Kiss, É*, Moos, M, Mareš, J, Opekar, S, Tomanová, L, Anindita, PD, Lukeš, M, Urajová, P, Sobotka, R: Cyanophycinase is required for heterotrophy in cyanobacteria. Journal of Biological Chemistry 301(12), 110791, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbc.2025.110791

Falcao, BP, Di Matteo, V, Hrouzek, P, Štenclová, L, Urajová, P, Mareš, J, Kuta, J, Yerena, JAM, Kozlíková-Zapomělová, E, Esposito, G, Mangoni, A, Costantino, V*, Galica, T*: Cyanochelin B: a cyanobacterium-produced siderophore with photolytic properties that negate iron monopolization in UV light. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 91(11), e02566-24, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.02566-24

Zapomělová-Kozlíková, E*, Urajová, P, Mareš, J: Phylogenetic heterogeneity within the Cuspidothrix clade (Nostocales, Cyanobacteria): Dolichospermum longicellulare as a black sheep of its genus. Phycologia 64(4), 346-354, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1080/00318884.2025.2545165

Delawská, K, Hájek, J, Voráčová, K, Kuzma, M, Mareš, J, Vicková, K, Kádek, A, Tučková, D, Gallob, F, Divoká, P, Moos, M, Opekar, S, Koch, L, Saurav, K, Sedlák, D, Novák, P, Urajová, P, Dean, J, Gažák, R, Niedermeyer, TJH, Kameník, Z, Šimek, P, Villunger, A, Hrouzek, P*: Discovery of nostatin A, an azole-containing proteusin with prominent cytostatic and pro-apoptotic activity. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry 23(2), 449-460, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1039/d4ob01395f

Jung, P*, Briegel-Williams, L, Büdel, B, Schultz, M, Nürnberg, DJ, Grube, M, D´Agostino, PM, Kaštovský, J, Mareš, J, Lorenz, M, González, MLG, Dal Forno, M, Westberg, M, Chrismas, N, Pietrasiak, N, Whelan, P, Dvořák, P, Košuthová, A, Gkelis, S, Bauersachs, T, Schiefelbein, U, Phi Giao, VT, Lakatos, M: The underestimated fraction: diversity, challenges and novel insights into unicellular cyanobionts of lichens. ISME Communications 4(1), ycae069, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1093/ismeco/ycae069

Němečková, K*, Mareš, J, Košek, F, Culka, A, Dudák, J, Tymlová, V, Žemlička, J, Jehlička, J: Comparative analysis of cyanobacterial communities in gypsum outcrops: insights from sites in Israel and Poland. Extremophiles 28(3), 37, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00792-024-01352-4

Masuda, T*, Mareš, J, Shiozaki, T, Inomura, K, Fujiwara, A, Prášil, O: Crocosphaera watsonii – A widespread nitrogen-fixing unicellular marine cyanobacterium. Journal of Phycology 60(3), 604-620, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1111/jpy.13450

Skotnicová, P, Srivastava, A, Aggarwal, D, Talbot, J, Karlínová, I, Moos, M, Mareš, J, Koník, P, Bučinská, L, Šimek, P, Tichý, M, Sobotka, R*: A thylakoid biogenesis BtpA protein is required for the initial step of tetrapyrrole biosynthesis in cyanobacteria. New Phytologist 241(3), 1236-1249, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19397

Schwark, M, Yerena, JAM, Röhrborn, K, Hrouzek, P, Divoká, P, Štenclová, L, Delawská, K, Enke, H, Vorreiter, C, Wiley, F, Sippl, W, Sobotka, R, Saha, S, Wilde, SB, Mareš, J*, Niedermeyer, THJ*: More than just an eagle killer: The freshwater cyanobacterium Aetokthonos hydrillicola produces highly toxic dolastatin derivatives. PNAS 120(40), e2219230120, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2219230120

Jehlička, J*, Culka, A, Němečková, K, Mareš, J: Using Raman spectroscopy to detect scytonemin of epiliths and endoliths from marble, serpentinite and gypsum. Journal of Raman Spectroscopy 54(11), 1280-1296, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1002/jrs.6514

Masuda, T*, Inomura, K, Mareš, J, Kodama, T, Shiozaki, T, Matsui, T, Suzuki, K, Takeda, S, Deutsch, C, Prášil, O, Furuya, K: Coexistence of Dominant Marine Phytoplankton Sustained by Nutrient Specialization. Microbiology Spectrum 11(4), e0400022, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1128/spectrum.04000-22

Němečková, K*, Mareš, J, Procházková, L, Culka, A, Košek, F, Wierzchos, J, Nedbalová, L, Dudák, J, Tymlová, V, Žemlička, J, Kust, A, Zima, J, Nováková, E, Jehlička, J: Gypsum endolithic phototrophs under moderate climate (Southern Sicily): their diversity and pigment composition. Frontiers in Microbiology 14, 1175066, 2023. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2023.1175066

Sukačová, K, Szotkowski, M, Pařil, P, Mareš, J, Touš, M, Vícha, D, Polášek, M, Márová, I, Zavřel, T*: Simultaneous production of γ-linolenic acid and carotenoids by a novel microalgal strain isolated from the underexplored habitat of intermittent streams. Algal Research 71, 103055, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.algal.2023.103055

Štenclová, L, Wilde, SB, Schwark, M, Cullen, JL, McWhorter, SA, Niedermeyer, THJ, Henderson, WM, Mareš, J*: Occurrence of aetokthonotoxin producer in natural samples – A PCR protocol for easy detection. Harmful Algae 125, 102425, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hal.2023.102425

Masuda, T*, Inomura, K, Mareš, J, Prášil, O: Crocosphaera watsonii. Trends in Microbiology 30(8), 805-806, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tim.2022.02.006

Galica, T, Borbone, N, Mareš, J, Kust, A, Caso, A, Esposito, G, Saurav, K, Hájek, J, Řeháková, K, Urajová, P, Costantino, V, Hrouzek, P*: Cyanochelins, an Overlooked Class of Widely Distributed Cyanobacterial Siderophores, Discovered by Silent Gene Cluster Awakening. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 87(17), e0312820, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.03128-20

Saha, S, Bulzu, PA, Urajová, P, Mareš, J, Konert, G, Camara Manoel, J, Macho, M, Ewe, D, Hrouzek, P, Masojídek, J, Ghai, R, Saurav, K*: Quorum-Sensing Signals from Epibiont Mediate the Induction of Novel Microviridins in the Mat-Forming Cyanobacterial Genus Nostoc. mSphere 6(4), e00562-21, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1128/mSphere.00562-21

Breinlinger, S, Phillips, TJ, Haram, BN, Mareš, J, Yerena, JAM, Hrouzek, P, Sobotka, R, Henderson, WM, Schmieder, P, Williams, SM, Lauderdale, JD, Wilde, HD, Gerrin, W, Kust, A, Washington, JW, Wagner, C, Geier, B, Liebeke, M, Enke, H, Niedermeyer, THJ*, Wilde, SB*: Hunting the eagle killer: A cyanobacterial neurotoxin causes vacuolar myelinopathy. Science 371(6536), eaax9050, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aax9050

Chen, GE, Hitchcock, A, Mareš, J, Gong, Y, Tichý, M, Pilný, J, Kovářová, L, Zdvihalová, B, Xu, J, Hunter, CN, Sobotka, R*: Evolution of Ycf54-independent chlorophyll biosynthesis in cyanobacteria. PNAS 118(10), e2024633118, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2024633118

Kust, A, Řeháková, K, Vrba, J, Maicher, V, Mareš, J, Hrouzek, P, Chiriac, MC, Benedová, Z, Tesařová, B, Saurav, K*: Insight into Unprecedented Diversity of Cyanopeptides in Eutrophic Ponds Using an MS/MS Networking Approach. Toxins 12, 561, 2020. https://doi.org/10.3390/toxins12090561