Publications of the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics 1947 – present

Banerjee, A.; Ghosh, A.; Mills, D. J.; Kahnt, J.; Vonck, J.; Albers, S.-V.: FlaX, A Unique Component of the Crenarchaeal Archaellum, Forms Oligomeric Ring-shaped Structures and Interacts with the Motor ATPase FlaI. The Journal of Biological Chemistry 287 (52), pp. 43322 - 43330 (2012)

El Hammi, E.; Warkentin, E.; Demmer, U.; Marzouki, N. M.; Ermler, U.; Baciou, L.: Active site analysis of yeast flavohemoglobin based on its structure with a small ligand or econazole. The FEBS Journal 279 (24), pp. 4565 - 4575 (2012)

Gradogna, A.; Fenollar-Ferrer, C.; Forrest, L. R.; Pusch, M.: Dissecting a regulatory calcium-binding site of CLC-K kidney chloride channels. Journal of General Physiology 140 (6), pp. 681 - 696 (2012)

Terpitz, U.; Letschert, S.; Bonda, U.; Spahn, C.; Guan, C.; Sauer, M.; Zimmermann, U.; Bamberg, E.; Zimmermann, D.; Sukhorukov, . L.: Dielectric Analysis and Multi-cell Electrofusion of the Yeast Pichia pastoris for Electrophysiological Studies. Journal of Membrane Biology 245 (12), pp. 815 - 826 (2012)

Wang, T.; Langer, J. D.; Peng, G.; Michel, H.: Isolation, functional characterization and crystallization of Aq_1259, an outer membrane protein with porin features, from Aquifex aeolicus. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Proteins and Proteomics 1824 (12), pp. 1358 - 1365 (2012)

Mayer, F.; Leone, V.; Langer, J. D.; Faraldo-Gómez, J. D.; Müller, V.: A c Subunit with Four Transmembrane Helices and One Ion (Na⁺)-binding Site in an Archaeal ATP Synthase. The Journal of Biological Chemistry 287 (47), pp. 39327 - 39337 (2012)

Khafizov, K.; Perez, C.; Koshy, C.; Quick, M.; Fendler, K.; Ziegler, C.; Forrest, L. R.: Investigation of the sodium binding sites in the betaine transporter BetP. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 109 (44), pp. E3035 - E3045 (2012)

Upadhyay, V.; Demmer, U.; Warkentin, E.; Moll, J.; Shima, S.; Ermler, U.: Structure and Catalytic Mechanism of N⁵,N¹⁰-Methenyltetrahydromethanopterin Cyclohydrolase. Biochemistry 51 (42), pp. 8435 - 8443 (2012)

Imhof, M.; Rhinow, D.; Linne, U.; Hampp, N.: Two-Photon-Induced Selective Decarboxylation of Aspartic Acids D85 and D212 in Bacteriorhodopsin. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 3 (20), pp. 2991 - 2994 (2012)

Perez, C.; Koshy, C.; Yildiz, Ö.; Ziegler, C.: Alternating-access mechanism in conformationally asymmetric trimers of the betaine transporter BetP. Nature 490, pp. 126 - 130 (2012)

Rekittke, I.; Jomaa, H. H.; Ermler, U.: Structure of the GcpE (IspG)-MEcPP complex from Thermus thermophilus. FEBS Letters 586 (19), pp. 3452 - 3457 (2012)

Herzog, E.; Gu, W.; Juhnke, H. D.; Haas, A. H.; Mäntele, W.; Simon, J.; Volkhard, H.; Lancaster, C. R. D.: Hydrogen-Bonded Networks Along and Bifurcation of the E-Pathway in Quinol:Fumarate Reductase. Biophysical Journal 103 (6), pp. 1305 - 1314 (2012)

Shima, S.; Ermler, U.: Crystal structure and biochemistry of methyl-coenzyme M reductase from Black Sea mats mediating anaerobic oxidation of methane. Biseibutsu Seitai 27 (2), pp. 55 - 62 (2012)

Davies, K. M.; Anselmi, C.; Wittig, I.; Faraldo-Gómez, J. D.; Kühlbrandt, W.: Structure of the yeast F₁F₀-ATP synthase dimer and its role in shaping the mitochondrial cristae. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 109 (34), pp. 13602 - 13607 (2012)

Imhof, M.; Pudewills, J.; Rhinow, D.; Chizhik, I.; Hampp, N.: Stability of Purple Membranes from Halobacterium salinarum toward Surfactants: Inkjet Printing of a Retinal Protein. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 116 (32), pp. 9727 - 9731 (2012)

Althoff, T.; Davies, K. M.; Schulze, S.; Joos, F.; Kühlbrandt, W.: GRecon: A Method for the Lipid Reconstitution of Membrane Proteins. Angewandte Chemie, International Edition in English 51 (33), pp. 8343 - 8347 (2012)

Schulz, K. L.; Eckert, A.; Rhein, V.; Mai, S.; Haase, W.; Reichert, A. S.; Jendrach, M.; Müller, W. E.; Leuner, K.: A New Link to Mitochondrial Impairment in Tauopathies. Molecular Neurobiology 46 (1), pp. 205 - 216 (2012)

Hakulinen, J. K.; Klyszejko, A. L.; Hoffmann, J.; Eckardt-Strelau, L.; Brutschy, B.; Vonck, J.; Meier, T.: Structural study on the architecture of the bacterial ATP synthase F₀ motor. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 109 (30), pp. E2050 - E2056 (2012)

Goswami, D.; Kaur, J.; Surade, S.; Grell, E.; Michel, H.: Heterologous production and functional and thermodynamic characterization of cation diffusion facilitator (CDF) transporters of mesophilic and hyperthermophilic origin. Biological Chemistry 393 (7), pp. 617 - 629 (2012)

Herz, J.; Verhoefen, M.-K.; Weber, I.; Bamann, C.; Glaubitz, C.; Wachtveitl, J.: Critical Role of Asp227 in the Photocycle of Proteorhodopsin. Biochemistry 51 (28), pp. 5589 - 5560 (2012)

Rhinow, D.; Imhof, M.; Chizhik, I.; Baumann, R.-P.; Hampp, N.: Structural Changes in Bacteriorhodopsin Caused by Two-Photon-Induced Photobleaching. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 116 (25), pp. 7455 - 7462 (2012)

Kowalewski, B.; Poppe, J.; Demmer, U.; Warkentin, E.; Dierks, T.; Ermler, U.; Schneider, K.: Nature’s Polyoxometalate Chemistry: X-ray Structure of the Mo Storage Protein Loaded with Discrete Polynuclear Mo−O Clusters. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A 134 (23), pp. 9768 - 9774 (2012)

Scholz, F.; Bamberg, E.; Bamann, C.; Wachtveitl, J.: Tuning the Primary Reaction of Channelrhodopsin-2 by Imidazole, pH, and Site-Specific Mutations. Biophysical Journal (Annual Meeting Abstracts) 102 (11), pp. 2649 - 2657 (2012)

Korkmaz, F.; Köster, S.; Yildiz, Ö.; Mäntele, W.: In situ opening/closing of OmpG from E. coli and the splitting of β-sheet signals in ATR–FTIR spectroscopy. Spectrochimica Acta, Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy 91, pp. 395 - 401 (2012)

Thielmann, Y.; Koepke, J.; Michel, H.: The ESFRI Instruct Core Centre Frankfurt: automated high-throughput crystallization suited for membrane proteins and more. Journal of Structural and Functional Genomics, pp. 63 - 69 (2012)

Schushan, M.; Rimon, A.; Haliloglu, T.; Forrest, L. R.; Padan, E.; Ben-Tal, N.: A Model-Structure of a Periplasm-facing State of the NhaA Antiporter Suggests the Molecular Underpinnings of pH-induced Conformational Changes. The Journal of Biological Chemistry 287 (22), pp. 18249 - 18261 (2012)

Pogoryelov, D.; Klyszejko, A.; Krasnoselska, G. O.; Heller, E.-M.; Leone, V.; Langer, J. D.; Vonck, J.; Müller, D. J.; Faraldo-Gómez, J. D.; Meier, T.: Engineering rotor ring stoichiometries in the ATP synthase. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 109 (25), pp. E1599 - E1608 (2012)

Nack, M.; Radu, I.; Schultz, B.-J.; Resler, T.; Schlesinger, R.; Bondar, A.-N.; del Val, C.; Abbruzzetti, S.; Viappiani, C.; Bamann, C. et al.; Bamberg, E.; Heberle, J.: Kinetics of proton release and uptake by channelrhodopsin-2. FEBS Letters 586 (9), pp. 1344 - 1348 (2012)

Rycovska, A.; Hatahet, L.; Fendler, K.; Michel, H.: The nitrite transport protein NirC from Salmonella typhimurium is a nitrite/proton antiporter. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Biomembranes 1818 (5), pp. 1342 - 1350 (2012)

Symersky, J.; Pagadala, V.; Osowski, D.; Krah, A.; Meier, T.; Faraldo-Gómez, J. D.; Mueller, D. M.: Structure of the c₁₀ ring of the yeast mitochondrial ATP synthase in the open conformation. Nature Structural and Molecular Biology 19, pp. 485 - 491 (2012)

Walter, A.; Muzik, H.; Vieker, H.; Turchanin, A.; Beyer, A.; Gölzhäuser, A.; Lacher, M.; Steltenkamp, S.; Schmitz, S.; Holik, P. et al.; Kühlbrandt, W.; Rhinow, D.: Practical aspects of Boersch phase contrast electron microscopy of biological specimens. Ultramicroscopy 116, pp. 62 - 72 (2012)

Steinbach, A.; Fraas, S.; Harder, J.; Warkentin, E.; Kroneck, P. M. H.; Ermler, U.: Crystal structure of a ring-cleaving cyclohexane-1,2-dione hydrolase, a novel member of the thiamine diphosphate enzyme family. The FEBS Journal 279 (7), pp. 1209 - 1219 (2012)

Michel, H.: The Nonsense of Biofuels. Angewandte Chemie, International Edition in English 51 (11), pp. 2516 - 2518 (2012)

Burkhardt, J.; Vonck, J.; Langer, J. D.; Salzer, R.; Averhoff, B.: Unusual N-terminal ααβαββα Fold of PilQ from Thermus thermophilus Mediates Ring Formation and Is Essential for Piliation. The Journal of Biological Chemistry 287 (11), pp. 8484 - 8494 (2012)

Kirchberg, K.; Michel, H.; Alexiev, U.: Net Proton Uptake Is Preceded by Multiple Proton Transfer Steps upon Electron Injection into Cytochrome c Oxidase. The Journal of Biological Chemistry 287 (11), pp. 8187 - 8193 (2012)

Cenacchi, L.; Busch, M.; Schleidt, P. G.; Müller, F. G.; Stumpp, T. V. M.; Mäntele, W.; Trost, P.; Lancaster, C. R. D.: Heterologous production and characterisation of two distinct dihaem-containing membrane integral cytochrome b₅₆₁ enzymes from Arabidopsis thaliana in Pichia pastoris and Escherichia coli cells. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Biomembranes 1818 (3), pp. 679 - 688 (2012)

Plessy, C.; Pascarella, G.; Bertin, N.; Akalin, A.; Carrieri, C.; Vassalli, A.; Lazarevic, D.; Severin, J.; Vlachouli, C.; Simone, R. et al.; Faulkner, G. J.; Kawai, J.; Daub, C. O.; Zucchelli, S.; Hayashizaki, Y.; Mombaerts, P.; Lenhard, B.; Gustincich, S.; Carninci, P.: Promoter architecture of mouse olfactory receptor genes. Genome Research 22 (3), pp. 486 - 497 (2012)

Gao, Y.; Meyer, B.; Sokolova, L.; Zwicker, K.; Karas, M.; Brutschy, B.; Peng, G.; Michel, H.: Heme-copper terminal oxidase using both cytochrome c and ubiquinol as electron donors. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 109 (9), pp. 3275 - 3280 (2012)

Kliefoth, M.; Langer, J. D.; Matschiavelli, N.; Oelgeschläger, E.; Rother, M.: Genetic analysis of MA4079, an aldehyde dehydrogenase homolog, in Methanosarcina acetivorans. Archives of Microbiology 194 (2), pp. 75 - 85 (2012)

Schlegel, K.; Leone, V.; Faraldo-Gómez, J. D.; Müller, V.: Promiscuous archaeal ATP synthase concurrently coupled to Na⁺ and H⁺ translocation. Exploring copper compounds, pp. 947 - 952 (2012)

Shima, S.; Krueger, M.; Weinert, T.; Demmer, U.; Kahnt, J.; Thauer, R. K.; Ermler, U.: Structure of a methyl-coenzyme M reductase from Black Sea mats that oxidize methane anaerobically. Nature 481 (7379), pp. 98 - 101 (2012)

Hizlan, D.; Robson, A.; Whitehouse, S.; Gold, V. A.; Vonck, J.; Mills, D.; Kühlbrandt, W.; Collinson, I.: Structure of the SecY Complex Unlocked by a Preprotein Mimic. Cell Reports 1 (1), pp. 21 - 28 (2012)

Kämpken, B.; Wulf, V.; Auner, N.; Winhold, M.; Huth, M.; Rhinow, D.; Terfort, A.: Directed deposition of silicon nanowires using neopentasilane as precursor and gold as catalyst. Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology 3, pp. 535 - 545 (2012)

Rhinow, D.; Weber, N.-E.; Turchanin, A.: Atmospheric Pressure, Temperature-Induced Conversion of Organic Monolayers into Nanocrystalline Graphene. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 116 (22), pp. 12295 - 12303 (2012)

Sanderson, J. P.; Waldburger-Hauri, K.; Garzón, D.; Matulis, G.; Mansour, S.; Pumphrey, N. J.; Lissin, N.; Villiger, P. M.; Jakobsen, B.; Faraldo-Gómez, J. D. et al.; Gadola, S. D.: Natural variations at position 93 of the invariant Vα24-Jα18 α chain of human iNKT-cell TCRs strongly impact on CD1d binding. European Journal of Immunology 42 (1), pp. 248 - 255 (2012)

Schweikhard, E. S.; Ziegler, C. M.: Chapter One – Amino Acid Secondary Transporters: Toward a Common Transport Mechanism. Current Topics in Membranes 70, pp. 1 - 28 (2012)

Abeyrathne, P. D.; Arheit, M.; Kebbel, F.; Castano-Diez, D.; Goldie, K. N.; Chami, M.; Stahlberg, H.; Renault, L.; Kühlbrandt, W.: Analysis of 2-D Crystals of Membrane Proteins by Electron Microscopy. In: Comprehensive Biophysics, pp. 277 - 310 (Ed. Egelman, E. H.). Elsevier (2012)

Kühlbrandt, W.: Combining Cryo-EM and X-ray Crystallography to Study Membrane Protein Structure and Function. In: Macromolecular Crystallography: Deciphering the Structure, Function and Dynamics of Biological Molecules, pp. 93 - 101 (Eds. Carrondo, M. A.; Spadon, P.). Springer Science and Business Media B.V., Dordrecht, The Netherlands (2012)

Vonck, J.: Supramolecular Organization of the Respiratory Chain. In: A Structural Perspective on Respiratory Complex I: Structure and Function of NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase, pp. 247 - 277 (Ed. Sazanov, L.). Springer Science and Business Media, Dordrecht The Netherlands (2012)

Hammann, E.; Zappe, A.; Keis, S.; Ernst, S.; Matthies, D.; Meier, T.; Cook, G. M.; Börsch, M.: Step size of the rotary proton motor in single F_oF₁-ATP synthase from a thermoalkaliphilic bacterium by DCO-ALEX FRET. In: Proceedings of the SPIE, Vol. 8228. Proceedings of SPIE; 8228 : Single Molecule Spectroscopy and Superresolution Imaging V, 13 February 2012. (2012)

Hakulinen, J.: Biochemical and structural investigations on the architecture of the F_o complex from Ilyobacter tartaricus ATP synthase. Dissertation, Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main (2012)

Mager, T. M.-H.: Transportmechanismus und pH-Regulationsmechanismus des Natrium/Protonen Antiporters NhaA von Escherichia coli. Dissertation, Goethe-Universität, Fachbereich Biochemie, Chemie und Pharmazie, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (2012)

Crisman, T. J.: Computational Studies of Glutamate Transporters. Dissertation, Goethe-Universität, Fachbereich Biochemie, Chemie und Pharmazie, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (2012)

Gao, Y.: Structural and functional characterization of Aquifex aeolicus cytochrome oxidase and its supercomplex. Dissertation, 125 pp., Goethe-Universität, Fachbereich Biochemie, Chemie und Pharmazie, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (2012)

Perez, C.: Structural and functional studies on the osmoregulated trimeric Na⁺/betaine symporter BetP from Corynebacterium glutamicum. Dissertation, 272 pp., Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main (2012)

Wang, T.: Functional and Structural Membrane Proteomics using Aquifex aeolicus. Dissertation, 151 pp., Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (2012)

Weidenweber, S.: Crotonyl-CoA-Carboxylase/Reduktase: Expression, Reinigung, Kristallisation und Struktur. Diploma, 121 pp., Goethe-Universität, Fachbereich Biochemie, Chemie und Pharmazie, Frankfurt am Main (2012)

Faust, B. R.: Structural and functional investigation of substrate and co-substrate binding to the Na⁺/betaine symporter BetP from Corynebacterium glutamicum. Diploma, 130 pp., Fachbereich Biochemie, Chemie und Pharmazie, Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main (2012)

Koc, Ö.: Klonierung, Expression und funktionelle Charakterisierung der D46N Variante der Fucose Permease aus Escherichia coli. Diploma, 72 pp., Goethe Universität, Fachbereich Biowissenschaften, Frankfurt am Main (2012)

Mühleip, A.: Tomographic studies of membranes of alkaliphilic bacteria. Diploma, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main (2012)

Safarian, S.: Lipid based techniques for reconstitution and biophysical investigations of membrane proteins. Master, 89 pp., Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (2012)

Braner, M.: Elektrophysiologische Charakterisierung von Mutanten des Na⁺/H⁺-Austauschers NhaA von E.coli. Master, 88 pp., Goethe-Universität, Fachbereich Biochemie, Chemie und Pharmazie, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (2012)

Giri, A.: Identification of ligand binding residues in Vesicular acetylcholine transporter. Master, 69 pp., Bonn-Aachen International Center for Information Technology (B-IT), University of Bonn, Bonn (2012)

Juli, J.: Heterologous overexpression and studies of Aquifex aeolicus cytochromes c₅₅₅. Bachelor, 42 pp., Goethe-Universität, Fachbereich Physik, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (2012)

Kubsch, B.: Electrophysiological characterization of the V254C and H225R variants of the Escherichia coli Na⁺/H⁺ exchanger NhaA. Bachelor, Lausitz University of Applied Sciences (LUAS), Senftenberg and Cottbus, Germany (2012)