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Roose, J. L., Wegener, K. M., and Pakrasi, H. B. (2007) The extrinsic proteins of Photosystem II. Photosynth Res. DOI 10.1007/s11120-006-9117-1.

Roose, J. L., Kashino, Y., and Pakrasi, H. B. (2007) The PsbQ protein defines cyanobacterial Photosystem II complexes with highest activity and stability. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 104:2548-53.

Kashino, Y., Harayama, T., Pakrasi, H. B., and Satoh, K. (2007) Preparation of membrane proteins for analysis by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis. J Chromatogr B Analyt Technol Biomed Life Sci. 849:282-92.

Kashino, Y., Inoue-Kashino, N., Roose, J. L., and Pakrasi, H. B. (2006) Absence of the PsbQ protein results in destabilization of the PsbV protein and decreased oxygen evolution activity in cyanobacterial photosystem II. J Biol Chem. 281:20834-41.

Koropatkin, N.M., Pakrasi, H.B., Smith, T.J. (2006). "Atomic structure of a nitrate-binding protein crucial for photosynthetic productivity" PNAS 103(26):9820-0925

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Inoue-Kashino, N., Kashino, Y., et al. (2005). "PsbU Provides a Stable Architecture for the Oxygen-Evolving System in Cyanobacterial Photosystem II." Biochemistry 44(36): 12214-12228.

Keren, N., Ohkawa, H., et al. (2005). "Psb29, a Conserved 22-kD Protein, Functions in the Biogenesis of Photosystem II Complexes in Synechocystis and Arabidopsis." Plant Cell(17): 1768-2781.

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Keren, N., Liberton, M. and Pakrasi, H. B. (2005) Photochemical competence of assembled photosystem II core complex in cyanobacterial plasma membrane. J. Biol. Chem., 280:6548-6553.

Thornton, L. E., Keren, N., Ohad, I. and Pakrasi, H. B. (2005) Physcomitrella patens and Ceratodon purpureus, mosses as model organisms in photosynthesis studies. Photosynthesis Res., 83:87-96.

Thornton, L. E., Roose, J. L., Ikeuchi, M. and Pakrasi, H. B. (2005) The Low Molecular Components: New Insights from Proteomics, Genomics, and Structural Studies. In Photosystem II: The Water/Plastoquinone Oxido-Reductase In Photosynthesisą (In Wydrzynski, T. and Satoh, K., eds.), Kluwer Academic Publ., Dordrecht, The Netherlands, In Press.

Roose, J. L. and Pakrasi, H. B. (2004) Evidence that D1 processing is required for manganese binding and extrinsic protein assembly into photosystem II. J. Biol. Chem., 279: 45417-45422.

Keren, N., Aurora, R. and Pakrasi, H. B. (2004) Critical roles of bacterioferritins in iron-storage and proliferation of cyanobacteria. Plant Physiol. 135:1666-1673.

Thornton, L. E., Ohkawa, H., Roose, J. L., Kashino, Y., Keren, N. and Pakrasi, H. B. (2004) Homologs of Plant PsbP and PsbQ Proteins are Necessary for Regulation of Photosystem II Activity in the Cyanobacterium, Synechocystis 6803. Plant Cell 16:2164-2175.

Kobayashi, M., Ishizuka, T., Katayama, M., Kanehisa, M., Bhattacharyya-Pakrasi, M, Pakrasi, H. B. and Ikeuchi, M. (2004) Response to Oxidative Stress Involves a Novel Peroxiredoxin Gene in the Unicellular Cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. Plant Cell Physiol., 45:290-299.

Banerjee, S., Wei, B., Bhattacharyya-Pakrasi, M., Pakrasi, H. B. and Smith, T. J. (2003) Structural determinants of metal specificity in the zinc transport protein ZnuA from Synechocystis 6803. J. Mol. Biol., 333: 1061-1069.

Chandler, L. E., Bartsevich, V. V. and Pakrasi, H. B. (2003) Regulation of manganese uptake in Synechocystis 6803 by RfrA, a member of a novel family of proteins containing a repeated five-residues domain. Biochemistry, 42: 5508-5514.

Swiatek, M., Regel, R. E., Meurer, J., Wanner, G., Pakrasi, H. B., Ohad, I. and Herrmann, R. G. (2003) Effects of selective inactivation of individual genes for low-molecular-mass subunits on the assembly of photosystem II, as revealed by chloroplast transformation: the psbEFLJ operon in Nicotiana tabacum. Mol. Genet. Genomics, 268: 699-710.

Ivleva, N. B., Sidoruk, K.V., Pakrasi, H. B. and Shestakov S.V. (2002) Investigation of the functional role of Ctp proteins in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. Mikrobiologiia 71: 509-513.

Huang, F., Parmryd, I., Nilsson, F., Persson, A. L., Pakrasi, H. B., Andersson, B. and Norling, B. (2002) Proteomics of Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803: Identification of plasma membrane proteins. Mol. Cell. Proteomics, 1: 956-966.

Keren, N., Kidd, M. J., Penner-Hahn, J. E. and Pakrasi, H. B. (2002) A light dependent mechanism for massive accumulation of manganese in the photosynthetic bacterium, Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. Biochemistry, 41: 15085-15092.

Kashino, Y., Koike, H., Yoshio, M., Egashira, H., Ikeuchi, M., Pakrasi, H. B. and Satoh, K. (2002) Low-molecular-mass polypeptide components of a photosystem II preparation from the thermophilic cyanobacterium Thermosynechococcus vulcanus. Plant Cell Physiol., 43: 1366-1373.

Ogawa, T., Bao, D. H., Katoh, H., Shibata, M., Pakrasi, H. B. and Bhattacharyya-Pakrasi, M. (2002) A two-component signal transduction pathway regulates manganese homeostasis in Synechocystis 6803, a photosynthetic organism. J. Biol. Chem., 277: 28981-28986.

Bhattacharyya-Pakrasi, M., Pakrasi, H. B., Ogawa, T. and Aurora, R. (2002) Manganese transport and its regulation in bacteria. Biochem. Soc. Trans, 30: 768-770.

Kashino, Y., Lauber, W. M., Carroll, J. A., Wang, Q., Whitmarsh, J., Satoh, K. and Pakrasi, H. B. (2002) Proteomic analysis of a highly active photosystem II preparation from the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 reveals the presence of novel polypeptides. Biochemistry; 41: 8004-8012.

Ohkawa, H., Sonoda, M., Hagino, N., Shibata, M., Pakrasi, H. B. and Ogawa, T. (2002) Functionally distinct NAD(P)H dehydrogenases and their membrane localization in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. Funct. Plant Biol., 29: 195-­200

Zak, E., Norling, B., Maitra, R., Huang, F., Andersson, B. and Pakrasi, H.B. (2001) The initial steps of biogenesis of cyanobacterial photosystems occur in plasma membranes. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA; 98: 13443-13448.

Ng, W.-O. and Pakrasi, H.B. (2001) DNA photolyase homologues are the major UV resistance factors in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. Mol. Gen. Genet., 264: 924-930.

Pakrasi, H.B., Ogawa, T. and Bhattacharyya-Pakrasi, M. (2001) Transport of metals: a key process in oxygenic photosynthesis. In Regulatory Aspects of Photosynthesis (Aro, E.-M. and Andersson, B.A., eds.), pp. 253-264, Kluwer Academic Publ., Dordrecht, The Netherlands.

Inagaki, N., Maitra, R., Satoh, K. and Pakrasi, H. B. (2001) Amino acid residues that are critical for in vivo catalytic activity of CtpA, the carboxyl-terminal processing protease for the D1 Protein of Photosystem II. J. Biol. Chem., 276: 30099-30105.

Regel, R. E., Ivleva, N. B., Zer, H., Meurer, J., Shestakov, S. V., Herrmann, R. G., Pakrasi, H. B. and Ohad, I. (2001) Deregulation of electron flow within Photosystem II in the absence of the PsbJ protein. J. Biol. Chem., 276: 41473-41478.

Cho, Y.S., Pakrasi, H.B. and Whitmarsh, J. (2000) Cytochrome cM from Synechocystis 6803: detection in cells, expression in Escherichia coli, purification and physical characterization. Eur. J. Biochem., 267: 1067-1074.

Zak, E. and Pakrasi, H.B. (2000) The BtpA protein stabilizes the reaction center proteins of Photosystem I in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. Plant Physiol., 123: 215-222.

Ng, W.-O., Zentella, R., Wang, Y., Taylor, J.-S. and Pakrasi, H.B. (2000) phrA, the major photoreactivating factor in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 codes for a cyclobutane pyrimidine dimer specific DNA photolyase. Arch. Microbiol., 173: 412-417.

Ohkawa, H., Pakrasi, H.B. and Ogawa, T. (2000) Two types of functionally distinct NAD(P)H dehydrogenases in Synechocystis sp. strain PCC6803. J. Biol. Chem., 275: 31630 - 31634.

Ivleva, N.B., Shestakov, S.V. and Pakrasi H.B. (2000) The carboxyl-terminal extension of the precursor D1 protein of Photosystem II is required for optimal photosynthetic performance of the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. Plant Physiol., 124: 1403-1411.