Conrad Mullineaux - Publications

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Nenninger, A., Mastroianni, G. and Mullineaux, C.W. (2010) Size dependence of protein diffusion in the cytoplasm of Escherichia coli. J Bacteriol. 192, 4535-4540.
Merino-Puerto, V., Mariscal, V., Mullineaux, C.W., Herrero, A. and Flores, E. (2010) Fra proteins influencing filament integrity, diazotrophy and localization of septal protein SepJ in the heterocyst-forming cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. Mol. Microbiol. 75, 1159-1170.
Goral, T.K., Johnson, M.P., Brain, A.P.R., Kirchhoff, H., Ruban, A.V. and Mullineaux, C.W. (2010) Visualizing the mobility and distribution of chlorophyll-proteins in higher plant thylakoid membranes: effects of photoinhibition and protein phosphorylation Plant Journal 62, 948-959.
Mullineaux C.W. and Kirchhoff H. (2009) "Role of lipids in the dynamics of thylakoid membranes" in Advances in Photosynthesis and Respiration Vol. 30: "Lipids in Photosynthesis: Essential and regulatory functions" (H. Wada and N. Murata eds) pp 283-294 (Springer).
Mullineaux, C.W. and Stanewsky, R. (2009) The Rolex and the hour-glass: a simplified circadian clock in Prochlorococcus? J. Bacteriol. 191, 5333-5335.
Dong, C.X., Tang A.H., Zhao, J.D., Mullineaux, C.W., Shen, G.Z. and Bryant, D.A.(2009) ApcD is necessary for efficient energy transfer from phycobilisomes to photosystem I and helps to prevent photoinhibition in the cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp PCC 7002. BBA Bioenergetics 1787, 1122-1128.
Kana, R., Prásil, O. and Mullineaux, C.W. (2009) Immobility of phycobilins in the thylakoid lumen of a cryptophyte suggests that protein diffusion in the lumen is very restricted. FEBS Letters 583, 670-674.
Kondo, K., Mullineaux, C.W. and Ikeuchi, M. (2009) Distinct roles of CpcG1 phycobilisome and CpcG2 phycobilisome in state transitions in a cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC6803. Photosynth. Res. 99, 217-225.
Lenn, T., Leake, M.C. and Mullineaux, C.W. (2008) Clustering and dynamics of cytochrome bd-I complexes in the Escherichia coli plasma membrane in vivo. Mol. Microbiol. 70, 1397-1407.
Mullineaux, C.W. (2008) Factors controlling the mobility of photosynthetic proteins. Photochem. Photobiol. 84, 1310-1316.
Lenn, T., Leake, M.C and Mullineaux, C.W. (2008) Are Escherichia coli OXPHOS complexes concentrated in specialised zones within the plasma membrane? Biochem. Soc. Trans. 36: 1032-1036.
Mullineaux, C.W., Mariscal, V., Nenninger, A., Khanum, H., Herrero, A., Flores, E. and Adams, D.G. (2008) Mechanism of intercellular molecular exchange in heterocyst-forming cyanobacteria. EMBO J. 27, 1299-1308.
Kirchhoff, H., Haferkamp, S., Allen, J.F., Epstein, D.B.A. and Mullineaux, C.W. (2008) Protein diffusion and macromolecular crowding in thylakoid membranes. Plant Physiol. 146, 1571-1578.
Mullineaux C.W. (2008) Phycobilisome-reaction centre interaction in cyanobacteria. Photosynth. Res. 95, 175-182.
Mullineaux, C.W. (2007) Biogenesis and dynamics of thylakoid membranes and the photosynthetic apparatus. In: The Cyanobacteria: Molecular Biology, Genomics and Evolution(A. Herrero and E. Flores, eds, Caister Academic Press, Norfolk, UK) Chapter 11, pp 289-303.
Mullineaux, C.W. (2007) Localisation and mobility of bacterial proteins by confocal microscopy and FRAP. In: Molecular Methods in Biology: Protein targeting protocols (M. van der Giezen ed.) pp.3-15. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ
Mullineaux C.W. and Kirchoff H. (2007) Using FRAP to measure lipid diffusion in membranes. In: Protocols in Biophysics to Study Membrane Lipids.(A.M. Dopico ed.) pp. 267-275. Humana Press (Totowa, NJ)
Mullineaux, C.W. (2006) Review of "Biophysical and structural aspects of bioenergetics" (M. Wikstro"m ed.) RSC Publishing, 2006. Chemistry World 3, issue 5.
Mullineaux C.W., Nenninger A., Ray N. and Robinson C. (2006) Diffusion of Green Fluorescent Protein in three cell environments in Escherichia coli. J. Bacteriol. 188, 3442-3448.
Sarcina M., Bouzovitis N. and Mullineaux C.W. (2006) Mobilization of Photosystem II induced by intense red light in the cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. PCC7942. The Plant Cell 18, 457-464.
Komenda J., Barker M., Kuvikova S., De Vries R., Mullineaux C.W., Tichy M. and Nixon P.J. (2006) The FtsH protease, slr0228, is important for quality control of the thylakoid membrane of Synechocystis PCC6803. J. Biol. Chem. 281, 1145-1151.
Joshua S., Bailey S., Mann N.H. and Mullineaux C.W. (2005) Involvement of phycobilisome diffusion in energy quenching in cyanobacteria. Plant Physiology 138, 1577-1585.
Mullineaux C.W. (2005) Function and evolution of grana. Trends Plant Sci. 10, 521-525.
Ray N., Nenninger A., Mullineaux C.W. and Robinson C. (2005) Location and mobility of twin-arginine translocase subunits in the Escherichia coli plasma membrane. J. Biol. Chem. 280, 17961-17968.
Mussgnug J.H., Wobbe L., Elles I., Claus C., Hamilton M., Fink A., Kahman U., Kapazoglou A., Mullineaux C.W., Hippler M., Nickelsen J., Nixon P.J. and Kruse O. (2005) NAB1 is an RNA binding protein involved in the light-regulated differential expression of the light-harvesting antenna system of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. The Plant Cell 17, 3409-3421.
Mullineaux C.W. and Emlyn-Jones D. (2005) State transitions – an example of acclimation to low-light stress. J. Exp. Bot. 56, 389-393.
Morrison S.S., Mullineaux C.W. and Ashby M.K. (2005) The influence of acetyl phosphate on DspA signalling in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC6803. BMC Microbiology 2005 5, 47.
Veerman J., Bentley F.K., Eaton-Rye J.J., Mullineaux C.W., Vasil’ve S. and Bruce D. (2005) The PsbU subunit of Photosystem II stabilizes energy transfer and primary photochemistry in the phycobilisome-Photosystem II assembly of Synechocystis sp PCC6803. Biochemistry 44, 16939-16948.
Joshua S. and Mullineaux C.W. (2005) The rpaC gene product regulates phycobilisome-photosystem II interaction in cyanobacteria. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1709, 58-68.
Sarcina M. and Mullineaux C.W. (2004) Mobility of the IsiA chlorophyll-binding protein in cyanobacterial thylakoid membranes. J. Biol. Chem. 279, 36514-36518.
Joshua S. and Mullineaux C.W. (2004) Phycobilisome diffusion is required for light-state transitions in cyanobacteria. Plant Physiol. 135, 2112-2119.
Mullineaux C.W. (2004) FRAP analysis of photosynthetic membranes. J. Exp. Bot. 55, 1207-1211.
Sarcina M., Bouzovitis N. and Mullineaux C.W. (2004) Photosystem II mobilisation and redistribution induced by high light. Proceedings of the XIIth International Congress on Photosynthesis, Montreal.
Aspinwall C.L., Sarcina M. and Mullineaux C.W. (2004) Phycobilisome mobility in the cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. PCC7942 is influenced by the trimerisation of Photosystem I. Photosynthesis Research 79, 179-187.
Allen J.F. and Mullineaux C.W. (2004) Probing the mechanism of state transitions in oxygenic photosynthesis by chlorophyll fluorescence spectroscopy, kinetics and imaging. In: Chlorophyll fluorescence – a signature of photosynthesis. (Eds Papageorgiou G. and Govindjee). Dordrecht: Springer, pp 447-461.
Aspinwall C.L., Duncan J., Bibby T., Mullineaux C.W. and Barber J. (2004) The trimeric organisation of photosystem I is not necessary for the iron-stress induced CP43` protein to functionally associate with this reaction centre. FEBS Lett. 574, 126-130.
Silva P., Thompson E.P., Bailey S., Kruse O., Mullineaux C.W., Robinson C., Mann N.H. and Nixon P.J. (2003) FtsH is involved in the early stages of repair of photosystem two in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. The Plant Cell 15, 2152-2164.
Sarcina M., Murata N., Tobin M.J. and Mullineaux C.W. (2003) Lipid diffusion in the thylakoid membranes of the cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp.: effect of fatty acid desaturation. FEBS Lett. 553, 295-298.
Spence E., Sarcina M., Ray N., Mřller S.G., Mullineaux C.W. and Robinson C. (2003) Membrane-specific targeting of green fluorescent protein by the Tat pathway in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis PCC6803. Mol Microbiol. 48, 1481-1489.
Steglich C., Mullineaux C.W., Teuchner K., Hess W.R. and Lokstein H. (2003) Photophysical properties of Prochlorococcus marinus SS120 divinyl chlorophylls and phycoerythrin in vitro and in vivo. FEBS Lett. 553, 79-84.
Bailey S., Thompson E., Nixon P.J., Horton P., Mullineaux C.W., Robinson C. and Mann N.H. (2002) A critical role for the Var2 FtsH homologue of Arabidopsis thaliana in the Photosystem II repair cycle in vivo. J. Biol. Chem. 277, 2006-2011.
Douglas R.H., Bowmaker J.K. and Mullineaux C.W. (2002) A possible retinal longwave detecting system in a myctophid fish without far-red bioluminescence; evidence for a sensory arms race in the deep-sea. In: Bioluminescence & Chemiluminescence; progress & current applications (Eds. P.E. Stanley and L.J. Kricka). New Jersey: World Scientific, pp 391-394.
Mullineaux C.W. and Sarcina M. (2002) Mobility of proteins and lipids in the photosynthetic membranes of cyanobacteria. In: Probing and Modelling Membranes and Proteins (Eds. R.H. Templer and R. Leatherbarrow). Royal Society of Chemistry, pp237-242.
Mullineaux C.W. and Sarcina M. (2002) Probing the dynamics of photosynthetic membranes with Fluorescence Recovery after Photobleaching. Trends Plant Sci. 7, 237-240.
Ashby M.K., Houmard J. and Mullineaux C.W. (2002) The ycf27 genes from cyanobacteria and eukaryotic algae: distribution and implications for chloroplast evolution. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 214, 25-30.
Sarcina M., Tobin M.J. and Mullineaux C.W. (2001) Diffusion of phycobilisomes on the thylakoid membranes of the cyanobacterium Synechococcus 7942: effects of phycobilisome size, temperature and membrane lipid composition. J. Biol. Chem. 276, 46830-46834.
Bailey S., Silva P., Nixon P., Mullineaux C.W., Robinson C. and Mann N. (2001) Auxiliary functions in photosynthesis: the role of the FtsH protease. Biochem. Soc. Trans. 29, 455-459.
Mullineaux C.W. (2001) How do cyanobacteria sense and respond to light?. Mol. Microbiol. 43, 965-972.
Nixon P.J. and Mullineaux C.W. (2001) Regulation of photosynthetic electron transport. In: Regulatory Apects of Photosynthesis (Eds. E.-M. Aro and B. Andersson). Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp 533-555.
Mullineaux CW, Sarcina M (2001) Mobility of phycobilisomes on cyanobacterial thylakoid membranes - structural and functional implications. Proceedings of the 12th International Congress on Photosynthesis. CSIRO Publishing
Sarcina M, Murata N, Mullineaux CW (2001) Thylakoid membrane fluidity and its crucial importance in photoinhibition. Proceedings of the 12th International Congress on Photosynthesis. CSIRO Publishing
Silva PJN, Bailey S, Mullineaux CW, Robinson C, Mann NH, Nixon PJ (2001) Identification of a protease involved in the repair of the photosystem two complex in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. Proceedings of the 12th International Congress on Photosynthesis. CSIRO publishing.
Steglich C, Mullineaux CW, Lokstein H, Teuchner K, Hess WR (2001) What is the function of phycoerythrin in Prochlorocccus marinus?. Proceedings of the 12th International Congress on Photosynthesis. CSIRO Publishing
Thompson EP, Bailey S, Mann NH, Robinson C, Mullineaux CW (2001)The role of FtsH proteins in photosystem biosynthesis and turnover in Arabidopsis and Synechocystis. Proceedings of the 12th International Congress on Photosynthesis. CSIRO Publishing
Dominy PJ, Mullineaux CW (2000) State transitions in cyanobacteria. in: "Probing photosynthesis: mechanisms, regulation and adaptation" (M Yunus, U Pathre and P Mohanty eds) pp 310-323. Taylor and Francis, London.
Douglas RH, Mullineaux CW, Partridge JC (2000) Longwave sensitivity in deep-sea stomiid dragon fish with far red bioluminescence; evidence for a dietary origin of the chlorophyll-derived photosensitizer of Malacosteus niger. Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. Lond. B 355, 1269-1272.
Law AE, Mullineaux CW, Hirst EMA, Saldanha J, Wilson RJM (2000) Bacterial orthologues indicate the malarial plastid gene ycf24 is essential. Protist 151, 317-327.
Mann NH, Novac N, Mullineaux CW, Newman J, Bailey S, Robinson C (2000) Involvement of an FtsH homologue in the assembly of functional photosystem I in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC6803. FEBS Lett. 479,72-77.
Sarcina M, Mullineaux CW (2000) Effects of tubulin assembly inhibitors on cell division in prokaryotes in vivo. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 191, 25-29
Ashby MK, Mullineaux CW (1999) The role of ApcD and ApcF in energy transfer from phycobilisomes to PSI and PSII in a cyanobacterium. Photosynth. Res. 61, 169-179.
Ashby MK, Mullineaux CW (1999) Cyanobacterial ycf27 gene products regulate energy transfer from phycobilisomes to Photosystems I and II. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 181, 253-260.
Douglas RH, Partridge JC, Dulai KS, Hunt DM, Mullineaux CW, Hynninen PH (1999) Enhanced retinal longwave sensitivity using a chlorophyll-derived photosensitiser in Malacosteus niger, a deep-sea dragon fish with far red bioluminescence. Vision Res. 39, 2817 -2832.
Emlyn-Jones D, Ashby MK, Mullineaux CW (1999) A gene required for the regulation of photosynthetic light-harvesting in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis 6803. Mol. Microbiol. 33, 1050-1058
Kruse O, Nixon PJ, Schmid GH, Mullineaux CW (1999) Isolation of state transition mutants of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii by fluorescence video imaging. Photosynth. Res. 61, 43-51
Mullineaux CW (1999) The plankton and the planet. Science 283, 801-802.
Mullineaux CW (1999) The thylakoid membranes of cyanobacteria: structure, dynamics and function. Aust. J. Plant Physiol. 26, 671-677.
Ashby MK, Mullineaux CW (1998) Molecular analysis of factors involved in energy transfer from phycobilisomes to photosystems I and II in a cyanobacterium. in: "Photosynthesis: mechanisms and effects" (ed G Garab) Vol I pp 205-208 (Kluwer, Dordrecht)
Douglas RH, Partridge JC, Dulai K, Hunt D, Mullineaux CW, Tauber AY, Hynninen PH (1998) Dragon fish see using chlorophyll. Nature 393, 423-424.
Emlyn-Jones D, Ashby MK, Mullineaux CW (1998) A gene required for the regulation of photosynthetic light-harvesting in a cyanobacterium. in: "Photosynthesis: mechanisms and effects" (ed G Garab) Vol IV pp 2925-2928 (Kluwer, Dordrecht).
Kruse O, Mullineaux CW, Nixon PJ, Schmid GH (1998) Eludicating functional aspects of LHCII phosphorylation by DNA insertional mutagenesis in the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. in: "Photosynthesis: mechanisms and effects" (ed G Garab) Vol III, pp 1915-1918 (Kluwer, Dordrecht).
Mullineaux CW, Ashby MK, Emlyn-Jones D (1998) Coupling of phycobilisomes to reaction centres in cyanobacteria. in: "Photosynthesis: mechanisms and effects" (ed G Garab) Vol I, pp 201-204 (Kluwer, Dordrecht).
van Thor JJ, Mullineaux CW, Matthijs HCP, Hellingwerf KJ (1998) Light-harvesting and state transitions in cyanobacteria. Botanica Acta 111, 430-443.
Connelly JP, Müller MG, Hucke M, Gatzen G, Mullineaux CW, Ruban AV, Horton P, Holzwarth, AR (1997) Ultrafast spectroscopy of trimeric light-harvesting complex II from higher plants. J. Phys. Chem. B 101, 1902-1909.
Mullineaux CW, Tobin MJ, Jones GR (1997) Mobility of photosynthetic complexes in thylakoid membranes. Nature 390, 421-424
Mullineaux CW (1994) Excitation energy transfer from phycobilisomes to photosystem I in a cyanobacterial mutant lacking photosystem II. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1184, 71-77.
Mullineaux CW, Ruban AV, Horton P (1994) Prompt heat release associated with delta-pH dependent quenching in spinach thylakoid membranes. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1185, 119-123.
Mullineaux CW (1993) Excitation energy quenching in aggregates of the LHC II chlorophyll-protein complex: a laser-induced optoacoustic study. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1143, 235-238.
Mullineaux CW (1993) Inhibition by phosphate of light-state transitions in cyanobacterial cells. Photosynth. Res. 38, 135-140.
Mullineaux CW, Holzwarth AR (1993) Effect of photosystem II reaction centre closure on fluorescence decay kinetics in a cyanobacterium. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1183, 345-351.
Mullineaux CW, Pascal AA, Horton P, Holzwarth AR (1993) Excitation energy quenching in aggregates of the LHC II chlorophyll-protein complex: a time-resolved fluorescence study. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1141, 23-28.
Mullineaux CW (1992) Excitation energy transfer from phycobilisomes to photosystem I in a cyanobacterium. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1100, 285-292.
Mullineaux CW (1992) Excitation energy transfer from phycobilisomes to photosystem I and photosystem II in a cyanobacterium. in: Research in Photosynthesis (N Murata ed.) Vol I pp 141-144.
Mullineaux CW, Griebenow S, Braslavsky SE (1991) Photosynthetic energy storage in cyanobacterial cells adapted to light-states 1 and 2. A laser-induced optoacoustic study. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1060, 315-318.
Mullineaux CW, Holzwarth AR (1991) Kinetics of excitation energy transfer in the cyanobacterial phycobilisome-photosystem II complex. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1098, 68-78.
Mullineaux CW, Allen JF (1990) State 1-state 2 transitions in the cyanobacterium Synechococcus 6301 are controlled by the redox state of electron carriers between photosystems I and II. Photosynth. Res. 22, 157-166.
Mullineaux CW, Bittersmann E, Allen JF, Holzwarth AR (1990) Picosecond time-resolved fluorescence emission spectra indicate decreased energy transfer from the phycobilisome to photosystem II in light-state 2 in the cyanobacterium Synechococcus 6301. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1015, 231-242.
Mullineaux CW, Holzwarth AR (1990) A proportion of photosystem II core complexes are decoupled from the phycobilisome in light-state 2 in the cyanobacteriumSynechococcus 6301. FEBS Lett 260, 245-248.
Allen JF, Mullineaux CW, Sanders CE, Melis A (1989) State transitions, photosystem stoichiometry adjustment and non-photochemical quenching in cyanobacterial cells acclimated to light absorbed by photosystem I or photosystem II. Photosynth. Res. 22, 157-166.
Melis A, Mullineaux CW, Allen JF (1989) Acclimation of the photosynthetic apparatus to Photosystem I or Photosystem II light: evidence from quantum yield measurements and fluorescence spectroscopy of cyanobacterial cells. Z. Naturforsch. 44c, 109-118.
Mullineaux CW, Allen JF (1988) Fluorescence induction transients indicate dissociation of photosystem II from the phycobilisome during the state 2 transition in the cyanobacterium Synechococcus 6301. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 934, 96-107.
Allen JF, Harrison MA, Holmes NG, Mullineaux CW, Sanders CE (1987) Regulation of photosynthetic unit function by protein phosphorylation. In: Progress in Photosynthesis Research (J Biggins ed.) Vol II pp. 757-760.
Mullineaux CW, Allen JF (1987) State 1-state 2 transitions in Synechococcus 6301 are influenced by respiratory electron flow: evidence for the control of excitation energy distribution by the redox level of plastoquinone in cyanobacteria. In: Progress in Photosynthesis Research (J Biggins ed.) Vol II pp. 765-768.
Mullineaux CW, Boult M, Sanders CE, Allen JF (1986) Fluorescence induction transients indicate altered absorption cross-section during light-state transitions in the cyanobacterium Synechococcus 6301. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 851, 147-150.
Mullineaux CW, Allen JF (1986) The state 2 transition in the cyanobacterium Synechococcus 6301 can be driven by respiratory electron flow into the plastoquinone pool. FEBS Lett. 205, 155-160.

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