Preprints
Xu J, Ameerjan ABP, Hungerland J, Langebrake G, Ravnsborg T, Jensen ON, Schmidt J, Bartölke R, Kasahara T, Satish B, Schwigon L, Dedek K, Nolte A, Liedvogel M, Solov’yov IA, Mouritsen H. Cryptochrome 4b protein is likely irrelevant for the radical pair based magnetoreception in the European robin. bioRxiv 2025.02.21.639466. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.02.21.639466
2025
Bartolke R (co-corresponding author), Niessner C, Reinhard K, Wolfrum U, Meimann S, Bolte P, Feederle R, Mouritsen H, Dedek K, Peichl L, Winklhofer M. Full-Length Cryptochrome 1 in the Outer Segments of the Retinal Blue Cone Photoreceptors in Humans and Great Apes Suggests a Role Beyond Transcriptional Repression. FASEB J 2025, 39 (8), e70523. http://dx.doi.org/10.1096/fj.202402614R
Majewska M*, Hanić M*, Bartölke R*, Schmidt J, Bożek J, Gerhards L, Mouritsen H, Koch KW, Solov’yov IA, and Brand I. European robin cryptochrome-4a associates with lipid bilayers in an ordered manner, fulfilling a molecular-level condition for magnetoreception. ACS Chemical Biology 2025. doi.org/10.1021/acschembio.4c00576
2024
Yee C*, Bartölke R*, Görtemaker K, Schmidt J, Leberecht B, Mouritsen H, Koch KW. Comparison of retinol binding protein 1 with cone specific G-protein as putative effector molecules in cryptochrome signalling. Sci Rep. 2024 Nov 16;14(1):28326. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-79699-z
2023
Golesworthy MJ, Zollitsch T, Luo J, Selby D, Jarocha LE, Henbest KB, Paré-Labrosse O, Bartölke R, Schmidt J, Xu J, Mouritsen H, Hore PJ, Timmel CR, Mackenzie SR. Singlet-triplet dephasing in radical pairs in avian cryptochromes leads to time-dependent magnetic field effects. J Chem Phys. 2023 Sep 14;159(10):105102. http://doi.org/10.1063/5.0166675
Hanić M, Antill LM, Gehrckens AS, Schmidt J, Görtemaker K, Bartölke R, El-Baba TJ, Xu J, Koch KW, Mouritsen H, Benesch JLP, Hore PJ, Solov'yov IA. Dimerization of European Robin Cryptochrome 4a. J Phys Chem B. 2023;127(28):6251-6264. doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.3c01305
Timmer D, Frederiksen A, Lünemann DC, Thomas AR, Xu J, Bartölke R, Schmidt J, Kubař T, De Sio A, Solov'yov IA, Mouritsen H, Lienau C. Tracking the Electron Transfer Cascade in European Robin Cryptochrome 4 Mutants. J Am Chem Soc. 2023 May 31;145(21):11566-11578. doi.org/10.1021/jacs.3c00442.
2022
Görtemaker, K.*, Yee, C.*, Bartölke, R.*, Behrmann, H., Voss, J. O., Schmidt, J., Xu, J., Solovyeva, V., Leberecht, B., Behrmann, E., Mouritsen, H., & Koch, K. W. (2022). Direct Interaction of Avian Cryptochrome 4 with a Cone Specific G-Protein. Cells, 11(13). 10.3390/cells11132043
Einwich, A., Seth, P. K., Bartölke, R., Bolte, P., Feederle, R., Dedek, K., & Mouritsen, H. (2022). Localisation of cryptochrome 2 in the avian retina. J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol, 208(1), 69-81. doi.org/10.1007/s00359-021-01506-1
2021
Lünemann DC, Thomas AR, Xu J, Bartölke R, Mouritsen H, De Sio A, Lienau C (2021) Distinguishing between coherent and incoherent signals in excitation-emission spectroscopy. Opt Express 29:24326–24337. 10.1364/oe.428850
Bartölke R, Behrmann H, Görtemaker K, Yee C, Xu J, Behrmann E, Koch K (2021) The secrets of cryptochromes: photoreceptors, clock proteins, and magnetic sensors. Neuroforum 27:151-157. 10.1515/nf-2021-0006
Xu J, Jarocha LE, Zollitsch T, Konowalczyk M, Henbest KB, Richert S, Golesworthy MJ, Schmidt J, Déjean V, Sowood DJC, Bassetto M, Luo J, Walton JR, Fleming J, Wei Y, Pitcher TL, Moise G, Herrmann M, Yin H, Wu H, Bartölke R, Käsehagen SJ, Horst S, Dautaj G, Murton PDF, Gehrckens AS, Chelliah Y, Takahashi JS, Koch KW, Weber S, Solov'yov IA, Xie C, Mackenzie SR, Timmel CR, Mouritsen H, Hore PJ. Magnetic sensitivity of cryptochrome 4 from a migratory songbird. Nature. 2021 Jun;594(7864):535-540. doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03618-9.
before 2020
Vitavska, O. Bartölke, R., Tabke, K. Heinisch, J.J. Wieczorek, H. 2018. Interaction of mammalian and plant H+/sucrose transporters with 14-3-3 proteins. Biochemical Journal, 20180293. 10.1042/bcj20180293
Bartölke, R. Heinisch, J.J. Wieczorek, H. Vitavska, O. 2014. Proton-associated transport of mammalian solute carrier family 45: an analysis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Biochemical Journal, 464(2):193-201. 10.1042/bj20140572
*These authors contributed equally.