Direction des sciences du vivant

Allahverdiyeva Y, Mustila H, Ermakova M, Bersanini L, Richaud P, Ajlani G, Battchikova N, Cournac L, Aro EM. (2013). Flavodiiron proteins Flv1 and Flv3 enable cyanobacterial growth and photosynthesis under fluctuating light. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A., 110, 4111-4116.

Mendes-Pinto MM, LaFountain AM, Stoddard MC, Prum RO, Frank HA, Robert B. (2012). Variation in carotenoid-protein interaction in bird feathers produces novel plumage coloration. J. R. Soc. Interface. 9, 3338-3350.

Trinkunas G, Zerlauskiene O, Urboniene V, Chmeliov J, Gall A, Robert B, Valkunas L. (2012). Exciton Band Structure in Bacterial Peripheral Light-Harvesting Complexes. J Phys Chem B. 116, 5192-5198.

Uragami C, Yamashita E, Gall A, Robert B, Hashimoto H. (2012). Application of resonance raman microscopy to in vivo carotenoid. Acta Biochim Pol. 59, 53-56.

Brotosudarmo T H P, Collins A M, Gall A, Roszak A W, Gardiner A T, Blankenship R E, Cogdell R J. (2011). The light intensity under which cells are grown controls the type of peripheral light-harvesting complexes that are assembled in a purple photosynthetic bacterium. Biochem J. 440, 51-61.

Gall A, Berera R, Alexandre M T A, Pascal A A, Bordes L, Mendes-Pinto M M, Andrianambinintsoa S, Stoitchkova K V, Marin A, Valkunas L, Horton P, Kennis J T M, van Grondelle R, Ruban A, Robert B. (2011). Molecular Adaptation of Photoprotection: Triplet States in Light-Harvesting Proteins. Biophys J. 101, 934-942.

Ilioaia C, Johnson M P, Liao P N, Pascal A A, van Grondelle R, Walla P J, Ruban A V, Robert B. (2011). Photoprotection in Plants Involves a Change in Lutein 1 Binding Domain in the Major Light-harvesting Complex of Photosystem II. J Biol Chem. 286, 27247-27254.

Ilioaia C, Johnson M P, Duffy C D, Pascal A A, van Grondelle R, Robert B, Ruban A V. (2011). Origin of absorption changes associated with photoprotective energy dissipation in the absence of zeaxanthin. J Biol Chem. 286, 91-98.

Omairi-Nasser A, de Gracia A G, Ajlani G. (2011). A larger transcript is required for the synthesis of the smaller isoform of ferredoxin: NADP oxidoreductase. Mol Microbiol. 81, 1178-1189.

Sytina O A, Alexandre M T, Heyes D J, Hunter C N, Robert B, van Grondelle R, Groot M L. (2011). Enzyme activation and catalysis: characterisation of the vibrational modes of substrate and product in protochlorophyllide oxidoreductase. Phys Chem Chem Phys. 13, 2307-2313.

van Oort B, Maréchal A, Ruban A V, Robert B, Pascal A A, de Ruijter N C A, van Grondelle R, van Amerongen H. (2011). Different crystal morphologies lead to slightly different conformations of light-harvesting complex II as monitored by variations of the intrinsic fluorescence lifetime. Phys Chem Chem Phys. 13, 12614-12622.

Alexandre M T A, Purcell E B, van Grondelle R, Robert B, Kennis J T M, Crosson S. (2010). Electronic and Protein Structural Dynamics of a Photosensory Histidine Kinase. Biochemistry. 49, 4752-4759.

Frolov D, Marsh M, Crouch L I, Fyfe P K, Robert B, van Grondelle R, Hadfield A, Jones M R. (2010). Structural and Spectroscopic Consequences of Hexacoordination of a Bacteriochlorophyll Cofactor in the Rhodobacter sphaeroides Reaction Center. Biochemistry. 49, 1882-1892.

Gall A, Sogaila E, Gulbinas V, Ilioaia O, Robert B, Valkunas L. (2010). Spectral dependence of energy transfer in wild-type peripheral light-harvesting complexes of photosynthetic bacteria. Biochim Biophys Acta. 1797, 1465-1469.

Haferkamp S, Haase W, Pascal A A, van Amerongen H, Kirchhoff H. (2010). Efficient Light Harvesting by Photosystem II Requires an Optimized Protein Packing Density in Grana Thylakoids. J Biol Chem. 285, 17020-17028.

Krey T, d'Alayer J, Kikuti C M, Saulnier A, Damier-Piolle L, Petitpas I, Johansson D X, Tawar R G, Baron B, Robert B, England P, Persson M A A, Martin A, Rey F A. (2010). The Disulfide Bonds in Glycoprotein E2 of Hepatitis C Virus Reveal the Tertiary Organization of the Molecule. PLoS Pathog. 6, 11.

Krumova S B, Laptenok S P, Borst J W, Ughy B, Gombos Z, Ajlani G, van Amerongen H. (2010). Monitoring Photosynthesis in Individual Cells of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 on a Picosecond Timescale. Biophys J. 99, 2006-2015.

Lechardeur D, Fernandez A, Robert B, Gaudu P, Trieu-Cuot P, Lamberet G, Gruss A. (2010). The 2-Cys Peroxiredoxin Alkyl Hydroperoxide Reductase C Binds Heme and Participates in Its Intracellular Availability in Streptococcus agalactiae. J Biol Chem. 285, 16032-16041.

Premvardhan L, Robert B, Beer A, Buchel C. (2010). Pigment organization in fucoxanthin chlorophyll a/c(2) proteins (FCP) based on resonance Raman spectroscopy and sequence analysis. Biochim Biophys Acta. 1797, 1647-1656.

Telfer A, Pascal A A, Bordes L, Barber J, Robert B. (2010). Fluorescence Line Narrowing Studies on Isolated Chlorophyll Molecules. J Phys Chem B. 114, 2255-2260.

Arteni AA, Ajlani G, Boekema EJ. (2009).Structural organisation of phycobilisomes from Synechocystis sp strain PCC6803 and their interaction with the membrane.Biochim Biophys Acta. 1787, 272-279.

Premvardhan L, Bordes L, Beer A, Buchel C, Robert B. (2009). Carotenoid Structures and Environments in Trimeric and Oligomeric Fucoxanthin Chlorophyll a/c(2) Proteins from Resonance Raman Spectroscopy. J Phys Chem B. 113, 12565-12574.

Robert B. (2009). Resonance Raman spectroscopy. Photosynth Res. 101, 147-155.

Alexandre MTA, van Grondelle R, Hellingwerf KJ, Robert B, Kenni JTM. (2008). Perturbation of the ground-state electronic structure of FMN by the conserved cysteine in phototropin LOV2 domains Phys Chem Chem Phys. 10, 6693-6702

Fujiwara M, Yamauchi K, Sugisaki M, Yanagi K, Gall A, Robert B, Cogdell RJ, Hashimoto H. (2008). Large third-order optical nonlinearity realized in symmetric nonpolar carotenoids.Phys Rev B. 78, 161101.

Fujiwara M, Yamauchi K, Sugisaki M, Gall A, Robert B, Cogdell RJ, Hashimoto H. (2008). Energy dissipation in the ground-state vibrational manifolds of beta-carotene homologues: A sub-20-fs time-resolved transient grating spectroscopic study. Phys Rev B. 77, 205118.

García-Martín A, Pazur A, Wilhelm B, Silber M, Robert B, Braun P. (2008). The role of aromatic phenylalanine residues in binding carotenoid to light-harvesting model and wild-type complexes. J Mol Biol. 382, 154-66.

Herbert RA, Gall A, Maoka T, Cogdell RJ, Robert B, Takaichi S, Schwabe S. (2008). Phototrophic purple sulfur bacteria as heat engines in the South Andros Black Hole. Photosynth Res. 95, 261-268.

Kereïche S, Bourinet L, Keegstra W, Arteni AA, Verbavatz JM, Boekema EJ, Robert B, Gall A. (2008). The peripheral light-harvesting complexes from purple sulfur bacteria have different 'ring' sizes. FEBS Lett. 582, 3650-6.

Pandit A, Fay N, Bordes L, Valéry C, Cherif-Cheikh R, Robert B, Artzner F, Paternostre M. (2008). Self-assembly of the octapeptide lanreotide and lanreotide-based derivatives: the role of the aromatic residues. J Pept Sci. 14, 66-75.

Séguin J, Mayer C, Robert B, Arluison V. (2008). Thermodynamics of the beta(2) association in light-harvesting complex I of Rhodospirillum rubrum. FEBS J. 275, 1240-1247.

Silber MV, Gabriel G, Strohmann B, Garcia-Martin A, Robert B, Braun P. (2008). Fine tuning of the spectral properties of LH2 by single amino acid residues. Photosynth Res. 96, 145-51.

Wilson A, Punginelli C, Gall A, Bonetti C, Alexandre M, Routaboul JM, Kerfeld C, van Grondelle R, Robert B, Kennis J, Kirilovsky D. (2008). A photoactive carotenoid protein acting as light intensity sensor. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 105, 12075-12080.

Zerlauskiene O, Trinkunas G, Gall A, Robert B, Urboniene V, Valkunas L. (2008). Static and Dynamic Protein Impact on Electronic Properties of Light-Harvesting Complex LH2. J Phys Chem B. 112, 15883-92.

Alexander V. Ruban, Rudi Berera, Cristian Ilioaia, Ivo H. M. van Stokkum, John T. M. Kennis, Andrew A. Pascal, Herbert van Amerongen, Bruno Robert, Peter Horton, Rienk van Grondelle (2007) Identification of a mechanism of photoprotective energy dissipation in higher plants Nature 450, 575-578.

Herbert RA, Gall A, Maoka T, Cogdell RJ, Robert B, Takaichi S, Schwabe S. (2007). Phototrophic purple sulfur bacteria as heat engines in the South Andros Black Hole. Photosynth Res. 95, 261-8.

Johnson MP, Havaux M, Triantaphylidès C, Ksas B, Pascal AA, Robert B, Davison PA, Ruban AV, Horton P. (2007). Elevated zeaxanthin bound to oligomeric LHCII enhances the resistance of Arabidopsis to photo-oxidative stress by a lipid-protective, anti-oxidant mechanism. J Biol Chem.282, 22605-22618.

Pandit A, Fay N, Bordes L, Valéry C, Cherif-Cheikh R, Robert B, Artzner F, Paternostre M. (2007). Self-assembly of the octapeptide lanreotide and lanreotide-based derivatives: the role of the aromatic residues J. Pept Sci. 14, 66-75.

Ruban AV, Berera R, Ilioaia C, van Stokkum IH, Kennis JT, Pascal AA, van Amerongen H, Robert B, Horton P, van Grondelle R. (2007).Identification of a mechanism of photoprotective energy dissipation in higher plants. Nature. 450, 575-578.

Urboniene V, Vrublevskaja O, Trinkunas G, Gall A, Robert B, Valkunas L. (2007). Solvation effect of bacteriochlorophyll excitons in light-harvesting complex LH2. Biophys J.93, 2188-2198.

Gall A, Gardiner A, Cogdell R, Robert B. (2006). Carotenoid stoichiometry in the LH2 crystal: No spectral evidence for the presence of the second molecule in the a/ß-apoprotein dimer. FEBS Lett.580, 3841-3844.

Garcia-Martin A, Kwa LG, Strohmann B, Robert B, Holzwarth AR, Braun P. (2006). Structural role of (bacterio)chlorophyll ligated in the energetically unfavorable beta-position. J Biol Chem.281, 10626-10634.

Picaud T, Desbois A. (2006). Interaction of Glutathione Reductase with Heavy Metal: The Binding of Hg(II) or Cd(II) to the Reduced Enzyme Affects Both the Redox Dithiol Pair and the Flavin. Biochemistry.45, 15829-15837.

Pröll S, Wilhelm B, Robert B, Scheer H. (2006). Myoglobin with modified tetrapyrrole chromophores: Binding specificity and photochemistry Biochim Biophys Acta Bioenergetics. 1757, 750-763.

Thomas JC, Ughy B, Lagoutte B, Ajlani G. (2006). A second isoform of the ferredoxin:NADP oxidoreductase generated by an in-frame initiation of translation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A.103, 18368-18373.

Wilson A, Ajlani G, Verbavatz JM, Vass I, Kerfeld CA, Kirilovsky D. (2006). A Soluble Carotenoid Protein Involved in Phycobilisome-Related Energy Dissipation in Cyanobacteria Plant Cell. 18, 992-1007.

Chen M, Telfer A, Lin S, Pascal A, Larkum AWD, Barber J, Blankenship RE. (2005). The nature of the photosystem II reaction centre in the chlorophyll d-containing prokaryote, Acaryochloris marina. Photochem Photobiol Sci.4, 1060-1064.

Gall A, Henry S, Takaichi S, Robert B, Codgell RJ. (2005). Preferential Incorporation of Coloured-carotenoids Occurs in the LH2 Complexes From Non-sulphur Purple Bacteria Under Carotenoid-limiting Conditions.Photosynthes Res.86, 25-35.

Gomez de Gracia A, Bordes L, Desbois A. (2005). Spectroscopic characterization of hydroxide and aqua complexes of Fe(II)-protoheme, structural models for the axial coordination of the atypical heme of membrane cytochrome b6f complexes. J Am Chem Soc.127, 17634-17643.

Pascal AA, Liu Z, Broess K, van Oort B, van Amerongen H, Wang C, Horton P, Robert B, Chang W, Ruban A. (2005). Molecular basis of photoprotection and control of photosynthetic light-harvesting. Nature.436, 134-137.

Piven I, Ajlani G, Sokolenko A. (2005). Phycobilisome linker proteins are phosphorylated in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 J Biol Chem.280, 21667-21672.

Potter JA, Fyfe PK, Frolov D, Wakeham MC, van Grondelle R, Robert B, Jones MR. (2005). Strong effects of an individual water molecule on the rate of light-driven charge separation in the Rhodobacter sphaeroides reaction center J Biol Chem.280, 27155-27164.

Urboniene V, Vrublevskaja O, Gall A, Trinkunas G, Robert B, Valkunas L. (2005). Temperature broadening of LH2 absorption in glycerol solution. Photosynthes Res.86, 49-59.

Arluison V, Seguin J, Le Caer JP, Sturgis JN, Robert B. (2004). Hydrophobic pockets at the membrane interface: an original mechanism for membrane protein interactions. Biochemistry. 43, 1276-1282.

Gall A, Ellervee A, Robert B, Freiberg A. (2004). The effect of internal voids in membrane proteins: high-pressure study of two photochemical reaction centres from Rhodobacter sphaeroides. FEBS Lett.560, 221-225.

Kwa LG, Garcia-Martin A, Vegh AP, Strohmann B, Robert B, Braun P. (2004). Hydrogen bonding in a model bacteriochlorophyll-binding site drives assembly of light harvesting complex. J Biol Chem.279, 15067-15075.

Robert B, Horton P, Pascal AA, Ruban AV. (2004). Insights into the molecular dynamics of plant light-harvesting proteins in vivo. Trends Plant Sci.9, 385-390.

Snyder AM, Clark BM, Robert B, Ruban AV, Bungard RA. (2004). Carotenoid specificity of light-harvesting complex II binding sites. Occurrence of 9-cis-violaxanthin in the neoxanthin-binding site in the parasitic angiosperm Cuscuta reflexa. J Biol Chem.279, 5162-5168.

Ughy B, Ajlani G. (2004). Phycobilisome rod mutants in Synechocystis sp. strain PCC6803. Microbiology.150, 4147-4156.

Valery C, Artzner F, Robert B, Gulick T, Keller G, Grabielle-Madelmont C, Torres ML, Cherif-Cheikh R, Paternostre M. (2004). Self-association process of a peptide in solution: from beta-sheet filaments to large embedded nanotubes. Biophys J.86, 2484-2501.

De Vitry C, Desbois A, Redeker V, Zito F, Wollman FA. (2004). Biochemical and Spectroscopic Characterization of the Covalent Binding of Heme to Cytochrome b(6). Biochemistry. 43, 3956-3968.

Bloch V, Yang Y, Margeat E, Chavanieu A, Auge MT, Robert B, Arold S, Rimsky S, Kochoyan M. (2003). The H-NS dimerization domain defines a new fold contributing to DNA recognition Nat Struct Biol.10, 212-218.

Braun P, Vegh AP, von Jan A, Strohmann B, Hunter CN, Robert B, Scheer H. (2003). Identification of intramembrane hydrogen bonding between 13(1) keto group of bacteriochlorophyll and serine residue alpha 27 in the LH2 light-harvesting complex. Biochim Biophys Acta.1607, 19-26.

Castelletti S, Morosinotto T, Robert B, Caffarri S, Bassi R, Croce R. (2003). Recombinant Lhca2 and Lhca3 subunits of the photosystem I antenna system. Biochemistry. 42, 4226-4234.

Desquilbet TE, Duval JC, Robert B, Houmard J, Thomas JC. (2003). In the unicellular red alga Rhodella violacea iron deficiency induces an accumulation of uncoupled LHC Plant Cell Physiol. 44, 1141-1151.

Gall A, Cogdell RJ, Robert B. (2003). Influence of Carotenoid Molecules on the Structure of the Bacteriochlorophyll Binding Site in Peripheral Light-Harvesting Proteins from Rhodobacter sphaeroides. Biochemistry. 42, 7252-7258.

Gall A, Ellervee A, Sturgis JN, Fraser NJ, Cogdell RJ, Freiberg A, Robert B. (2003). Membrane protein stability: High pressure effects on the structure and chromophore-binding properties of the light-harvesting complex LH2 Biochemistry. 42, 13019-13026.

Kerfeld CA, Sawaya MR, Bottin H, Tran KT, Sugiura M, Cascio D, Desbois A, Yeates TO, Kirilovsky D, Boussac A. (2003). Structural and EPR characterization of the soluble form of cytochrome c-550 and of the psbV2 gene product from the cyanobacterium Thermosynechococcus elongatus. Plant Cell Physiol.44, 697-706.

Lefevre-Groboillot D, Frapart Y, Desbois A, Zimmermann JL, Boucher JL, Gorren AC, Mayer B, Stuehr DJ, Mansuy D. (2003). Two modes of binding of N-hydroxyguanidines to NO synthases: first evidence for the formation of iron-N-hydroxyguanidine complexes and key role of tetrahydrobiopterin in determining the binding mode. Biochemistry. 42, 3858-3867.

Le Moigne C, Picaud T, Boussac A, Loock B, Momenteau M, Desbois A. (2003). Absorption and Resonance Raman Investigations of Ligand Rotation and Nonplanar Heme Distortion in Bis-Base Low-Spin Iron(II)-Tetrakis(o-pivalamidophenyl)porphyrin Complexes. Inorg Chem.42, 6081-6088.

Olsen JD, Robert B, Siebert CA, Bullough PA, Hunter CN. (2003). Role of the C-terminal extrinsic region of the alpha polypeptide of the light-harvesting 2 complex of Rhodobacter sphaeroides: a domain swap study. Biochemistry. 42, 15114-15123.

Papagiannakis E, Das SK, Gall A, van Stokkum IHM, Robert B, van Grondelle R, Frank HA, Kennis JTM. (2003). Light harvesting by carotenoids incorporated into the B850 light-harvesting complex from Rhodobacter sphaeroides R-26.1: Excited-state relaxation, ultrafast triplet formation, and energy transfer to bacteriochlorophyll. J Phys Chem B.107, 5642-5649.

Picaud T, Le Moigne C, Loock B, Momenteau M, Desbois A. (2003). Nonplanar distortions of bis-base low-spin iron(II)-porphyrinates: absorption and resonance Raman investigations of cross-trans-linked iron(II)-basket-handle porphyrin complexes. J Am Chem Soc.125, 11616-11625.

Scheuring S, Seguin J, Marco S, Levy D, Robert B, Rigaud JL. (2003). Nanodissection and high-resolution imaging of the Rhodopseudomonas viridis photosynthetic core complex in native membranes by AFM. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A.100, 1690-1693.

Scheuring S, Seguin J, Marco S, Levy D, Breyton C, Robert B, Rigaud JL. (2003). AFM characterization of tilt and intrinsic flexibility of Rhodobacter sphaeroides light harvesting complex 2 (LH2). J Mol Biol.325, 569-580.

Telfer A, Frolov D, Barber J, Robert B, Pascal A. (2003). Oxidation of the two beta-carotene molecules in the photosystem II reaction center. Biochemistry. 42, 1008-1015.

Valéry C, Paternostre M, Robert B, Gulik-Krzywicki T, Narayanan T, Dedieu JC, Keller G, Torres ML, Cherif-Cheikh R, Calvo P, Artzner F. (2003). Biomimetic organization: Octapeptide self-assembly into nanotubes of viral capsid-like dimension. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A.100, 10258-10262.