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Publications: Structure-Function of Cytochrome b6f

Structure-Function of Cytochrome b6f


Recent Abstracts
  1. Zatsman, A., H. Zhang, W. Gunderson, W. Cramer, and M. Hendrich. 2007. Towards function of the unique heme cn: EPR spectroscopy of heme-heme interactions in cytochrome b6f complex. Abstr. 52nd Ann. Mtg. Biophys. Soc., Baltimore, MD, p. 505a.
  2. Yamashita, E., H. Zhang, X. Shi, and W. A. Cramer. 2007. Structure of the cytochrome b6f complex: Mechanism of inhibition by the quinone analogue, NQNO. Abstr. 52nd Ann. Mtg. Biophys. Soc., Baltimore, MD, p. 74a.

Recent Publications
  1. Yamashita, E., H. Zhang, D. Baniulis, and W.A. Cramer (2008) structure of the cytochrome b6f complex: n-side donor pathway to plastoquinone pool. Photosynthesis: Energy from the Sun (J. Allen et al., eds), vol. 1, pp. 569-572 (J. Allen et al. eds.) Proc. XIII Cong. Photosynthesis, Glasgow
  2. Baniulis, D., E. Yamashita, H. Zhang, S. S. Hasan, and W. A. Cramer (2008). Structure-Function of the Cytochrome b6f Complex. Photochemistry and Photobiology, 84: 1349-1358.
  3. Yan, J., N. Dashdorj, D. Baniulis, E. Yamashita, S. Savikhin, and W. A. Cramer. 2008. On the Structural Role of the Aromatic Residue Environment of the Chlorophyll a in the Cytochrome b6f Complex. Biochemistry. 2008 Mar 25;47(12):3654-61.
  4. Cramer, W. A, D. Baniulis, E. Yamashita, H. Zhang, A.I. Zatsman, M.P. Hendrich. 2008. Structure, spectroscopy, and function of the cytochrome b6f complex: heme cn and n-side electron and proton transfer reactions; in Photosynthetic Protein Complexes. A Structural Approach (P. Fromme, ed.), Wiley-VCH, Weinheim; pp. 155-179.
  5. Dashdorj N., E. Yamashita­­, J. Schaibley, W. A. Cramer, and S. Savikhin. 2007. Ultrafast Optical Pump-Probe Studies of the Cytochrome b6f Complex in Solution and Crystalline States. J. Phys. Chem. B. 2007; 111(51); 14405-14410.
  6. Yamashita, E., Zhang, H., and Cramer, W. A. 2007. Structure-function of the cytochrome b6f complex: quinone analogue inhibitors as ligands of the heme cn, J. Mol. Biol., 370: 39-52.
  7. Cramer, W. A., H. Zhang, J. Yan, G. Kurisu, E. Yamashita, N. Dashdorj, H. Kim, and S. Savikhin. 2007. Structure-function of the cytochrome b6f complex: a design that has worked for three billion years; in Primary Processes of Photosynthesis, vol. 2, Reaction Centers/Photosystems, Electron Transport Chains (G. Renger, ed.), in Comprehensive Series in Photosciences (D. P. Haeder and D. Jori, series eds.), pp. 419-448, Royal Society of London, London, UK.
  8. Zatsman, A. I., H. Zhang, W. A. Gunderson, W. A. Cramer, and M. P. Hendrich. 2006. Heme-heme interactions in the cytochrome b6f complex EPR spectroscopy and correlation with structure.J. Am. Chem. Soc., 128: 14246-14247.
  9. Cramer, W. A. and H. Zhang. 2006. Consequences of the Structure of the Cytochrome b6f Complex for Its Charge Transfer Mechanisms.(Proc. XIV European Bioenergetics Congress) Biochim. Biophys. Acta, 1757: 339-345.
  10. Cramer, W. A., H. Zhang, J. Yan, G. Kurisu and J. L. Smith. 2006. Trans-membrane traffic in the cytochrome b6f complex. Ann. Rev. Biochem., 75, 769-790.
  11. Whitelegge, J. P., A. Lagonowsky, J. Nishio, P. Souda, H. Zhang, and W. A. Cramer. 2006. Sequencing covalent modifications of membrane proteins. J. Exptl. Botany (Special Issue, Plant Proteomics) 57: 1515-1522.
  12. Adams, K. L., S. Tsoi, J. Yan, Stephen M. Durbin, A. K. Ramdas, W. A. Cramer, W. Sturhahn, E. E. Alp, and C. Schulz. 2006. Fe vibrational spectroscopy of myoglobin and cytochrome f. J. Phys. Chem. B., 110: 530-536.
  13. Yan, J., G. Kurisu, and W. A. Cramer. 2006. Intraprotein transfer of the quinone analogue inhibitor 2,5-dibromo-3-methyl-6-isopropyl-p-benzoquinone in the cytochrome b6f complex. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci, USA, 103, 69-74.
  14. Cramer, W. A., H. Zhang, J. Yan and G. Kurisu. 2005. Binding sites of lipophilic quinone and quinone analogue inhibitors in the cytochrome b6f complex of oxygenic photosynthesis. Biochem. Soc. Transactions 33: 921–923.
  15. Kim, H.,N. Dashdorj, H. Zhang, J. Yan, W. A. Cramer, and S. Savikhin. 2005. An Anomalous Distance Dependence of Intra-Protein Chlorophyll-Carotenoid Triplet Energy Transfer. Biophys. J. Letters, 89: L28-L30.
  16. Zhang, H., & W. A. Cramer. 2005. Problems in obtaining diffraction-quality crystals of hetero- oligomeric integral membrane proteins. J. Struct. Funct. Genomics (NIGMS Protein Production and Crystallization Workshop), 6: 219-223.
  17. Dashdorj, N., H. Zhang, H. Kim, J. Yan, W. A. Cramer, and S. Savikhin. 2005. The Single Chlorophyll a Molecule in the Cytochrome b6f Complex: Unusual Optical Properties Protect the Complex against Singlet Oxygen. Biophys. J., 88: 4178-4187.
  18. Zhang, H., A. Primak, M. K. Bowman, D. M. Kramer and W. A. Cramer. 2004. Characterization of the high spin nature of heme x in the cytochrome b6f complex of oxygenic photosynthesis. Biochemistry, 43: 16329-16336.
  19. Yan, J., and W. A. Cramer. 2004. Molecular control of a bimodal distribution of quinone-analogue inhibitor binding sites in the cytochrome b6f complex. J. Mol. Biol, 344: 481-493.
  20. Cramer, W. A., J. Yan, H. Zhang, G. Kurisu and J. L. Smith. 2004. Structure of the cytochrome b6f complex: new prosthetic groups, Q-space, and the "hors d'oeuvres hypothesis" for assembly of the complex. Photosyn. Res., 85:133-144.
  21. Smith, J. L., H. Zhang, J. Yan, G. Kurisu, and W. A. Cramer. 2004. Cytochrome bc complexes: a common core of structure and function surrounded by diversity in the outlying provinces. Current Opinion in Structural Biology (eds., S. Iwata & H. R. Kaback), 14:432-439.
  22. Cramer, W. A., H. Zhang, J. Yan, G. Kurisu, & JL Smith,. 2004. Evolution of photosynthesis: Time independent structure of the cytochrome b6f complex of oxygenic photosynthesis. Biochemistry (Review) 43: 5921-5929.
  23. Cramer, W. A. 2004. Ironies in photosynthetic electron transport: a personal perspective. In Historical Perspectives of Photosynthesis (Govindjee and J. Allen, eds.) Photosyn Res. 80: 293-305
  24. Zhang, H., and W. A. Cramer. 2004. Purification and Crystallization of the Cytochrome b6f Complex in Oxygenic Photosynthesis. Methods in Molecular Biology, Vol. 274: Photosynthesis Research Protocols,  pp. 67-78 (Ed., R. Carpentier), Humana Press Inc, Totowa, NJ
  25. Kurisu, G., H. Zhang, J. L. Smith, & W. A. Cramer. 2003. Structure and mechanism of the cytochrome b6f complex of oxygenic photosynthesis: Tuning the cavity. Science, 302:.1009-1014
  26. Zhang, H., G. Kurisu*, J. L. Smith & W. A. Cramer. 2003. A Defined Protein-Detergent-Lipid Complex for Crystallization of Integral Membrane Proteins: The Cytochrome b6f Complex of Oxygenic Photosynthesis Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., USA, 100: 5160-5163
  27. Yan, J., & W. A. Cramer. 2003. Functional insensitivity of the cytochrome b6f complex to structure changes in the hinge region of the Rieske iron-sulfur protein. J. Biol. Chem., 278:20925-20933
  28. Whitelegge, J, H Zhang, R Taylor, & WA Cramer 2002. Full subunit coverage liquid chromatography electrospray-ionization mass spectrometry (LCMS+) of an oligomeric membrane protein complex: the cytochrome b6f complex from spinach and the cyanobacterium, Mastigocladus laminosus. Molec. Cell. Proteomics, 1: 816-827
  29. Soriano, G. M., L. W. Guo, C. de Vitry, T. Kallas, & W. A. Cramer. 2002. Electron transfer from the Rieske iron-sulfur protein to cytochrome f in vitro: Is a guided trajectory necessary for competent docking? J. Biol. Chem., 277: 41865-41871.
  30. Soriano, G. M., & W. A. Cramer. 2001. Deuterium kinetic isotope effects in the p-side pathway for quinol oxidation by the cytochrome b6f complex. Biochemistry, 40: 15109-1511
  31. H. Zhang, J. P. Whitelegge, and W. A. Cramer. 2001. Ferredoxin:NADP+ reductase is a subunit of the plant cytochrome b6f complex. J. Biol. Chem., 276: 38159-38165.
  32. Soriano, G. M., J. L. Smith, & W. A. Cramer. 2001. Cytochrome f in Handbook of Metalloproteins (Eds., K Weighardt, R. Huber, T. Poulos, and A, Messerschmidt), John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, Vo.l. 1, pp. 172-181.
  33. Heimann, S., M. V. Ponamarev, and W. A. Cramer. 2000. Movement of the Rieske iron-sulfur protein in the p-side bulk aqueous phase: effect of lumenal viscosity on redox reactions of the cytochrome b6f complex. Biochemistry 39:2622-262.
  34. Ponamarev, M. V., B. Schlarb, C. J. Carrell,, C. J. Howe, J. L. Smith, D. S. Bendall and W. A. Cramer. 2000. Tryptophan-heme p-electrostatic interactions in cytochrome f of oxygenic photosynthesis. Biochemistry 39 5971-5976.
  35. Sainz, G., C. J. Carrell, M. V. Ponamarev, G. M. Soriano, W. A. Cramer, and J. L. Smith. 2000. Interruption of the internal water chain of cytochrome f impairs photosynthetic function. Biochemistry 39: 9164-9173.
  36. Carrell, C. J., B. G. Schlarb, C. J. Howe, D. S. Bendall, W. A. Cramer, and J. L. Smith. 1999. Structure of the cytochrome f soluble domain from Phormidium laminosus: Convergent evolution of the membrane-bound c-type cytochromes from respiratory and photosynthetic bc complexes. Biochemistry 38: 9590-9599.
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