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List of works by Josef Wachtveitl

2-(1-Ethynylpyrene)-adenosine as a folding probe for RNA - pyrene in or out.

scientific article published in March 2010

A combined optical and EPR spectroscopy study: azobenzene-based biradicals as reversible molecular photoswitches

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A fast photoswitch for minimally perturbed peptides: investigation of the trans-->cis photoisomerization of N-methylthioacetamide

scientific article published in July 2004

A light-responsive RNA aptamer for an azobenzene derivative.

scientific article published in February 2019

A new photocaged puromycin for an efficient labelling of newly translated proteins in living neurons

scientific article published on 08 November 2018

A red-shifted two-photon-only caging group for three-dimensional photorelease.

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A subgroup of light-driven sodium pumps with an additional Schiff base counterion

scientific article published in 2024

A thin CdSe shell boosts the electron transfer from CdTe quantum dots to methylene blue

scientific article published on 12 January 2018

Assembling a Correctly Folded and Functional Heptahelical Membrane Protein by Protein Trans-splicing

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Azobenzene: an optical switch for in vivo experiments

scientific article published on 06 May 2011

Carotenoid radical cations as a probe for the molecular mechanism of nonphotochemical quenching in oxygenic photosynthesis

scientific article published on 15 March 2007

Characterization of co-translationally formed nanodisc complexes with small multidrug transporters, proteorhodopsin and with the E. coli MraY translocase.

scientific article published on 18 August 2012

Characterization of the ground state dynamics of proteorhodopsin by NMR and optical spectroscopies

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Characterization of the simultaneous decay kinetics of metarhodopsin states II and III in rhodopsin by solution-state NMR spectroscopy

scientific article published on 6 February 2014

Characterizing the structure and photocycle of PR 2D crystals with CD and FTIR spectroscopy

scientific article published in March 2009

Charge reduction and thermodynamic stabilization of substrate RNAs inhibit RNA editing

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Chromophore Distortions in Photointermediates of Proteorhodopsin Visualized by Dynamic Nuclear Polarization-Enhanced Solid-State NMR.

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Coherent effects in the carbonyl containing carotenoid fucoxanthin

scientific article published in 2010

Coherent longitudinal-optical ground-state phonon in CdSe quantum dots triggered by ultrafast charge migration

scientific article published on 05 December 2011

Combined theoretical and experimental investigation of the photodecarboxylation of nitrophenylacetates and its implications for the design of improved ortho-nitrobenzylic caging groups

scientific article published on 20 November 2012

Computational design of a molecular triple photoswitch for wavelength-selective control

scientific article published on 21 September 2018

Conformational dynamics of the tetracycline-binding aptamer.

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Connectivity matters - ultrafast isomerization dynamics of bisazobenzene photoswitches

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Connectivity pattern modifies excited state relaxation dynamics of fluorophore-photoswitch molecular dyads

scientific article published on 20 January 2017

Corrigendum to: 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 23044)

scientific article published on 01 July 2000

Coumarin-diene photoswitches for rapid and efficient isomerization with visible light

scientific article published on 01 May 2018

Critical Role of Asp227 in the Photocycle of Proteorhodopsin

scientific article published in 2012

Cyano-tryptophans as dual infrared and fluorescence spectroscopic labels to assess structural dynamics in proteins

scientific article published on 01 August 2018

Design of photocaged puromycin for nascent polypeptide release and spatiotemporal monitoring of translation

scientific article published on 4 February 2015

Detailed insight into the ultrafast photoconversion of the cyanobacteriochrome Slr1393 from Synechocystis sp.

scientific article published on 31 July 2015

Directed manipulation of a flavoprotein photocycle

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Discrimination between FRET and non-FRET quenching in a photochromic CdSe quantum dot/dithienylethene dye system

scientific article published on 01 November 2014

Dodecin Is the Key Player in Flavin Homeostasis of Archaea

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Donor/Acceptor adsorbates on the surface of metal oxide nanoporous films: a spectroscopic probe for different electron transfer pathways

scientific article published on 01 June 2010

Effect of the PHY domain on the photoisomerization step of the forward Pr → Pfr conversion of a knotless phytochrome

scientific article published on 19 August 2020

Efficient preparation of photoswitchable dithienylethene-linker-conjugates by palladium-catalyzed coupling reactions of terminal alkynes with thienyl chlorides and other aryl halides

scientific article published in May 2010

Electron transfer dynamics of Rhodopseudomonas viridis reaction centers with a modified binding site for the accessory bacteriochlorophyll

scientific article published on 01 July 1996

Electron transfer from the tetraheme cytochrome to the special pair in the Rhodopseudomonas viridis reaction center: effect of mutations of tyrosine L162

scientific article published on 01 September 1995

Enlightening the photoactive site of channelrhodopsin-2 by DNP-enhanced solid-state NMR spectroscopy

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Excitation energy pathways in the photosynthetic units of reaction center LM- and H-subunit deletion mutants of Rhodospirillum rubrum

scientific article published on 23 January 2010

Excitation energy transfer and carotenoid radical cation formation in light harvesting complexes - a theoretical perspective.

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First steps of retinal photoisomerization in proteorhodopsin.

scientific article published on 7 April 2006

Flavin Storage and Sequestration by Mycobacterium tuberculosis Dodecin

scientific article published on 09 April 2018

Fluorescence and excited state dynamics of the deprotonated Schiff base retinal in proteorhodopsin

scientific article published on 17 June 2015

From Gene to Function: Cell-free Electrophysiological and Optical Analysis of Ion Pumps in Nanodiscs

scientific article published on 24 April 2017

Highly efficient modulation of FRET in an orthogonally arranged BODIPY-DTE dyad

scientific article published on 27 June 2016

His75-Asp97 cluster in green proteorhodopsin

scientific article published on 2 March 2011

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 spectroscopy1

scientific article published on 01 December 1999

Identification of an additional low-lying excited state of carotenoid radical cations.

scientific article published on 9 October 2008

Implementation and evaluation of data analysis strategies for time-resolved optical spectroscopy

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Influence of Arrestin on the Photodecay of Bovine Rhodopsin

scientific article published on 18 September 2015

Infrared studies of small azobenzene peptides: unexpectedly slow reactions on the time range of minutes

scientific article published on 10 August 2007

Initial reaction dynamics of proteorhodopsin observed by femtosecond infrared and visible spectroscopy

scientific article published on 07 March 2008

Investigating the CO2 uncaging mechanism of nitrophenylacetates by means of fs-IR spectroscopy and quantum chemical calculations

scientific article published in September 2011

Isomerization Dynamics of Electronically Coupled but Thermodynamically Decoupled Bisazobenzenes

LiF, an underestimated supercontinuum source in femtosecond transient absorption spectroscopy

scientific article published on 01 July 2013

Light Harvesting, Energy Transfer and Photoprotection in the Fucoxanthin-Chlorophyll Proteins of Cyclotella meneghiniana

scientific article published in 2009

Light dynamics of retinal disease-relevant G90D bovine rhodopsin mutant

scientific article published on 30 June 2020

Light-harvesting chlorophyll protein (LHCII) drives electron transfer in semiconductor nanocrystals

scientific article published on 13 December 2017

Light-induced antibiotic release from a coumarin-caged compound on the ultrafast timescale

scientific article published on 26 May 2017

Light-switchable folding/unfolding of the collagen triple helix with azobenzene-containing model peptides.

scientific article published in January 2009

Low temperature FTIR spectroscopy provides new insights in the pH-dependent proton pathway of proteorhodopsin

scientific article published on 11 September 2011

Mechanism of the photoinduced uncaging reaction of puromycin protected by a 6-nitroveratryloxycarbonyl group

scientific article published on 25 February 2014

Metabolism

Modified lipid and protein dynamics in nanodiscs

scientific article published on 28 December 2012

Molecular mechanism of the solid-state fluorescence behavior of the organic pigment yellow 101 and its derivatives

scientific article published on 01 December 2005

Molecular mechanism of uncaging CO2 from nitrophenylacetate provides general guidelines for improved ortho-nitrobenzyl cages

scientific article published on 07 June 2011

Observation of pH-dependent back-electron-transfer dynamics in alizarin/TiO2 adsorbates: importance of trap states

scientific article published on 01 April 2006

Oligomerization and pigmentation dependent excitation energy transfer in fucoxanthin-chlorophyll proteins

scientific article published in February 2010

Photochemical Properties of the Red-shifted Channelrhodopsin Chrimson

scientific article published in May 2017

Photochemical trapping of a bacteriopheophytin anion in site-specific reaction-center mutants from the photosynthetic bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides

scientific article published on 01 July 1992

Photocontrolled folding and unfolding of a collagen triple helix

scientific article published on 01 October 2006

Photocycle and vectorial proton transfer in a rhodopsin from the eukaryote Oxyrrhis marina

scientific article published on 15 April 2013

Photoisomerization in Proteorhodopsin mutant D97N

Photomodulation of conformational states. I. Mono- and bicyclic peptides with (4-amino)phenylazobenzoic acid as backbone constituent

scientific article published on 01 December 2000

Photoresponsive Formation of an Intermolecular Minimal G-Quadruplex Motif

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Picosecond conformational transition and equilibration of a cyclic peptide

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Polysubstituted 5-Phenylazopyrimidines Extremely Fast Non-Ionic Photochromic Oscillators

scientific article published on 20 May 2020

Primary electron-transfer dynamics in modified bacterial reaction centers containing pheophytin-a instead of bacteriopheophytin-a

Primary reaction dynamics of proteorhodopsin mutant D97N observed by femtosecond infrared and visible spectroscopy

scientific article published on 19 January 2009

Primary reaction of sensory rhodopsin II mutant D75N and the influence of azide

scientific article published in October 2009

Properties of zeaxanthin and its radical cation bound to the minor light-harvesting complexes CP24, CP26 and CP29.

scientific article published on 24 February 2009

Proteorhodopsin

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Proteorhodopsin Photocycle Kinetics Between pH 5 and pH 9.

scientific article published in May 2017

Pyridine-Spiropyran Derivative as a Persistent, Reversible Photoacid in Water.

scientific article published on 7 July 2017

RNA as scaffold for pyrene excited complexes

scientific article published on 03 May 2007

Real time observation of ultrafast peptide conformational dynamics: molecular dynamics simulation vs infrared experiment

scientific article published on 14 October 2011

Real-Time Observation of Photoinduced Adiabatic Electron Transfer in Strongly Coupled Dye/Semiconductor Colloidal Systems with a 6 fs Time Constant

scientific article published in June 2002

Reversible Photomodulation of Electronic Communication in a π-Conjugated Photoswitch-Fluorophore Molecular Dyad.

scientific article published on 15 December 2015

Reversible photoswitching of RNA hybridization at room temperature with an azobenzene C-nucleoside

scientific article published on 23 December 2014

Selective Modification for Red-Shifted Excitability - a Small Change in Structure, a Huge Change in the Photochemistry

scientific article published on 21 September 2020

Selective perturbation of the second electron transfer step in mutant bacterial reaction centers

scientific article published in April 2002

Sensitized Two-Photon Activation of Coumarin Photocages.

scientific article published on 2 March 2018

Solid-state NMR analysis of the sodium pump Krokinobacter rhodopsin 2 and its H30A mutant

scientific article published on 04 June 2018

Solution NMR Structure of Proteorhodopsin

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Spin the light off: rapid internal conversion into a dark doublet state quenches the fluorescence of an RNA spin label

scientific article published on 21 September 2017

Structural basis of the green-blue color switching in proteorhodopsin as determined by NMR spectroscopy

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Structure guided fluorescence labeling reveals a two-step binding mechanism of neomycin to its RNA aptamer

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Structure, spectroscopic, and redox properties of Rhodobacter sphaeroides reaction centers bearing point mutations near the primary electron donor

scientific article published on 01 November 1993

Temperature Dependence of the Krokinobacter rhodopsin 2 Kinetics

scientific article published on 18 December 2020

Temperature- and Photocontrolled Unfolding/Folding of a Triple-Helical Azobenzene-Stapled Collagen Peptide Monitored by Infrared Spectroscopy

scientific article published on 09 March 2016

Tetracycline determines the conformation of its aptamer at physiological magnesium concentrations

scientific article published on December 2014

The EF loop in green proteorhodopsin affects conformation and photocycle dynamics

scientific article published on July 2013

The Interplay of Nanoconfinement and pH from the Perspective of a Dye-Reporter Molecule

scientific article from 2020

The Protein Microenvironment Governs the Suitability of Labeling Sites for Single-Molecule Spectroscopy of RNP Complexes

scientific article published on 13 August 2018

The Role of Surface States in the Ultrafast Photoinduced Electron Transfer from Sensitizing Dye Molecules to Semiconductor Colloids

scientific article published in September 2000

The Three Possible 2-(Pyrenylethynyl) Adenosines: Rotameric Energy Barriers Govern the Photodynamics of These Structural Isomers

scientific article published on 13 January 2016

The excitation energy transfer in the trimeric fucoxanthin–chlorophyll protein from Cyclotella meneghiniana analyzed by polarized transient absorption spectroscopy

scientific article published in July 2010

The first picoseconds in bacterial photosynthesis--ultrafast electron transfer for the efficient conversion of light energy

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The interplay between chromophore and protein determines the extended excited state dynamics in a single-domain phytochrome

scientific article published on 26 June 2020

The mechanism of cytochrome C reduction by alkyl radicals. Evidence for multiple reaction pathways

scientific article published in January 1989

The photocycle of channelrhodopsin-2: ultrafast reaction dynamics and subsequent reaction steps

scientific article published on October 2010

The ultrafast reactions in the photochromic cycle of water-soluble fulgimide photoswitches

scientific article published on 29 March 2016

Thiophenylazobenzene: An Alternative Photoisomerization Controlled by Lone-Pair⋅⋅⋅π Interaction

scientific article published on 18 November 2019

Three-Dimensional Control of DNA Hybridization by Orthogonal Two-Color Two-Photon Uncaging

scientific article published on 13 June 2016

Three-State Fluorescence of a 2-Functionalized Pyrene-Based RNA Label

scientific article published on 16 March 2017

Three-dimensional protein networks assembled by two-photon activation.

scientific article published on 11 April 2014

Time-resolved IR spectroscopy reveals mechanistic details of ion transport in the sodium pump Krokinobacter eikastus rhodopsin 2

scientific article published on 01 February 2019

Tuning the primary reaction of channelrhodopsin-2 by imidazole, pH, and site-specific mutations

scientific article published on 5 June 2012

Twist and Return−Induced Ring Strain Triggers Quick Relaxation of a (Z)-Stabilized Cyclobisazobenzene

scientific article published on 08 August 2018

Tyrosine 162 of the photosynthetic reaction center L-subunit plays a critical role in the cytochrome c2 mediated rereduction of the photooxidized bacteriochlorophyll dimer in Rhodobacter sphaeroides. 1. Site-directed mutagenesis and initial characte

scientific article published on 01 October 1993

Tyrosine 162 of the photosynthetic reaction center L-subunit plays a critical role in the cytochrome c2 mediated rereduction of the photooxidized bacteriochlorophyll dimer in Rhodobacter sphaeroides. 2. Quantitative kinetic analysis

scientific article published in October 1993

Ultrafast Dynamics of Photoisomerization and Subsequent Unfolding of an Oligoazobenzene Foldamer

scientific article published on 6 September 2016

Ultrafast Excited-State Deactivation Dynamics of Cyclotrisazobenzene-A Novel Type of UV-B Absorber

scientific article published on 6 June 2017

Ultrafast Infrared Spectroscopy on Channelrhodopsin-2 Reveals Efficient Energy Transfer from the Retinal Chromophore to the Protein

article published in 2013

Ultrafast Interfacial Charge Carrier Dynamics in ZnSe and ZnSe/ZnS Core/Shell Nanoparticles:  Influence of Shell Formation

scientific article published in February 2008

Ultrafast Light-Driven Substrate Expulsion from the Active Site of a Photoswitchable Catalyst.

scientific article published in June 2017

Ultrafast Photoinduced Deactivation Dynamics of Proteorhodopsin

scientific article published on 10 January 2017

Ultrafast Protein Response in Channelrhodopsin-2 Studied by Time-Resolved Infrared Spectroscopy

scientific article published on 17 December 2018

Ultrafast Spectroscopy of Hydroxy-Substituted Azobenzenes in Water.

scientific article published on 8 September 2015

Ultrafast charge separation in multiexcited CdSe quantum dots mediated by adsorbed electron acceptors

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Ultrafast coherent oscillations reveal a reactive mode in the ring-opening reaction of fulgides

scientific article published on 8 May 2015

Ultrafast dynamics of 1-ethynylpyrene-modified RNA: a photophysical probe of intercalation

scientific article published on September 2010

Ultrafast dynamics of a spiropyran in water

scientific article published on 14 August 2012

Ultrafast dynamics of differently aligned COOH-DTE-BODIPY conjugates linked to the surface of TiO₂.

scientific article published on 14 December 2017

Ultrafast dynamics of dithienylethenes differently linked to the surface of TiO2 nanoparticles

scientific article published on 11 September 2012

Ultrafast electron transfer from photoexcited CdSe quantum dots to methylviologen

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Ultrafast excited-state deactivation of flavins bound to dodecin

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Ultrafast photoinduced dynamics of pigment yellow 101: fluorescence, excited-state intramolecular proton transfer, and isomerization

scientific article published on 5 October 2007

Ultrafast photoinduced processes in alizarin-sensitized metal oxide mesoporous films

scientific article published in February 2009

Ultrafast spectroscopy of a photoswitchable 30-amino acid de novo synthesized peptide

Ultrafast spectroscopy reveals subnanosecond peptide conformational dynamics and validates molecular dynamics simulation

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Vibrational coherence transfer in an electronically decoupled molecular dyad.

scientific article published on 23 March 2015

Voltage- and pH-dependent changes in vectoriality of photocurrents mediated by wild-type and mutant proteorhodopsins upon expression in Xenopus oocytes

scientific article published on 23 July 2009

Water-soluble Py-BIPS spiropyrans as photoswitches for biological applications

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Wavelength-selective uncaging of dA and dC residues

scientific article published on 22 February 2011

pH-dependent photoisomerization of retinal in proteorhodopsin.

scientific article published in February 2005