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Allison M L van de Meene; Wim F J Vermaas; Heiner Friedrich; Jennifer H McDaniel; William P Sharp; Robert W Roberson
Gross morphological changes in thylakoid membrane structure are associated with photosystem I deletion in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803.
Danny C I Yao; Daniel C Brune; Wim F J Vermaas
Lifetimes of photosystem I and II proteins in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803.
Xinyao Liu; Daniel C Brune; Wim F J Vermaas; Roy Curtis
Production and secretion of fatty acids in genetically engineered cyanobacteria.

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2012: Allison M L van de Meene; Wim F J Vermaas; Heiner Friedrich; Jennifer H McDaniel; William P Sharp; Robert W Roberson
Gross morphological changes in thylakoid membrane structure are associated with photosystem I deletion in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803.
Biochimica et biophysica acta 2012;1818(5):1427-34.
2012: Danny C I Yao; Daniel C Brune; Wim F J Vermaas
Lifetimes of photosystem I and II proteins in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803.
FEBS letters 2012;586(2):169-73.
2010: Xinyao Liu; Daniel C Brune; Wim F J Vermaas; Roy Curtis
Production and secretion of fatty acids in genetically engineered cyanobacteria.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2010;():.
2010: Paul Westerhoff; Qiang Hu; Mario Esparza-Soto; Wim F J Vermaas
Growth parameters of microalgae tolerant to high levels of carbon dioxide in batch and continuous-flow photobioreactors.
Environmental technology 2010;31(5):523-32.
2010: Marina G Rakhimberdieva; Irina V Elanskaya; Wim F J Vermaas; Navassard V Karapetyan
Carotenoid-triggered energy dissipation in phycobilisomes of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 diverts excitation away from reaction centers of both photosystems.
Biochimica et biophysica acta 2010;1797(2):241-9.
2008: Mari Mochimaru; Hajime Masukawa; Takashi Maoka; Hatem E Mohamed; Wim F J Vermaas; Shinichi Takaichi
Substrate specificities and availability of fucosyltransferase and beta-carotene hydroxylase for myxol 2'-fucoside synthesis in Anabaena sp. strain PCC 7120 compared with Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803.
Journal of bacteriology 2008;190(20):6726-33.
2008: Wim F J Vermaas; Jerilyn A Timlin; Howland D T Jones; Michael B Sinclair; Linda T Nieman; Sawsan W Hamad; David K Melgaard; David M Haaland
In vivo hyperspectral confocal fluorescence imaging to determine pigment localization and distribution in cyanobacterial cells.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2008;105(10):4050-5.
2008: Galyna Kufryk; Miguel A Hernandez-Prieto; Thomas Kieselbach; Helder Miranda; Wim F J Vermaas; Christiane Funk
Association of small CAB-like proteins (SCPs) of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 with Photosystem II.
Photosynthesis research 2008;95(2-3):135-45.
2007: Dmitrii Vavilin; Danny Yao; Wim F J Vermaas
Small Cab-like proteins retard degradation of photosystem II-associated chlorophyll in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803: kinetic analysis of pigment labeling with 15N and 13C.
The Journal of biological chemistry 2007;282(52):37660-8.
2007: Dmitrii Vavilin; Wim F J Vermaas
Continuous chlorophyll degradation accompanied by chlorophyllide and phytol reutilization for chlorophyll synthesis in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803.
Biochimica et biophysica acta 2007;1767(7):920-9.
2007: Marina G Rakhimberdieva; Dmitrii Vavilin; Wim F J Vermaas; Irina V Elanskaya; Navassard V Karapetyan
Phycobilin/chlorophyll excitation equilibration upon carotenoid-induced non-photochemical fluorescence quenching in phycobilisomes of the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803.
Biochimica et biophysica acta 2007;1767(6):757-65.
2007: Danny Yao; Thomas Kieselbach; Josef Komenda; kamoltip promnares; Miguel A Hernández Prieto; Martin Tichy; Wim F J Vermaas; Christiane Funk
Localization of the small CAB-like proteins in photosystem II.
The Journal of biological chemistry 2007;282(1):267-76.
2006: Hatem E Mohamed; Wim F J Vermaas
Sll0254 (CrtL(diox)) is a bifunctional lycopene cyclase/dioxygenase in cyanobacteria producing myxoxanthophyll.
Journal of bacteriology 2006;188(9):3337-44.
2006: Galyna I Kufryk; Wim F J Vermaas
Sll1717 affects the redox state of the plastoquinone pool by modulating quinol oxidase activity in thylakoids.
Journal of bacteriology 2006;188(4):1286-94.
2006: Allison M L van de Meene; Martin F Hohmann-Marriott; Wim F J Vermaas; Robert W Roberson
The three-dimensional structure of the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803.
Archives of microbiology 2006;184(5):259-70.
2005: Hatem E Mohamed; Allison M L van de Meene; Robert W Roberson; Wim F J Vermaas
Myxoxanthophyll is required for normal cell wall structure and thylakoid organization in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803.
Journal of bacteriology 2005;187(20):6883-92.
2005: Nataliya Yeremenko; Robert Jeanjean; Peerada Prommeenate; Vladimir Krasikov; Peter J Nixon; Wim F J Vermaas; Michel Havaux; Hans C P Matthijs
Open reading frame ssr2016 is required for antimycin A-sensitive photosystem I-driven cyclic electron flow in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803.
Plant & cell physiology 2005;46(8):1433-6.
2005: Dmitrii Vavilin; Daniel C Brune; Wim F J Vermaas
15N-labeling to determine chlorophyll synthesis and degradation in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 strains lacking one or both photosystems.
Biochimica et biophysica acta 2005;1708(1):91-101.
2005: Stephan-Olav Wenk; Dirk Schneider; Ute Boronowsky; Cornelia Jäger; Christof Klughammer; Frank L de Weerd; Henny van Roon; Wim F J Vermaas; Jan P Dekker; Matthias Rögner
Functional implications of pigments bound to a cyanobacterial cytochrome b6f complex.
The FEBS journal 2005;272(2):582-92.
2004: Hatem E Mohamed; Wim F J Vermaas
Slr1293 in Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803 Is the C-3',4' desaturase (CrtD) involved in myxoxanthophyll biosynthesis.
Journal of bacteriology 2004;186(17):5621-8.
2004: Hong Xu; Dmitrii Vavilin; Christiane Funk; Wim F J Vermaas
Multiple deletions of small Cab-like proteins in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803: consequences for pigment biosynthesis and accumulation.
The Journal of biological chemistry 2004;279(27):27971-9.
2003: Galyna I Kufryk; Wim F J Vermaas
Slr2013 is a novel protein regulating functional assembly of photosystem II in Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803.
Journal of bacteriology 2003;185(22):6615-23.
2003: Dmitrii Vavilin; Hong Xu; Su Lin; Wim F J Vermaas
Energy and electron transfer in photosystem II of a chlorophyll b-containing Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 mutant.
Biochemistry 2003;42(6):1731-46.
2002: Hong Xu; Dmitrii Vavilin; Wim F J Vermaas
The presence of chlorophyll b in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 disturbs tetrapyrrole biosynthesis and enhances chlorophyll degradation.
The Journal of biological chemistry 2002;277(45):42726-32.
2002: Hong Xu; Dmitrii Vavilin; Christiane Funk; Wim F J Vermaas
Small Cab-like proteins regulating tetrapyrrole biosynthesis in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803.
Plant molecular biology 2002;49(2):149-60.
2002: Stephan Berry; Dirk Schneider; Wim F J Vermaas; Matthias Rögner
Electron transport routes in whole cells of Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803: the role of the cytochrome bd-type oxidase.
Biochemistry 2002;41(10):3422-9.
2002: Galyna I Kufryk; Monika Sachet; Georg Schmetterer; Wim F J Vermaas
Transformation of the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 as a tool for genetic mapping: optimization of efficiency.
FEMS microbiology letters 2002;206(2):215-9.
2001: Hong Xu; Dmitrii Vavilin; Wim F J Vermaas
Chlorophyll b can serve as the major pigment in functional photosystem II complexes of cyanobacteria.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2001;98(24):14168-73.
2001: CA Howitt; JW Cooley; J T Wiskich; Wim F J Vermaas
A strain of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 without photosynthetic oxygen evolution and respiratory oxygen consumption: implications for the study of cyclic photosynthetic electron transport.
Planta 2001;214(1):46-56.
2001: Bruce A Diner; Eberhard Schlodder; Peter J Nixon; W J Coleman; Fabrice Rappaport; Jérôme Lavergne; Wim F J Vermaas; DA Chisholm
Site-directed mutations at D1-His198 and D2-His197 of photosystem II in Synechocystis PCC 6803: sites of primary charge separation and cation and triplet stabilization.
Biochemistry 2001;40(31):9265-81.
2001: Galyna I Kufryk; Wim F J Vermaas
A novel protein involved in the functional assembly of the oxygen-evolving complex of photosystem II in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803.
Biochemistry 2001;40(31):9247-55.
2001: JW Cooley; Wim F J Vermaas
Succinate dehydrogenase and other respiratory pathways in thylakoid membranes of Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803: capacity comparisons and physiological function.
Journal of bacteriology 2001;183(14):4251-8.
2001: AT Keilty; Dmitrii Vavilin; Wim F J Vermaas
Functional analysis of combinatorial mutants with changes in the C-terminus of the CD loop of the D2 protein in photosystem II of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803.
Biochemistry 2001;40(13):4131-9.
2001: SY Ermakova-Gerdes; Z Yu; Wim F J Vermaas
Targeted random mutagenesis to identify functionally important residues in the D2 protein of photosystem II in Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803.
Journal of bacteriology 2001;183(1):145-54.
2000: Dmitrii Vavilin; Wim F J Vermaas
Mutations in the CD-loop region of the D2 protein in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 modify charge recombination pathways in photosystem II in vivo.
Biochemistry 2000;39(48):14831-8.
2000: Martin Tichy; Wim F J Vermaas
Combinatorial mutagenesis and pseudorevertant analysis to characterize regions in loop E of the CP47 protein in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803.
European journal of biochemistry / FEBS 2000;267(20):6296-301.
2000: AT Keilty; SY Ermakova-Gerdes; Wim F J Vermaas
Probing the CD lumenal loop region of the D2 protein of photosystem II in Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803 by combinatorial mutagenesis.
Journal of bacteriology 2000;182(9):2453-60.
2000: JW Cooley; CA Howitt; Wim F J Vermaas
Succinate:quinol oxidoreductases in the cyanobacterium synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803: presence and function in metabolism and electron transport.
Journal of bacteriology 2000;182(3):714-22.
2000: Q Hu; Paul Westerhoff; Wim F J Vermaas
Removal of nitrate from groundwater by cyanobacteria: quantitative assessment of factors influencing nitrate uptake.
Applied and environmental microbiology 2000;66(1):133-9.
2000: D Lagarde; L Beuf; Wim F J Vermaas
Increased production of zeaxanthin and other pigments by application of genetic engineering techniques to Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803.
Applied and environmental microbiology 2000;66(1):64-72.
1999: Martin Tichy; Wim F J Vermaas
Accumulation of pre-apocytochrome f in a Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 mutant impaired in cytochrome c maturation.
The Journal of biological chemistry 1999;274(45):32396-401.
1999: Dmitrii Vavilin; SY Ermakova-Gerdes; AT Keilty; Wim F J Vermaas
Tryptophan at position 181 of the D2 protein of photosystem II confers quenching of variable fluorescence of chlorophyll: implications for the mechanism of energy-dependent quenching.
Biochemistry 1999;38(44):14690-6.
1999: SY Ermakova-Gerdes; Wim F J Vermaas
Inactivation of the open reading frame slr0399 in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 functionally complements mutations near the Q(A) niche of photosystem II. A possible role of Slr0399 as a chaperone for quinone binding.
The Journal of biological chemistry 1999;274(43):30540-9.
1999: Christiane Funk; Wim F J Vermaas
A cyanobacterial gene family coding for single-helix proteins resembling part of the light-harvesting proteins from higher plants.
Biochemistry 1999;38(29):9397-404.
1999: D Lagarde; Wim F J Vermaas
The zeaxanthin biosynthesis enzyme beta-carotene hydroxylase is involved in myxoxanthophyll synthesis in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803.
FEBS letters 1999;454(3):247-51.
1999: Q He; T Schlich; H Paulsen; Wim F J Vermaas
Expression of a higher plant light-harvesting chlorophyll a/b-binding protein in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803.
European journal of biochemistry / FEBS 1999;263(2):561-70.
1999: CA Howitt; P K Udall; Wim F J Vermaas
Type 2 NADH dehydrogenases in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803 are involved in regulation rather than respiration.
Journal of bacteriology 1999;181(13):3994-4003.
1999: Q He; Wim F J Vermaas
Genetic deletion of proteins resembling Type IV pilins in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803: their role in binding or transfer of newly synthesized chlorophyll.
Plant molecular biology 1999;39(6):1175-88.
1999: Martin Tichy; Wim F J Vermaas
In vivo role of catalase-peroxidase in synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803.
Journal of bacteriology 1999;181(6):1875-82.
1998: CA Howitt; Wim F J Vermaas
Quinol and cytochrome oxidases in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803.
Biochemistry 1998;37(51):17944-51.
1998: Michael T Lince; Wim F J Vermaas
Association of His117 in the D2 protein of photosystem II with a chlorophyll that affects excitation-energy transfer efficiency to the reaction center.
European journal of biochemistry / FEBS 1998;256(3):595-602.
1998: SY Ermakova-Gerdes; Wim F J Vermaas
Mobility of the primary electron-accepting plastoquinone QA of photosystem II in a Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 strain carrying mutations in the D2 protein.
Biochemistry 1998;37(33):11569-78.
1998: Masatoshi Sonoda; Hirokazu Katoh; Wim F J Vermaas; G Schmetterer; Teruo Ogawa
Photosynthetic electron transport involved in PxcA-dependent proton extrusion in Synechocystis sp. Strain PCC6803: effect of pxcA inactivation on CO2, HCO3-, and NO3- uptake.
Journal of bacteriology 1998;180(15):3799-803.
1998: Q He; Wim F J Vermaas
Chlorophyll a availability affects psbA translation and D1 precursor processing in vivo in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 1998;95(10):5830-5.
1998: Q He; Daniel C Brune; Ronald A Nieman; Wim F J Vermaas
Chlorophyll alpha synthesis upon interruption and deletion of por coding for the light-dependent NADPH: protochlorophyllide oxidoreductase in a photosystem-I-less/chlL- strain of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803.
European journal of biochemistry / FEBS 1998;253(1):161-72.
1998: Martin Tichy; Wim F J Vermaas
Functional analysis of combinatorial mutants altered in a conserved region in loop E of the CP47 protein in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803.
Biochemistry 1998;37(6):1523-31.
1998: P Manna; Russell LoBrutto; C Eijckelhoff; Jan P Dekker; Wim F J Vermaas
Role of Arg180 of the D2 protein in photosystem II structure and function.
European journal of biochemistry / FEBS 1998;251(1-2):142-54.
1998: Wim F J Vermaas
Gene modifications and mutation mapping to study the function of photosystem II.
Methods in enzymology 1998;297():293-310.
1997: P Manna; Wim F J Vermaas
Lumenal proteins involved in respiratory electron transport in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC6803.
Plant molecular biology 1997;35(4):407-16.
1997: P Manna; Wim F J Vermaas
Mutational studies on conserved histidine residues in the chlorophyll-binding protein CP43 of photosystem II.
European journal of biochemistry / FEBS 1997;247(2):666-72.
1996: H Kless; Wim F J Vermaas
Combinatorial mutagenesis and structural simulations in the environment of the redox-active tyrosine YZ of photosystem II.
Biochemistry 1996;35(51):16458-64.
1996: SY Ermakova-Gerdes; S Shestakov; Wim F J Vermaas
Random chemical mutagenesis of a specific psbDI region coding for a lumenal loop of the D2 protein of photosystem II in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803.
Plant molecular biology 1996;30(2):243-54.
1995: Q Wu; Wim F J Vermaas
Light-dependent chlorophyll a biosynthesis upon chlL deletion in wild-type and photosystem I-less strains of the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803.
Plant molecular biology 1995;29(5):933-45.
1995: H Kless; Wim F J Vermaas
Tandem sequence duplications functionally complement deletions in the D1 protein of photosystem II.
The Journal of biological chemistry 1995;270(28):16536-41.
1995: H M Gleiter; E Haag; J R Shen; J J Eaton-Rye; A G Seeliger; Y Inoue; Wim F J Vermaas; Gernot Renger
Involvement of the CP47 protein in stabilization and photoactivation of a functional water-oxidizing complex in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803.
Biochemistry 1995;34(20):6847-56.
1995: J R Shen; Wim F J Vermaas; Y Inoue
The role of cytochrome c-550 as studied through reverse genetics and mutant characterization in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803.
The Journal of biological chemistry 1995;270(12):6901-7.
1995: H Kless; Wim F J Vermaas
Many combinations of amino acid sequences in a conserved region of the D1 protein satisfy photosystem II function.
Journal of molecular biology 1995;246(1):120-31.
1995: Wim F J Vermaas
Functional effects of structural changes in photosystem II as measured by chlorophyll fluorescence kinetics.
Methods in cell biology 1995;50():15-30.
1994: H M Gleiter; E Haag; J R Shen; J J Eaton-Rye; Y Inoue; Wim F J Vermaas; Gernot Renger
Functional characterization of mutant strains of the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 lacking short domains within the large, lumen-exposed loop of the chlorophyll protein CP47 in photosystem II.
Biochemistry 1994;33(40):12063-71.
1994: G Shen; Wim F J Vermaas
Mutation of chlorophyll ligands in the chlorophyll-binding CP47 protein as studied in a Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 photosystem I-less background.
Biochemistry 1994;33(23):7379-88.
1994: G Shen; Wim F J Vermaas
Chlorophyll in a Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 mutant without photosystem I and photosystem II core complexes. Evidence for peripheral antenna chlorophylls in cyanobacteria.
The Journal of biological chemistry 1994;269(19):13904-10.
1994: Wim F J Vermaas
Evolution of heliobacteria: implications for photosynthetic reaction center complexes.
Photosynthesis research 1994;41():285-94.
1993: G Shen; S Boussiba; Wim F J Vermaas
Synechocystis sp PCC 6803 strains lacking photosystem I and phycobilisome function.
The Plant cell 1993;5(12):1853-63.
1993: B Eggers; Wim F J Vermaas
Truncation of the D2 protein in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803: a role of the C-terminal domain of D2 in photosystem II function and stability.
Biochemistry 1993;32(42):11419-27.
1993: M G Kuhn; Wim F J Vermaas
Deletion mutations in a long hydrophilic loop in the photosystem II chlorophyll-binding protein CP43 in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803.
Plant molecular biology 1993;23(1):123-33.
1993: S D Carpenter; I Ohad; Wim F J Vermaas
Analysis of chimeric spinach/cyanobacterial CP43 mutants of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803: the chlorophyll-protein CP43 affects the water-splitting system of Photosystem II.
Biochimica et biophysica acta 1993;1144(2):204-12.
1993: U Liebl; M Mockensturm-Wilson; J T Trost; D C Brune; Robert E Blankenship; Wim F J Vermaas
Single core polypeptide in the reaction center of the photosynthetic bacterium Heliobacillus mobilis: structural implications and relations to other photosystems.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 1993;90(15):7124-8.
1993: G Shen; J J Eaton-Rye; Wim F J Vermaas
Mutation of histidine residues in CP47 leads to destabilization of the photosystem II complex and to impairment of light energy transfer.
Biochemistry 1993;32(19):5109-15.
1993: E Haag; J J Eaton-Rye; Gernot Renger; Wim F J Vermaas
Functionally important domains of the large hydrophilic loop of CP47 as probed by oligonucleotide-directed mutagenesis in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803.
Biochemistry 1993;32(16):4444-54.
1993: J Yu; Wim F J Vermaas
Synthesis and turnover of photosystem II reaction center polypeptides in cyanobacterial D2 mutants.
The Journal of biological chemistry 1993;268(10):7407-13.
1993: H Kless; M Oren-Shamir; I Ohad; Marvin Edelman; Wim F J Vermaas
Protein modifications in the D2 protein of photosystem II affect properties of the QB/herbicide-binding environment.
Zeitschrift für Naturforschung. C, Journal of biosciences 1993;48(3-4):185-90.
1992: H Kless; Wim F J Vermaas; Marvin Edelman
Photosystem II function and integrity in spite of drastic protein changes in a conserved region of the D2 protein.
Biochemistry 1992;31(45):11065-71.
1992: Diana Kirilovsky; Alain Boussac; F J van Mieghem; J M Ducruet; P R Sétif; J J Yu; Wim F J Vermaas; A W Rutherford
Oxygen-evolving photosystem II preparation from wild type and photosystem II mutants of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803.
Biochemistry 1992;31(7):2099-107.
1991: J J Eaton-Rye; Wim F J Vermaas
Oligonucleotide-directed mutagenesis of psbB, the gene encoding CP47, employing a deletion mutant strain of the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803.
Plant molecular biology 1991;17(6):1165-77.
1991: M Ikeuchi; B Eggers; G Z Shen; A Webber; J J Yu; A Hirano; Y Inoue; Wim F J Vermaas
Cloning of the psbK gene from Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 and characterization of photosystem II in mutants lacking PSII-K.
The Journal of biological chemistry 1991;266(17):11111-5.
1990: Wim F J Vermaas; J Charité; G Z Shen
Glu-69 of the D2 protein in photosystem II is a potential ligand to Mn involved in photosynthetic oxygen evolution.
Biochemistry 1990;29(22):5325-32.
1990: S D Carpenter; J Charite; B Eggers; Wim F J Vermaas
The psbC start codon in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803.
FEBS letters 1990;260(1):135-7.