Publications

2025

• Anaerobic digestion bacteria algae (ADBA): A mathematical model of mixotrophic algal growth with indigenous bacterial inhibition in anaerobic digestion effluent : SM Hasan Shahriar Rahat and Oluwatunmise Israel Dada and Liang Yu and Helmut Kirchhoff and Shulin Chen (2025) Full Text



2024

• Thylakoid membrane stacking controls electron transport mode during the dark-to-light transition by adjusting the distances between PSI and PSII : Yuval Garty and Yuval Bussi and Smadar Levin-Zaidman and Eyal Shimoni and Helmut Kirchhoff and Dana Charuvi and Reinat Nevo and Ziv Reich (2024) Full Text


• A holistic quantitative understanding of state transition in plant photosynthesis : Hui Ming Olivia Oung and Haniyeh Koochak and Malgorzata Krysiak and Václav Svoboda and Helmut Kirchhoff (2024) Full Text


• Correction to: Thylakoid membrane stacking controls electron transport mode during the dark-to-light transition by adjusting the distances between PSI and PSII (Nature Plants,(2024), 10, 3,(512-524), 10.1038/s41477-024-01628-9) : Yuval Garty and Yuval Bussi and Smadar Levin-Zaidman and Eyal Shimoni and Helmut Kirchhoff and Dana Charuvi and Reinat Nevo and Ziv Reich (2024) Full Text


• Evaluation of Lipids for the Study of Photosynthetic Membranes : Helmut Kirchhoff and Liam Vance (2024) Full Text



2023

• Quantification of energy-converting protein complexes in plant thylakoid membranes : Vaclav Svoboda and Hui Min Olivia Oung and Haniyeh Koochak and Robert Yarbrough and Steven D Mckenzie and Sujith Puthiyaveetil and Helmut Kirchhoff (2023) Full Text



2022

• A glossary of plant cell structures: current insights and future questions : Byung-Ho Kang and Charles T Anderson and Shin-ichi Arimura and Emmanuelle Bayer and Magdalena Bezanilla and Miguel A Botella and Federica Brandizzi and Tessa M Burch-Smith and Kent D Chapman and Kai Dünser and Yangnan Gu and Yvon Jaillais and Helmut Kirchhoff and Marisa S Otegui and Abel Rosado and Yu Tang and Jürgen Kleine-Vehn and Pengwei Wang and Bethany Karlin Zolman (2022) Full Text


• Drought tolerance strategies and autophagy in resilient wheat genotypes : Kahleen Hickey and Magnus Wood and Tom Sexton and Yunus Sahin and Taras Nazarov and Jessica Fisher and Karen A Sanguinet and Asaph Cousins and Helmut Kirchhoff and Andrei Smertenko (2022) Full Text


• Differential response of the photosynthetic machinery to dehydration in older and younger resurrection plants : Hui Min Olivia Oung and Roma Mukhopadhyay and Vaclav Svoboda and Dana Charuvi and Ziv Reich and Helmut Kirchhoff (2022) Full Text


• Biorefinery processing of waste to supply cost-effective and sustainable inputs for two-stage microalgal cultivation : Pierre C Wensel and Mahesh Bule and Allan Gao and Manuel Raul Pelaez-Samaniego and Liang Yu and William Hiscox and Gregory L Helms and William C Davis and Helmut Kirchhoff and Manuel Garcia-Perez and Shulin Chen (2022) Full Text



2021

• Impact of ion fluxes across thylakoid membranes on photosynthetic electron transport and photoprotection : Meng Li and Vaclav Svoboda and Geoffry Davis and David Kramer and Hans-Henning Kunz and Helmut Kirchhoff (2021) Full Text


• The rice plastidial phosphorylase participates directly in both sink and source processes : Kaan Koper and Seon-Kap Hwang and Magnus Wood and Salvinder Singh and Asaph Cousins and Helmut Kirchhoff and Thomas W Okita (2021) Full Text


• Reply to: Is the debate over grana stacking formation finally solved? : Frank Müh and Bart van Oort and Sujith Puthiyaveetil and Helmut Kirchhoff (2021) Full Text


• Proteoliposomes for Studying Lipid-protein Interactions in Membranes in vitro : Helmut Kirchhoff (2021) Full Text



2020

• Plastocyanin is the long-range electron carrier between photosystem II and photosystem I in plants : Ricarda Höhner and Mathias Pribil and Miroslava Herbstová and Laura Susanna Lopez and Hans-Henning Kunz and Meng Li and Magnus Wood and Vaclav Svoboda and Sujith Puthiyaveetil and Dario Leister and Helmut Kirchhoff (2020) Full Text


• Measuring the dynamic response of the thylakoid architecture in plant leaves by electron microscopy : Meng Li and Roma Mukhopadhyay and Václav Svoboda and Hui Min Olivia Oung and Daniel L Mullendore and Helmut Kirchhoff (2020) Full Text


• A proteoliposome-based system reveals how lipids control photosynthetic light harvesting : Stefanie Tietz and Michelle Leuenberger and Ricarda Höhner and Alice H Olson and Graham R Fleming and Helmut Kirchhoff (2020) Full Text


• TIP family aquaporins play role in chloroplast osmoregulation and photosynthesis : Azeez Beebo and Ahmad Zia and Christopher R Kinzel and Andrei Herdean and Karim Bouhidel and Helmut Kirchhoff and Benoît Schoefs and Cornelia Spetea (2020) Full Text



2019

• Chloroplast ultrastructure in plants : Helmut Kirchhoff (2019) Full Text


• Exploiting mixotrophy for improving productivities of biomass and co-products of microalgae : Na Pang and Xiangyu Gu and Shulin Chen and Helmut Kirchhoff and Hanwu Lei and Sanja Roje (2019) Full Text


• The structural and functional domains of plant thylakoid membranes : Haniyeh Koochak and Sujith Puthiyaveetil and Daniel L Mullendore and Meng Li and Helmut Kirchhoff (2019) Full Text


• Regulation and stimulation of photosynthesis of mixotrophically cultured Haematococcus pluvialis by ribose : Na Pang and Yuxiao Xie and Hui Min Olivia Oung and Balasaheb Vitthal Sonawane and Xiao Fu and Helmut Kirchhoff and Asaph B Cousins and Shulin Chen (2019) Full Text


• Chloroplast breakdown during dehydration of a homoiochlorophyllous resurrection plant proceeds via senescence-like processes : Dana Charuvi and Reinat Nevo and Elinor Aviv-Sharon and Assaf Gal and Vladimir Kiss and Eyal Shimoni and Jill M Farrant and Helmut Kirchhoff and Ziv Reich (2019) Full Text


• Fluctuating light experiments and semi-automated plant phenotyping enabled by self-built growth racks and simple upgrades to the IMAGING-PAM : Dominik Schneider and Laura S Lopez and Meng Li and Joseph D Crawford and Helmut Kirchhoff and Hans-Henning Kunz (2019) Full Text


• PsbS‐dependent and‐independent mechanisms regulate carotenoid‐chlorophyll energy coupling in grana thylakoids : Daniel A Gacek and Christoph‐Peter Holleboom and Stefanie Tietz and Helmut Kirchhoff and Peter Jomo Walla (2019) Full Text


• The structural and functional domains of plant thylakoid membranes (vol 97, pg 412, 2019) : H Koochak and S Puthiyaveetil and DL Mullendore and M Li and H Kirchhoff (2019) Full Text


• Quinone Diffusion in Photosynthetic Membranes: Challenges Caused by Complex Membrane Architectures : Helmut Kirchhoff (2019) Full Text



2018

• Structure-function relationships in photosynthetic membranes: Challenges and emerging fields : Helmut Kirchhoff (2018) Full Text


• Reduced arogenate dehydratase expression: ramifications for photosynthesis and metabolism : Ricarda Höhner and Joaquim V Marques and Tetsuro Ito and Yoshiaki Amakura and Alan D Budgeon Jr and Karl Weitz and Kim K Hixson and Laurence B Davin and Helmut Kirchhoff and Norman G Lewis (2018) Full Text


• Evaluation of lipids for the study of photosynthetic membranes : Helmut Kirchhoff and Robert Yarbrough (2018) Full Text


• Thylakoid Membrane Dynamics in Higher Plants : Haniyeh Koochak and Meng Li and Helmut Kirchhoff (2018) Full Text



2017

• Surface charge dynamics in photosynthetic membranes and the structural consequences : Sujith Puthiyaveetil and Bart Van Oort and Helmut Kirchhoff (2017) Full Text


• Sublocalization of cytochrome b6f complexes in photosynthetic membranes : Helmut Kirchhoff and Meng Li and Sujith Puthiyaveetil (2017) Full Text


• Functional photosystem I maintains proper energy balance during nitrogen depletion in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, promoting triacylglycerol accumulation : Mahmoud Gargouri and Philip D Bates and Jeong-Jin Park and Helmut Kirchhoff and David R Gang (2017) Full Text



2016

• Assessment of photosynthesis regulation in mixotrophically cultured microalga Chlorella sorokiniana : Tingting Li and Helmut Kirchhoff and Mahmoud Gargouri and Jie Feng and Asaph B Cousins and Philip T Pienkos and David R Gang and Shulin Chen (2016) Full Text


• Protection of the photosynthetic apparatus against dehydration stress in the resurrection plant Craterostigma pumilum : Ahmad Zia and Berkley J Walker and Hui Min Olivia Oung and Dana Charuvi and Peter Jahns and Asaph B Cousins and Jill M Farrant and Ziv Reich and Helmut Kirchhoff (2016) Full Text


• Distinct energetics and regulatory functions of the two major cyclic electron flow pathways in chloroplasts : Deserah D Strand and Nicholas Fisher and David M Kramer (2016) Full Text


• Structural and functional dynamics of the thylakoid membrane system : Sujith Puthiyaveetil and Helmut Kirchhoff and Ricarda Höhner (2016) Full Text


• The GreenCut: functions and relationships of proteins conserved in green lineage organisms : Tyler M Wittkopp and Shai Saroussi and Wenqiang Yang and Arthur R Grossman and H Kirchhoff (2016) Full Text



2015

• Photoprotection conferred by changes in photosynthetic protein levels and organization during dehydration of a homoiochlorophyllous resurrection plant : Dana Charuvi and Reinat Nevo and Eyal Shimoni and Leah Naveh and Ahmad Zia and Zach Adam and Jill M Farrant and Helmut Kirchhoff and Ziv Reich (2015) Full Text


• Functional implications of photosystem II crystal formation in photosynthetic membranes : Stefanie Tietz and Sujith Puthiyaveetil and Heather M Enlow and Robert Yarbrough and Magnus Wood and Dmitry A Semchonok and Troy Lowry and Zhirong Li and Peter Jahns and Egbert J Boekema and Steven Lenhert and Krishna K Niyogi and Helmut Kirchhoff (2015) Full Text


• Structural and functional dynamics of the thylakoid membrane system : R Hoehner and H Kirchhoff and S Puthiyaveetil (2015)



2014

• Diffusion of molecules and macromolecules in thylakoid membranes : Helmut Kirchhoff (2014) Full Text


• Structural changes of the thylakoid membrane network induced by high-light stress in plant chloroplasts : Helmut Kirchhoff (2014) Full Text


• Compartmentalization of the protein repair machinery in photosynthetic membranes : Sujith Puthiyaveetil and Onie Tsabari and Troy Lowry and Steven Lenhert and Robert R Lewis and Ziv Reich and Helmut Kirchhoff (2014) Full Text


• Isolation, characterization, and validation of oleaginous, multi-trophic, and haloalkaline-tolerant microalgae for two-stage cultivation : Pierre Wensel and Greg Helms and Bill Hiscox and William C Davis and Helmut Kirchhoff and Mahesh Bule and Liang Yu and Shulin Chen (2014) Full Text


• Significance of the photosystem II core phosphatase PBCP for plant viability and protein repair in thylakoid membranes : Sujith Puthiyaveetil and Timothy Woodiwiss and Ryan Knoerdel and Ahmad Zia and Magnus Wood and Ricarda Hoehner and Helmut Kirchhoff (2014) Full Text


• Dynamic architecture of plant photosynthetic membranes : Helmut Kirchhoff (2014) Full Text


• The mechanisms of repair : Helmut Kirchhoff (2014)



2013

• Architectural switches in plant thylakoid membranes : Helmut Kirchhoff (2013) Full Text


• Differential mobility of pigment-protein complexes in granal and agranal thylakoid membranes of C3 and C4 plants : Helmut Kirchhoff and Richard M Sharpe and Miroslava Herbstova and Robert Yarbrough and Gerald E Edwards (2013) Full Text


• Structural constraints for protein repair in plant photosynthetic membranes : Helmut Kirchhoff (2013) Full Text


• A phosphorylation map of the photosystem II supercomplex C2S2M2 : Sujith Puthiyaveetil and Helmut Kirchhoff (2013) Full Text


• Carotenoid-chlorophyll coupling and fluorescence quenching correlate with protein packing density in grana-thylakoids : Christoph-Peter Holleboom and Sunny Yoo and Pen-Nan Liao and Ian Compton and Winfried Haase and Helmut Kirchhoff and Peter Jomo Walla (2013) Full Text


• Significance of protein ordering in grana thylakoids for light-harvesting by photosystem II and protein mobility : Stefanie Tietz and Chris Kinzel and Robert Yarbrough and Helmut Kirchhoff (2013)



2012

• Architectural switch in plant photosynthetic membranes induced by light stress : M Herbstová and S Tietz and C Kinzel and MV Turkina and H Kirchhoff (2012) Full Text



2011

• Dynamic control of protein diffusion within the granal thylakoid lumen : Helmut Kirchhoff and Chris Hall and Magnus Wood and Miroslava Herbstová and Onie Tsabari and Reinat Nevo and Dana Charuvi and Eyal Shimoni and Ziv Reich (2011) Full Text



2010

• Visualizing the mobility and distribution of chlorophyll proteins in higher plant thylakoid membranes: Effects of photoinhibition and protein phosphorylation : Tomasz K Goral and Matthew P Johnson and Anthony PR Brain and Helmut Kirchhoff and Alexander V Ruban and Conrad W Mullineaux (2010) Full Text


• Efficient light harvesting by photosystem II requires an optimized protein packing density in grana thylakoids : Silvia Haferkamp and Winfried Haase and Andrew A Pascal and Herbert van Amerongen and Helmut Kirchhoff (2010) Full Text


• Role of lipids in the dynamics of thylakoid membranes : Conrad W Mullineaux and Helmut Kirchhoff (2010) Full Text



2009

• Significance of protein order in thylakoid membranes for photosynthetic energy conversion : H Kirchhoff and S Haferkamp and C Mullineaux and P-Å Albertsson (2009) Full Text



2008

• Protein diffusion and macromolecular crowding in thylakoid membranes : Helmut Kirchhoff and Silvia Haferkamp and John F Allen and David BA Epstein and Conrad W Mullineaux (2008) Full Text


• Molecular crowding and order in photosynthetic membranes : Helmut Kirchhoff (2008) Full Text


• Significance of molecular crowding in grana membranes of higher plants for light harvesting by photosystem II : Silvia Haferkamp and Helmut Kirchhoff (2008) Full Text


• Significance of protein crowding, order and mobility for photosynthetic membrane functions : Helmut Kirchhoff (2008) Full Text


• Investigating the organization of photosystem II in spinach photosynthetic membranes by atomic force microscopy : Helmut Kirchhoff and Claudia Büchel and Lifeng Chi and Steven Lenhert and Jon Nield (2008) Full Text



2007

• Comparative quantitative proteomics to investigate the remodeling of bioenergetic pathways under iron deficiency in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii : Bianca Naumann and Andreas Busch and Jens Allmer and Elisabeth Ostendorf and Martin Zeller and Helmut Kirchhoff and Michael Hippler (2007) Full Text


• Low-light-induced formation of semicrystalline photosystem II arrays in higher plant chloroplasts : Helmut Kirchhoff and Winfried Haase and Sandra Wegner and Ravi Danielsson and Ralf Ackermann and Per-Ake Albertsson (2007) Full Text


• Probing the organization of photosystem II in photosynthetic membranes by atomic force microscopy : H Kirchhoff (2007) Full Text


• Structural and functional self-organization of Photosystem II in grana thylakoids : Helmut Kirchhoff and Winfried Haase and Silvia Haferkamp and Thomas Schott and Mauricio Borinski and Ulrich Kubitscheck and Matthias Rögner (2007) Full Text


• Ssr2998 of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 is involved in regulation of cyanobacterial electron transport and associated with the cytochrome b6f complex : Thomas Volkmer and Dirk Schneider and Gábor Bernát and Helmut Kirchhoff and Stephan-Olav Wenk and Matthias Rögner (2007) Full Text


• Using fluorescence recovery after photobleaching to measure lipid diffusion in membranes : Conrad W Mullineaux and Helmut Kirchhoff (2007) Full Text


• Protein diffusion and macromolecular crowding in grana : H Kirchhoff (2007) Full Text


• Molecular crowding and photosynthetic energy transformation : S Haferkamp and W Haase and H van Amerongen and H Kirchhoff (2007) Full Text


• Comparative quantitative proteomics to investigate the remodelling of bioenergetic pathways under iron-deficiency in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii : M Hippler and A Busch and J Allmer and E Ostendorf and M Zeller and H Kirchhoff and B Naumann (2007) Full Text


• Protein diffusion and macromolecular crowding in grana thylakoids : H Kirchhoff and S Haferkamp and JF Allen and CW Mullineaux (2007)



2006

• In Vitro Techniques : J Robin Harris and Geneviève Almouzni and Doris Kirschner and Daniela Dimitrova and Jeffrey A Nickerson and Jean Underwood and Stefan Wagner and Barbara Korbei and Roland Foisner and Tobias C Walther and Martin Hetzer and Reiner Peters and Ivan Walev and Anton IPM de Kroon and Rutger WHM Staffhorst and Ben de Kruijff and Koert NJ Burger and Luis Eduardo Soares Netto and Eric Bertrand and Judie B Alimonti and Arnold H Greenberg and Jinnan Xiao and Anuradha Pradhan and Yuechueng Liu and Jacques Paiement and Robin Young and Félix M Goñi and Ana‐Victoria Villar and F‐Xabier Contreras and Alicia Alonso and Brian J Peter and Ian G Mills and Matthew K Higgins and William J Brown and K Chambers and A Doody and C Yan Cheng and Dolores D Mruk and Chunhong Yang and Helmut Kirchhoff and Winfried Haase and Stephanie Boggasch and Harald Paulsen and Julie Benesova and Sven‐T Liffers and Matthias Rögner and Ya‐sheng Gao and Elizabeth Sztul and Meinolf Thiemann and H Dariush Fahimi and Robert Gniadecki and Barbara Gajkowska and Susan L Bane and John F Hess and John C Voss and Paul G Fitzgerald and Shin‐ichi Hisanaga and Takahiro Sasaki and Kenji Uéda and Terrence Town and Jun Tan and Nathaniel GN Milton and Richard Chi and Thomas CS Keller III and Marina Kriajevska and Igor Bronstein and Eugene Lukanidin and David F Holmes and Karl E Kadler (2006) Full Text


• PROTOCOL 6.28 Reconstitution of the major light-harvesting chlorophyll a/b complex into liposomes : Chunhong Yang and Helmut Kirchhoff and Winfried Haase and Stephanie Boggasch and Harald Paulsen (2006) Full Text



2005

• Reconstitution of the major light-harvesting chlorophyll a/b complex into liposomes : C Yang and H Kirchhoff and S Boggasch and W Haase and H Paulsen (2005) Full Text



2004

• The role of plastocyanin in the adjustment of the photosynthetic electron transport to the carbon metabolism in tobacco : Mark Aurel Schöttler and Helmut Kirchhoff and Engelbert Weis (2004) Full Text


• Supramolecular photosystem II organization in grana thylakoid membranes: evidence for a structured arrangement : Helmut Kirchhoff and Ira Tremmel and Winfried Haase and Ulrich Kubitscheck (2004) Full Text


• Plastocyanin redox kinetics in spinach chloroplasts: Evidence for disequilibrium in the high potential chain : Helmut Kirchhoff and Mark Aurel Schöttler and Julia Maurer and Engelbert Weis (2004) Full Text


• Transversal and lateral exciton energy transfer in grana thylakoids of spinach : Helmut Kirchhoff and Mauricio Borinski and Steven Lenhert and Lifeng Chi and Claudia Büchel (2004) Full Text


• Evidence for a structured protein organization in grana thylakoids : H Kirchhoff and I Tremmel and W Haase and U Kubitscheck (2004)


• Dynamic interaction between LHCII and PSII in grana membranes fused with liposomes : S Haferkamp and S Wegner and W Haase and H Kirchhoff (2004)



2003

• Dependence of plastoquinol diffusion on the shape, size, and density of integral thylakoid proteins : IG Tremmel and Helmut Kirchhoff and E Weis and GD Farquhar (2003) Full Text


• Aggregation and fluorescence quenching of chlorophyll a of the light-harvesting complex II from spinach in vitro : Helmut Kirchhoff and Hans-Jürgen Hinz and Jörg Rösgen (2003) Full Text



2002

• Molecular architecture of the thylakoid membrane: Lipid diffusion space for plastoquinone : H Kirchhoff and U Mukherjee and H-J Galla (2002) Full Text


• Metabolic control of photosynthetic electron transport in crassulacean acid metabolism-induced Mesembryanthemum crystallinum : Mark Aurel Schöttler and Helmut Kirchhoff and Katharina Siebke and Engelbert Weis (2002) Full Text



2001

• The photosynthetic electron transport in thylakoids of the facultative CAM plant Mesembryanthemum crystallinum (L.) : Mark Aurel Schöttler and Helmut Kirchhoff and Katharina Siebke and Engelbert Weis (2001) Full Text


• Micro-organisation of thylakoids and the control of whole chain photosynthetic electron transport. : Ira Tremmel and Helmut Kirchhoff and Graham D Farquhar and Engelbert Weis (2001) Full Text



2000

• Control of the photosynthetic electron transport by PQ diffusion microdomains in thylakoids of higher plants : Helmut Kirchhoff and Sebastian Horstmann and Engelbert Weis (2000) Full Text



1995

• Control analysis for PSII-cyt b6f microdomains in stacked grana membranes : H Kirchhoff and E. Weis (1995)