John Golbeck
Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics
- 328 Frear South
University Park, PA - jhg5@psu.edu
- 814-865-1163
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 Institutes Affiliations
Most Recent Papers
Electron-phonon coupling in cyanobacterial photosystem i
Dmitry A. Cherepanov, Georgy E. Milanovsky, Oksana A. Gopta, Ramakrishnan Balasubramanian, Donald A. Bryant, Alexey Yu Semenov, John H. Golbeck, 2018, Journal of Physical Chemistry B on p. 7943-7955
<sup>15</sup>N photo-CIDNP MAS NMR analysis of reaction centers of Chloracidobacterium thermophilum
Jeremias C. Zill, Zhihui He, Marcus Tank, Bryan H. Ferlez, Daniel P. Canniffe, Yigal Lahav, Peter Bellstedt, A. Alia, Igor Schapiro, John H. Golbeck, Donald A. Bryant, Jörg Matysik, 2018, Photosynthesis research on p. 295-305
Light-Driven Chloride Transport Kinetics of Halorhodopsin
Hasin Feroz, Bryan Ferlez, Cecile Lefoulon, Tingwei Ren, Carol S. Baker, John P. Gajewski, Daniel J. Lugar, Sandeep B. Gaudana, Peter J. Butler, Jonas Hühn, Matthias Lamping, Wolfgang J. Parak, Julian M. Hibberd, Cheryl A. Kerfeld, Nicholas Smirnoff, Michael R. Blatt, John H. Golbeck, Manish Kumar, 2018, Biophysical Journal on p. 353-360
Engineered biosynthesis of bacteriochlorophyll g<sub>F</sub> in Rhodobacter sphaeroides
Marcia Ortega-Ramos, Daniel P. Canniffe, Matthew I. Radle, C. Neil Hunter, Donald A. Bryant, John H. Golbeck, 2018, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Bioenergetics on p. 501-509
Presence of a [3Fe–4S] cluster in a PsaC variant as a functional component of the photosystem I electron transfer chain in Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002
Adam A. Pérez, Bryan H. Ferlez, Amanda M. Applegate, Karim Walters, Zhihui He, Gaozhong Shen, John H. Golbeck, Donald A. Bryant, 2018, Photosynthesis research on p. 31-48
Improving extraction and post-purification concentration of membrane proteins
Hasin Feroz, Hyeyoung Kwon, Jing Peng, Hyeonji Oh, Bryan Ferlez, Carol S. Baker, John H. Golbeck, Guillermo C. Bazan, Andrew L. Zydney, Manish Kumar, 2018, Analyst on p. 1378-1386
Toward a mechanistic and physiological understanding of a ferredoxin
Divya Prakash, Karim A. Walters, X. Ryan J. Martinie, Addison C. McCarver, Adepu K. Kumar, Daniel J. Lessner, Carsten Krebs, John H. Golbeck, James G. Ferry, 2018, Journal of Biological Chemistry on p. 9198-9209
Electron-Phonon Coupling in Cyanobacterial Photosystem i
Dmitry A. Cherepanov, Georgy E. Milanovsky, Oksana A. Gopta, Ramakrishnan Balasubramanian, Donald A. Bryant, Alexey Yu Semenov, John H. Golbeck, 2018, Journal of Physical Chemistry B
Expression, purification and characterization of an active C491G variant of ferredoxin sulfite reductase from Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942
Karim A. Walters, John H. Golbeck, 2018, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Bioenergetics
Mutations in algal and cyanobacterial Photosystem I that independently affect the yield of initial charge separation in the two electron transfer cofactor branches
Syed Lal Badshah, Junlei Sun, Sam Mula, Mike Gorka, Patricia Baker, Rajiv Luthra, Su Lin, Art van der Est, John H. Golbeck, Kevin E. Redding, 2018, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Bioenergetics on p. 42-55
High-Impact 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
Solar hydrogen-producing bionanodevice outperforms natural photosynthesis
Carolyn E. Lubner, Amanda M. Applegate, Philipp Knörzer, Alexander Ganago, Donald A. Bryant, Thomas Happe, John H. Golbeck, 2011, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America on p. 20988-20991
Wiring an [FeFe]-hydrogenase with Photosystem i for light-induced hydrogen production
Carolyn E. Lubner, Philipp Knörzer, Paulo J.N. Silva, Kylie A. Vincent, Thomas Happe, Donald A. Bryant, John H. Golbeck, 2010, Biochemistry on p. 10264-10266
Maximizing H<sub>2</sub> production in Photosystem I/dithiol molecular wire/platinum nanoparticle bioconjugates
Rebecca Ann Grimme, Carolyn Elizabeth Lubner, John Harvey Golbeck, 2009, Dalton Transactions on p. 10106-10113
A novel photosynthetic strategy for adaptation to low-iron aquatic environments
Devendra Chauhan, I. Mihaela Folea, Craig C. Jolley, Roman Kour̂il, Carolyn E. Lubner, Su Lin, Dorota Kolber, Felisa Wolfe-Simon, John H. Golbeck, Egbert J. Boekema, Petra Fromme, 2011, Biochemistry on p. 686-692
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
Incorporation of a high potential quinone reveals that electron transfer in Photosystem I becomes highly asymmetric at low temperature
Sam Mula, Anton Savitsky, Klaus Möbius, Wolfgang Lubitz, John H. Golbeck, Mahir D. Mamedov, Alexey Yu Semenov, Art Van Der Est, 2012, Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences on p. 946-956
Ultrastructural analysis and identification of envelope proteins of "Candidatus chloracidobacterium thermophilum" chlorosomes
Amaya M Garcia Costas, Yusuke Tsukatani, Steven P. Romberger, Gert T. Oostergetel, Egbert J. Boekema, John H. Golbeck, Donald A. Bryant, 2011, Journal of Bacteriology on p. 6701-6711
Isolation and characterization of homodimeric type-I reaction center complex from Candidatus chloracidobacterium thermophilum, an aerobic chlorophototroph
Yusuke Tsukatani, Steven P. Romberger, John H. Golbeck, Donald A. Bryant, 2012, Journal of Biological Chemistry on p. 5720-5732
Purification of the photosynthetic reaction center from Heliobacterium modesticaldum.
Iosifina Sarrou, Zahid Khan, John Cowgill, S. Lin, Daniel Brune, Steven Romberger, John H. Golbeck, Kevin E. Redding, 2012, Photosynthesis Research on p. 291-302