Instructors

Neil Bowlby

Assistant Director,
Undergraduate Program;
Instructor

bowlby@msu.edu
113 Biochemistry Bldg
Ph: 517-353-8546

Publications:

Bowlby, N.R. (2006) Plant Metabolism - Respiration, in Plant Cell Biology, Dashek, W.V. & Harrison, M, Eds., Science Publishers, USA.

Mac, M., Bowlby, N.R., Babcock, G.T. and McCracken, J. (1998) Monomeric Spin Density Distribution in the Primary Donor of Photosystem I as Determined by Electron Magnetic Resonance: Functional and Thermodynamic Implications, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 120, 13215-13223.

Bowlby, N.R., Sithole, I., Babcock, G.T. and McIntosh, L. (1996) Potential Manganese Ligands in Photosynthetic Water Oxidation Identified by Site-Directed Mutagenesis of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803, Ber. Bunsenges. Phys. Chem. 100, 1978-1986.

Bowlby, N.R., Hiser, C.B. and McIntosh, L. (1996) Simultaneous measurement of oxygen uptake and ubiquinone reduction in potato tuber mitochondria, in Plant Biochemistry/Molecular Biology Laboratory Manual, Dashek, W.V., Ed., CRC Press, Boca Raton, USA.

Bowlby, N.R., Espe, M., Bhatnagar, Wang, J., Hoganson, C., McIntosh, L. and Babcock, G.T. (1993) Analytical procedures for the quantification of isotopic amino acid incorporation into the photosynthetic proteins of Synechocystis PCC 6803, Photosynthesis Research 38, 379-386.

Bowlby, N.R. and Yocum, C.F. (1993) Effects of cholate on Photosystem II: Selective extraction of a 22 kDa polypeptide and modification of QB-site activity, Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1144, 271-277.

Smart, L.B., Bowlby, N.R., Anderson, S.L., Sithole, I. and McIntosh, L. (1993) Genetic manipulation of the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803: Development of strains lacking PS I for the analysis of mutations in PS II, Plant Physiol. 104, 349-354.

Kim, S., Sandusky, P., Bowlby, N.R., Aebersold, R., Green, B.R., Vlahakis, S., Yocum, C.F.and Pichersky, E. (1992) Characterization of a spinach psbS cDNA encoding the 22 kDa protein of Photosystem II, FEBS Lett. 314, 67-71.

Rock, C.D., Bowlby, N., Hoffmann-Benning, S. and Zeevaart, J.A.D. (1992) The aba mutant of Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh. has reduced chlorophyll fluorescence yields and reduced thylakoid stacking, Plant Physiol. 100, 1796-1801.

Hoganson, C.W., Espe, M., Mac, M., Bowlby, N., McIntosh, L., McCracken, J., and Babcock, G.T. (1992) Recent magnetic resonance studies of photosystem II, In: Proceedings of the IXth International Photosynthesis Congress, Nagoya.

Petersen, J., Dekker, J.P., Bowlby, N.R., Ghanotakis, D.F., Yocum, C.F. and Babcock, G.T. (1990), EPR characterization of the CP47-D1-D2-cytochrome b559 complex of Photosystem II, Biochemistry 29, 3226-3231.

Babcock, G.T., Barry, B.A., de Paula, J.C., El Deeb, M, Petersen, J., Debus, R.J., Sithole, I., McIntosh, L., Bowlby, N.R., Dekker, J. and Yocum, C.F. (1990), Structures and organization on the oxidizing side of Photosystem II, ibid, 1, 239-246.

Dekker, J.P., Petersen, J., Bowlby, N.R., Babcock, G.T. and Yocum, C.F. (1990), Pigment content and EPR characterization of the photochemical reaction center of Photosystem II, ibid, 1, 263-266.

de Paula, J.C., Ghanotakis, D.F., Bowlby, N.R., Dekker, J.P., Yocum, C.F. and Babcock, G.T. (1990), Chlorophyll-protein interactions in Photosystem II. Resonance Raman spectroscopy of the D1-D2-cytochrome b559 complex and the 47 kDa protein, ibid, 1, 643-646.

Penner-Hahn, J.E., Fronko, R.N., Waldo, G.S., Yocum, C.F., Bowlby, N.R. and Betts, S.D. (1990), X-ray absorption spectroscopy of the photosynthetic oxygen evolving complex, ibid, 1, 797-800.

Bowlby, N.R., Peterson, J., Babcock, G.T. and Yocum, C.F. (1990), Alteration of QB activity in Photosystem II, In: Current Research in Photosynthesis, Baltscheffsky, M. Ed., Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 1, 539-542.

Bowlby, N.R. (1989), Alteration of Secondary Quinone Acceptor Activity in Photosystem II, Ph.D. thesis, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Bowlby, N.R., Ghanotakis, D.F., Yocum, C.F., Petersen, J. and Babcock, G.T. (1989), The functional unit of oxygen evolving activity: Implications for the structure of Photosystem II, In: Light-Energy Transduction in Photosynthesis: Higher Plant and Bacterial Models, (S.E. Stevens and D.A. Bryant, eds.), American Society of Plant Physiologists, Rockville, Maryland USA, pp. 215-226.

Ghanotakis, D.F., de Paula, J.C., Demetriou, D.M., Bowlby, N.R., Petersen, J., Babcock, G.T. and Yocum, C.F. (1989), Isolation and characterization of the 47 kDa protein and the D1-D2-Cyt b-559 complex, Biochim. Biophys. Acta 974, 44-53.

Dekker, J.P., Bowlby, N.R. and Yocum, C.F. (1989), Chlorophyll and cytochrome b-559 content of the photochemical reaction center of photosystem II, FEBS Lett. 254, 150-154.

Penner-Hahn, J.E., Fronko, R.M., Pecoraro, V., Bowlby, N.R., Betts, S. and Yocum, C.F. (1989), Structural characterization of the Mn sites in the photosynthetic oxygen evolving complex using X-ray absorption spectroscopy, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 112, 2549-2557.

Penner-Hahn, J.E., Fronko, R.M., Pecoraro, V.L., Yocum, C.F. and Bowlby, N.R. (1989), XAS of Mn in the photosynthetic oxygen evolving complex, Physica. B. 158, 107-109.

Ghanotakis, D.F., Waggoner, C.M., Bowlby, N.R., Demetriou, D.M., Babcock, G.T. and Yocum, C.F. (1987), Comparative structural and catalytic properties of oxygen-evolving photosystem II preparations, Photosynthesis Research 14, 191-199.

Baier, L.J., Bowlby, N.R. and Frasch, W.D. (1987), Analysis of Photosystem II proteins by two-dimensional electrophoresis, Photosynthesis Research, 2, 117-120.

Bowlby, N.R. and Frasch, W.D. (1987), A manganese containing protein complex isolated from Photosystem II preparations of spinach, In: Progress in Photosynthesis Research, Biggins, J. Ed., Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Dordrecht, 1, 693-696.

Frasch, W.D., Larsen, J., Bowlby, N.R., Apel, I. and Jones, J.D. (1987), A technique for the determination of protein concentration by neutron activation analysis of silver binding, J. Rad. Nuc. Chem. 112, 89-94.

Bowlby, N.R. and Frasch, W.D. (1986), A manganese containing protein complex isolated from photosystem II preparations of spinach, Biochemistry 25, 1402-1407.