Adam Ben-Shem

Summary

Affiliation: Weizmann Institute of Science
Country: Israel

Publications

  1. ncbi Structural basis for intramembrane proteolysis by rhomboid serine proteases
    Adam Ben-Shem
    Department of Biological Chemistry, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104:462-6. 2007
  2. ncbi Crystallization and initial X-ray diffraction studies of higher plant photosystem I
    Adam Ben-Shem
    Department of Biological Chemistry, George S Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Israel
    Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr 59:1824-7. 2003
  3. ncbi Structure of plant photosystem I revealed by theoretical modeling
    Craig Jolley
    Department of Physics and Astronomy, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85281-1504, USA
    J Biol Chem 280:33627-36. 2005
  4. ncbi Crystal structure of plant photosystem I
    Adam Ben-Shem
    Department of Biochemistry, The George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
    Nature 426:630-5. 2003
  5. ncbi Evolution of photosystem I - from symmetry through pseudo-symmetry to asymmetry
    Adam Ben-Shem
    Department of Biochemistry, The George S Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
    FEBS Lett 564:274-80. 2004
  6. ncbi The complex architecture of oxygenic photosynthesis
    Nathan Nelson
    Department of Biochemistry, The George S Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
    Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol 5:971-82. 2004

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Publications6

  1. ncbi Structural basis for intramembrane proteolysis by rhomboid serine proteases
    Adam Ben-Shem
    Department of Biological Chemistry, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104:462-6. 2007
    ..Our results reveal a mechanism to enable water-dependent catalysis at the depth of the hydrophobic milieu of the membrane and suggest how substrates gain access to the sequestered rhomboid active site...
  2. ncbi Crystallization and initial X-ray diffraction studies of higher plant photosystem I
    Adam Ben-Shem
    Department of Biological Chemistry, George S Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Israel
    Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr 59:1824-7. 2003
    ..4 A resolution data set, taking advantage of the high isomorphicity observed for these crystals. Analysis of the self-rotation Patterson function suggests the possible presence of two PSI complexes in the asymmetric unit...
  3. ncbi Structure of plant photosystem I revealed by theoretical modeling
    Craig Jolley
    Department of Physics and Astronomy, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85281-1504, USA
    J Biol Chem 280:33627-36. 2005
    ..Our model reveals some important structural features of plant PSI that were not visible in the crystal structure, and our model sheds light on the evolutionary relationship between plant and cyanobacterial PSI...
  4. ncbi Crystal structure of plant photosystem I
    Adam Ben-Shem
    Department of Biochemistry, The George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
    Nature 426:630-5. 2003
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  5. ncbi Evolution of photosystem I - from symmetry through pseudo-symmetry to asymmetry
    Adam Ben-Shem
    Department of Biochemistry, The George S Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
    FEBS Lett 564:274-80. 2004
    ....
  6. ncbi The complex architecture of oxygenic photosynthesis
    Nathan Nelson
    Department of Biochemistry, The George S Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
    Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol 5:971-82. 2004
    ..Structural insights into these complexes are now providing a framework for the exploration not only of energy and electron transfer, but also of the evolutionary forces that shaped the photosynthetic apparatus...