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Paul M. G. Curmi is affiliated with the University of New South Wales in Australia. Their research spans biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a strong focus on molecular biology and related subfields including ecology, evolutionary behavior, renewable energy, and atomic and molecular physics.

Their recent publications reflect diverse interests within molecular and cellular biology as well as bioengineering. Notable papers include An Oscillating MinD Protein Determines the Cellular Positioning of the Motility Machinery in Archaea (2020, Current Biology), Scaffolding proteins guide the evolution of algal light harvesting antennas (2021, Nature Communications), Motility of an autonomous protein-based artificial motor that operates via a burnt-bridge principle (2024, Nature Communications), Synthetic biology approaches to dissecting linear motor protein function: towards the design and synthesis of artificial autonomous protein walkers (2020, Biophysical Reviews), and Molecular structures reveal the origin of spectral variation in cryptophyte light harvesting antenna proteins (2023, Protein Science).

These publications reveal a focus on protein function and design, photosynthetic mechanisms, and the molecular basis of motility and light harvesting in biological systems.

Curmi has contributed extensively to research topics such as:

  • Protist diversity and phylogeny
  • Photosynthetic processes and mechanisms
  • Genomics and phylogenetic studies
  • Algal biology and biofuel production
  • Biocrusts and microbial ecology
  • Bacterial genetics and biotechnology
  • Molecular junctions and nanostructures

Frequent coauthors of Curmi are:

  • Harry W. Rathbone
  • Katharine A. Michie
  • Beverley R. Green
  • Heiner Linke
  • Nancy R. Forde

The scientist has published predominantly in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Current Biology
  • Protein Science
  • Communications Biology

The breadth of Curmi's work involves interdisciplinary approaches combining molecular biology, synthetic biology, and ecology, contributing to knowledge in protein-based motility, photosynthesis, and the evolution of light harvesting systems.

Best Publications

  • Coherently wired light-harvesting in photosynthetic marine algae at ambient temperature

    Elisabetta Collini;Cathy Y. Wong;Krystyna E. Wilk;Paul M. G. Curmi

  • The crystal structure of diphtheria toxin

    Seunghyon Choe;Melanie J. Bennett;Gary Fujii;Paul M. G. Curmi

  • Molecular basis for specificity of nuclear import and prediction of nuclear localization

    Mary Marfori;Andrew Mynott;Jonathan J. Ellis;Ahmed M. Mehdi

  • An analysis of side chain interactions and pair correlations within antiparallel β‐sheets: The differences between backbone hydrogen‐bonded and non‐hydrogen‐bonded residue pairs

    Merridee A. Wouters;Paul M. G. Curmi

  • Mechanisms of Thermal Adaptation Revealed From the Genomes of the Antarctic Archaea Methanogenium frigidum and Methanococcoides burtonii

    Neil F.W. Saunders;Torsten Thomas;Paul M.G. Curmi;John S. Mattick

  • Comparison of Electronic and Vibrational Coherence Measured by Two-Dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy

    Daniel B. Turner;Krystyna E. Wilk;Paul M. G. Curmi;Gregory D. Scholes

  • The intracellular chloride ion channel protein CLIC1 undergoes a redox-controlled structural transition.

    Dene R. Littler;Stephen J. Harrop;W. Douglas Fairlie;Louise J. Brown

  • Crystal structure of a soluble form of the intracellular chloride ion channel CLIC1 (NCC27) at 1.4-A resolution.

    S.J Harrop;M.Z DeMaere;W.D Fairlie;T Reztsova

  • Quantitative investigations of quantum coherence for a light-harvesting protein at conditions simulating photosynthesis

    Daniel B. Turner;Rayomond Dinshaw;Kyung Koo Lee;Michael S. Belsley

  • The enigma of the CLIC proteins: Ion channels, redox proteins, enzymes, scaffolding proteins?

    Dene R. Littler;Stephen J. Harrop;Sophia C. Goodchild;Juanita M. Phang

  • Molecular mechanism of energy conservation in polysulfide respiration

    Mika Jormakka;Ken Yokoyama;Takahiro Yano;Masatada Tamakoshi

  • Tertiary structure of plant RuBisCO: domains and their contacts.

    Michael S. Chapman;Se Won Suh;Paul M. G. Curmi;Duilio Cascio

  • Recombinant CLIC1 (NCC27) Assembles in Lipid Bilayers via a pH-dependent Two-state Process to Form Chloride Ion Channels with Identical Characteristics to Those Observed in Chinese Hamster Ovary Cells Expressing CLIC1 *

    Kristina Warton;Raffaella Tonini;W. Douglas Fairlie;Jacqueline M. Matthews

  • CLIC1 function is required for beta-amyloid-induced generation of reactive oxygen species by microglia

    Rosemary H Milton;Rosella Abeti;Stefania Averaimo;Silvia DeBiasi

  • A proteomic determination of cold adaptation in the Antarctic archaeon, Methanococcoides burtonii.

    Amber Goodchild;Neil F. W. Saunders;Haluk Ertan;Haluk Ertan;Mark Raftery

  • Cold stress response in Archaea.

    Ricardo Cavicchioli;Torsten Thomas;Paul M. G. Curmi

  • Electronic coherence lineshapes reveal hidden excitonic correlations in photosynthetic light harvesting

    Cathy Y. Wong;Richard M. Alvey;Daniel B. Turner;Krystyna E. Wilk

  • An atomic model of the thin filament in the relaxed and Ca2+-activated states.

    Alnoor Pirani;Maia V. Vinogradova;Paul M.G. Curmi;William A. King

  • Evolution of a light-harvesting protein by addition of new subunits and rearrangement of conserved elements: Crystal structure of a cryptophyte phycoerythrin at 1.63-Å resolution

    Krystyna E. Wilk;Stephen J. Harrop;Lucy Jankova;Diana Edler

  • Involvement of the intracellular ion channel CLIC1 in microglia-mediated beta-amyloid-induced neurotoxicity.

    Gaia Novarino;Cinzia Fabrizi;Raffaella Tonini;Michela A. Denti

  • Comparison of Electronic and Vibrational Coherence Measured by Two-Dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy

    Daniel B. Turner;Gregory D. Scholes

Frequent Co-Authors

Samuel N. Breit
Samuel N. Breit University of New South Wales
Ricardo Cavicchioli
Ricardo Cavicchioli University of New South Wales
Gregory D. Scholes
Gregory D. Scholes Princeton University
Derek N. Woolfson
Derek N. Woolfson University of Bristol
Brett M. Collins
Brett M. Collins University of Queensland
David Eisenberg
David Eisenberg Harvard University
Beverley R. Green
Beverley R. Green University of British Columbia
Torsten Thomas
Torsten Thomas University of New South Wales
Ivo H. M. van Stokkum
Ivo H. M. van Stokkum Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Ian W. Dawes
Ian W. Dawes University of New South Wales

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