A selection of publications of reference for the decade spanning 1990-2000

Transfer of electrons and protons associated with photosynthetic chain function

• Joliot P., Lavergne J. and Béal D.. “Plastoquinone compartmentation in chloroplasts. I. Evidence for domains with different rates of photoreduction”.Biochim. Biophys. Acta, 1992, 1101, 1-12.

• Rappaport F., Blanchard-Desce M. and Lavergne J. “Kinetics of electron transfer and electrochimic change during the redox transitions of the photosynthetic oxygen-evolving complex”. Biochim. Biophys. Acta. 1994, 1184, 178-192.

• Finazzi G. and Rappaport F. In vivo characterization of the electrochemical proton gradient generated in darkness in green algae and its kinetic effects on cytochrome b₆f turnover. Biochemistry, 1998, 37, 9999-100005.

• Lavergne J. and Rappaport F. Stabilization of charge separation and photochemical misses in photosystem II . Biochemistry, 1998, 37, 7899-7906.

• Joliot P. and Joliot A.. “In vivo analysis of the electron transfer within Photosystem I: Are the two phyloquinones involved ?”. Biochemistry, 1999, 38, 11130-11136.

• Rappaport F., Finazzi G., Pierre Y. and Bennoun P. “A new electrochemical gradient generator in thylakoid membranes of green algae”. Biochemistry, 1999, 38, 2040-2047.

Dynamics of the photosynthetic membrane supramolecular organisation

• Bulté L., Gans P., Rebéillé F. and Wollman F-A. “ATP control on state transitions in vivo in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii“. Biochim. Biophys. Acta, 1990, 1020, 72-80.

• Vallon O., Bulté L., Dainese P., Olive J., Bassi R. and Wollman F.-A. “Lateral redistribution of cytochrome b₆f complexes along thylakoid membranes upon state transitions”. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 1991, 88, 8262-8266.

• Zito F., Finazzi G., Delosme R., Nitschke W., Picot D. and Wollman F-A. “The Qo site of cytochrome b₆f complexes controls the activation of the LHCII kinase”.EMBO J., 1999, 18, 2961-2969.

• Schroda M., Vallon O., Wollman F.-A. and Beck C. “A chloroplast-targeted HSP70 contributes to the photoprotection and repair of Photosystem II during and after photoinhibition”. Plant Cell, 1999, 11, 1165-1178

Biogenesis and degradation of photosynthetic apparatus proteins

• Drapier D., Girard-Bascou J. and Wollman F.-A. “Evidence for nuclear control of the expression of the atpA and atpB chloroplast genes in Chlamydomonas”. Plant Cell, 1992, 4, 283-295.

• Kuras R. and Wollman F.-A. “The assembly of cytochrome b₆f complexes: an approach using genetic transformation of the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii“. EMBO J., 1994, 13, 1019-1027.

• Kuras R., de Vitry C., Choquet Y., Girard-Bascou J., Culler D., Büschlen S., Merchant S. and Wollman F.-A. Molecular genetic identification of a pathway for heme binding to cytochrome b₆f. J. Biol. Chem., 1997, 272, 32427-32435.

• D. Drapier, H. Suzuki, H. Levy, B. Rimbault, K.L. Kindle, D.B. Stern and F-A. Wollman. “The chloroplast atpA gene cluster in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii : Functional analysis of polycistronic transcription unit”. Plant Physiol. 1998, 117, 629-641

• Choquet Y., Stern D.B., Wostrikoff K., Kuras R., Girard-Bascou J. and Wollman F-A.. “Translation of cytochrome f is autoregulated through the 5′-unstranslated region of petA mRNA in Chlamydomonas chloroplast”. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 1998, 95, 4380-4385.

• C. de Vitry, G. Finazzi, F. Baymann and T. Kallas. “Analysis of the nucleus-encoded and chloroplast-targeted Rieske protein by classic and site-directed mutagenesis of Chlamydomonas”. Plant Cell, 1999, 11, 2031-2044

• W. Majeran, F.A. Wollman and O. Vallon. “Evidence for a role of ClpP in the degradation of the chloroplast cytochrome b6f complex”.Plant Cell, 2000, 12, 137-149.