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Klaus Brettel is affiliated with the University of Paris-Saclay in France and specializes in research within the broad field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology.

Their work spans several subfields, including Molecular Biology, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Plant Science, Materials Chemistry, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience.

The recent scholarly output includes four publications across different scientific journals and topics. The papers are:

  • "Mechanism and dynamics of fatty acid photodecarboxylase," published in 2021 in Science
  • "Kinetics of Electron Returns in Successive Two-Photon DNA Repair by (6-4) Photolyase," published in 2022 in ACS Catalysis
  • "Flash absorption spectroscopy," published in 2020 in Bulletin de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège
  • "High-resolution structure and reaction cycle of fatty acid photodecarboxylase: anatomy of a crime scene," published in 2021 in Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances

Brettel's frequent co-authors include Damien Sorigué, Kyprianos Hadjidemetriou, Stéphanie Blangy, Guillaume Gotthard, and Pierre Legrand, with multiple collaborations documented with each.

The main publication venues for this scientist are Science, ACS Catalysis, Bulletin de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège, and Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances.

Main topics covered in their research are:

  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
  • Algal biology and biofuel production
  • Enzyme Catalysis and Immobilization
  • Light effects on plants
  • Photochromic and Fluorescence Chemistry
  • Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
  • Water Quality Monitoring and Analysis

Best Publications

  • The Cryptochromes: Blue Light Photoreceptors in Plants and Animals

    Inês Chaves;Richard Pokorny;Martin Byrdin;Nathalie Hoang

  • Electron transfer and arrangement of the redox cofactors in photosystem I

    Klaus Brettel

  • Intraprotein radical transfer during photoactivation of DNA photolyase.

    Corinne Aubert;Marten H. Vos;Paul Mathis;André P. M. Eker

  • Electron transfer in photosystem I.

    Klaus Brettel;Winfried Leibl

  • An algal photoenzyme converts fatty acids to hydrocarbons

    Damien Sorigué;Bertrand Légeret;Stéphan Cuiné;Stéphanie Blangy

  • Light-induced electron transfer in a cryptochrome blue-light photoreceptor.

    Baldissera Giovani;Martin Byrdin;Margaret Ahmad;Margaret Ahmad;Klaus Brettel

  • Nanosecond reduction kinetics of photooxidized chlorophyll-aII (P-680) in single flashes as a probe for the electron pathway, H+-release and charge accumulation in the O2-evolving complex☆

    K. Brettel;E. Schlodder;H.T. Witt

  • Reaction mechanisms of DNA photolyase.

    Klaus Brettel;Martin Byrdin

  • Temperature dependence of forward and reverse electron transfer from A1-, the reduced secondary electron acceptor in photosystem I.

    Eberhard Schlodder;Klaus Falkenberg;Martin Gergeleit;Klaus Brettel

  • Light-induced Electron Transfer in Arabidopsis Cryptochrome-1 Correlates with in Vivo Function

    Anke Zeugner;Martin Byrdin;Jean-Pierre Bouly;Nadia Bakrim

  • Intraprotein electron transfer between tyrosine and tryptophan in DNA photolyase from Anacystis nidulans.

    Corinne Aubert;Paul Mathis;André P. M. Eker;Klaus Brettel

  • Mechanism and dynamics of fatty acid photodecarboxylase

    Damien Sorigué;Kyprianos Hadjidemetriou;S. Blangy;G. Gotthard

  • Charge Recombination Reactions in Photosystem II. 1. Yields, Recombination Pathways, and Kinetics of the Primary Pair

    F van Mieghem;K Brettel;B Hillmann;A Kamlowski

  • Electron transfer from A− 1 to an iron-sulfur center with t = 200 ns at room temperature in photosystem I Characterization by flash absorption spectroscopy

    K. Brettel

  • Flash‐induced absorption changes in photosystem I at low temperature: evidence that the electron acceptor A1 is vitamin K1

    K. Brettel;P. Sétif;P. Mathis

  • Optical characterization of the immediate electron donor to chlorophyll a+II in O2‐evolving photosystem II complexes Tyrosine as possible electron carrier between chlorophyll aII and the water‐oxidizing manganese complex

    S. Gerken;K. Brettel;E. Schlodder;H.T. Witt

  • Electron transfer in cyanobacterial Photosystem I. II. Determination of forward electron transfer rates of site-directed mutants in a putative electron transfer pathway from A0 through A1 to FX

    Wu Xu;Parag R. Chitnis;Alfia Valieva;Art van der Est

  • Rapid formation of the stable tyrosyl radical in photosystem II

    Peter Faller;Richard J. Debus;Klaus Brettel;Miwa Sugiura

  • Forward electron transfer from phylloquinone A1 to iron-sulfur centers in spinach photosystem I

    Pierre Setif;Klaus Brettel

  • Dissection of the triple tryptophan electron transfer chain in Escherichia coli DNA photolyase: Trp382 is the primary donor in photoactivation

    Martin Byrdin;André P. M. Eker;Marten H. Vos;Klaus Brettel

  • Electron hopping through the 15 A triple tryptophan molecular wire in DNA photolyase occurs within 30 ps.

    Andras Lukacs;André P. M. Eker;Martin Byrdin;Klaus Brettel

  • A systematic survey of conserved histidines in the core subunits of Photosystem I by site‐directed mutagenesis reveals the likely axial ligands of P700

    Kevin Redding;Fraser MacMillan;Winfried Leibl;Klaus Brettel

Frequent Co-Authors

Eberhard Schlodder
Eberhard Schlodder Technical University of Berlin
Horst Tobias Witt
Horst Tobias Witt Technical University of Berlin
Margaret Ahmad
Margaret Ahmad Xavier University
Shigenori Iwai
Shigenori Iwai Osaka University
John H. Golbeck
John H. Golbeck Pennsylvania State University
Robert Bittl
Robert Bittl Freie Universität Berlin
Corinne Aubert
Corinne Aubert Sorbonne University
Alain Boussac
Alain Boussac Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Lars-Oliver Essen
Lars-Oliver Essen Philipp University of Marburg
Jean-David Rochaix
Jean-David Rochaix University of Geneva

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