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PHOTOSYNTHETIC CAPACITY AND MINOR LOADING VEINS
William W. Adams III, Robert Turgeon and Barbara Demmig-Adams. 

EXCITONIC TUNING OF A CHARGE-TRANSFER STATE REGULATES PHOTOSYNTHETIC LIGHT HARVESTING IN PLANTS
T. K. Ahn, T. J. Avenson, M. Ballottari, Y.-C. Cheng, K. K. Niyogi, R. Bassi and G. R. Fleming.

A WATER TO WATER PSEUDOCYCLE AROUND PHOTOSYSTEM II IN SYNECHOCOCCUS WH8102
Shaun Bailey and Arthur Grossman.

ASSEMBLY OF PURPLE BACTERIAL LIGHT-HARVESTING COMPLEXES
J. Thomas Beatty, Paul R. Jaschke, Jeanette A. Johnson, Heidi N. LeBlanc, Andrew S. Lang, and Dale Pelletier.

SINGLET OXYGEN SIGNALING IN CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII
Beat B. Fischer, Rik I. L. Eggen and Krishna K. Niyogi.

TIC-TAT-TOC: A COMPLEX GAME OF PROTEIN TRANSLOCATION IN CHLOROPLASTS
Barry D. Bruce.

INVESTIGATION OF COMPLEX FORMATION AND CRYSTALLIZATION OF PHOTOSYSTEM I AND PLASTOCYANIN IN CYANOBACTERIA
Yana S. Bukhman-DeRuyter, Ingo Grotjohann, Beatrix Schlarb-Ridley, Hualing Mi Raimund Fromme and Petra Fromme.

REEXAMINING THE ROLE OF SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE IN PHOTOSYNTHESIS USING PLANTS WITHOUT SOD ACTIVITY IN THE CHLOROPLAST AND CYTOSOL
Christopher M. Cohu, Salah E. Abdel-Ghany, Kathryn A. Gogolin, and Marinus Pilon.

PHOTOSYNTHETIC OXYGEN EVOLUTION
Richard J. Debus.

VARIATIONS IN ACCLIMATION OF PHOTOSYNTHESIS & PHOTOPROTECTION IN OVERWINTERING PLANTS
Barbara Demmig-Adams, Matthew R. Dumlao and William W. Adams III. 

REP27, A NUCLEAR-ENCODED AND CHLOROPLAST-LOCALIZED PROTEIN FUNCTIONS IN THE PHOTOSYSTEM-II D1/32 kD REACTION CENTER PROTEIN TURNOVER
David Dewez, Sungsoon Park, Jose Gines Garcia-Cerdan and Anastasios Melis.

A GIANT PSI-ISIA SUPERCOMPLEX UNRAVELS A NEW MECHANISM FOR THE ADAPTATION OF PHOTOSYNTHESIS TO IRON LIMITATION
Petra Fromme, Devendra Chauhan, I. Mihaela Folea, R. Kouril, Cara Lubner, Felisa Wolfe-Simon, John Golbeck and Egbert J. Boekema.

STRUCTURE OF C-PHYCOCYANIN AT 1.85 A FROM GALDIERIA SULPHURARIA
Raimund Fromme, Balakumar Thangaraj, Christopher Vanselow and Petra Fromme. 

COMPARISON STUDY OF THE PHOTOSYSTEM II (PSII) FUNCTIONALITY IN  ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA “LPA1” AND CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII “REP27”  MUTANTS UNDER PHOTOINHIBITORY AND RECOVERY  CONDITIONS
Jose Gines Garcia-Cerdan, David Dewez, Sungsoon Park, Wolfgang P. Schroder and Anastasios Melis.

LIGHT-HARVESTING AND PHOTOPROTECTION IN DIATOMS: IDENTIFICATION AND ROLE OF L818-LIKE PROTEINS IN THALASSIOSIRA PSEUDONANA
Beverley R. Green and Songhua Zhu.

INVESTIGATION OF THE STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF A ZINC-BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLL PHOTOSYSTEM IN RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES
Paul R. Jaschke, Mark L. Paddock and J. Thomas Beatty.

CHLOROPLAST-TO-NUCLEUS SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION UNDER STRESS CONDITIONS IN ARABIDOPSIS
Hou-Sung Jung, Fangxin Hong and Joanne Chory.

THE USE OF PHOTOSYNTHETIC MUTANTS TO ELUCIDATE THE MECHANISM OF REGULATION OF PHOTOSYNTHESIS BY ATP SYNTHASE UNDER VARIABLE CLIMATIC CONDITIONS
Olavi Kiirats, David M. Kramer and Gerald E. Edwards.

CHARACTERIZATION OF DNA INSERTIONAL MUTAGENESIS TRANSFORMANTS OF CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII WITH A TRUNCATED LIGHT-HARVESTING CHLOROPHYLL ANTENNA SIZE 
Henning Kirst and Anastasios Melis.

CHARACTERIZATION OF THE CHLOROPLAST SULFATE TRANSPORTER SYSTEM IN THE GREEN ALGA CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII
Pia Lindberg and Anastasios Melis.

THE ROLE OF CL- COFACTORS OF THE WATER OXIDATION PROCESS IN PHOTOSYSTEM II
Xi Long, Yulia Pushkar, Junko Yano, Ken Sauer, Alan Boussac and Vittal Yachandra.

GREEN IMMUNOPHILINS: CHAPERONES FOR PHOTOSYNTHETIC COMPLEXES
Sheng Luan.

PHOTOSYNTHETIC BIOFUELS – ISSUES AND PROSPECTS
Anastasios Melis.

EFFECT OF SULFUR-DEPRIVATION ON PHOTOSYNTHETIC HYDROGEN PRODUCTION BY RHODOSPIRILLUM RUBRUM
Matthew R. Melnicki and Anastasios Melis.

CHLOROPLAST FUNCTION REVEALED THROUGH PHYLOGENOMIC ANALYSIS
Sabeeha Merchant, Simon Prochnik, Steven Karpowicz, Daniel Rokhsar and Arthur Grossman.

THE C4-CO2 CONCENTRATING MECHANISM OF DIATOMS
Allen J. Milligan, Adam Kustka and John Reinfelder.

BIOINSPIRED CONSTRUCTS THAT MIMIC THE ELECTRON TRANSFER BETWEEN P680•+ AND TYROSINE Z IN PHOTOSYSTEM II
Gary F. Moore, Michael Hambourger, Gerdenis Kodis, Amy Keirstead, Miguel Gervaldo, Paul A. Liddell, Devens Gust, Ana L. Moore, and Thomas A. Moore.

BIOINSPIRRED ENERGY CONVERSION SCHEMES
Ana L. Moore, Gary F. Moore, Michael Hambourger, Gerdenis Kodis, Amy Keirstead, Miguel Gervaldo, Devens Gust and Thomas A. Moore.

SURFACE ATTACHMENT DYNAMICS OF PHOTOSYSTEM I SELF-ASSEMBLY ON THIOL FUNCTIONALIZED AU SUBSTRATES FOR PHOTOVOLATIC APPLICATIONS
Dibyendu Mukherjee, Michael Vaughn, Bamin Khomami and Barry D. Bruce.

ENHANCED IN VITRO HYDROGEN EVOLUTION USING A PLATINIZED PSI AND A MUTAGENIZED RECOMBINANT CYTOCHROME C553 FROM THERMOSYNECHOCOCCUS ELONGATUS
Natalie Myers, Michael Vaughn, Ifeyinw Iwuchukwu, Hugh O’Neill, Paul Frymeir and Barry D. Bruce.

PHYSIOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF THE NPQ4 AND STT7 MUTANTS OF CHLAMYDOMONAS WHEN THEY ARE GROWN IN EXCESS LIGHT
Graham Peers, Giovanni Finazzi and Krishna K. Niyogi.

ENGINEERING PHOTOSYNTHESIS INTO ESCHERICHIA COLI
Howard Salis, Zhirong Li, Kris Niyogi and Chris Voigt.

NUCLEAR MUTATIONS LEADING TO LOSS OF ACTIVITY OF THE CHLOROPLAST-ENCODED LIGHT-INDEPENDENT PROTOCHLOROPHYLLIDE REDUCTASE IN THE PHOTOSYNTHETIC MODEL ORGANISM CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII
Marina N. Sharifi, Rachel M. Dent and Krishna K. Niyogi.

BETA-TOCOPHEROL IS BETTER THAN ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL AT PROTECTING CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII FROM PHOTO-OXIDATIVE STRESS 
Anchalee Sirikhachornkit, Jai W. Shin, Irene Baroli and Krishna K. Niyogi.

PHOTOSYNTHETIC PERFORMANCE OF SINGLE-CELL C4 SPECIES IN FAMILY CHENOPODIACEAE
Monica E. Smith, Nouria K. Koteyeva, Elena V. Voznesenskaya, Simon D.X. Chuong, Olavi Kiirats and Gerald E. Edwards.

PHOTOSYNTHETIC PERFORMANCE OF COMMIPHORA WIGHTII TO EXTREME ARID CONDITIONS
Vineet Soni.

A TEST OF THE OXYGEN PARADOX USING ANTIOXIDANT-DEFICIENT CYANOBACTERIA
David J. Thomas, John Boling, K. Marie Crowell, L. Michelle Eubanks, Tiffany McSpadden, Carl Rector, Christy L. Schuchardt, CaSandra J. Spurlock, and Jaime Warrington.

DIRECTED SELECTION FOR CO2-TOLERANT CYANOBACTERIA AND ALGAE
David J. Thomas, K. Marie Crowell and Camille Chan. 
Lyon College, Science Division, Batesville, Arkansas 72501, USA.

THE EFFECTS OF EXOGENOUS HYDROGEN PEROXIDE ON CYANOBACTERIAL ANTIOXIDANT MUTANTS UNDER AMBIENT AND PRIMORDIAL CONDITIONS
David J. Thomas, Neil McCarthy and K. Marie Crowell.

THE CRYSTAL STRUCTURE OF THE FMO PROTEIN OF PROSTHECOCHLORIS AESTUARII AT 1.25Å RESOLUTION
Dale E. Tronrud, Leslie Gay, Roger Fenna, Jianzhong Wen, and Robert Blankenship.

THE CHLOROPLASTIC NIFS PROTEIN IS ESSENTIAL FOR PHOTOSYNTHETIC ELECTRON TRANSPORT
Doug Van Hoewyk, Marinus Pilon and Elizabethe Pilon-Smits.

STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION STUDIES OF THE PHOTOSYNTHETIC APPARATUS FROM GALDIERIA SULPHURARIA
Christopher R. Vanselow, Balakumar Thangaraj and Petra Fromme.

CHARACTERIZATION OF SINGLET OXYGEN ACCLIMATION MUTANTS OF CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII
Setsuko Wakao, Brian Chin, Heidi K. Ledford and Krishna K. Niyogi.

HIGH-RESOLUTION TOP-DOWN MASS SPECTROMETRY OF CYTOCHROME B6F COMPLEX FROM NOSTOC
Julian P. Whitelegge, Danas Baniulis, Christopher M. Ryan and William A. Cramer.

A MODEL FOR THE TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE OF INITIAL PHOTOSYNTHETIC ELECTRON TRANSFER
Neal W. Woodbury, Haiyu Wang, Su Lin, Evaldas Katilius and Christa Laser.

STRUCTURAL CHANGES OF THE OXYGEN-EVOLVING COMPLEX IN PHOTOSYSTEM II: CRITICAL ROLES OF LIGANDS AND CA CO-FACTOR
Junko Yano, Yulia Pushkar, Vittal K. Yachandra, Melodie Strickler, Lee Walker, Richard J. Debus and Alain Boussac.
 
 

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