List of works - Wolfgang Nitschke

A tale of two oxidation states: bacterial colonization of arsenic-rich environments

scientific article

Accommodation of NO in the active site of mammalian and bacterial cytochrome c oxidase aa3

scientific article published on 12 March 2007

Amino acid identities in the three redox center-carrying polypeptides of cytochrome bc1/b6f complexes

scientific article published on April 1988

Arsenics as bioenergetic substrates.

scientific article published on 07 September 2012

Arsenite oxidase from Ralstonia sp. 22: characterization of the enzyme and its interaction with soluble cytochromes

scientific article

Arsenite oxidase, an ancient bioenergetic enzyme.

scientific article published on 2 April 2003

Beating the acetyl coenzyme A-pathway to the origin of life.

scientific article published on 10 June 2013

Binding dynamics and electron transfer between plastocyanin and photosystem I.

scientific article published on January 1996

Biochemical and biophysical characterization of succinate: quinone reductase from Thermus thermophilus

scientific article published on 14 October 2010

Carbon Fixation: "Let Things Flow Naturally Forward in Whatever Way They Like".

scientific article published in February 2018

Carotene desaturation is linked to a respiratory redox pathway in Narcissus pseudonarcissus chromoplast membranes. Involvement of a 23-kDa oxygen-evolving-complex-like protein.

scientific article published in November 1995

Characterization of a unique [FeS] cluster in the electron transfer chain of the oxygen tolerant [NiFe] hydrogenase from Aquifex aeolicus ⬇️

scientific article published on March 28, 2011

Characterization of an improved reaction center preparation from the photosynthetic green sulfur bacterium Chlorobium containing the FeS centers FA and FB and a bound cytochrome subunit

scientific article published on 01 March 1992

Characterization of the Unbound 2[Fe4S4]-Ferredoxin-Like Photosystem I Subunit PsaC from the CyanobacteriumSynechococcus elongatus†

scientific article published on 01 November 1997

Chlamydomonas reinhardtii chloroplasts contain a homodimeric pyruvate:ferredoxin oxidoreductase that functions with FDX1.

scientific article published on 15 November 2012

Chloroplast Rieske Center. EPR study on its spectral characteristics, relaxation and orientation properties

scientific article published on 01 September 1991

Comment on "A bacterium that can grow by using arsenic instead of phosphorus"

scientific article published in Science

Comment on "Arsenic (III) fuels anoxygenic photosynthesis in hot spring biofilms from Mono Lake, California".

scientific article

Conformation of the c552:aa3 electron transfer complex in Paracoccus denitrificans studied by EPR on oriented samples

scientific article published on 27 September 2006

Crystal structure and redox properties of a novel cyanobacterial heme protein with a His/Cys heme axial ligation and a Per-Arnt-Sim (PAS)-like domain.

scientific article published on 20 April 2017

Cyclic electron transfer in Heliobacillus mobilis involving a menaquinol-oxidizing cytochrome bc complex and an RCI-type reaction center

scientific article published on 01 April 1997

Cytochromes c555 from the hyperthermophilic bacterium Aquifex aeolicus (VF5). 1. Characterization of two highly homologous, soluble and membranous, cytochromes c555

scientific article published on 01 November 2001

Daddy, where did (PS)I come from?

scientific article

Diversity of cytochrome bc complexes: example of the Rieske protein in green sulfur bacteria.

scientific article

EPR, Electron Spin Echo Envelope Modulation, and Electron Nuclear Double Resonance Studies of the 2Fe2S Centers of the 2-Halobenzoate 1,2-Dioxygenase fromBurkholderia(Pseudomonas)cepacia2CBS

scientific article published in Journal of Biological Chemistry

Early evolution of cytochrome bc complexes.

scientific article published in July 2000

Electron transfer towards the RCI-type photosystem in the green sulphur bacterium Chlorobium limicola forma thiosulphatophilum studied by time-resolved optical spectroscopy in vivo.

scientific article published in October 1997

Energetics of the exchangeable quinone, QB, in Photosystem II

scientific article published on 05 September 2019

Enzyme phylogenies as markers for the oxidation state of the environment: the case of respiratory arsenate reductase and related enzymes

scientific article

Evolution and diversification of Group 1 [NiFe] hydrogenases. Is there a phylogenetic marker for O(2)-tolerance?

scientific article published on 01 May 2012

First evidence for the presence of a hydrogenase in the sulfur-reducing bacterium Desulfuromonas acetoxidans

scientific article

Fougerite: the not so simple progenitor of the first cells

scientific article published on 18 October 2019

Free energy conversion in the LUCA: Quo vadis?

scientific article published on 19 December 2013

From low- to high-potential bioenergetic chains: Thermodynamic constraints of Q-cycle function

scientific article published on 17 June 2016

Functional characterization of Chlamydomonas mutants defective in cytochrome f maturation

scientific article published on 01 August 1999

Heliobacterial Rieske/cytb complex.

scientific article published on 21 January 2010

Heterologously expressed arsenite oxidase: a system to study biogenesis and structure/function relationships of the enzyme family.

scientific article published on 12 June 2012

HiPIP in Rubrivivax gelatinosus is firmly associated to the membrane in a conformation efficient for electron transfer towards the photosynthetic reaction centre

scientific article published on 01 March 2003

Hydrothermal focusing of chemical and chemiosmotic energy, supported by delivery of catalytic Fe, Ni, Mo/W, Co, S and Se, forced life to emerge

scientific article published on 13 November 2009

Interaction and electron transfer between the high molecular weight cytochrome and cytochrome c3 from Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough: kinetic, microcalorimetric, EPR and electrochemical studies.

scientific article published on 16 February 2005

Interaction-induced redox switch in the electron transfer complex rusticyanin-cytochrome c(4).

scientific article published in October 1999

Light-induced charge separation between plastocyanin and the iron-sulfur clusters FA and FB in the complex of plastocyanin and photosystem I

scientific article published on 01 June 1996

Membrane-associated c-type cytochromes from the green sulfur bacterium Chlorobium limicola forma thiosulfatophilum: purification and characterization of cytochrome c553

scientific article published on 01 February 1997

Membrane-bound c-type cytochromes in Heliobacillus mobilis. Characterisation by EPR and optical spectroscopy in membranes and detergent-solubilised material

scientific article published on 01 December 1996

Membrane-bound c-type cytochromes in Heliobacillus mobilis. In vivo study of the hemes involved in electron donation to the photosynthetic reaction center.

scientific article published in September 1995

Membrane-bound cytochromes in Chloroflexus aurantiacus studied by EPR

scientific article published on 01 July 1991

Methane: Fuel or Exhaust at the Emergence of Life?

scientific article published on 26 September 2017

Mitochondrial cytochrome c1 is a collapsed di-heme cytochrome

scientific article

Multiple Rieske genes in prokaryotes: exchangeable Rieske subunits in the cytochrome bc-complex of Rubrivivax gelatinosus.

scientific article published in July 2005

NO binding and dynamics in reduced heme-copper oxidases aa3 from Paracoccus denitrificans and ba3 from Thermus thermophilus.

scientific article published on November 2004

Nonredundant roles for cytochrome c2 and two high-potential iron-sulfur proteins in the photoferrotroph Rhodopseudomonas palustris TIE-1.

scientific article published on 6 December 2013

On the Natural History of Flavin-Based Electron Bifurcation.

scientific article published on 3 July 2018

On the antiquity of metalloenzymes and their substrates in bioenergetics.

scientific article published on 26 February 2013

Photosynthetic reaction centres: variations on a common structural theme?

scientific article

Phylogeny of Rieske/cytb complexes with a special focus on the Haloarchaeal enzymes.

scientific article published on 12 July 2012

Purification and crystallization of Photosystem I complex from a phycobilisome-less mutant of the cyanobacterium Synechococcus PCC 7002.

scientific article

Reaction center photochemistry of Heliobacterium chlorum

scientific article published on 01 December 1990

Redox bifurcations: mechanisms and importance to life now, and at its origin: a widespread means of energy conversion in biology unfolds…

scientific article published on 02 November 2011

Redox components of cytochrome bc-type enzymes in acidophilic prokaryotes. I. Characterization of the cytochrome bc1-type complex of the acidophilic ferrous ion-oxidizing bacterium Thiobacillus ferrooxidans

scientific article published on 01 June 1999

Spin-density distribution in the [FeO2]-complex. Electron spin resonance of myoglobin single crystals

scientific article published on 01 March 1986

Structural and functional characterization of the unusual triheme cytochrome bound to the reaction center of Rhodovulum sulfidophilum

scientific article published on 6 April 2004

Structural evidence for a reaction intermediate mimic in the active site of a sulfite dehydrogenase

scientific article published on 27 July 2020

Study of the high-potential iron sulfur protein in Halorhodospira halophila confirms that it is distinct from cytochrome c as electron carrier

scientific article

The "green" phylogenetic clade of Rieske/cytb complexes.

scientific article published on 4 February 2010

The 2Fe2S centres of the 2-oxo-1,2-dihydroquinoline 8-monooxygenase from Pseudomonas putida 86 studied by EPR spectroscopy

scientific article published on 01 October 1995

The H-bond network surrounding the pyranopterins modulates redox cooperativity in the molybdenum-bisPGD cofactor in arsenite oxidase.

scientific article

The Qo-site inhibitor DBMIB favours the proximal position of the chloroplast Rieske protein and induces a pK-shift of the redox-linked proton

scientific article published on 01 May 1999

The Rieske FeS center from the gram-positive bacterium PS3 and its interaction with the menaquinone pool studied by EPR ⬇️

scientific article published on July 15, 1992

The Rieske protein: a case study on the pitfalls of multiple sequence alignments and phylogenetic reconstruction.

scientific article published on 28 March 2006

The Structure of Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans c4-Cytochrome

The cbb3 oxidases are an ancient innovation of the domain bacteria.

scientific article published on 18 March 2008

The ci/bH moiety in the b6f complex studied by EPR: a pair of strongly interacting hemes

scholarly article

The cytochrome bc1 complex from Rhodovulum sulfidophilum is a dimer with six quinones per monomer and an additional 6-kDa component.

scientific article

The drive to life on wet and icy worlds

scientific article (publication date: April 2014)

The evolution of respiratory O2/NO reductases: an out-of-the-phylogenetic-box perspective.

scientific article

The evolutionary aspects of bioenergetic systems ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 February 2013

The ineluctable requirement for the trans-iron elements molybdenum and/or tungsten in the origin of life.

scientific article published on 13 February 2012

The inevitable journey to being

scientific article (publication date: 19 July 2013)

The membrane-extrinsic domain of cytochrome b(558/566) from the archaeon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius performs pivoting movements with respect to the membrane surface.

scientific article

The obligate respiratory supercomplex from Actinobacteria

scientific article published on 26 July 2016

The reaction center associated tetraheme cytochrome subunit from Chromatium vinosum revisited: a reexamination of its EPR properties

scientific article published on 01 August 1993

The redox protein construction kit: pre-last universal common ancestor evolution of energy-conserving enzymes

scientific article

The small subunit AroB of arsenite oxidase: lessons on the [2Fe-2S] Rieske protein superfamily.

scientific article published on 26 April 2010

The structure of Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans c(4)-cytochrome: a model for complex-induced electron transfer tuning

scientific article (publication date: May 2003)

Thioredoxin-insensitive plastid ATP synthase that performs moonlighting functions

scientific article published on 10 February 2012

[NiFe] hydrogenases from the hyperthermophilic bacterium Aquifex aeolicus: properties, function, and phylogenetics.

scientific article published on 23 January 2003

List of works by Wolfgang Nitschke

A tale of two oxidation states: bacterial colonization of arsenic-rich environments

Accommodation of NO in the active site of mammalian and bacterial cytochrome c oxidase aa3

Amino acid identities in the three redox center-carrying polypeptides of cytochrome bc1/b6f complexes

Arsenics as bioenergetic substrates.

Arsenite oxidase from Ralstonia sp. 22: characterization of the enzyme and its interaction with soluble cytochromes

Arsenite oxidase, an ancient bioenergetic enzyme.

Beating the acetyl coenzyme A-pathway to the origin of life.

Binding dynamics and electron transfer between plastocyanin and photosystem I.

Biochemical and biophysical characterization of succinate: quinone reductase from Thermus thermophilus

Carbon Fixation: "Let Things Flow Naturally Forward in Whatever Way They Like".

Carotene desaturation is linked to a respiratory redox pathway in Narcissus pseudonarcissus chromoplast membranes. Involvement of a 23-kDa oxygen-evolving-complex-like protein.

Characterization of a unique [FeS] cluster in the electron transfer chain of the oxygen tolerant [NiFe] hydrogenase from Aquifex aeolicus ⬇️

Characterization of an improved reaction center preparation from the photosynthetic green sulfur bacterium Chlorobium containing the FeS centers FA and FB and a bound cytochrome subunit

Characterization of the Unbound 2[Fe4S4]-Ferredoxin-Like Photosystem I Subunit PsaC from the CyanobacteriumSynechococcus elongatus†

Chlamydomonas reinhardtii chloroplasts contain a homodimeric pyruvate:ferredoxin oxidoreductase that functions with FDX1.

Chloroplast Rieske Center. EPR study on its spectral characteristics, relaxation and orientation properties

Comment on "A bacterium that can grow by using arsenic instead of phosphorus"

Comment on "Arsenic (III) fuels anoxygenic photosynthesis in hot spring biofilms from Mono Lake, California".

Conformation of the c552:aa3 electron transfer complex in Paracoccus denitrificans studied by EPR on oriented samples

Crystal structure and redox properties of a novel cyanobacterial heme protein with a His/Cys heme axial ligation and a Per-Arnt-Sim (PAS)-like domain.

Cyclic electron transfer in Heliobacillus mobilis involving a menaquinol-oxidizing cytochrome bc complex and an RCI-type reaction center

Cytochromes c555 from the hyperthermophilic bacterium Aquifex aeolicus (VF5). 1. Characterization of two highly homologous, soluble and membranous, cytochromes c555

Daddy, where did (PS)I come from?

Diversity of cytochrome bc complexes: example of the Rieske protein in green sulfur bacteria.

EPR, Electron Spin Echo Envelope Modulation, and Electron Nuclear Double Resonance Studies of the 2Fe2S Centers of the 2-Halobenzoate 1,2-Dioxygenase fromBurkholderia(Pseudomonas)cepacia2CBS

Early evolution of cytochrome bc complexes.

Electron transfer towards the RCI-type photosystem in the green sulphur bacterium Chlorobium limicola forma thiosulphatophilum studied by time-resolved optical spectroscopy in vivo.

Energetics of the exchangeable quinone, QB, in Photosystem II

Enzyme phylogenies as markers for the oxidation state of the environment: the case of respiratory arsenate reductase and related enzymes

Evolution and diversification of Group 1 [NiFe] hydrogenases. Is there a phylogenetic marker for O(2)-tolerance?

First evidence for the presence of a hydrogenase in the sulfur-reducing bacterium Desulfuromonas acetoxidans

Fougerite: the not so simple progenitor of the first cells

Free energy conversion in the LUCA: Quo vadis?

From low- to high-potential bioenergetic chains: Thermodynamic constraints of Q-cycle function

Functional characterization of Chlamydomonas mutants defective in cytochrome f maturation

Heliobacterial Rieske/cytb complex.

Heterologously expressed arsenite oxidase: a system to study biogenesis and structure/function relationships of the enzyme family.

HiPIP in Rubrivivax gelatinosus is firmly associated to the membrane in a conformation efficient for electron transfer towards the photosynthetic reaction centre

Hydrothermal focusing of chemical and chemiosmotic energy, supported by delivery of catalytic Fe, Ni, Mo/W, Co, S and Se, forced life to emerge

Interaction and electron transfer between the high molecular weight cytochrome and cytochrome c3 from Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough: kinetic, microcalorimetric, EPR and electrochemical studies.

Interaction-induced redox switch in the electron transfer complex rusticyanin-cytochrome c(4).

Light-induced charge separation between plastocyanin and the iron-sulfur clusters FA and FB in the complex of plastocyanin and photosystem I

Membrane-associated c-type cytochromes from the green sulfur bacterium Chlorobium limicola forma thiosulfatophilum: purification and characterization of cytochrome c553

Membrane-bound c-type cytochromes in Heliobacillus mobilis. Characterisation by EPR and optical spectroscopy in membranes and detergent-solubilised material

Membrane-bound c-type cytochromes in Heliobacillus mobilis. In vivo study of the hemes involved in electron donation to the photosynthetic reaction center.

Membrane-bound cytochromes in Chloroflexus aurantiacus studied by EPR

Methane: Fuel or Exhaust at the Emergence of Life?

Mitochondrial cytochrome c1 is a collapsed di-heme cytochrome

Multiple Rieske genes in prokaryotes: exchangeable Rieske subunits in the cytochrome bc-complex of Rubrivivax gelatinosus.

NO binding and dynamics in reduced heme-copper oxidases aa3 from Paracoccus denitrificans and ba3 from Thermus thermophilus.

Nonredundant roles for cytochrome c2 and two high-potential iron-sulfur proteins in the photoferrotroph Rhodopseudomonas palustris TIE-1.

On the Natural History of Flavin-Based Electron Bifurcation.

On the antiquity of metalloenzymes and their substrates in bioenergetics.

Photosynthetic reaction centres: variations on a common structural theme?

Phylogeny of Rieske/cytb complexes with a special focus on the Haloarchaeal enzymes.

Purification and crystallization of Photosystem I complex from a phycobilisome-less mutant of the cyanobacterium Synechococcus PCC 7002.

Reaction center photochemistry of Heliobacterium chlorum

Redox bifurcations: mechanisms and importance to life now, and at its origin: a widespread means of energy conversion in biology unfolds…

Redox components of cytochrome bc-type enzymes in acidophilic prokaryotes. I. Characterization of the cytochrome bc1-type complex of the acidophilic ferrous ion-oxidizing bacterium Thiobacillus ferrooxidans

Spin-density distribution in the [FeO2]-complex. Electron spin resonance of myoglobin single crystals

Structural and functional characterization of the unusual triheme cytochrome bound to the reaction center of Rhodovulum sulfidophilum

Structural evidence for a reaction intermediate mimic in the active site of a sulfite dehydrogenase

Study of the high-potential iron sulfur protein in Halorhodospira halophila confirms that it is distinct from cytochrome c as electron carrier

The "green" phylogenetic clade of Rieske/cytb complexes.

The 2Fe2S centres of the 2-oxo-1,2-dihydroquinoline 8-monooxygenase from Pseudomonas putida 86 studied by EPR spectroscopy

The H-bond network surrounding the pyranopterins modulates redox cooperativity in the molybdenum-bisPGD cofactor in arsenite oxidase.

The Qo-site inhibitor DBMIB favours the proximal position of the chloroplast Rieske protein and induces a pK-shift of the redox-linked proton

The Rieske FeS center from the gram-positive bacterium PS3 and its interaction with the menaquinone pool studied by EPR ⬇️

The Rieske protein: a case study on the pitfalls of multiple sequence alignments and phylogenetic reconstruction.

The Structure of Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans c4-Cytochrome

The cbb3 oxidases are an ancient innovation of the domain bacteria.

The ci/bH moiety in the b6f complex studied by EPR: a pair of strongly interacting hemes

The cytochrome bc1 complex from Rhodovulum sulfidophilum is a dimer with six quinones per monomer and an additional 6-kDa component.

The drive to life on wet and icy worlds

The evolution of respiratory O2/NO reductases: an out-of-the-phylogenetic-box perspective.

The evolutionary aspects of bioenergetic systems ⬇️

The ineluctable requirement for the trans-iron elements molybdenum and/or tungsten in the origin of life.

The inevitable journey to being

The membrane-extrinsic domain of cytochrome b(558/566) from the archaeon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius performs pivoting movements with respect to the membrane surface.