Publications of Dieter Oesterhelt

Lancaster, C. R. D.; Bibikova, M.; Sabatino, P.; Oesterhelt, D.; Michel, H.: Structural basis of the drastically increased initial electron transfer rate in the reaction center from a Rhodopseudomonas viridis mutant described at 2.00-A resolution. The Journal of Biological Chemistry 275 (50), pp. 39364 - 39368 (2000)

Kuglstatter, A.; Hellwig, P.; Fritzsch, G.; Wachtveitl, J.; Oesterhelt, D.; Mäntele, W.; Michel, H.: Identification of a hydrogen bond in the Phe M197→Tyr mutant reaction center of the photosynthetic purple bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides by X-ray crystallography and FTIR spectroscopy. FEBS Letters 463 (1-2), pp. 169 - 174 (1999)

Ganea, C.; Tittor, J.; Bamberg, E.; Oesterhelt, D.: Chloride- and pH-dependent proton transport by BR mutant D85N. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Biomembranes 1368 (1), pp. 84 - 96 (1998)

Tittor, J.; Haupts, U.; Haupts, C.; Oesterhelt, D.; Becker, A.; Bamberg, E.: Chloride and proton transport in bacteriorhodopsin mutant D85T: different modes of ion translocation in a retinal protein. Journal of Molecular Biology (London) 271 (3), pp. 405 - 416 (1997)

Haupts, U.; Tittor, J.; Bamberg, E.; Oesterhelt, D.: General Concept for Ion Translocation by Halobacterial Retinal Proteins:  The Isomerization/Switch/Transfer (IST) Model. Biochemistry 36 (1), pp. 2 - 7 (1997)

Haupts, U.; Bamberg, E.; Oesterhelt, D.: Different modes of proton translocation by sensory rhodopsin I. EMBO Journal 15 (8), pp. 1834 - 1841 (1996)

Dohse, B.; Mathis, P.; Wachtveitl, J.; Laussermair, E.; Iwata, S.; Michel, H.; Oesterhelt, D.: Electron Transfer from the Tetraheme Cytochrome to the Special Pair in the Rhodopseudomonas viridis Reaction Center: Effect of Mutations of Tyrosine L162. Biochemistry 34 (36), pp. 11335 - 11343 (1995)

Tittor, J.; Oesterhelt, D.; Bamberg, E.: Bacteriorhodopsin mutants D85N, D85T and D85,96N as proton pumps. Biophysical Chemistry 56 (1-2), p. 153-157 (1995)

Schertler, G. F.; Bartunik, H. D.; Michel, H.; Oesterhelt, D.: Orthorhombic crystal form of bacteriorhodopsin nucleated on benzamidine diffracting to 3.6 A resolution. Journal of Molecular Biology (London) 234 (1), pp. 156 - 164 (1993)

Bamberg, E.; Tittor, J.; Oesterhelt, D.: Light-driven proton or chloride pumping by halorhodopsin. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 90 (2), pp. 639 - 643 (1993)

Oesterhelt, D.; Tittor, J.; Bamberg, E.: A Unifying Concept for Ion Translocation by Retinal Proteins. Journal of Bioenergetics and Biomembranes 24 (2), pp. 181 - 191 (1992)

Schertler, G. F.X.; Lozier, R.; Michel, H.; Oesterhelt, D.: Chromophore motion during the bacteriorhodopsin photocycle: polarized absorption spectroscopy of bacteriorhodopsin and its M‐state in bacteriorhodopsin crystals. The EMBO Journal 10 (9), pp. 2353 - 2361 (1991)

Tittor, J.; Soell, C.; Oesterhelt, D.; Butt, H. J.; Bamberg, E.: A Defective Proton Pump, Point-Mutated Bacteriorhodopsin Asp96 → Asn Is Fully Reactivated by Azide. The EMBO Journal 8 (11), pp. 3477 - 3482 (1989)

Butt, H.-J.; Bamberg, E.; Oesterhelt, D.: Absorption and photocurrent-measurements of two aspartat mutants of bacteriorhodopsin. Journal of Protein Chemistry 8 (3), pp. 347 - 349 (1989)

Butt, H.-J.; Fendler, K.; Bamberg, E.; Tittor, J.; Oesterhelt, D.: Aspartic acids 96 and 85 play a central role in the function of bacteriorhodopsin as a proton pump. EMBO Journal 8 (6), pp. 1657 - 1663 (1989)

Fendler, K.; Gärtner, W.; Oesterhelt, D.; Bamberg, E.: Electrogenic transport properties of bacteriorhodopsin containing chemically modified retinal analogues. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, Bioenergetics 893 (1), pp. 60 - 68 (1987)

Weyer, K. A.; Lottspeich, F.; Gruenberg, H.; Lang, F.; Oesterhelt, D.; Michel, H.: Amino acid sequence of the cytochrome subunit of the photosynthetic reaction centre from the purple bacterium Rhodopseudomonas viridis. EMBO Journal 6 (8), pp. 2197 - 2202 (1987)

Michel, H.; Weyer, K. A.; Gruenberg, H.; Dunger, I.; Oesterhelt, D.; Lottspeich, F.: The 'light' and 'medium' subunits of the photosynthetic reaction centre from Rhodopseudomonas viridis: isolation of the genes, nucleotide and amino acid sequence. EMBO Journal 5 (5), pp. 1149 - 1158 (1986)

Hegemann, P.; Oesterhelt, D.; Bamberg, E.: The Transport Activity of the Light Driven Ion Pump Halorhodopsin is regulated by Green and Blue Light. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Biomembranes 819 (2), pp. 195 - 205 (1985)

Bamberg, E.; Hegemann, P.; Oesterhelt, D.: The chromoprotein of halorhodopsin is the light-driven electrogenic chloride pump in Halobacterium halobium. Biochemistry 23 (25), pp. 6216 - 6221 (1984)

Bamberg, E.; Hegemann, P.; Oesterhelt, D.: Reconstitution of the light-driven electrogenic ion pump halorhodopsin in black lipid membranes. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Biomembranes 773 (1), pp. 53 - 60 (1984)

Michel, H.; Oesterhelt, D.: Three-dimensional crystals of membrane proteins: Bacteriorhodopsin. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 77 (3), pp. 1283 - 1285 (1980)

Bamberg, E.; Butt, H.-J.; Tittor, J.; Oesterhelt, D.: Electrical Currents of the light driven Pump Bacteriorhodopsin. The Role of Asp 85 and Asp 96 on Proton Translocation. In: Electrified Interfaces in Physics, Chemistry and Biology, Vol. 355, pp. 533 - 549 (Ed. Guidelli, R.). Springer Science+Business Media, Dordrecht (1992)

Michel, H.; Neugebauer, D.-C.; Oesterhelt, D.: The 2-D Crystalline Cell Wall of Sulfolobus acidocaldarius: Structure, Solubilization, and Reassembly. In: Electron Microscopy at Molecular Dimensions. Proceedings in Life Sciences, pp. 27 - 35 (Eds. Baumeister, W.; Vogell, W.). Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1980, Berlin Heidelberg (1980)