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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., 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.

Dobáková, M., Sobotka, R., Tichý, M., Komenda, J. (2009) Psb28 protein is i volved in the biogenesis of the photosystem II inner antenna CP47 (PsbB) in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. Plant Physiology 149, 1076-1086.

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.

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.

Kopečná, J, Komenda, J, Bučinská, L, Sobotka, R: Long-term acclimation of the cyanobacterium Synechocystis PCC6803 to high light is accompanied by an enhanced production of chlorophyll that is preferentially channeled to trimeric PSI. Plant Physiology 160, 2239-2250, 2012.

Kafková, L, Ammerman, ML, Faktorová, D, Fisk, JC, Zimmer, SL, Sobotka, R, Read, LK, Lukeš, J, Hashimi, H: Functional characterization of two paralogs that are novel RNA binding proteins influencing mitochondrial transcripts of Trypanosoma brucei. RNA 18, 1846-1861, 2012.

Hollingshead, S, Kopečná, J, Jackson, PJ, Canniffe, DP, Davidson, PA, Dickman, MJ, Sobotka, R, Hunter, CN: Conserved chloroplast open-reading freame ycf54 is required for activity of the magnesium protoporphyrin  monomethylester oxidative cyclase in Synechocystis PCC 6803. Journal of Biological Chemistry 287, 27823-27833, 2012.

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Qi, M, Taunt, HN, Bečková, M, Xia, Z, Trinugroho, JP, Komenda, J, Nixon, PJ*: Enhancing the production of chlorophyll f in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. Physiologia Plantarum 177(2), e70169, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1111/ppl.70169

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Kaňa, R*, Eichner, M, Gall, A, Ilioaia, C*: Spatial heterogeneity in the photobiology of phototrophs - questions and methods. Frontiers in Photobiology 2, 1384522, 2024. https://doi.org/10.3389/fphbi.2024.1384522

Schmidt, N, Stappert, N, Nimura-Matsune, K, Watanabe, S, Sobotka, R, Hagemann, M*, Hess, WR*: Epigenetic control of tetrapyrrole biosynthesis by m4C DNA methylation in a cyanobacterium. DNA Research 31(6), dsae035, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1093/dnares/dsae035

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