Publications

2023
  • A A Dharani T Abeysinghe, Eric J Young, Andrew T Rowland, Lucas C Dunshee, Sandeep Urandur, Millicent O Sullivan, Cheryl A Kerfeld, Christine D Keating (2023). Interfacial Assembly of Bacterial Microcompartment Shell Proteins in Aqueous Multiphase Systems Small Dec 1:e2308390. (link)
  • Justin B. Rose, Jose A. Gascon, Markus Sutter, Damien I. Sheppard, Cheryl A. Kerfeld and Warren F. Beck (2023) Photoactivation of the orange carotenoid protein requires two light-driven reactions mediated by a metastable monomeric intermediate Phys Chem Chem Phys  Dec 13;25(48):33000-33012.(link) 
  • Roberto Espinoza-Corral; Masakazu Iwai; Tomáš, Zavřel; Sigal Lechno-Yossef; Markus Sutter; Jan Červený; Krishna K. Niyogi and Cheryl A. Kerfeld (2023). Phycobilisome protein ApcG interacts with photosystem II and regulates energy transfer in Synechocystis Plant Physiology Nov 16:kiad615 (link)
  • Lior Doron, Markus Sutter, Cheryl A Kerfeld (2023). Characterization of a novel aromatic substrate-processing microcompartment in Actinobacteria mBio. Aug 31;14(4):e0121623. (link)
  • Naveen Sharma, John E. Froehlich, Rees Rillema, Daniel A. Raba, Taylor Chambers, Cheryl A. Kerfeld, David M. Kramer, Berkley Walker, Federica Brandizzi (2023). Arabidopsis stromal carbonic anhydrases exhibit non-overlapping roles in photosynthetic efficiency and development Plant Journal Jul;115(2):386-397 (link)
  • Bryan H. Ferlez, Henning Kirst, Basil J. Greber, Eva Nogales, Markus Sutter, Cheryl A. Kerfeld (2023).  Heterologous Assembly of Pleomorphic Bacterial Microcompartment Shell Architectures Spanning the Nano- to Microscale  Advanced Materials Jun; 35(23): e2212065  (link)

2022
  • Sourav Sil, Ryan W. Tilluck, Nila Mohan T. M., Chase H. Leslie, Justin B. Rose, Maria Agustina Domínguez-Martín, Wenjing Lou, Cheryl A. Kerfeld & Warren F. Beck (2022). Excitation energy transfer and vibronic coherence in intact phycobilisomes Nature Chemistry 14: 1286–1294. (link)
  • María Agustina Domínguez-Martín, Paul V. Sauer, Henning Kirst, Markus Sutter, David Bína, Basil J. Greber, Eva Nogales, Tomáš Polívka & Cheryl A. Kerfeld (2022). Structures of a phycobilisome in light-harvesting and photoprotected states Nature 609: 835–845. (link) ​
  • Matthew Rosi, Brandon Russell, Line G. Kristensen, Erik R. Farquhar, Rohit Jain, Donald Abel, Michael Sullivan, Shawn M. Costello, Maria Agustina Dominguez-Martin, Yan Chen, Susan Marqusee, Christopher J. Petzold, Cheryl A. Kerfeld, Daniel P. DePonte, Farid Farahmand, Sayan Gupta & Corie Y. Ralston (2022). An automated liquid jet for fluorescence dosimetry and microsecond radiolytic labeling of proteins Communications Biology 5 (866). (link)
  • Raba DA, Kerfeld CA (2022). ​The potential of bacterial microcompartment architectures for phytonanotechnology Environmental Microbiology Reports, 14(5): 700–710. (link)
  • USF Genomics Class 2020,  USF Genomics Class 2021, Sutter M, Kerfeld CA, Scott KM (2022). Atypical Carboxysome Loci: JEEPs or Junk? Frontiers in Microbiology 13. (link)
  • Sutter M, Kerfeld CA (2022). ​BMC Caller: a webtool to identify and analyze bacterial microcompartment types in sequence data Biology Direct 17 (9). (link) 
  • Kirst H, Ferlez BH, Lindner SN,  Cotton CAR,  Bar-Even A, Kerfeld CA (2022). Toward a glycyl radical enzyme containing synthetic bacterial microcompartment to produce pyruvate from formate and acetate PNAS 119(8): e2116871119. (link)
  • Khan T, Kuznetsova V, Dominguez-Martin MA, Kerfeld CA, Polivka T (2022). UV Excitation of Carotenoid Binding Proteins OCP and HCP: Excited-State Dynamics and Product Formation Chemphotochem 6(1). (link)
2021
  • Sutter M, Melnicki MR, Schulz F, Woyke T, Kerfeld CA (2021). A catalog of the diversity and ubiquity of bacterial microcompartments Nature Communications 12(1). (link)
  • Feroz H, Ferlez B, Oh H, Mohammadiarani H, Ren TW, Baker CS, Gajewski JP, Lugar DJ, Gaudana SB, Butler P, Huhn J, Lamping M, Parak WJ, Blatt MR, Kerfeld CA, Smirnoff N, Vashisth H, Golbeck JH, Kumar M (2021). Liposome-based measurement of light-driven chloride transport kinetics of halorhodopsin Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta-Biomembranes 1863(8). (link)
  • Asija K, Sutter M, Kerfeld CA (2021). A Survey of Bacterial Microcompartment Distribution in the Human Microbiome Frontiers in Microbiology 12. (link)
  • Melnicki MR, Sutter M, Kerfeld CA (2021). Evolutionary relationships among shell proteins of carboxysomes and metabolosomes Current Opinion in Microbiology 63: 1-9. (link)
  • Gonzalez-Esquer CR, Ferlez B, Weraduwage SM, Kirst H, Lantz AT, Turmo A, Sharkey TD, Kerfeld CA (2021). Validation of an insertion-engineered isoprene  synthase as a strategy to functionalize terpene synthases Rsc Advances 11(48): 29997-30005. (link)
  • Kirst H, Kerfeld CA (2021). Clues to the function of bacterial microcompartments from ancillary genes Biochemical Society Transactions 49(3): 1085-1098. (link)
2020
  • Dominguez-Martin MA, Hammel M, Gupta S, Lechno-Yossef S, Sutter M, Rosenberg DJ, Chen Y, Petzold CJ, Ralston CY, Polivka T, Kerfeld CA (2020). Structural analysis of a new carotenoid-binding protein: the C-terminal domain homolog of the OCP Scientific Reports 10(1).  (link)
  • Huang JC, Ferlez BH, Young EJ, Kerfeld CA, Kramer DM, Ducat DC (2020). Functionalization of Bacterial Microcompartment Shell Proteins With Covalently Attached Heme Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology 7. (link)
  • Kerfeld CA, Sutter M (2020). Engineered bacterial microcompartments: apps for programming metabolism Current Opinion in Biotechnology 65: 225-232. (link)
  • Khan T, Dominguez-Martin MA, Simova I, Fuciman M, Kerfeld CA, Polivka T (2020). Excited-State Properties of Canthaxanthin in Cyanobacterial Carotenoid-Binding Proteins HCP2 and HCP3 Journal of Physical Chemistry B 124(24): 4896-4905. (link)
  • Lechno-Yossef S, Rohnke BA, Belza ACO, Melnicki MR, Montgomery BL, Kerfeld CA (2020). Cyanobacterial carboxysomes contain an unique rubisco-activase-like protein New Phytologist 225(2): 793-806. (link)
  • Plegaria JS, Yates MD, Glaven SM, Kerfeld CA (2020). Redox Characterization of Electrode-Immobilized Bacterial Microcompartment Shell Proteins Engineered To Bind Metal Centers Acs Applied Bio Materials 3(1): 685-692. (link)
  • Rohnke BA, Kerfeld CA, Montgomery BL (2020). Binding Options for the Small Subunit-Like Domain of Cyanobacteria to Rubisco Frontiers in Microbiology 11. (link)
  • Scott KM, Harmer TL, Gemmell BJ, Kramer AM, Sutter M, Kerfeld CA, Barber KS, Bari S, Boling JW, Campbell CP, Gallard-Gongora JF, Jackson JK, Lobos A, Mounger JM, Radulovic PW, Sanson JM, Schmid S, Takieddine C, Warlick KF, Whittaker R (2020). Ubiquity and functional uniformity in CO2 concentrating mechanisms in multiple phyla of Bacteria is suggested by a diversity and prevalence of genes encoding candidate dissolved inorganic carbon transporters Fems Microbiology Letters 367(13). (link)
  • Young EJ, Sakkos JK, Huang JC, Wright JK, Kachel B, Fuentes-Cabrera M, Kerfeld CA, Ducat DC (2020). Visualizing in Vivo Dynamics of Designer Nanoscaffolds Nano Letters 20(1): 208-217. (link)
2019
  • Gonzalez-Esquer CR, Wright KT, Sudasinghe N, Carr CK, Sanders CK, Turmo A, Kerfeld CA, Twary S, Dale T (2019). Demonstration of the potential of Picochlorum soloecismus as a microalgal platform for the production of renewable fuels Algal Research-Biomass Biofuels and Bioproducts 43.
  • Kirst H, Kerfeld CA (2019). Bacterial microcompartments: catalysis-enhancing metabolic modules for next generation metabolic and biomedical engineering Bmc Biology 17(1).
  • Sutter M, Laughlin TG, Sloan NB, Serwas D, Davies KM, Kerfeld CA (2019). Structure of a Synthetic beta-Carboxysome Shell Plant Physiology 181(3): 1050-1058.
  • Ferlez B, Sutter M, Kerfeld CA (2019) A designed bacterial microcompartment shell with tunable composition and precision cargo loading Metab Eng. Jul;54;286-291 (link)
  • Gupta S, Sutter M, Remesh SG, Dominguez-Martin MA, Bao H, Feng XA, Chan LG, Petzold CJ, Kerfeld CA, Ralston CY (2019) X-ray radiolytic labeling reveals the molecular basis of orange carotenoid protein photoprotection and its interactions with fluorescence recovery protein J Biol Chem May 31; 294(22):8848-8860 (link)
  • Dominguez-Martin MA, Kerfeld CA (2019) Engineering the orange carotenoid protein for applications in synthetic biology Curr Opin Struct Biol Mar 19;57:110-117 (link)
  • Sutter M, McGuire S, Ferlez B, Kerfeld CA (2019) Structural Characterization of a Synthetic Tandem-Domain Bacterial Microcompartment Shell Protein Capable of Forming Icosahedral Shell Assemblies ACS Synth Biol Apr 19;8(4):668-674. (link)
  • Dominguez-Martin MA, Polívka T, Sutter M, Ferlez B, Lechno-Yossef S, Montgomery BL, Kerfeld CA (2019)  Structural and spectroscopic characterization of HCP2 Biochim Biophys Acta Bioenerg May 1;1860(5):414-424 (link)
  • Greber BJ, Sutter M, Kerfeld CA (2019) The Plasticity of Molecular Interactions Governs Bacterial Microcompartment Shell Assembly Structure May 7;27(5):749-763.e4 (link)
  • Sommer M, Sutter M, Gupta S, Kirst H, Turmo A, Lechno-Yossef S, Burton RL, Saechao C, Sloan NB, Cheng X, Chan LG, Petzold CJ, Fuentes-Cabrera M, Ralston CY, Kerfeld CA (2019) Heterohexamers Formed by CcmK3 and CcmK4 Increase the Complexity of Beta Carboxysome Shells Plant Physiol Jan;179(1):156-167 (link)
  • Ferlez B, Sutter M, Kerfeld CA (2019) Glycyl Radical Enzyme-Associated Microcompartments: Redox-Replete Bacterial Organelles MBio Jan 8;10(1) pii:e02327-18 (link)
2018
  • Hagen AR, Plegaria JS, Sloan N, Ferlez B, Aussignargues C, Burton R, Kerfeld CA (2018) In Vitro Assembly of Diverse Bacterial Microcompartment Shell Architectures NanoLett Nov 14;18(11):7030-7037. (link)
  • Pande K, Donatelli JJ, Malmerberg E, Foucar L, Poon BK, Sutter M, Botha S, Basu S, Bruce Doak R, Dörner K, Epp SW, Englert L, Fromme R, Hartmann E, Hartmann R, Hauser G, Hattne J, Hosseinizadeh A, Kassemeyer S, Lomb L, Montero SFC, Menzel A, Rolles D, Rudenko A, Seibert MM, Sierra RG, Schwander P, Ourmazd A, Fromme P, Sauter NK, Bogan M, Bozek J, Bostedt C, Schlichting I, Kerfeld CA, Zwart PH (2018) Free-electron laser data for multiple-particle fluctuation scattering analysis Sci Data Oct 2;5:180201 (link)
  • Hagen A, Sutter M, Sloan N, Kerfeld CA (2018) Programmed loading and rapid purification of engineered bacterial microcompartment shells Nat Commun. Jul 23;9(1):2881 (link)
  • Cheryl A. Kerfeld, Clement Aussignargues, Jan Zarzycki, Fei Cai & Markus Sutter (2018) Bacterial microcompartments Nature Reviews Microbiology volume 16, pages 277–290 (link) 
  • Jason K. Gurchiek, Han Bao, Maria Agustina Domínguez-Martín, Sarah E. McGovern, Claire E. Marquardt, Jerome D. Roscioli, Soumen Ghosh, Cheryl A. Kerfeld , and Warren F. Beck (2018) Fluorescence and Excited-State Conformational Dynamics of the Orange Carotenoid Protein J. Phys. Chem. B, 122 (6), pp 1792–1800 (link)
  • Scott KM, Williams J, Porter CMB, Russel S, [...] Woyke T, Boden R, Freyermuth SK, Kerfeld CA (2018) Genomes of ubiquitous marine and hypersaline Hydrogenovibrio, Thiomicrorhabdus and Thiomicrospira spp. encode a diversity of mechanisms to sustain chemolithoautotrophy in heterogeneous environments Environ Microbiol. Mar 9. (link)
2017
  • Aiko Turmo C. Raul Gonzalez-Esquer, Cheryl A. Kerfeld (2017) Carboxysomes: metabolic modules for CO2 fixation FEMS Microbiology Letters, Volume 364, Issue 18 (link)
  • Eric J. Young, Rodney Burton, Jyoti P. Mahalik, Bobby G. Sumpter, Miguel Fuentes-Cabrera, Cheryl A. Kerfeld and Daniel C. Ducat (2017)  Engineering the Bacterial Microcompartment Domain for Molecular Scaffolding Applications Front Microbiol. Jul 31;8:1441 (link)
  • Jefferson S. Plegaria, Markus Sutter, Bryan Ferlez, Clément Aussignargues, Jens Niklas , Oleg G. Poluektov, Ciara Fromwiller, Michaela TerAvest, Lisa M. Utschig , David M. Tiede, and Cheryl A. Kerfeld (2017) Structural and Functional Characterization of a Short-Chain Flavodoxin Associated with a Noncanonical 1,2-Propanediol Utilization Bacterial Microcompartment Biochemistry, 56 (42), pp 5679–5690 (link)
  • Jefferson S Plegaria, Cheryl A Kerfeld (2017) Engineering nanoreactors using bacterial microcompartment architectures Curr Opin Biotechnol., Oct 13;51:1-7. (link)
  • Cheryl A. Kerfeld (2017). A bioarchitectonic approach to the modular engineering of metabolism Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 372: 20160387 (link) (free pdf) (free fulltext) 
  • Han Bao, Matthew R. Melnicki, Emily G. Pawlowski, Markus Sutter, Marco Agostoni, Sigal Lechno-Yossef, Fei Cai, Beronda L. Montgomery & Cheryl A. Kerfeld (2017) Additional families of orange carotenoid proteins in the photoprotective system of cyanobacteria Nature Plants, 3, 17089 (link)
  • ​Markus Sutter, Basil Greber, Clement Aussignargues, Cheryl A. Kerfeld (2017) Assembly principles and structure of a 6.5-MDa bacterial microcompartment shell Science, Vol. 356, Issue 6344, pp. 1293-1297 (link)
  • Cheryl A. Kerfeld, Matthew R. Melnicki, Markus Sutter, Maria Agustina Dominguez-Martin (2017) Structure, function and evolution of the cyanobacterial orange carotenoid protein and its homologs Tansley Review / New Phytologist (link)
  • Manuel Sommer, Fei Cai, Matthew R. Melnicki, Cheryl A. Kerfeld (2017) β-Carboxysome bioinformatics: identification and evolution of new bacterial microcompartment protein gene classes and core locus constraints. Journal of Experimental Botany, Volume 68, Issue 14, 1 June 2017, Pages 3841–3855
    (link)
  • Lechno-Yossef S, Melnicki MR, Bao H, Montgomery BL, Kerfeld CA. (2017) Synthetic OCP Heterodimers are Photoactive and Recapitulate the Fusion of Two Primitive Carotenoproteins in the Evolution of Cyanobacterial Photoprotection  The Plant Journal (link)
  • Han Bao, Matthew R Melnicki, Cheryl A Kerfeld (2017). Structure and functions of Orange Carotenoid Protein homologs in cyanobacteria Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 37:1–9 (link to article)
  • Zarzycki J., Sutter M., Cortina N.S., Erb T.J., Kerfeld, C.A. (2017). In Vitro Characterization and Concerted Function of Three Core Enzymes of a Glycyl Radical Enzyme - Associated Bacterial Microcompartment Scientific Reports, 16;7:42757 (link to article)
  • Brand J.J., Kerfeld C.A., Cramer, W.A., Govindjee (2017) David W. Krogmann, 1931-2016 Photosynthesis Research, Apr;132(1):1-12  (link to article)​

​2016
  • Kirilovsky D, Kerfeld C.A. (2016) Cyanobacterial photoprotection by the orange carotenoid protein Nature Plants, Dec 2;2(12):16180 (link to article) (free pdf link)
  • Kerfeld C.A. (2016) Rewiring Escherichia coli for carbon-dioxide fixation Nature Biotechnology, Oct 11;34(10):1035-1036  (link to article)
  • Melnicki, M.R., Leverenz, R.L., Sutter, M., López-Igual, R., Wilson, A., Pawlowski, E.G., Perreau, F., Kirilovsky, D., and Kerfeld, C.A. (2016). Structure, Diversity, and Evolution of a New Family of Soluble Carotenoid Binding Proteins in Cyanobacteria. Molecular Plant, advance online publication. (link to article)
  • Gonzalez-Esquer, C.R., Smarda, J., Rippka, R., Axen, S.D., Guglielmi, G., Gugger, M., and Kerfeld, C.A. (2016). Cyanobacterial ultrastructure in light of genomic sequence data. Photosynthesis Research 129 (2): 147-157 (link to article)
  • López-Igual, R., Wilson, A., Leverenz, R.L., Melnicki, M.R., Bourcier de Carbon, C., Sutter, M., Turmo, A., Perreau, F., Kerfeld, C.A., and Kirilovsky, D. (2016). Different functions of the paralogs to the N-terminal domain of the Orange Carotenoid Protein in the cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. PCC 7120. Plant Physiology 171 (3): 1852-1866. (link to article)
  • Montgomery, B.L., Lechno-Yossef, S., and Kerfeld, C.A. (2016). Interrelated modules in cyanobacterial photosynthesis: the carbon-concentrating mechanism, photorespiration, and light perception. Journal of Experimental Botany 67 (10): 2931-2940 (link to article)
  • Kerfeld, C.A. and Melnicki, M.R. (2016). Assembly, function and evolution of cyanobacterial carboxysomes. Current Opinion in Plant Biology 31: 66-75 (link to article)
  • Gonzalez-Esquer, C.R., Newnham, S.E., and Kerfeld, C.A. (2016). Bacterial microcompartments as metabolic modules for plant synthetic biology. The Plant Journal, advance online publication (link to article)
  • Erbilgin, O., Sutter, M., and Kerfeld, C.A. (2016). The Structural Basis of Coenzyme A Recycling in a Bacterial Organelle. PLOS Biology 14 (3): e1002399 (link to article)
  • Shih, P.M., Occhialini, A., Cameron, J.C., Andralojc, P.J., Parry, M.A.J., and Kerfeld, C.A. (2016). Biochemical characterization of predicted Precambrian RuBisCO. Nature Communications 7: 10382 (link to article)
  • Cai, F., Bernstein, S.L., Wilson, S.C., and Kerfeld, C.A. (2016). Production and Characterization of Synthetic Carboxysome Shells with 2 Incorporated Luminal Proteins , Plant Physiology, advance online publication (link to article)
  • Aussignargues, C., Pandelia, M.E., Sutter, M., Plegaria, J., Zarzycki, J., Turmo, A., Huang, J., Ducat, D.C., Hegg, E.L., Gibney, B.R., and Kerfeld, C.A. (2016). Structure and Function of a Bacterial Microcompartment Shell Protein Engineered to Bind a [4Fe-4S] Cluster. JACS 138 (16): 5262-5270 (link to article)
  • Sutter M., Faulkner, M., Aussignargues, C., Paasch, B., Barrett, S., Kerfeld, C.A., and Liu L. (2015). Visualization of Bacterial Microcompartment Facet Assembly Using High-Speed Atomic Force Microscopy. Nano Letters 16 (3): 1590-1595 ​(link to article)
2015
  • Kerfeld, C.A. (2015). Plug-and-play for improving primary productivity. American Journal of Botany 102 (12): 1949-1950 (link to article)
  • Sutter, M., Roberts, E.W., Gonzalez-Esquer, R.C., Bates, C., Dawoud, S., Landry, K., Cannon, G.C., Heinhorst, S., and Kerfeld, C.A. (2015) Structural Characterization of a Newly Identified Component of α-Carboxysomes: The AAA+ Domain Protein CsoCbbQ. Scientific Reports 5: 16243 (link to article)
  • Noël, C.R., Cai, F., and Kerfeld, C.A. (2015). Purification and Characterization of Protein Nanotubes Assembled from a Single Bacterial Microcompartment Shell Subunit. Advanced Materials Interfaces 3 (1) (link to article)
  • Zarzycki, J., Erbilgin, O., and Kerfeld, C.A. (2015). Bioinformatic Characterization of Glycyl Radical Enzyme-Associated Bacterial Microcompartments. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 81 (24): 8315-8329 ​(link to article)
  • Gupta, S., Guttman, M., Leverenz, R.L., Zhumadilova, K.,  Pawlowski, E.G., Petzold, C.J., Lee, K.K., Ralston, C.Y. and Kerfeld, C.A. (2015).
    Local and global structural drivers for the photoactivation of the orange carotenoid protein. PNAS early online edition     (link to article)
  • Gonzalez-Esquer, C.R., Shubitowski, T.B., Kerfeld, C.A. (2015). Streamlined Construction of the Cyanobacterial CO2-Fixing Organelle via Protein Domain Fusions for Use in Plant Synthetic Biology. The Plant Cell advance online publication. (link to article) 
  • Leverenz, R.L., Sutter, M., Wilson A., Gupta, S., Thurotte, A., Bourcier de Carbon, C., Petzold, C.J., Ralston, C., Perreau, F., Kirilovsky, D., Kerfeld, C.A. (2015). A 12 Å carotenoid translocation in a photoswitch associated with cyanobacterial photoprotection. Science 348 (6242): 1463-1466. (link to full text)   (link to PDF reprints)
  • Aussignargues, C., Paasch, B.C., Gonzalez-Esquer, R., Erbilgin, O., Kerfeld, C.A. (2015). Bacterial Microcompartment Assembly: The Key Role of Encapsulation Peptides. Communicative & Integrative Biology. 8:3, e1039755 (link to article)
  • Cai, F., M. Sutter, S. L. Bernstein, J. N. Kinney, and C. A. Kerfeld (2015). Engineering Bacterial Microcompartment Shells: Chimeric Shell Proteins and Chimeric Carboxysome Shells. ACS Synth Biol, 4 (4), 444–453 (link to article).
  • Cai, F, Dou, Z., Bernstein, S.L., Leverenz,  R. Williams, E.B., Heinhorst, S.,  Shively, J.,  Cannon, G.C. and Kerfeld, C.A. (2015). Advances in understanding carboxysome assembly in Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus implicate CsoS2 as a critical component. Life 5:1141-1171. (link to article - open access)
  • Malmerberg, E., Kerfeld, C.A. and Zwart, P.H. (2015). Operational Properties of Fluctuation X-ray Scattering Data.  IUCRj 2: 309-316. (link to article - open-access)
  • Kerfeld, C.A. and  Erbilgin, O. (2015). Bacterial microcompartments and the modular construction of microbial metabolism. Trends in Microbiology  23:22-34. (link to article)
2014
  • Gaudana, S.B.,  Zarzycki, J.,  Moparthi, M.K. and Kerfeld, C.A. Bioinformatic Analysis of the Distribution of Inorganic Carbon Transporters and Prospective Targets for Bioengineering to Increase Ci uptake by Cyanobacteria.  Photosynthesis Research, doi:10.1007/s11120-014-0059-8, 2014. (link to article)
  • Axen, S., Erbilgin, O and Kerfeld, C.A. (2014). A taxonomy of bacterial microcompartment loci constructed by a novel scoring method.  PLoS Computational Biology 10(10):e1003898. (link to article - open access).
  • Calteau, A.,  Fewer, D.P.,  Latifi, A.,  Coursin, T.,  Laurent, T. Jokela, J., Kerfeld, C.A., Sivonen, K.,  Piel, J. and Gugger, M (2014). Phylum-wide comparative genomics unravel the diversity of secondary metabolism in Cyanobacteria.  BMC Genomics 15: 977, 2014. (link to article - open access)
  • Lassila, J. K., S. L. Bernstein, J. N. Kinney, S. D. Axen and C. A. Kerfeld (2014). "Assembly of Robust Bacterial Microcompartment Shells Using Building Blocks from an Organelle of Unknown Function." J Mol Biol, (link to article).
  • Cameron, J.C., Sutter, M. and Kerfeld, C.A. The Carboxysome: Function, Structure & Cellular Dynamics.  In The Cell Biology of Cyanobacteria.  Elsevier, eds. Enrique Flores and Antonia Herrero, 2014.
  • Matzke, N. J., P. M. Shih and C. A. Kerfeld (2014). "Bayesian analysis of congruence of core genes in Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus and implications on horizontal gene transfer." PLoS One 9(1): e85103, (link to article - open access).
  • Leverenz, R. L., D. Jallet, M. D. Li, R. A. Mathies, D. Kirilovsky and C. A. Kerfeld (2014). "Structural and functional modularity of the orange carotenoid protein: distinct roles for the N- and C-terminal domains in cyanobacterial photoprotection." Plant Cell 26(1): 426-437, (link to article).
  • Shih, P. M., J. Zarzycki, K. K. Niyogi and C. A. Kerfeld (2014). "Introduction of a Synthetic CO2-Fixing Photorespiratory Bypass into a Cyanobacterium." J Biol Chem, (link to article - open access).
  • Jallet, D., A. Thurotte, R. L. Leverenz, F. Perreau, C. A. Kerfeld and D. Kirilovsky (2014). "Specificity of the cyanobacterial orange carotenoid protein: influences of orange carotenoid protein and phycobilisome structures." Plant Physiol 164(2): 790-804, (link to article).
  • Erbilgin, O., K. L. McDonald and C. A. Kerfeld (2014). "Characterization of a planctomycetal organelle: a novel bacterial microcompartment for the aerobic degradation of plant saccharides." Appl Environ Microbiol 80(7): 2193-2205, (link to article).
2013
  • Cameron, J. C., S. C. Wilson, S. L. Bernstein and C. A. Kerfeld (2013). "Biogenesis of a bacterial organelle: the carboxysome assembly pathway." Cell 155(5): 1131-1140, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2013.10.044.
  • Sutter, M., S. C. Wilson, S. Deutsch and C. A. Kerfeld (2013). "Two new high-resolution crystal structures of carboxysome pentamer proteins reveal high structural conservation of CcmL orthologs among distantly related cyanobacterial species." Photosynth Res 118(1-2): 9-16, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11120-013-9909-z.
  • Rajeev, L., U. N. da Rocha, et al. (2013). "Dynamic cyanobacterial response to hydration and dehydration in a desert biological soil crust." ISME J 7(11): 2178-2191, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2013.83.
  • Cai, F., M. Sutter, J. C. Cameron, D. N. Stanley, J. N. Kinney and C. A. Kerfeld (2013). "The structure of CcmP, a tandem bacterial microcompartment domain protein from the beta-carboxysome, forms a subcompartment within a microcompartment." J Biol Chem 288(22): 16055-16063, http://dx.doi.org/10.1074/jbc.M113.456897.
  • Cai, F., S. D. Axen and C. A. Kerfeld (2013). "Evidence for the widespread distribution of CRISPR-Cas system in the Phylum Cyanobacteria." RNA Biol 10(5): 687-693, http://dx.doi.org/10.4161/rna.24571.
  • Polivka, T., P. Chabera and C. A. Kerfeld (2013). "Carotenoid-protein interaction alters the S(1) energy of hydroxyechinenone in the Orange Carotenoid Protein." Biochim Biophys Acta 1827(3): 248-254, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbabio.2012.10.005.
  • Sutter, M., A. Wilson, R. L. Leverenz, R. Lopez-Igual, A. Thurotte, A. E. Salmeen, D. Kirilovsky and C. A. Kerfeld (2013). "Crystal structure of the FRP and identification of the active site for modulation of OCP-mediated photoprotection in cyanobacteria." Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 110(24): 10022-10027, http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1303673110.
  • Kirilovsky, D. and C. A. Kerfeld (2013). "The Orange Carotenoid Protein: a blue-green light photoactive protein." Photochem Photobiol Sci 12(7): 1135-1143, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c3pp25406b.
  • Shih, P. M., D. Wu, A. Latifi, D.P. Fewer, E. Talla, A. Calteau, F. Cai, N. Tandeau de Marsac, R. Rippka, M. Herdman, K. Sivonen, T. Coursin, T. Laurent, L. Goodwin, M. Nolan, K.W. Davenport, C.S. Han, E.M. Rubin, J.A. Eisen, T. Woyke, M. Gugger, and C.A. Kerfeld. (2013). "Improving the coverage of the cyanobacterial phylum using diversity-driven genome sequencing." Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 110(3): 1053-1058, http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1217107110.
  • Kerfeld, C. A. (2013). "Introduction: sequences and consequences." Biochem Mol Biol Educ 41(1): 12-15, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bmb.20660.
  • Zarzycki, J., S. D. Axen, J. N. Kinney and C. A. Kerfeld (2013). "Cyanobacterial-based approaches to improving photosynthesis in plants." J Exp Bot 64(3): 787-798, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jxb/ers294.
  • Stanley, D. N., C. A. Raines and C. A. Kerfeld (2013). "Comparative analysis of 126 cyanobacterial genomes reveals evidence of functional diversity among homologs of the redox-regulated CP12 protein." Plant Physiol 161(2): 824-835, http://dx.doi.org/10.1104/pp.112.210542.
  • Leikoski, N., L. Liu, et al. (2013). "Genome mining expands the chemical diversity of the cyanobactin family to include highly modified linear peptides." Chem Biol 20(8): 1033-1043, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chembiol.2013.06.015.
  • Appel, A. M., J. E. Bercaw, et al. (2013). "Frontiers, Opportunities, and Challenges in Biochemical and Chemical Catalysis of CO2 Fixation." Chem Rev 113(8): 6621-6658, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/cr300463y.
  • Zarzycki, J. and C. A. Kerfeld (2013). "The crystal structures of the tri-functional Chloroflexus aurantiacus and bi-functional Rhodobacter sphaeroides malyl-CoA lyases and comparison with CitE-like superfamily enzymes and malate synthases." BMC Struct Biol 13: 28, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6807-13-28.
  • Kinney, J. N., A. Salmeen, F. Cai and C. A. Kerfeld (2012). "Elucidating essential role of conserved carboxysomal protein CcmN reveals common feature of bacterial microcompartment assembly." J Biol Chem 287(21): 17729-17736, http://dx.doi.org/10.1074/jbc.M112.355305.
2009-2012
  • Wilson, A., M. Gwizdala, A. Mezzetti, M. Alexandre, C. A. Kerfeld and D. Kirilovsky (2012). "The essential role of the N-terminal domain of the orange carotenoid protein in cyanobacterial photoprotection: importance of a positive charge for phycobilisome binding." Plant Cell 24(5): 1972-1983, http://dx.doi.org/10.1105/tpc.112.096909.
  • Kirilovsky, D. and C. A. Kerfeld (2012). "The orange carotenoid protein in photoprotection of photosystem II in cyanobacteria." Biochim Biophys Acta 1817(1): 158-166, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbabio.2011.04.013.
  • Roberts, E. W., F. Cai, C. A. Kerfeld, G. C. Cannon and S. Heinhorst (2012). "Isolation and characterization of the Prochlorococcus carboxysome reveal the presence of the novel shell protein CsoS1D." J Bacteriol 194(4): 787-795, http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/JB.06444-11.
  • Kinney, J. N., S. D. Axen and C. A. Kerfeld (2011). "Comparative analysis of carboxysome shell proteins." Photosynth Res 109(1-3): 21-32, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11120-011-9624-6.
  • Chabera, P., M. Durchan, P. M. Shih, C. A. Kerfeld and T. Polivka (2011). "Excited-state properties of the 16kDa red carotenoid protein from Arthrospira maxima." Biochim Biophys Acta 1807(1): 30-35, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbabio.2010.08.013.
  • Kerfeld, C. A. and K. M. Scott (2011). "Using BLAST to teach "E-value-tionary" concepts." PLoS Biol 9(2): e1001014, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001014.
  • Wilson, A., J. N. Kinney, P. H. Zwart, C. Punginelli, S. D'Haene, F. Perreau, M. G. Klein, D. Kirilovsky and C. A. Kerfeld (2010). "Structural determinants underlying photoprotection in the photoactive orange carotenoid protein of cyanobacteria." J Biol Chem 285(24): 18364-18375, http://dx.doi.org/10.1074/jbc.M110.115709.
  • Cannon, G. C., S. Heinhorst and C. A. Kerfeld (2010). "Carboxysomal carbonic anhydrases: Structure and role in microbial CO2 fixation." Biochim Biophys Acta 1804(2): 382-392, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbapap.2009.09.026.
  • Kerfeld, C. A., S. Heinhorst and G. C. Cannon (2010). "Bacterial microcompartments." Annu Rev Microbiol 64: 391-408, http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev.micro.112408.134211.
  • Ditty, J. L., C. A. Kvaal, et al. (2010). "Incorporating genomics and bioinformatics across the life sciences curriculum." PLoS Biol 8(8): e1000448, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1000448.
  • Kerfeld, C. A. and L. Gross (2010). "Open education, open minds." PLoS Biol 8(10), http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1000508.
  • Klein, M. G., P. Zwart, S. C. Bagby, F. Cai, S. W. Chisholm, S. Heinhorst, G. C. Cannon and C. A. Kerfeld (2009). "Identification and structural analysis of a novel carboxysome shell protein with implications for metabolite transport." J Mol Biol 392(2): 319-333, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmb.2009.03.056.