Huub de Groot, Prof. Dr.
- Position:
- Professor of Biophysical Organic Chemistry
- Research area:
Solid State NMR membrane proteins
- Telephone number
- +31 (0)71 527 4539
- E-mail address
- groot_h@chem.leidenuniv.nl
- Faculty/Unit
- Faculty of Science, Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Solid State NMR
- Office address
- Gorlaeus Laboratories
Einsteinweg 55
2333 CC Leiden
roomnumber LCP18
- 2009
Alternating syn-anti bacteriochlorophylls form concentric helical nanotubes in chlorosomes,
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 106, no. 21, pp. 8525-8530.
Differential Charge Polarization of Axial Histidines in Bacterial Reaction Centers Balances the Asymmetry of the Special Pair,
Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 131, no. 28, pp. 9626-9627.
Zinc chlorins for artificial light-harvesting self-assemble into antiparallel stacks forming a microcrystalline solid-state material,
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 106, no. 28, pp. 11472-11477.
In Vivo Metabolite Profile of Adult Zebrafish Brain Obtained by High-Resolution Localized Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy,
Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 275-281.
Recent Advances in Visualizing Alzheimer's Plaques by Magnetic Resonance Imaging,
Current Medical Imaging Reviews, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 2-9.
In vivo localized two dimensional MR spectroscopy to compare the neurochemical profile in wild-type and transgenic mousemodel of Alzheimer’s disease,
Proc. Int. Soc. Mag. Reson. Med., vol. 17, pp. 1089.
Magic Angle Spinning (MAS) NMR: a new tool to study the spatial and electronic structure of photosynthetic complexes,
Special Issue of Journal Photosynthesis Research.
MRI assessment of blood flow artifacts in a transgenic mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease,
Proc. Intl. Soc. Mag. Reson. Med., vol. 17, pp. 1331.
In vivo evaluation of cerebrovascular blood flow artifacts in a transgenic mouse model of Alzheimer's disease using MRI,
Journal of Neurochemistry, vol. 110, pp. 38.
- 2008
Characterisation of uniformly C-13, N-15 labelled bacteriochlorophyll a and bacteriopheophytin a in solution and in solid state: complete assignment of the C-13, H-1 and N-15 chemical shifts,
Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry, vol. 46, no. 11, pp. 1074-1083.
Reply to Hengge: On the P-31 chemical shifts of the phosphorane compounds,
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 105, no. 46, pp. E85-E85.
The associative nature of adenylyl transfer catalyzed by T4 DNA ligase,
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 105, no. 25, pp. 8563-8568.
High resolution localized two-dimensional MR spectroscopy in mouse brain in vivo,
Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, vol. 60, no. 2, pp. 449-456.
Correlation between neurochemical changes and development of Alzheime's plaques with age monitored by In Vivo high resolution magnetic resonance microimaging and spectroscopy,
Proc. Intl. Soc. Mag. Reson. Med., vol. 16, pp. 257.
In Vivo high resolution magnetic resonance spectroscopy of the adult Zebrafish brain at 9.4T,
Proc. Intl. Mag. Reson. Med., vol. 16, pp. 113.
In Vivo high resolution localized two dimensional magnetic resonance spectroscopy in mouse brain,
Proc. Intl. Soc. Mag. Reson. Med., vol. 16, pp. 121.
Magic angle spinning NMR for structure determination,
Biophysical Techniques in Photosynthesis, Volume II : Springer, Dordrecht, pp. 361-383.
A view on phosphate ester photochemistry by time-resolved solid state NMR. Intramolecular redox reaction of caged ATP,
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, vol. 10, no. 45, pp. 6820-6828.
Protein-induced geometric constraints and charge transfer in bacteriochlorophyll-histidine complexes in LH2,
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, vol. 10, no. 46, pp. 6971-6978.
- 2007
Solid state NMR investigation of the interaction between biomimetic lipid bilayers and de novo designed fusogenic peptides,
Chembiochem, vol. 8, no. 5, pp. 493-496.
Photochemically induced dynamic nuclear polarization in the reaction center of the green sulphur bacterium Chlorobium tepidum observed by C-13 MAS NMR,
Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta-Bioenergetics, vol. 1767, no. 6, pp. 610-615.
N-15 photochemically induced dynamic nuclear polarization magic-angle spinning NMR analysis of the electron donor of photosystem II,
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 104, no. 31, pp. 12767-12771.
Solid-state NMR evidence for a protonation switch in the binding pocket of the H1 receptor upon binding of the agonist histamine,
Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 129, no. 4, pp. 867-872.
Electronic structure of axial histidines in photosynthetic reaction centres of Rhodobacter sphaeroides,
Photosynthesis Research, vol. 91, no. 2-3, pp. 146-147.
publications with lastname "deGroot"
- 2004
Large-scale overproduction, functional purification and ligand affinities of the His-tagged human histamine H1 receptor,
European Journal of Biochemistry, vol. 271, no. 13, pp. 2636-2646.
- 2001
- 1997
The stacking of chlorophylls in chlorosomes from MAS NMR dipolar correlation spectroscopy.,
Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society, vol. 214, pp. 180-PHYS.
C-13 MAS NMR evidence for structural similarity of L162YL mutant and Rhodobacter sphaeroides R26 RC, despite widely different cytochrome c(2)-mediated re-reduction kinetics of the oxidized primary donor,
Spectrochimica Acta Part a-Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, vol. 53, no. 12, pp. 2201-2208.
Ab initio molecular dynamics of rhodopsin,
Pure and Applied Chemistry, vol. 69, no. 10, pp. 2105-2110.
Carotenoid blues: Structural studies on carotenoproteins,
Pure and Applied Chemistry, vol. 69, no. 10, pp. 2075-2084.
The mechanism of the colour shift of astaxanthin in alpha-crustacyanin as investigated by C-13 MAS NMR and specific isotope enrichment,
Pure and Applied Chemistry, vol. 69, no. 10, pp. 2085-2090.
Stereochemical configuration of poly(maleic acid) as studied by C-13 NMR,
Macromolecules, vol. 30, no. 22, pp. 6884-6887.
Direct determination of a molecular torsional angle in the membrane protein rhodopsin by solid-state NMR,
Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 119, no. 29, pp. 6853-6857.
Determination of the spin density distribution in the organic conductor DMTM(TCNQ)(2) with C-13 magic angle spinning NMR,
Molecular Physics, vol. 91, no. 4, pp. 725-730.
Internuclear distance measurements up to 0.44 nm for retinals in the solid state with 1-D rotational resonance C-13 MAS NMR spectroscopy,
Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 119, no. 1, pp. 169-174.
High-field and high-speed CP-MAS C-13 NMR heteronuclear dipolar-correlation spectroscopy of solids with frequency-switched Lee-Goldburg homonuclear decoupling,
Journal of Magnetic Resonance, vol. 124, no. 2, pp. 516-519.
Energy storage in the primary photoproduct of vision,
Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 101, no. 15, pp. 2954-2958.
- 1996
Charge localization and dynamics in rhodopsin,
Physical Review Letters, vol. 77, no. 21, pp. 4474-4477.
Distribution of cations in mixed Zn-Mn-Al-O containing spinels, model catalysts for the reduction of nitrobenzene to nitrosobenzene,
Journal of Catalysis, vol. 160, no. 2, pp. 148-154.
High magnetic field for enhanced proton resolution in high-speed CP/MAS heteronuclear H-1-C-13 dipolar-correlation spectroscopy,
Journal of Magnetic Resonance Series A, vol. 120, no. 2, pp. 274-277.
H-2 NMR Evidence for dynamic disorder in human skin induced by the penetration enhancer Azone,
Spectrochimica Acta Part a-Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, vol. 52, no. 7, pp. 785-791.
Ab initio molecular dynamics of retinals,
Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 248, no. 3-4, pp. 165-172.
C-13 NMR study of the grafting of maleic anhydride onto polyethene, polypropene, and ethene-propene copolymers,
Macromolecules, vol. 29, no. 4, pp. 1151-1157.
Double mutants of Saccharomyces cerevisiae with alterations in global genome and transcription-coupled repair,
Molecular and Cellular Biology, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 496-502.
- 1995
Mas Nmr Structure Refinement of Uniformly C-13 Enriched Chlorophyll-a Water Aggregates with 2d Dipolar Correlation Spectroscopy,
Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 237, no. 5-6, pp. 502-508.
Huub de Groot teaches or supervises the following courses:
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