Vermaas, W.F.J., Charité, J., and Shen, G. (1990) Glu-69 of the D2 protein in photosystem II is a potential ligand to Mn involved in photosynthetic oxygen evolution. Biochemistry 29, 5325-5332.

Carpenter, S.D., Charité, J., Eggers, B., and Vermaas, W.F.J. (1990) The psbC start codon in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. FEBS Lett. 260, 135-137.

Yu, J., and Vermaas, W.F.J. (1990) Transcript levels and synthesis of photosystem II components in cyanobacterial mutants with inactivated photosystem II genes. Plant Cell 2, 315-322.

Ikeuchi, M., Eggers, B., Shen, G., Webber, A., Yu, J., Hirano, A., Inoue, Y., and Vermaas, W. (1991) Cloning of the psbK gene from Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803, and characterization of photosystem II mutants lacking PS II-K. J. Biol. Chem. 266, 11111-11115.

Bittersmann, E., and Vermaas, W.F.J. (1991) Fluorescence lifetime studies of cyanobacterial photosystem II mutants. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1098, 105-116.

Eaton-Rye, J.J., and Vermaas, W.F.J. (1991) Oligonucleotide-directed mutagenesis of psbB, the gene encoding CP47, employing a deletion mutant strain of the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. Plant Mol. Biol. 17, 1165-1177.

Cao, J., Vermaas, W.F.J., and Govindjee (1991) Arginine residues in the D2 polypeptide may stabilize bicarbonate binding in photosystem II of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1059, 171-180.

Vermaas, W.F.J., and Ikeuchi, M. (1991) Photosystem II. In: The Photosynthetic Apparatus: Molecular Biology and Operation. Cell Culture and Somatic Cell Genetics of Plants, Vol. 7B (L. Bogorad and I.K. Vasil, eds.), pp. 25-111, Academic Press, San Diego.

Bowyer, J.R., Camilleri, P., and Vermaas, W.F.J. (1991) Photosystem II and its interaction with herbicides. In: Herbicides. Current Topics in Photosynthesis, Volume 10 (N.R. Baker and M.P. Percival, eds.), pp. 27-85, Elsevier, Amsterdam.

van der Bolt, F., and Vermaas, W. (1992) Photoinactivation of photosystem II as studied with site-directed D2 mutants of the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1098, 247-254.

Wittmershaus, B.P., Woolf, V.M., and Vermaas, W.F.J. (1992) Temperature dependence and polarization of fluorescence from photosystem I in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. Photosynth. Res. 31, 75-87.

Kirilovsky, D.L., Boussac, A.G.P., van Mieghem, F.J.E., Ducruet, J.-M.R.C., Sétif, P.R., Yu, J., Vermaas, W.F.J., and Rutherford, A.W. (1992) Oxygen-evolving photosystem II preparation from wild type and photosystem II mutants of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. Biochemistry 31, 2099-2107.

Kless, H., Vermaas, W.F.J., and Edelman, M. (1992) Photosystem II function and integrity in spite of drastic protein changes in a conserved region of the D2 protein. Biochemistry 31, 11065-11071.

Pakrasi, H.B., and Vermaas, W.F.J. (1992) Protein engineering of photosystem II. In: The Photosystems: Structure, Function, and Molecular Biology. Current Topics in Photosynthesis, Volume 11 (J. Barber, ed.), pp. 231-256, Elsevier, Amsterdam.

Yu, J., and Vermaas, W.F.J. (1993) Synthesis and turnover of photosystem II reaction center polypeptides in cyanobacterial D2 mutants. J. Biol. Chem. 268, 7407-7413.

Haag, E., Eaton-Rye, J.J., Renger, G., and Vermaas, W.F.J. (1993) Functionally important domains of the large hydrophilic loop of CP47 as probed by oligonucleotide-directed mutagenesis in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. Biochemistry 32, 4444-4454.

Shen, G., Eaton-Rye, J.J., and Vermaas, W.F.J. (1993) Mutation of histidine residues in CP47 leads to destabilization of the photosystem II complex and to impairment of light energy transfer. Biochemistry 32, 5109-5115.

Tommos, C., Davidsson, L., Svensson, B., Madsen, C., Vermaas, W., and Styring, S. (1993) Modified EPR spectra of the tyrosine_D radical in photosystem II in site-directed mutants of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. Biochemistry 32, 5436-5441.

Kless, H., Oren-Shamir, M., Ohad, I., Edelman, M., and Vermaas, W. (1993) Protein modifications in the D2 protein of photosystem II affect properties of the Q_B/herbicide binding environment. Z. Naturforsch. 48c, 185-190.

Styring, S., Davidsson, L., Tommos, C., Vermaas, W., Vass, I., and Svensson, B. (1993) Structure of redox components in photosystem II studied with computer modeling, site-directed mutagenesis and EPR spectroscopy. Photosynthetica 28, 225-241.

Liebl, U., Mockensturm-Wilson, M., Trost, J., Brune, D., Blankenship, R., and Vermaas, W. (1993) Single core polypeptide in the reaction center of the photosynthetic bacterium Heliobacillus mobilis - Structural implications and relations to other photosystems. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 90, 7124-7128.

Carpenter, S.D., Ohad, I., and Vermaas, W.F.J. (1993) Analysis of chimeric spinach/cyanobacterial CP43 mutants of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803: The chlorophyll-binding protein CP43 affects the water-splitting system of photosystem II. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1144, 204-212.

Kuhn, M.G., and Vermaas, W.F.J. (1993) Deletion mutations in a long hydrophilic loop in the photosystem II chlorophyll-binding protein CP43 in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. Plant Mol. Biol. 23, 123-133.

Eggers, B., and Vermaas, W. (1993) Truncation of the D2 protein in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803: A role of the C-terminal domain of D2 in photosystem II function and stability. Biochemistry 32, 11419-11427.

Shen, G., Boussiba, S., and Vermaas, W.F.J. (1993) Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 strains lacking photosystem I and phycobilisome function. Plant Cell 5, 1853-1863.

Vermaas, W.F.J. (1993) Molecular-biological approaches to analyze photosystem II structure and function. Ann. Reviews Plant Physiol. Plant Mol. Biol. 44, 457-481.

Vermaas, W.F.J., Styring, S., Schröder, W.P., and Andersson, B. (1993) Photosynthetic water oxidation: The protein framework. Photosynth. Res. 38, 249-263.

Vermaas, W.F.J., Shen, G., and Styring, S. (1994) Electrons generated by photosystem II are utilized by an oxidase in the absence of photosystem I in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. FEBS Lett. 337, 103-108.

Vermaas, W., Vass, I., Eggers, B., and Styring, S. (1994) Mutation of a putative ligand to the non-heme iron in photosystem II: Implications for QA reactivity, electron transfer, and herbicide binding. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1184, 263-272.

Woolf, V.M., Wittmershaus, B.P., Vermaas, W.F.J., and Tran, T.D. (1994) Resolution of low-energy chlorophylls in photosystem I of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 at 77 K and 295 K through fluorescence anisotropy. Photosynth. Res. 40, 21-34.

Shen, G., and Vermaas, W.F.J. (1994) Chlorophyll in a Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 mutant without photosystem I and photosystem II core complexes: Evidence for peripheral antenna chlorophylls in cyanobacteria. J. Biol. Chem. 269, 13904-13910.

Shen, G., and Vermaas, W.F.J. (1994) Mutation of chlorophyll ligands in the chlorophyll-binding CP47 protein as studied in a Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 photosystem I-less background. Biochemistry 33, 7379-7388.

Vermaas, W.F.J. (1994) Understanding photosynthesis (book review). Science 263, 545-546.

Vermaas, W.F.J. (1994) Evolution of heliobacteria: Implications for photosynthetic reaction center complexes. Photosynth. Res. 41, 285-294.

Vermaas, W.F.J. (1994) Molecular-genetic approaches to study photosynthetic and respiratory electron transport in thylakoids from cyanobacteria. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1187, 181-186.

Tommos, C., Madsen, C., Styring, S., and Vermaas, W. (1994) Point-mutations affecting the properties of TyrosineD in photosystem II. Characterization by isotopic labeling and spectral simulation. Biochemistry 33, 11805-11813.

Gleiter, H.M., Haag, E., Shen, J.-R., Eaton-Rye, J.J., Inoue, Y., Vermaas, W.F.J., and Renger, G. (1994) Functional characterization of mutant strains of the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 lacking short domains within the large, lumen-exposed loop of the chlorophyll-protein CP47 in photosystem II. Biochemistry 33, 12063-12071.

Kless, H., and Vermaas, W. (1995) Many combinations of amino acid sequences in a conserved region of the D1 protein satisfy photosystem II function. J. Mol. Biol. 246, 120-131.

Shen, J.-R., Vermaas, W., and Inoue, Y. (1995) The role of cytochrome c-550 as studied through reverse genetics and mutant characterization in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. J. Biol. Chem. 270, 6901-6907.

Gleiter, H.M., Haag, E., Shen, J.-R., Eaton-Rye, J.J., Seeliger, A.G., Inoue, Y., Vermaas, W.F.J., and Renger, G. (1995) Involvement of the CP47 protein in stabilization and photoactivation of a functional water-oxidizing complex in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. Biochemistry 34, 6847-6856.

Kless, H., and Vermaas, W. (1995) Tandem sequence duplications functionally complement deletions in the D1 protein of photosystem II. J. Biol. Chem. 270, 16536-16541.

Wu, Q., and Vermaas, W.F.J. (1995) Light-dependent chlorophyll a biosynthesis upon chlL deletion in wild-type and photosystem I-less strains of the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. Plant Mol. Biol. 29, 933-945.

Vermaas, W., Madsen, C., Yu, J., Visser, J., Metz, J., Nixon, P.J., and Diner, B. (1995) Turnover of the D1 protein and of photosystem II in a Synechocystis mutant lacking TyrZ. Photosynth. Research 45, 99-104.

Vermaas, W.F.J. (1995) Book review: The molecular biology of cyanobacteria. Photosynth. Research 45, 177-179.

Vermaas, W.F.J. (1995) Functional effects of structural changes in photosystem II as measured by chlorophyll fluorescence kinetics. In: Methods in Plant Cell Biology, Part B (D.W. Galbraith, D.P. Bourque, and H.J. Bohnert, eds.), pp. 15-30. Academic Press, San Diego.

Ermakova-Gerdes, S.Y., Shestakov, S., and Vermaas, W.F.J. (1996) Targeted random mutagenesis in the D2 protein of photosystem II: Identification of functionally important residues at the lumenal side of the thylakoid. Plant Mol. Biol. 30, 243-254.

Vermaas, W.F.J., Shen, G., and Ohad, I. (1996) Chimaeric CP47 mutants of the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 carrying spinach sequences: construction and function. Photosynth. Research 48, 147-162.

Kless, H., and Vermaas, W. (1996) Combinatorial mutagenesis and structural simulations in the environment of the redox-active tyrosine Y_Z of photosystem II. Biochemistry 35, 16458-16464.

Wu, Q., and Vermaas, W.F.J. (1996) Molecular cloning and deletion mutant construction of ORF469 in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. Chinese J. Biotech. 12, 311-317.

Vermaas, W. (1996) Molecular genetics of the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803: principles and possible biotechnology applications. J. Appl. Phycol. 8, 263-273.

Manna, P., and Vermaas, W. (1997) Mutational studies on conserved histidine residues in the chlorophyll-binding protein CP43 of photosystem II. Eur. J. Biochem. 247, 666-672.

Manna, P., and Vermaas, W. (1997) Lumenal proteins involved in respiratory electron transport in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. Plant Mol. Biol. 35, 407-416.

Manna, P., LoBrutto, R., Eijckelhoff, C., Dekker, J.P., and Vermaas, W. (1998) Role of Arg180 of the D2 protein in photosystem II structure and function. Eur. J. Biochem.251, 142-154.

Sonoda, M., Katoh, H., Vermaas, W., Schmetterer, G., and Ogawa, T. (1998) Photosynthetic electron transport involved in the PexA-dependent proton extrusion in Synechocystis sp. PCC6803: Effect of pexA inactivation of CO₂, HCO₃^- and NO₃^- uptake. J. Bacteriol. 180, 3799-3803.

Ermakova-Gerdes, S., and Vermaas, W. (1998) Mobility of the primary electron-accepting plastoquinone Q_A of photosystem II in a Synechocystis sp/ PCC 6803 strain carrying mutations in the D2 protein. Biochemistry 37, 11569-11578.

Lince, M.T., and Vermaas, W. (1998) Association of His117 in the D2 protein of photosystem II with a chlorophyll that affects excitation-energy transfer to the reaction center. Eur. J. Biochem. 256, 595-602.

Howitt, C.A., and Vermaas, W. (1998) Quinol and cytochrome oxidases in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. Biochemistry 37, 17944-17951. [Abstract] [Full Text]

Vermaas, W. (1998) Revealing the secrets of old Sol's sugar factories. The World & I (March issue) 158-165. [Full Text]

Vermaas, W.F.J. (1998) Gene modifications and mutation mapping to study the function of photosystem II. Meth. Enzymol. 297, 293-310.

He, Q., and Vermaas, W. (1999) Genetic deletion of proteins resembling type IV pilins in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803: Their role in binding or transfer of newly synthesized chlorophyll. Plant Mol. Biol. 39, 1175-1188.

Tichy, M., and Vermaas, W. (1999) The in vivo role of catalase-peroxidase in Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803. J. Bacteriol. 181, 1875-1882.

He, Q., Schlich, T., Paulsen, H., and Vermaas, W. (1999) Expression of a higher-plant light-harvesting chlorophyll a/b-binding protein in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. Eur. J. Biochem. 263, 561-570.

Funk, C., and Vermaas, W. (1999) A cyanobacterial gene family coding for single-helix proteins resembling part of the light-harvesting proteins from higher plants. Biochemistry 38, 9397-9404.

Howitt, C.A., Udall, P.K., and Vermaas, W.F.J. (1999) Type-2 NADH dehydrogenases in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803 are involved in regulation rather than respiration. J. Bacteriol. 181, 3994-4003.

Lagarde, D., and Vermaas, W. (1999) The zeaxanthin biosynthesis enzyme b-carotene hydroxylase is involved in myxoxanthophyll synthesis in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. FEBS Lett. 454, 247-251.

Ermakova-Gerdes, S. and Vermaas, W. (1999) Inactivation of the open reading frame slr0399 in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 functionally complements mutations near the QA site of Photosystem II: a possible role of Slr0399 as a chaperone for quinone binding. J. Biol. Chem. 274, 30540-30549.

Tichy, M., and Vermaas, W. (1999) Accumulation of pre-apocytochrome f in a Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 mutant impaired in cytochrome c maturation. J. Biol. Chem. 274, 32396-32401.

Vavilin, D.V., Ermakova-Gerdes, S.Y., Keilty, A.T., and Vermaas, W.F.J. (1999) Tryptophan at position 181 of the D2 protein of photosystem II confers quenching of variable fluorescence of chlorophyll: implications for the mechanism of energy-dependent quenching. Biochemistry 38, 14690-14696.

Cooley, J., Howitt, C.A., and Vermaas, W.F.J. (2000) Succinate:quinol oxidoreductases in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803: presence and function in metabolism and electron transport. J. Bacteriol. 182, 714-722.

Lagarde, D., Beuf, L., and Vermaas, W. (2000) Increased production of zeaxanthin and other pigments by application of genetic engineering techniques in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 66, 64-72.

Hu, Q., Westerhoff, P., and Vermaas, W. (2000) Nitrate removal from groundwater by cyanobacteria: quantitative assessment of factors influencing nitrate uptake. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 66, 133-139.

Keilty, A.T., Ermakova-Gerdes, S.Y., and Vermaas, W.F.J. (2000) Probing the CD lumenal loop of the D2 protein of photosystem II in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 by combinatorial mutagenesis. J. Bacteriol. 182, 2453-2460.

Tichy, M., and Vermaas, W. (2000) Combinatorial mutagenesis and pseudorevertant analysis to characterize regions in loop E of the CP47 protein in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. Eur. J. Biochem. 267, 6296-6301.

Vavilin, D.V. and Vermaas, W.F.J. (2000) Mutations in the CD-loop region of the D2 protein in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 modify charge recombination pathways in photosystem II in vivo. Biochemistry 39, 14831-14838.

Ermakova-Gerdes, S., Yu, Z., and Vermaas, W. (2001) Targeted random mutagenesis to identify functionally important residues in the D2 protein of photosystem II in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803.  J. Bacteriol. 183, 145-154.

Keilty, A.T., Vavilin, D., and Vermaas, W.F.J. (2001) Functional analysis of combinatorial mutants with changes in the C-terminus of the CD-loop of the D2 protein in photosystem II of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803.  Biochemistry 40, 4131-4139.

Howitt, C.A., Cooley, J.W., Wiskich, J., and Vermaas, W.F.J. (2001) A strain of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 without photosynthetic oxygen evolution and respiratory oxygen consumption: Implications for the study of cyclic photosynthetic electron transport.  Planta 214, 46-56.

Cooley, J.W., and Vermaas, W.F.J. (2001) Succinate dehydrogenase and other respiratory pathways in thylakoid membranes of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803: capacity comparisons and physiological function.  J. Bacteriol. 183, 4251-4258.

Kufryk, G.I., and Vermaas, W.F.J. (2001) A novel protein involved in the functional assembly of the oxygen-evolving complex of photosystem II in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803.  Biochemistry 40, 9247-9255.

Diner, B.A., Schlodder, E., Nixon, P.J., Coleman, W.J., Rapoport, F., Lavergne, J., Vermaas, W.F.J., and Chisholm, D.A. (2001) 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.  Biochemistry 40, 9265-9281.

Xu, H., Vavilin, D., and Vermaas, W. (2001) Chlorophyll b can serve as the major pigment in functional photosystem II complexes of cyanobacteria.  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 98, 14168-14173.

Vermaas, W.F.J. (2001) Photosynthesis and respiration in cyanobacteria.  In: Encyclopedia of Life Sciences, pp. 245-251.  Nature Publishing Group, London.  (http://www.els.net)

Kufryk, G.I., and Vermaas, W.F.J. (2001) Early termination in Slr2013 restores photoautotrophic capacity in the D2 mutant T192H of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803.  In: Proceedings of the Photosynthesis Congress (on CD).

Vavilin, D.V., and Vermaas, W.F.J. (2001) Rapid quenching of chlorophyll excited states in cyanobacteria, even in the absence of reaction centers. In: Proceedings of the Photosynthesis Congress (on CD).

Vermaas, W.F.J. (2002) Evolution of photosynthesis.  In: Encyclopedia of Life Sciences.  http://www.els.net.  Nature Publishing Group, London.
Vavilin, D.V., and Vermaas, W.F.J. (2002) Regulation of the tetrapyrrole biosynthetic pathway leading to heme and chlorophyll in plants and cyanobacteria.  Physiol. Plant. 115, 9-24.

Kufryk, G.I., Sachet, M., Schmetterer, G., and Vermaas, W.F.J. (2002) Transformation of the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 as a tool for genetic mapping: optimization of efficiency.  FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 206, 215-219.

Berry, S., Schneider, D., Vermaas, W.F.J., Rögner, M. (2002) Electron transport routes in whole cells of Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803: The role of the cytochrome bd-type oxidase.  Biochemistry 41, 3422-3429.

Xu, H., Vavilin, D., Funk, C., and Vermaas, W. (2002) Small Cab-like proteins regulating tetrapyrrole biosynthesis in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803.  Plant Mol. Biol. 49, 149-160.

Xu, H., Vavilin, D., and Vermaas, W. (2002) The presence of chlorophyll b in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 disturbs tetrapyrrole biosynthesis and enhances chlorophyll degradation.  J. Biol. Chem. 277, 42726-42732.

Vavilin, D., Xu, H., Lin, S., and Vermaas, W. (2003) Energy and electron transfer in photosystem II of a chlorophyll b-containing Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 mutant.  Biochemistry 42, 1731-1746.

Kufryk, G.I., and Vermaas, W.F.J. (2003) Slr2013 is a novel protein regulating folding of the D2 protein of photosystem II in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803.  J. Bacteriol. 185, 6615-6623.

Kufryk, G.I., and Vermaas, W.F.J. (2003) Functional assignment of new open reading frames in the genome of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803.  In: Molecular Genetics of Marine Organisms (Recent Advances in Marine Biotechnology, Volume 10) (R. Nagabhusanam and M. Fingerman, eds.), pp. 87-122.  Science Publishers, Enfield.

Vermaas, W.F.J. (2004) Targeted genetic modification of oxygen-producing photosynthetic prokaryotes: New biotechnology applications of ancient organisms.  In: Handbook of Microalgal Culture (A. Richmond, ed.), pp. 457-470.  Blackwell Science, Oxford.

Xu, H., Vavilin, D., Funk, C., and Vermaas, W. (2004) Multiple deletions of small Cab-like proteins in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803: consequences for pigment biosynthesis and accumulation.  J. Biol. Chem. 279, 27971-27979.

Whitelegge, J.P., Katz, J.E., Pihakari, K.A., Hale, R., Aguilera, R., Gomez, S.M., Faull, K.F., Vavilin, D., and Vermaas, W. (2004) Subtle modification of isotope ratio proteomics: an integrated strategy for expression proteomics.  Phytochem. 65, 1507-1511.

Diner, B.A., Bautista, J.A., Nixon, P.J., Berthomieu, C., Hienerwadel, R., Britt, R.D., Vermaas, W.F.J., and Chisholm, D.A. (2004) Coordination of proton and electron transfer from the redox-active tyrosine, Y_Z, of Photosystem II and examination of the electrostatic influence of oxidized tyrosine, Y_D.(H⁺).  Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 6, 4844-4850.

Mohamed, H.E., and Vermaas, W.F.J. (2004) Slr1293 in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 is the C-3',4' desaturase (CrtD) involved in myxoxanthophyll biosynthesis.  J. Bacteriol. 186, 5621-5628.

Vavilin, D., Brune, D.C., and Vermaas, W. (2005) 15N labeling to determine chlorophyll synthesis and degradation in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 strains lacking one or both photosystems.  Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1708, 91-101.

Wenk, S.-O., Schneider, D., Boronowsky, U., Jäger, C., Klughammer, C., de Weerd, F.L., van Roon, H., Vermaas, W.F.J., Dekker, J.P., and Rögner, M. (2005) Functional implications of pigments bound to a cyanobacterial cytochrome b6f complex.  FEBS J. 272, 582-592.

Mohamed, H.E., van de Meene, A.M.L., Roberson, R.W., and Vermaas, W.F.J. (2005) Deletion of sll1213, the fucose synthetase gene in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803: myxoxanthophyll is required for normal cell wall structure and thylakoid organization in cyanobacteria.  J. Bacteriol. 187, 6883-6892.

Yeremenko, N., Jeanjean, R., Prommeenate, P., Krasikov, V., Nixon, P.J., Vermaas, W.F.J., Havaux, M., and Matthijs, H.C.P. (2005) ORF ssr2016 encodes a component for Photosystem I driven cyclic electron transfer in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC6803.  Plant Cell Physiol. 46, 1433-1436.

Kufryk, G., and Vermaas, W. (2005) Functional complementation of a cytochrome c oxidase mutant of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803.  In: Photosynthesis: Fundamental Aspects to Global Perspectives, Vol. 1 (A van der Est, D Bruce, eds.). pp 924-926. Allen Press Inc, Lawrence KS.

Yao, D., Kieselbach, T., Vermaas, W., and Funk, C. (2005) The small Cab-like protein D (ScpD) is a subunit of Photosystem II.  In: Photosynthesis: Fundamental Aspects to Global Perspectives, Vol. 1 (A van der Est, D Bruce, eds.). pp 513-515. Allen Press Inc, Lawrence KS.

Yeremenko, N., Krasikov, V., Prommeenate, P., Schiefer, W., Rögner, M., Vermaas, W.F.J., Nixon, P.J., Jeanjean, R., Havaux, M., and Matthijs, H.C.P. (2005) A  novel oxidoreductase in the ‘FQR’ pathway of Photosystem I cyclic electron transport.  In: Photosynthesis: Fundamental Aspects to Global Perspectives, Vol. 1 (A van der Est, D Bruce, eds.). pp 22-24. Allen Press Inc, Lawrence KS.

Vavilin, D., Hernandez, M., Funk, C., and Vermaas, W. (2005) Small Cab-like proteins retard chlorophyll degradation and stimulate chlorophyll synthesis in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803: kinetic analysis of pigment labeling with ¹³C.  In: Photosynthesis: Fundamental Aspects to Global Perspectives, Vol. 1 (A van der Est, D Bruce, eds.). pp 896-898. Allen Press Inc, Lawrence KS.

van de Meene, A.M.L., Hohmann-Marriott, M.F., Vermaas, W.F.J., and Roberson, R.W. (2006) The three-dimensional structure of the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803.  Arch. Microbiol. 184, 259-270.

Kufryk, G.I., and Vermaas, W.F.J. (2006) Sll1717 in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 affects the redox state of the plastoquinone pool by modulating quinol oxidase activity in thylakoids.  J. Bacteriol., in press.

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