Publications by members of the group since 1996
Pandelia, M.E., Lubitz, W. and Nitschke, W. (2012)
Biochim.Biophys.Acta Bioenergetics, in press
Evolution and diversification of Group 1 [NiFe] hydrogenases.
Is there a phylogenetic marker for O2-tolerance?
Schoepp-Cothenet, B., van Lis, R., Philippot, P., Magalon, A., Russell, M.J. and Nitschke, W. (2012)
Scientific Reports 2, 263 [pdf-file]
The ineluctable requirement for the trans-iron elements molybdenum and/or tungsten in the origin of life
Kohzuma, K., Dal Bosco, C., Kanazawa, A., Dhinga, A., Nitschke, W., Meurer, J. and Kramer, D.M. (2012)
Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci. USA 109, 3293-3298 [pdf-file]
A thioredoxin-insensitive plastid ATP synthase that performs moonlighting functions
ten Brink, F. and Baymann, F. (2012)
Rieske/cytochrome b complexes: the turbo chargers of chemiosmosis
in: Adv. Photosynthesis and Respiration: The structural basis of biological energy generation (Hohmann-Marriott,M., ed.)
Springer, in press
van Lis, R., Nitschke, W., Duval, S. and Schoepp-Cothenet, B. (2012)
Evolution of arsenite oxidation
in: The Metabolism of Arsenite (Santini, J.M. and Ward, S.A., eds.), Chapter 11
CRC Press, in press ISBN: 978-0-4156971-94
Heath, J., Osborne, T. and Schoepp-Cothenet, B. (2012)
Arsenite oxidase
in: The Metabolism of Arsenite (Santini, J.M. and Ward, S.A., eds.), Chapter 7
CRC Press, in press ISBN: 978-0-4156971-94
Nitschke, W. and Russell, M.J. (2012)
BioEssays 34, 106-109 [pdf-file]
Redox bifurcations: Mechanisms and importance to life now, and at its origins
A widespread means of energy conversion in biology unfolds...
Schoepp-Cothenet, B., Nitschke, W., Barge, L.M., Ponce, A., Russell, M.J. and Tsapin, A.I (2011)
Science 332, 1149d [pdf-file]
Comment on "A Bacterium That Can Grow by Using Arsenic Instead of Phosphorus”
Pandelia, M.-E., Nitschke, W., Infossi, P., Giudici-Orticoni, M.-T., Bill, E. and Lubitz, W. (2011)
Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci. USA 108, 6097-6102 [pdf-file]
Characterization of a unique [FeS] cluster in the electron transfer chain
of the oxygen tolerant [NiFe] hydrogenase from Aquifex aeolicus
Kolaj-Robin, O., O'Kane, S.R., Nitschke, W., Léger, C., Baymann, F. and Soulimane, T. (2011)
Biochim.Biophys.Acta Bioenergetics 1807, 68-79 [pdf-file]
Biochemical and biophysical characterization of succinate:quinone reductase from Thermus thermophilus
van Lis, R., Ducluzeau, A.-L., Nitschke, W. and Schoepp-Cothenet, B. (2011)
The nitrogen cycle in the Archaean; an intricate interplay of enzymatic and abiotic reactions
in: Nitrogen Cycling in Bacteria: Molecular Analysis (Moir, J.W.B., ed.), Chapter I, pp. 1-21
Caister Academic Press, ISBN: 978-1-904455-86-8
Schoepp-Cothenet, B. and Nitschke (2010)
J. Cosmology 13, 3609-3612 [html-url]
Arsenics, astrobiology and scientific deontology
Nitschke, W. and Russell, M.J. (2010)
J. Cosmology 10, 3200-3216 [html-url]
Just like the universe the emergence of life had high enthalpy and low entropy beginnings
Duval, S., Santini, J.M., Nitschke, W., Hille, R. and Schoepp-Cothenet, B. (2010)
J.Biol.Chem. 285, 20442-20451 [pdf-file]
The small subunit AroB of arsenite oxidase: lessons on the [2Fe-2S]-Rieske protein superfamily
Lieutaud, A., van Lis, R., Duval, S., Capowiez, L., Muller, D., Lebrun, R.,
Lignon, S., Fardeau, M.-L., Lett, M.-C., Nitschke, W. and Schoepp-Cothenet, B. (2010)
J.Biol.Chem. 285, 20433-20441 [pdf-file]
Arsenite oxidase from Ralstonia sp. 22: characterization of the enzyme and its
interaction with soluble cytochromes
Khalfaoui Hassani,B., Astier, C., Nitschke, W. and Ouchane, S. (2010)
J.Biol.Chem. 285, 19330-19337 [pdf-file]
CtpA a copper-translocating P-type ATPase involved in the biogenesis of multiple copper-requiring enzymes
Nitschke, W., van Lis, R., Schoepp-Cothenet, B. and Baymann, F. (2010)
Photosynth.Res. 104, 347-355 [pdf-file]
The "green" phylogenetic clade of Rieske/cytb complexes
Baymann, F. and Nitschke, W. (2010)
Photosynth.Res. 104, 177-187 [pdf-file]
Heliobacterial Rieske/cytb complex
Nitschke, W. and Russell, M.J. (2009)
J.Mol.Evol. 69, 481-496 [pdf-file]
Hydrothermal focusing of chemical and chemiosmotic energy, supported by delivery
of catalytic Fe, Ni, Mo/W, Co, S and Se, forced life to emerge
Schoepp-Cothenet, B., Lieutaud, C., Baymann, F., Verméglio, A., Friedrich, T., Kramer, D.M. and Nitschke, W. (2009)
Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci. USA 106, 8549-8554 [pdf-file]
Menaquinone as pool quinone in a purple bacterium
Schoepp-Cothenet, B., Duval, S., Santini, J.M. and Nitschke, W. (2009)
Science 323,583c [pdf-file]
Comment on "Arsenic (III) fuels anoxygenic photosynthesis
in hot spring biofilms from Mono Lake, California"
Ducluzeau, A.-L., van Lis, R., Duval, S., Schoepp-Cothenet, B., Russell, M.J. and Nitschke, W. (2009)
Trends in Biochemical Sciences 34, 9-15 [pdf-file]
Was nitric oxide the first deep electron sink?
Zannoni, D., Schoepp-Cothenet, B. and Hosler, B. (2008)
Respiration and respiratory complexes
in: The Purple Phototrophic Bacteria (Hunter, N., Daldal, F. and Thurnauer, M., eds.)
pp. 537-561 [online version]
Kramer, D.M., Nitschke, W. and Cooley, J.W. (2008)
The cytochrome bc1 and related bc complexes:
The Rieske/Cytochrome b complex as the functional core of a central electron/proton transfer complex
in: The Purple Phototrophic Bacteria (Hunter, N., Daldal, F. and Thurnauer, M., eds.)
pp.451-473 [online version]
Duval, S., Ducluzeau, A.-L., Nitschke, W. and Schoepp-Cothenet, B. (2008)
BMC Evolutionary Biology 8:206 [pdf-file]
Enzyme phylogenies as markers for the oxidation state of the environment:
the case of the respiratory arsenate reductase and related enzymes
Ducluzeau, A.-L., Chenu, E., Capowiez, L. and Baymann, F. (2008)
Biochim.Biophys.Acta Bioenergetics 1777, 1140-1146 [pdf-file]
The Rieske/cytochrome b complex of Heliobacteria
Ducluzeau, A.-L., Ouchane, S. and Nitschke, W. (2008)
Mol. Biol. Evol. 25, 1158-1166 [pdf-file]
cbb3 oxidases are an ancient innovation of the domain Bacteria
Pilet, E., Nitschke, W., Liebl, U. and Vos, M.H. (2007)
Biochim.Biophys.Acta Bioenergetics 1767, 387-392 [pdf-file]
Accommodation of NO in the active site of mammalian and bacterial cytochrome c oxidase aa3
Muller, D., Médigue, C., Koechler, S., Barbe, V., Barakat, M., Talla, E., Bonnefoy, V., Krin, E.,
Arsène-Ploetze, F., Carapito, C., Chandler, M., Cournoyer, B., Cruveiller, S.,Dossat, C.,
Duval, S., Heymann, M., Leize, E., Lieutaud, A., Lièvremont, D., Makita, Y., Mangenot, S., Nitschke, W., Ortet, P., Perdrial, N.,
Schoepp-Cothenet, B., Siguier, N., Simeonova, D.D., Rouy, Z., Segurens, B., Turlin, E., Vallenet, D., Van Dorsselaer, A.,
Weiss, S., Weissenbach, J., Lett, M.C., Danchin, A. and Bertin, P.N. (2007)
PLoS Genetics 3,e53 [pdf-file]
A tale of two oxidation states: Bacterial colonization of arsenic-rich environments
Baymann, F., Giusti, F., Picot, D. and Nitschke, W. (2007)
Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci. USA 104, 519-524 [pdf-file]
The ci/bH-moiety in the cytochrome b6f complex studied by EPR. A pair of strongly interacting hemes
Lipowski, G., Liebl, U., Guigliarelli, B., Nitschke, W. and Schoepp-Cothenet, B. (2006)
FEBS Lett. 580, 5988-5992 [pdf-file]
Conformation of the c552 : aa3 electron transfer complex in Paracoccus denitrificans
studied by EPR on oriented samples
Lebrun, E., Santini, J.M., Brugna, M., Ducluzeau, A.-L., Ouchane, S., Schoepp-Cothenet, B., Baymann, F. and Nitschke, W. (2006)
Mol. Biol. Evol. 23, 1180-1191 [pdf-file]
The Rieske protein; a case study on the pitfalls of multiple sequence alignments and
phylogenetic reconstruction
Ouchane, S., Nitschke, W., Bianco, P., Verméglio, A. and Astier, C. (2005)
Mol. Microbiol. 57, 261-275 [pdf-file]
Multiple Rieske genes in prokaryotes: exchangeable Rieske subunits in the cytochrome bc1
complex of Rubrivivax gelatinosus
Guiral, M., Leroy, G., Bianco, P., Gallice, P., Guigliarelli, B., Bruschi, M., Nitschke, W. and Giudici-Orticoni, M.-T. (2005)
Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - General Subjects 1723, 45-54 [pdf-file]
Interaction and electron transfer between the high molecular weight cytochrome and cytochrome c3 from Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough:
Kinetic, microcalorimetric, EPR and electrochemical studies
Lieutaud, C., Alric, J., Bauzan, M., Nitschke, W. and Schoepp-Cothenet, B. (2005)
Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci. USA 102, 3260-3265 [pdf-file]
Study of the high-potential iron sulfur protein in Halorhodospira halophila confirms that it is distinct from cytochrome c as electron carrier
Pilet, E., Nitschke, W., Rappaport, F., Soulimane, T., Lambry, J.-C., Liebl, U. and Vos, M. (2004)
Biochemistry 43, 14118-14127 [pdf-file]
NO binding and dynamics in reduced heme-copper oxidases aa3 from Paracoccus denitrificans and ba3 from Thermus thermophilus
Baymann, F., Lebrun, E. and Nitschke, W. (2004)
Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci. USA 101, 17737-17740 [pdf-file]
Mitochondrial cytochrome c1 is a collapsed diheme cytochrome
Alric, J., Tsukatani, Y., Yoshida, M., Matsuura, K., Shimada, K., Hienerwadel, R., Schoepp-Cothenet, B., Nitschke, W., Nagashima, K.V.P. and Verméglio, A. (2004)
J.Biol.Chem. 279, 26090-26097 [pdf-file]
Structural and functional characterization of the unusual triheme cytochrome bound to the reaction center of Rhodovulum sulphidophilum
Abergel, C., Nitschke, W., Malarte, G., Bruschi, M., Claverie, J.-M. and Giudici-Orticoni, M.-T. (2003)
Structure 11, 547-555 [pdf-file]
The structure of Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans c4-cytochrome: a model for complex-induced electron transfer tuning
Lebrun, E., Brugna, M., Baymann, F., Muller, D., Lièvremont, Lett, M.-C. and Nitschke, W. (2003)
Mol.Biol.Evol. 20, 686-693 [pdf-file]
Arsenite oxidase, an ancient bioenergetic enzyme
Lieutaud, C., Nitschke, W., Verméglio, A., Parot, P. and Schoepp-Cothenet, B. (2003)
Biochim.Biophys.Acta Bioenergetics 1557, 83-90 [pdf-file]
HiPIP in Rubrivivax gelatinosus is firmly associated to the membrane in a conformation efficient for electron transfer towards the photosynthetic reaction centre
Duport, C., Schoepp, B., Chatelain, E., Spagnoli, R., Dumas, B., and Pompon, D. (2003)
Eur. J. Biochem. 270, 1502-1514 [pdf-file]
Critical role of the plasma membrane for expression of mammalian mitochondrial side chain cleavage activity in yeast
Schütz, M., Schoepp-Cothenet, B., Lojou, E., Woodstra, M., Lexa, D., Tron, P., Dolla, A., Durand, M.C., Stetter, K.O. and Baymann, F. (2003)
Biochemistry 42, 10800-10808 [pdf-file]
The Naphthoquinol Oxidizing Cytochrome bc1 Complex of the Hyperthermophilic Knallgasbacterium Aquifex aeolicus: Properties and Phylogenetic Relationships
Baymann, F., Barlow, N.L., Aubert, C., Schoepp-Cothenet, B., Leroy, G., Armstrong, F.A. (2003)
FEBS Lett. 539, 91-94 [pdf-file]
Voltammetry of a 'protein on a rope'
Baymann, F., Lebrun, E., Brugna, M., Schoepp-Cothenet, B., Giudici-Orticoni, M.-T. and Nitschke, W. (2003)
Phil.Trans.R. Soc.Lond. B 358, 267-274 [pdf-file]
The Redox Protein Construction Kit; Pre-LUCA Evolution of Energy Conserving Enzymes
Brugna-Guiral, M., Tron, P., Nitschke, W., Stetter, K.-O., Burlat, B., Guigliarelli, B., Bruschi, M., and Giudici-Orticoni, M.-T. (2003)
Extremophiles 7,145-157 [pdf-file]
"[NiFe] hydrogenases from the hyperthermophilic bacterium Aquifex aeolicus; properties, function and phylogenetics
Baymann, F., Tron, P., Schoepp-Cothenet, B., Aubert, C., Bianco, P., Stetter, K.-O.,
Nitschke, W. and Schütz, M. (2001)
Biochemistry 40, 13681-13689 [pdf-file]
Cytochromes c555 from the hyperthermophilic bacterium, Aquifex aeolicus (VF5).
1. Characterisation of two highly homologous, soluble and membranous, cytochromes c555
Baymann, F., Brugna, M., Mühlenhoff, U. and Nitschke, W. (2001)
Biochim.Biophys.Acta 1507, 291-310 [pdf-file]
Daddy, where did (PS) I come from?
Schoepp-Cothenet, B., Schütz, M., Baymann, F., Brugna, M., Nitschke, W., Myllykallio, H. and Schmidt, C. (2001)
FEBS Lett. 487, 372-376 [pdf-file]
The membrane-extrinsic domain of cytochrome b558/566 from the Archaeon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius
performs pivoting movements with respect to the membrane surface
Schütz, M., Brugna, M., Lebrun, E., Baymann, F., Huber, R., Stetter, K.-O., Hauska, G., Toci, R.,
Lemesle-Meunier, D., Tron, P., Schmidt, C. and Nitschke, W. (2000)
J.Mol.Biol. 300, 663-676 [pdf-file]
Early evolution of cytochrome bc-complexes
Giudici-Orticoni, M.-T., Leroy, G., Nitschke, W. and Bruschi, M. (2000)
Biochemistry 39, 7205-7211 [pdf-file]
Characterisation of a new dihemic c4-type cytochrome isolated from Thiobacillus ferrooxidans
Brugna, M., Rodgers, S., Schricker, A., Montoya, G., Kazmeier, M., Nitschke, W. and Sinning, I. (2000)
Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci. USA 97, 2069-2074 [pdf-file]
A spectroscopic method for observing the domain movement of the Rieske iron-sulfur protein
Giudici-Orticoni, M.-T., Guerlesquin, F., Bruschi, M. and Nitschke, W. (1999)
J.Biol.Chem. 274, 30365-30369 [pdf-file]
Interaction-induced redox switch in the electron transfer complex rusticyanin:cytochrome c4
Brugna, M., Nitschke, W., Toci, R., Bruschi, M. and Giudici-Orticoni, M.-T. (1999)
J. Bacteriol. 181, 5505-5508
First evidence for the presence of a hydrogenase in the sulphur-reducing bacterium
Desulforomonas acetoxidans
Baymann, F., Zito, F., Kuras, R., Minai, L, Nitschke, W. and Wollman, F.-A. (1999)
J.Biol.Chem. 274, 22957-22967 [pdf-file]
Functional characterisation of Chlamydomonas mutants defective in cytochrome f maturation
Zito, F., Finazzi, G., Delosme, R., Nitschke, W., Picot, D. and Wollman, F.-A. (1999)
EMBO J. 18, 2961-2969 [pdf-file]
The QO site of cytochrome b6f complexes controls the activation of the LHCII-kinase
Brugna, M., Nitschke, W., Asso, M., Guigliarelli, B., Lemesle-Meunier, D. and Schmidt, C. (1999)
J.Biol.Chem. 274, 16766-16772 [pdf-file]
Redox components of cytochrome bc-type enzymes in acidophilic prokaryotes.
II. The Rieske protein of phylogenetically distant acidophilic organisms
Elbehti, A., Nitschke, W., Tron, P., Michel, C. and Lemesle-Meunier, D. (1999)
J.Biol.Chem. 274, 16760-16765 [pdf-file]
Redox components of cytochrome bc-type enzymes in acidophilic prokaryotes.
I. Characterisation of the cytochrome bc1-type complex
of the acidophilic ferrous ion oxidising bacterium Thiobacillus ferrooxidans
Schoepp, B., Brugna, M., Riedel, A., Nitschke, W. and Kramer, D.M. (1999)
FEBS Lett. 450, 245-251 [pdf-file]
The QO-site inhibitor DBMIB favours the proximal position of the chloroplast
Rieske protein and induces a pK-shift of the redox-linked proton
Schoepp, B., Brugna, M., Lebrun, E. and Nitschke, W. (1999)
Advances in Inorganic Chemistry 47, 335-360
Iron-sulphur centres involved in photosynthetic light reactions
Montoya, G., te Kaat, K., Rodgers, S., Nitschke, W. and Sinning, I. (1999)
Eur.J.Biochem. 259, 709-718 [pdf-file]
The cytochrome bc1 complex from Rhodovulum sulfidophilum is a dimer with six quinones
per monomer and an additional 6kDa component
Menin, L., Gaillard, J., Parot, P., Schoepp, B., Nitschke, W. and Verméglio, A. (1998)
Photosynthesis Research 55, 343-348
Role of HiPIP as electron donor to the RC-bound cytochrome in photosynthetic purple bacteria
Brugna, M., Albouy, D. and Nitschke, W. (1998)
J.Bact. 180, 3719-1723
Diversity of cytochrome bc-complexes: Example of the Rieske protein in green
sulfur bacteria
Nitschke, W., Mühlenhoff, U. and Liebl, U.(1998)
"Evolution"
in Photosynthesis: a comprehensive treatise
Raghavendra, A., ed, Cambridge University Press, U.K., Chapter 22, pp. 285-304
Bentrop, D., Bertini, I., Luchinat, C., Nitschke, W. and Mühlenhoff, U. (1997)
Biochemistry 36, 13629-13637 [pdf-file]
Characterization of the unbound 2[Fe4S4]-ferredoxin-like photosystem I subunit PsaC
from the cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus
Albouy, D., Joliot, P., Robert, B. and Nitschke, W. (1997)
Eur.J.Biochem. 249, 630-636
Electron transfer towards the RCI-type photosystem in the green sulphur bacterium
Chlorobium limicola forma thiosulfatophilum studied by time-resolved
optical spectroscopy in-vivo
Hager-Braun, C., Jarosch, U., Hauska, G., Nitschke, W. and Riedel, A. (1997)
Photosynth.Research 51, 127-136
EPR studies of the terminal electron acceptors of the
green sulfur bacterial reaction centre. Revisited.
Kramer, D.M., Schoepp, B., Liebl, U. and Nitschke, W. (1997)
Biochemistry 36, 4203-4211 [pdf-file]
Cyclic Electron Transfer in Heliobacillus mobilis Involving a
Menaquinol Oxidizing Cytochrome bc Complex and an RCI-type Reaction Center
Albouy, D., Sturgis, J.N., Feiler, U., Nitschke, W. and Robert, B. (1997)
Biochemistry 36, 1927-1932 [pdf-file]
Membrane-associated c-type cytochromes from the green sulfur bacterium Chlorobium limicola forma thiosulfatophilum:
Purification and characterization of cytochrome c553
Nitschke, W., Schoepp, B., Floss, B., Schricker, A., Rutherford, A.W. and Liebl, U. (1996)
Eur.J.Biochem. 242, 695-702
Membrane-bound c-type cytochromes in Heliobacillus mobilis.
Characterisation by EPR and optical spectroscopy in membranes and detergent solubilised material"
Cavazza, C., Giudici-Orticoni, M.-T., Nitschke, W., Appia, C., Bonnefoy, V. and Bruschi, M. (1996)
Eur.J.Biochem. 242, 308-314
Characterisation of a new cytochrome c4 isolated from Thiobacillus ferrooxidans
Nitschke, W., Mattioli, T. and Rutherford, A.W. (1996)
The FeS-type photosystems and the evolution of photosynthetic reaction centres
in Origin and Evolution of Biological Energy Conservation
Baltscheffsky, H., ed., VCH Publ. Inc, New York, Chapter 7, pp. 177-203
Rutherford, A.W. and Nitschke, W. (1996)
Photosystem 2 and the quinone-iron-containing reaction centres:
comparisons and evolutionary perspectives
in Origin and Evolution of Biological Energy Conservation
Baltscheffsky, H., ed., VCH Publ. Inc, New York, Chapter 6, pp. 143-175
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