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  1. Photophobotaxis in the filamentous cyanobacterium Phormidium lacuna: Mechanisms and implications for photosynthesis‐based light direction sensing

    Article • Photochemistry and Photobiology, January 2024, Wiley

    Tilman Lamparter

  2. Phytochrome-Interacting Proteins

    Article • Biomolecules, December 2023, MDPI AG

    Tilman Lamparter

  3. Time‐resolved fluorescence anisotropy with Atto 488‐labeled phytochrome Agp1 from Agrobacterium fabrum

    Article • Photochemistry and Photobiology, September 2023, Wiley

    Tilman Lamparter

  4. Roles of phytochrome, PixJ, and photosynthesis in photophobotaxis of the filamentous cyanobacterium Phormidium lacuna

    Article • July 2023, Authorea, Inc.

    Tilman Lamparter

  5. Evidence for evolutionary relationship between archaeplastidal and cyanobacterial phytochromes based on their chromophore pockets

    Article • Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences, July 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Tilman Lamparter

  6. The involvement of type IV pili and the phytochrome CphA in gliding motility, lateral motility and photophobotaxis of the cyanobacterium Phormidium lacuna

    Article • PLoS ONE, January 2022, PLOS

    Tilman Lamparter

  7. Fungal phytochrome chromophore biosynthesis at mitochondria

    Article • The EMBO Journal, July 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Tilman Lamparter

  8. Phytochrome Mediated Responses in Agrobacterium fabrum: Growth, Motility and Plant Infection

    Article • Current Microbiology, May 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Tilman Lamparter

  9. The involvement of type IV pili and phytochrome in gliding motility, lateral motility and phototaxis of the cyanobacterium Phormidium lacuna

    Article • March 2021, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Tilman Lamparter

  10. Natural transformation of the filamentous cyanobacterium Phormidium lacuna

    Article • PLoS ONE, June 2020, PLOS

    Tilman Lamparter

  11. Two aspartate residues close to the lesion binding site of Agrobacterium (6‐4) photolyase are required for Mg2+ stimulation of DNA repair

    Article • European Journal of Biochemistry, February 2019, Wiley

    Tilman Lamparter

  12. Structural snapshot of a bacterial phytochrome in its functional intermediate state

    Article • Nature Communications, November 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Tilman Lamparter

  13. Modulation of DNA Repair Systems in Blind Cavefish during Evolution in Constant Darkness

    Article • Current Biology, October 2018, Elsevier

    Tilman Lamparter

  14. A highly efficient and cost-effective recombinant production of a bacterial photolyase from the Antarctic isolate Hymenobacter sp. UV11

    Article • Extremophiles, September 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Tilman Lamparter

  15. How Mg2+stimulates DNA repair in prokaryotic (6-4) photolyases

    Article • July 2018, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Tilman Lamparter

  16. Functional role of an unusual tyrosine residue in the electron transfer chain of a prokaryotic (6–4) photolyase

    Article • Chemical Science, January 2018, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Tilman Lamparter

  17. Phytochromes from Agrobacterium fabrum

    Article • Photochemistry and Photobiology, May 2017, Wiley

    Tilman Lamparter

  18. Intersubunit distances in full-length, dimeric, bacterial phytochrome Agp1, as measured by pulsed electron-electron double resonance (PELDOR) between different spin label positions, remain unchanged upon photoconversion

    Article • Journal of Biological Chemistry, March 2017, Elsevier

    Tilman Lamparter

  19. Crystal Structures of Bacterial (6-4) Photolyase Mutants with Impaired DNA Repair Activity

    Article • Photochemistry and Photobiology, January 2017, Wiley

    Tilman Lamparter

  20. Divalent Cations Increase DNA Repair Activities of Bacterial (6-4) Photolyases

    Article • Photochemistry and Photobiology, January 2017, Wiley

    Professor Lars-Oliver Essen, Tilman Lamparter

  21. The Crystal Structures of the N-terminal Photosensory Core Module of Agrobacterium Phytochrome Agp1 as Parallel and Anti-parallel Dimers

    Article • Journal of Biological Chemistry, September 2016, Elsevier

    Tilman Lamparter

  22. Bacteriophytochromes control conjugation in Agrobacterium fabrum

    Article • Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B Biology, August 2016, Elsevier

    Tilman Lamparter

  23. Spectroscopic Investigation on the Primary Photoreaction of Bathy Phytochrome Agp2‐Pr of Agrobacterium fabrum: Isomerization in a pH‐dependent H‐bond Network

    Article • ChemPhysChem, April 2016, Wiley

    Tilman Lamparter

  24. Cyanobacterial origin of plant phytochromes

    Article • PROTOPLASMA, February 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Tilman Lamparter

  25. Key Amino Acids in the Bacterial (6-4) Photolyase PhrB from Agrobacterium fabrum

    Article • PLoS ONE, October 2015, PLOS

    Tilman Lamparter

  26. Ubiquitous Structural Signaling in Bacterial Phytochromes

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, August 2015, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Tilman Lamparter

  27. Conformational heterogeneity of the Pfr chromophore in plant and cyanobacterial phytochromes

    Article • Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, July 2015, Frontiers

    Tilman Lamparter

  28. The Class III Cyclobutane Pyrimidine Dimer Photolyase Structure Reveals a New Antenna Chromophore Binding Site and Alternative Photoreduction Pathways

    Article • Journal of Biological Chemistry, May 2015, Elsevier

    Tilman Lamparter

  29. Streptophyte phytochromes exhibit an N-terminus of cyanobacterial origin and a C-terminus of proteobacterial origin

    Article • BMC Research Notes, April 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Tilman Lamparter

  30. Temperature Effects on Bacterial Phytochrome

    Article • PLoS ONE, October 2014, PLOS

    Tilman Lamparter

  31. Pigment–Protein Interactions in Phytochromes Probed by Fluorescence Line Narrowing Spectroscopy

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, November 2013, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Tilman Lamparter

  32. Unusual Spectral Properties of Bacteriophytochrome Agp2 Result from a Deprotonation of the Chromophore in the Red-absorbing Form Pr

    Article • Journal of Biological Chemistry, November 2013, Elsevier

    Tilman Lamparter

  33. Electronic transitions and heterogeneity of the bacteriophytochrome Pr absorption band: An angle balanced polarization resolved femtosecond VIS pump–IR probe study

    Article • Biophysical Journal, October 2013, Elsevier

    Tilman Lamparter

  34. Structure of the Biliverdin Cofactor in the Pfr State of Bathy and Prototypical Phytochromes

    Article • Journal of Biological Chemistry, June 2013, Elsevier

    Tilman Lamparter

  35. Crystal structure of a prokaryotic (6-4) photolyase with an Fe-S cluster and a 6,7-dimethyl-8-ribityllumazine antenna chromophore

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, April 2013, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Tilman Lamparter

  36. Assembly of Synthetic Locked Phycocyanobilin Derivatives with Phytochrome in Vitro and in Vivo in Ceratodon purpureus and Arabidopsis

    Article • The Plant Cell, May 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Tilman Lamparter

  37. A Photolyase-Like Protein from Agrobacterium tumefaciens with an Iron-Sulfur Cluster

    Article • PLoS ONE, October 2011, PLOS

    Tilman Lamparter

  38. Temperature Effects on Agrobacterium Phytochrome Agp1

    Article • PLoS ONE, October 2011, PLOS

    Tilman Lamparter

  39. Fluorescence of Phytochrome Adducts with Synthetic Locked Chromophores

    Article • Journal of Biological Chemistry, January 2011, Elsevier

    Tilman Lamparter

  40. Bathy Phytochromes in Rhizobial Soil Bacteria

    Article • Journal of Bacteriology, July 2010, ASM Journals

    Tilman Lamparter

  41. NMR Spectroscopic Investigation of Mobility and Hydrogen Bonding of the Chromophore in the Binding Pocket of Phytochrome Proteins

    Article • ChemPhysChem, April 2010, Wiley

    George Psakis, Tilman Lamparter

  42. Light‐Induced Activation of Bacterial Phytochrome Agp1 Monitored by Static and Time‐Resolved FTIR Spectroscopy

    Article • ChemPhysChem, April 2010, Wiley

    Tilman Lamparter

  43. Light‐Induced Conformational Changes of the Chromophore and the Protein in Phytochromes: Bacterial Phytochromes as Model Systems

    Article • ChemPhysChem, April 2010, Wiley

    Tilman Lamparter

  44. A Polarity Probe for Monitoring Light-induced Structural Changes at the Entrance of the Chromophore Pocket in a Bacterial Phytochrome

    Article • Journal of Biological Chemistry, September 2009, Elsevier

    Tilman Lamparter

  45. The use of synthetic linear tetrapyrroles to probe the verdin sites of human biliverdin‐IXα reductase and human biliverdin‐IXβ reductase

    Article • European Journal of Biochemistry, July 2009, Wiley

    Tilman Lamparter

  46. Characterization of the Covalent and Noncovalent Adducts of Agp1 Phytochrome Assembled with Biliverdin and Phycocyanobilin by Circular Dichroism and Flash Photolysis

    Article • Biochemistry, June 2009, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Tilman Lamparter

  47. Assembly of Agrobacterium Phytochromes Agp1 and Agp2 with Doubly Locked Bilin Chromophores

    Article • Biochemistry, January 2009, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Tilman Lamparter

  48. Spectral properties of phytochrome Agp2 from Agrobacterium tumefaciens are specifically modified by a compound of the cell extract

    Article • Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B Biology, October 2008, Elsevier

    Tilman Lamparter

  49. Light affects motility and infectivity of Agrobacterium tumefaciens

    Article • Environmental Microbiology, July 2008, Wiley

    Tilman Lamparter

  50. Chromophore Heterogeneity and Photoconversion in Phytochrome Crystals and Solution Studied by Resonance Raman Spectroscopy

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, June 2008, Wiley

    Daniel Murgida, Tilman Lamparter

  51. Subpicosecond Midinfrared Spectroscopy of the Pfr Reaction of Phytochrome Agp1 from Agrobacterium tumefaciens

    Article • Biophysical Journal, April 2008, Elsevier

    Tilman Lamparter

  52. Locked 5Zs‐biliverdin blocks the Meta‐RA to Meta‐RC transition in the functional cycle of bacteriophytochrome Agp1

    Article • FEBS Letters, October 2007, Wiley

    Tilman Lamparter

  53. Sub‐Picosecond Mid‐Infrared Spectroscopy of Phytochrome Agp1 from Agrobacterium tumefaciens

    Article • ChemPhysChem, July 2007, Wiley

    Tilman Lamparter

  54. Protein Conformational Changes of Agrobacterium Phytochrome Agp1 during Chromophore Assembly and Photoconversion

    Article • Biochemistry, March 2007, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Tilman Lamparter

  55. Light Modulation of Histidine‐Kinase Activity in Bacterial Phytochromes Monitored by Size Exclusion Chromatography, Crosslinking, and Limited Proteolysis

    Article • January 2007, Elsevier

    Tilman Lamparter

  56. Highly Conserved Residues Asp-197 and His-250 in Agp1 Phytochrome Control the Proton Affinity of the Chromophore and Pfr Formation

    Article • Journal of Biological Chemistry, November 2006, American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (ASBMB)

    Daniel Murgida, Tilman Lamparter

  57. Assembly of Synthetic Locked Chromophores with Agrobacterium Phytochromes Agp1 and Agp2

    Article • Journal of Biological Chemistry, September 2006, Elsevier

    Tilman Lamparter

  58. A computational approach to discovering the functions of bacterial phytochromes by analysis of homolog distributions

    Article • BMC Bioinformatics, March 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Tilman Lamparter

  59. Crystallization and preliminary X-ray crystallographic analysis of the N-terminal photosensory module of phytochrome Agp1, a biliverdin-binding photoreceptor from Agrobacterium tumefaciens

    Article • Journal of Structural Biology, January 2006, Elsevier

    Tilman Lamparter

  60. Phytochromes from Agrobacterium tumefaciens: Difference spectroscopy with extracts of wild type and knockout mutants

    Article • FEBS Letters, December 2005, Wiley

    Tilman Lamparter

  61. Light-induced Proton Release of Phytochrome Is Coupled to the Transient Deprotonation of the Tetrapyrrole Chromophore

    Article • Journal of Biological Chemistry, July 2005, American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (ASBMB)

    Daniel Murgida, Tilman Lamparter

  62. Sterically Locked Synthetic Bilin Derivatives and Phytochrome Agp1 from Agrobacterium tumefaciens Form Photoinsensitive Pr- and Pfr-like Adducts

    Article • Journal of Biological Chemistry, July 2005, Elsevier

    Tilman Lamparter

  63. Agrobacterium Phytochrome as an Enzyme for the Production of ZZE Bilins

    Article • Biochemistry, May 2005, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Tilman Lamparter

  64. Light-Induced Conformational Changes of Cyanobacterial Phytochrome Cph1 Probed by Limited Proteolysis and Autophosphorylation

    Article • Biochemistry, December 2004, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Tilman Lamparter

  65. Targeted site-directed mutagenesis of a heme oxygenase locus by gene replacement in the moss Ceratodon purpureus

    Article • Planta, December 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Tilman Lamparter

  66. The Mobility of Phytochrome within Protonemal Tip Cells of the Moss Ceratodon purpureus, Monitored by Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy

    Article • Biophysical Journal, September 2004, Elsevier

    Tilman Lamparter

  67. Evolution of cyanobacterial and plant phytochromes

    Article • FEBS Letters, July 2004, Wiley

    Tilman Lamparter

  68. Positive and Negative Tropic Curvature Induced by Microbeam Irradiation of Protonemal Tip Cells of the Moss Ceratodon purpureus

    Article • Plant Biology, March 2004, Wiley

    Tilman Lamparter

  69. The Biliverdin Chromophore Binds Covalently to a Conserved Cysteine Residue in the N-Terminus of Agrobacterium Phytochrome Agp1

    Article • Biochemistry, March 2004, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Tilman Lamparter

  70. Mechanism of Cph1 Phytochrome Assembly from Stopped-Flow Kinetics and Circular Dichroism

    Article • Biochemistry, October 2003, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Tilman Lamparter

  71. Biliverdin Binds Covalently to Agrobacterium Phytochrome Agp1 via Its Ring A Vinyl Side Chain

    Article • Journal of Biological Chemistry, September 2003, Elsevier

    Tilman Lamparter

  72. Dimerization and Inter-Chromophore Distance of Cph1 Phytochrome from Synechocystis, as Monitored by Fluorescence Homo and Hetero Energy Transfer

    Article • Biochemistry, April 2003, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Tilman Lamparter

  73. Phytochrome from Agrobacterium tumefaciens has unusual spectral properties and reveals an N-terminal chromophore attachment site

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, August 2002, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Tilman Lamparter

  74. Fluorescence investigation of the recombinant cyanobacterial phytochrome (Cph1) and its C-terminally truncated monomeric species (Cph1Δ2): implication for holoprotein assembly, chromophore–apoprotein interaction and photochemistry

    Article • Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B Biology, May 2002, Elsevier

    Dr Vitaly Alexey Sineshchekov, Tilman Lamparter

  75. Ultrafast Dynamics of Phytochrome from the Cyanobacterium Synechocystis, Reconstituted with Phycocyanobilin and Phycoerythrobilin

    Article • Biophysical Journal, February 2002, Elsevier

    Tilman Lamparter

  76. Recombinant holophytochrome in Escherichia coli

    Article • FEBS Letters, November 2001, Wiley

    Tilman Lamparter

  77. Phytochrome Cph1 from the cyanobacterium Synechocystis PCC6803

    Article • European Journal of Biochemistry, September 2001, Wiley

    Tilman Lamparter

  78. Light-Induced Proton Release and Proton Uptake Reactions in the Cyanobacterial Phytochrome Cph1

    Article • Biochemistry, August 2001, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Tilman Lamparter

  79. Characterization of the Cph1 holo‐phytochrome from Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803

    Article • European Journal of Biochemistry, April 2001, Wiley

    Tilman Lamparter

  80. Recombinant Phytochrome A in Yeast Differs by its Spectroscopic and Photochemical Properties from the Major phyA′ and is Close to the Minor phyA″: Evidence for Posttranslational Modification of the Pigment in Plants¶

    Article • Photochemistry and Photobiology, January 2001, Wiley

    Tilman Lamparter

  81. Spectroscopic Detection of a Phytochrome-like Photoreceptor in the Myxomycete Physarum polycephalum and the Kinetic Mechanism for the Photocontrol of Sporulation by Pfr¶

    Article • Photochemistry and Photobiology, January 2001, Wiley

    Tilman Lamparter

  82. Recombinant phytochrome of the moss Ceratodon purpureus (CP2): fluorescence spectroscopy and photochemistry

    Article • Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B Biology, July 2000, Elsevier

    Dr Vitaly Alexey Sineshchekov, Tilman Lamparter

  83. Microinjection of heme oxygenase genes rescues phytochrome-chromophore-deficient mutants of the moss Ceratodon purpureus

    Article • Planta, March 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Tilman Lamparter

  84. The Photoreactions of Recombinant Phytochrome from the Cyanobacterium Synechocystis: A Low-Temperature UV–Vis and FT-IR Spectroscopic Study

    Article • Photochemistry and Photobiology, January 2000, Wiley

    Tilman Lamparter

  85. Prokaryotes and Phytochrome. The Connection to Chromophores and Signaling

    Article • PLANT PHYSIOLOGY, December 1999, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Tilman Lamparter

  86. Phytochrome-controlled phototropism of protonemata of the moss Ceratodon purpureus : physiology of the wild type and class 2 ptr -mutants

    Article • Planta, September 1999, Springer Science + Business Media

    Tilman Lamparter

  87. Recombinant Phytochrome of the Moss Ceratodon purpureus: Heterologous Expression and Kinetic Analysis of Pr→ Pfr Conversion

    Article • Photochemistry and Photobiology, December 1998, Wiley

    Tilman Lamparter

  88. Blue light- and genetically-reversed gravitropic response in protonemata of the moss Ceratodon purpureus

    Article • Planta, July 1998, Springer Science + Business Media

    Tilman Lamparter

  89. Fluorescence and Photochemistry of Recombinant Phytochrome from the Cyanobacterium Synechocystis

    Article • Photochemistry and Photobiology, January 1998, Wiley

    Dr Vitaly Alexey Sineshchekov, Tilman Lamparter

  90. Light Regulation of Phytochrome Content in Wild-type and Aphototropic Mutants of the Moss Ceratodon purpureus

    Article • Photochemistry and Photobiology, January 1998, Wiley

    Tilman Lamparter

  91. Characterization of recombinant phytochrome from the cyanobacterium  Synechocystis

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, October 1997, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Tilman Lamparter

  92. Raman Spectroscopic and Light-Induced Kinetic Characterization of a Recombinant Phytochrome of the Cyanobacterium Synechocystis

    Article • Biochemistry, October 1997, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Tilman Lamparter

  93. A prokaryotic phytochrome

    Article • Nature, April 1997, Springer Science + Business Media

    Tilman Lamparter

  94. Phytochrome Control of Phototropism and Chlorophyll Accumulation in the Apical Cells of Protonemal Filaments of Wildtype and an Aphototropic Mutant of the Moss Ceratodon purpureus

    Article • Plant and Cell Physiology, January 1997, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Tilman Lamparter

  95. EVIDENCE FOR THE EXISTENCE OF MEMBRANE‐ASSOCIATED PHYTOCHROME IN THE CELL

    Article • Photochemistry and Photobiology, November 1994, Wiley

    Dr Vitaly Alexey Sineshchekov, Tilman Lamparter