Publications of R. Bock

Kragler, F. & Bock, R. The biology of grafting and its applications in studying information exchange between plants. Nature Plants (2025). doi:10.1038/s41477-025-01982-2

Sun, Y., Bock, R. & Li, Z. A hidden intrinsic ability of bicistronic expression based on a novel translation reinitiation mechanism in yeast. Nucleic Acids Research 53, (2025).

Wu, X.-X., Li, F., Zhu, C., Sun, S.-Y., Mu, W.-H., Ruf, S., Bock, R., Zhang, Y. & Zhou, F. Protocol for the purification of the plastid-encoded RNA polymerase from transplastomic tobacco plants. STAR Protocols 6, (2025).

Li, B., Armarego-Marriott, T., Kowalewska, Ł., Thiele, W., Erban, A., Ruf, S., Kopka, J., Schöttler, M. A. & Bock, R. Membrane protein provision controls prothylakoid biogenesis in tobacco etioplasts. The Plant Cell 36, 4862–4880 (2024).

Ebert, A., Alseekh, S., D´Andrea, L., Roessner, U., Bock, R. & Kopka, J. Detailed Profiling of 17-Hydroxygeranyllinalool Diterpene Glycosides from Nicotiana Species Reveals Complex Reaction Networks of Conjugation Isomers. Metabolites 14, (2024).

Rolo, D., Sandoval-Ibanez, O., Thiele, W., Schöttler, M. A., Gerlach, I., Zoschke, R., Schwartzmann, J., Meyer, E. H. & Bock, R. CO-EXPRESSED WITH PSI ASSEMBLY1 (CEPA1) is a photosystem I assembly factor in Arabidopsis. The Plant Cell 36, 4179–4211 (2024).

Chung, K. P., Frieboese, D., Waltz, F., Engel, B. D. & Bock, R. Identification and characterization of the COPII vesicle-forming GTPase Sar1 in Chlamydomonas. Plant Direct 8, (2024).

Hammel, A., Cucos, L.-M., Caras, I., Ionescu, I., Tucureanu, C., Tofan, V., Costache, A., Onu, A., Hoepfner, L., Hippler, M., Neupert, J., Popescu, C.-I., Stavaru, C., Branza-Nichita, N. & Bock, R. The red alga Porphyridium as a host for molecular farming: Efficient production of immunologically active hepatitis C virus glycoprotein. PNAS 121, (2024).

Jiang, C., Fu, J., Li, F., Xia, K., Li, S., Chang, L., Bock, R. & Zhang, J. Plastid engineering with an efficient RNAi delivery system based on bacteriophage MS2 virus-like particles enhances plant resistance to cotton bollworm. Molecular Plant 17, 987–989 (2024).

Dai, G. Z., Song, W. Y., Xu, H. F., Tu, M., Yu, C., Li, Z. K., Shang, J. L., Jin, C. L., Ding, C. S., Zuo, L. Z., Liu, Y. R., Yan, W. W., Zang, S. S., Liu, K., Zhang, Z., Bock, R. & Qiu, B. S. Hypothetical chloroplast reading frame 51 encodes a photosystem I assembly factor in cyanobacteria. Plant Cell 36, 1844–1867 (2024).

Krämer, C., Boehm, C. R., Liu, J., Ting, M. K. Y., Hertle, A. P., Forner, J., Ruf, S., Schöttler, M. A., Zoschke, R. & Bock, R. Removal of the large inverted repeat from the plastid genome reveals gene dosage effects and leads to increased genome copy number. Nature Plants 10, 923–935 (2024).

Xu, W., Li, S., Bock, R. & Zhang, J. A heat-inducible expression system for external control of gene expression in plastids. Plant Biotechnology Journal 22, 960–969 (2024).

Tóth, D., Kuntam, S., Ferenczi, Á., Vidal-Meireles, A., Kovács, L., Wang, L., Sarkadi, Z., Migh, E., Szentmihályi, K., Tengölics, R., Neupert, J., Bock, R., Jonikas, M. C., Molnar, A. & Tóth, S. Z. Chloroplast phosphate transporter CrPHT4-7 regulates phosphate homeostasis and photosynthesis in Chlamydomonas. Plant Physiology 194, 1646–1661 (2024).

Yan, M., Li, M., Wang, Y., Wang, X., Moeinzadeh, M.-H., Quispe-Huamanquispe, D. G., Fan, W., Fang, Y., Wang, Y., Nie, H., Wang, Z., Tanaka, A., Heider, B., Kreuze, J. F., Gheysen, G., Wang, H., Vingron, M., Bock, R. & Yang, J. Haplotype-based phylogenetic analysis and population genomics uncover the origin and domestication of sweetpotato. Molecular Plant 17, 277–296 (2024).

Hammel, A., Neupert, J. & Bock, R. Optimized transgene expression in the red alga Porphyridium purpureum and efficient recombinant protein secretion into the culture medium. Plant Molecular Biology 114, (2024).

Loiacono, F. V. & Bock, R. An RNA polymerase that became a Swiss army knife. Cell 187, 1106–1108 (2024).

Keller, J.-M., Frieboes, M. J., Jödecke, L., Kappel, S., Wulff, N., Rindfleisch, T., Sandoval-Ibanez, O., Gerlach, I., Thiele, W., Bock, R., Eirich, J., Finkemeier, I., Schünemann, D., Zoschke, R., Schöttler, M. A. & Armbruster, U. Eukaryote-specific assembly factor DEAP2 mediates an early step of photosystem II assembly in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiology 193, 1970–1986 (2023).

Chung, K. P., Loiacono, F. V., Neupert, J., Wu, M. & Bock, R. An RNA thermometer in the chloroplast genome of Chlamydomonas facilitates temperature-controlled gene expression. Nucleic Acids Research 51, 11386–11400 (2023).

Forner, J., Kleinschmidt, D., Meyer, E. H., Gremmels, J., Morbitzer, R., Lahaye, T., Schöttler, M. A. & Bock, R. Targeted knockout of a conserved plant mitochondrial gene by genome editing. Nature Plants 9, 1818–1831 (2023).

Geng, R., Pang, X., Li, X., Shi, S., Hedtke, B., Grimm, B., Bock, R., Huang, J. & Zhou, W. PROGRAMMED CELL DEATH8 interacts with tetrapyrrole biosynthesis enzymes and ClpC1 to maintain homeostasis of tetrapyrrole metabolites in Arabidopsis. New Phytologist 238, 2545–2560 (2023).