Hollingshead, S, Kopečná, J, Armstrong, DR, Bučinská, L, Jackson, PJ, Chen, GE, Dickman, MJ, Williamson, MP, Sobotka, R, Hunter, CN: Synthesis of chlorophyll-binding proteins in a fully segregated Δycf54 strain of the cyanobacterium Synechocystis PCC 6803. Frontiers in Plant Science 7, 292, 2016.

Tichý, M, Bečková, M, Kopečná, J, Noda, J, Sobotka, R, Komenda, J: Strain of Synechocystis PCC 6803 with aberrant assembly of Photosystem II contains tandem duplication of a large chromosomal region. Frontiers in Plant Science 7, 648, 2016.

West, R, Keşan, G, Trsková, E, Sobotka, R, Kaňa, R, Fuciman, M, Polívka, T: Spectroscopic properties of the triple bond carotenoid alloxanthin. Chemical Physics Letters 653, 167–172, 2016.

Kaňa, R, Kotabová, E, Kopečná, J, Trsková, E, Belgio, E, Sobotka, R, Ruban, AV: Violaxanthin inhibits nonphotochemical quenching in light-harvesting antenna of Chromera velia. FEBS Letters 590, 1076–1085, 2016.

Komenda, J, Sobotka, R: Cyanobacterial high-light-inducible proteins — Protectors of chlorophyll–protein synthesis and assembly.  Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Bioenergetics 1857(3), 288-95, 2016.

Kopečná, J, Cabeza de Vaca, I, Adams, NB,  Davison, PA, Brindley, AA, Hunter, CN, Guallar, V, Sobotka, R:  Porphyrin Binding to Gun4 Protein, Facilitated by a Flexible Loop, Controls Metabolite Flow through the Chlorophyll Biosynthetic Pathway. The Journal of Biological Chemistry 290 (47), 28477-88, 2015.

Kopečná, J, Pilný, J,  Krynická, V, Tomčala, A, Kis, M, Gombos, Z, Komenda, J, Sobotka, R: Lack of Phosphatidylglycerol Inhibits Chlorophyll Biosynthesis at Multiple Sites and Limits Chlorophyllide Reutilization in Synechocystis sp. Strain PCC 6803. Plant Physiology 169, 1307-1317, 2015.

D'Haene, SE, Sobotka, R, Bučinská, L, Dekker, JP, Komenda, J: Interaction of the PsbH subunit with a chlorophyll bound to histidine 114 of CP47 is responsible for the red 77 K fluorescence of Photosystem II. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1847, 1327–1334, 2015.

Pilný, J, Kopečná, J, Noda, J, Sobotka, R: Detection and Quantification of Heme and Chlorophyll Precursors Using a High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) System Equipped with Two Fluorescence Detectors. Bio-protocol 5 (3), e1390, 2015.0  

Staleva, H, Komenda, J, Shukla, MK, Šlouf, V, Kaňa, R, Polívka, T, Sobotka, R: Mechanism of photoprotection in the cyanobacterial ancestor of plant antenna protein. Nature Chemical Biology 11, 287-291, 2015.

Linhartová, M, Bučinská, L, Halada, P, Ječmen, T, Šetlík, J, Komenda, J, Sobotka, R: Accumulation of the Type IV prepilin triggers degradation of SecY and YidC and inhibits synthesis of Photosystem II proteins in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis PCC 6803. Molecular Microbiology 93, 1207-1223, 2014.

Chidgey, JW, Linhartová, M, Komenda, J, Jackson, PJ, Dickman, MJ, Caniffe, DP, Pilný, J, Hunter, N, Sobotka, R: A Cyanobacterial Chlorophyll Synthase-HliD Complex Associates with the Ycf39 Protein and the YidC/Alb3 Insertase. Plant Cell 26(3), 1267-1279, 2014.

Sobotka, R: Making proteins green; biosynthesis of chlorophyll-binding proteins in cyanobacteria. Photosynthesis Research 119, 223-232, 2014.

Kotabová, E, Jarešová, J, Kaňa, R, Bína, D, Prášil, O: Novel type of red-schifted chlorophyll a antenna complex from Chromera velia. I. Physiological relevance and functional connection to photosystems. Biochym Biophys Acta 1837, 734-743, 2014.

Knoppová, J, Sobotka, R, Tichý, M, Yu, J, Halada, P, Nixon, PJ, Komenda, J: Discovery of a Chlorophyll Binding Protein Complex Involved in the Early Steps of Photosystem II Assembly in Synechocystis. Plant Cell 26, 1200-1212, 2014.

Kopečná, J, Sobotka, R, Komenda, J: Inhibition of chlorophyll biosynthesis at the protochlorophyllide reduction step results in the parallel depletion of Photosystem I and Photosystem II in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis PCC 6803. Planta 237, 497-508, 2013.

Janouškovec, J*, Sobotka, R, Lai, D-H, Flegontov, P, Koník, P, Komenda, J, Ali, S, Prášil, O, Pain, A, Oborník, M, Lukeš, J, Keeling, PJ: Split photosystem protein, linear-mapping topology, and growth of structural complexity in the plastid genome of Chromera velia. Molecular Biology and Evolution 30, 2447–62, 2013. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/mst144

Boldareva–Nuianzina, EN, Bláhová, Z, Sobotka, R, Koblížek, M: Distribution and Origin of Oxygen-Dependent and Oxygen-Independent Forms of Mg-Protoporphyrin Monomethylester Cyclase among Phototrophic Proteobacteria. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 79, 2596-2604, 2013.

Wallner, T, Hagiwara, Y, Bernát, G, Sobotka, R, Reijerse, EJ, Frankenberg-Dinkel, N, Wilde, A: Inactivation of the conserved open reading frame ycf34 of Synechocystis sp. PCC6803 interferes dwith the photosynthetic electron transport chain. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1817, 2016-2026, 2012.

Kořený, L, Sobotka, R, Kovářová, J, Gnipová, A, Flegontov, P, Horváth, A, Oborník, M, Ayala, FJ, Lukeš, J: Aerobic kinetoplastid flagellate Phytomonas does not require heme for viability. PNAS 109(10), 3808-3813, 2012.