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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Oded Béjà is a professor in the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, in the field of marine microbiology and metagenomics. Academic work Oded Béjà is best known for discovering the first bacterial rhodopsin naming it proteorhodopsin, during his postdoctoral fellowship in the laboratory of Edward DeLong. Oded Béjà's laboratory focuses currently on the role and diversity of photosynthetic viruses infecting cyanobacteria in the oceans, and the use of functional metagenomics for the discovery of new light sensing proteins.
Oded Beja's Published Works
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- Bacterial rhodopsin: evidence for a new type of phototrophy in the sea. (2000) (1382)
- Proteorhodopsin phototrophy in the ocean (2001) (734)
- Unsuspected diversity among marine aerobic anoxygenic phototrophs (2002) (415)
- Construction and analysis of bacterial artificial chromosome libraries from a marine microbial assemblage. (2000) (373)
- Diversification and spectral tuning in marine proteorhodopsins (2003) (287)
- Proteorhodopsin genes are distributed among divergent marine bacterial taxa (2003) (236)
- New Insights into Metabolic Properties of Marine Bacteria Encoding Proteorhodopsins (2005) (235)
- Photosystem I gene cassettes are present in marine virus genomes (2009) (194)
- Comparative Genomic Analysis of Archaeal Genotypic Variants in a Single Population and in Two Different Oceanic Provinces (2002) (180)
- Phylogenetic analysis of ribosomal RNA operons from uncultivated coastal marine bacterioplankton. (2001) (170)
- Assessing diversity and biogeography of aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria in surface waters of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans using the Global Ocean Sampling expedition metagenomes. (2007) (165)
- Potential photosynthesis gene recombination between Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus via viral intermediates. (2005) (163)
- Isolation and characterization of Erythrobacter sp. strains from the upper ocean (2003) (156)
- A distinct abundant group of microbial rhodopsins discovered using functional metagenomics (2018) (146)
- Reverse dissimilatory sulfite reductase as phylogenetic marker for a subgroup of sulfur-oxidizing prokaryotes (2009) (140)
- Comparative metagenomics of microbial traits within oceanic viral communities (2011) (138)
- The Light-Driven Proton Pump Proteorhodopsin Enhances Bacterial Survival during Tough Times (2010) (127)
- Novel Proteorhodopsin variants from the Mediterranean and Red Seas. (2003) (125)
- Different SAR86 subgroups harbour divergent proteorhodopsins. (2004) (123)
- Marine Bacterial and Archaeal Ion-Pumping Rhodopsins: Genetic Diversity, Physiology, and Ecology (2016) (122)
- Phylogenetic Screening of Ribosomal RNA Gene-Containing Clones in Bacterial Artificial Chromosome (BAC) Libraries from Different Depths in Monterey Bay (2004) (115)
- Molecular ecology of nifH genes and transcripts in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. (2007) (114)
- Viral photosynthetic reaction center genes and transcripts in the marine environment (2007) (113)
- Molecular diversity among marine picophytoplankton as revealed by psbA analyses. (2003) (111)
- Comparative community genomics in the Dead Sea: an increasingly extreme environment (2010) (105)
- Global abundance of microbial rhodopsins (2012) (96)
- Microbial rhodopsins on leaf surfaces of terrestrial plants. (2012) (91)
- Roseobacter-Like Bacteria in Red and Mediterranean Sea Aerobic Anoxygenic Photosynthetic Populations (2005) (90)
- Novel Primers Reveal Wider Diversity among Marine Aerobic Anoxygenic Phototrophs (2005) (86)
- Adaptation and spectral tuning in divergent marine proteorhodopsins from the eastern Mediterranean and the Sargasso Seas (2007) (77)
- Seasonal dynamics of the endosymbiotic, nitrogen-fixing cyanobacterium Richelia intracellularis in the eastern Mediterranean Sea (2008) (77)
- Widespread distribution of proteorhodopsins in freshwater and brackish ecosystems (2010) (76)
- Bacterial anoxygenic photosynthesis on plant leaf surfaces. (2012) (71)
- Casting light on Asgardarchaeota metabolism in a sunlit microoxic niche (2019) (69)
- Darwinian adaptation of proteorhodopsin to different light intensities in the marine environment. (2004) (68)
- To BAC or not to BAC: marine ecogenomics. (2004) (68)
- Proteorhodopsin-Bearing Bacteria in Antarctic Sea Ice (2010) (66)
- Comparative metagenomic analyses reveal viral-induced shifts of host metabolism towards nucleotide biosynthesis (2014) (66)
- Is dinitrogen fixation significant in the Levantine Basin, East Mediterranean Sea? (2011) (65)
- Novel Abundant Oceanic Viruses of Uncultured Marine Group II Euryarchaeota (2017) (63)
- Microbial community genomics in eastern Mediterranean Sea surface waters (2010) (63)
- Potential for phosphite and phosphonate utilization by Prochlorococcus (2011) (62)
- A myovirus encoding both photosystem I and II proteins enhances cyclic electron flow in infected Prochlorococcus cells (2017) (62)
- Membrane topology of multidrug resistance protein expressed in Escherichia coli. N-terminal domain. (1994) (59)
- Cyanophage tRNAs may have a role in cross-infectivity of oceanic Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus hosts (2011) (53)
- Reconstructing a puzzle: existence of cyanophages containing both photosystem-I and photosystem-II gene suites inferred from oceanic metagenomic datasets. (2011) (49)
- Crystal structure of heliorhodopsin (2019) (49)
- Nature’s toolkit for microbial rhodopsin ion pumps (2014) (48)
- Characterization of RS29, a blue-green proteorhodopsin variant from the Red Sea. (2004) (47)
- Microbial Rhodopsins: The Last Two Decades. (2021) (42)
- Bacterial, archaeal and viral-like rhodopsins from the Red Sea. (2013) (41)
- Diversity of active marine picoeukaryotes in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea unveiled using photosystem-II psbA transcripts (2010) (38)
- MerMAIDs: a family of metagenomically discovered marine anion-conducting and intensely desensitizing channelrhodopsins (2019) (38)
- Widespread distribution of proteorhodopsins in freshwater and brackish ecosystems (2008) (38)
- Metagenomic retrieval of a ribosomal DNA repeat array from an uncultured marine alveolate. (2008) (36)
- The use of DGGE analyses to explore eastern Mediterranean and Red Sea marine picophytoplankton assemblages. (2004) (35)
- Identification of a tRNA-like molecule that copurifies with the 7SL RNA of Trypanosoma brucei. (1993) (35)
- Adaptation to sub-optimal hosts is a driver of viral diversification in the ocean (2018) (35)
- Putative novel photosynthetic reaction centre organizations in marine aerobic anoxygenic photosynthetic bacteria: insights from metagenomics and environmental genomics. (2005) (34)
- Comparative classification of species and the study of pathway evolution based on the alignment of metabolic pathways (2010) (34)
- Functional expression of mouse Mdr1 in an outer membrane permeability mutant of Escherichia coli. (1996) (33)
- Schizorhodopsins: A family of rhodopsins from Asgard archaea that function as light-driven inward H+ pumps (2020) (30)
- Purification and Characterization of the Voltage-Dependent Anion-Selective Channel Protein from Wheat Mitochondrial Membranes (1993) (29)
- Lateral Gene Transfer of Anion-Conducting Channelrhodopsins between Green Algae and Giant Viruses (2020) (28)
- Functional metagenomic screen reveals new and diverse microbial rhodopsins (2016) (28)
- Functional marine metagenomic screening for anti-quorum sensing and anti-biofilm activity (2017) (25)
- Marine cyanophages: tinkering with the electron transport chain (2011) (25)
- Heliorhodopsins are absent in diderm (Gram-negative) bacteria: Some thoughts and possible implications for activity. (2019) (25)
- Genomic and transcriptomic evidence of light-sensing, porphyrin biosynthesis, Calvin-Benson-Bassham cycle, and urea production in Bathyarchaeota (2020) (25)
- Comparative analyses of actinobacterial genomic fragments from Lake Kinneret. (2009) (24)
- Resonance Raman Investigation of the Chromophore Structure of Heliorhodopsins. (2018) (24)
- A supervised learning approach for taxonomic classification of core-photosystem-II genes and transcripts in the marine environment (2009) (23)
- The trypanosomatid Leptomonas collosoma 7SL RNA gene. Analysis of elements controlling its expression. (1997) (23)
- Mutation Study of Heliorhodopsin 48C12. (2018) (23)
- Photoheterotrophic Marine Prokaryotes (2008) (22)
- BchY-Based Degenerate Primers Target All Types of Anoxygenic Photosynthetic Bacteria in a Single PCR (2009) (22)
- New biosynthetic pathway for pink pigments from uncultured oceanic viruses. (2016) (21)
- The evolution of photosystem I in light of phage-encoded reaction centres (2012) (20)
- Cyanophage-encoded lipid desaturases: oceanic distribution, diversity and function (2017) (20)
- Bias in assessments of marine SAR11 biodiversity in environmental fosmid and BAC libraries? (2009) (18)
- The tryptophan pathway genes of the Sargasso Sea metagenome: new operon structures and the prevalence of non-operon organization (2008) (17)
- Seasonal and diel patterns of abundance and activity of viruses in the Red Sea (2020) (17)
- Proteorhodopsins: Widespread Microbial Light-Driven Proton Pumps (2013) (15)
- The Use of a Chimeric Rhodopsin Vector for the Detection of New Proteorhodopsins Based on Color (2018) (15)
- Ultrafast Dynamics of Heliorhodopsins. (2019) (15)
- Diverse heliorhodopsins detected via functional metagenomics in freshwater Actinobacteria, Chloroflexi and Archaea. (2022) (14)
- Viral clones from the GOS expedition with an unusual photosystem-I gene cassette organization (2012) (14)
- The use of denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis with fully degenerate pufM primers to monitor aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic assemblages (2008) (13)
- Exploration of natural red-shifted rhodopsins using a machine learning-based Bayesian experimental design (2020) (13)
- Diversity of viral photosystem-I psaA genes (2014) (13)
- Anion binding to mutants of the Schiff base counterion in heliorhodopsin 48C12. (2019) (11)
- A novel uncultured marine cyanophage lineage with lysogenic potential linked to a putative marine Synechococcus 'relic' prophage. (2019) (11)
- Faculty Opinions recommendation of Reagent and laboratory contamination can critically impact sequence-based microbiome analyses. (2014) (11)
- Evolution and molecular mechanism of four‐electron reducing ferredoxin‐dependent bilin reductases from oceanic phages (2018) (10)
- Archaeal diversity in the Dead Sea: Microbial survival under increasingly harsh conditions (2009) (10)
- Dead Sea rhodopsins revisited. (2012) (8)
- An elusive marine photosynthetic bacterium is finally unveiled (2007) (8)
- Rhodopsin-bestrophin fusion proteins from unicellular algae form gigantic pentameric ion channels (2022) (8)
- Closing the gaps on the viral photosystem‐I psaDCAB gene organization (2015) (8)
- Proton-transporting heliorhodopsins from marine giant viruses (2022) (7)
- Saccharibacteria harness light energy using type-1 rhodopsins that may rely on retinal sourced from microbial hosts (2022) (6)
- Novel Abundant Oceanic Viruses of Uncultured Marine Group II Euryarchaeota Identified by Genome-Centric Metagenomics (2017) (6)
- WiChR, a highly potassium-selective channelrhodopsin for low-light one- and two-photon inhibition of excitable cells (2022) (5)
- Unique Photochemistry Observed in a New Microbial Rhodopsin. (2019) (5)
- An uncultured marine cyanophage encodes an active phycobilisome proteolysis adaptor protein NblA. (2019) (4)
- Community-level analysis of phototrophy: psbA Gene Diversity. (2005) (4)
- TAT Rhodopsin Is an Ultraviolet-Dependent Environmental pH Sensor. (2021) (4)
- Engineered Functional Recovery of Microbial Rhodopsin Without Retinal‐Binding Lysine (2019) (3)
- Karyotype analysis of the monogenetic trypanosomatid Leptomonas collosoma. (1994) (3)
- The sunlit microoxic niche of the archaeal eukaryotic ancestor comes to light (2018) (3)
- Bacterial anoxygenic photosynthesis on plant leaf surfacesemi (2012) (3)
- The light-driven proton pump proteorhodopsin enhances bacterial survival tough times (2010) (3)
- Functional expression of mdr and mdr-like cDNAs in Escherichia coli. (1998) (2)
- Phototrophy by antenna-containing rhodopsin pumps in aquatic environments (2023) (2)
- WiChR, a highly potassium selective channelrhodopsin for low-light two-photon neuronal inhibition (2022) (2)
- A novel oceanic uncultured temperate cyanophage lineage (2018) (2)
- Faculty Opinions recommendation of Ultra-high-throughput microbial community analysis on the Illumina HiSeq and MiSeq platforms. (2012) (2)
- Rising through the Ranks: Seasonal and Diel Patterns of Marine Viruses (2020) (1)
- Uncultured marine cyanophages encode for active NblA, phycobilisome proteolysis adaptor protein (2018) (1)
- Comparative metagenomic analyses reveal viral-induced shifts of host metabolism towards nucleotide biosynthesis (2014) (1)
- Faculty Opinions recommendation of Probing individual environmental bacteria for viruses by using microfluidic digital PCR. (2012) (1)
- Faculty Opinions recommendation of Structural Mechanism for Light-driven Transport by a New Type of Chloride Ion Pump, Nonlabens marinus Rhodopsin-3. (2016) (1)
- Exploration of natural red-shifted rhodopsins using a machine learning-based Bayesian experimental design (2021) (1)
- Heliorhodopsins are absent in diderm (Gram-negative) bacteria: Some thoughts and possible implications for activity (2018) (1)
- Infection cycle and phylogeny of the Polinton-like virus Phaeocystis globosa virus virophage-14T (2022) (1)
- Correction: The Light-Driven Proton Pump Proteorhodopsin Enhances Bacterial Survival during Tough Times (2012) (0)
- MerMAIDs: A novel family of metagenomically discovered, marine, anion-conducting and 2 intensely desensitizing channelrhodopsins. (2019) (0)
- Correction: The Light-Driven Proton Pump Proteorhodopsin Enhances Bacterial Survival during Tough Times (2012) (0)
- Faculty Opinions recommendation of Crystal structure and functional characterization of a light-driven chloride pump having an NTQ motif. (2016) (0)
- Faculty Opinions recommendation of Single cell genome analysis supports a link between phagotrophy and primary plastid endosymbiosis. (2012) (0)
- Rhodopsin-mediated nutrient uptake by cultivated photoheterotrophic Verrucomicrobiota. (2023) (0)
- Faculty Opinions recommendation of Mastering methodological pitfalls for surviving the metagenomic jungle. (2013) (0)
- Author Correction: Exploration of natural red-shifted rhodopsins using a machine learning-based Bayesian experimental design (2021) (0)
- Correction: The Light-Driven Proton Pump Proteorhodopsin Enhances Bacterial Survival during Tough Times (2012) (0)
- Faculty Opinions recommendation of Genome of a SAR116 bacteriophage shows the prevalence of this phage type in the oceans. (2013) (0)
- Author Correction: Exploration of natural red-shifted rhodopsins using a machine learning-based Bayesian experimental design (2021) (0)
- Correction: The Light-Driven Proton Pump Proteorhodopsin Enhances Bacterial Survival during Tough Times (2012) (0)
- Searching Metagenomes for New Rhodopsins. (2022) (0)
- Acknowledgment of Reviewers 2013 (2013) (0)
- Faculty Opinions recommendation of Bioenergetics of photoheterotrophic bacteria in the oceans. (2012) (0)
- Characterization of heliorhodopsins detected via functional metagenomics in freshwater Actinobacteria, Chloroflexi and Archaea (2021) (0)
- Faculty Opinions recommendation of Understanding Colour Tuning Rules and Predicting Absorption Wavelengths of Microbial Rhodopsins by Data-Driven Machine-Learning Approach. (2019) (0)
- Correction: The Light-Driven Proton Pump Proteorhodopsin Enhances Bacterial Survival during Tough Times (2012) (0)
- Crystal structure of heliorhodopsin (2019) (0)
- Faculty Opinions recommendation of Isolation of optically targeted single bacteria by application of fluidic force microscopy to aerobic anoxygenic phototrophs from the phyllosphere. (2013) (0)
- Title : Proteorhodopsin-bearing bacteria in Antarctic sea ice 1 2 (2010) (0)
- Faculty Opinions recommendation of Extensive remodeling of a cyanobacterial photosynthetic apparatus in far-red light. (2014) (0)
- Correction: The Light-Driven Proton Pump Proteorhodopsin Enhances Bacterial Survival during Tough Times (2012) (0)
- Correction: The Light-Driven Proton Pump Proteorhodopsin Enhances Bacterial Survival during Tough Times (2012) (0)
- Correction: The Light-Driven Proton Pump Proteorhodopsin Enhances Bacterial Survival during Tough Times (2012) (0)
- Phage biology: Stuck with dU (2021) (0)
- Faculty Opinions recommendation of Proteorhodopsin light-enhanced growth linked to vitamin-B1 acquisition in marine Flavobacteria. (2016) (0)
- Correction: The Light-Driven Proton Pump Proteorhodopsin Enhances Bacterial Survival during Tough Times (2012) (0)
- A distinct abundant group of microbial rhodopsins discovered using functional metagenomics (2018) (0)
- Isolation and infection cycle of a polinton-like virus virophage in an abundant marine alga (2023) (0)
- Faculty Opinions recommendation of Functional metagenomics reveals abundant polysaccharide-degrading gene clusters and cellobiose utilization pathways within gut microbiota of a wood-feeding higher termite. (2018) (0)
- Genomic and transcriptomic evidence of light-sensing, porphyrin biosynthesis, Calvin-Benson-Bassham cycle, and urea production in Bathyarchaeota (2020) (0)
- Casting light on Asgardarchaeota metabolism in a sunlit microoxic niche (2019) (0)
- Faculty Opinions recommendation of Horizontal operon transfer, plasmids, and the evolution of photosynthesis in Rhodobacteraceae. (2018) (0)
- CLASSIFYING AND PREDICTING PHOTOSYNTHETIC GENE FRAGMENTS FROM THE ENVIRONMENT (2008) (0)
- Discovery-oriented teaching: The use of chimeric proteorhodopsins for the development of a lab curriculum in marine microbiology and for the discovery of natural red-shifted proteorhodopsins (2017) (0)
- Adaptation to sub-optimal hosts is a driver of viral diversification in the ocean (2018) (0)
- Faculty Opinions recommendation of Comparative metatranscriptomics identifies molecular bases for the physiological responses of phytoplankton to varying iron availability. (2012) (0)
- Preparation of BAC libraries from marine microbial populations. (2013) (0)
- Correction: The Light-Driven Proton Pump Proteorhodopsin Enhances Bacterial Survival during Tough Times (2012) (0)
- Acknowledgment of Reviewers for 2011 (2012) (0)
- Faculty Opinions recommendation of Abundant SAR11 viruses in the ocean. (2013) (0)
- Faculty Opinions recommendation of Complete genome of a nonphotosynthetic cyanobacterium in a diatom reveals recent adaptations to an intracellular lifestyle. (2014) (0)
- Section 4 Update - BAC library construction from marine microbial assemblages (2008) (0)
- Faculty Opinions recommendation of Proteorhodopsin genes in giant viruses. (2012) (0)
- Metagenomics of Light Harvesting in the Marine Environment (2016) (0)
- Energy transfer in ubiquitous rhodopsin pumps with xanthophyll antennas (2022) (0)
- A myovirus encoding both photosystem I and II proteins enhances cyclic electron flow in infected Prochlorococcus cells (2017) (0)
- Correction: The Light-Driven Proton Pump Proteorhodopsin Enhances Bacterial Survival during Tough Times (2012) (0)
- Faculty of 1000 evaluation for Complete enzyme set for chlorophyll biosynthesis in Escherichia coli. (2018) (0)
- , and in Two Different Oceanic Provinces Genotypic Variants in a Single Population Comparative Genomic Analysis of Archaeal (2001) (0)
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