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| Cheryl A KerfeldSummaryAffiliation: University of California Country: USA Publications
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Structure of cytochrome c6 from Arthrospira maxima: an assembly of 24 subunits in a nearly symmetric shellCheryl A Kerfeld
Molecular Biology Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, Box 951570, 90095 1570, USA
Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr 58:1104-10. 2002..The cytochrome c(6) complex described here is the largest assembly of cytochrome c(6) molecules observed thus far...- The crystal structure of a cyanobacterial water-soluble carotenoid binding proteinCheryl A Kerfeld
Molecular Biology Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Structure 11:55-65. 2003..The structure reveals several possible ways in which the protein environment influences the spectral properties of the pigment and provides insight into how the OCP carries out its putative functions in photoprotection... - Structural and EPR characterization of the soluble form of cytochrome c-550 and of the psbV2 gene product from the cyanobacterium Thermosynechococcus elongatusCheryl A Kerfeld
Molecular Biology Institute, UCLA, Box 951570, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1570, USA
Plant Cell Physiol 44:697-706. 2003..The UV-visible, EPR and Raman spectra are reported. From the spectroscopic data and from a theoretical structural model based on the cytochrome c-550 structure it is proposed that the 6th ligand of the heme-iron is the Tyr86... - Water-soluble carotenoid proteins of cyanobacteriaCheryl A Kerfeld
Molecular Biology Institute, UCLA Box 951570, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1570, USA
Arch Biochem Biophys 430:2-9. 2004..Structural, biochemical, and genomic data on the OCP and its paralogs are gradually revealing how these proteins function in photoprotection... 
Atomic-level models of the bacterial carboxysome shellShiho Tanaka
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California at Los Angeles UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Science 319:1083-6. 2008..Combining these pentamers with the hexamers previously elucidated gives two plausible, preliminary atomic models for the carboxysome shell...- Structure of the RuBisCO chaperone RbcX from Synechocystis sp. PCC6803Shiho Tanaka
UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, 611 Charles Young Drive East, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1569, USA
Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr 63:1109-12. 2007..PCC6803, is reported, revealing an unusually long protruding C-terminal helix, as well as a bound polyethylene glycol molecule in the protein substrate-binding site... - The 1.6 A resolution structure of Fe-superoxide dismutase from the thermophilic cyanobacterium Thermosynechococcus elongatusCheryl A Kerfeld
Molecular Biology Institute, UCLA, Box 951570, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1570, USA
J Biol Inorg Chem 8:707-14. 2003..elongatus FeSOD EPR spectra at pH 5.1, 7.5 and 10.0 are similar. This indicates that no change in the geometry of the Fe(III) site occurs over a wide range of pH. This is in contrast to the other FeSODs described in the literature... - The structure of beta-carbonic anhydrase from the carboxysomal shell reveals a distinct subclass with one active site for the price of twoMichael R Sawaya
Molecular Biology Institute, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1570, USA
J Biol Chem 281:7546-55. 2006..Crystal packing analysis suggests that CsoSCA exists within the carboxysome shell either as a homodimer or as extended filaments... 
Structural analysis of CsoS1A and the protein shell of the Halothiobacillus neapolitanus carboxysomeYingssu Tsai
Molecular Biology Institute, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
PLoS Biol 5:e144. 2007..Insights into carboxysome function are provided by comparisons of the carboxysome shell to viral capsids, and a comparison of its pores to the pores of transmembrane protein channels...- Protein structures forming the shell of primitive bacterial organellesCheryl A Kerfeld
Molecular Biology Institute, University of California, Los Angeles UCLA, Box 951570, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Science 309:936-8. 2005..The structures suggest how molecular transport across the shell may be controlled and how structural variations might govern the assembly and architecture of these subcellular compartments... - Protein-based organelles in bacteria: carboxysomes and related microcompartmentsTodd O Yeates
UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, USA
Nat Rev Microbiol 6:681-91. 2008..Although bacterial microcompartments were first observed more than 40 years ago, a detailed understanding of how they function is only now beginning to emerge... - A soluble carotenoid protein involved in phycobilisome-related energy dissipation in cyanobacteriaAdjele Wilson
Unité de Recherche Associée 2096, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Service de Bioenergetique, 91191 Gif sur Yvette, France
Plant Cell 18:992-1007. 2006..These are novel roles for a soluble carotenoid protein... - Spectroscopic properties of the carotenoid 3'-hydroxyechinenone in the orange carotenoid protein from the cyanobacterium Arthrospira maximaTomas Polivka
Department of Chemical Physics, Lund University, Box 124, S 221 00 Lund, Sweden
Biochemistry 44:3994-4003. 2005..Furthermore, the binding-induced conformational change and activation of the ICT state that leads to a shortening of hECN lifetime effectively makes the protein-bound hECN a more effective energy dissipator... - A photoactive carotenoid protein acting as light intensity sensorAdjele Wilson
Commissariat a l Energie Atomique, Institut de Biologie et Technologies de Saclay, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 91191 Gif sur Yvette, France
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105:12075-80. 2008..The illumination induces structural changes affecting both the carotenoid and the protein. Thus, the OCP is a photoactive protein that senses light intensity and triggers photoprotection... - Cyanobacterial Photosystem I lacks specificity in its interaction with cytochrome c(6) electron donorsManuel Hervas
Instituto de Bioquimica Vegetal y Fotosintesis, Centro de Investigaciones Cientificas Isla de la Cartuja, Universidad de Sevilla y CSIC, Americo Vespucio 49, Spain
Photosynth Res 83:329-33. 2005..We conclude that the specific structural features of each cytochrome c(6) dictate their different kinetic behaviours, whereas the three photosystems are relatively indiscriminate in docking with the electron donors... - The genome of deep-sea vent chemolithoautotroph Thiomicrospira crunogena XCL-2Kathleen M Scott
Biology Department, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America
PLoS Biol 4:e383. 2006..The genome has characteristics consistent with an obligately chemolithoautotrophic lifestyle, including few transporters predicted to have organic allocrits, and Calvin-Benson-Bassham cycle CDSs scattered throughout the genome... - Light-induced energy dissipation in iron-starved cyanobacteria: roles of OCP and IsiA proteinsAdjele Wilson
Unité de Recherche Associée 2096, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Service de Bioenergetique, Commissariat à l Energie Atomique Saclay, 91191 Gif sur Yvette, France
Plant Cell 19:656-72. 2007..Subsequently, the IsiA converts the excess energy absorbed by the phycobilisomes into heat through a mechanism different from the dynamic and reversible light-induced NPQ processes...