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John H. Golbeck is a researcher affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States. Their work primarily focuses on fields related to biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with significant contributions also in neuroscience and physics and astronomy. Subfields of particular attention include molecular biology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, atomic and molecular physics and optics, renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, as well as plant science.

The main research topics covered in their publications encompass photosynthetic processes and mechanisms, photoreceptor and optogenetics research, spectroscopy and quantum chemical studies, light effects on plants, photochemistry and electron transfer studies, metal-catalyzed oxygenation mechanisms, and mitochondrial function and pathology.

Frequent publication venues for their work include Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics, Photosynthesis Research, Biophysical Journal, Journal of Biological Chemistry, and Science Advances.

Prominent frequent coauthors in their scientific collaborations are K. V. Lakshmi, Michael Gorka, Vasily Kurashov, Donald A. Bryant, and Art van der Est.

Their recent scholarly output includes the following papers:

  • The structure of Photosystem I acclimated to far-red light illuminates an ecologically important acclimation process in photosynthesis (2020, Science Advances)
  • Structure of a monomeric photosystem II core complex from a cyanobacterium acclimated to far-red light reveals the functions of chlorophylls d and f (2021, Journal of Biological Chemistry)
  • Evidence that chlorophyll f functions solely as an antenna pigment in far-red-light photosystem I from Fischerella thermalis PCC 7521 (2020, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics)
  • Shedding Light on Primary Donors in Photosynthetic Reaction Centers (2021, Frontiers in Microbiology)
  • Primary charge separation within the structurally symmetric tetrameric Chl2APAPBChl2B chlorophyll exciplex in photosystem I (2021, Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B Biology)

Best Publications

  • 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

  • Choline monooxygenase, an unusual iron-sulfur enzyme catalyzing the first step of glycine betaine synthesis in plants: prosthetic group characterization and cDNA cloning.

    Bala Rathinasabapathi;Michael Burnet;Michael Burnet;Brenda L. Russell;Douglas A. Gage

  • STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF PHOTOSYSTEM I

    John H. Golbeck

  • Structure, function and organization of the photosystem I reaction center complex

    John H. Golbeck

  • Photosystem I : the light-driven plastocyanin : ferredoxin oxidoreductase

    John H. Golbeck

  • Purification and properties of the intact P-700 and F x-containing Photosystem I core protein

    Kevin G. Parrett;Tetemke Mehari;Patrick G. Warren;John H. Golbeck

  • Role of D1-His190 in proton-coupled electron transfer reactions in photosystem II: a chemical complementation study.

    Anna Maria A. Hays;Ilya R. Vassiliev;John H. Golbeck;Richard J. Debus

  • Recruitment of a Foreign Quinone into the A1 Site of Photosystem I I. GENETIC AND PHYSIOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF PHYLLOQUINONE BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAY MUTANTS IN SYNECHOCYSTIS SP. PCC 6803

    T. Wade Johnson;Gaozhong Shen;Boris Zybailov;Derrick Kolling

  • Spinach Thylakoid Polyphenol Oxidase : ISOLATION, ACTIVATION, AND PROPERTIES OF THE NATIVE CHLOROPLAST ENZYME

    John H. Golbeck;Kirk V. Cammarata

  • PsaD is required for the stable binding of PsaC to the photosystem I core protein of Synechococcus sp. PCC 6301.

    Ning Li;Jindong Zhao;Patrick V. Warren;Joseph T. Warden

  • PsaE Is Required for in Vivo Cyclic Electron Flow around Photosystem I in the Cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002

    Lian Yu;Jindong Zhao;Ulrich Mühlenhoff;Donald A. Bryant

  • Solar hydrogen-producing bionanodevice outperforms natural photosynthesis.

    Carolyn E. Lubner;Amanda M. Applegate;Philipp Knörzer;Alexander Ganago

  • Protein-cofactor interactions in bioenergetic complexes: the role of the A1A and A1B phylloquinones in Photosystem I.

    Nithya Srinivasan;John H. Golbeck

  • Assembly of photosystem I. I. Inactivation of the rubA gene encoding a membrane-associated rubredoxin in the cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002 causes a loss of photosystem I activity.

    Gaozhong Shen;Jindong Zhao;Susan K. Reimer;Mikhail L. Antonkine

  • Role of D1-His190 in the proton-coupled oxidation of tyrosine YZ in manganese-depleted photosystem II.

    Anna Maria A. Hays;Ilya R. Vassiliev;John H. Golbeck;Richard J. Debus

  • Structure of a symmetric photosynthetic reaction center-photosystem.

    Christopher Gisriel;Iosifina Sarrou;Bryan Ferlez;John H. Golbeck

  • Iron-sulfur clusters in type I reaction centers.

    Ilya R. Vassiliev;Mikhail L. Antonkine;John H. Golbeck

  • Wiring photosystem I for direct solar hydrogen production

    Carolyn E. Lubner;Rebecca Grimme;Donald Ashley Bryant;John H. Golbeck

  • Nonphotochemical hole burning of the native antenna complex of photosystem I (PSI-200)

    J. K. Gillie;G. J. Small;J. H. Golbeck

  • Photosystem I/molecular wire/metal nanoparticle bioconjugates for the photocatalytic production of H2

    Rebecca A. Grimme;Carolyn E. Lubner;Donald A. Bryant;John H. Golbeck

  • Photosystem I in Cyanobacteria

    John H. Golbeck

Frequent Co-Authors

Donald A. Bryant
Donald A. Bryant Pennsylvania State University
Gaozhong Shen
Gaozhong Shen Pennsylvania State University
Lee McIntosh
Lee McIntosh Michigan State University
Henrik Vibe Scheller
Henrik Vibe Scheller Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Petra Fromme
Petra Fromme Arizona State University
Su Lin
Su Lin Arizona State University
Cheryl A. Kerfeld
Cheryl A. Kerfeld Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Carsten Krebs
Carsten Krebs Pennsylvania State University
Lawrence B. Smart
Lawrence B. Smart Cornell University
Robert Bittl
Robert Bittl Freie Universität Berlin

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