Zhao, Z, Vercellino, I, Knoppová, J, Sobotka, R, Murray, JW, Nixon, PJ*, Sazanov, LA*, Komenda, J*: The Ycf48 accessory factor occupies the site of the oxygen-evolving manganese cluster during photosystem II biogenesis. Nature Communications 14, 4681, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-40388-6

Yu, J*, Knoppová, J, Michoux, F, Bialek, W, Cota, E, Shukla, MK, Strašková, A, Pascual Aznar, G, Sobotka, R, Komenda, J, Murray, JW, Nixon, PJ*: Ycf48 involved in the biogenesis of the oxygen-evolving photosystem II complex is a seven-bladed beta-propeller protein. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 115(33), E7824-E7833, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1800609115

West, R, Keşan, G, Trsková, E, Sobotka, R, Kaňa, R, Fuciman, M, Polívka, T: Spectroscopic properties of the triple bond carotenoid alloxanthin. Chemical Physics Letters 653, 167–172, 2016.

Watzer, B, Spät, P, Neumann, N, Koch, M, Sobotka, R, Macek, B, Hennrich, O, Forchhammer, K*: The Signal Transduction Protein P-II Controls Ammonium, Nitrate and Urea Uptake in Cyanobacteria. Frontiers in Microbiology 10, 1428, 2019. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389%2Ffmicb.2019.01428

Wallner, T, Hagiwara, Y, Bernát, G, Sobotka, R, Reijerse, EJ, Frankenberg-Dinkel, N, Wilde, A: Inactivation of the conserved open reading frame ycf34 of Synechocystis sp. PCC6803 interferes dwith the photosynthetic electron transport chain. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1817, 2016-2026, 2012.

Vaňková, K, Marková, I, Jašprová, J, Dvořák, A, Subhanová, I, Zelenka, J, Novosádová, I, Rasl, J, Vomastek, T, Sobotka, R, Muchová, L, Vítek, L*: Chlorophyll-Mediated Changes in the Redox Status of Pancreatic Cancer Cells Are Associated with Its Anticancer Effects. Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity, 4069167, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/4069167

Trinugroho, JP, Bečková, M, Shao, S, Yu, J, Zhao, Z, Murray, JW, Sobotka, R, Komenda, J, Nixon, PJ*: Chlorophyll II f synthesis by a super-rogue photosystem II complex. Nature Plants 6, 238-244, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-020-0616-4

Tichý, M, Bečková, M, Kopečná, J, Noda, J, Sobotka, R, Komenda, J: Strain of Synechocystis PCC 6803 with aberrant assembly of Photosystem II contains tandem duplication of a large chromosomal region. Frontiers in Plant Science 7, 648, 2016.

Staleva, H, Komenda, J, Shukla, MK, Šlouf, V, Kaňa, R, Polívka, T, Sobotka, R: Mechanism of photoprotection in the cyanobacterial ancestor of plant antenna protein. Nature Chemical Biology 11, 287-291, 2015.

Sobotka, R., McLean, S., Žuberová, M., Hunter, C.N., Tichý, M. (2008) The C-Terminal extension of ferrochelatase is critical for enzyme aktivity and for functioning of the tetrapyrrole pathway in Synechocystis strain PCC 6803. Journal of Bacteriology 190, 2086-2095.

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

Sobotka, R., Dühring, U., Komenda, J., Peter, E., Gardian, Z., Tichý, M., Grimm, B., Wilde, A. (2008) Improtance of the cyanobacterial Gun4 protein for chlorophyll metabolism and assembly of photosynthetic complexes. Journal of Biological Chemistry 283, 25794-25802.

Sobotka, R: Making proteins green; biosynthesis of chlorophyll-binding proteins in cyanobacteria. Photosynthesis Research 119, 223-232, 2014.

Sobotka, R, Tichý, M, Wilde, A, Hunter, AN: Functional assignments for the carboxyl-terminal domains of the ferrochelatase from Synechocystis PCC 6803: The CAB domain plays a regulatory role, and region II is essential for catalysis^1[W]. Plant Physiology 155, 1735-1747, 2011.

Schwark, M, Yerena, JAM, Röhrborn, K, Hrouzek, P, Divoká, P, Štenclová, L, Delawská, K, Enke, H, Vorreiter, C, Wiley, F, Sippl, W, Sobotka, R, Saha, S, Wilde, SB, Mareš, J*, Niedermeyer, THJ*: More than just an eagle killer: The freshwater cyanobacterium Aetokthonos hydrillicola produces highly toxic dolastatin derivatives. PNAS 120(40), e2219230120, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2219230120

Sedláček, I*, Holochová, P, Busse, HJ, Koublová, V, Králová, S, Švec, P, Sobotka, R, Staňková, E, Pilný, J, Šedo, O, Smolíková, J, Sedlář, K: Characterisation of Waterborne Psychrophilic Massilia Isolates with Violacein Production and Description of Massilia antarctica sp. nov. Microorganisms 10(4), 704, 2022. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms10040704

Sedláček, I*, Holochová, P, Sobotka, R, Busse, HJ, Švec, P, Králová, S, Šedo, O, Pilný, J, Staňková, E, Koublová, V, Sedlář, K: Classification of a Violacein-Producing Psychrophilic Group of Isolates Associated with Freshwater in Antarctica and Description of Rugamonas violacea sp. nov. Microbiology Spectrum 9(1), e00452-21, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1128/Spectrum.00452-21 

Sedláček, I, Pantůček, R, Králová, S, Mašlaňová, I, Holochová, P, Staňková, E, Sobotka R, Barták, M, Busse, HJ, Švec, P*: Mucilaginibacter terrae sp. nov., isolated from Antarctic soil. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 67(10), 4002-4007, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.002240

Qian, P*, Gardiner, AT, Šímová, I, Naydenova, K, Croll, TI, Jackson, PJ, Nupur, Kloz, M, Čubáková, P, Kuzma, M, Zeng, Y, Castro-Hartmann, P, van Knippenberg, B, Goldie, KN, Kaftan, D, Hrouzek, P, Hájek, J, Agirre, J, Siebert, CA, Bína, D, Sader, K, Stahlberg, H, Sobotka, R, Russo, CJ, Polívka, T, Hunter, CN, Koblížek, M*: 2.4-Å structure of the double-ring Gemmatimonas phototrophica photosystem. Science Advances 8(7), eabk3139, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abk3139

Proctor, MS, Chidgey, JW, Shukla, MK, Jackson, PJ, Sobotka, R, Hunter, CN, Hitchcock, A*: Plant and algal chlorophyll synthases function in Synechocystis and interact with the YidC/Alb3 membrane insertase. FEBS Letters 592(18), 3062-3073, 2018. https://dx.doi.org/10.1002%2F1873-3468.13222