John Golbeck

Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics

John Golbeck

Research Summary

Light reactions in photosynthesis. Structure and function of photosystem I and the heliobacterial reaction center. Regulation and bioassembly of iron-sulfur clusters in cyanobacteria and plants. Plant and bacterial metalloproteins. Generation using Photosystem I, hydrogenase, and molecular wire technology.

Huck Affiliations

Publication Tags

Photosystem I Protein Complex Electrons Chlorophyll Membranes Light Proteins Electron Transfer Synechococcus Molecules Oxygen Energy Transfer Histidine Chlorophyll F Genes Photosynthetic Reaction Center Complex Proteins Molecule Photosynthesis Solar Energy Ligands Nanowires Chlorophyll A' Cyanobacteria Chlorophylls Phylloquinone Cofactor

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

QUANTIFYING ENVIRONMENTALLY PERSISTENT FREE RADICALS (EPFRS) OF SUBMICRON COAL DUST

S. Azam, S. Liu, V. Kurashov, J. H. Golbeck, S. Bhattacharyya, R. Zhang, 2022, on p. 439-443

EPR of Type I photosynthetic reaction centers

John H. Golbeck, Art van der Est, 2022, on p. 413-450

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

Shedding Light on Primary Donors in Photosynthetic Reaction Centers

Michael Gorka, Amgalanbaatar Baldansuren, Amanda Malnati, Elijah Gruszecki, John H. Golbeck, K. V. Lakshmi, 2021, Frontiers in Microbiology

Symmetry breaking in photosystem I: ultrafast optical studies of variants near the accessory chlorophylls in the A- and B-branches of electron transfer cofactors

Dmitry A. Cherepanov, Ivan V. Shelaev, Fedor E. Gostev, Victor A. Nadtochenko, Wu Xu, John H. Golbeck, Alexey Yu Semenov, 2021, Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences on p. 1209-1227

A dimeric chlorophyll electron acceptor differentiates type I from type II photosynthetic reaction centers

Michael Gorka, Philip Charles, Vidmantas Kalendra, Amgalanbaatar Baldansuren, K. V. Lakshmi, John H. Golbeck, 2021, iScience

Two-dimensional HYSCORE spectroscopy reveals a histidine imidazole as the axial ligand to Chl<sub>3A</sub> in the M688H<sub>PsaA</sub> genetic variant of Photosystem I

Michael Gorka, Elijah Gruszecki, Philip Charles, Vidmantas Kalendra, K. V. Lakshmi, John H. Golbeck, 2021, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Bioenergetics

Differential sensitivity to oxygen among the bacteriochlorophylls g in the type-I reaction centers of Heliobacterium modesticaldum

Alessandro Agostini, Marco Bortolus, Bryan Ferlez, Karim Walters, John H. Golbeck, Art van der Est, Donatella Carbonera, 2021, Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences on p. 747-759

Primary charge separation within the structurally symmetric tetrameric Chl<sub>2A</sub>P<sub>A</sub>P<sub>B</sub>Chl<sub>2B</sub> chlorophyll exciplex in photosystem I

Dmitry A. Cherepanov, Ivan V. Shelaev, Fedor E. Gostev, Anastasia Petrova, Arseniy V. Aybush, Victor A. Nadtochenko, Wu Xu, John H. Golbeck, Alexey Yu Semenov, 2021, Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology

Most-Cited Papers

Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 nanowires are outer membrane and periplasmic extensions of the extracellular electron transport components

Sahand Pirbadian, Sarah E. Barchinger, Kar Man Leung, Hye Suk Byun, Yamini Jangir, Rachida A. Bouhenni, Samantha B. Reed, Margaret F. Romine, Daad A. Saffarini, Liang Shi, Yuri A. Gorby, John H. Golbeck, Mohamed Y. El-Naggar, 2014, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America on p. 12883-12888

Structure of a symmetric photosynthetic reaction center-photosystem

Christopher Gisriel, Iosifina Sarrou, Bryan Ferlez, John H. Golbeck, Kevin E. Redding, Raimund Fromme, 2017, Science on p. 1021-1025

Vipp1 is essential for the biogenesis of Photosystem I but not thylakoid membranes in Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002

Shuyi Zhang, Gaozhong Shen, Zhongkui Li, John H. Golbeck, Donald A. Bryant, 2014, Journal of Biological Chemistry on p. 15904-15914

PoreDesigner for tuning solute selectivity in a robust and highly permeable outer membrane pore

Ratul Chowdhury, Tingwei Ren, Manish Shankla, Karl Decker, Matthew Grisewood, Jeevan Prabhakar, Carol Baker, John H. Golbeck, Aleksei Aksimentiev, Manish Kumar, Costas D. Maranas, 2018, Nature Communications

The structure of Photosystem I acclimated to far-red light illuminates an ecologically important acclimation process in photosynthesis

Christopher Gisriel, Gaozhong Shen, Vasily Kurashov, Ming Yang Ho, Shangji Zhang, Dewight Williams, John H. Golbeck, Petra Fromme, Donald A. Bryant, 2020, Science advances

Regulation of gene expression in Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 during electron acceptor limitation and bacterial nanowire formation

Sarah E. Barchinger, Sahand Pirbadian, Christine Sambles, Carol S. Baker, Kar Man Leung, Nigel J. Burroughs, Mohamed Y. El-Naggar, John H. Golbeck, 2016, Applied and Environmental Microbiology on p. 5428-5443

Characterization of chlorophyll f synthase heterologously produced in Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002

Gaozhong Shen, Dan Canniffe, Ming-Yang Ho, Vasily Kurashov, Art van der est, John H. Golbeck, Donald A. Bryant, 2019, Photosynthesis Research on p. 77-92

Two-dimensional protein crystals for solar energy conversion

Patrick O. Saboe, Carolyn E. Lubner, Nicholas S. McCool, Nella M. Vargas-Barbosa, Hengjing Yan, Stanley Chan, Bryan Ferlez, Guillermo C. Bazan, John H. Golbeck, Manish Kumar, 2014, Advanced Materials on p. 7064-7069

Energy transfer from chlorophyll f to the trapping center in naturally occurring and engineered Photosystem I complexes

Vasily Kurashov, Ming-Yang Ho, Gaozhong Shen, Karia Piedl, Laremore Tatiana, Tatiana N. Laremore, Donald A. Bryant, John H. Golbeck, 2019, Photosynthesis Research on p. 151-163

Evidence that histidine forms a coordination bond to the A<sub>0A</sub> and A<sub>0B</sub> chlorophylls and a second H-bond to the A<sub>1A</sub> and A<sub>1B</sub> phylloquinones in M688H<sub>PsaA</sub> and M668H<sub>PsaB</sub> variants of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803

Junlei Sun, Sijie Hao, Matthew Radle, Wu Xu, Ivan Shelaev, Victor Nadtochenko, Vladimir Shuvalov, Alexey Semenov, Heather Gordon, Art Van Der Est, John H. Golbeck, 2014, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Bioenergetics on p. 1362-1375