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 Synechococcus Acclimatization Chlorophyll Growth Genome Photosynthesis Chlorophyll F Cyanobacterium Far Red Light Quartz Sand Photosystem Ii Protein Complex Hot Springs Chlorobi Proteins Acclimation Strain Photosystem I Protein Complex Earth (Planet) Chloroflexi Transcriptome Molecular Cluster

Most Recent Publications

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

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

Molecular Evolution of Far-Red Light-Acclimated Photosystem II

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

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

Christopher Gisriel, David Fischer, David A. Flesher, Gaozhong Shen, Jimin Wang, Ming-Yang Ho, Gary Brudvig, Ming Yang Ho, Gary W. Brudvig, Donald Bryant, Donald A. Bryant, 2022, Journal of Biological Chemistry

Photosynthesis: Long wavelength pigments in photosynthesis

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

Carotenoid biomarkers in Namibian shelf sediments: Anoxygenic photosynthesis during sulfide eruptions in the Benguela Upwelling System

Jian Ma, Katherine L. French, Xingqian Cui, Donald A. Bryant, Roger E. Summons, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Genomic and Phenotypic Characterization of Chloracidobacterium Isolates Provides Evidence for Multiple Species

Mohit Kumar Saini, Aswathy Sebastian, Yoshiki Shirotori, Nathan T. Soulier, Amaya M. Garcia Costas, Daniela I. Drautz-Moses, Stephan C. Schuster, Istvan Albert, Shin Haruta, Satoshi Hanada, Vera Thiel, Marcus Tank, Donald A. Bryant, 2021, Frontiers in Microbiology

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

Complete genome of Ignavibacterium album, a metabolically versatile, flagellated, facultative anaerobe from the phylum Chlorobi

Zhenfeng Liu, Niels Ulrik Frigaard, Kajetan Vogl, Takao Iino, Moriya Ohkuma, Jörg Overmann, Donald A. Bryant, 2012, Frontiers in Microbiology

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

Synechococcus sp. Strain PCC 7002 transcriptome: Acclimation to temperature, salinity, oxidative stress, and mixotrophic growth conditions

Marcus Ludwig, Donald A. Bryant, 2012, Frontiers in Microbiology on p. 1-14

Acclimation of the global transcriptome of the cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. strain PCC 7002 to nutrient limitations and different nitrogen sources

Marcus Ludwig, Donald A. Bryant, 2012, Frontiers in Microbiology

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

Electronic coherence lineshapes reveal hidden excitonic correlations in photosynthetic light harvesting

Cathy Y. Wong, Richard M. Alvey, Daniel B. Turner, Krystyna E. Wilk, Donald A. Bryant, Paul M.G. Curmi, Robert J. Silbey, Gregory D. Scholes, 2012, Nature Chemistry on p. 396-404