Publications

Rai, A.K., Chen, T., Moroney, J.V. (2021). Mitochondrial carbonic anhydrases are needed for optimal photosynthesis at low CO₂ levels in Chlamydomonas. Plant Physiol. kiab351.

Christensen, R., Dave, R., Mukherjee, A., Moroney, J. V., Machingura, M.C. (2020). Identification and Characterization of a Transient Receptor Potential Ion Channel (TRP2) Involved in Acclimation to Low CO₂ Conditions in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Plant Mol. Biol. Report. 38:503–512.

Mukherjee, A. and Moroney, J.V. (2019). How protein-protein interactions contribute to pyrenoid formation in Chlamydomonas. J. Exp. Bot. 70:5033–5035.

Mukherjee, A., Lau, C.S., Walker, C.E., Rai, A.K., Prejean, C.I., Yates, G., Emrich-Mills, T., Lemoine, S.G., Vinyard, D.J., Mackinder, L.C.M., Moroney, J. V. (2019). Thylakoid localized bestrophin-like proteins are essential for the CO₂ concentrating mechanism of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 116:16915–16920.

Machingura, M.C. and Moroney, J.V. (2018). Carbon fixation: Closing the circle. Elife 7:e42507. 

DiMario, R.J., Machingura, M.C., Waldrop, G.L., Moroney, J.V. (2018). The many types of carbonic anhydrases in photosynthetic organisms. Plant Sci. 268:11–17.

Pollock, S.V., Mukherjee, B., Bajsa-Hirschel, J., Machingura, M.C., Mukherjee, A., Grossman, A., Moroney, J.V. (2017) A Robust Protocol for Efficient Generation, and Genomic Characterization of Insertional Mutants of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Plants Methods. 13:22.

Machingura, M.C., Bajsa-Hirschel, J., Laborde, S.M., Schwartzenburg, J.B., Mukherjee, B., Mukherjee, A., Pollock, S. V, Förster, B., Price, G.D., Moroney, J.V. (2017). Identification and characterization of a solute carrier, CIA8, involved in inorganic carbon acclimation in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. J. Exp. Bot. 68:3879–3890.

DiMario, R.J., Clayton, H, Mukherjee, A., Ludwig, M., Moroney, J.V. (2017) Plant Carbonic Anhydrases: Structures, Locations, Evolution, and Physiological Roles. Molecular Plant. 10:30-46.

Brumfield, K.M., Laborde, S.M., Moroney, J.V. (2017). A model for the ergosterol biosynthetic pathway in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Eur. J. Phycol. 52:64–74.

DiMario, R.J., Quebedeaux, J.C., Longstreth, D.J., Dassanayake, M., Hartman, M.M., Moroney, J.V. (2016). The cytoplasmic carbonic anhydrases βCA2 and βCA4 are required for optimal plant growth at low CO₂. Plant Physiol. 171:280-293.

Ort, D.R., Merchant, S.S., Alric, J., Barkan, A., Blankenship, R.E., Bock, R., Croce, R., Hanson, M.R., Hibberd, J., Lindstron D.L., Long, S.P., Moore, T.A., Moroney, J.V., Niyogi, K.K., Parry, M., Peralta-Yahya, P., Prince, R., Redding, K., Spalding, M.H., van Wijk, K., Vermaas, W.F.J., von Caemmerer, S., Weber, A., Yeates, T., Yuan, J., Zhu, X. (2015). Redesigning photosynthesis to sustainably meet global food and bioenergy demand. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 112: 8529-8536.

Moroney, J.V. and Wee, J.L. (2014). CCM8: The Eighth International Symposium on Inorganic Carbon Uptake by Aquatic Photosynthetic Organisms. Photosynth. Res. 121:107-110.

Memmola, M., Mukherjee, B., Moroney, J.V., Giordano M. 2014. Carbon allocation and element composition in four Chlamydomonas mutants defective in genes related to the CO₂ Concentrating Mechanism. Photosynth. Res. 121:201-211.

Jungnick, N., Ma, Y., Mukherjee, B., Cronan, J.C., Speed, D.J., Laborde, S.M., Longstreth, D.J., Moroney J.V. 2014. The Carbon Concentrating Mechanism in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii – Finding the Missing pieces. Photosynth. Res. 121:159-173.

Moroney, J.V., Jungnick, N., DiMario, R.J. and Longstreth, D.J. (2013) Photorespiration and carbon concentrating mechanisms: two adaptations to high O2, low CO₂ conditions. Photosyn. Res. 117:121-131.

Ma, Y., Hartman, M.M., Moroney, J.V. (2012). Transcriptional analysis of the three phosphoglycolate phosphatase genes in wild type and the pgp1 mutant of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. In Proceedings of the 15th International Congress on Photosynthesis. Ed by T. Kuang, C. Lu and L. Zhang, Zhejiang University Press, Hangzhou, pp 315-318.

Mukherjee, B., Pham, T.T., Ma, Y., Simms, T.A., Moroney, J.V. (2012). The absence of the periplasmic carbonic anhydrase, CAH1, in the sequenced Chlamydomonas reinhardtii strain, CC-503. In Proceedings of the 15th International Congress on Photosynthesis. Ed by T. Kuang, C. Lu and L. Zhang, Zhejiang University Press, Hangzhou, pp 311-314.

Moroney, J. V, Ma, Y., Frey, W.D., Fusilier, K.A., Pham, T.T., Simms, T.A., DiMario, R.J., Yang, J., Mukherjee, B. (2011). The carbonic anhydrase isoforms of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii: intracellular location, expression, and physiological roles. Photosynth. Res. 109:133–149.

Ma, Y., Pollock, S.V., Xiao, Y., Cunnusamy, K., Moroney J.V. (2011). Identification of a novel gene required for normal pyrenoid formation in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Plant Physiol. 156:884-896

Mukherjee, B. and Moroney, J.V. (2021). Algal Carbon Dioxide Concentrating Mechanisms. In eLS, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd (Ed.).

Ohnishi, N., Mukherjee, B., Tsujikawa, T., Yanase, M., Nakano, H., Moroney, J.V., Fukuzawa, H. (2010). Expression of LCI1, a low-CO2-inducible protein, enhances the inorganic carbon uptake in a green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Plant Cell 22: 3105-3117.

Brumfield, K.M., Moroney, J. V., Moore, T.S., Simms, T.A., Donze, D. (2010). Functional Characterization of the Chlamydomonas reinhardtii ERG3 Ortholog, a Gene Involved in the Biosynthesis of Ergosterol. PLoS One 5:e8659.

Moroney J. V., Ynalvez R. A. (2009) Algal Photosynthesis. In: ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LIFE SCIENCES. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester.

Zhang, S., Spann, K. W., Frankel, L. K., Moroney, J. V., Bricker, T. M. (2008). Identification of Two Genes, sll0804 and slr1306, as Putative Components of the CO₂-Concentrating Mechanism in the Cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. Strain PCC 6803. J. Bacteriol. 190:8234 LP – 8237.

Ynalvez, R. A., Moroney, J. V. (2008). Identification and characterisation of a novel inorganic carbon acquisition gene, CIA7, from an insertional mutant of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Funct. Plant Biol. 35:373–381.

Ynalvez, R. A., Xiao, Y., Ward, A. S., Cunnusamy, K., Moroney, J. V. (2008). Identification and characterization of two closely related β‐carbonic anhydrases from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Physiologia Plantarum 133:15-26.

Chauvin, L. S., Tural, B., Moroney J. V. (2008). Chlamydomonas reinhardtii has genes for both glycolate oxidase and glycolate dehydrogenase. In Photosynthesis: Energy from the sun. Proceedings of the 14th International Congress on Photosynthesis. Ed. By J. Allen, B. Osmond, J.K. Golbeck and E. Gantt, Springer, pp 823-827.

Merchant, S.S., Prochnik, S.E., Vallon, O., Harris, E.H., Karpowicz, S.J., Witman, G.B., Terry, A., Salamov, A., Fritz-Laylin, L.K., Maréchal-Drouard, L., Marshall, W.F., Qu, L.-H., Nelson, D.R., Sanderfoot, A.A., Spalding, M.H., Kapitonov, V.V., Ren, Q., Ferris, P., Lindquist, E., Shapiro, H., Lucas, S.M., Grimwood, J., Schmutz, J., Cardol, P., Cerutti, H., Chanfreau, G., Chen, C.-L., Cognat, V., Croft, M.T., Dent, R., Dutcher, S., Fernández, E., Fukuzawa, H., González-Ballester, D., González-Halphen, D., Hallmann, A., Hanikenne, M., Hippler, M., Inwood, W., Jabbari, K., Kalanon, M., Kuras, R., Lefebvre, P.A., Lemaire, S.D., Lobanov, A.V., Lohr, M., Manuell, A., Meier, I., Mets, L., Mittag, M., Mittelmeier, T., Moroney, J.V., Moseley, J., Napoli, C., Nedelcu, A.M., Niyogi, K., Novoselov, S.V., Paulsen, I.T., Pazour, G., Purton, S., Ral, J.-P., Riaño-Pachón, D.M., Riekhof, W., Rymarquis, L., Schroda, M., Stern, D., Umen, J., Willows, R., Wilson, N., Zimmer, S.L., Allmer, J., Balk, J., Bisova, K., Chen, C.-J., Elias, M., Gendler, K., Hauser, C., Lamb, M.R., Ledford, H., Long, J.C., Minagawa, J., Page, M.D., Pan, J., Pootakham, W., Roje, S., Rose, A., Stahlberg, E., Terauchi, A.M., Yang, P., Ball, S., Bowler, C., Dieckmann, C.L., Gladyshev, V.N., Green, P., Jorgensen, R., Mayfield, S., Mueller-Roeber, B., Rajamani, S., Sayre, R.T., Brokstein, P., Dubchak, I., Goodstein, D., Hornick, L., Huang, Y.W., Jhaveri, J., Luo, Y., Martínez, D., Ngau, W.C.A., Otillar, B., Poliakov, A., Porter, A., Szajkowski, L., Werner, G., Zhou, K., Grigoriev, I.V., Rokhsar, D.S., Grossman, A.R. (2007). The Chlamydomonas genome reveals the evolution of key animal and plant functions. Science 318:245-250.

Moroney J.V., Ynalvez R.A. (2007). A proposed carbon dioxide concentration mechanism in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Eukaryotic Cell 6:1251-1259.

Moroney, J.V. 2007. Algal Carbon Dioxide Concentrating Mechanisms. In: ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LIFE SCIENCES. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester.

Bartlett, S.G., Mitra, M., Moroney, J.V. (2006). CO₂ concentrating mechanisms. In Advances in Photosynthesis vol. 23, The Structure and Function of Plastids. Ed. by R.R. Wise and J. K. Hoober, Springer, Dordrecht, pp. 253-271.

Mason, C.B., Bricker, T.M., Moroney, J.V. (2006). A rapid method for chloroplast isolation from the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Nat. Protoc. 1:2227–2230.

Somanchi, A., Handley, E.R., O’Connor, C.E., Mason, C.B., Moroney, J.V. 2005. The transcript levels for three light harvesting chlorophyll binding proteins increase during acclimation to low CO2 in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. In Proceedings of the 13th International Congress on Photosynthesis. Ed. By A. van der Est and D. Bruce, Allen Press, pp. 850-851.

Ynalvez, R.A., Pollock, S.V., Moroney J.V. 2005. Identification of a csoB Mutant of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. In Proceedings of the 13th International Congress on Photosynthesis. Ed. By A. van der Est and D. Bruce, Allen Press, pp. 854-855.

Mitra M., Mason C.B., Xiao, Y., Ynalvez, R.A., Lato S.M., Moroney, J.V. (2005). The carbonic anhydrase gene families of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Can. J. Bot. 83:780-795.

Tural, B., Moroney, J.V. (2005). Regulation of the expression of photorespiratory genes in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Can J. Bot. 83:810-819.

Adams, J.E., Colombo, S.L., Mason, C.B., Ynalvez, R.A., Tural, B., Moroney, J.V. (2005). A mutant of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii that cannot acclimate to low CO₂ has an insertion in the Hdh1 gene. Func. Plant Biol. 32: 55-66.

Bricker, T.B., Zhang, S., LaBorde, S.M., Frankel, L.K. Moroney J.V. (2004). The malic enzyme is required for optimal photoautotrophic growth of Synechocystis sp. 6803 under continuous light but not under diurnal light conditions. J. Bact. 186:8144-8148.

Yang, W., Moroney, J.V., Moore, T.S. (2004). Membrane lipid biosynthesis in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii: ethanolaminephosphotransferase is capable of synthesizing both phosphatidylcholine and phosphatidylethanolamine. Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 430:198–209.

Pollock, S. V., Prout, D.L., Godfrey, A.C., Lemaire, S.D., Moroney, J. V. (2004). The Chlamydomonas reinhardtii proteins Ccp1 and Ccp2 are required for long-term growth, but are not necessary for efficient photosynthesis, in a low-CO₂ environment. Plant Mol. Biol. 56:125–132.

Yang, W., Mason, C.B., Pollock, S.V., Lavezzi, T., Moroney, J.V., Moore, T.S. (2004). Membrane Lipid Biosynthesis in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Characterization of a CTP: Phosphoethanolamine Cytidylyltransferase. Biochem. J. 382:51-57.

Mitra, M., Lato, S.M., Ynalvez, R.A., Xiao, Y., Moroney, J.V. (2004). Identification of a new chloroplast carbonic anhydrase in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Plant Physiol. 135:173-182.

Pollock, S.V., Colombo, S.L., Prout, D.L. Jr., Godfrey, A.C., Moroney, J.V. (2003). Rubisco activase is required for optimal photosynthesis in the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii in a low CO₂ atmosphere. Plant Physiol. 133:1854-1861.

Colombo, S.L., Pollock, S.V., Eger, K.A., Godfrey, A.C., Adams, J.E., Mason, C.B. and Moroney J.V. (2002). Use of the bleomycin resistance gene to generate tagged insertional mutants of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii that require elevated CO₂ for optimal growth. Func. Plant Biol. 29:231-241.

Lavigne, A.C., Handley, E.R., Pollock, S.V., Somanchi, A., Moroney, J.V., (2002). Identification of Lci5, a novel Chlamydomonas reinhardtii gene induced under low CO2 growth conditions. In Proceedings of the 12th International Congress on Photosynthesis. CSIRO publishing, Collingwood, S19:003.

Moroney, J.V. (2001). Carbon concentrating mechanisms in aquatic photosynthetic organisms: a report on CCM 2001. J. Phycol. 37:928-931.

Moroney, J.V., Bartlett, S.G., Samuelsson G. (2001). Carbonic anhydrases in plants and algae. Plant Cell Environ. 24:141-153.

Moroney, J.V. (2000). Algal Photosynthesis. In Encyclopedia of Life Sciences, Nature Publishing Group, London, www.els.net.

Moroney, J.V. and Somanchi A. (1999). How do algae concentrate CO₂ to increase the efficiency of photosynthetic carbon fixation? Plant Physiol. 119:9-16.

Somanchi, A., Moroney, J.V., 1999. As Chlamydomonas reinhardtii acclimates to low CO₂ conditions there is an increase in cyclophilin expression. Plant Mol Biol 40:1055-1062

Moroney, J.V., 1999. Algal carbon dioxide concentrating mechanisms. In Encyclopedia of Life Sciences, Nature Publishing Group, London, www.els.net.