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Peter Brzezinski

Peter Brzezinski

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Chemistry

D-Index
59
Citations
14048
World Ranking
10057
National Ranking
143

Overview

Peter Brzezinski is affiliated with Stockholm University in Sweden and is an established researcher in the fields of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work predominantly spans molecular biology, with significant contributions to genetics, materials chemistry, infectious diseases, and cellular and molecular neuroscience. The scientist's research topics focus largely on photosynthetic processes and mechanisms, ATP synthase and ATPases research, mitochondrial function and pathology, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, bacterial genetics and biotechnology, photoreceptor and optogenetics research, as well as biochemical and molecular research.

Their recent papers include several notable publications:

  • Structure and Mechanism of Respiratory III-IV Supercomplexes in Bioenergetic Membranes, 2021, Chemical Reviews
  • Cryo-EM structure and kinetics reveal electron transfer by 2D diffusion of cytochrome c in the yeast III-IV respiratory supercomplex, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Kinetic advantage of forming respiratory supercomplexes, 2020, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics
  • Structure of mycobacterial CIII2CIV2 respiratory supercomplex bound to the tuberculosis drug candidate telacebec (Q203), 2021, eLife
  • Rieske head domain dynamics and indazole-derivative inhibition of Candida albicans complex III, 2021, Structure

Peter Brzezinski frequently publishes in various scientific journals. The most prolific venues include:

  • FEBS Letters
  • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Structure

The scientist collaborates extensively with several coauthors who have contributed to a number of publications alongside them. Frequent collaborators include:

  • M Bubb
  • C Griesinger
  • Manuel Brunner
  • Beijing Cui
  • John L. Rubinstein

Best Publications

  • Quartz crystal microbalance setup for frequency and Q‐factor measurements in gaseous and liquid environments

    Michael Rodahl;Fredrik Höök;Anatol Krozer;Peter Brzezinski

  • Simultaneous frequency and dissipation factor QCM measurements of biomolecular adsorption and cell adhesion

    Michael Rodahl;Fredrik Höök;Claes Fredriksson;Craig A. Keller

  • Energy Dissipation Kinetics for Protein and Antibody−Antigen Adsorption under Shear Oscillation on a Quartz Crystal Microbalance

    F. Höök;M. Rodahl;P. Brzezinski;B. Kasemo

  • The X-ray crystal structures of wild-type and EQ(I-286) mutant cytochrome c oxidases from Rhodobacter sphaeroides.

    Margareta Svensson-Ek;Jeff Abramson;Gisela Larsson;Gisela Larsson;Susanna Törnroth

  • Structural changes in hemoglobin during adsorption to solid surfaces: Effects of pH, ionic strength, and ligand binding

    Fredrik Höök;Michael Rodahl;Bengt Kasemo;Peter Brzezinski

  • Cytochrome c oxidase: exciting progress and remaining mysteries.

    Peter Brzezinski;Robert B. Gennis

  • A mechanistic principle for proton pumping by cytochrome c oxidase

    Kristina Faxén;Gwen Gilderson;Pia Ädelroth;Peter Brzezinski

  • Glutamate 286 in cytochrome aa3 from Rhodobacter sphaeroides is involved in proton uptake during the reaction of the fully-reduced enzyme with dioxygen

    Pia Ädelroth;Margareta Svensson Ek;David M. Mitchell;Robert B. Gennis

  • On the role of the K-proton transfer pathway in cytochrome c oxidase

    Magnus Brändén;Håkan Sigurdson;Andreas Namslauer;Robert B. Gennis

  • Role of the pathway through K(I-362) in proton transfer in cytochrome c oxidase from R. sphaeroides.

    Pia Ädelroth;Robert B. Gennis;Peter Brzezinski

  • Localized proton microcircuits at the biological membrane–water interface

    Magnus Brändén;Tor Sandén;Peter Brzezinski;Jerker Widengren

  • Redox-Driven Proton Pumping by Heme-Copper Oxidases

    Peter Brzezinski;Gisela Larsson

  • Pathways of Proton Transfer in Cytochrome c Oxidase

    Peter Brzezinski;Pia Ädelroth

  • Transmembrane proton translocation by cytochrome c oxidase.

    Gisela Brändén;Robert B. Gennis;Peter Brzezinski

  • Internal electron transfer in cytochrome c oxidase from Rhodobacter sphaeroides.

    Adelroth P;Brzezinski P;Malmström Bg

  • A Mutation in Subunit I of Cytochrome Oxidase from Rhodobacter sphaeroides Results in an Increase in Steady-State Activity but Completely Eliminates Proton Pumping†

    Ashtamurthy S. Pawate;Joel Morgan;Andreas Namslauer;Denise Mills

  • The effect of pH and temperature on the reaction of fully reduced and mixed-valence cytochrome c oxidase with dioxygen

    Mikael Oliveberg;Peter Brzezinski;Bo G. Malmström

  • Structure of a functional obligate complex III 2 IV 2 respiratory supercomplex from Mycobacterium smegmatis

    Benjamin Wiseman;Ram Gopal Nitharwal;Ram Gopal Nitharwal;Olga Fedotovskaya;Jacob Schäfer

  • Intramolecular proton-transfer reactions in a membrane-bound proton pump: the effect of pH on the peroxy to ferryl transition in cytochrome c oxidase.

    Andreas Namslauer;Anna Aagaard;Andromachi Katsonouri;Peter Brzezinski

  • Redox-driven membrane-bound proton pumps

    Peter Brzezinski

  • Quartz crystal microbalance setup for frequency and G!?-factor rneasurements in gaseous and liquid environments

    Michael Rodahl;Anatol Krozer;Peter Brzezinski;Bengt Kasemoa

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert B. Gennis
Robert B. Gennis University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Bo G. Malmström
Bo G. Malmström University of Gothenburg
John L. Rubinstein
John L. Rubinstein University of Toronto
Fredrik Höök
Fredrik Höök Chalmers University of Technology
Bengt Herbert Kasemo
Bengt Herbert Kasemo Chalmers University of Technology
Shelagh Ferguson-Miller
Shelagh Ferguson-Miller Michigan State University
Michael T. Wilson
Michael T. Wilson University of Essex
Maurizio Brunori
Maurizio Brunori Sapienza University of Rome
Miguel Teixeira
Miguel Teixeira Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Elias S.J. Arnér
Elias S.J. Arnér Karolinska Institute

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