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Analytical approaches to photobiological hydrogen production in unicellular green algaeAnja Hemschemeier
AG Photobiotechnologie, Lehrstuhl für Biochemie der Pflanzen, Fakultät für Biologie und Biotechnologie, Ruhr Universitat Bochum, 44780 Bochum, Germany
Photosynth Res 102:523-40. 2009..Furthermore, methods are discussed by which the interaction of photosynthesis, respiration, cellular metabolism, and H(2) production in Chlamydomonas can be monitored and regulated...- A novel screening protocol for the isolation of hydrogen producing Chlamydomonas reinhardtii strainsThilo Rühle
Fakultät für Biologie und Biotechnologie, Lehrstuhl für Biochemie der Pflanzen, AG Photobiotechnologie, Ruhr Universitat Bochum, 44780 Bochum, Germany
BMC Plant Biol 8:107. 2008..This study aimed at isolating C. reinhardtii transformants which produce hydrogen under normal growth conditions to allow a continuous hydrogen metabolism without the stressful impact of nutrient deprivation... - Sustained photobiological hydrogen gas production upon reversible inactivation of oxygen evolution in the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtiiA Melis
Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, 111 Koshland Hall, Berkeley, California 94720 3102, USA
Plant Physiol 122:127-36. 2000..The latter catalyzes the reduction of protons to molecular H(2) in the chloroplast stroma... 
Chloroplast sulfate transport in green algae--genes, proteins and effectsAnastasios Melis
Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 3102, USA
Photosynth Res 86:299-307. 2005....- Photosynthetic H2 metabolism in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (unicellular green algae)Anastasios Melis
Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, 111 Koshland Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720 3102, USA
Planta 226:1075-86. 2007..The process potentially concerns global warming and the question of energy supply and demand... - Isolation and characterization of a xanthophyll-rich fraction from the thylakoid membrane of Dunaliella salina(green algae)Kittisak Yokthongwattana
Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, 111 Koshland Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 3102, USA
Photochem Photobiol Sci 4:1028-34. 2005..salina... - Hydrogen fuel production by transgenic microalgaeAnastasios Melis
University of California, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, 111 Koshland Hall, Berkeley, California 94720 3102, USA
Adv Exp Med Biol 616:110-21. 2007.... - Hydrogen production. Green algae as a source of energyA Melis
Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, 111 Koshland Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 3102, USA
Plant Physiol 127:740-8. 2001..Thus, processes that are presently conceptual in nature, or at a developmental stage in the laboratory, need to be encouraged, tested for feasibility, and otherwise applied toward commercialization... - Role of the reversible xanthophyll cycle in the photosystem II damage and repair cycle in Dunaliella salinaEonSeon Jin
Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, 111 Koshland Hall, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720-3102
Plant Physiol 132:352-64. 2003..These results suggest a role for Z in the protection of photodamaged and disassembled PSII reaction centers, apparently needed while PSII is in the process of degradation and replacement of the D1/32-kD reaction center protein... - Localization and function of SulP, a nuclear-encoded chloroplast sulfate permease in Chlamydomonas reinhardtiiHsu-Ching Chen
Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, 111 Koshland Hall, University of California, CA 94720-3102, Berkeley, USA
Planta 220:198-210. 2004..reinhardtii is discussed along with its impact on the repair of photosystem-II from a frequently occurring photo-oxidative damage and potential use for the elucidation of the H(2)-evolution-related metabolism in this green alga... - Mechanism of REP27 protein action in the D1 protein turnover and photosystem II repair from photodamageDavid Dewez
Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 3102, USA
Plant Physiol 151:88-99. 2009..We conclude that REP27 plays a dual role in the regulation of D1 protein turnover by facilitating cotranslational biosynthesis insertion (C-terminal domain) and activation (TPR motifs) of the nascent D1 during the PSII repair process... - REP27, a tetratricopeptide repeat nuclear-encoded and chloroplast-localized protein, functions in D1/32-kD reaction center protein turnover and photosystem II repair from photodamageSungsoon Park
Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California, 94720 3102, USA
Plant Physiol 143:1547-60. 2007..Elucidation of the PSII repair mechanism may reveal the occurrence of hitherto unknown regulatory and catalytic reactions for the selective in situ replacement of specific proteins from within multiprotein complexes... - Probing green algal hydrogen productionLiping Zhang
Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, 111 Koshland Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3102, USA
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 357:1499-507; discussion 1507-11. 2002..It is concluded that careful titration of the supply of S nutrients in the green alga medium might permit the development of a continuous H(2)-production process... - Biochemical and morphological characterization of sulfur-deprived and H2-producing Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (green alga)Liping Zhang
Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley 94720-3102, USA
Planta 214:552-61. 2002..Interplay between oxygenic photosynthesis, mitochondrial respiration, catabolism of endogenous substrate, and electron transport via the hydrogenase pathway is essential for this light-mediated H2-production process... 
The chloroplast sulfate transport system in the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtiiPia Lindberg
Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 3102, USA
Planta 228:951-61. 2008..reinhardtii, specifically recognized by polyclonal antibodies against SulP and Sabc. These results suggest the presence and function in C. reinhardtii of a Sbp-SulP-SulP2-Sabc chloroplast envelope sulfate transporter holocomplex...- Role of SulP, a nuclear-encoded chloroplast sulfate permease, in sulfate transport and H2 evolution in Chlamydomonas reinhardtiiHsu-Ching Chen
Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3102, USA
Photosynth Res 84:289-96. 2005..Thus, antisulPstrains might permit a study of the biochemistry of H2 metabolism in this green alga under constitutive anaerobic oxygenic photosynthesis conditions... - Optical properties of microalgae for enhanced biofuels productionMautusi Mitra
Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 3102, USA
Opt Express 16:21807-20. 2008..This objective is achieved by genetically truncating the size of the light-harvesting chlorophyll arrays that serve to absorb sunlight in the photosynthetic apparatus... - tla1, a DNA insertional transformant of the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii with a truncated light-harvesting chlorophyll antenna sizeJuergen E W Polle
Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, 111 Koshland Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3102, USA
Planta 217:49-59. 2003..Results are discussed in terms of the tla1 mutation, its phenotype, and the role played by the Tla1 gene in the regulation of the photosynthetic chlorophyll antenna size in C. reinhardtii... - Genetic and biochemical analysis of the TLA1 gene in Chlamydomonas reinhardtiiMautusi Mitra
Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, 111 Koshland Hall MC 3102, Berkeley, CA 94720 3102, USA
Planta 231:729-40. 2010..reinhardtii and the colorless microalga Polytomella parva suggested that TLA1 defines the relationship between nucleus and organelle in microalgae, indirectly affecting the development of the chlorophyll antenna size... - Diffusion-based process for carbon dioxide uptake and isoprene emission in gaseous/aqueous two-phase photobioreactors by photosynthetic microorganismsFiona K Bentley
Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, 111 Koshland Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720 3102, USA
Biotechnol Bioeng 109:100-9. 2012..The diffusion-based process in gaseous/aqueous two-phase photobioreactors has the potential to be applied to other high-value photosynthetically derived volatile molecules, emanating from a variety of photosynthetic microorganisms... - Development of the light-harvesting chlorophyll antenna in the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is regulated by the novel Tla1 geneSarada D Tetali
Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 3102, USA
Planta 225:813-29. 2007..reinhardtii. A blast search with the Tla1 deduced amino acid sequence.. - SulP, a nuclear gene encoding a putative chloroplast-targeted sulfate permease in Chlamydomonas reinhardtiiHsu-Ching Chen
Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3102, USA
Planta 218:98-106. 2003..A comparative structural analysis and phylogenetic origin of chloroplast sulfate permeases in a variety of species is presented... - Biosynthesis and distribution of chlorophyll among the photosystems during recovery of the green alga Dunaliella salina from irradiance stressTatsuru Masuda
Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3102, USA
Plant Physiol 128:603-14. 2002..The results are discussed in terms of different signal transduction pathways for the regulation of the photosynthetic apparatus organization by irradiance... - Engineering a platform for photosynthetic isoprene production in cyanobacteria, using Synechocystis as the model organismPia Lindberg
Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 3102, USA
Metab Eng 12:70-9. 2010..Results showed that oxygenic photosynthesis can be re-directed to generate useful small volatile hydrocarbons, while consuming CO(2), without a prior requirement for the harvesting, dewatering and processing of the respective biomass... - Involvement of zeaxanthin and of the Cbr protein in the repair of photosystem II from photoinhibition in the green alga Dunaliella salinaE S Jin
Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, 111 Koshland Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3102, USA
Biochim Biophys Acta 1506:244-59. 2001.... - Absence of lutein, violaxanthin and neoxanthin affects the functional chlorophyll antenna size of photosystem-II but not that of photosystem-I in the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtiiJ E Polle
Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, 411 Koshland Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3102, USA
Plant Cell Physiol 42:482-91. 2001..It is concluded that zeaxanthin can successfully replace lutein and violaxanthin in most of the functional light-harvesting antenna of the npq2 lor1 mutant... - Truncated photosystem chlorophyll antenna size in the green microalga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii upon deletion of the TLA3-CpSRP43 geneHenning Kirst
Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
Plant Physiol 160:2251-60. 2012..The latter exhibit improved solar energy conversion efficiency and photosynthetic productivity under mass culture and bright sunlight conditions... - Modulation of the light-harvesting chlorophyll antenna size in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii by TLA1 gene over-expression and RNA interferenceMautusi Mitra
Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 367:3430-43. 2012..The results provide a mechanistic understanding of the Chl antenna size regulation by the TLA1 gene... - Assembly of the light-harvesting chlorophyll antenna in the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii requires expression of the TLA2-CpFTSY geneHenning Kirst
Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 3102, USA
Plant Physiol 158:930-45. 2012..The latter exhibit improved solar energy conversion efficiency and photosynthetic productivity under mass culture and bright sunlight conditions... - A mutant of the green alga Dunaliella salina constitutively accumulates zeaxanthin under all growth conditionsEonSeon Jin
Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, 111 Koshland Hall, University of California, Berkeley 94720-3102, USA
Biotechnol Bioeng 81:115-24. 2003..This mutant is discussed in terms of its commercial value and potential utilization by the algal biotechnology industry for the production of zeaxanthin, a high-value bioproduct... - Photosystem II damage and repair cycle in the green alga Dunaliella salina: involvement of a chloroplast-localized HSP70K Yokthongwattana
Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, 111 Koshland Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3102, USA
Plant Cell Physiol 42:1389-97. 2001..The role of the HSP70B in the repair of photodamaged PSII centers, e.g. in stabilizing the disassembled PSII-core complex and in facilitating the D1 degradation and replacement process, is discussed... - Extracellular terpenoid hydrocarbon extraction and quantitation from the green microalgae Botryococcus braunii var. ShowaEla Eroglu
University of California, Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology, Berkeley, CA 94720 3102, USA
Bioresour Technol 101:2359-66. 2010..Advances in this work serve as foundation for a cyclic Botryococcus growth, non-toxic extraction of extracellular hydrocarbons, and return of the hydrocarbon-depleted biomass to growth conditions for further product generation... - Inhibition of photosynthesis by a fluoroquinolone antibioticLudmilla Aristilde
Molecular Toxicology Group, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, and Division of Ecosystem Sciences, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
Environ Sci Technol 44:1444-50. 2010..5 microM in vivo). Our results thus demonstrate that Cipro and related FQ antibiotics may interfere with photosynthetic pathways, in addition to causing morphological deformities in higher plants... - Alternative photosynthetic electron flow to oxygen in marine SynechococcusShaun Bailey
The Carnegie Institution, Department of Plant Biology, 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Biochim Biophys Acta 1777:269-76. 2008..These findings are also discussed in the context of satisfying the energetic requirements of the cell when photosystem I abundance is low... - Chlorophyll antenna size adjustments by irradiance in Dunaliella salina involve coordinate regulation of chlorophyll a oxygenase (CAO) and Lhcb gene expressionTatsuru Masuda
Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama 226-8501, Japan
Plant Mol Biol 51:757-71. 2003..It is proposed that irradiance-dependent adjustments in the chlorophyll antenna size occur by coordinate regulation of CAO and Lhcb gene expression via two distinct signal transduction pathways in photosynthetic organisms... - Hydrogen photoproduction is attenuated by disruption of an isoamylase gene in Chlamydomonas reinhardtiiMatthew C Posewitz
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado 80401, USA
Plant Cell 16:2151-63. 2004..reinhardtii H(2) photoproduction. Moreover, the results indicate that mere anaerobiosis is not sufficient to maintain hydrogenase gene expression without the underlying physiology, an important aspect of which is starch metabolism... - Up-regulation of photoprotection and PSII-repair gene expression by irradiance in the unicellular green alga Dunaliella salinaSeunghye Park
Department of Life Science, Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea
Mar Biotechnol (NY) 8:120-8. 2006..Further, the ATP-dependent Clp protease gene was also up-regulated in D. salina cells after 48 h of exposure to high light. The results provide initial insight into the global gene regulation process in response to irradiance...