Advances in the Understanding of the Lifecycle of Photosystem II

VM Johnson, HB Pakrasi - Microorganisms, 2022 - mdpi.com
Photosystem II is a light-driven water-plastoquinone oxidoreductase present in
cyanobacteria, algae and plants. It produces molecular oxygen and protons to drive ATP …

The biogenesis and maintenance of PSII: Recent advances and current challenges

J Komenda, R Sobotka, PJ Nixon - The Plant Cell, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The growth of plants, algae and cyanobacteria relies on the catalytic activity of the oxygen-
evolving photosystem two (PSII) complex which uses solar energy to extract electrons from …

RESISTANCE TO PHYTOPHTHORA1 promotes cytochrome b559 formation during early photosystem II biogenesis in Arabidopsis

LP Che, J Ruan, Q Xin, L Zhang, F Gao, L Cai… - The Plant …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
As an essential intrinsic component of photosystem II (PSII) in all oxygenic photosynthetic
organisms, heme-bridged heterodimer cytochrome b559 (Cyt b559) plays critical roles in the …

Assembly of D1/D2 complexes of photosystem II: Binding of pigments and a network of auxiliary proteins

J Knoppová, R Sobotka, J Yu, M Bečková… - Plant …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Photosystem II (PSII) is the multi-subunit light-driven oxidoreductase that drives
photosynthetic electron transport using electrons extracted from water. To investigate the …

Surface requirements for optimal biosensing with disposable gold electrodes

M Zamani, V Yang, L Maziashvili, G Fan… - ACS measurement …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Electrochemical biosensors are promising technologies for detection and monitoring in low-
resource settings due to their potential for easy use and low-cost instrumentation …

Immunophilin CYN28 is required for accumulation of photosystem II and thylakoid FtsH protease in Chlamydomonas

W Fu, Z Cui, J Guo, X Cui, G Han, Y Zhu, J Hu… - Plant …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Excess light causes severe photodamage to photosystem II (PSII) where the primary charge
separation for electron transfer takes place. Dissection of mechanisms underlying the PSII …

Proteome mapping of a cyanobacterium reveals distinct compartment organization and cell-dispersed metabolism

LL Baers, LM Breckels, LA Mills, L Gatto… - Plant …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Cyanobacteria are complex prokaryotes, incorporating a Gram-negative cell wall and
internal thylakoid membranes (TMs). However, localization of proteins within cyanobacterial …

Acclimation of photosynthesis and lipids biosynthesis to prolonged nitrogen and phosphorus limitation in Nannochloropsis gaditana

N Fattore, A Bellan, L Pedroletti, N Vitulo, T Morosinotto - Algal Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Microalgae represent a potential sustainable source of molecules and materials and the
improvement of the knowledge of their metabolic regulation is essential to maximize their …

Rubredoxin 1 promotes the proper folding of D1 and is not required for heme b559 assembly in Chlamydomonas photosystem II

RH Calderon, C de Vitry, FA Wollman… - Journal of Biological …, 2023 - ASBMB
Photosystem II (PSII), the water: plastoquinone oxidoreductase of oxygenic photosynthesis,
contains a heme b 559 iron whose axial ligands are provided by histidine residues from the …

One-helix protein 2 is not required for the synthesis of photosystem II subunit D1 in Chlamydomonas

F Wang, K Dischinger, LD Westrich, I Meindl… - Plant …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
In land plants and cyanobacteria, co-translational association of chlorophyll (Chl) to the
nascent D1 polypeptide, a reaction center protein of photosystem II (PSII), requires a Chl …