Recent publications - Roman Sobotka' group

• Komenda J, Sobotka R, Nixon PJ. (2012) Assembling and maintaining the Photosystem II complex in chloroplasts and cyanobacteria. Curr Opin Plant Biol. In press.

• Kořený, L. Sobotka, R. Kovářová, J. Gnipová, A. Flegontov, P. Horváth, A. Oborník, M.  Ayala, FJ. Lukeš, J. (2012) Aerobic kinetoplastid flagellate  Phytomonas does not require heme for viability. PNAS 109:3808-13.

• Kaňa, R. Kotabová, E. Sobotka, R. Prášil, O. (2012) Non-photochemical quenching in cryprohyte alga Rhodomonas salina is located in chlorophyll a/c antennae. PLoS ONE 7:e29700.

• Komenda, J. Knoppova, J. Kopecna, J. Sobotka, R. Halada, P. Yu, J. Nickelsen, J. Boehm, M. Nixon, PJ. (2012) The Psb27 assembly factor binds to the CP43 complex of Photosystem II in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. Plant Physiol. 158, 476-486.

• Koreny, L, Sobotka, R, Janouškovec, J, Keeling, PJ,  Obornik, M. (2011) Tetrapyrrole synthesis of photosynthetic chromerids is likely homologous to the unusual pathway of apicomplexan parasites. Plant Cell, 23:3454-62.

• Sobotka R, Tichy M, Wilde A, Hunter CN. (2011) Functional assignments for the C-terminal domains of the ferrochelatase from Synechocystis PCC 6803: the CAB domain plays a regulatory role and region II is essential for catalysis. Plant Physiol. 155:1735-47.

• Dobakova M, Sobotka R, Tichy M, Komenda J. (2009) The Psb28 protein is involved in the biogenesis of the photosystem II inner antenna CP47 (PsbB) in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. Plant Physiol. 149:1076-86.

• Sobotka R, Dühring U, Komenda J, Peter E, Gardian Z, Tichy M, Grimm B, Wilde A. (2008) Importance of the cyanobacterial Gun4 protein for chlorophyll metabolism and assembly of photosynthetic complexes. J. Biol. Chem. 283: 25794-802.

• Sobotka R, McLean S, Zuberova M, Hunter CN, Tichy M. (2008) The C-terminal extension of ferrochelatase is critical for enzyme activity and for functioning of the tetrapyrrole pathway in Synechocystis strain PCC 6803. J. Bacteriol. 190: 2086-95.

• Sobotka, R., Komenda, J., Bumba, L., Tichy, M. (2005) Photosystem II assembly in CP47 mutant of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 is dependent on the level of chlorophyll precursors regulated by ferrochelatase. J. Biol. Chem. 280: 31595-31602.