Bioenergy and Protein Design

Professor Dror Noy

Protection of Oxygen-Sensitive Enzymes by Peptide Hydrogel

Oren Ben-Zvi, Itzhak Grinberg, Asuka A. Orr, Dror Noy, Phanourios Tamamis, Iftach Yacoby, Lihi Adler-Abramovich
ACS Nano
2021

Direct Assembly in Aqueous Solutions of Stable Chlorophyllide Complexes with Type II Water‐soluble Chlorophyll Proteins

Dominika Bednarczyk, Chen Tor‐Cohen, Prabir Kumar Das, Dror Noy
Photochemistry and Photobiology
2021

The amphibian antimicrobial peptide uperin 3.5 is a cross-α/cross-β chameleon functional amyloid

Nir Salinas, Einav Tayeb-Fligelman, Massimo D. Sammito, Daniel Bloch, Raz Jelinek, Dror Noy, Isabel Usón, Meytal Landau
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118 (3) e2014442118
2021

Spectral tuning of chlorophylls in proteins – electrostatics vs. ring deformation

Yigal Lahav, Dror Noy, Igor Schapiro
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 23, 6544-6551
2021

The phycobilisome core‐membrane linkers from Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 and red‐algae assemble in the same topology

Nan‐Nan Niu, Lu Lu , Pan‐Pan Peng, Zhi‐Juan Fu, Dan Miao, Ming Zhou, Dror Noy, Kai‐Hong Zhao
The Plant Journal
2021

In Vivo Biogenesis of a De Novo Designed Iron–Sulfur Protein

Bhanu P. Jagilinki, Stefan Ilic, Cristian Trncik, Alexei M. Tyryshkin, Douglas H. Pike, Wolfgang Lubitz, Eckhard Bill, Oliver Einsle, James A. Birrell, Barak Akabayov, Dror Noy, Vikas Nanda
ACS Synthetic Biology, 9(12), 3400–3407
2020

New homologues of Brassicaceae water-soluble chlorophyll proteins shed light on chlorophyll binding, spectral tuning and molecular evolution.

Prabahar, V., Jurnou, L. A., Paluy, I., Peleg, Y., & Noy, D.
Febs Journal, 287(5), 991-1004
2019

Solving Structures of Pigment-Protein Complexes as Inverse Optimization Problems using Decomposition.

Lahav, Y., Shir, O.M., Noy, D.
Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO-2017, Ed. ACM Press New York, NY, USA, 1169-1176
2017

Inside Back Cover: Fine Tuning of Chlorophyll Spectra by Protein-Induced Ring Deformation

Bednarczyk, D., Dym, O., Prabahar, V., Peleg, Y., Pike, D. H., & Noy, D.
Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 55(24) 7007-7007
2016

New Insight into the Water-Soluble Chlorophyll-Binding Protein from Lepidium virginicum

Kell, A., Bednarczyk, D., Acharya, K., Chen, J., Noy, D., & Jankowiak, R
Photochemistry and Photobiology, 92(3), 428-435
2016

Structural principles for computational and de novo design of 4Fe-4S metalloproteins.

Nanda, V., Senn, S., Pike, D. H., Rodriguez-Granillo, A., Hansen, W. A., Khare, S. D., & Noy, D
Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Bioenergentics, 1857(5) 531-538
2016

Water in Oil Emulsions: A New System for Assembling Water-soluble Chlorophyll-binding Proteins with Hydrophobic Pigments

Bednarczyk, D., & Noy, D.
Journal of Visualized Experiments, 109, e53410
2016

Fine Tuning of Chlorophyll Spectra by Protein-Induced Ring Deformation

Bednarczyk, D., Dym, O., Prabahar, V., Peleg, Y., Pike, D. H., & Noy, D
Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 55(24), 6901-6905
2016

Assembly of water-soluble chlorophyll-binding proteins with native hydrophobic chlorophylls in water-in-oil emulsions

Bednarczyk, D., Takahashi, S., Satoh, H., Noy, D
Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Bioenergentics, 1847(3), 307-313
2015

The role of charge-transfer states in energy transfer and dissipation within natural and artificial bacteriochlorophyll proteins

Wahadoszamen, M., Margalit, I., Ara, A. M., van Grondelle, R., Noy, D
Nature Communications, 5, 5287
2014

Accelerated electron transport from photosystem i to redox partners by covalently linked ferredoxin

G. Wittenberg; W. Sheffler; D. Darchi; D. Baker; D. Noy
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 2013 Volume 15 Issue 45 Pages 19608-19614
2013

Bimodal intramolecular excitation energy transfer in a multichromophore photosynthetic model system: Hybrid fusion proteins comprising natural phycobilin- and artificial chlorophyll-binding domains

X. L. Zeng; K. Tang; N. Zhou; M. Zhou; H. J. M. Hou; H. Scheer; K. H. Zhao; D. Noy
Journal of the American Chemical Society 2013 Volume 135 Issue 36 Pages 13479-13487
2013

Empirical and computational design of iron-sulfur cluster proteins

J. Grzyb; F. Xu; V. Nanda; R. Łuczkowska; E. Reijerse; W. Lubitz; D. Noy
Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Bioenergetics 2012 Volume 1817 Issue 8 Pages 1256-1262
2012

A minimal phycobilisome: Fusion and chromophorylation of the truncated core-membrane linker and phycocyanin

K. Tang; X. L. Zeng; Y. Yang; Z. B. Wang; X. J. Wu; M. Zhou; D. Noy; H. Scheer; K. H. Zhao
Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Bioenergetics 2012 Volume 1817 Issue 7 Pages 1030-1036
2012

Design principles for chlorophyll-binding sites in helical proteins

P. Braun; E. Goldberg; C. Negron; M. Von Jan; F. Xu; V. Nanda; R. L. Koder; D. Noy
Proteins: Structure, Function and Bioinformatics 2011 Volume 79 Issue 2 Pages 463-476
2011

Electron transport between photosystem ii and photosystem i encapsulated in sol-gel glasses

F. Kopnov; I. Cohen-Ofri; D. Noy
Angewandte Chemie - International Edition 2011 Volume 50 Issue 51 Pages 12347-12350
2011

Zinc-bacteriochlorophyllide dimers in de novo designed four-helix bundle proteins. A model system for natural light energy harvesting and dissipation

I. Cohen-Ofri; M. Van Gastel; J. Grzyb; A. Brandis; I. Pinkas; W. Lubitz; D. Noy
Journal of the American Chemical Society 2011 Volume 133 Issue 24 Pages 9526-9535
2011

De novo design of a non-natural fold for an iron-sulfur protein: Alpha-helical coiled-coil with a four-iron four-sulfur cluster binding site in its central core

J. Grzyb; F. Xu; L. Weiner; E. J. Reijerse; W. Lubitz; V. Nanda; D. Noy
Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Bioenergetics 2010 Volume 1797 Issue 3 Pages 406-413
2010

De Novo Designed Bacteriochlorophyll-Binding Helix-Bundle Proteins

W. Haehnel; D. Noy; H. Scheer
In The Purple Phototrophic Bacteria ,2008, C. N. Hunter; F. Daldal; M. C. Thurnauer; J. T. Beatty Ed. ,Springer Dorderecht, Pages 895-912
2008

Natural photosystems from an engineer's perspective: Length, time, and energy scales of charge and energy transfer

D. Noy
Photosynthesis Research 2008 Volume 95 Issue 1 Pages 23-35
2008