Publications
Recent publications
Links are generally to the abstract located on the US NCBI PubMed database, although some are to individual journal pages. If you wish to obtain a PDF copy of a paper that you cannot retrieve online, then contact Saul Purton.
Full list of publications
Hellier P, Al-Haj L, Talibi M, Purton S, Ladommatos N (2013). Combustion and emissions characterisation of terpenes with a view to their biological production in cyanobacteria. Fuel. In press.
Tissot-Lecuelle G, Purton S, Dubald M, Goldschmidt-Clermont MP (2013). Synthesis of Recombinant Products in the Chloroplast. In: Plastid Biology (eds. Theg SM & and Wollman F-A). In press.
Dyo YM, Vonlanthen SE, Purton S and Zayadan BK (2013).
Evaluating new isolates of microalgae from Kazakhstan for biodiesel production.
Rus. J. Plant Physiol. In press.
Purton S, Szaub JB, Wannathong T, Young R and Economou CK (2013). Genetic engineering of algal chloroplasts: progress and prospects. Rus. J. Plant Physiol. In press.
Xu, Y, Purton S and Baganz F (2013). Chitosan flocculation to aid the harvesting of the microalga Chlorella sorokiniana. Bioresource Technol. 129: 296-301
Santabarbara S, Ali K, Economou C, Wannathong T, Zito F, Redding K, Rappaport F and Purton S (2013). The requirement for carotenoids in the assembly and function of the photosynthetic complexes of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Plant Physiol. 161: 535-546
Bassi R, Cardol P, Choquet Y, de Marchin T, Economou C, Franck F, Goldschmidt-Clermont M, Jacobi A, Janssens M, Loizeau K, Mathy G, Plancke C, Posten C, Purton S, Remacle C, Wei L, Wollman F-A (2012). Finding the bottleneck: A research strategy for improved biomass production. In Microalgal Biotechnology: Integration and Economy. (eds. Posten C and Walter C). De Gruyther
Santabarbara S, Kuprov I, Pulektov O, Hore PJ, Casal A, Russell CA, Purton S, Evans MCW (2010). Directionality of electron transfer reactions in Photosystem I of prokaryotes: universality of the bidirectional electron transfer model. J. Phys. Chem. B 114: 15158-15171
Castleman VH, Romio L, Chodhari R, Hirst RA, Castro SCP, Parker KA,
Ybot-Gonzalez P, Emes RD, Wilson SW, Weber A, Johnson CA, Herrera RJ,
Rutman A, Shoemark A, Bush A, Hogg C, Gardiner RM, Reisch O, Greene NDE,
O’Callaghan C, Purton S, Chung EMK & Mitchison HM (2009). Mutations
in radial spoke head protein genes RSPH9 and RSPH4A cause
primary ciliary dyskinesia with central microtubular pair
abnormalities. Am. J. Hum. Genet. 84: 197-209
Loiselay C, Gumpel NJ, Girard-Bascou J, Watson AT, Purton S, Wollman F-A & Choquet Y (2008). Molecular identification and function of cis- and trans-acting determinants for petA transcript stability in Chlamydomonas chloroplasts. Mol. Cell. Biol. 28: 5529–5542
Bishop CL, Ulas S, Baena-Gonzalez E, Aro E-M, Purton S, Nugent JHA & Mäenpää P (2007). The PsbZ subunit of Photosystem II in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 modulates electron flow through the photosynthetic electron transfer chain. Photosynth. Res. 93: 139–147
Cullen M, Ray N, Husain S, Nugent J, Nield J & Purton S (2007). A highly active histidine-tagged Chlamydomonas reinhardtii photosystem II preparation for structural and biophysical analysis. Photochem Photobiol Sci. 6: 1177–1183
Howe CJ & Purton S (2007). The little genome of apicomplexan
plastids: its raison d’etre and a possible explanation for the ‘delayed
death’ phenomenon. Protist
158: 121–133
Merchant
SS et al. (2007). The Chlamydomonas genome reveals the evolution of key
animal and plant functions. Science 318: 245–251
Purton S (2007). Tools and techniques for chloroplast transformation of Chlamydomonas. In: Transgenic Microalgae as Green Cell Factories. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology Vol. 616: 34–45
Ali K, Santabarbara S, Heathcote P, Evans MCW & Purton S (2006). Bidirectional electron transfer in photosystem I: replacement of the symmetry-breaking tryptophan close to the PsaB-bound phylloquinone (A1B) with a glycine residue alters the redox properties of A1B and blocks forward electron transfer at cryogenic temperatures. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1757: 1623-1633
Barbrook A, Howe CJ & Purton S (2006) Why are plastid genomes retained in non-photosynthetic eukaryotes? Trends Plant Sci. 11: 101–108
Howe CJ, Schlarb-Ridley BG, Wastl J, Purton S & Bendall DS (2006).
The novel cytochrome c6 of chloroplasts - a case of evolutionary
bricolage? J. Exp. Bot. 57: 13–22
Ral J-P, Colleoni C, Wattebled F, Dauvillée D, Nempont C, Deschamps P, Li Z, Morell MK, Chibbar R, Purton S, d’Hulst C & Ball SG (2006). Circadian clock regulation of starch metabolism establishes GBSSI as a major contributor to amylopectin synthesis in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Plant Physiol. 142: 305–317
Schlarb-Ridley
BG, Nimmo RH, Purton S, Howe CJ & Bendall DS (2006). Cytochrome c6A
is a funnel for thiol oxidation in the thylakoid lumen. FEBS
Lett. 9: 2166–2169
Walker TL, Collet C & Purton S (2005). Algal transgenics in the
genomic era. J. Phycol. 41: 1077–1093
Walker TL, Purton S, Becker DK & Collet C (2005). Microalgae as bioreactors. Plant Cell Rep. 24: 629–641
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