ASU SoLS Faculty: J. Kenneth Hoober

Susavion Biosciences, Inc. 1615 W. University Drive, Suite 132 Tempe, AZ 85281

Ken Hoober received a Ph.D. degree in Biochemistry from the University of Michigan in 1965 and then spent postdoctoral periods at Vanderbilt University and the Rockefeller University. He held faculty appointments at Rutgers University Medical School and Temple University School of Medicine before coming to Arizona State University in 1991 to become Chair of the Department of Plant Biology. He has retired from his faculty position and continues work as a Research Professor.

Selected Publications

Eggink, LL, R LoBrutto, DC Brune, J Brusslan, A Yamasato, A Tanaka and JK Hoober (2004) Synthesis of chlorophyll b: localization of chlorophyllide a oxygenase and discovery of a stable radical in the catalytic subunit. BMC Plant Biology 4:5.

Hoober, JK and JH Argyroudi-Akoyunoglou (2004) Assembly of light-harvesting complexes of photosystem II and the role of chlorophyll b. In Chlorophyll Fluorescence: A Signature of Photosynthesis (GC Papageorgiou and Govindjee, eds), Advances in Photosynthesis and Respiration Series, Kluwer Academic Publ., Dordrecht, the Netherlands, in press.

Eggink, LL, H Park and JK Hoober (2001) The role of chlorophyll b in photosynthesis: hypothesis. BMC Plant Biology 1:2.

Hoober, JK and LL Eggink. (2001). A potential role of chlorophylls b and c in assembly of light-harvesting complexes. FEBS Lett. 489:1-3.

Eggink, LL and JK Hoober. (2000). Chlorophyll binding to peptide maquettes containing a retention motif. J Biol Chem 275:9087-9090.

Komine, Y, LL Eggink, H Park, and JK Hoober. (2000). Vacuolar granules in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii: polyphosphate and a 70-kDa polypeptide as major components. Planta 210:897-905.

Hoober, JK, and LL Eggink. (1999). Assembly of light-harvesting complex II and biogenesis of thylakoid membranes in chloroplasts. Photosynth Res, 61:197-215.

Eggink, LL, H Park, and JK Hoober. (1999). The role of the envelope in assembly of light-harvesting complexes in the chloroplast: Distribution of LHCP between chloroplast and vacuoles during chloroplast development in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. IN: The Chloroplast: From Molecular Biology to Biotechnology (JH Argyroudi-Akoyunoglou and H Senger, eds.) Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 161-166.

Park, H, LL Eggink, RW Roberson and JK Hoober. (1999). Transfer of proteins from the chloroplast to vacuoles in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (Chlorophyta): a pathway for degradation. J Phycol 35:528-538.

Yang, H-S, and JK Hoober. (1999). Regulation of lipA gene expression by cell surface proteins in Arthrobacter photogonimos. Curr Microbiol 38:92-95.

Hoober, JK, H Park, GR Wolfe, Y Komine and LL Eggink. (1998). Assembly of light-harvesting systems. IN: The Molecular Biology of Chloroplasts and Mitochondria in Chlamydomonas (J-D Rochaix, M Goldschmidt-Clermont and S Merchant, eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 363-376.

Yang, H-S and JK Hoober. (1998). Molecular cloning of a light-inducible gene (lipA) encoding a novel pilin from Arthrobacter photogonimos. FEMS Microbiol Lett 163:85-89.

Park, H and JK Hoober. (1997). Chlorophyll synthesis modulates retention of apoproteins of light-harvesting complex II by the chloroplast in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Physiol Plant 101:135-142.

Hoober, JK (1997). Chloroplast structure and development. IN: Photosynthesis: A Comprehensive Treatise (A Raghavendra, ed.) Cambridge University Press, pp. 3-17.

Wolfe, GR, H Park, WP Sharp and JK Hoober. (1997). Light-harvesting complex apoproteins in cytoplasmic vacuoles in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (Chlorophyta). J Phycol 33:377-386.