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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2002 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 2001 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Charles F. Yocum is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research spans several fields including Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Neuroscience. Within these broader areas, their work focuses particularly on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.

The main topics covered by Charles F. Yocum include Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms, Photoreceptor and Optogenetics Research, Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies, Mitochondrial Function and Pathology, and ATP Synthase and ATPases Research.

Recent publications by Charles F. Yocum and collaborators include:

  • Charge separation in the photosystem II reaction center resolved by multispectral two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy, 2023, Science Advances
  • Photosystem 2 and the oxygen evolving complex: a brief overview, 2022, Photosynthesis Research
  • Preface: special issues on photosystem II, 2022, Photosynthesis Research
  • Charge Separation in the Photosystem II Reaction Center Resolved by Multispectral Two-Dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy, 2022, arXiv (Cornell University)

Their frequent co-authors include Hoang H. Nguyen, Elizabeth L. Maret, Yogita Silori, Rhiannon Willow, and Jennifer P. Ogilvie.

Charles F. Yocum has published mainly in the venues Photosynthesis Research, Science Advances, and arXiv (Cornell University).

They have been recognized with fellowships at notable organizations including the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2002 and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2001.

Best Publications

  • A highly resolved, oxygen-evolving photosystem II preparation from spinach thylakoid membranes

    Deborah A. Berthold;Gerald T. Babcock;Charles F. Yocum

  • STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF PHOTOSYSTEMS I AND II

    Nathan Nelson;Charles F. Yocum

  • Oxygenic photosynthesis: the light reactions.

    Donald R. Ort;Charles F. Yocum

  • Vibronic coherence in oxygenic photosynthesis

    Franklin D. Fuller;Jie Pan;Andrius Gelzinis;Vytautas Butkus

  • Calcium reconstitutes high rates of oxygen evolution in polypeptide depleted Photosystem II preparations

    Demetrios F. Ghanotakis;Gerald T. Babcock;Charles F. Yocum

  • Water oxidation in photosystem II: from radical chemistry to multielectron chemistry.

    Gerald T. Babcock;B. A. Barry;R. J. Debus;C. W. Hoganson

  • Water-soluble 17 and 23 kDa polypeptides restore oxygen evolution activity by creating a high-affinity binding site for Ca2+ on the oxidizing side of Photosystem II

    Demetrios F. Ghanotakis;James N. Topper;Gerald T. Babcock;Charles F. Yocum

  • Isolation and characterization of an oxygen-evolving Photosystem II reaction center core preparation and a 28 kDa Chl-a-binding protein

    Demetrios F. Ghanotakis;Demetris M. Demetriou;Charles F. Yocum

  • The calcium and chloride requirements of the O2 evolving complex

    Charles F. Yocum

  • Photosystem II and the Oxygen-Evolving Complex

    Demetrios F. Ghanotakis;Charles F. Yocum

  • Structural characterization of the manganese sites in the photosynthetic oxygen-evolving complex using x-ray absorption spectroscopy

    James E. Penner-Hahn;Richard M. Fronko;Vincent L. Pecoraro;Charles F. Yocum

  • Calcium activation of photosynthetic water oxidation

    Charles F. Yocum

  • Stoichiometry, inhibitor sensitivity, and organization of manganese associated with photosynthetic oxygen evolution.

    C. F. Yocum;C. T. Yerkes;R. E. Blankenship;R. R. Sharp

  • Structural and catalytic properties of the oxygen-evolving complex. Correlation of polypeptide and manganese release with the behavior of Z+ in chloroplasts and a highly resolved preparation of the PS II complex

    Demetrios F. Ghanotakis;Demetrios F. Ghanotakis;Gerald T. Babcock;Charles F. Yocum

  • Evidence for a ferredoxin-dependent choline monooxygenase from spinach chloroplast stroma.

    Renaud Brouquisse;Pierre Weigel;David Rhodes;Charles F. Yocum

  • The Photosynthetic Oxygen Evolving Complex Requires Chloride for Its Redox State S2→S3 and S3→S0 Transitions But Not for S0→S1 or S1→S2 Transitions†

    Hanna Wincencjusz;and Hans J. van Gorkom;Charles F. Yocum

  • THE CHLORIDE REQUIREMENT FOR PHOTOSYNTHETIC OXYGEN EVOLUTION ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECTS OF CHLORIDE AND OTHER ANIONS ON AMINE INHIBITION OF THE OXYGEN-EVOLVING COMPLEX

    Peter O. Sandusky;Charles F. Yocum

  • Chlorophyll and cytochrome b‐559 content of the photochemical reaction center of photosystem II

    Jan P. Dekker;Neil R. Bowlby;Charles F. Yocum

  • Recent advances in the understanding of the biological chemistry of manganese.

    Charles F Yocum;Vincent L Pecoraro

  • The mechanism of amine inhibition of the photosynthetic oxygen evolving complex: Amines displace functional chloride from a ligand site on manganese

    Peter O. Sandusky;Charles F. Yocum

Frequent Co-Authors

Gerald T. Babcock
Gerald T. Babcock Michigan State University
James E. Penner-Hahn
James E. Penner-Hahn University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Eran Pichersky
Eran Pichersky University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Jan P. Dekker
Jan P. Dekker Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Vincent L. Pecoraro
Vincent L. Pecoraro University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Ryszard Jankowiak
Ryszard Jankowiak Kansas State University
Gerald J. Small
Gerald J. Small Iowa State University
Michael Seibert
Michael Seibert National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Nathan Nelson
Nathan Nelson Tel Aviv University
Donald R. Ort
Donald R. Ort University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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