Parag R. Chitnis

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Best Publications

• PHOTOSYSTEM I: Function and Physiology

  Parag R Chitnis

  331
  Citations

• PsaL subunit is required for the formation of photosystem I trimers in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803

  Vaishali P. Chitnis;Parag R. Chitnis

  282
  Citations

• 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

  226
  Citations

• Functional and mutational analysis of the light-harvesting chlorophyll a/b protein of thylakoid membranes.

  B D Kohorn;E Harel;P R Chitnis;J P Thornber

  190
  Citations

• Molecular cloning and targeted mutagenesis of the gene psaF encoding subunit III of photosystem I from the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803.

  Parag R. Chitnis;David Purvis;Nathan Nelson

  162
  Citations

• Function and organization of Photosystem I polypeptides

  Parag R. Chitnis;Qiang Xu;Vaishali P. Chitnis;Rachel Nechushtai

  156
  Citations

• Electron transfer in cyanobacterial Photosystem I. II. Determination of forward electron transfer rates of site-directed mutants in a putative electron transfer pathway from A0 through A1 to FX

  Wu Xu;Parag R. Chitnis;Alfia Valieva;Art van der Est

  154
  Citations

• The major light-harvesting complex of Photosystem II: aspects of its molecular and cell biology

  Parag R. Chitnis;J. Philip Thornber

  150
  Citations

• Function and organization of photosystem I in a cyanobacterial mutant strain that lacks PsaF and PsaJ subunits.

  Qiang Xu;Lian Yu;V. P. Chitnis;P. R. Chitnis

  150
  Citations

• The Red-Absorbing Chlorophyll a Antenna States of Photosystem I: A Hole-Burning Study of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 and Its Mutants

  M. Rätsep;T. W. Johnson;and P. R. Chitnis;G. J. Small

  146
  Citations

• Recruitment of a foreign quinone into the A1 site of photosystem I. Altered kinetics of electron transfer in phylloquinone biosynthetic pathway mutants studied by time-resolved optical, EPR, and electrometric techniques.

  Alexey Yu. Semenov;Ilya R. Vassiliev;Art van der Est;Mahir D. Mamedov

  139
  Citations

• Red antenna states of photosystem I from cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus: a spectral hole burning study

  V. Zazubovich;S. Matsuzaki;T.W. Johnson;J.M. Hayes

  136
  Citations

• Structure and targeted mutagenesis of the gene encoding 8-kDa subunit of photosystem I from the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803.

  P R Chitnis;P A Reilly;M C Miedel;N Nelson

  136
  Citations

• Electron transfer in cyanobacterial photosystem I: I. Physiological and spectroscopic characterization of site-directed mutants in a putative electron transfer pathway from A0 through A1 to FX.

  Wu Xu;Parag Chitnis;Alfia Valieva;Art van der Est

  134
  Citations

• Evidence for asymmetric electron transfer in cyanobacterial photosystem I: analysis of a methionine-to-leucine mutation of the ligand to the primary electron acceptor A0.

  Rachel O. Cohen;Gaozhong Shen;John H. Golbeck;Wu Xu

  133
  Citations

• Mutational analysis of photosystem I polypeptides in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. Subunit requirements for reduction of NADP+ mediated by ferredoxin and flavodoxin.

  Q Xu;Y S Jung;V P Chitnis;J A Guikema

  130
  Citations

• Molecular cloning of the genes encoding two chaperone proteins of the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803.

  Parag R. Chitnis;Nathan Nelson

  129
  Citations

• Recruitment of a Foreign Quinone into the A1 Site of Photosystem I: II. STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL CHARACTERIZATION OF PHYLLOQUINONE BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAY MUTANTS BY ELECTRON PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE AND ELECTRON-NUCLEAR DOUBLE RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY *

  Boris Zybailov;Art van der Est;Stephan G. Zech;Christian Teutloff

  127
  Citations

• Mutational Analysis of Photosystem I Polypeptides in the Cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. TARGETED INACTIVATION OF psaI REVEALS THE FUNCTION OF PsaI IN THE STRUCTURAL ORGANIZATION OF PsaL

  Qiang Xu;Dan Hoppe;Vaishali P. Chitnis;William R. Odom

  122
  Citations

• Insertional inactivation of the gene encoding subunit II of photosystem I from the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803.

  P R Chitnis;P A Reilly;N Nelson

  122
  Citations