Quantitative Measurement of Molecular Permeability to a Synthetic Bacterial Microcompartment Shell System
Young EJ, Kirst H, Dwyer ME, Vermaas JVm, Kerfeld CA (2025). ACS Synth Biol 14: 1405–1413
Biodegradable silica nanoparticles for efficient linear DNA gene delivery
Ramos-Valle A, Kirst H, Fanarraga ML (2024). Drug Delivery, 31(1). Drug Delivery, 31(1)
Structural and quantum chemical basis for OCP-mediated quenching of phycobilisomes
Sauer P V, Cupellini L, Sutter M, Bondanza M, Martin MAD, Kirst H, Bína D, Koh AF, Kotecha A, Greber BJ, et al (2024). Sci Adv 10: eadk7535Heterologous Assembly of Pleomorphic Bacterial Microcompartment Shell Architectures Spanning the Nano- to Microscale
Kirst H*, Ferlez BH*, Greber BJ, Nogales E, Sutter M, Kerfeld CA (2023). Adv. Mater., 35: 2212065. (* co-first authors)Structures of a phycobilisome in light-harvesting and photoprotected states
Dominguez-Martin MA*, Sauer PV*, Kirst H, Sutter M, Bina D, Greber BJ, Nogales E, Polívka T, Kerfeld CA (2022). Nature 609:835–845 (* co-first authors)Construction of a synthetic bacterial organelle containing a glycyl radical enzyme to produce pyruvate from formate and acetate
Kirst H, Ferlez BH, Lindner S, Cotton CAR, Bar-Even A, Kerfeld CA (2022). PNAS 119 (8) e2116871119Validation of an insertion-engineered isoprene synthase as a strategy to improve terpene synthases
Gonzalez-Esquer CR, Ferlez BH, Wijetilleke S, Kirst H, Lantz AT, Turmo A, Kerfeld CA, Sharkey TD (2021). RCS Adv 11:29997Clues to the Function of Bacterial Microcompartments from Ancillary Genes
Kirst H, Kerfeld CA (2021). Biochem Soc Trans 49: 1085–1098Bacterial microcompartments: catalysis-enhancing metabolic modules for next generation metabolic and biomedical engineering
Kirst H and Kerfeld CA (2019). BMC biology 17:79-90Loss of ALBINO3b insertase results in truncated light-harvesting antenna in diatoms
Nymark M, Volpe C, Hafskjold MCG, Kirst H, Serif M, Vadstein O, Bones AM, Melis A, Winge P (2019). Plant Physiol 181:1257-1276Heterohexamers Formed by CcmK3 and CcmK4 Increase the Complexity of Beta Carboxysome Shells
Sommer M, Sutter M, Gupta S, Kirst H, et al (2019). Plant Physiol 179:156–167Downregulation of the CpSRP43 gene expression confers a Truncated Light-harvesting Antenna (TLA) and enhances biomass and leaf-to-stem ratio in Nicotiana tabacum canopies
Kirst H, Shen Y, Vamvaka E, Betterle N, Xu D, Warek U, Strickland JA, Melis A (2018). Planta 248:139-154Improving photosynthetic energy conversion efficiency: The Truncated Light-harvesting Antenna (TLA) concept. Chapter 14 in Microalgal Hydrogen Production: Achievements and Perspectives
Kirst H and Melis A (2018). Seibert M, Torzillo G, Eds. European Society for Photobiology 2018. Published by the Royal Society of Chemistry, London. Pp. 335-353Deletion of the chloroplast LTD protein impedes LHCI import and PSI–LHCI assembly in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Jeong J, Baek K, Yu J, Kirst H, Betterle N, Shin W, Bae S, Melis A, Jin E (2017). J Exp Bot erx457Engineering Isoprene Synthase Expression and Activity in Cyanobacteria
Chaves JE, Rueda-Romero P, Kirst H, Melis A (2017). ACS Synthetic Biology 6:2281-2292Photosynthetic antenna engineering to improve crop yields
Kirst H, Gabilly S, Niyogi KK, Lemaux PG, Melis A (2017). Planta 245:1009-1020Loss of CpSRP54 function leads to a truncated light-harvesting antenna size in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Jeong J, Baek K, Kirst H, Melis A, Jin E (2017). Biochim Biophys Acta 1858:45-55Role of isopentenyl-diphosphate isomerase in heterologous cyanobacterial (Synechocystis) isoprene production
Chaves JE, Kirst H, Melis A (2016). Photosynth Res 130:517-527Isoprene production in Synechocystis under alkaline and saline growth conditions
Chaves JE, Kirst H, Melis A (2015). J Appl Phycol 27:1089–1097Maximizing photosynthetic efficiency and culture productivity in cyanobacteria upon minimizing the phycobilisome light-harvesting antenna size
Kirst H, Formighieri C, Melis A (2014). BBA-Bioenergetics 1837:1653-1664.The chloroplast Signal Recognition Particle pathway (CpSRP) as a tool minimize chlorophyll antenna size and maximize photosynthetic productivity
Kirst H and Melis A (2014). Biotechnol Adv 32:66-72Truncated photosystem chlorophyll antenna size in the green microalga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii upon deletion of the TLA3-CpSRP43 gene
Kirst H, Garcia‐Cerdán JG, Zurbriggen A, Rühle T, Melis A (2012). Plant Physiol 160:2251–2260.Modulation of the light-harvesting chlorophyll antenna size in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii by TLA1 gene over-expression and RNA interference
Mitra M, Kirst H, Dewez D, Melis A (2012). Phil Trans R Soc B 367:3430-3443.Isoprene production via the mevalonic acid pathway in Escherichia coli (bacteria)
Zurbriggen A, Kirst H, Melis A (2012) . Bioenergy Res 5:814–828.Assembly of the light‐harvesting chlorophyll antenna in the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii requires expression of the TLA2‐CpFTSY gene
Kirst H, Garcia‐Cerdán JG, Zurbriggen A, Melis A (2012). Plant Physiol 158:930-945.