Reading and surviving the harsh conditions in desert biological soil crust: the cyanobacterial viewpoint

24 June 2021

Hai-Feng Xu*, Hagai Raanan*, Guo-Zheng Dai, Nadav Oren, Simon Berkowicz, Omer Murik, Aaron Kaplan, and Bao-Sheng Qiu. FEMS Microbiology Reviews.

Keep your friends close and your competitors closer : Novel interspecies interaction in desert biological sand crusts

26 October 2020

Isaac Kedem, Haim Treves, Gabriella Noble, Mrtin Hagemann, Omer Murik, Hagai Raanan, Nadav Oren, Mario Giordano, Aaron Kaplan. Phycologia

Biophysical analysis of the structural evolution of substrate specificity in RuBisCO

November 16, 2020

Saroj Poudel., Douglas H. Pike., Hagai Raanan., Joshua A. Mancini, Vikas Nanda., Rosalind E M Rickaby, Rosalind E M. PNAS

Small protein folds at the root of an ancient metabolic network

February 21, 2020

Hagai Raanan, Saroj Poudel, Douglas H. Pike, Vikas Nanda, Paul G. Falkowski. PNAS

Desert cyanobacteria prepare in advance for dehydration and rewetting: The role of light and temperature sensing

5 March 2019

Nadav Oren, Hagai Raanan, Adi Turjeman, Michal Bronstein, Nir Keren, Aaron Kaplan and Omer Murik. Molecular Ecology

Minimal Heterochiral de Novo Designed 4Fe-4S Binding Peptide Capable of Robust Electron Transfer

August 24, 2018

J. Dongun Kim, Douglas H. Pike, Alexei M. Tyryshkin, G. V. T. Swapna, Hagai Raanan, Gaetano T. Montelione, Vikas Nanda, and Paul G. Falkowski. Jornal of the American Chemical Society

Modular origins of biological electron transfer chains

December 20, 2017

Hagai Raanan, Douglas H. Pike, Eli K. Moore, Paul G. Falkowski, and Vikas Nanda. (2018). Modular origins of biological electron transfer chains. PNAS

Metal Availability and the Expanding Redox Network of Microbial Metabolism in the Archean Eon.

28 August 2017

Eli K. Moore, Benjamin I. Jelen, Donato Giovannelli, Hagai Raanan, Paul G. Falkowski. Nature Geoscience

Dawn illumination prepares desert cyanobacteria for dehydration

9 October 2017

Oren Nadav*, Raanan Hagai*, Murik Omer*, Keren Nir, Kaplan Aaron. Current Biology

Cyanobacterial populations in biological soil crusts of the northwest Negev Desert, Israel – effects of local conditions and disturbance

6, June 2017

Martin Hagemann,  Manja Henneberg,  Vincent J. M. N. L. Felde,  Simon M. Berkowicz, Hagai Raanan,  Nadin Pade,  Peter Felix-Henningsen,  Aaron Kaplan. FEMS Microbiol Ecol.

What distinguishes cyanobacteria able to revive after desiccation from those that cannot: The genome aspect: Desiccation resistance genes in cyanobacteria

4 August, 2016

Murik Omer*, Oren Nadav*, Shotland Yoram*, Raanan Hagai*, Treves Haim, Kedem Itzhak, Keren Nir, Hagemann Martin, Pade Nadin, Kaplan Aaron. Environmental Microbiology

Towards clarifying what distinguishes cyanobacteria able to resurrect after desiccation from those that cannot: The photosynthetic aspect

13 February 2016

Hagai Raanan, Nadav Oren; haim treves; nir keren; Itzhak Ohad; Simon Berkowicz; Martin Hagemann; Moriz  Koch; Yoram Shotland and Aaron Kaplan. BBA – Bioenergetics

Simulated soil crust conditions in a chamber system provide new insights on cyanobacterial acclimation to desiccation

21 July, 2015

Hagai Raanan, Nadav Oren, Haim Treves, Simon M. Berkowicz, Martin Hagemann, Nadin Pade, Nir Keren and Aaron Kaplan. Environmental Microbiology

The mechanisms whereby the green alga Chlorella ohadii, isolated from desert soil crust, exhibits unparalleled photodamage resistance

16 December 2015

Haim Treves, Hagai Raanan, Isaac Kedem, Omer Murik, Nir Keren,  Hagit Zer, Simon Berkowicz, Mario Giordano, Alessandra Norici, Yoram Shotland, Itzhak Ohad and Aaron Kaplan. New Phytologist.

An easily reversible structural change underlies mechanisms enabling desert crust cyanobacteria to survive desiccation

14 July 2015

Leeat Bar-Eyal, Ido Eisenberg, Adam Faust, Hagai Raanan, Rienat Nevo, Fabrice Rappaport, Anja Krieger-Liszkay, Pierre Sétif, Aarien Thurotte, Ziv Reich, Aaron Kaplan, Itzhak Ohad, Yossi Paltiel and Nir Keren. Biochim Biophys Acta.

Three-dimensional structure and cyanobacterial activity within a desert biological soil crust

January 25, 2025

Hagai Raanan, Vincent J. M. N. L. Felde, Stephan Peth, Sylvie Drahorad, Danny Ionescu, Gil Eshkol, Haim Treves, Peter Felix-Henningsen, Simon M. Berkowicz, Nir Keren, Rainer Horn, Martin Hagemann and Aaron Kaplan. Environmental Microbiology.

A newly isolated Chlorella sp. from desert sand crusts

11 June 2013.

Haim Treves, Hagai Raanan, Omri M. Finkel, Simon M. Berkowicz, Nir Keren, Yoram Shotland and Aaron Kaplan. FEMS Microbiol. Ecol.

Light-induced changes within photosystem II protects microcoleus sp. in biological desert sand crusts against excess light

June 8, 2010

Itzhak Ohad, Hagai Raanan, Nir Keren, Dan Tchernov and Aaron Kaplan. PLoS One