Giossi CE, Bitnel DB, Wünsch MA, Kroth PG, Lepetit B (2025). Synergistic effects of temperature and light on photoprotection in the model diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum. Physiologia Plantarum 177(1): e70039.

Im SH, Madhuri S, Lepetit B and Kroth PG (2024). Functional demonstration of Aureochrome 1a proteasomal degradation after blue light incubation in the diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum. Journal of Plant Physiology 292: 154148.

Im SH, Lepetit B, Mosesso N, Shrestha S, Weiss L, Nymark M, Roellig R, Wilhelm C, Isono E and Kroth PG (2024). Identification of promoter targets by Aureochrome 1a in the diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum. Journal of Experimental Botany 75(7): 1834-1851.

Giossi CE, Wünsch MA, Dautermann O, Schober AF, Buck JM, Kroth PG, Lohr M and Lepetit B (2024). Both major xanthophyll cycles present in nature can provide Non-Photochemical Quenching in the model diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum. bioRxiv: 2024.2003. 2019.584964.

Madhuri S, Lepetit B, Fürst AH and Kroth PG (2024). A knockout of the photoreceptor PtAureo1a results in altered diel expression of diatom clock components. Plants 13(11): 1465.

Yamada N, Lepetit B, Mann DG, Sprecher BN, Buck JM, Bergmann P, Kroth PG, Bolton JJ, Dąbek P, Witkowski A, Kim S-Y and Trobajo R (2023). Prey preference in a kleptoplastic dinoflagellate is linked to photosynthetic performance. The ISME Journal 17(10): 1578-1588.

Mavrogenis M, Lepetit B, Kroth PG and Tsirtsis G (2023). Effects of dimethoate, an organophosphate insecticide, on photosynthesis of five selected phytoplankton species. Global NEST Journal 25: 23-34.

Yu G, Nakajima K, Gruber A, Rio Bartulos C, Schober AF, Lepetit B, Yohannes E, Matsuda Y and Kroth PG (2022). Mitochondrial phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase contributes to carbon fixation in the diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum at low inorganic carbon concentrations. New Phytologist 235(4): 1379-1393.

Roach T, Kim E, Tian L and Lepetit B (2022). Editorial: Regulation of Light-Harvesting Systems During Acclimation of Photosynthetic Organisms. Frontiers in Plant Science 13: 914047.

Lepetit B, Campbell DA, Lavaud J, Buechel C, Goss R and Bailleul B (2022). Photosynthetic light reactions in diatoms. II. The dynamic regulation of the various light reactions. The Molecular Life of Diatoms. A. Falciatore and T. Mock. Cham, Springer Nature International: 423–464.

Buck JM, Wünsch MA, Schober AF, Kroth PG and Lepetit B (2022). Impact of Lhcx2 on acclimation to low iron conditions in the diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum. Frontiers in Plant Science 13: 841058.

Büchel C, Goss R, Bailleul B, Campbell DA, Lavaud J and Lepetit B (2022). Photosynthetic light reactions in diatoms. I. The lipids and light-harvesting complexes of the thylakoid membrane. The Molecular Life of Diatoms. A. Falciatore and T. Mock. Cham, Springer International Publishing: 397-422.

Buck JM, Kroth PG and Lepetit B (2021). Identification of sequence motifs in Lhcx proteins that confer qE‐based photoprotection in the diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum. The Plant Journal 108(6): 1721-1734.

Mann M, Serif M, Wrobel T, Eisenhut M, Madhuri S, Flachbart S, Weber APM, Lepetit B, Wilhelm C and Kroth PG (2020). The aureochrome photoreceptor PtAUREO1a is a highly effective blue light switch in diatoms. iScience 23(11): 101730.

Lepetit B and Büchel C (2020). Comment on “Acidic pH-Induced Modification of Energy Transfer in Diatom Fucoxanthin Chlorophyll a/c-Binding Proteins”. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 124(46): 10585-10587.

Blommaert L, Vancaester E, Huysman MJ, Osuna-Cruz CM, D’hondt S, Lavaud J, Lepetit B, Winge P, Bones AM and Vandepoele K (2020). Light regulation of LHCX genes in the benthic diatom Seminavis robusta. Frontiers in Marine Science 7: 192.

Stock F, Syrpas M, Graff van Creveld S, Backx S, Blommaert L, Dow L, Stock W, Ruysbergh E, Lepetit B and Bailleul B (2019). N-acyl homoserine lactone derived tetramic acids impair photosynthesis in Phaeodactylum tricornutum. ACS Chemical Biology 14(2): 198-203.

Schober AF, Rio Bartulos C, Bischoff A, Lepetit B, Gruber A and Kroth PG (2019). Organelle studies and proteome analyses of mitochondria and plastids fractions from the diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana. Plant & Cell Physiology 60(8): 1811-1828.

Madhuri S, Bártulos CR, Serif M, Lepetit B and Kroth PG (2019). A strategy to complement PtAUREO1a in TALEN knockout strains of Phaeodactylum tricornutum. Algal Research 39: 101469.

Buck JM, Sherman J, Bártulos CR, Serif M, Halder M, Henkel J, Falciatore A, Lavaud J, Gorbunov MY, Kroth PG, Falkowski PG and Lepetit B (2019). Lhcx proteins provide photoprotection via thermal dissipation of absorbed light in the diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum. Nature Communications 10(1): 4167.

Taddei L, Chukhutsina VU, Lepetit B, Stella GR, Bassi R, van Amerongen H, Bouly J-P, Jaubert M, Finazzi G and Falciatore A (2018). Dynamic changes between two LHCX-related energy quenching sites control diatom photoacclimation. Plant Physiology 177(3): 953-965.

Huang W, Haferkamp I, Lepetit B, Molchanova M, Hou S, Jeblick W, Río Bártulos C and Kroth PG (2018). Reduced vacuolar β-1, 3-glucan synthesis affects carbohydrate metabolism as well as plastid homeostasis and structure in Phaeodactylum tricornutum. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115(18): 4791-4796.

Hess SK, Lepetit B, Kroth PG and Mecking S (2018). Production of chemicals from microalgae lipids–status and perspectives. European Journal of Lipid Science and Technology 120(1): 1700152.

Dörken VM and Lepetit B (2018). Morpho‐anatomical and physiological differences between sun and shade leaves in Abies alba Mill.(Pinaceae, Coniferales): a combined approach. Plant, Cell & Environment 41(7): 1683-1697.

Serif M, Lepetit B, Weißert K, Kroth PG and Bartulos CR (2017). A fast and reliable strategy to generate TALEN-mediated gene knockouts in the diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum. Algal Research 23: 186-195.

Lepetit B, Gélin G, Lepetit M, Sturm S, Vugrinec S, Rogato A, Kroth PG, Falciatore A and Lavaud J (2017). The diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum adjusts nonphotochemical fluorescence quenching capacity in response to dynamic light via fine‐tuned Lhcx and xanthophyll cycle pigment synthesis. New Phytologist 214: 205-218.

Taddei L, Stella GR, Rogato A, Bailleul B, Fortunato AE, Annunziata R, Sanges R, Thaler M, Lepetit B, Lavaud J, Jaubert M, Finazzi G, Bouly J-P and Falciatore A (2016). Multisignal control of expression of the LHCX protein family in the marine diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum. Journal of Experimental Botany 67: 3939-3951.

Lepetit B and Dietzel L (2015). Light signaling in photosynthetic eukaryotes with ‘green’ and ‘red’ chloroplasts. Environmental and Experimental Botany 114(0): 30-47.

Laviale M, Barnett A, Ezequiel J, Lepetit B, Frankenbach S, Méléder V, Serôdio J and Lavaud J (2015). Response of intertidal benthic microalgal biofilms to a coupled light–temperature stress: evidence for latitudinal adaptation along the Atlantic coast of Southern Europe. Environmental Microbiology 17(10): 3662-3677.

Barnett A, Méléder V, Blommaert L, Lepetit B, Gaudin P, Vyverman W, Sabbe K, Dupuy C and Lavaud J (2015). Growth form defines physiological photoprotective capacity in intertidal benthic diatoms. The ISME Journal 9(1): 32-45.

Goss R and Lepetit B (2015). Biodiversity of NPQ. Journal of Plant Physiology 172(0): 13-32.

Roesle P, Stempfle F, Hess SK, Zimmerer J, Río Bártulos C, Lepetit B, Eckert A, Kroth PG and Mecking S (2014). Synthetic polyester from algae oil. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 53(26): 6800-6804.

Lepetit B, Sturm S, Rogato A, Gruber A, Sachse M, Falciatore A, Kroth PG and Lavaud J (2013). High light acclimation in the secondary plastids containing diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum is triggered by the redox state of the plastoquinone pool. Plant Physiology 161(2): 853-865.

Lavaud J and Lepetit B (2013). An explanation for the inter-species variability of the photoprotective non-photochemical chlorophyll fluorescence quenching in diatoms. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics 1827(3): 294-302.

Lepetit B, Goss R, Jakob T and Wilhelm C (2012). Molecular dynamics of the diatom thylakoid membrane under different light conditions. Photosynthesis Research 111(1-2): 245-257.

Dietzel L, Bräutigam K, Steiner S, Schüffler K, Lepetit B, Grimm B, Schöttler MA and Pfannschmidt T (2011). Photosystem II supercomplex remodeling serves as an entry mechanism for state transitions in Arabidopsis. The Plant Cell 23(8): 2964-2977.

Lepetit B, Volke D, Gilbert M, Wilhelm C and Goss R (2010). Evidence for the existence of one antenna-associated, lipid-dissolved and two protein-bound pools of diadinoxanthin cycle pigments in diatoms. Plant Physiology 154(4): 1905-1920.

Szabó M, Premvardhan L, Lepetit B, Goss R, Wilhelm C and Garab G (2010). Functional heterogeneity of the fucoxanthins and fucoxanthin-chlorophyll proteins in diatom cells revealed by their electrochromic response and fluorescence and linear dichroism spectra. Chemical Physics 373(1-2): 110-114.

Miloslavina Y, Grouneva I, Lambrev PH, Lepetit B, Goss R, Wilhelm C and Holzwarth AR (2009). Ultrafast fluorescence study on the location and mechanism of non-photochemical quenching in diatoms. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Bioenergetics 1787(10): 1189-1197.

Goss R, Nerlich J, Lepetit B, Schaller S, Vieler A and Wilhelm C (2009). The lipid dependence of diadinoxanthin de-epoxidation presents new evidence for a macrodomain organization of the diatom thylakoid membrane. Journal of Plant Physiology 166(17): 1839-1854.

Szábo M, Lepetit B, Goss R, Wilhelm C, Mustardy L and Garab G (2008). Structurally flexible macro-organization of the pigment-protein complexes of the diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum. Photosynthesis Research 95(2-3): 237-245.

Lepetit B, Volke D, Szabo M, Hoffmann R, Garab G, Wilhelm C and Goss R (2008). The oligomeric antenna of the diatom P. tricornutum - localisation of diadinoxanthin cycle pigments. In: Energy From the Sun. Allen JF, Gantt E, Golbeck JH, Osmond B (Eds.). Springer: 283-286.

Goss R, Opitz C, Lepetit B and Wilhelm C (2008). The synthesis of NPQ-effective zeaxanthin depends on the presence of a transmembrane proton gradient and a slightly basic stromal side of the thylakoid membrane. Planta 228(6): 999-1009.

Lepetit B, Volke D, Szabo M, Hoffmann R, Garab GZ, Wilhelm C and Goss R (2007). Spectroscopic and molecular characterization of the oligomeric antenna of the diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum. Biochemistry 46(34): 9813-9822.

Goss R, Lepetit B and Wilhelm C (2006). Evidence for a rebinding of antheraxanthin to the light-harvesting complex during the epoxidation reaction of the violaxanthin cycle. Journal of Plant Physiology 163(5): 585-590.