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- Blankenship RE (2002) Molecular Mechanisms of Photosynthesis, Blackwell Science, Oxford, UK.
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- Blankenship RE and Matsuura K (2003) Antenna Complexes from Green Photosynthetic Bacteria. In: Light-Harvesting Antennas, BR Green and WW Parson, Eds, Kluwer Academic Publishing, Dordrecht, 195-217.
- Bond C, Blankenship RE, Freeman H, Guss JM, Maher M, Selvaraj F, Wilce M and Willingham K (2001) Crystal structure of Auracyanin, a ‘Blue’ copper protein from the green thermophilic photosynthetic bacterium Chloroflexus aurantiacus, J. Molec. Biol., 306: 47-67.
- Lee M, del Rosario MC, Harris HH, Blankenship RE, Guss JM and Freeman HC (2009) The Crystal Structure of Auracyanin A at 1.85Å Resolution: The Structures and Functions of Auracyanins A and B, Two Almost Identical ‘Blue’ Copper Proteins, in the Photosynthetic Bacterium Chloroflexus aurantiacus. J. Biological Inorganic Chemistry14: 329-345.
- Yanyushin MF, del Rosario M, Brune DC and Blankenship RE (2005) A New Class of Bacterial Membrane Oxidoreductases. Biochemistry 44: 10037-10045.
- Gao X, Xin Y and Blankenship RE (2009) Enzymatic Activity of the Alternative Complex III as a Menaquinol:Auracyanin Oxidoreductase in the Electron Transfer Chain of Chloroflexus aurantiacus. FEBS Lett. In Press.
- Swingley WD, Gholba S, Mastrian SD, Matthies HJ, Hao J, Ramos H, Acharya CR, Conrad AL, Taylor HL, Dejesa LC, Shah MK, O’Huallachain ME, Lince MT, Blankenship RE, Beatty JT and Touchman JW (2007) A ubiquitous marine phototroph with a novel carbon-fixation pathway. J. Bacteriology, 189: 683-690.
- Swingley WD, Chen M, Cheung PC, Conrad AL, Dejesa LC, Hao J, Honchak BM, Karbach LE, Kurdoglu A, Lahiri S, Mastrian SD, Miyashita H, Page LE, Ramakrishna P, Satoh S, Sattley WM, Shimada Y, Taylor HL, Tomo T, Tsuchiya T, Wang ZT, Raymond J, Mimuro M, Blankenship RE and Touchman JW (2008) Niche adaptation and genome expansion in the chlorophyll d-producing cyanobacterium Acaryochloris marina. Proc. Nat’l. Acad. Sci. USA 105: 2005-2010.
- Sattley WM, Madigan MT, Swingley WD, Cheung PC, Clocksin KM, Conrad AL, Dejesa LC, Honchak BM, Jung DO, Karbach LE, Kurdoglu A, Lahiri S, Mastrian SD, Page LE, Taylor HL, Wang ZT, Raymond J, Chen M, Blankenship RE and Touchman JW (2008) The Genome of Heliobacterium modesticaldum, a Phototrophic Representative of the Firmicutes Containing the Simplest Photosynthetic Apparatus. J. Bacteriology 190: 4687-4696.
- Lu Y-K, Han M, Marden J, Chowdhury SR , Conrad AL, Dejesa LC, Hao J, Helmy T, Kim S, Kurdoglu AA, Mastrian SD, Matthies HJ, Rollo D, Swingley WD, Taylor HL, Blankenship RE, Bauer CE, and Touchman JW (2009) The Genome of the Cyst-forming α-1 Proteobacterium Rhodospirillum centenum Reveals Unexpected Metabolic Flexibility. Submitted.
- Raymond JR, Zhaxybayeva O, Gerdes S, Gogarten JP and Blankenship RE (2002) Whole genome analysis of photosynthetic prokaryotes, Science, 298: 1616-1620.
- Sadekar S, Raymond J, Blankenship RE (2006) Conservation of Distantly Related Membrane Proteins: Photosynthetic Reaction Centers Share a Common Structural Core. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 23: 2001-2007.
- Raymond J, Siefert J, Staples C and Blankenship RE (2004) The Natural History of Nitrogen Fixation, Molecular Biology and Evolution, 21: 541-554.
- Staples CR, Lahiri S, Raymond J, Von Herbulis L, Mukhophadhyay B and Blankenship RE (2007) The Expression and Association of Group IV Nitrogenase NifD And NifH Homologs in the Non- Nitrogen Fixing Archaeon Methanocaldococcus jannaschii. J. Bacteriology 189: 7392-7398.
- Modesto-Lopez LB, Thimsen E, Collins AM, Blankenship RE, and Biswas P (2009) Electrosprayassisted characterization and deposition of chlorosomes to fabricate a light-harvesting nano-bio device. Energy & Environmental Science In Press.