Member Institutions:

• Bowling Green State U.
• Cleveland State U.
• Kent State U.
• Medical College of Ohio
• Miami U.
• The Ohio State U.
• Ohio U.
• University of Cincinnati
• University of Toledo
• Wright State U.
• Youngstown State U.

Research Interests

Our research interests are in the bioenergetics of photosynthesis. Our current work is aimed at understanding the interaction between some membrane bound or integral membrane proteins and the functioning of the membrane in energy transduction, and include the following:

1. Isolation of chloroplasts capable of photophosphorylation from various moss and fern plants.
2. The proton pumping ATPase of moss and fern chloroplasts.
3. Various ways of "activating" before or during isolation of the complete FoF1 -ATPase complex from spinach chloroplasts.
4. Sensitive, non-radioisotopic assays for phosphate and phosphate containing compounds.

More information on the following projects is available:

• Bioenergetics
• Phytochemicals
• Leishmania

Selected Publications

• 1990. Influence of Mount St. Helens Volcanic Ash on Growth and Abscisic Acid in Douglas-Fir Seedlings. Journal of Plant Physiology 137:229-232. With J. L. Caruso, S. Sumida- Stevens, S. Sovonick-Dunford, and K. Jayasimhulu.
• 1994. Plasma Membrane K+/H+-ATPase from Leishmania donovani, Journal of Cellular Physiology 159:60-66. With Jiang, S., S. A. Anderson and A. J. Mukkada.
• "Shoots of rosemary and sage cultured in vitro as possible sources of carnosic acid, a reported inhibitor of HIV protease". In Proceedings of Tenth Annual Penn. State Symposium in Plant Physiology: Phytochemicals and Health. (1995). with J. L Caruso, J McGinnis, and K. Jayasimhulu.

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