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Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

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    Wang L, Patena W, Van Baalen K, Xie Y, Singer E, Gavrilenko S, Warren-Williams M, Han L, Harrigan H, Hartz L, Chen V, Ton V, Kyin S, Shwe H, Cahn M, Wilson A, Onishi M, Hu J, Schnell D, McWhite C, Jonikas M. A chloroplast protein atlas reveals punctate structures and spatial organization of biosynthetic pathways. Cell. 2023;186(16):3499–3518.e14. PMID: 37437571
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    Fei C, Wilson A, Mangan N, Wingreen N, Jonikas M. Modelling the pyrenoid-based CO-concentrating mechanism provides insights into its operating principles and a roadmap for its engineering into crops. Nat Plants. 2022;8(5):583–595. PMCID: PMC9122830
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    Fauser F, Vilarrasa-Blasi J, Onishi M, Ramundo S, Patena W, Millican M, Osaki J, Philp C, Nemeth M, Salomé P, Li X, Wakao S, Kim R, Kaye Y, Grossman A, Niyogi K, Merchant S, Cutler S, Walter P, Dinneny J, Jonikas M, Jinkerson R. Systematic characterization of gene function in the photosynthetic alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Nat Genet. 2022;54(5):705–714. PMCID: PMC9110296
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    Ramundo S, Asakura Y, Salomé P, Strenkert D, Boone M, Mackinder L, Takafuji K, Dinc E, Rahire M, Crèvecoeur M, Magneschi L, Schaad O, Hippler M, Jonikas M, Merchant S, Nakai M, Rochaix J-D, Walter P. Coexpressed subunits of dual genetic origin define a conserved supercomplex mediating essential protein import into chloroplasts. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020;117(51):32739–32749. PMCID: PMC7768757
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    He S, Chou H-T, Matthies D, Wunder T, Meyer M, Atkinson N, Martinez-Sanchez A, Jeffrey P, Port S, Patena W, He G, Chen V, Hughson F, McCormick A, Mueller-Cajar O, Engel B, Yu Z, Jonikas M. The structural basis of Rubisco phase separation in the pyrenoid. Nat Plants. 2020;6(12):1480–1490. PMCID: PMC7736253
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    Wang L, Jonikas M. The pyrenoid. Curr Biol. 2020;30(10):R456-R458. PMID: 32428480
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    Itakura A, Chan K, Atkinson N, Pallesen L, Wang L, Reeves G, Patena W, Caspari O, Roth R, Goodenough U, McCormick A, Griffiths H, Jonikas M. A Rubisco-binding protein is required for normal pyrenoid number and starch sheath morphology in . Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019;116(37):18445–18454. PMCID: PMC6744930
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    Li X, Patena W, Fauser F, Jinkerson R, Saroussi S, Meyer M, Ivanova N, Robertson J, Yue R, Zhang R, Vilarrasa-Blasi J, Wittkopp T, Ramundo S, Blum S, Goh A, Laudon M, Srikumar T, Lefebvre P, Grossman A, Jonikas M. A genome-wide algal mutant library and functional screen identifies genes required for eukaryotic photosynthesis. Nat Genet. 2019;51(4):627–635. PMCID: PMC6636631
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    Mackinder L, Chen C, Leib R, Patena W, Blum S, Rodman M, Ramundo S, Adams C, Jonikas M. A Spatial Interactome Reveals the Protein Organization of the Algal CO-Concentrating Mechanism. Cell. 2017;171(1):133–147.e14. PMCID: PMC5616186
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    Rosenzweig E, Xu B, Cuellar L, Martinez-Sanchez A, Schaffer M, Strauss M, Cartwright H, Ronceray P, Plitzko J, Förster F, Wingreen N, Engel B, Mackinder L, Jonikas M. The Eukaryotic CO-Concentrating Organelle Is Liquid-like and Exhibits Dynamic Reorganization. Cell. 2017;171(1):148–162.e19. PMCID: PMC5671343
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    Li X, Zhang R, Patena W, Gang S, Blum S, Ivanova N, Yue R, Robertson J, Lefebvre P, Fitz-Gibbon S, Grossman A, Jonikas M. An Indexed, Mapped Mutant Library Enables Reverse Genetics Studies of Biological Processes in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Plant Cell. 2016;28(2):367–87. PMCID: PMC4790863
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    Mackinder L, Meyer M, Mettler-Altmann T, Chen V, Mitchell M, Caspari O, Rosenzweig E, Pallesen L, Reeves G, Itakura A, Roth R, Sommer F, Geimer S, Mühlhaus T, Schroda M, Goodenough U, Stitt M, Griffiths H, Jonikas M. A repeat protein links Rubisco to form the eukaryotic carbon-concentrating organelle. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2016;113(21):5958–63. PMCID: PMC4889370
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