Transfer of electrons and protons
Guergova-Kuras M., Boudreaux B., Joliot A., Joliot P., Redding K. “Evidence for two active branches for electron transfer in photosystem I”. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U S A., 2001, 98, 4437-4442.
Joliot P. and Joliot A. « Cyclic electron transfer in plant leaf ». Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 2002, 99, 10209-10214.
Cuni A., Xiong L., Rappaport F. and Lavergne J. « Modification of the pheophytin midpoint potential in photosystem II: Modulation of the quantum yield of charge separation and of charge recombination pathway ». Phys.Chem. Chem. Phys. 2004, 6, 4825-4831.
Joliot P. and Joliot A. « Quantification of cyclic and linear flow in plants ». Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 2005, 102, 4913-4918.
Alric J, Pierre Y, Picot D, Lavergne J, Rappaport F. “Spectral and redox characterization of the heme ciof the cytochrome b6f complex.”. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U S A., 2005, 102, 15860-15865.
Li Y, van der Est A, Lucas MG, Ramesh VM, Gu F, Petrenko A, Lin S, Webber AN, Rappaport F, Redding K. (2006) “Directing electron transfer within Photosystem I by breaking H-bonds in the cofactor branches” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U S A, 103, 2144-2149
Bailleul B, Johnson X, Finazzi G, Barber J, Rappaport F, Telfer A (2008) The thermodynamics and kinetics of electron transfer between cytochrome b6f and photosystem I in the chlorophyll d-dominated cyanobacterium, Acaryochloris marina. J Biol Chem 283(37): 25218-25226
Joliot P, Joliot A (2008) Quantification of the electrochemical proton gradient and activation of ATP synthase in leaves. Biochim Biophys Acta 1777(7-8): 676-683
Dynamics and regulation
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Swiatek M., Kuras R., Sokolenko A., Higgs D., Olive J., Cinque G., Müller B., Eichacker L.A., Stern D. B., Bassi R., Herrmann R.G. and Wollman F.-A. « The chloroplast gene ycf9 encodes a photosystem II (PSII) core subunit, PsbZ, that participates in PSII supramolecular architecture ». Plant Cell, 2001, 13, 1347-1368.
Majeran, M., Olive, J., Drapier, D., Vallon, O. and Wollman, F.-A. « The light sensitivity of ATP synthase mutants of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii« .Plant Physiol. 2001, 126, 421-433.
Vermeglio A. and Joliot P. « Supramolecular organisation of the photosynthetic chain in anoxygenic bacteria ». Biochim. Biophys. Acta , 2002 , 1, 60-64.
Cardol P, Bailleul B, Rappaport F, Derelle E, Beal D, Breyton C, Bailey S, Wollman FA, Grossman A, Moreau H, Finazzi G (2008) An original adaptation of photosynthesis in the marine green alga Ostreococcus. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105(22): 7881-7886
Cardol P, Alric J, Girard-Bascou J, Franck F, Wollman FA, Finazzi G. (2009) Impaired respiration discloses the physiological significance of state transitions in Chlamydomonas. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106(37):15979-84
Bailleul B, Rogato A, de Martino A, Coesel S, Cardol P, Bowler, Falciatore A, Finazzi G (2010) An atypical member of the light-harvesting complex stress-related protein family modulates diatom responses to light. PNAS 107(42):18214-9.
Alric J, Lavergne J, Rappaport F. (2010) Redox and ATP control of photosynthetic cyclic electron flow in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (I) aerobic conditions. Biochim Biophys Acta 1797 (1):44-51.
Biogenesis and degradation
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Drapier D., Girard-Bascou J., Stern D.B. and Wollman F.-A. « A dominant nuclear mutation in Chlamydomonas identifies a factor controlling chloroplast mRNA stability by acting on the coding region of the atpA transcript ». Plant J., 2002, 31, 687-697.
Finazzi G., Chasen C., Wollman F-A. and de Vitry C.. « Thylakoid targeting of Tat passenger proteins shows noΔpH dependence in vivo ». EMBO J., 2003, 22, 807-815.
Choquet Y., Zito F., Wostrikoff K. and Wollman F.-A. « Cytochrome f translation in Chlamydomonas chloroplast is autoregulated by its carboxy -terminal domain ». Plant Cell, 2003, 6, 1443-1454.
Wostrikoff K., Girard-Bascou J., Wollman F.-A. and Choquet Y.. « Biogenesis of PSI involves a cascade of translational autoregulation in the chloroplast of Chlamydomonas ». EMBO J., 2004, 23, 2696-705.
Minai L, Wostrikoff K, Wollman FA, Choquet Y. (2006) “Chloroplast biogenesis of photosystem II cores involves a series of assembly-controlled steps that regulate translation” Plant Cell, 18, 159-175
Kuras R, Saint-Marcoux D, Wollman FA, de Vitry C. (2007) “A specific c-type cytochrome maturation system is required for oxygenic photosynthesis” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 104:9906-10.
Drapier D., Rimbault B., Vallon O., Wollman F.-A. and Choquet Y. (2007) Intertwined translational regulations set uneven stoichiometry of chloroplast ATP synthase subunits. EMBO J., 26, 3581-91.
Saint-Marcoux D, Wollman FA, de Vitry C. (2009) Biogenesis of cytochrome b6 in photosynthetic membranes. J Cell Biol 185(7):1195-207
Johnson X, Wostrikoff K, Finazzi G, Kuras R, Schwarz C, Bujaldon S, Nickelsen J, Stern D, Wollman F-A, and Vallon O (2010) MRL1, a Conserved Pentatricopeptide Repeat Protein, Is Required for Stabilization of rbcL mRNA in Chlamydomonas and Arabidopsis. Plant Cell 22(1):234-248.
