Donald Bryant

Ernest C. Pollard Professor of Biotechnology; Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Donald Bryant

Research Summary

Photosynthesis, structure-function relationships of proteins, gene regulation, and microbial physiology. Cyanobacteria and green sulfur bacteria. Genomics of photosynthetic bacteria.

Huck Affiliations

Publication Tags

Cyanobacteria Light Genes Chlorophyll F Chlorophyll Synechococcus Photosystem Ii Protein Complex Cyanobacterium Far Red Light Photosynthesis Glycogen Sand Strain Carbohydrate Metabolism Quartz Esters Microbiota Hot Springs Protein Acclimation Chlorophyll D Earth (Planet) Photosystem I Protein Complex Glycogen Synthase Industrial Plants

Most Recent Publications

Expansion of the global RNA virome reveals diverse clades of bacteriophages

Uri Neri, Yuri I. Wolf, Simon Roux, Antonio Pedro Camargo, Benjamin Lee, Darius Kazlauskas, I. Min Chen, Natalia Ivanova, Lisa Zeigler Allen, David Paez-Espino, Donald A. Bryant, Devaki Bhaya, Adrienne B. Narrowe, Alexander J. Probst, Alexander Sczyrba, Annegret Kohler, Armand Séguin, Ashley Shade, Barbara J. Campbell, Björn D. Lindahl, Brandi Kiel Reese, Breanna M. Roque, Chris DeRito, Colin Averill, Daniel Cullen, David A.C. Beck, David A. Walsh, David M. Ward, Dongying Wu, Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh, Eoin L. Brodie, Erica B. Young, Erik A. Lilleskov, Federico J. Castillo, Francis M. Martin, Gary R. LeCleir, Graeme T. Attwood, Hinsby Cadillo-Quiroz, Holly M. Simon, Ian Hewson, Igor V. Grigoriev, James M. Tiedje, Janet K. Jansson, Janey Lee, Jean S. VanderGheynst, Jeff Dangl, Jeff S. Bowman, Jeffrey L. Blanchard, Monica Medina, Terrence H. Bell, 2022, Cell on p. 4023-4037.e18

Acclimation of the photosynthetic apparatus to low light in a thermophilic Synechococcus sp. strain

Nathan Soulier, Karim Walters, Tatiana N. Laremore, Gaozhong Shen, John H. Golbeck, Donald A. Bryant, 2022, Photosynthesis Research on p. 21-42

Molecular Evolution of Far-Red Light-Acclimated Photosystem II

Christopher J. Gisriel, Tanai Cardona, Donald A. Bryant, Gary W. Brudvig, 2022, Microorganisms

Use of Quartz Sand Columns to Study Far-Red Light Photoacclimation (FaRLiP) in Cyanobacteria

Ting Shuo Nien, Donald A. Bryant, Ming Yang Ho, 2022, Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Thousands of small, novel genes predicted in global phage genomes

Brayon J. Fremin, Ami S. Bhatt, Nikos C. Kyrpides, Aditi Sengupta, Alexander Sczyrba, Aline Maria da Silva, Alison Buchan, Amelie Gaudin, Andreas Brune, Ann M. Hirsch, Anthony Neumann, Ashley Shade, Axel Visel, Barbara Campbell, Brett Baker, Brian P. Hedlund, Byron C. Crump, Cameron Currie, Charlene Kelly, Chris Craft, Christina Hazard, Christopher Francis, Christopher W. Schadt, Colin Averill, Courtney Mobilian, Dan Buckley, Dana Hunt, Daniel Noguera, David Beck, David L. Valentine, David Walsh, Dawn Sumner, Despoina Lymperopoulou, Devaki Bhaya, Donald A. Bryant, Elise Morrison, Eoin Brodie, Erica Young, Erik Lilleskov, Eva Högfors-Rönnholm, Feng Chen, Frank Stewart, Graeme W. Nicol, Hanno Teeling, Harry R. Beller, Hebe Dionisi, Hui Ling Liao, J. Michael Beman, Jennifer Macalady, Monica Medina, 2022, Cell Reports

Adaptation of Cyanobacteria to the Endolithic Light Spectrum in Hyper-Arid Deserts

Bayleigh Murray, Emine Ertekin, Micah Dailey, Nathan T. Soulier, Gaozhong Shen, Donald A. Bryant, Cesar Perez-Fernandez, Jocelyne Diruggiero, 2022, Microorganisms

Changes in supramolecular organization of cyanobacterial thylakoid membrane complexes in response to far-red light photoacclimation

Craig MacGregor-Chatwin, Dennis J. Nürnberg, Philip J. Jackson, Cvetelin Vasilev, Andrew Hitchcock, Ming Yang Ho, Gaozhong Shen, Christopher J. Gisriel, William H.J. Wood, Moontaha Mahbub, Vera M. Selinger, Matthew P. Johnson, Mark J. Dickman, Alfred William Rutherford, Donald A. Bryant, C. Neil Hunter, 2022, Science advances

Structure of a monomeric photosystem II core complex from a cyanobacterium acclimated to far-red light reveals the functions of chlorophylls d and f

Christopher Gisriel, Gaozhong Shen, Ming-Yang Ho, Kurashov Vasily, Vasily Kurashov, David Flesher, Jimin Wang, William Armstrong, John H. Golbeck, Marilyn Gunner, David Vinyard, Richard Debus, Gary Brudvig, Donald A. Bryant, 2021, Journal of Biological Chemistry on p. 101424

Structure of a photosystem I-ferredoxin complex from a marine cyanobacterium provides insights into far-red light photoacclimation

Christopher Gisriel, David Flesher, David Fischer, Gaozhong Shen, Ming-Yang Ho, Jimin Wang, Ming-Yang Ho, Gary Brudvig, Donald Bryant, Gary Brudvig, Donald A. Bryant, 2021, Journal of Biological Chemistry

Photosynthesis: Long wavelength pigments in photosynthesis

Ming Yang Ho, Donald A. Bryant, 2021, on p. 245-255

Most-Cited Papers

Extensive remodeling of a cyanobacterial photosynthetic apparatus in far-red light

Fei Gan, Shuyi Zhang, Nathan C. Rockwell, Shelley S. Martin, J. Clark Lagarias, Donald A. Bryant, 2014, Science on p. 1312-1317

A genomic catalog of Earth’s microbiomes

Stephen Nayfach, Simon Roux, Rekha Seshadri, Daniel Udwary, Neha Varghese, Frederik Schulz, Dongying Wu, David Paez-Espino, I. Min Chen, Marcel Huntemann, Krishna Palaniappan, Joshua Ladau, Supratim Mukherjee, T. B.K. Reddy, Torben Nielsen, Edward Kirton, José P. Faria, Janaka N. Edirisinghe, Christopher S. Henry, Sean P. Jungbluth, Dylan Chivian, Paramvir Dehal, Elisha M. Wood-Charlson, Adam P. Arkin, Susannah G. Tringe, Axel Visel, Helena Abreu, Silvia G. Acinas, Eric Allen, Michelle A. Allen, Lauren V. Alteio, Gary Andersen, Alexandre M. Anesio, Graeme Attwood, Viridiana Avila-Magaña, Yacine Badis, Jake Bailey, Brett Baker, Petr Baldrian, Hazel A. Barton, David A.C. Beck, Eric D. Becraft, Harry R. Beller, J. Michael Beman, Rizlan Bernier-Latmani, Timothy D. Berry, Anthony Bertagnolli, Stefan Bertilsson, Donald A. Bryant, Mónica Medina, 2021, Nature Biotechnology on p. 499-509

Occurrence of far-red light photoacclimation (FaRLiP) in diverse cyanobacteria

Fei Gan, Gaozhong Shen, Donald A. Bryant, 2015, Life on p. 4-24

Light-dependent chlorophyll f synthase is a highly divergent paralog of PsbA of photosystem II

Ming Yang Ho, Gaozhong Shen, Daniel P. Canniffe, Chi Zhao, Donald A. Bryant, 2016, Science

Adaptive and acclimative responses of cyanobacteria to far-red light

Fei Gan, Donald A. Bryant, 2015, Environmental Microbiology on p. 3450-3465

Temporal metatranscriptomic patterning in phototrophic Chloroflexi inhabiting a microbial mat in a geothermal spring

Christian G. Klatt, Zhenfeng Liu, Marcus Ludwig, Michael Kühl, Sheila I. Jensen, Donald A. Bryant, David M. Ward, 2013, ISME Journal on p. 1775-1789

Biosynthesis of the modified tetrapyrroles—the pigments of life

Donald A. Bryant, C. Neil Hunter, Martin J. Warren, 2020, Journal of Biological Chemistry on p. 6888-6925

Altered carbohydrate metabolism in glycogen synthase mutants of Synechococcus sp. strain PCC 7002: Cell factories for soluble sugars

Yu Xu, L. Tiago Guerra, Zhongkui Li, Marcus Ludwig, G. Charles Dismukes, Donald A. Bryant, 2013, Metabolic Engineering on p. 56-67

Ether- and ester-bound iso-diabolic acid and other lipids in members of Acidobacteria subdivision 4

Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté, W. Irene C. Rijpstra, Ellen C. Hopmans, Bärbel U. Foesel, Pia K. Wüst, Jörg Overmann, Marcus Tank, Donald A. Bryant, Peter F. Dunfield, Karen Houghton, Matthew B. Stott, 2014, Applied and Environmental Microbiology on p. 5207-5218

The microbiomes of blowflies and houseflies as bacterial transmission reservoirs

Ana Carolina M. Junqueira, Aakrosh Ratan, Enzo Acerbi, Daniela I. Drautz-Moses, Balakrishnan N.V. Premkrishnan, Paul I. Costea, Bodo Linz, Rikky W. Purbojati, Daniel F. Paulo, Nicolas E. Gaultier, Poorani Subramanian, Nur A. Hasan, Rita R. Colwell, Peer Bork, Ana Maria L. Azeredo-Espin, Donald A. Bryant, Stephan C. Schuster, 2017, Scientific Reports