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• Wollman F.-A., Olive J., Bennoun P. and Recouvreur M. “Organization of the Photosystem II center and their associated antennae in the thylakoid membranes: a comparative ultrastructural, biochemical and biophysical study of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii wild-type and mutants lacking in Photosystem II relation centers”.J. Cell. Biol., 1980, 87, 728-735.
  (A comparison of photosynthesis mutants from Chlamydomonas leads to the first identification of Photosystem II in the thylakoid membranes)

• Bennoun P. “Evidence for a respiratory chain in the chloroplast”.Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA., 1982, 79, 4352-4356.
  (The discovery of chlororespiration)

• Lavergne J. “Membrane potential-dependent reduction of cytochrome b₆ in algal mutant lacking Photosystem I centers” Biochim. Biophys. Acta, 1983, 725, 25-33
  (The first identification of a functional c’ cytochrome which will not be observed until 2003, in the 3D structure of the cytochrome b₆f)

• Wollman F.-A. and Delepelaire P. “Correlation between changes in light energy distribution and changes in thylakoid membranes polypeptide phosphorylation in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii”. J. Cell. Biol., 1984, 98, 1-7.
  (The demonstration that state transitions, based on changes in phosphorylation of antennae, regulate photosynthesis in vivo)

• Wollman F.-A. and Lemaire C. “Studies on kinase-controlled state transitions in Photosystem II and b₆f mutants from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii which lack quinone-binding proteins”Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1988, 933, 319-333.
  (The demonstration of the role of cytochrome b₆f as an activator of the kinase whcih governs state transitions)

• Choquet Y., Goldschmidt-Clermont M., Girard-Bascou J., Kuck U., Bennoun P. and Rochaix J.D. “Mutant phenotypes support a trans-splicing mechanism for the expression of the tripartite psaA gene in the Chlamydomonas reinhardtii chloroplast” Cell, 1988, 52, 903-913
  (How combining classical genetic and molecular biology approaches led to the discovery of a trans-splicing process in chloroplast genome expression)

• De Vitry C., Olive J., Drapier D., Recouvreur M. and Wollman F.-A. "Posttranslational events leading to the assembly of photosystem II protein complex: a study using photosynthesis mutants from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii".J. Cell Biol., 1989, 109, 991-1006.
  (The first exhaustive study on the process of protein assembly in the thylakoid membranes)

• P. Joliot, A. Vermeglio and A. Joliot. "Evidence for supercomplexes between reaction centers, cytochrome c₂ and cytochrome bc₁ complex in Rhodobacter sphaeroides whole cells ". Biochim. Biophys. Acta, 1989, 975, 336-345
  (The discovery of photosynthetic supercomplexes)