Tomasch, J, Kopejtka, K, Bílý, T, Gardiner, AT, Gardian, Z, Shivaramu, S, Koblížek, M, Kaftan, D*: A photoheterotrophic bacterium from Iceland has adapted its photosynthetic machinery to the long days of polar summer. mSystems 9(3), e0131123, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1128/msystems.01311-23

Kaftan, D: O čem neměla Baba Vanga ani ponětí? Bulletin Československé společnosti mikrobiologické LXII(1), 22-27, 2022.

Kopejtka, K, Tomasch, J, Kaftan, D, Gardiner, AT, Bína, D, Gardian, Z, Bellas, C, Dröge, A, Geffers, R, Sommaruga, R, Koblížek, M*: A bacterium from a mountain lake harvests light using both proton-pumping xanthorhodopsins and bacteriochlorophyll-based photoystems. PNAS 119(50), e2211018119, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2211018119

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

Jaime-Perez, N, Bína, D, Kaftan, D, Bokhari, SNH, Küpper, H*: Naturally zinc-containing bacteriochlorophyll a ([Zn]-BChl a) protects the photosynthetic apparatus of Acidiphilium rubrum from copper toxicity damage. BBA - Bioenergetics 1862(10), 148472, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbabio.2021.148472

Kopejtka, K, Zeng, Y, Kaftan, D, Selyanin, V, Gardian, Z, Tomasch, J, Sommaruga, R, Koblížek, M*: Characterization of the Aerobic Anoxygenic Phototrophic Bacterium Sphingomonas sp. AAP5. Microorganisms 9(4), 768, 2021. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms9040768

Koblížek, M*, Dachev, M, Bína, D, Nupur, Piwosz, K, Kaftan, D: Utilization of light energy in phototrophic Gemmatimonadetes. Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology 213, 112085, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jphotobiol.2020.112085

Kaftan, D*, Bína, D, Koblížek, M: Temperature dependence of photosynthetic reaction centre activity in Rhodospirillum rubrum. Photosynthesis Research 142(2), 181-193, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11120-019-00652-7

Jaime-Pérez, N, Kaftan, D, Bína, D, Bokhari, SNH, Shreedhar, S, Küpper, H*: Mechanisms of sublethal copper toxicity damage to the photosynthetic apparatus of Rhodospirillum rubrum. BBA – Bioenergetics 1860(8), 640-650, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbabio.2019.06.004

Osterrothová, K*, Culka, A, Němečková, K, Kaftan, D, Nedbalová, L, Procházková, L, Jehlička, J: Analyzing carotenoids of snow algae by Raman microspectroscopy and high-performance liquid chromatography. Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy 212, 262-271, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.saa.2019.01.013

Schmidt, V, Kaftan, D, Scherz, A, Danon, A*: Targeting mutations to the plastidial psbA gene of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii without direct positive selection. Scientific Reports 9, 7367, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-42617-9

Kaftan, D, Medová, H, Selyanin, V, Kopejtka, K, Koblížek, M*: Extended temperature optimum of photosynthetic reaction centers in Rhodobacterales. Photosynthetica 57(2), 361-366, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.32615/ps.2019.039

Strunecký, O*, Kopejtka, K, Goecke, F, Tomasch, J, Lukavský, J, Neori, A, Kahl, S, Pieper, DH, Pilarski, P, Kaftan, D, Koblížek, M: High diversity of thermophilic cyanobacteria in Rupite hot spring identified by microscopy, cultivation, single-cell PCR and amplicon sequencing. Extremophiles 23(1), 35-48, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00792-018-1058-z

Piwosz, K, Kaftan, D, Dean, J, Šetlík, J, Koblížek, M*: Nonlinear effect of irradiance on photoheterotrophic activity and growth of the aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic bacterium Dinoroseobacter shibae. Environmental Microbiology 20(2), 724-733, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.14003

Dachev, M, Bína, D, Sobotka, R, Moravcová, L, Gardian, Z, Kaftan, D, Šlouf, V, Fuciman, M, Polívka, T, Koblížek, M*: Unique double concentric ring organization of light harvesting complexes in Gemmatimonas phototrophica. Plos Biology 15(12), e2003943, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2003943

Shlyk, O, Samish, I, Matěnová, M, Dulebo, A, Poláková, H, Kaftan, D*, Scherz, A: A single residue controls electron transfer gating in photosynthetic reaction centers. Scientific Reports 7, 44580, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep44580

Zeng, Y*, Selyanin, V, Lukeš, M, Dean, J, Kaftan, D, Feng, F, Koblížek, M: Erratum: Characterization of the microaerophilic, bacteriochlorophyll a-containing bacterium Gemmatimonas phototrophica sp. nov., and emended descriptions of the genus Gemmatimonas and Gemmatimonas aurantiaca. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 67(2), 521-522, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.001859

Lukeš, M, Procházková, L, Shmidt, V, Nedbalová, L, Kaftan, D: Temperature dependence of photosynthesis and thylakoid lipid composition in the red snow alga Chlamydomonas cf. nivalis (Chlorophyceae). FEMS Microbiology Ecology 89(2), 303-315, 2014.

Šlouf, V, Fuciman, M, Dulebo, A, Kaftan, D, Koblížek, M, Frank, HA, Polívka, T: Carotenoid Charge Transfer States and Their Role in Energy Transfer Processes in LH1-RC Complexes from Aerobic Anoxygenic Phototrophs. Journal of Physical Chemistry B 117, 10987-10999, 2013.