Atomic force Microscopy
dkaftan at jcu.cz
CH 01 016
+420 387776227
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M.Sc. 1997, University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic
Ph.D. 2000, University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2000-2002, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Group Leader, 2003-2011, Laboratory of Nanobiology, Institute of Physical Biology, University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic
Research Fellow of Institute of Microbiology, 2014-present, Department of Phototrophic Microorganisms, Třeboň, Czech Republic
PI, 2012-present, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic
Research Interests and keywords:
1) Thermal stability of photosynthetic reaction centers
2) Electron transfer in biological systems
3) Atomic Force Microscopy – imaging, force measurements
4) Structure-function relationships in bacterial photosynthetic reaction centers and their light harvesting complexes – Gemmatimonadetes, Chloroflexi
Key recent publications:
Jürgen Tomasch, Karel Kopejtka, Tomáš Bílý, Alastair T. Gardiner, Zdenko Gardian, Sahana Shivaramu, Michal Koblížek, David Kaftan (2024) A photoheterotrophic bacterium from Iceland has adapted its photosynthetic machinery to the long days of polar summer. mSystems 9 (3). https://doi.org/10.1128/msystems.01311-23
Pavel Čurda, David Kaftan, Tomáš Kozák, Sanjay Kumar, Petr Sezemský, Vitězslav Straňák (2023) High-defined and size-selective deposition of nanoparticles by their manipulation in an electrostatic field. Applied Surface Science 640, 158307. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsusc.2023.158307
Karel Kopejtka, Jürgen Tomasch, David Kaftan, Alastair T. Gardiner, David Bína, Zdenko Gardian, Christopher Bellas, Astrid Dröge, Robet Geffers, Ruben Sommaruga, Michal Koblížek (2022) A bacterium from a mountain lake harvests light using both proton-pumping xanthorhodopsins and bacteriochlorophyll-based photosystems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119 (50): e2211018119 DOI 10.1073/pnas.2211018119.
Sanjay Kumar, Jiří Kratochvíl, Yasmina Al-Muhkhrabi, Eliška Kratochvílová, David Kahoun, David Kaftan, Jan Hanuš, Ján Štěrba, Vítězslav Straňák (2022) Surface anchored Ag nanoparticles: the role of surface free energy. Surfaces and Interfaces 30: 101818. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.surfin.2022.101818.
Pu Qian, Alastair Gardiner, Šímová Ivana, Kateřina Naydenova, Tristan Croll, Jackson Philip, Nupur Nupur, Yonghui Zeng, Pablo Castro-Hartmann , Bart Knippenberg, Kenneth Goldie, David Kaftan, Roman Sobotka, Miroslav Kloz, Petra Cubaková, Pavel Hrouzek, Jan Hájek, David Bína, Jon Agirre, Alistair Siebert, Kasim Sader, Henning Stahlberg, Christopher Russo, Tomáš Polívka, Neil Hunter, Michal Koblížek (2022) 2.4-Å structure of the double-ring Gemmatimonas phototrophica photosystem. Science Advances 8(7). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abk3139
Noelia Jaime-Pérez, David Bína, David Kaftan, Syed Nadeem Hussain Bokhari and Hendrik Küpper (2021) Naturally zinc-containing bacteriochlorofyll a ([Zn]-BChl a) protects the photosynthetic apparatus of Acidiphilium rubrum from copper toxicity damage. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta – Bioenergetics 1862 (10). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbabio.2021.148472
Vadim Prysiazhnyi, Jiří Kratochvíl, David Kaftan, Radim Čtvtlík, Vítězslav Straňák (2021) Growth of hard nanostructured ZrN surface induced by copper nanoparticles. Applied Surface Science 562, 150230. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsusc.2021.150230.
Michal Koblížek, Marko Dachev, David Bína, Nupur, Kasia Piwosz, David Kaftan (2020) Utilization of light energy in phototrophic Gemmatimonadetes. Journal of Photochemistry & Photobiology, B: Biology 213: 122085. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jphotobiol.2020.112085
Otakar Strunecky, Lenka Raabova, Alexandra Bernardova, Ana Pavlovna Ivanova, Alexandra Semanova, Joel Crossley, David Kaftan (2020) Diversity of cyanobacteria at the Alaska North Slope with description of two new genera: Gibliniella and Shackletoniella. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 96(3). https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiz189
David Kaftan, David Bína, Michal Koblížek (2019) Temperature dependence of photosynthetic reaction centre activity in Rhodospirillum rubrum. Photosynthesis Research 142: 181-193. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11120-019-00652-7
Volha Shmidt, David Kaftan, Avigdor Scherz, Avihai Danon (2019) Targeting mutations to the plastidial psbA gene of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii without direct positive selection. Scientific Reports 9: 7367, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-42617-9
Noelia Jaime-Pérez, David Kaftan, David Bína, Syed Nadeem Hussain Bokharia, Hendrik Küpper (2019) Mechanisms of sublethal copper toxicity damage to the photosynthetic apparatus of Rhodospirillum rubrum. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta – Bioenergetics 1860 (8): 640-650. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbabio.2019.06.004
David Kaftan (2019) Molecular docking of the TNF-derived TIP peptide to a ASIC1a-based model of the alpha subunit of the epithelial sodium channel (ENaC). In: Cytokine-Ion Channel Interactions in Pulmonary Inflammation (Vadász et Lucas eds.). Lausanne: Frontiers Media. pp. 1,5. doi: 10.3389/978-2-88945-703-8
Osterrothová, K., Culka A., Němečková, K., Kaftan, D., Nedbalová, L., Procházková, L., Jehlička, J. (2019) Analyzing carotenoids of snow algae by Raman microspectroscopy and high-performance liquid chromatography. Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy 212: 262-271. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.saa.2019.01.013
Kaftan, D., Medová, H., Selyanin, V., Kopejtka, K. and Koblížek, M. (2019) Extended temperature optimum of photosynthetic reaction centers in Rhodobacterales. Photosynthetica 57(2): 361-366. DOI 10.32615/ps.2019.039
Strunecký, O., Kopejtka, K., Goecke, F., Tomasch, J., Lukavský, J., Neori, A., Kahl, S., Pieper, D.H., Pilarski, P., Kaftan D. and Koblížek, M. (2019) High diversity of thermophilic cyanobacteria in Rupite hot-spring identified by microscopy, cultivation, single-cell PCR and amplicon sequencing. Extremophiles 23: 35-48. DOI: 10.1007/s00792-018-1058-z
Piwosz, K., Kaftan, D., Dean, J., Šetlík., J. and Koblížek (2018) Nonlinear effect of irradiance on photoheterotrophic activity and growth of the aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic bacterium Dinoroseobacter shibae. Environmental Microbiology. doi:10.1111/1462-2920.14003