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Overview

Petra Fromme is affiliated with Arizona State University in the United States and has a research focus primarily within Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work spans a variety of subfields including Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Infectious Diseases, and Genetics.

Their main topics of research include:

  • Enzyme Structure and Function
  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
  • Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
  • Biochemical and Molecular Research
  • Protein Structure and Dynamics
  • Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications
  • Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling

Petra Fromme has contributed to numerous scientific publications. Some of the recent papers include:

  • "ChAdOx1 interacts with CAR and PF4 with implications for thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome" (2021), published in Science Advances
  • "The structure of Photosystem I acclimated to far-red light illuminates an ecologically important acclimation process in photosynthesis" (2020), published in Science Advances
  • "Observation of substrate diffusion and ligand binding in enzyme crystals using high-repetition-rate mix-and-inject serial crystallography" (2021), published in IUCrJ
  • "CryoFold: Determining protein structures and data-guided ensembles from cryo-EM density maps" (2021), published in Matter
  • "Structural basis of redox modulation on chloroplast ATP synthase" (2020), published in Communications Biology

Their frequent co-authors include José M. Martín-García, Raimund Fromme, Thomas D. Grant, Sabine Botha, and Richard A. Kirian.

Publication venues where Petra Fromme has appeared frequently include:

  • Biophysical Journal
  • Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Structure

This profile reflects an extensive research output with 92 publications categorized under Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology and notable contributions across several interrelated scientific disciplines.

Best Publications

  • Three-dimensional structure of cyanobacterial photosystem I at 2.5 Å resolution

    Patrick Jordan;Petra Fromme;Horst Toblas Witt;Olaf Klukas

  • Crystal structure of photosystem II from Synechococcus elongatus at 3.8 A resolution.

    Athina Zouni;Horst Tobias Witt;Jan Kern;Petra Fromme

  • Femtosecond X-ray protein nanocrystallography

    Henry N. Chapman;Petra Fromme;Anton Barty;Thomas A White

  • Single mimivirus particles intercepted and imaged with an X-ray laser

    M. Marvin Seibert;Tomas Ekeberg;Filipe R.N.C. Maia;Martin Svenda

  • High-Resolution Protein Structure Determination by Serial Femtosecond Crystallography

    Sébastien Boutet;Lukas Lomb;Garth J. Williams;Thomas R. M. Barends

  • Crystal structure of rhodopsin bound to arrestin by femtosecond X-ray laser

    Yanyong Kang;X. Edward Zhou;Xiang Gao;Yuanzheng He

  • Lipidic cubic phase injector facilitates membrane protein serial femtosecond crystallography

    Uwe Weierstall;Daniel James;Chong Wang;Thomas A. White

  • Structure of photosystem I.

    Petra Fromme;Petra Fromme;Patrick Jordan;Norbert Krauß;Norbert Krauß

  • Time-resolved serial crystallography captures high-resolution intermediates of photoactive yellow protein

    Jason Tenboer;Shibom Basu;Nadia Zatsepin;Kanupriya Pande

  • Serial femtosecond crystallography of G protein-coupled receptors.

    Wei Liu;Daniel Wacker;Cornelius Gati;Gye Won Han

  • Serial time-resolved crystallography of photosystem II using a femtosecond X-ray laser.

    Christopher Kupitz;Shibom Basu;Ingo Grotjohann;Raimund Fromme

  • Natively inhibited Trypanosoma brucei cathepsin B structure determined by using an X-ray laser

    Lars Redecke;Lars Redecke;Karol Nass;Daniel P. DePonte;Thomas A. White

  • Femtosecond structural dynamics drives the trans/cis isomerization in photoactive yellow protein.

    Kanupriya Pande;Christopher D. M. Hutchison;Gerrit Groenhof;Andy Aquila

  • Corrigendum: Diffraction data of core-shell nanoparticles from an X-ray free electron laser

    Xuanxuan Li;Chun Ya Chiu;Hsiang Ju Wang;Stephan Kassemeyer

  • Photosystem I at 4 A resolution represents the first structural model of a joint photosynthetic reaction centre and core antenna system.

    Norbert Krauß;Wolf Dieter Schubert;Olaf Klukas;Petra Fromme

  • Three-dimensional structure of system I of photosynthesis at 6 Å resolution

    Norbert Krauss;Winfried Hinrichs;Ingrid Witt;Ingrid Witt;Petra Fromme

  • Structure of the Angiotensin Receptor Revealed by Serial Femtosecond Crystallography

    Haitao Zhang;Hamiyet Unal;Cornelius Gati;Gye Won Han

  • Self-terminating diffraction gates femtosecond X-ray nanocrystallography measurements

    Anton Barty;Carl Caleman;Andrew Aquila;Nicusor Timneanu

  • Photosystem I of Synechococcus elongatus at 4 Å resolution: comprehensive structure analysis

    Wolf Dieter Schubert;Olaf Klukas;Norbert Krauß;Wolfram Saenger

  • Structures of riboswitch RNA reaction states by mix-and-inject XFEL serial crystallography

    J. R. Stagno;Y. Liu;Y. R. Bhandari;C. E. Conrad

  • A common ancestor for oxygenic and anoxygenic photosynthetic systems: A comparison based on the structural model of photosystem I

    Wolf Dieter Schubert;Olaf Klukas;Wolfram Saenger;Horst Tobias Witt

Frequent Co-Authors

John C. H. Spence
John C. H. Spence Arizona State University
Henry N. Chapman
Henry N. Chapman Universität Hamburg
Anton Barty
Anton Barty Universität Hamburg
Marc Messerschmidt
Marc Messerschmidt SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Horst Tobias Witt
Horst Tobias Witt Technical University of Berlin
Vadim Cherezov
Vadim Cherezov University of Southern California
Ilme Schlichting
Ilme Schlichting Max Planck Society
Wolfram Saenger
Wolfram Saenger Freie Universität Berlin
Richard Neutze
Richard Neutze University of Gothenburg
Wei Liu
Wei Liu Chinese Academy of Sciences

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