Publications of S. Ruf

Ahlert, D., Stegemann, S., Kahlau, S., Ruf, S. & Bock, R. Insensitivity of chloroplast gene expression to DNA methylation. Molecular Genetics and Genomics 282, 17–24 (2009).

Fey, H., Piano, D., Horn, R., Fischer, D., Schmidt, M., Ruf, S., Schroeder, W. P., Bock, R. & Buechel, C. Isolation of highly active photosystem II core complexes with a His-tagged Cyt b559 subunit from transplastomic tobacco plants. Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta-Bioenergetics 1777, 1501–1509 (2008).

Ahmadabadi, M., Ruf, S. & Bock, R. A leaf-based regeneration and transformation system for maize (Zea mays L.). Transgenic Research 16, 437–448 (2007).

Bohne, A. V., Ruf, S., Boerner, T. & Bock, R. Faithful transcription initiation from a mitochondrial promoter in transgenic plastids. Nucleic Acids Research 35, 7256–7266 (2007).

Ruf, S., Karcher, D. & Bock, R. Determining the transgene containment level provided by chloroplast transformation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 104, 6998–7002 (2007).

Wurbs, D., Ruf, S. & Bock, R. Contained metabolic engineering in tomatoes by expression of carotenoid biosynthesis genes from the plastid genome. Plant Journal 49, 276–288 (2007).

Li, W. M., Ruf, S. & Bock, R. Constancy of organellar genome copy numbers during leaf development and senescence in higher plants. Molecular Genetics and Genomics 275, 185–192 (2006).

Lung, B., Zemann, A., Madej, M. J., Schuelke, M., Techritz, S., Ruf, S., Bock, R. & Huttenhofer, A. Identification of small non-coding RNAs from mitochondria and chloroplasts. Nucleic Acids Research 34, 3842–3852 (2006).

Rogalski, M., Ruf, S. & Bock, R. Tobacco plastid ribosomal protein S18 is essential for cell survival. Nucleic Acids Research 34, 4537–4545 (2006).

Ahlert, D., Ruf, S. & Bock, R. Plastid protein synthesis is required for plant development in tobacco. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 100, 15730–15735 (2003).

Stegemann, S., Hartmann, S., Ruf, S. & Bock, R. High-frequency gene transfer from the chloroplast genome to the nucleus. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 100, 8828–8833 (2003).

Ruf, S., Hermann, M., Berger, I. J., Carrer, H. & Bock, R. Stable genetic transformation of tomato plastids and expression of a foreign protein in fruit. Nature Biotechnology 19, 870–875 (2001).

Drescher, A., Ruf, S., Calsa, T., Carrer, H. & Bock, R. The two largest chloroplast genome-encoded open reading frames of higher plants are essential genes. Plant Journal 22, 97–104 (2000).

Ruf, S., Biehler, K. & Bock, R. A small chloroplast-encoded protein as a novel architectural component of the light-harvesting antenna. Journal of Cell Biology 149, 369–377 (2000).

Hager, M., Biehler, K., Illerhaus, J., Ruf, S. & Bock, R. Targeted inactivation of the smallest plastid genome-encoded open reading frame reveals a novel and essential subunit of the cytochrome b(6)f complex. EMBO Journal 18, 5834–5842 (1999).

Ruf, S., Koessel, H. & Bock, R. Targeted Inactivation of a Tobacco Intron-Containing Open Reading Frame Reveals a Novel Chloroplast-Encoded Photosystem I-Related Gene. Journal of Cell Biology 139, 95–102 (1997).

Ruf, S. & Bock, R. in Chloroplast Biotechnology: Methods and Protocols (ed. Maliga, P.) 2317, 217–228 (Springer US, 2021).

Ruf, S. & Bock, R. in RNA and DNA Editing: Methods and Protocols (ed. Aphasizhev, R.) 137–150 (Humana Press Inc., 2011). doi:10.1007/978-1-61779-018-8_8

Bock, R., Drescher, A. & Ruf, S. in From Symbiosis to Eukaryotism (eds. Wagner, E., Normann, J., Greppin, H., Hackstein, J. H. P., Herrmann, R. G., Kowallik, K. V., Schenk, H. E. A. & Seckbach, J.) 427–437 (Geneva University Press, 1999). at <http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0014-35B7-E>

Bock, R., Albertazzi, F. J., Freyer, R., Fuchs, M., Ruf, S., Zeltz, P. & Maier, R. M. in Eukaryotism and Symbiosis (eds. Schenk, H. E. A., Herrmann, R., Jeon, K. W., Mueller, N. E. & Schwemmler, W.) 123–137 (Springer-Verlag, 1997). at <http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0014-365A-1>