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Henning Kirst, PhD
Senior Research Associate Kerfeld Lab West PhD, University of California Berkeley / Leibniz Universität Hannover MSc Biochemistry, Leibniz Universität Hannover Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Building 64, Room 123 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720 hkirst@lbl.gov |
Publications
- Nymark M, Volpe C, Hafskjold MCG, Kirst H, Serif M, Vadstein O, Bones AM, Melis A, Winge P (2019) Loss of ALBINO3b insertase results in truncated light-harvesting antenna in diatoms. Plant Physiol DOI: https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.19.00868
- Sommer M, Sutter M, Gupta S, Kirst H, et al (2019) Heterohexamers Formed by CcmK3 and CcmK4 Increase the Complexity of Beta Carboxysome Shells. Plant Physiol 179:156–167
- Kirst H, Shen Y, Vamvaka E, Betterle N, Xu D, Warek U, Strickland JA, Melis A (2018) Downregulation of the CpSRP43 gene expression confers a Truncated Light-harvesting Antenna (TLA) and enhances biomass and leaf-to- stem ratio in Nicotiana tabacum canopies. Planta in press
- Kirst H and Melis A (2018) Improving photosynthetic energy conversion efficiency: The Truncated Light-harvesting Antenna (TLA) concept. Chapter 14 in Microalgal Hydrogen Production: Achievements and Perspectives. Seibert M, Torzillo G, Eds. European Society for Photobiology 2018. Published by the Royal Society of Chemistry, London. Pp. 335-353
- Jeong J, Baek K, Yu J, Kirst H, Betterle N, Shin W, Bae S, Melis A, Jin E (2017) Deletion of the chloroplast LTD protein impedes LHCI import and PSI–LHCI assembly in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. J Exp Bot erx457
- Chaves JE, Rueda-Romero P, Kirst H, Melis A (2017) Engineering Isoprene Synthase Expression and Activity in Cyanobacteria. ACS Synthetic Biology 6:2281-2292
- Kirst H, Gabilly S, Niyogi KK, Lemaux PG, Melis A (2017) Photosynthetic antenna engineering to improve crop yields. Planta 245:1009-1020
- Jeong J, Baek K, Kirst H, Melis A, Jin E (2017) Loss of CpSRP54 function leads to a truncated light-harvesting antenna size in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Biochim Biophys Acta 1858:45-55
- Chaves JE, Kirst H, Melis A (2016) Role of isopentenyl-diphosphate isomerase in heterologous cyanobacterial (Synechocystis) isoprene production. Photosynth Res 130:517-527
- Chaves JE, Kirst H, Melis A (2014) Isoprene production in Synechocystis under alkaline and saline growth conditions. J Appl Phycol 27:1089–1097
- Kirst H, Formighieri C, Melis A (2014) Maximizing photosynthetic efficiency and culture productivity in cyanobacteria upon minimizing the phycobilisome light-harvesting antenna size. BBA-Bioenergetics 1837:1653-1664.
- Kirst H and Melis A (2014) The chloroplast Signal Recognition Particle pathway (CpSRP) as a tool minimize chlorophyll antenna size and maximize photosynthetic productivity. Biotechnol Adv 32:66-72
- Kirst H, Garcia‐Cerdán JG, Zurbriggen A, Rühle T, Melis A (2012) Truncated photosystem chlorophyll antenna size in the green microalga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii upon deletion of the TLA3-CpSRP43 gene. Plant Physiol 160:2251–2260.
- Mitra M, Kirst H, Dewez D, Melis A (2012) Modulation of the light-harvesting chlorophyll antenna size in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii by TLA1 gene over-expression and RNA interference. Phil Trans R Soc B 367:3430-3443.
- Zurbriggen A, Kirst H, Melis A (2012) Isoprene production via the mevalonic acid pathway in Escherichia coli (bacteria). Bioenergy Res 5:814–828.
- Kirst H, Garcia‐Cerdán JG, Zurbriggen A, Melis A (2012) Assembly of the light‐harvesting chlorophyll antenna in the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii requires expression of the TLA2‐CpFTSY gene. Plant Physiol 158:930-945.