Publications

Research papers published with the support of the centre funding:


2024
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. DOI: 10.1128/msystems.01311-23

2023
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

J. T. H. Chan, A. Picard-Sánchez, J. Majstorović, A. Rebl, D. Koczan, F. Dyčka, A. S. Holzer, T. Korytář (2023). Red blood cells in proliferative kidney disease—rainbow trout (oncorhynchus mykiss) infected by tetracapsuloides bryosalmonae harbor IgM+ red blood cells. Frontiers in Immunology, 14. doi:10.3389/fimmu.2023.1041325

Sergio A. Muñoz-Gómez, Lawrence Rudy Cadena, Alastair T. Gardiner, Michelle M. Leger, Shaghayegh Sheikh, Louise B. Connell, Tomáš Bilý, Karel Kopejtka, J. Thomas Beatty, Michal Koblížek, Andrew J. Roger, Claudio H. Slamovits, Julius Lukeš, Hassan Hashimi (2023). Intracytoplasmic-membrane development in alphaproteobacteria involves the homolog of the mitochondrial crista-developing protein Mic60. Current Biology, Volume 33, Issue 7,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.03.049

Mazanec H, Buskova N, Gardian Z, Kuchta R. Secretion of extracellular vesicles during ontogeny of the tapeworm Schistocephalus solidus. Folia Parasitol. 2023 Jan 16;70:2023.003. doi: 10.14411/fp.2023.003.

Gardiner T. A., Mujakić I., Bína D., Gardian Z., Kopejtka K., Nupur, Qian P., Koblížek M.2023: Characterisation of the photosynthetic complexes from the marine gammaproteobacterium Congregibacter litoralis KT71. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) – Bioenergetics, 1864, Issue 2, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbabio.2022.148946. 

Serhii Filatov, Filip Dyčka, Jan Sterba, Ryan O.M. Rego (2023). A simple non-invasive method to collect soft tick saliva reveals differences in Ornithodoros moubata saliva composition between ticks infected and uninfected with Borrelia duttonii spirochetes. Front. Cell. Infect. Microbiol., Sec. Parasite and Host, Volume 13. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fcimb.2023.1112952

2022
Paulina Duhita Anindita, Marco Halbeisen, David Řeha, Roman Tuma, Zdenek Franta
(2022). Mechanistic insight into the RNA-stimulated ATPase activity of tick-borne encephalitis virus helicase. Journal of Biological Chemistry, Volume 298, Issue 10, 102383. doi: 10.1016/j.jbc.2022.102383

Anezka Kafkova, Lisa Tilokani, Filip Trčka, Veronika Šrámková, Marie Vancová, Tomáš Bílý, Jana Nebesařová, Julien Prudent, Jan Trnka (2022). Selective and reversible disruption of mitochondrial inner membrane protein complexes by lipophilic cations. Mitochondrion, doi: 10.1016/j.mito.2022.11.006

Vadim Nikitushkin, Margarita Shleeva, Dmitry Loginov, Filip Dycka, Jan Sterba, Arseny Kaprelyants (2022). Shotgun proteomic profiling of dormant, ‘nonculturable’ mycobacterium tuberculosis. PLoS ONE, 17(8) doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0269847

Zuzana Riedelová, Andres de los Santos Pereira, Jan Svoboda, Ognen Pop-Georgievski, Pavel Májek, Klára Pečánková, Filip Dyčka, Cesar Rodriguez-Emmenegger, Tomáš Riedel (2022). The relation between protein adsorption and hemocompatibility of antifouling polymer brushes. Macromolecular Bioscience, doi:10.1002/mabi.202200247

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.

MarieVancová, Radim Skoupý, Eva Ďurinová, Tomáš Bílý, Jana Nebesářová, Vladislav Krzyžánek, Aleš Kolouch & Petr Horodyský. Cathodoluminescence imaging of cellular structures labeled with luminescent iridium or rhenium complexes at cryogenic temperatures. Sci. Rep. 1–9 (2022) doi:10.1038/s41598-022-17723-w.

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

2021
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.

Guillem Pascual-Aznar, Grzegorz Konert, Martina Bečková, Eva Kotabová, Zdenko Gardian, Jana Knoppová, Lenka Bučinská, Radek Kaňa, Roman Sobotka, Josef Komenda (2021) Psb35 Protein Stabilizes the CP47 Assembly Module and Associated High-Light Inducible Proteins during the Biogenesis of Photosystem II in the Cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC6803, Plant and Cell Physiology, Volume 62, Issue 1, January 2021, Pages 178–190, https://doi.org/10.1093/pcp/pcaa148

Karel Kopejtka, Yonghui Zeng, David Kaftan, Vadim Selyanin, Zdenko Gardian, Jürgen Tomasch, Ruben Sommaruga, Michal Koblížek (2021) Characterization of the aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic bacterium Sphingomonas sp. AAP5. Microorganisms 9, 768. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms9040768

Tomáš Bílý
, Shaghayegh Sheikh, Adeline Mallet, Philippe Bastin, David 
Pérez‐Morga, Julius Lukeš, Hassan Hashimi (2021), Ultrastructural Changes of the Mitochondrion During the Life Cycle of Trypanosoma brucei. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology. doi:10.1111/jeu.12846.

Lenka Rouhova, Barbara Kludkiewicz, Hana Sehadova, Michal Serya, Lucie Kucerova, Peter Konik, Michal Zurovec (2021)Silk of the common clothes moth, Tineola bisselliella, a cosmopolitan pest belonging to the basal ditrysian moth line. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 130 (2021) 103527. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ibmb.2021.103527

Jiří Kratochvíl, Vadym Prysiazhnyiac, Filip Dyčka, Ondřej Kylián, Peter Kúš, Petr Sezemský, Ján Štěrba, Vítězslav Straňák (2021) Gas aggregated Ag nanoparticles as the inorganic matrix for laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry. Applied Surface Science 541. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsusc.2020.148469.

2020
Hynek Mazanec, Peter Koník, Zdenko Gardian, Roman Kuchta (2020) Extracellular vesicles secreted by model tapeworm Hymenolepis diminuta: biogenesis, ultrastructure and protein composition.  Int J Parasitol S0020-7519(20)30317-9. 10.1016/j.ijpara.2020.09.010

Kopejtka K, Tomasch J, Zeng Y, Selyanin V, Dachev M, Piwosz K, Tichý M, Bína D, Gardian Z, Bunk B, Brinkmann H, Geffers R, Sommaruga R, Koblížek M. (2020). Simultaneous presence of bacteriochlorophyll and xanthorhodopsin genes in a freshwater bacterium. mSystems 5:e01044-20.

Stanek, O., Linhartova, I., Holubova, J., Bumba, L., Gardian, Z., Malandra, A., … & Sebo, P. (2020). Production of Highly Active Recombinant Dermonecrotic Toxin of Bordetella Pertussis. Toxins12(9), 596. 

Lucía Graña‑Miraglia, Silvie Sikutova, Marie Vancová, Tomáš Bílý, Volker Fingerle, Andreas Sing, Santiago Castillo‑Ramírez, Gabriele Margos & Ivo Rudolf (2020) Spirochetes isolated from arthropods constitute a novelgenus Entomospira genus novum within the order Spirochaetales. Scientific Reports 10:17053. 

Vadym Prysiazhnyi, Filip Dycka, Jiri Kratochvil, Vitezslav Stranak, Vladimir N. Popok (2020) Effect of Ag Nanoparticle Size on Ion Formation in Nanoparticle Assisted LDI MS. Applied Nano 1(1). https://doi.org/10.3390/applnano1010002.

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: 112085. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jphotobiol.2020.112085

Marie Vancová, Tomáš Bílý, Ladislav Šimo, Jan Touš, Petr Horodyský, Daniel Růžek, Adam Novobilský, Jiří Salát, Martin Strnad, Daniel E. Sonenshine, Libor Grubhoffer & Jana Nebesářová (2020) Three-dimensional reconstruction of the feeding apparatus of the tick Ixodes ricinus (Acari: Ixodidae): a new insight into the mechanism of blood-feeding, Scientific Reports 10 (165), DOI:10.1038/s41598-019-56811-2

Dmitry S. Loginov, Katharina Böttinger, Yana F. Loginova, Filip Dycka, Pavlina Vechtova, Jan Sterba (2020) Biotyping of IRE/CTVM19 Tick Cell Line Infected by Tick-Borne Encephalitis Virus. Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases 11(4):101420. DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2020.101420

Otakar Strunecký, Lenka Raabova, Alexandra Bernardová, Anna 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

2019
Martina Matoušková, Tomáš Bílý, Magdaléna Bruňanská, Mikuláš Oros, Borislav Kostič & Jana Nebesářová (2019) New data on spermiogenesis and trepaxonematan axoneme in basal tapeworms (Cestoda, Caryophyllidea, Lytocestidae) parasitizing cyprinid fshes, Scientific Reports 9(1), DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-49312-9

Litvín R, Bína D, Herbstová M, Pazderník M, Kotabová E, Gardian Z, Trtílek M, Prášil O, Vácha F (2019) Red-shifted light-harvesting system of freshwater eukaryotic alga Trachydiscus minutus (Eustigmatophyta, Stramenopila), Photosynth Res. doi: 10.1007/s11120-019-00662-5

Michaela Krafcikova, Simon Dzatko, Coralie Caron, Anton Granzhan, Radovan Fiala, Tomas Loja, Marie-Paule Teulade-Fichou, Tomas Fessl, Robert Hänsel-Hertsch, Jean-Louis Mergny, Silvie Foldynova-Trantirkova*, Lukas Trantirek* (2019) Monitoring DNA–Ligand Interactions in Living Human Cells Using NMR Spectroscopy, J. Am. Chem. Soc., https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.9b03031

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
, , , , , Tissue-specific signatures in tick cell line MS profiles. Parasites & Vectors 12(1): 212. DOI: 10.1186/s13071-019-3460-5

Vadym Prysiazhnyi, Filip Dycka, Jiri Kratochvil, Vitezslav Stranak, Petra Ksirova, Zdenek Hubicka (2019) Silver nanoparticles for solvent-free detection of small molecules and mass-to-charge calibration of laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry. Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B 37(1). DOI: 10.1116/1.5050878


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


Robin A Corey, Zainab Ahdash, Anokhi Shah, Euan Pyle, William John Allen, Tomas Fessl, Janet E Lovett, Argyris Politis, Ian Collinson (2019). ATP-induced asymmetric pre-protein folding as a driver of protein translocation through the Sec machinery. eLife, 2019-01-02 DOI: 10.7554/eLife.41803

Kateřina Osterrothová, Adam Culka, Kateřina Němečková, David Kaftan, Linda Nedbalová, Lenka Procházková, Jan Jehlička (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

David Kaftan, Hana Medová, Vadim Selyanin, Karel Kopejtka, Michal Koblížek (2019) Extended temperature optimum of photosynthetic reaction centers in Rhodobacterales. Photosynthetica 57(2): 361-366. DOI 10.32615/ps.2019.039

Otakar Strunecký, Karel Kopejtka, Franz Goecke, Juergen Tomasch, Jaromír Lukavský, Amir Neori, Silke Kahl, Dietmar H Pieper, Plamen Pilarski, David Kaftan, Michal Koblížek (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

2018
Marek Polášek, Roman J. Godunko, Sereina Rutschmann, Marek Svitok,Milan Novikmec & Světlana Zahrádková (2018). Integrative taxonomy of genus Electrogena (Ephemeroptera: Heptageniidae): the role of innovative morphological analyses for species delimitation. Anthrop. Syst. Phylogeny 76, 449-462.  

Streckaite S., Gardian Z., Li F., Pascal A.A., Litvin R., Robert B., Llansola-Portoles M.J. (2018) Pigment configuration in the light-harvesting protein of the xanthophyte alga Xanthonema debile. Photosynth Res. Jul 13. doi: 10.1007/s11120-018-0557-1

Martin Kornan, Marek Svitok (2018) Pairwise null model analyses of temporal patterns of birdassemblages contradict the assumptions of competition theory. Basic and Applied Ecology https://doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2018.07.001

Juraj Litavský, Slavomír Stašiov, Marek Svitok, Eva Michalková, Oto Majzlan, Hubert Žarnovičan, Peter Fedor (2018) Epigean communities of harvestmen (Opiliones) in Pannonian Basin floodplain forests: an interaction with environmental parameters. Biologia https://doi.org/10.2478/s11756-018-0084-8

Lucia Sochuliakova, Elwira Sienkiewicz, Ladislav Hamerlík, Marek Svitok, Dana Fidlerová, Peter Bitušík (2018) Reconstructing the Trophic History of an Alpine Lake (High Tatra Mts.) Using Subfossil Diatoms: Disentangling the Effects of Climate and Human Influence. WAter Air Soil Pollut 229:289.

Marek Svitok
, Milan Novikmec, Ladislav Hamerlík, Judita Kochjarová, Helena Oťaheľová, Peter Paľove-Balang, Dušan Senko, Zuzana Matúšová, Kateřina Bubíková, Richard Hrivnák (2018) Test of the efficiency of  environmental surrogates for the conservation prioritization of ponds based on macrophytes. Ecological Indicators 95, 606-614. 

Vladimír Viciana, Marek Svitok, Eva Michalková, Ivan Lukáčik, Slavomír Stašiov (2018) Influence of tree species and soil properties on ground beetle (Coleoptera:Carabidae) communities. Acta Oecologica 91, 120-126.


Daniel Kozák | Martin Mikoláš | Marek Svitok | Radek Bače | Yoan Paillet | Laurent Larrieu | Thomas A. Nagel | Krešimir Begovič | Vojtěch Čada | Abdulla Diku | Michal Frankovič | Pavel Janda | Ondrej Kameniar | Srđan Keren | Peter Kjučukov | Jana Lábusová | Thomas Langbehn | Jakub Málek | Stjepan Mikac | Robert C. Morrissey | Markéta H. Nováková | Jonathan S. Schurrman | Kristýna Svobodová | Michal Synek | Marius Teodosiu | Elvin Toromani | Volodymyr Trotsiuk | Lucie Vítková | Miroslav Svoboda (2018) Profile of tree-related microhabitats in European primary beech-dominated forests. Forest Ecology and Management online.


Ilektra-Chara Giassa, Jan Rynes, Tomas Fessl, Silvie Foldynova-Trantirkova, Lukas Trantirek (2018) Advances in the cellular structural biology of nucleic acids, FEBS Letters, accepted,
 

Jack P.K. Bravo, Alexander Borodavka, Anders Barth, Antonio N Calabrese, Peter Mojzes, Joseph J.B. Cockburn, Don C Lamb, Roman Tuma (2018) Stability of local secondary structure determines selectivity of viral RNA chaperones. Nucl. Acids Res. 

Tomas FesslDaniel WatkinsPeter OatleyWilliam John AllenRobin A CoreyJim HorneStephen A BaldwinSheena E RadfordIan CollinsonRoman Tuma (2018). Dynamic action of the Sec machinery during initiation, protein translocation and termination revealed by single molecule fluorescence. eLife 

Zannottia M.; Giovannettia R.; Minofar B.; Řeha D.; Plačková L.; D’Amatoa C.A.; Rommozzia E. Dudko H.V.; Karia N.; Minicucci M. (2018) Aggregation and metal-complexation behaviour of THPP porphyrin in ethanol/water solutions as function of pH. Spectrochim. Acta A, 193, 235-248. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.saa.2017.12.021

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

Dzatko, S., Krafcikova, M., Hänsel-Hertsch, R., Fessl, T., Fiala, R., Loja, T., Krafcik, D., Mergny, J.-L., Foldynova-Trantirkova, S. and Trantirek, L. (2017) Evaluation of stability of DNA i-motifs in the nuclei of living mammalian cells. Angew. Chem. Accepted Author Manuscript. doi:10.1002/ange.201712284