Melvin Okamura
Publications: 1967-1979 [ Back to home page]

1. ESR Studies of Naphthoquinones and Related Compounds. Hyperfine Interactions by the Methoxy Group as a Conformational Probe; G.P. Rabold, R.T. Ogata, M.Y. Okamura, L.H. Piette, R.E. Moore and P.J. Scheuer; Journal of Chemical Physics 46, 1161-1167 (1967).

2. High-resolution Electron Spin Resonance Studies of Hyperfine Interactions in Substituted 1,4-Naphthoquinones and Naphthazarins; L.H. Piette, M.Y. Okamura, G.P. Rabold, R.T. Ogata, R.E. Moore and P.J. Scheuer; Journal of Physical Chemistry 71, 29-37 (1967).

3. Evidence for a Concerted Mechanism for Allene Cycloaddition; E. F. Kiefer and M. Y. Okamura; Journal of American Chemical Society 90, 4187-4189 (1968).

4. The State of Iron in Hemerythrin. A Mossbauer Study; M. Y. Okamura, I. M. Klotz, C. E. Johnson, M. R. C. Winter and R. J. P. Williams; Biochemistry 8, 1951-1958 (1969).

5. Electron Spin Resonance of the Thermally Excited Quintet State of an Oxobridged Binuclear Iron (III) Complex; M. Y. Okamura and B. M. Hoffman; Journal of Chemical Physics 51, 3128-3129 (1969).

6. Hemerythrin: Further Studies of Mossbauer Spectra; K. Garbett, C.E. Johnson, I.M. Klotz, M.Y. Okamura and R.J.P. Williams; Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics 142, 574-583 (1971).

7. Identification of an electron acceptor in reaction centers of Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides by EPR spectroscopy; G. Feher, M.Y. Okamura, and J.D. McElroy; Biochim. Biophys. Acta 267, 222-226 (1972).

8. Hemerythrin; M.Y. Okamura and I. M. Klotz; In Inorganic Biochemistry (Gunther L. Eichhorn, Elsevier Publishing Co., Amsterdam) Vol. 1, Ch. 11, pp. 320-343 (1973).

9. Characterization of reaction centers from photosynthetic bacteria. I. Subunit structure of the protein mediating the primary photochemistry in Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides R-26; M.Y. Okamura, L.A. Steiner, and G. Feher; Biochem. 13, 1394-1403 (March 12, 1974).

10. Characterization of reaction centers from photosynthetic bacteria. II. Amino acid composition of the reaction center protein and its subunits in Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides R-26; L.A. Steiner, M.Y. Okamura, A.D. Lopes, E. Moskowitz, and G. Feher; Biochem. 13, 1403-1410 (March 12, 1974).

11. On the question of the primary acceptor in bacterial photosynthesis: manganese substituting for iron in reaction centers of Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides R-26; G. Feher, R.A. Isaacson, J.D. McElroy, L.C. Ackerson, and M.Y. Okamura; Biochim. Biophys. Acta 368, #1, 135-139 (October 18, 1974).

12. The primary acceptor in bacterial photosynthesis: The obligatory role of ubiquinone in photoactive reaction centers of Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides; M.Y. Okamura, R.A. Isaacson, and G. Feher; Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 72, #9, 3491-3495, (September, 1975).

13. Reaction centers from Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides; G. Feher and M.Y. Okamura; Brookhaven Symposia in Biology: No. 28, on ``Chlorophyll-Proteins, Reaction Centers, and Photosynthetic Membranes'', 1976, pp. 183-194 (Symp. June 7-9, 1976).

14. Chemical composition and properties of reaction centers; G. Feher and M.Y. Okamura; in The Photosynthetic Bacteria, edited by R. K. Clayton and W. R. Sistrom (Plenum Press, N.Y.), Chapter 19, pp. 349-386 (1978).

15. Magnetic interactions and electron transfer kinetics of the reduced intermediate acceptor in reaction centers (RCs) of Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides R-26. Evidence for thermally induced tunneling; M. Y. Okamura, D. R. Fredkin, R. A. Isaacson, and G. Feher; in Tunneling in Biological Systems (Proc. of the Tunneling Conference, 1977), B. Chance, D. DeVault, H. Frauenfelder, R.A. Marcus, J.R. Schrieffer, and Norman Sutin, eds. (Academic Press, N. Y.), pp. 729-743 (1979).

16. Spectroscopic and kinetic properties of the transient intermediate acceptor in reaction centers of Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides; M.Y. Okamura, R.A. Isaacson, and G. Feher; Biochim. Biophys. Acta 546, #3, 394-417 (June 5, 1979).

17. Localization of the primary quinone binding site in reaction centers from Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides R-26 by photoaffinity labeling; T.D. Marinetti, M.Y. Okamura, and G. Feher; Biochemistry 18, 3126-3133 (1979).