Most recent publications (For a complete list see, View Publications:)
2021
Blankenship, RE (2021) Molecular Mechanisms of Photosynthesis, 3rd Ed., Wiley,Chichester. Manuscript in Preparation. (B)
Chen M and Blankenship RE (2021) Photosynthesis. In Encyclopedia of Biological Chemistry, 3rd Ed., J Jez, Ed., Elsevier. In Press.
2020
Kiang N, Parenteau, MN, Swingley W, Wolf BM, Brodderick J, Blankenship RE, Repeta D, Detweiler A, Bebout LE, Schladweiler J, Hearne C, Kelly ET, Miller KA, Lindemann R (2020) Isolation and characterization of a chlorophyll d-containing cyanobacterium from the site of the 1943 discovery of chlorophyll d. Manuscript in Preparation.
King JD, Kottapalli JS, and Blankenship RE (2020) A binary chimeragenesis approachreveals long-range tuning of copper proteins. Submitted. (R)
Wolf BM, Barnhart-Dailey MC, Timlin JA, and Blankenship RE (2020) Photoacclimation in a newly isolated Eustigmatophyte alga capable of growth using far-red light. Submitted. (R)
Liu H, Zhang MM, Weisz DA, Cheng M, Pakrasi HB, Gross ML, and Blankenship RE (2020) Structure of cyanobacterial phycobilisome core revealed by structural modeling and chemical cross-linking. In Revision for Science Advances. (R)
Higgins JS, Lloyd LT, Sohail SH, Allodi MA, Otto JP, Saer RG, Wood RE, Massey SC, Ting P-C, Blankenship RE and Engel GS (2020) Pigment-protein complexes use redox dependent vibronic coupling to drive photosynthetic energy transfer. Submitted.
Sparks WB, Parenteau MN, Blankenship RE, Germer TA, Patty L, Telesco C, Meadows VS (2020) Spectropolarimetry of primitive phototrophs as global surface biosignatures. In Revision for Astrobiology.
Sonani RR, Roszak AW, Liu H, Gross ML, Blankenship RE, Madamwar D, Cogdell RJ (2020) Revisiting high resolution crystal structure of Phormidium rubidum phycocyanin assisted by using mass spectrometry. Photosynthesis Research 144: 349-360.
Shi Y, Xin Y, Wang C, Tang W, Blankenship RE, Sun F, and Xu X (2020) 3.3 Å cryo-EM structure of the photosynthetic Alternative Complex III from Roseiflexus castenholzii reveals a redox-coupled proton translocation mechanism. Science Advances 6: eaba2739. (R)
Dewey ED, Stokes LM, Burchell BM, Shaffer KN, Huntington AM, Baker JM, Nadendla S, Giglio MG, Bender KS, Touchman JW, Blankenship RE, Madigan MT, Sattley WM (2020) Analysis of the complete genome of the alkaliphilic and phototrophic Firmicute Heliorestis convoluta strain HHT. Microorganisms 8: 313. (R)
Lou W, Niedzwiedzki DM, Blankenship RE, and Liu H (2020) Binding of red form of the orange carotenoid protein to phycobilisome is not sufficient for its function—Evidence of a third state of OCP in cyanobacterial non-photochemical quenching. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1861: 148155. (R)
Ho M-Y, Niedzwiedzki DM, MacGregor-Chatwin C, Gerstenecker G, Hunter CN, Blankenship RE, and Bryant DA (2020) Extensive remodeling of the photosynthetic apparatus alters energy transfer among photosynthetic complexes when cyanobacteria acclimate to far-red light. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1861: 148064. (R)
2019
Irgen-Gioro S, Gururangan K, Goodson C, Blankenship RE, and Harel E (2019) Electronic coherence lifetimes of the Fenna-Matthews-Olson complex and light harvesting complex II. Chemical Science 10: 10503. (R)
Jassas M, Goodson C, Blankenship RE, Jankowiak R, and Kell A (2019) On Excitation Energy Transfer within the Baseplate BChl a–CsmA Complex of Chloroflexus aurantiacus. Journal of Physical Chemistry B 123: 9786-9791. (R)
Liu H and Blankenship RE (2019) On the interface of light-harvesting antenna complexes and reaction centers in oxygenic photosynthesis. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1860: 148079. (IR, R)
Weisz DA, Johnson VM, Niedzwiedzki DM, Shinn MK, Liu H, Klitzke CF, Gross ML, Blankenship RE, Lohman TM, Pakrasi HB (2019) A novel chlorophyll protein complex in the repair cycle of Photosystem II. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 116: 21907-21913. (R)
Lou W, Haijun Liu H, Wolf BM, Blankenship RE (2019) The role of copper in OCP-related photoprotection in cyanobacteria. Biochemistry 58: 3109-3115. (R)
Niedzwiedzki DM, Liu H, and Blankenship RE (2019) Excitation energy transfer in intact CpcL-phycobilisome from Synechocystis sp PCC. 6803. Journal of Physical Chemistry B 123: 4695-4704. (R)
Wolf BM and Blankenship RE (2019) Far-red light acclimation in diverse oxygenic photosynthetic organisms. Photosynthesis Research 142: 349-359. (R)
Liu H, Weisz DA, Zhang MM, Cheng M, Zhang B, Zhang H, Gerstenecker GS, Pakrasi HB, Gross ML, and Blankenship RE (2019) Phycobilisomes harbor FNRL in cyanobacteria. mBio 10: e00669-19 (R)
Niedzwiedzki DM, Wolf, BM, and Blankenship RE (2019) Excitation energy transfer in the far-red absorbing violaxanthin/vaucheriaxanthin chlorophyll a complex from the Eustigmatophyte Alga FP5. Photosynthesis Research 140: 337-354. (R)
Lu X, Selvaraj B, Ghimire-Rijal S, Orf GS, Blankenship RE, Meilleur F, Cuneo MJ and Myles DAA (2019) Neutron and X-ray analysis of the Fenna-Matthews-Olson photosynthetic antenna complex from Prosthecochloris aestuarii. Acta Crystallographica F 71: 171-175. (R)
Squires AH, Dahlberg PD, Magdaong NCM, Liu H, Blankenship RE, and Moerner WE (2019) Identification of two distinct binding sites for Orange Carotenoid Protein on the phycobilisome by single-molecule trapping and spectroscopy. Nature Communications 10: 1172. (R)
Niedzwiedzki DM, Bar-Zvi S, Blankenship RE, and Adir N (2019) Excitation energy migration in phycobilisomes from the cyanobacterium Acaryochloris marina. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1860: 286-296. (R)
Saer RG, Schultz R, and Blankenship RE (2019) The influence of quaternary structure on the stability of Fenna-Matthews-Olson (FMO) antenna complexes. Photosynthesis Research 140: 39-49. (R)