UniSysCat Publications

  • Expanding the scope of resonance Raman spectroscopy in hydrogenase research: New observable states and reporter vibrations, C. C. M. Bernitzky, G. Caserta, S. Frielingsdorf, J. Schoknecht, A. Schmidt, P. Scheerer, O. Lenz, P. Hildebrandt, C. Lorent, I. Zebger, M. Horch, Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry 2025, 262, 112741–0, 10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2024.112741
  • Ultrathin Film Antimony-Doped Tin Oxide Prevents [NiFe] Hydrogenase Inactivation at High Electrode Potentials, V. Davis, S. Frielingsdorf, Q. Hu, P. Elsäßer, B. N. Balzer, O. Lenz, I. Zebger, A. Fischer, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2024, 16, 44802–44816, 10.1021/acsami.4c08218
  • Nitridated Nickel Mesh as Industrial Water and Alcohol Oxidation Catalyst: Reconstruction and Iron‐Incorporation Matters, S. Ghosh, J. N. Hausmann, L. Reith, G. Vijaykumar, J. Schmidt, K. Laun, S. Berendts, I. Zebger, M. Driess, P. W. Menezes, Advanced Energy Materials 2024, 14, 2400356–0, 10.1002/aenm.202400356
  • Coupling of the Catalytic Reactions of Formate Dehydrogenase and Hydrogenase in Solution: Insights from in situ IR Spectroscopy and Computations, A. F. T. Waffo, M. Wu‐Lu, S. Katz, S. Frielingsdorf, B. R. Duffus, J. Liedtke, S. Leimkühler, O. Lenz, K. Laun, M. A. Mroginski, I. Zebger, ChemCatChem 2024, 10.1002/cctc.202400794
  • A soft molecular single-source precursor approach to synthesize a nanostructured Co S (pre)catalyst for efficient water oxidation and biomass valorization, B. Dasgupta, S. Ghosh, C. Walter, M. S. Budde, G. J. Marquardt, H. H. Chen, M. G. M. Breithaupt, T. Yilmaz, C. Garmatter, T. Ahamad, I. Zebger, M. Driess, P. W. Menezes, Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2024, 10.1039/D4TA05436A
  • The (In)Stability of Heterostructures During the Oxygen Evolution Reaction, I. Mondal, J. N. Hausmann, S. Mebs, S. Kalra, G. Vijaykumar, K. Laun, I. Zebger, S. Selve, H. Dau, M. Driess, P. W. Menezes, Advanced Energy Materials 2024, 14, 10.1002/aenm.202400809
  • A Strep‐Tag Imprinted Polymer Platform for Heterogenous Bio(electro)catalysis, A. Yarman, A. F. T. Waffo, S. Katz, C. Bernitzky, N. Kovács, P. Borrero, S. Frielingsdorf, E. Supala, J. Dragelj, S. Kurbanoglu, B. Neumann, O. Lenz, M. A. Mroginski, R. E. Gyurcsányi, U. Wollenberger, F. W. Scheller, G. Caserta, I. Zebger, Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2024, 10.1002/anie.202408979
  • Light‐Induced Electron Transfer in a [NiFe] Hydrogenase Opens a Photochemical Shortcut for Catalytic Dihydrogen Cleavage, C. Karafoulidi‐Retsou, C. Lorent, S. Katz, Y. Rippers, H. Matsuura, Y. Higuchi, I. Zebger, M. Horch, Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2024, 10.1002/anie.202409065
  • ATP-Triggered Fe(CN) CO Synthon Transfer from the Maturase HypCD to the Active Site of Apo-[NiFe]-Hydrogenase, A. Kwiatkowski, G. Caserta, A. C. Schulz, S. Frielingsdorf, V. Pelmenschikov, K. Weisser, A. Belsom, J. Rappsilber, I. Sergueev, C. Limberg, M. A. Mroginski, I. Zebger, O. Lenz, Journal of the American Chemical Society 2024, 10.1021/jacs.4c09791
  • A Knowledge-Based Molecular Single-Source Precursor Approach to Nickel Chalcogenide Precatalysts for Electrocatalytic Water, Alcohol, and Aldehyde Oxidations, B. Dasgupta, S. Yao, I. Mondal, S. Mebs, J. Schmidt, K. Laun, I. Zebger, H. Dau, M. Driess, P. W. Menezes, ACS Nano 2024, 10.1021/acsnano.4c08058
  • Lichtinduzierter Elektronentransfer in einer [NiFe]‐Hydrogenase: Eine Photochemische Abkürzung für die Katalytische Wasserstoffspaltung, C. Karafoulidi‐Retsou, C. Lorent, S. Katz, Y. Rippers, H. Matsuura, Y. Higuchi, I. Zebger, M. Horch, Angewandte Chemie 2024, 136, 10.1002/ange.202409065
  • Eine Strep‐Tag‐geprägte Polymer‐Plattform für die heterogene Bio(elektro)katalyse, A. Yarman, A. F. T. Waffo, S. Katz, C. Bernitzky, N. Kovács, P. Borrero, S. Frielingsdorf, E. Supala, J. Dragelj, S. Kurbanoglu, B. Neumann, O. Lenz, M. A. Mroginski, R. E. Gyurcsányi, U. Wollenberger, F. W. Scheller, G. Caserta, I. Zebger, Angewandte Chemie 2024, 136, 10.1002/ange.202408979
  • Conformational and mechanical stability of the isolated large subunit of membrane-bound [NiFe]-hydrogenase from Cupriavidus necator, J. Dragelj, C. Karafoulidi-Retsou, S. Katz, O. Lenz, I. Zebger, G. Caserta, S. Sacquin-Mora, M. A. Mroginski, Frontiers in Microbiology 2023, 13, 10.3389/fmicb.2022.1073315
  • Stepwise assembly of the active site of [NiFe]-hydrogenase, G. Caserta, S. Hartmann, C. Van Stappen, C. Karafoulidi-Retsou, C. Lorent, S. Yelin, M. Keck, J. Schoknecht, I. Sergueev, Y. Yoda, P. Hildebrandt, C. Limberg, S. DeBeer, I. Zebger, S. Frielingsdorf, O. Lenz, Nature Chemical Biology 2023, 10.1038/s41589-022-01226-w
  • Structural Determinants of the Catalytic Ni -L Intermediate of [NiFe]-Hydrogenase, A. F. T. Waffo, C. Lorent, S. Katz, J. Schoknecht, O. Lenz, I. Zebger, G. Caserta, Journal of the American Chemical Society 2023, 145, 13674–13685, 10.1021/jacs.3c01625
  • Binding of exogenous cyanide reveals new active-site states in [FeFe] hydrogenases, M. A. Martini, K. Bikbaev, Y. Pang, C. Lorent, C. Wiemann, N. Breuer, I. Zebger, S. DeBeer, I. Span, R. Bjornsson, J. A. Birrell, P. Rodríguez-Maciá, Chemical Science 2023, 14, 2826–2838, 10.1039/D2SC06098A
  • Immobilization of O -tolerant [NiFe] hydrogenase from on Tin-rich Indium Oxide Alters the Catalytic Bias from H Oxidation to Proton Reduction, V. Davis, N. Heidary, A. Guiet, K. H. Ly, M. Zerball, C. Schulz, N. Michael, R. von Klitzing, P. Hildebrandt, S. Frielingsdorf, O. Lenz, I. Zebger, A. Fischer, ACS Catalysis 2023, 13, 6312–6327, 10.1021/acscatal.2c06334
  • Stepwise conversion of the Cys [4Fe-3S] to a Cys [4Fe-4S] cluster and its impact on oxygen tolerance of [NiFe]-hydrogenase, A. Schmidt, J. Kalms, C. Lorent, S. Katz, S. Frielingsdorf, R. M. Evans, J. Fritsch, E. Siebert, C. Teutloff, F. A. Armstrong, I. Zebger, O. Lenz, P. Scheerer, Chemical Science 2023, 10.1039/D3SC03739H
  • Water-soluble nickel and iron salts for hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) and water oxidation: the simplest precatalysts?, T. Kahlstorf, J. Niklas Hausmann, I. Mondal, K. Laun, I. Zebger, T. Sontheimer, P. W. Menezes, Green Chemistry 2023, 25, 8679–8686, 10.1039/D3GC02119J
  • In Situ Reconstruction of Helical Iron Borophosphate Precatalyst toward Durable Industrial Alkaline Water Electrolysis and Selective Oxidation of Alcohols, H. Yang, G. Vijaykumar, Z. Chen, J. N. Hausmann, I. Mondal, S. Ghosh, V. C. J. Nicolaus, K. Laun, I. Zebger, M. Driess, P. W. Menezes, Advanced Functional Materials 2023, 33, 10.1002/adfm.202303702
  • A Facile Molecular Approach to Amorphous Nickel Pnictides and Their Reconstruction to Crystalline Potassium‐Intercalated γ‐NiOOH Enabling High‐Performance Electrocatalytic Water Oxidation and Selective Oxidation of 5‐Hydroxymethylfurfural, B. Dasgupta, J. N. Hausmann, R. Beltrán‐Suito, S. Kalra, K. Laun, I. Zebger, M. Driess, P. W. Menezes, Small 2023, 19, 10.1002/smll.202301258
  • Plasma-Mediated Manganese Oxide Electrocatalysts for Quasi-Industrial Water Oxidation and Selective Dehydrogenation, I. Mondal, P. V. Menezes, K. Laun, T. Diemant, M. Al-Shakran, I. Zebger, T. Jacob, M. Driess, P. W. Menezes, ACS Nano 2023, 17, 14043–14052, 10.1021/acsnano.3c04296
  • Evolution of Carbonate‐Intercalated γ‐NiOOH from a Molecularly Derived Nickel Sulfide (Pre)Catalyst for Efficient Water and Selective Organic Oxidation, S. Ghosh, B. Dasgupta, S. Kalra, M. L. P. Ashton, R. Yang, C. J. Kueppers, S. Gok, E. G. Alonso, J. Schmidt, K. Laun, I. Zebger, C. Walter, M. Driess, P. W. Menezes, Small 2023, 19, 10.1002/smll.202206679
  • Imprinted Polymers on the route to plastibodies for biomacromolecules (MIPs), viruses (VIPs) and cells (CIPs)., X. Zhang, A. Yarman, M. Bagheri, I. M. El-Sherbiny, R. Y. A. Hassan, S. Kurbanoglu, A. F. T. Waffo, I. Zebger, T. Ceren Karabulut, F. F. Bier, P. Lieberzeit, F. W. Scheller in Trends in Biosensing Research: Advances, Challenges and Applications. (Hrsg.: Roland Ulber), Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2023, 1–42, ISBN: 1616-8542
  • Unusual structures and unknown roles of FeS clusters in metalloenzymes seen from a resonance Raman spectroscopic perspective, G. Caserta, L. Zuccarello, C. Barbosa, C. M. Silveira, E. Moe, S. Katz, P. Hildebrandt, I. Zebger, S. Todorovic, Coordination Chemistry Reviews 2022, 452, 214287–0, 10.1016/j.ccr.2021.214287
  • Infrared Spectroscopy Elucidates the Inhibitor Binding Sites in a Metal‐Dependent Formate Dehydrogenase, K. Laun, B. R. Duffus, S. Wahlefeld, S. Katz, D. Belger, P. Hildebrandt, M. A. Mroginski, S. Leimkühler, I. Zebger, Chemistry – A European Journal 2022, 28, 10.1002/chem.202201091
  • Reversible Glutamate Coordination to High-Valent Nickel Protects the Active Site of a [NiFe] Hydrogenase from Oxygen, C. J. Kulka-Peschke, A. C. Schulz, C. Lorent, Y. Rippers, S. Wahlefeld, J. Preissler, C. Schulz, C. Wiemann, C. C. M. Bernitzky, C. Karafoulidi-Retsou, S. L. D. Wrathall, B. Procacci, H. Matsuura, G. M. Greetham, C. Teutloff, L. Lauterbach, Y. Higuchi, M. Ishii, N. T. Hunt, O. Lenz, I. Zebger, M. Horch, Journal of the American Chemical Society 2022, 144, 17022–17032, 10.1021/jacs.2c06400
  • A Minimal Light‐Driven System to Study the Enzymatic CO Reduction of Formate Dehydrogenase, K. Laun, B. R. Duffus, H. Kumar, J. H. Oudsen, C. Karafoulidi‐Retsou, A. Tadjoung Waffo, P. Hildebrandt, K. Hoang Ly, S. Leimkühler, S. Katz, I. Zebger, ChemCatChem 2022, 14, 10.1002/cctc.202201067
  • How an ACE2 mimicking epitope-MIP nanofilm recognizes template-related peptides and the receptor binding domain of SARS-CoV-2, X. Zhang, A. T. Waffo, A. Yarman, N. Kovács, Z. Bognár, U. Wollenberger, I. M. El-Sherbiny, R. Y. A. Hassan, F. F. Bier, R. E. Gyurcsányi, I. Zebger, F. W. Scheller, Nanoscale 2022, 14, 18106–18114, 10.1039/D2NR03898F
  • Human endonuclease III/NTH1: focusing on the [4Fe–4S] cluster and the N-terminal domain, E. Moe, C. M. Silveira, L. Zuccarello, F. Rollo, M. Stelter, S. De Bonis, C. Kulka-Peschke, S. Katz, P. Hildebrandt, I. Zebger, J. Timmins, S. Todorovic, Chemical Communications 2022, 58, 12568–12571, 10.1039/D2CC03643F
  • In‐Liquid Plasma Modified Nickel Foam: NiOOH/NiFeOOH Active Site Multiplication for Electrocatalytic Alcohol, Aldehyde, and Water Oxidation, J. N. Hausmann, P. V. Menezes, G. Vijaykumar, K. Laun, T. Diemant, I. Zebger, T. Jacob, M. Driess, P. W. Menezes, Advanced Energy Materials 2022, 12, 10.1002/aenm.202202098
  • An Intermetallic CaFe Ge Approach to Unprecedented Ca−Fe−O Electrocatalyst for Efficient Alkaline Oxygen Evolution Reaction, H. Yang, J. N. Hausmann, V. Hlukhyy, T. Braun, K. Laun, I. Zebger, M. Driess, P. W. Menezes, ChemCatChem 2022, 14, 10.1002/cctc.202200293
  • High-Yield Production of Catalytically Active Regulatory [NiFe]-Hydrogenase From Cupriavidus necator in Escherichia coli, Q. Fan, G. Caserta, C. Lorent, I. Zebger, P. Neubauer, O. Lenz, M. Gimpel, Frontiers in Microbiology 2022, 13, 1–13, 10.3389/fmicb.2022.894375
  • “Out of Pocket” Protein Binding—A Dilemma of Epitope Imprinted Polymers Revealed for Human Hemoglobin, X. Zhang, G. Caserta, A. Yarman, E. Supala, A. F. T. Waffo, U. Wollenberger, R. E. Gyurcsányi, I. Zebger, F. W. Scheller, Chemosensors 2021, 9, 128–0, 10.3390/chemosensors9060128
  • Exploring Structure and Function of Redox Intermediates in [NiFe]‐Hydrogenases by an Advanced Experimental Approach for Solvated, Lyophilized and Crystallized Metalloenzymes, C. Lorent, V. Pelmenschikov, S. Frielingsdorf, J. Schoknecht, G. Caserta, Y. Yoda, H. Wang, K. Tamasaku, O. Lenz, S. P. Cramer, M. Horch, L. Lauterbach, I. Zebger, Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2021, 60, 15854–15862, 10.1002/anie.202100451
  • Resonance Raman spectroscopic analysis of the iron–sulfur cluster redox chain of the membrane‐bound [NiFe]‐hydrogenase, E. Siebert, A. Schmidt, S. Frielingsdorf, J. Kalms, U. Kuhlmann, O. Lenz, P. Scheerer, I. Zebger, P. Hildebrandt, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy 2021, 10.1002/jrs.6163
  • Local Electric Field Changes during the Photoconversion of the Bathy Phytochrome Agp2, A. Kraskov, J. von Sass, A. D. Nguyen, T. O. Hoang, D. Buhrke, S. Katz, N. Michael, J. Kozuch, I. Zebger, F. Siebert, P. Scheerer, M. A. Mroginski, N. Budisa, P. Hildebrandt, Biochemistry 2021, 60, 2967–2977, 10.1021/acs.biochem.1c00426
  • Simple and robust: The claims of protein sensing by molecularly imprinted polymers, A. Yarman, S. Kurbanoglu, I. Zebger, F. W. Scheller, Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical 2021, 330, 129369–0, 10.1016/j.snb.2020.129369
  • Insights in electrosynthesis, target binding, and stability of peptide-imprinted polymer nanofilms, G. Caserta, X. Zhang, A. Yarman, E. Supala, U. Wollenberger, R. E. Gyurcsányi, I. Zebger, F. W. Scheller, Electrochimica Acta 2021, 381, 138236–0, 10.1016/j.electacta.2021.138236
  • Hydroxy-bridged resting states of a [NiFe]-hydrogenase unraveled by cryogenic vibrational spectroscopy and DFT computations, G. Caserta, V. Pelmenschikov, C. Lorent, A. F. Tadjoung Waffo, S. Katz, L. Lauterbach, J. Schoknecht, H. Wang, Y. Yoda, K. Tamasaku, M. Kaupp, P. Hildebrandt, O. Lenz, S. P. Cramer, I. Zebger, Chemical Science 2021, 12, 2189–2197, 10.1039/D0SC05022A
  • Molecular Details on Multiple Cofactor Containing Redox Metalloproteins Revealed by Infrared and Resonance Raman Spectroscopies, C. M. Silveira, L. Zuccarello, C. Barbosa, G. Caserta, I. Zebger, P. Hildebrandt, S. Todorovic, Molecules 2021, 26, 4852–0, 10.3390/molecules26164852
  • Electrografted Interfaces on Metal Oxide Electrodes for Enzyme Immobilization and Bioelectrocatalysis, T. G. A. A. Harris, N. Heidary, S. Frielingsdorf, S. Rauwerdink, A. Tahraoui, O. Lenz, I. Zebger, A. Fischer, ChemElectroChem 2021, 8, 1329–1336, 10.1002/celc.202100020
  • Ein neuer Aufbau zur Untersuchung der Struktur und Funktion von solvatisierten, lyophilisierten und kristallinen Metalloenzymen – veranschaulicht anhand von [NiFe]‐Hydrogenasen, C. Lorent, V. Pelmenschikov, S. Frielingsdorf, J. Schoknecht, G. Caserta, Y. Yoda, H. Wang, K. Tamasaku, O. Lenz, S. P. Cramer, M. Horch, L. Lauterbach, I. Zebger, Angewandte Chemie 2021, 133, 15988–15996, 10.1002/ange.202100451
  • Caught in the H : Crystal Structure and Spectroscopy Reveal a Sulfur Bound to the Active Site of an O ‐stable State of [FeFe] Hydrogenase, P. Rodríguez‐Maciá, L. M. Galle, R. Bjornsson, C. Lorent, I. Zebger, Y. Yoda, S. P. Cramer, S. DeBeer, I. Span, J. A. Birrell, Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2020, 10.1002/anie.202005208
  • The large subunit of the regulatory [NiFe]-hydrogenase from – a minimal hydrogenase?, G. Caserta, C. Lorent, A. Ciaccafava, M. Keck, R. Breglia, C. Greco, C. Limberg, P. Hildebrandt, S. P. Cramer, I. Zebger, O. Lenz, Chemical Science 2020, 11, 5453–5465, 10.1039/D0SC01369B
  • Shedding Light on Proton and Electron Dynamics in [FeFe] Hydrogenases, C. Lorent, S. Katz, J. Duan, C. J. Kulka, G. Caserta, C. Teutloff, S. Yadav, U. P. Apfel, M. Winkler, T. Happe, M. Horch, I. Zebger, Journal of the American Chemical Society 2020, 142, 5493–5497, 10.1021/jacs.9b13075
  • In Vitro Assembly as a Tool to Investigate Catalytic Intermediates of [NiFe]-Hydrogenase, G. Caserta, C. Lorent, V. Pelmenschikov, J. Schoknecht, Y. Yoda, P. Hildebrandt, S. P. Cramer, I. Zebger, O. Lenz, ACS Catalysis 2020, 10, 13890–13894, 10.1021/acscatal.0c04079
  • A soft molecular 2Fe–2As precursor approach to the synthesis of nanostructured FeAs for efficient electrocatalytic water oxidation, R. Beltrán-Suito, V. Forstner, J. N. Hausmann, S. Mebs, J. Schmidt, I. Zaharieva, K. Laun, I. Zebger, H. Dau, P. W. Menezes, M. Driess, Chemical Science 2020, 11, 11834–11842, 10.1039/D0SC04384B
  • Understanding the formation of bulk- and surface-active layered (oxy)hydroxides for water oxidation starting from a cobalt selenite precursor, J. N. Hausmann, S. Mebs, K. Laun, I. Zebger, H. Dau, P. W. Menezes, M. Driess, Energy & Environmental Science 2020, 13, 3607–3619, 10.1039/D0EE01912G
  • Hydrogen Development, U. P. Apfel, W. Weigand, M. Horch, I. Zebger, O. Lenz, T. Fujishiro in Bioorganometallic Chemistry (Hrsg.: Wolfgang Weigand, Ulf-Peter Apfel), De Gruyter, 2020, 13–136, ISBN: 9783110496505
  • Kristallstruktur und Spektroskopie offenbaren einen Schwefel‐Liganden am aktiven Zentrum einer O ‐stabilen [FeFe]‐Hydrogenase, P. Rodríguez‐Maciá, L. M. Galle, R. Bjornsson, C. Lorent, I. Zebger, Y. Yoda, S. P. Cramer, S. DeBeer, I. Span, J. A. Birrell, Angewandte Chemie 2020, 132, 16930–16939, 10.1002/ange.202005208
  • X‐ray Crystallography and Vibrational Spectroscopy Reveal the Key Determinants of Biocatalytic Dihydrogen Cycling by [NiFe] Hydrogenases, Y. Ilina, C. Lorent, S. Katz, J. Jeoung, S. Shima, M. Horch, I. Zebger, H. Dobbek, Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2019, 58, 18710–18714, 10.1002/anie.201908258
  • Host–Guest Chemistry Meets Electrocatalysis: Cucurbit[6]uril on a Au Surface as a Hybrid System in CO Reduction, A. Wagner, K. H. Ly, N. Heidary, I. Szabó, T. Földes, K. I. Assaf, S. J. Barrow, K. Sokołowski, M. Al-Hada, N. Kornienko, M. F. Kuehnel, E. Rosta, I. Zebger, W. M. Nau, O. A. Scherman, E. Reisner, ACS Catalysis 2019, 10, 751–761, 10.1021/acscatal.9b04221
  • Discriminating changes in intracellular NADH/NAD+ levels due to anoxicity and H2 supply in R. eutropha cells using the Frex fluorescence sensor, S. Wilkening, F. J. Schmitt, O. Lenz, I. Zebger, M. Horch, T. Friedrich, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics 2019, 1860, 148062–0, 10.1016/j.bbabio.2019.148062