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Putting Metal in the Middle, Structure (2010)
Placing metal ions into the center of a porphyrin ring is a significant cellular challenge....
Recent Advances in Chlorophyll Biosynthesis, Photosynthesis Research (2006)
The importance of chlorophyll (Chl) to the process of photosynthesis is obvious, and there is...
Rhodobacter capsulatus Porphobilinogen Synthase, a High Activity Metal Ion Independent Hexamer (with Cheryl Clauson, Rachel Lighthall, Siiri Forbes, Bashkim Kokona, Robert Fairman, Lenka Kundrat, and Eileen K. Jaffe), BMC Biochemistry (2004)
Background: The enzyme porphobilinogen synthase (PBGS), which is central to the biosynthesis of heme, chlorophyll...
Intermediate Steps in Chlorophyll Biosynthesis: Methylation and Cyclization, The Porphyrin Handbook (2003)
Genetic Analysis of Chlorophyll Biosynthesis (with Jon Y. Suzuki and Carl E. Bauer), Annual Review of Genetics (1997)
During this decade, there have been major advancements in the understanding of genetic loci involved...
The Chlorophyll Biosynthetic Enzyme Mg-Protoporphyrin IX Monomethyl Ester (Oxidative) Cyclase (Characterization and Partial Purification from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii and Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803), Plant Physiology (1996)
A universal structural feature of chlorophyll molecules is the isocyclic ring. This ring is formed...
Anaerobic Protoporphyrin Biosynthesis does not Require Incorporation of Methyl Groups from Methionine (with Thomas Elliott and Samuel I. Beale), Journal of Bacteriology (1995)
It was recently reported (H. Akutsu, J.-S. Park, and S. Sano, J. Am. Chem. Soc....
Formation of the Isocyclic Ring of Chlorophyll by Isolated Clamydomonas reinhardtii Chloroplasts (with Samuel I. Beale), Photosynthesis Research (1995)
Chlamydomonas reinhardtii chloroplasts catalyzed two sequential steps of Chl biosynthesis, S-adenosyl-L-methionine:Mg-protoporphyrin IX methyltransferase and Mg-protoporphyrin...
Molecular Genetic Analysis of Terminal Steps in Bacteriochlorophyll a Biosynthesis: Characterization of a Rhodobacter capsulatus Strain that Synthesizes Geranylgeranoil-Esterified Bacteriochlorophyll a (with Shaojie Wang, James P. Allen, and Carl E. Bauer), Biochemistry (1994)
Site-directed mutational analysis of the Rhodobacter capsulatus photosynthesis gene cluster was undertaken in order to...
Heterologous Expression of the bchM Gene Product from Rhodobacter capsulatus and Demonstration that it Encodes S-Adenosyl-L-Methionine: Mg-Protoporhyrin IX Methyltransferase (with Ze-Yu Jiang, Carl E. Bauer, and Samuel I. Beale), Journal of Bacteriology (1994)
The bacteriochlorophyll biosynthesis gene, bchM, from Rlodobacter capsulatus was previously believed to code for a...
Directed Muataional Analysis of Bacteriochlorophyll a Biosynthesis in Rhodobacter capsulatus (with Jon Y. Suzuki, J. Thomas Beatty, Janice M. Dobrowolski, and Carl E. Bauer), Journal of Molecular Biology (1994)
Previous studies have established that most if not all of the genes required for synthesis...
Genetic Analyses of Photopigment Biosynthesis in Eubacteria: a Guiding Light for Algae and Plants (with Carl E. Bauer and Jon Y. Suzuki), Journal of Bacteriology (1993)
A wide variety of macrocyclic tetrapyrrole compounds are synthesized by cells for use in diverse...
Association of Tetrapyrrole Intermediates in the Bacteriochlorophyll a Biosynthetic Pathway with the Major Outer-Membrane Porin Protein of Rhodobacter capsulatus (with Carl E. Bauer), Biochemical Journal (1992)
Rhodobacter capsulatus regulates synthesis of bacteriochlorophyll a in response to changes in oxygen partial pressure...