclimation of
Arabidopsis
to light intensity. The Plant Journal.
- Absolute quantification of cellular levels of photosynthesis-related proteins in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. Photosynthesis Research.
- FtsH4 protease controls the biogenesis of PSII complex by dual regulation of high light-inducible proteins. Plant Communications. View this article in WRRO
- Phasor Analysis Reveals Multicomponent Fluorescence Kinetics in the LH2 Complex from Marichromatium purpuratum. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B.
- Zeta-Carotene Isomerase (Z-ISO) Is Required for Light-Independent Carotenoid Biosynthesis in the Cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. Microorganisms, 10(9), 1730-1730.
- Cryo-EM structures of the Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 cytochrome b6f complex with and without the regulatory PetP subunit. Biochemical Journal.
- Multicomponent Nanoscale Patterning of Functional Light‐Harvesting Protein Complexes by Local Oxidation Lithography. Advanced Materials Interfaces, 2001670-2001670.
- Versatile thiol-based reactions for micrometer- and nanometer-scale photopatterning of polymers and biomolecules. Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 3(21), 4431-4438. View this article in WRRO
- Carotenoid-to-(bacterio)chlorophyll energy transfer in LH2 antenna complexes from Rba. sphaeroides reconstituted with non-native (bacterio)chlorophylls. Photosynthesis Research. View this article in WRRO
- The cryo-EM structure of the Rhodobacter sphaeroides light-harvesting 2 complex at 2.1 Å. Biochemistry.
Chapters
- Engineering purple bacterial carotenoid biosynthesis to study the roles of carotenoids in light-harvesting complexes
- Photosynthetic apparatus in purple bacteria, Light Harvesting in Photosynthesis (pp. 95-120).
- Course Abstracts, NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics (pp. 143-165). Springer Netherlands
- Reaction Center-Light-Harvesting Core Complexes of Purple Bacteria, The Purple Phototrophic Bacteria (pp. 155-179). Springer Netherlands
- Biosynthesis of Chlorophyll and Barteriochlorophyll, Tetrapyrroles (pp. 235-249). Springer New York
- A Putative Translational Regulator of Photosynthesis Gene Expression, The Phototrophic Prokaryotes (pp. 139-147). Springer US
- Pigment Exchange Strategy towards the Investigations of Energy Transfer in Bacterial LH1 Complex, Photosynthesis: Mechanisms and Effects (pp. 81-84). Springer Netherlands
- Ultrafast Carotenoid Band Shifts Probe Structure and Dynamics in Photosynthesis, Photosynthesis: Mechanisms and Effects (pp. 37-40). Springer Netherlands
- The Size of the LH1 Antenna of Purple Bacteria, Photosynthesis: Mechanisms and Effects (pp. 89-92). Springer Netherlands
- Femtosecond spectroscopy and vibrational coherence of membrane-bound RCs of Rhodobacter sphaeroides genetically modified at Positions M210 and L181, The Reaction Center of Photosynthetic Bacteria (pp. 271-280). Springer Berlin Heidelberg
- Genetic Manipulation of Photosynthetic Prokaryotes, Photosynthetic Prokaryotes (pp. 153-179). Springer US
- The Cloning and Organisation of Genes for Bacteriochlorophyll and Carotenoid Biosynthesis in Rhodobacter Sphaeroides, Molecular Biology of Membrane-Bound Complexes in Phototrophic Bacteria (pp. 49-56). Springer US
- Temperature Dependence of energy transfer from the long wavelength antenna BChl-896 to the reaction center in Rhodospirillum Rubrum, Rhodobacter Sphaeroides (w.t. and M21 mutant) from 77 to 177 K, studied by picosecond absorption spectroscopy, Current Research in Photosynthesis (pp. 1113-1116). Springer Netherlands
- Assembly of Intracytoplasmic Membranes in Rhodobacter Sphaeroides Mutants Lacking Light-Harvesting and Reaction Center Complexes, Molecular Biology of Membrane-Bound Complexes in Phototrophic Bacteria (pp. 219-226). Springer US
- Genetic Manipulation of the Antenna Complexes of Purple Bacteria, Advances in Photosynthesis and Respiration (pp. 473-501). Kluwer Academic Publishers
Conference proceedings papers
- High-resolution Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) imaging of native biological membrane systems. EUROPEAN BIOPHYSICS JOURNAL WITH BIOPHYSICS LETTERS, Vol. 46 (pp S368-S368)
- Light-Harvesting Complex II in Controlled Architectures: Visualizing Changes in Fluorescence Lifetimes. Biophysical Journal, Vol. 112(3) (pp 441a-441a)
- Redesigning Photosynthetic Membranes: Development of Bio-Inspired Photonic Nanomaterials. Biophysical Journal, Vol. 110(3) (pp 19a-19a)
- Synthesis and nanometer-scale patterning of stimulus-responsive, biofouling-resistant zwitterionic poly(amino acid methacrylate) brushes. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, Vol. 248
- Nanoscale positioning of multiple proteins by scanning near-field photolithography. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, Vol. 248
- Biohybrid antenna complexes with native peptide analogs and tunable synthetic chromophores. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, Vol. 245
- Single designed protein platform with multiple functionalities: Oxidoreductase, oxygen transport, light-harvesting, and light activated electron transfer. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, Vol. 244
- Enhanced stability of photosynthetic energy transfer proteins on gold surfaces.. BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL (pp 507A-507A)
- Band structure and local dynamics of excitons in bacterial light-harvesting complexes revealed by spectrally selective spectroscopy. PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH, Vol. 86(1-2) (pp 37-48)
- Ultrafast enzymatic reaction dynamics in protochlorophyllide-oxidoreductase. Optics InfoBase Conference Papers (pp 388-389)
- Energy production in biological systems probed by electron crystallography. ELECTRON MICROSCOPY AND ANALYSIS 1999(161) (pp 127-132)
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Coherent nuclear motion and exciton state dynamics in photosynthetic light-harvesting pigment proteins . 5th International Conference on Laser Applications in Life Sciences
- Coherent nuclear motions and exciton state dynamics in photosynthetic light-harvesting pigments. European Quantum Electronics Conference - Technical Digest (pp 96-97)
- Gene expression and control of enzymes for synthesis of magnesium protoporphyrin monomethyl ester in Rhodobacter sphaeroides.. Biochemical Society Transactions, Vol. 21(2) (pp 201S-201S)
- SITE-DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS OF THE LH2 LIGHT-HARVESTING COMPLEX OF RHODOBACTER-SPHAEROIDES - CHANGING BETA-LYS23 TO GLN RESULTS IN A SHIFT IN THE 850 NM ABSORPTION PEAK. PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY, Vol. 57(1) (pp 2-5)
Preprints
- Assessment of the Role and Origin of S* in Orange Carotenoid Protein Photoconversion, arXiv.
- Sulfoquinovosyl diacylglycerol is required for dimerization of the Rhodobacter sphaeroides RC-LH1 core complex, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
- De novo design of energy transfer proteins housing excitonically coupled chlorophyll special pairs, Research Square Platform LLC.
- Enhancing the spectral range of plant and bacterial Light-Harvesting pigment-protein complexes with various synthetic chromophores incorporated into lipid vesicles, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
- Structure of the light harvesting 2 complex reveals two carotenoid energy transfer pathways in a photosynthetic bacterium, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
- Atoms to Phenotypes: Molecular Design Principles of Cellular Energy Metabolism.
- Sulfoquinovosyl diacylglycerol is required for dimerisation of the Rhodobacter sphaeroides reaction centre-light harvesting 1 core complex. Biochemical Journal, 481(13), 823-838.
- Research group
- Professional activities and memberships
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- 2023-2026: Visiting Professor in Engineering, Oxford University
- 2021: Chinese Academy of Sciences: President’s International Fellowship for Distinguished Scientists
- 2020-26: European Research Council Synergy Award
- 2018: Biochemical Society Keilin Memorial Lecture
- 2015: Delivered the Joel Mandelstam Lecture, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford
- 2014: Delivered the Inspiring Wisdom Distinguished Lecture, Shanghai JiaoTong University.
- 2013 - 18: European Research Council Advanced Award
- 2013 - 16: Honorary Professor, Shanghai JiaoTong University.
- 2013: Delivered the 21st Masters Distinguished Lecture, Shanghai JiaoTong University
- 2012: Chinese Academy of Sciences: Visiting Professorship for Senior International Scientists
- 2012: Honorary Professor, Qinqdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology
- 2009: Elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society
- 2007: Delivered The Neuberger Lecture, Novartis Foundation, London
- 2003: Delivered The Drummond Lecture, Queen Mary College, London
- 1996: D.Sc, Bristol University
- 1986: Visiting EMBO Fellowship, Dept Biophysics, Leiden University, The Netherlands
- 1980 - 82: SRC Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of Biochemistry, Bristol University
- 1978 - 80: Charles and Joanna Busch Postdoctoral Fellowship, Rutgers University, NJ, USA