Donald Bryant

Affiliate Researcher
Titles and Affiliations
Ernest C. Pollard Professor of Biotechnology and Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Research Summary

Physiology, biochemistry, genetics and genomics of photosynthetic bacteria focusing on the unicellular, marine cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002 and the moderately thermophilic green sulfur Chlorobaculum tepidum (Chlorobi).

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Recent Publications

Structure of a dimeric photosystem II complex from a cyanobacterium acclimated to far-red light

Gisriel, C. J., Shen, G., Flesher, D. A., Kurashov, V., Golbeck, J. H., Brudvig, G. W., Amin, M. & Bryant, D. A., Jan 2023, In: Journal of Biological Chemistry. 299, 1, 102815.

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Molecular Evolution of Far-Red Light-Acclimated Photosystem II

Gisriel, C. J., Cardona, T., Bryant, D. A. & Brudvig, G. W., Jul 2022, In: Microorganisms. 10, 7, 1270.

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Structure of a monomeric photosystem II core complex from a cyanobacterium acclimated to far-red light reveals the functions of chlorophylls d and f

Gisriel, C. J., Shen, G., Ho, M. Y., Kurashov, V., Flesher, D. A., Wang, J., Armstrong, W. H., Golbeck, J. H., Gunner, M. R., Vinyard, D. J., Debus, R. J., Brudvig, G. W. & Bryant, D. A., Jan 1 2022, In: Journal of Biological Chemistry. 298, 1, 101424.

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Structure of a photosystem I-ferredoxin complex from a marine cyanobacterium provides insights into far-red light photoacclimation

Gisriel, C. J., Flesher, D. A., Shen, G., Wang, J., Ho, M. Y., Brudvig, G. W. & Bryant, D. A., Jan 1 2022, In: Journal of Biological Chemistry. 298, 1, 101408.

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Changes in supramolecular organization of cyanobacterial thylakoid membrane complexes in response to far-red light photoacclimation

MacGregor-Chatwin, C., Nürnberg, D. J., Jackson, P. J., Vasilev, C., Hitchcock, A., Ho, M. Y., Shen, G., Gisriel, C. J., Wood, W. H. J., Mahbub, M., Selinger, V. M., Johnson, M. P., Dickman, M. J., Rutherford, A. W., Bryant, D. A. & Hunter, C. N., Feb 2022, In: Science Advances. 8, 6, eabj4437.

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Adaptation of Cyanobacteria to the Endolithic Light Spectrum in Hyper-Arid Deserts

Murray, B., Ertekin, E., Dailey, M., Soulier, N. T., Shen, G., Bryant, D. A., Perez-Fernandez, C. & Diruggiero, J., Jun 2022, In: Microorganisms. 10, 6, 1198.

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Use of Quartz Sand Columns to Study Far-Red Light Photoacclimation (FaRLiP) in Cyanobacteria

Nien, T. S., Bryant, D. A. & Ho, M. Y., Jul 2022, In: Applied and environmental microbiology. 88, 13

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Elioraea tepida, sp. Nov., a moderately thermophilic aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic bacterium isolated from the mat community of an alkaline siliceous hot spring in yellowstone national park, WY, USA

Saini, M. K., Yoshida, S., Sebastian, A., Hara, E., Tamaki, H., Soulier, N. T., Albert, I., Hanada, S., Tank, M. & Bryant, D. A., Jan 2022, In: Microorganisms. 10, 1, 80.

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Acclimation of the photosynthetic apparatus to low light in a thermophilic Synechococcus sp. strain

Soulier, N., Walters, K., Laremore, T. N., Shen, G., Golbeck, J. H. & Bryant, D. A., Aug 2022, In: Photosynthesis research. 153, 1-2, p. 21-42 22 p.

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Expansion of the global RNA virome reveals diverse clades of bacteriophages

RNA Virus Discovery Consortium, Oct 13 2022, In: Cell. 185, 21, p. 4023-4037.e18

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Thousands of small, novel genes predicted in global phage genomes

Global Phage Small Open Reading Frame (GP-SmORF) Consortium, Jun 21 2022, In: Cell Reports. 39, 12, 110984.

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Host population diversity as a driver of viral infection cycle in wild populations of green sulfur bacteria with long standing virus-host interactions

Berg, M., Goudeau, D., Olmsted, C., McMahon, K. D., Yitbarek, S., Thweatt, J. L., Bryant, D. A., Eloe-Fadrosh, E. A., Malmstrom, R. R. & Roux, S., Jun 2021, In: ISME Journal. 15, 6, p. 1569-1584 16 p.

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Corrigendum to Quantitative assessment of chlorophyll types in cryo-EM maps of photosystem I acclimated to far-red light BBA Advances 1 (2021) 100019 (BBA Advances (2021) 1, (S2667160321000181), (10.1016/j.bbadva.2021.100019))

Gisriel, C. J., Huang, H. L., Reiss, K., Flesher, D. A., Batista, V. S., Bryant, D. A., Brudvig, G. W. & Wang, J., Jan 2021, In: BBA Advances. 1, 100024.

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Quantitative assessment of chlorophyll types in cryo-EM maps of photosystem I acclimated to far-red light

Gisriel, C. J., Huang, H. L., Reiss, K. M., Flesher, D. A., Batista, V. S., Bryant, D. A., Brudvig, G. W. & Wang, J., Jan 2021, In: BBA Advances. 1, 100019.

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Carotenoid biomarkers in Namibian shelf sediments: Anoxygenic photosynthesis during sulfide eruptions in the Benguela Upwelling System

Ma, J., French, K. L., Cui, X., Bryant, D. A. & Summons, R. E., Jul 20 2021, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 118, 29, e2106040118.

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