Publications 2016-2020

141. Anderson, A. Laohavisit, A., Blaby, I.K, Bombelli, P., Howe, C.J., Merchant, S.S., Davies, J.M, Smith, A.G. (2016)
Exploiting algal NADPH oxidase for biophotovoltaic energy.
Plant Biotech. J. 14:24-28.

142. Reyes, V., Spitzmiller, M., Hong-Hermesdorf, A., Kropat, J., Damoiseaux, R., Merchant, S.S., Mahendra, S. (2016)
Copper Status of Exposed Microorganisms Influences Susceptibility to Metallic Nanoparticles.
Env. Toxicol. Chem. 35:1148-1158.

143. Kumar, D., Blaby-Haas, C.E., Merchant, S.S., Mains, R.E., King, S.M., Eipper, B.A. (2016)
Early eukaryotic origins for cilia-associated bioactive peptide-amidating activity.
J. Cell. Sci. 129:143-156.

144. Blaby-Haas, C.E., Castruita, M., Fitz-Gibbon, S.T., Kropat, J. and Merchant, S.S. (2016)
Ni induces the CRR1-dependent regulon revealing overlap and distinction between hypoxia and Cu deficiency responses in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.
Metallomics 8:679-691.

145. Strenkert, D., Limso, C.A., Fatihi, A., Schmollinger, S., Basset, G.J., Merchant, S.S. (2016)
Genetically programmed changes in photosynthetic cofactor metabolism in copper deficient Chlamydomonas.
J. Biol. Chem. 291:19118 –19131.

146. Wells, M.L., Potin, P., Craigie, J., Raven, J.A., Merchant, S.S., Helliwell, K.E., Smith, A.G., Camire, M.E., Brawley, S.H. (2016)
Algae as Nutritional and Functional Food Sources: Revisiting Our Understanding.
J. Appl. Phycol. 29: 949-982.

147. Traller, J.C., Cokus, S.J., Lopez, D.A., Gaidarenko, O., Smith, S.R., McCrow, J.P., Gallaher, S.D., Podell, S. , Thompson, M., Cook, O., Morselli, M., Jaroszewicz, A., Allen, E.E., Allen, A.E., Merchant, S.S., Pellegrini, M., Hildebrand, M. (2016)
Genome and methylome of the oleaginous diatom Cyclotella cryptica reveal genetic flexibility toward a high lipid phenotype.
Biotechnol. Biofuels. 9:258.

148. Kumar, D., Strenkert, D., Patel-King, R.S., Leonard, M.T., Merchant, S.S., Mains, R.E., King, S.M., Eipper, B.A. (2017).
A bioactive peptide amidating enzyme is required for ciliogenesis.
Elife. 6. pii: e25728

149. Roth, M.S., Cokus, S.J., Gallaher, S.D., Walter, A., Lopez, D., Erickson, E., Endelman, B., Westcott, D., Larabell, C., Merchant, S.S., Pellegrini, M., Niyogi, K.K. (2017)
Chromosome-level genome assembly and transcriptome of the green alga Chromochloris zofingiensis illuminates astaxanthin production.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 14:E4296-E4305.

150. Xue, Y., Schmollinger, S., Attar, N., Campos, O.A., Vogelauer, M., Carey, M.F., Merchant, S.S., Kurdistani, S.K. (2017)
Endoplasmic reticulum–mitochondria junction is required for iron homeostasis.
J. Biol. Chem. 292:13197-13204.

151. Lojek, L.J., Farrand, A.J., Wisecaver, J.H., Blaby-Haas, C.E., Michel, B.W., Merchant, S.S., Rokas, A., Skaar, E.P. (2017)
Chlamydomonas reinhardtii LFO1 is an IsdG family heme oxygenase.
mSphere. 2: e00176-17.

152. Blaby-Haas, C.E., Merchant, S.S. (2017)
Regulating trace metal economy in algae.
Curr. Opin. Plant Biol. 39:88-96.

153. Wittkopp, T.M., Schmollinger, S., Saroussia, S.I., Hu, W., Fane, Q., Gallaher, S.D., Leonard, M.T., Soubeyrand, E., Basset, G.J., Merchant, S.S., Grossman, A.R., Duanmu, D., Lagarias, J.C. (2017)
Bilin-dependent photoacclimation in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.
The Plant Cell 29:2711-2726.

154. Gallaher, S.D., Fitz-Gibbon, S.T., Strenkert, D., Purvine, S.O., Pellegrini, M., Merchant, S.S. (2018)
High-throughput sequencing of the chloroplast and mitochondrion of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii to generate improved de novo assemblies, analyze expression patterns and transcript speciation, and evaluate diversity among laboratory strains and wild isolates.
The Plant J. 93:545-565.

155. Fristedt, R., Hu, C., Wheatley, N., Roy, L., Wachter, R., Savage, L., Kramer, D., Merchant, S.S., Yeates, T.O., Croce, R. (2018).
RAF2 is a Rubisco assembly factor in Arabidopsis thaliana.
The Plant J. 94:146-156.

156. Mosalaganti, S., Kosinski, J., Albert, S., Schaffer, M., Strenkert, D., Salomé, P.A., Merchant, S.S., Plitzko, J.M., Baumeister, W., Engel, B.D., Beck, M. (2018).
In situ architecture of the algal nuclear pore complex.
Nature Comm. 9:2361.

157. Blaby-Haas, C.E., M.D. Page, Merchant, S.S. (2018)
Using YFP as a reporter of gene expression in the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.
Methods Mol. Biol. 1755, 135-148.

158. Li, M., van Zee, M., Riche, C.T., Tofig, B., Gallaher, S.D., Merchant, S.S., Damoiseaux, R., Goda, K., Di Carlo, D. (2018)
A gelatin microdroplet platform for high-throughput sorting of hyperproducing single-cell-derived microalgal clones.
Small. 14:e1803315.

159. Blaby-Haas, C.E., Merchant, S.S. (2019)
Comparative and functional algal genomics.
Annu. Rev. Plant Biol. 70:605-638.

160. Strenkert, D., Schmollinger, S., Gallaher, S.D., Salomé, P., Purvine, S.O., Nicora, C., Mettler-Altmann, T., Soubeyrand, E., Weber, A.P.M., Lipton, M., Basset, G.J., Merchant, S.S. (2019).
Multi-omics resolution of molecular events of a day in the life of Chlamydomonas.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 116: 2374-2385.

161. Armaleo, D., Mueller, O., Lutzoni, F., Andrésson, Ó., Blanc, G., Bode, H.B., Collart, F.R., Dal Grande, F., Dietrich, F., Grigoriev, I.V., Joneson, S., Kuo, A., Larsen, P.E., Logsdon, J.M., Lopez, D., Martin, F., May, S.P., McDonald, T.R., Merchant, S.S., Miao, V., Morin, E., Oono, R., Pellegrini, M., Rubinstein, N., Sanchez-Puerta, M.V., Savelkoul, E., Schmitt, I., Slot, J.C., Soanes, D., Szövényi, P., Talbot, N., Veneault-Fourrey, C., Xavier, B.B. (2019)
The lichen symbiosis re-viewed through the genomes of Cladonia grayi and its algal partner Asterochloris glomerata.
BMC Genomics, 20:605.

162.Roth, M.S., Gallaher, S.D., Westcott, D.J., Iwai, M., Louie, K.B., Mueller, M., Walter, A., Foflonker, F., Bowen, B.P., Ataii, N.N., Song, J., Chen, J.-H., Blaby-Haas, C., Larabell, C., Auer, M., Northen, T., Merchant, S.S., Niyogi, K.K. (2019)
Regulation of oxygenic photosynthesis during trophic transitions in the green alga Chromochloris zofingiensis.
The Plant Cell 31:579-601. doi.org/10.1105/tpc.18.00742

163. Salomé, P.A., Merchant, S.S. (2019)
A series of fortunate events: Introducing Chlamydomonas as a reference organism.
The Plant Cell, 31:1682-1707.

164. Tsednee, M., Castruita, M., Salome, P.A., Sharma, A., Lewis, B.E., Schmollinger, S.R., Holbrook, K., Otegui, M., Khatua, K., Das, S., Datta, A., Chen, S., Ramon, C., Ralle, M., Weber, P.K., Stemmler, T.L., Pett-Ridge, J., Hoffman, B.M., Merchant, S.S. (2019)
Hyper-accumulated Mn, co-localized in acidocalcisomes with Ca and P, can be mobilized in Mn-deficient situations.
J. Biol. Chem. 294, 17626-17641.

165. Amstutz, C.L., Fristedt, R., Schultink, A., Merchant, S.S., Niyogi, K.K., Malnoë, A. (2020)
An atypical short-chain dehydrogenase–reductase functions in the relaxation of photoprotective qH in Arabidopsis
Nature Plants 6, 154-166.