Petra Fromme
Professor
Ph.D., Technical University Berlin, 1988
Home Department Chemistry and Biochemistry
Areas of Study Structure and function of Membrane Proteins
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Class Pages BCH 561
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Background The unraveling of the structure and function of membrane proteins is one of the most challenging goals in the post-genomic era. The most important processes in all living cells, which include simple living forms such as bacteria and simple eukaryotic cells as well as plants, animals, and humans are catalyzed by membrane proteins. For example, respiration, photosynthesis, cell communication, cell import/export, cell-growth and recognition are catalyzed and regulated by membrane proteins. The proteins do not act on their own, instead they perform communication within the cells by binding and releasing of cofactors and soluble signal-transducing proteins.

Structure of Photosystem I

Structure of the proteins involved in the primary process in Photosynthesis

Crystals of the rotor of the ATP-synthase
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Petra Fromme
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
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Arizona State University
Tempe, Arizona 85287-1604

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[Publication] Riley KJ, Reinot T, Jankowiak R, Fromme P, Zazubovich V (2007) Journal of Physical Chemistry B 111: 286-292 Red antenna states of photosystem I from cyanobacteria Synechocystis PCC 6803 and Thermosynechococcus elongatus: Single-complex spectroscopy and spectral hole-burning study.
[Publication] Vaswani HM, Stenger J, Fromme P, Fleming GR (2006), Journal of Physical Chemistry B 110: 26303-26312, One- and two-color photon echo peak shift studies of photosystem I.
[Publication] Jolley,C.C., Wells, S.A., Hespenheide,B.M.,Thorpe,M.F., Fromme.P (2006) J. AM. CHEM. SOC. 2006, 128, 8803-8812 Docking of Photosystem I subunit C using a constrained geometric simulation
[Publication] Fromme,R. Grotjohann, I. and Petra Fromme (2006) in: Structural Biology of membrane proteins (S. Buchanan, R. Grisshammer eds) Royal Society of Chemistry Cambridge, UK) pp. 320-348 Structure of Photosystems I and II