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Josef Komenda is affiliated with the Czech Academy of Sciences in the Czech Republic. Their research predominantly focuses on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a significant emphasis on photosynthetic processes and mechanisms.

Their work explores a range of topics including photosynthetic processes and mechanisms, mitochondrial function and pathology, photoreceptor and optogenetics research, algal biology and biofuel production, microbial community ecology and physiology, light effects on plants, and protist diversity and phylogeny.

Josef Komenda has published extensively in the following venues:

  • IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
  • Plant and Cell Physiology
  • PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
  • Nature Plants
  • Plant Communications

Their recent papers include:

  • Chlorophyll f synthesis by a super-rogue photosystem II complex, 2020, Nature Plants
  • The biogenesis and maintenance of PSII: Recent advances and current challenges, 2024, The Plant Cell
  • Assembly of D1/D2 complexes of photosystem II: Binding of pigments and a network of auxiliary proteins, 2022, PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
  • Redesigning the photosynthetic light reactions to enhance photosynthesis - the PhotoRedesign consortium, 2021, The Plant Journal
  • FtsH4 protease controls biogenesis of the PSII complex by dual regulation of high light-inducible proteins, 2022, Plant Communications

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

  • Roman Sobotka
  • Peter J. Nixon
  • Martina Bečková
  • Jana Knoppová
  • Jianfeng Yu

Josef Komenda's subfields of study encompass molecular biology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, ecology, and plant science.

Best Publications

  • Recent advances in understanding the assembly and repair of photosystem II.

    Peter J. Nixon;Franck Michoux;Jianfeng Yu;Marko Boehm

  • Assembling and maintaining the Photosystem II complex in chloroplasts and cyanobacteria

    Josef Komenda;Roman Sobotka;Peter J Nixon

  • FtsH-mediated repair of the photosystem II complex in response to light stress

    Peter J. Nixon;Myles Barker;Marko Boehm;Remco de Vries

  • Mechanism of photoprotection in the cyanobacterial ancestor of plant antenna proteins

    Hristina Staleva;Josef Komenda;Mahendra K Shukla;Václav Šlouf

  • The Cyanobacterial Homologue of HCF136/YCF48 Is a Component of an Early Photosystem II Assembly Complex and Is Important for Both the Efficient Assembly and Repair of Photosystem II in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803

    Josef Komenda;Jörg Nickelsen;Martin Tichý;Martin Tichý;Ondřej Prášil;Ondřej Prášil

  • Accumulation of the D2 Protein Is a Key Regulatory Step for Assembly of the Photosystem II Reaction Center Complex in Synechocystis PCC 6803

    Josef Komenda;Veronika Reisinger;Bernd Christian Müller;Marika Dobáková

  • The FtsH Protease slr0228 Is Important for Quality Control of Photosystem II in the Thylakoid Membrane of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803

    Josef Komenda;Josef Komenda;Myles Barker;Stanislava Kuviková;Stanislava Kuviková;Remco de Vries

  • Psb28 Protein Is Involved in the Biogenesis of the Photosystem II Inner Antenna CP47 (PsbB) in the Cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803

    Marika Dobáková;Roman Sobotka;Martin Tichý;Josef Komenda

  • Comparison of psbO and psbH deletion mutants of Synechocystis PCC 6803 indicates that degradation of D1 protein is regulated by the QB site and dependent on protein synthesis

    Josef Komenda;James Barber

  • Strategies of ultraviolet‐B protection in microscopic algae

    Fusheng Xiong;Josef Komenda;Jiri Kopecky;Ladislav Nedbal

  • A biosensor for the detection of triazine and phenylurea herbicides designed using Photosystem II coupled to a screen‐printed electrode

    Michal Koblížek;Jan Malý;Jiří Masojídek;Josef Komenda

  • A Cyanobacterial Chlorophyll Synthase-HliD Complex Associates with the Ycf39 Protein and the YidC/Alb3 Insertase

    Jack W. Chidgey;Markéta Linhartová;Markéta Linhartová;Josef Komenda;Josef Komenda;Philip J. Jackson

  • Changes in chlorophyll fluorescence quenching and pigment composition in the green alga Chlorococcum sp. grown under nitrogen deficiency and salinity stress

    J. Masojídek;G. Torzillo;J. Kopecký;M. Koblížek

  • Discovery of a Chlorophyll Binding Protein Complex Involved in the Early Steps of Photosystem II Assembly in Synechocystis

    Jana Knoppová;Jana Knoppová;Roman Sobotka;Roman Sobotka;Martin Tichý;Martin Tichý;Jianfeng Yu

  • The Psb27 assembly factor binds to the CP43 complex of Photosystem II in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803

    Josef Komenda;Jana Knoppová;Jana Kopečná;Roman Sobotka

  • Photoadaptation of two members of the Chlorophyta (Scenedesmus and Chlorella) in laboratory and outdoor cultures: changes in chlorophyll fluorescence quenching and the xanthophyll cycle.

    Jiří Masojídek;Giuseppe Torzillo;Michal Koblížek;Jiří Kopecký

  • A sensitive photosystem II-based biosensor for detection of a class of herbicides.

    Michal Koblizek;Jiri Masojidek;Josef Komenda;Tomas Kucera

  • Investigating the Early Stages of Photosystem II Assembly in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 ISOLATION OF CP47 AND CP43 COMPLEXES

    Marko Boehm;Elisabet Romero;Veronika Reisinger;Jianfeng Yu

  • Localization of the small CAB-like proteins in photosystem II

    Danny Yao;Danny Yao;Thomas Kieselbach;Josef Komenda;Josef Komenda;Kamoltip Promnares;Kamoltip Promnares

  • Psb28 Protein Is Involved in the Biogenesis of the Photosystem II Inner Antenna CP47 (PsbB) in the

    Roman Sobotka;Martin Tichy;Josef Komenda

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter J. Nixon
Peter J. Nixon Imperial College London
Ondřej Prášil
Ondřej Prášil Institute of Microbiology
Lutz A. Eichacker
Lutz A. Eichacker University of Stavanger
Tomáš Polívka
Tomáš Polívka University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice
Jon Nield
Jon Nield Queen Mary University of London
Bruce A. Diner
Bruce A. Diner DuPont (United States)
Imre Vass
Imre Vass Biological Research Centre
Shigeru Itoh
Shigeru Itoh Nagoya University
Autar K. Mattoo
Autar K. Mattoo United States Department of Agriculture
Julius Lukeš
Julius Lukeš Czech Academy of Sciences

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