Ryan L. Leverenz
Research Assistant (2012 - present)

MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory
Kerfeld Lab East

M.S., Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, 2012
B.S./B.S., Chemistry and Applied Physics, University of California, Davis, 2006

612 Wilson Road, Room 222
East Lansing, MI 48824
Phone: (517) 432-4349
leveren4@msu.edu

Publications

• 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. A 12 Å carotenoid translocation in a photoswitch associated with cyanobacterial photoprotection. Science 348 (6242): 1463-1466, 2015.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.aaa7234
  

• Cai, F, Dou, Z., Bernstein, S.L., Leverenz,  R. Williams, E.B., Heinhorst, S.,  Shively, J.,  Cannon, G.C. and Kerfeld, C.A. Advances in understanding carboxysome assembly in Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus implicate CsoS2 as a critical component. Life 5:1141-1171, 2015
  
• 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, http://dx.doi.org/10.1105/tpc.113.118588.

• 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, http://dx.doi.org/10.1104/pp.113.229997.

• 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.