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Peter J. Nixon is affiliated with Imperial College London in the United Kingdom. Their research focuses primarily on the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a significant emphasis on Molecular Biology. Additional areas of study include Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Plant Science, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Ecology.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms, Algal Biology and Biofuel Production, Mitochondrial Function and Pathology, ATP Synthase and ATPases Research, Light Effects on Plants, Photoreceptor and Optogenetics Research, and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology.

Peter J. Nixon has published extensively, with notable papers including:

  • Newly discovered Synechococcus sp. PCC 11901 is a robust cyanobacterial strain for high biomass production (2020, Communications Biology)
  • Probing the biogenesis pathway and dynamics of thylakoid membranes (2021, Nature Communications)
  • Engineering α-carboxysomes into plant chloroplasts to support autotrophic photosynthesis (2023, Nature Communications)
  • Producing fast and active Rubisco in tobacco to enhance photosynthesis (2022, The Plant Cell)
  • Effective in vitro inactivation of SARS-CoV-2 by commercially available mouthwashes (2021, Journal of General Virology)

The scientist frequently contributes to certain publication venues, notably Frontiers in Plant Science and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), each with five publications. Other common venues include Nature Communications with three publications, The Plant Cell with two, and PLANT PHYSIOLOGY also with two.

Peter J. Nixon collaborates regularly with several co-authors, including Josef Komenda, Ziyu Zhao, Jianfeng Yu, Roman Sobotka, and Lu-Ning Liu. These collaborations indicate ongoing research partnerships within related scientific disciplines.

Best Publications

  • Recent advances in understanding the assembly and repair of photosystem II.

    Peter J. Nixon;Franck Michoux;Jianfeng Yu;Marko Boehm

  • Identification of a functional respiratory complex in chloroplasts through analysis of tobacco mutants containing disrupted plastid ndh genes

    Paul A. Burrows;Leonid A. Sazanov;Zora Svab;Pal Maliga

  • Kinetics and pathways of charge recombination in photosystem II.

    Fabrice Rappaport;Mariana Guergova-Kuras;Peter J Nixon;Bruce A Diner

  • Directed alteration of the D1 polypeptide of photosystem II: evidence that tyrosine-161 is the redox component, Z, connecting the oxygen-evolving complex to the primary electron donor, P680.

    James G. Metz;Peter J. Nixon;Matthias Rogner;Gary W. Brudvig

  • Expression of tetanus toxin Fragment C in tobacco chloroplasts

    John S. Tregoning;Peter Nixon;Hiroshi Kuroda;Zora Svab

  • A critical role for the Var2 FtsH homologue of Arabidopsis thaliana in the photosystem II repair cycle in vivo

    Shaun Bailey;Elinor Thompson;Peter J. Nixon;Peter Horton

  • Assembling and maintaining the Photosystem II complex in chloroplasts and cyanobacteria

    Josef Komenda;Roman Sobotka;Peter J Nixon

  • Role of the carboxy terminus of polypeptide D1 in the assembly of a functional water-oxidizing manganese cluster in photosystem II of the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803: assembly requires a free carboxyl group at C-terminal position 344.

    Peter J. Nixon;Jeffrey T. Trost;Bruce A. Diner

  • Aspartate 170 of the photosystem II reaction center polypeptide D1 is involved in the assembly of the oxygen-evolving manganese cluster.

    Peter J. Nixon;Bruce A. Diner

  • FtsH is involved in the early stages of repair of photosystem II in Synechocystis sp PCC 6803

    Paulo Silva;Elinor Thompson;Shaun Bailey;Olaf Kruse

  • Site-Directed Mutations at D1-His198 and D2-His197 of Photosystem II in Synechocystis PCC 6803: Sites of Primary Charge Separation and Cation and Triplet Stabilization†

    Bruce A. Diner;Eberhard Schlodder;Peter J. Nixon;William J. Coleman

  • Purification and characterization of photosystem I and photosystem II core complexes from wild-type and phycocyanin-deficient strains of the cyanobacterium Synechocystis PCC 6803.

    M Rögner;P J Nixon;B A Diner

  • FtsH-mediated repair of the photosystem II complex in response to light stress

    Peter J. Nixon;Myles Barker;Marko Boehm;Remco de Vries

  • Identification of the Elusive Pyruvate Reductase of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Chloroplasts.

    Steven J. Burgess;Steven J. Burgess;Hussein Taha;Hussein Taha;Justin A. Yeoman;Oksana Iamshanova

  • The Cyanobacterial Homologue of HCF136/YCF48 Is a Component of an Early Photosystem II Assembly Complex and Is Important for Both the Efficient Assembly and Repair of Photosystem II in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803

    Josef Komenda;Jörg Nickelsen;Martin Tichý;Martin Tichý;Ondřej Prášil;Ondřej Prášil

  • The plastid ndh genes code for an NADH-specific dehydrogenase: Isolation of a complex I analogue from pea thylakoid membranes

    Leonid A. Sazanov;Paul A. Burrows;Peter J. Nixon

  • The FtsH Protease slr0228 Is Important for Quality Control of Photosystem II in the Thylakoid Membrane of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803

    Josef Komenda;Josef Komenda;Myles Barker;Stanislava Kuviková;Stanislava Kuviková;Remco de Vries

  • NAB1 Is an RNA Binding Protein Involved in the Light-Regulated Differential Expression of the Light-Harvesting Antenna of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

    Jan H. Mussgnug;Lutz Wobbe;Ingolf Elles;Christina Claus

  • Dual-Mode EPR Detects the Initial Intermediate in Photoassembly of the Photosystem II Mn Cluster: The Influence of Amino Acid Residue 170 of the D1 Polypeptide on Mn Coordination

    Kristy A. Campbell;Dee Ann Force;Peter J. Nixon;François Dole

  • The chloroplast Ndh complex mediates the dark reduction of the plastoquinone pool in response to heat stress in tobacco leaves

    Leonid A Sazanov;Paul A Burrows;Peter J Nixon

Frequent Co-Authors

Josef Komenda
Josef Komenda Czech Academy of Sciences
James Barber
James Barber Imperial College London
Bruce A. Diner
Bruce A. Diner DuPont (United States)
Conrad W. Mullineaux
Conrad W. Mullineaux Queen Mary University of London
Pal Maliga
Pal Maliga Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Imre Vass
Imre Vass Biological Research Centre
Olaf Kruse
Olaf Kruse Bielefeld University
David R. Klug
David R. Klug Imperial College London
James R. Durrant
James R. Durrant Imperial College London
Gordon Dougan
Gordon Dougan University of Cambridge

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