Areas of expertise

• Enzymes 060107
• Gene Expression (Incl. Microarray And Other Genome Wide Approaches) 060405
• Receptors And Membrane Biology 060110
• Transgenesis 100109
• Cell Metabolism 060104
• Bacteriology 060501
• Microbial Genetics 060503
• Genome Structure And Regulation 060407
• Plant Physiology 060705
• Molecular Evolution 060409
• Microbiology 0605

Research interests

Researcher's projects

Available student projects

Publications

• Price, G, Long, B & Foerster, B 2019, 'DABs accumulate bicarbonate', Nature Microbiology, vol. 4, no. 12, pp. 2029-2030.
• Kaczmarski, J, Hong, N, Mukherjee, B et al. 2019, 'Structural Basis for the Allosteric Regulation of the SbtA Bicarbonate Transporter by the P-II-like Protein, SbtB, from Cyanobium sp. PCC7001', Biochemistry, vol. 58, no. 50, pp. 5030-5039.
• Wang, H, Yan, X, Aigner, H et al 2019, 'Rubisco condensate formation by CcmM in ß-carboxysome biogenesis', Nature, vol. 566, no. 7742, pp. 131-135.
• Long, B, Hee, W, Sharwood, R et al. 2018, 'Carboxysome encapsulation of the CO2-fixing enzyme Rubisco in tobacco chloroplasts', Nature Communications, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 1-14.
• Rae, B, Long, B, Foerster, B et al. 2017, 'Progress and challenges of engineering a biophysical carbon dioxide-concentrating mechanism into higher plants', Journal of Experimental Botany, vol. 68, no. 14, pp. 3717-3737.
• Tolleter, D, Chochois, V, Poire-Lassus, R et al. 2017, 'Measuring CO2 and HCO3 - permeabilities of isolated chloroplasts using a MIMS-18O approach', Journal of Experimental Botany, vol. 68, no. 14, pp. 3915-3924.
• Machingura, M, Bajsa-Hirschel, J, Laborde, S et al. 2017, 'Identification and characterization of a solute carrier, CIA8,involved in inorganic carbon acclimation in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii', Journal of Experimental Botany, vol. 68, no. 14, pp. 3879-3890.
• Meyerink, S, Ellwood, M, Maher, W et al. 2017, 'Effects of iron limitation on silicon uptake kinetics and elementalstoichiometry in two Southern Ocean diatoms, Eucampia antarcticaand Proboscia inermis, and the temperate diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana', Limnology and Oceanography, vol. 62, no. 6, pp. 2445-2462.
• Rolland, V, Badger, M & Price, G 2016, 'Redirecting the Cyanobacterial Bicarbonate Transporters BicA and SbtA to the Chloroplast Envelope: Soluble and Membrane Cargos Need Different Chloroplast Targeting Signals in Plants', Frontiers in Plant Science, vol. 7, pp. Article 185.
• Benson, P, Purcell, D, Hocart, C et al. 2016, 'Factors Altering Pyruvate Excretion in a Glycogen Storage Mutant of the Cyanobacterium, Synechococcus PCC7942', Frontiers in Microbiology, vol. 7.
• Long, B, Rae, B, Rolland, V et al. 2016, 'Cyanobacterial CO2-concentrating mechanism components: function and prospects for plant metabolic engineering', Current Opinion in Plant Biology, vol. 31, pp. 1-8.
• Price, G & Howitt, S 2014, 'Topology mapping to characterize cyanobacterial bicarbonate transporters: BicA (SulP/SLC26 family) and SbtA', Molecular Membrane Biology, vol. 31, no. 6, pp. 177-182.
• Price, G & Howitt, S 2014, 'Towards turbocharged photosynthesis', Nature, vol. 513, no. 7519, pp. 497-498.
• Du, J, Foerster, B, Rourke, L et al. 2014, 'Characterisation of cyanobacterial bicarbonate transporters in E. Coli shows that SBTA homologs are functional in this heterologous expression system', PLOS ONE (Public Library of Science), vol. 9, no. 12, pp. e115905-e115905.
• de Araujo, C, Arefeen, D, Tadesse, Y et al 2014, 'Identification and characterization of a carboxysomal gamma-carbonic anhydrase from the cyanobacterium Nostoc sp. PCC 7120', Photosynthesis Research, vol. 121, pp. 135-150.
• Pengelly, J, Forster, B, von Caemmerer, S, Badger M, Price GD & Whitney SM 2014, 'Transplastomic integration of a cyanobacterial bicarbonate transporter into tobacco chloroplasts', Journal of Experimental Botany, vol. 65, no. 12, pp. 3071-3080.
• Whitehead, L, Long, B, Price, GD et al 2014, 'Comparing the in vivo function of alpha-carboxysomes and beta-carboxysomes in two model cyanobacteria', Plant Physiology, vol. 165, no. 1, pp. 398-411.
• James, G, Hocart, C, Hillier, W et al. 2013, 'Temperature modulation of fatty acid profiles for biofuel production in nitrogen deprived Chlamydomonas reinhardtii', Bioresource Technology, vol. 127, pp. 441-447.
• Rae, B, Long, B, Badger, M et al. 2013, 'Functions, Compositions, and Evolution of the Two Types of Carboxysomes: Polyhedral Microcompartments That Facilitate CO₂ Fixation in Cyanobacteria and Some Proteobacteria', Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews, vol. 77, no. 3, pp. 357-379.
• Rae, B, Long, B, Whitehead, L et al. 2013, 'Cyanobacterial Carboxysomes: Microcompartments that Facilitate CO₂ Fixation', Journal of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, vol. 23, no. 4-5, pp. 300-307.
• Price, G, Pengelly, J, Forster, B, von Caemmerer, S, Badger, MR, Price, GD and Whitney, SM. 2013, 'The cyanobacterial CCM as a source of genes for improving photosynthetic CO₂ fixation in crop species', Journal of Experimental Botany, vol. 64, no. 3, pp. 753-768.
• Rae, B, Long, B, Badger, M et al. 2012, 'Structural Determinants of the Outer Shell of b-Carboxysomes in Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942: Roles for CcmK2, K3-K4, CcmO, and CcmL', PLOS ONE (Public Library of Science), vol. 7, no. 8, pp. e43871-e43871.
• Price, G 2011, 'Inorganic carbon transporters of the cyanobacterial CO2 concentrating mechanism', Photosynthesis Research, vol. 109, no. 1-3, pp. 47-57.
• Price, G & Howitt, S 2011, 'The cyanobacterial bicarbonate transporter BicA: its physiological role and the implications of structural similarities with human SLC26 transporters', Biochemistry and Cell Biology, vol. 89, no. 2, pp. 178-188.
• Price, G, Shelden, M & Howitt, S 2011, 'Membrane topology of the cyanobacterial bicarbonate transporter, SbtA, and identification of potential regulatory loops', Molecular Membrane Biology, vol. 28, no. 5, pp. 265-275.
• Rae, B, Foerster, B, Badger, M et al. 2011, 'The CO₂-concentrating mechanism of Synechococcus WH5701 is composed of native and horizontally-acquired components', Photosynthesis Research, vol. 109, no. 1-3, pp. 59-72.
• James, G, Hocart, C, Hillier, W et al. 2011, 'Fatty acid profiling of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii under nitrogen deprivation', Bioresource Technology, vol. 102, no. 3, pp. 3343-3351.
• Price, G, Badger, M & von Caemmerer, S 2011, 'The prospect of using cyanobacterial bicarbonate transporters to improve leaf photosynthesis in C₃ crop plants', Plant Physiology, vol. 155, no. 1, pp. 20-26.
• Long, B, Rae, B, Badger, M et al 2011, 'Over-expression of the beta-carboxysomal CcmM protein in Synechococcus PCC7942 reveals a tight co-regulation of carboxysomal carbonic anhydrase (CcaA) and M58 content', Photosynthesis Research, vol. Published online : 20 May 2011.
• Parry MAJ, Reynolds M, Salvucci ME, Raines C, P Andralojc PJ, Zhu X-G, Price GD, Condon AG, Furbank RT 2011, 'Raising yield potential of wheat. II. Increasing photosynthetic capacity and efficiency', Journal of Experimental Botany, vol. 62, no. 2, pp. 453-467.
• Yamori, W, Takahashi, S, Makino, A et al 2011, 'The Roles of ATP Synthase and the Cytochrome b6/f Complexes in Limiting Chloroplast Electron Transport and Determining Photosynthetic Capacity', Plant Physiology, vol. 155, pp. 956-962.
• Baroli, I, Price, G, Badger, M et al. 2008, 'The Contribution of Photosynthesis to the Red Light Response of Stomatal Conductance', Plant Physiology, vol. 146, pp. 737-747.
• Shelden, M, Howitt, S & Price, G 2010, 'Membrane topology of the cyanobacterial bicarbonate transporter, BicA, a member of the SulP (SLC26A) family', Molecular Membrane Biology, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 12-22.
• Long, B, Tucker, L, Badger, M et al 2010, 'Functional Cyanobacterial b-Carboxysomes Have an Absolute Requirement for Both Long and Short Forms of the CcmM Protein^1[W][OA]', Plant Physiology, vol. 153, pp. 285 -293.
• Yang, J, Hart, E, Tauschek, M et al. 2008, 'Bicarbonate-mediated transcriptional activation of divergent operons by the virulence regulataory protein, RegA, from Citrobacter rodentium', Molecular Microbiology, vol. 68, no. 2, pp. 314-327.
• Price, G, Badger, M, Woodger, F et al. 2008, 'Advances in understanding the cyanobacterial CO2- concentrating-mechanism (CCM): functional components, Ci transporters, diversity, genetic regulation and prospects for engineering into plants', Journal of Experimental Botany, vol. 59, no. 7, pp. 1441-1461.
• Long, B, Badger, M, Whitney, S et al. 2007, 'Analysis of Carboxysomes from Synechococcus PCC7942 Reveals Multiple Rubisco complexes with Carboxysomal Proteins CcmM and CcaA', Journal of Biological Chemistry, vol. 282, no. 40, pp. 29323-29335.
• Woodger, F, Bryant, D & Price, G 2007, 'Transcriptional Regulation of the CO₂- Concentrating Mechanism in a Euryhaline, Coastal Marine Cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. Strain PCC 7002: Role of NdhR/CcmR', Journal of Bacteriology, vol. 189, no. 9, pp. 3335-3347.
• Emlyn-Jones, D, Woodger, F, Price, G et al. 2006, 'RbcX can function as a Rubisco-chaperonin, but is non essential in Synechococcus PCC7942', Plant and Cell Physiology, vol. 47, no. 12, pp. 1630-1640.
• Emlyn-Jones, D, Woodger, F, Andrews, T et al. 2006, 'A Synechococcus PCC7942 _ccmM (Cyanophyceae) mutant pseudoreverts to air growth without regaining carboxysomes', Journal of Phycology, vol. 42, pp. 769-777.
• Woodger, F, Badger, M & Price, G 2005, 'Regulation of cyanobacterial CO2-concentrating mechanisms through transcriptional induction of high-affinity Ci-transport systems', Canadian Journal of Botany, vol. 83, pp. 698-710.
• Long, B, Price, G & Badger, M 2005, 'Proteomic assessment of an established technique for carboxysome enrichment from Synechococcus PCC7942', Canadian Journal of Botany, vol. 83, pp. 746-757.
• Badger, M, Price, G, Long, B et al. 2005, 'The environmental plasticity and ecological genomics of the cyanobacterial CO2 concentrating mechanism', Journal of Experimental Botany, vol. 57, no. 2, pp. 249-265.
• Woodger, F, Badger, M & Price, G 2005, 'Sensing of Inorganic Carbon Limitation in Synechococcus PCC7942 Is Correlated with the Size of the Internal Inorganic Carbon Pool and Involves Oxygen', Plant Physiology, vol. 139, pp. 1959-1969.
• von Caemmerer, S, Quinn, V, Hancock, N et al. 2004, 'Carbonic anhydrase and C4 photosynthesis a transgenic analysis', Plant Cell and Environment, vol. 27, pp. 697-703.
• McGinn, P, Price, G & Badger, M 2004, 'High light enhances the expression of low-CO2-inducible transcripts involved in the CO2-concentrating metabolism in Synechocystis sp. PCC6803', Plant Cell and Environment, vol. 27, pp. 615-626.
• Price, G, Woodger, F, Badger, M et al. 2004, 'Identification of a SulP-type bicarbonate transporter in marine cyanobacteria', PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 101, no. 52, pp. 18228-18233.
• Benschop, J, Badger, M & Price, G 2003, 'Characterisation of CO2 and HCO3- uptake in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC6803', Photosynthesis Research, vol. 77, pp. 117-126.
• Woodger, F, Badger, M & Price, G 2003, 'Inorganic carbon limitation induces transcripts encoding components of the CO2-concentrating mechanism in Synechococcus sp. PCC7942 through a redox-independent pathway', Plant Physiology, vol. 133, pp. 2069-2080.
• McGinn, P, Price, G, Maleszka, R et al. 2003, 'Inorganic carbon limitation and light control the expression of transcripts related to the CO2-concentrating mechanism in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. strain PCC6803', Plant Physiology, vol. 132, pp. 218-229.
• Emlyn-Jones, D, Price, G & Andrews, T 2003, 'Nitrogen-regulated hypermutator strain of Synechococcus sp. for use in in vivo artificial evolution', Applied and Environmental Microbiology, vol. 69, pp. 6427-6433.
• Badger, M & Price, G 2003, 'CO2 concentrating mechanisms in cyanobacteria: Molecular components, their diversity and evolution', Journal of Experimental Botany, vol. 54, pp. 609-622.
• Price, G & Badger, M 2002, 'Advances in understanding how aquatic photosynthetic organisms utilize sources of dissolved inorganic carbon for CO2 fixation', Functional Plant Biology, vol. 29, pp. 117-121.
• Emlyn-Jones, D, Whitney, S, Price, G et al. 2002, 'Substitution of foreign Rubiscos in the cyanobacterium, Synechoccus PCC7942', International Congress on Photosynthesis (PS 2001), CSLI Publications, Melbourne, pp. s16-015.
• Badger, M, Hanson, D & Price, G 2002, 'Evolution and diversity of C02 concentrating mechanisms in cyanobacteria.', Functional Plant Biology, vol. 29, pp. 161-173.
• Maeda, S, Badger, M & Price, G 2002, 'Novel gene products associated with NdhD3/D4-containing NDH-1 complexes are involved in photosynthetic C02 hydration in the cyanobacterium, Synechococcus sp. PCC7942', Molecular Microbiology, vol. 43, no. 2, pp. 425-435.
• McGinn, P, Price, G & Badger, M 2002, 'Analysis of PSI and PSII driven electron transport during steady-state photosynthesis in the cyanobacterium Synechococcus PCC7942.', International Congress on Photosynthesis (PS 2001), CSLI Publications, Melbourne, pp. s19-012.
• Price, G, Maeda, S, Omata, T et al. 2002, 'Modes of active inorganic carbon uptake in the cyanobacterium, Synechococcus sp. PCC7942', Functional Plant Biology, vol. 29, pp. 131-149.
• Pike, C, Grieve, J, Badger, M et al. 2001, 'Thermoprotective properties of small heat shock proteins from rice, tomato and Synechocystis sp.PCC6803 overexpressed in, and isolated from, Escherichia coli', Australian Journal of Plant Physiology, vol. 288A, pp. 1219-1229.
• Ohkawa, H, Price, G, Badger, M et al. 2000, 'Mutation of ndh genes leads to inhibition of CO2 uptake rather than HCO3- uptake in Synechocystis sp strain PCC 6803.', Journal of Bacteriology, vol. 182, no. 9, pp. 2591-2596.
• Ruuska, S, Andrews, T, Badger, M et al. 2000, 'The role of chloroplast electron transport and metabolites in modulating rubisco activity in tobacco. Insights from transgenic plants with reduced amounts of cytochrome b/f complex or glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase.', Plant Physiology, vol. 122, pp. 491-504.
• Ruuska, S, von Caemmerer, S, Badger, M et al. 2000, 'Xanthophyll cycle, light energy dissipation and electron transport in transgenic tobacco with reduced carbon assimilation capacity.', Australian Journal of Plant Physiology, vol. 27, pp. 289-300.
• Ludwig Finnegan, M, Sultemeyer, D & Price, G 2000, 'Isolation of ccmKLMN genes from the marine cyanobacterium, Synechococcus sp. PCC7002 (Cyanophyceae), and evidence that CcmM is essential for carboxysome assembly', Journal of Phycology, vol. 36, pp. 1109-1118.
• Eichelmann, H, Price, G, Badger, M et al. 2000, 'Photosynthetic parameters of leaves of wild type and Cyt b(6)/f deficient transgenic tobacco studied by CO2 uptake and transmittance at 800 nm', Plant and Cell Physiology, vol. 41, pp. 432-439.
• Maeda, S, Price, G, Badger, M et al. 2000, 'Bicarbonate binding activity of the CmpA protein of the Cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp strain PCC 7942 involved in active transport of bicarbonate.', Journal of Biological Chemistry, vol. 275, pp. 20551-20555.
• Klughammer, B, Sultemeyer, D, Badger, M et al. 1999, 'The involvement of NAD(P)H dehydrogenase subunits, NdhD3 and NdhF3, in high-affinity CO2 uptake in Synechococcus sp PCC7002 gives evidence for multiple NDH-1 complexes with specific roles in cyanobacteria', Molecular Microbiology, vol. 32, no. 6, pp. 1305-1315.
• Lunn, J, Price, G & Furbank, R 1999, 'Cloning and expression of a prokaryotic sucrose-phosphate synthase gene from the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp PCC 6803', Plant Molecular Biology, vol. 40, no. 2, pp. 297-305.
• Omata, T, Price, G, Badger, M et al. 1999, 'Identification of an ATP-binding cassette transporter involved in bicarbonate uptake in the cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. strain PCC7942', PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 96, no. 23, pp. 13571-13576.

Projects and Grants

Grants information is drawn from ARIES. To add or update Projects or Grants information please contact your College Research Office.

• RIPE: Realising Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency for Sustainable Increases in Crop Yield. (Secondary Investigator)
• ARC Centre of Excellence for Translational Photosynthesis (Secondary Investigator)
• New approaches to unravelling post-translational controls operating on the cyanobacterial CO2 concentrating mechanism (Primary Investigator)
• RIPE: Realizing Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency for Sustainable Increased in Crop Yield (Secondary Investigator)
• Aviation Fuel from Cyanobacteria: Molecular Approaches to Increased Yield (Primary Investigator)
• Adapting cyanobacterial bicarbonate transporters for application in crop improvement (Primary Investigator)
• Improving plant productivity and human health using next generation biotechnology approaches (Secondary Investigator)
• Photosynthetically active bicarbonate transporters from cyanobacteria & their rational redesign for application in engineered crops that use less water (Primary Investigator)
• Identifying potential barriers to transplanting modified forms of the CO2-fixing enzyme, Rubisco, into plants (Primary Investigator)
• Australian Plant Phenomics Facility CSIRO sub-subcontract) (Primary Investigator)
• Nano-molecular structure and function of protein mini-compartments known as carboxysomes (Primary Investigator)

Related websites

• http://ripe.illinois.edu/team
  

  GD Price is a principle investigator in the RIPE consortium lead by the Uiversity of Illinois and supported by BMGF funding (2012-2017); this project is now in the RIPE Reivnvestmemt stage (2017-2022).