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Josef Wachtveitl
Publications 2006-2013
Amarie S, Arefe K, Starcke JH, Dreuw A, Wachtveitl J (2008) Identification of an additional low-lying
excited state of carotenoid radical cations. J Phys Chem B 112:14011-14017
Amarie S, Förster U, Gildenhoff N, Dreuw A, Wachtveitl J (2010) Excited state dynamics of the
astaxanthin radical cation. Chem Phys 373:8-14
Amarie S, Lupo D, Lenz MO, Saegesser R, Ghosh R, Wachtveitl J (2010) Excitation energy pathways
in the photosynthetic units of reaction center LM- and H-subunit deletion mutants of Rhodospirillum
rubrum. Photosynth Res 103:141-151
Amarie S, Standfuss J, Barros T, Kühlbrandt W, Dreuw A, Wachtveitl J (2007) Carotenoid radical
cations as a probe for the molecular mechanism of nonphotochemical quenching in oxygenic
photosynthesis. J Phys Chem B 111:3481-3487
Amarie S, Wilk L, Barros T, Kühlbrandt W, Dreuw A, Wachtveitl J (2009) Properties of zeaxanthin and
its radical cation bound to the minor light-harvesting complexes CP24, CP26 and CP29. BBA-
Bioenergetics 1787:747-752
Dreuw A, Starcke JH, Wachtveitl J (2010) Excited state properties of the astaxanthin radical cation: A
quantum chemical study. Chem Phys 373:2-7
Dworak L, Matylitsky VV, Braun M, Wachtveitl J (2011) Coherent longitudinal-optical ground-state
phonon in CdSe Quantum Dots triggered by Ultrafast Charge Migration. Phys Rev Lett 107:247401
Dworak L, Matylitsky VV, Breus VV, Braun M, Basche T, Wachtveitl J (2011) Ultrafast charge
separation at the CdSe/CdS Core/Shell Quantum Dot/Methylviologen interface: implications for
nanocrystal solar cells. J Phys Chem C 115:3949-3955
Dworak L, Matylitsky VV, Wachtveitl J (2009) Ultrafast photoinduced processes in alizarin-sensitized
metal oxide mesoporous films. ChemPhysChem 10:384-391
Dworak L, Wachtveitl J (2011) Ultrafast charge separation at the CdSe Quantum Dot/Methylviologen
interface: dependence on electron acceptor concentration. Z Phys Chem 225:575-585
Dworak L, Zastrow M, Zeyat G, Ruck-Braun K, Wachtveitl J (2012) Ultrafast dynamics of
dithienylethenes differently linked to the surface of TiO(2) nanoparticles. J Phys-Condes Mat
24:394007
Förster U, Grunewald C, Engels JW, Wachtveitl J (2010) Ultrafast dynamics of 1-ethynylpyrene-
modified RNA: a photophysical probe of intercalation. J Phys Chem B 114:11638-45
Förster U, Lommel K, Sauter D, Grünewald C, Engels JW, Wachtveitl J (2010) 2-(1-Ethynylpyrene)-
adenosine as a folding probe for RNA-pyrene in or out. ChemBioChem 11:664-672
Forster U, Weigand JE, Trojanowski P, Suess B, Wachtveitl J (2012) Conformational dynamics of the
tetracycline-binding aptamer. Nucleic Acids Res 40:1807-1817
Gildenhoff N, Amarie S, Gundermann K, Beer A, Büchel C, Wachtveitl J (2010) Oligomerization and
pigmentation dependent excitation energy transfer in fucoxanthin-chlorophyll proteins. BBA-
Bioenergetics 1797:543-549
Gildenhoff N, Gundermann K, Büchel C, Wachtveitl J (2011) Coherent effects in the carbonyl
containing carotenoid fucoxanthin In: M Chergui, DM Jonas, E Riedle, RW Schoenlein, AJ Taylor (eds)
Ultrafast Phenomena XVII. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York, pp 361-363
Gildenhoff N, Herz J, Gundermann K, Büchel C, Wachtveitl J (2010) The excitation energy transfer in
the trimeric fucoxanthin-chlorophyll protein from Cyclotella meneghiniana analyzed by polarized
transient absorption spectroscopy. Chem Phys 373:104-109
Grininger M, Staudt H, Johansson P, Wachtveitl J, Oesterhelt D (2009) Dodecin is the key player in
flavin homeostasis of archaea. J Biol Chem 284:13068-13076
Grünewald C, Kwon T, Piton N, Förster U, Wachtveitl J, Engels JW (2008) RNA as scaffold for
pyrene excited complexes. Bioorgan Med Chem 16:19-26
Hempelmann F, Hölper S, Verhoefen MK, Woerner AC, Köhler T, Fiedler SA, Pfleger N, Wachtveitl J,
Glaubitz C (2011) The His75-Asp97 cluster in green proteorhodopsin. J Am Chem Soc 133:4645-4654
Herz J, Verhoefen MK, Weber I, Bamann C, Glaubitz C, Wachtveitl J (2012) Critical role of Asp227 in
the photocycle of proteorhodopsin. Biochemistry 51:5589-5600
Janke C, Scholz F, Becker-Baldus J, Glaubitz C, Wood PG, Bamberg E, Wachtveitl J, Bamann C
(2013) Photocycle and vectorial proton transfer in a rhodopsin from the eukaryote oxyrrhis marina.
Biochemistry 52:2750-63
Kohl-Landgraf J, Nimsch JE, Wachtveitl J (2013) LiF, an underestimated supercontinuum source in
femtosecond transient absorption spectroscopy. Opt Express 21:17060-17065
Kohl-Landgraf J, Braun M, Ozcoban C, Goncalves DPN, Heckel A, Wachtveitl J (2012) Ultrafast
dynamics of a spiropyran in water. J Am Chem Soc 134:14070-7
Koller FO, Reho R, Schrader TE, Moroder L, Wachtveitl J, Zinth W (2007) Infrared studies of small
azobenzene peptides: Unexpectedly slow reactions on the time range of minutes. J Phys Chem B
111:10481-10486
Kusebauch U, Cadamuro SA, Musiol HJ, Lenz MO, Wachtveitl J, Moroder L, Renner C (2006)
Photocontrolled folding and unfolding of a collagen triple helix. Angew Chem Int Edit 45:7015-7018
Lenz MO, Huber R, Schmidt B, Gilch P, Kalmbach R, Engelhard M, Wachtveitl J (2006) First steps of
retinal photoisomerization in proteorhodopsin. Biophys J 91:255-262
Lenz MO, Wachtveitl J (2008) Quenching of triplet state formation by electron transfer for
merocyanine/TiO2 systems. J Phys Chem C 112:11973-11977
Lorenz L, Plotner J, Matylitsky VV, Dreuw A, Wachtveitl J (2007) Ultrafast photoinduced dynamics of
pigment yellow 101: Fluorescence, excited-state intramolecular proton transfer, and isomerization. J
Phys Chem A 111:10891-10898
Lorinczi E, Verhoefen MK, Wachtveitl J, Woerner AC, Glaubitz C, Engelhard M, Bamberg E, Friedrich
T (2009) Voltage- and pH-dependent changes in vectoriality of photocurrents mediated by wild-type
and mutant proteorhodopsins upon expression in Xenopus Oocytes. J Mol Biol 393:320-341
Matylitsky VV, Dworak L, Breus VV, Basché T, Wachtveitl J (2009) Ultrafast charge separation in
multiexcited CdSe quantum dots mediated by adsorbed electron acceptors. J Am Chem Soc
131:2424-2425
Matylitsky VV, Dworak L, Wachtveitl J (2010) Donor/Acceptor adsorbates on the surface of metal
oxide nanoporous films: a spectroscopic probe for different electron transfer pathways.
ChemPhysChem 11:2027-2035
Matylitsky VV, Lenz MO, Wachtveitl J (2006) Observation of pH-dependent back-electron-transfer
dynamics in alizarin/TiO2 adsorbates: Importance of trap states. J Phys Chem B 110:8372-8379
Matylitsky VV, Shavel A, Gaponik N, Eychmuller A, Wachtveitl J (2008) Ultrafast interfacial charge
carrier dynamics in ZnSe and ZnSe/ZnS core/shell nanoparticles: Influence of shell formation. J Phys
Chem C 112:2703-2710
Mehler M, Scholz F, Ullrich SJ, Mao JF, Braun M, Brown LJ, Brown RCD, Fiedler SA, Becker-Baldus
J, Wachtveitl J, Glaubitz C (2013) The EF loop in green proteorhodopsin affects conformation and
photocycle dynamics. Biophys J 105:385-397
Mewes JM, Neumann K, Verhoefen MK, Wille G, Wachtveitl J, Dreuw A (2011) Molecular mechanism
of uncaging CO(2) from nitrophenylacetate provides general guidelines for improved ortho-nitrobenzyl
cages. ChemPhysChem 12:2077-2080
Mewes JM, Pepler E, Wachtveitl J, Dreuw A (2012) Combined theoretical and experimental
investigation of the photodecarboxylation of nitrophenylacetates and its implications for the design of
improved ortho-Nitrobenzylic caging groups. J Phys Chem A 116:11846-11862
Mors K, Roos C, Scholz F, Wachtveitl J, Dötsch V, Bernhard F, Glaubitz C (2013) Modified lipid and
protein dynamics in nanodiscs. BBA-Biomembranes 1828:1222-9
Neumann-Verhoefen MK, Neumann K, Bamann C, Radu I, Heberle J, Bamberg E, Wachtveitl J
(2013) Ultrafast infrared spectroscopy on channelrhodopsin-2 reveals efficient energy transfer from the
retinal chromophore to the protein. J Am Chem Soc 135:6968-6976
Neumann K, Verhoefen MK, Mewes JM, Dreuw A, Wachtveitl J (2011) Investigating the CO(2)
uncaging mechanism of nitrophenylacetates by means of fs-IR spectroscopy and quantum chemical
calculations. Phys Chem Chem Phys 13:17367-17377
Neumann K, Verhoefen MK, Weber I, Glaubitz C, Wachtveitl J (2008) Initial reaction dynamics of
proteorhodopsin observed by femtosecond infrared and visible spectroscopy. Biophys J 94:4796-4807
Nguyen PH, Staudt H, Wachtveitl J, Stock G (2011) Real time observation of ultrafast peptide
conformational dynamics: molecular dynamics simulation vs infrared experiment. J Phys Chem B
115:13084-13092
Reckel S, Gottstein D, Stehle J, Lohr F, Verhoefen MK, Takeda M, Silvers R, Kainosho M, Glaubitz C,
Wachtveitl J, Bernhard F, Schwalbe H, Guntert P, Dötsch V (2011) Solution NMR structure of
proteorhodopsin. Angew Chem Int Edit 50:11942-11946
Rehm S, Lenz MO, Mensch S, Schwalbe H, Wachtveitl J (2006) Ultrafast spectroscopy of a
photoswitchable 30-amino acid de novo synthesized peptide. Chem Phys 323:28-35
Roos C, Zocher M, Muller D, Munch D, Schneider T, Sahl HG, Scholz F, Wachtveitl J, Ma Y,
Proverbio D, Henrich E, Dötsch V, Bernhard F (2012) Characterization of co-translationally formed
nanodisc complexes with small multidrug transporters, proteorhodopsin and with the E. coli MraY
translocase. BBA-Biomembranes 1818:3098-106
Schafer F, Joshi KB, Fichte MAH, Mack T, Wachtveitl J, Heckel A (2011) Wavelength-selective
uncaging of dA and dC residues. Org Lett 13:1450-1453
Scholz F, Bamberg E, Bamann C, Wachtveitl J (2012) Tuning the primary reaction of
channelrhodopsin-2 by Imidazole, pH, and site-specific mutations. Biophys J 102:2649-2657
Scholz F, Dworak L, Matylitsky VV, Wachtveitl J (2011) Ultrafast electron transfer from photoexcited
CdSe Quantum Dots to methylviologen. ChemPhysChem 12:2255-2259
Staudt H, Hoesl MG, Dreuw A, Serdjukow S, Oesterhelt D, Budisa N, Wachtveitl J, Grininger M
(2013) Directed manipulation of a flavoprotein photocycle. Angew Chem Int Edit 52:8463-8466
Staudt H, Kohler T, Lorenz L, Neumann K, Verhoefen MK, Wachtveitl J (2008) Time resolved
spectroscopy on Pigment Yellow 101 in solid state. Chem Phys 347:462-471
Staudt H, Oesterhelt D, Grininger M, Wachtveitl J (2012) Ultrafast excited-state deactivation of flavins
bound to dodecin. Biol Chem 287:17637-44
Stehle J, Scholz F, Lohr F, Reckel S, Roos C, Blum M, Braun M, Glaubitz C, Dötsch V, Wachtveitl J,
Schwalbe H (2012) Characterization of the ground state dynamics of proteorhodopsin by NMR and
optical spectroscopies. J Biomol NMR 54:401-413
Verhoefen MK, Bamann C, Blöcher R, Förster U, Bamberg E, Wachtveitl J (2010) The photocycle of
channelrhodopsin-2: ultrafast reaction dynamics and subsequent reaction steps. ChemPhysChem
11:3113-3122
Verhoefen MK, Lenz MO, Amarie S, Klare JP, Tittor J, Oesterhelt D, Engelhard M, Wachtveitl J
(2009) Primary reaction of sensory rhodopsin II mutant D75N and the influence of azide. Biochemistry
48:9677-9683
Verhoefen MK, Schafer G, Shastri S, Weber I, Glaubitz C, Mantele W, Wachtveitl J (2011) Low
temperature FTIR spectroscopy provides new insights in the pH-dependent proton pathway of
proteorhodopsin. BBA-Bioenergetics 1807:1583-1590
Wormit M, Harbach PHP, Mewes JM, Amarie S, Wachtveitl J, Dreuw A (2009) Excitation energy
transfer and carotenoid radical cation formation in light harvesting complexes - A theoretical
perspective. BBA-Bioenergetics 1787:738-746
Zastrow M, Thyagarajan S, Ahmed SA, Haase P, Seedorff S, Gelman D, Wachtveitl J, Galoppini E,
Rück-Braun K (2010) Efficient preparation of photoswitchable dithienylethene-linker-conjugates by
palladium-catalyzed coupling reactions of terminal alkynes with thienyl chlorides and other aryl
halides. Chem-Asian J 5:1202-1212

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