These key studies were done working with several of his graduate

These key studies were done working with several of his graduate students (Paul Jursinic, PhD, 1977; Rita Khanna, PhD, 1980; Wim Vermaas, PhD, 1984 (co-supervised with Prof

Jack van Rensen, Wageningen Agricultural University); Danny Blubaugh, PhD, 1987; Julian Eaton Rye (the author), PhD, 1987; Jiancheng Cao, PhD, 1992; Chunhe Xu, PhD, 1992, and Jin Xiong, PhD, 1996), as well as many research collaborators (Jack van Rensen, among them). (See a review by EVP4593 Shevela et al. (2012) for a complete picture.) Govindjee is great in recognizing and respecting his students; he wants to be sure that the rest of the World can find the PhD theses of his students, who he believes PRI-724 are the ones responsible for what was discovered in his laboratory

(see the following web site where all the 22 PhD theses (over a period of 30 years of guidance) are available: ). His special love mTOR tumor for the role of bicarbonate in PS II is evident when we see his eyes pop up, like a child, with any mention of “bicarbonate”, whether it is a Gordon Conference, or an International Congress. And, he cannot resist asking questions. The 1.9 Angstrom atomic level structure of PS II by Umena et al. (2011) clearly has bicarbonate bound to the non-heme iron between the primary MycoClean Mycoplasma Removal Kit plastoquinone electron acceptor Q A and the secondary plastoquinone electron acceptor Q B of PS II—where his experiments wanted it to be present. Govindjee, I am sure, is holding his breath for the final molecular mechanism of the role of bicarbonate in bringing protons to the reduced Q B; we now know the amino acids around the site, and it is only a matter of time before the molecular mechanism

of the function of this bicarbonate ion will be solved. He has told me many times that he is equally interested in knowing about how bicarbonate functions on the electron donor side of PS II, but he has preferred to leave that problem to other experts working in that area; this includes: Alan Stemler; Slava Klimov, Suleyman Allakhverdiev, Dima Shevela, Johannes Messinger, Chuck Dismukes, among many others. It seems that this donor side bicarbonate may be weakly bound and may be somehow involved in de-protonation/protonation events. We wait for the results. Let us all hope that by the time Govindjee turns 85, the labs working on this bicarbonate project will have the answers for him to enjoy the rest of his life! It is my belief that if Govindjee was not 80, he would be running around to the labs of others insisting on doing the experiments himself! 7.

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