Dismukes Research: PMI Related Activites

Dismukes Research
Princeton Materials Institute (PMI) Related Activities

Biophysical/Bioinorganic Studies of the Photosynthetic Water Oxidizing Enzyme (NIH)
- Inorganic "Mutants" of the Water Oxidizing Complex
  Collaborations with Drs. Gennady Ananyev, Bruce Diner (DuPont), Richard Debus (U.C. Riverside)
  (1999 ICBIC9; International Conference on Bioinorganic Chemistry, Minneapolis)
  (1999 Eastern Regional Photosynthesis Conference, Wood Hole)
  (1999 Photosynthesis Gordon Research Confference)
  - Photoassembly of the manganese cluster and oxygen evolution from monomeric and dimeric CP47-reaction centre photosystem II complexes
    C. Büchel, J. Barber, G. Ananyev, S. Eshagi, R. Watt, C. Dismukes
  - Amino-Acid Mutants of the PSII Reaction Center Tyrosine-D: Radical Promoter for Assembly of the Inorganic Core of the Water Oxidizing Complex by Photoactivation
    I. Sakiyan, G. Ananyev, B. Diner and G. C. Dismukes
  - New Structural and kinetic information on the intermediates formed during assembly of the Mn cluster of PSII
    G. Ananyev, A. Murphy, Y. Abe and G. C. Dismukes
  (1998 International Congress on Photosynthesis, Budapest)
- The Role of Bicarbonate in Photosynthetic Water Oxidation (CRDF, NATO)
  Collaboration with Dr. V. V. Kimov, Inst. Photosynthesis, Pushchino.
- Structural Studies of the Water Oxidizing Complex
  Collaboration with Drs. N. Yao (PMI), J. Barber (Imperial College) and W. Kühlbrandt (Max-Planck Inst.)
- Electron Spin Resonance Studies of the Water Oxidizing Complex (NSF/NIH)
BioInspired Model Complexes for Artificial Photosynthesis (NIH, TAPPI)
Manganese Cubane Page
Modeling of Oxygen Stress Enzymes, Catalases:
Collaboration with Dr. J-L. Pierre, Univ. J. Fourier, Grenoble