Publications of R. Bock

Valkov, V. T., Scotti, N., Kahlau, S., MacLean, D., Grillo, S., Gray, J. C., Bock, R. & Cardi, T. Genome-Wide Analysis of Plastid Gene Expression in Potato Leaf Chloroplasts and Tuber Amyloplasts: Transcriptional and Posttranscriptional Control. Plant Physiology 150, 2030–2044 (2009).

Ehlert, B., Schöttler, M. A., Tischendorf, G., Ludwig-Mueller, J. & Bock, R. The paramutated SULFUREA locus of tomato is involved in auxin biosynthesis. Journal of Experimental Botany 59, 3635–3647 (2008).

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).

Karcher, D., Kahlau, S. & Bock, R. Faithful editing of a tomato-specific mRNA editing site in transgenic tobacco chloroplasts. RNA-A Publication of the RNA Society 14, 217–224 (2008).

McCabe, M. S., Klaas, M., Gonzalez-Rabade, N., Poage, M., Badillo-Corona, J. A., Zhou, F., Karcher, D., Bock, R., Gray, J. C. & Dix, P. J. Plastid transformation of high-biomass tobacco variety Maryland Mammoth for production of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) p24 antigen. Plant Biotechnology Journal 6, 914–929 (2008).

Melotto-Passarin, D. M., Berger, I. J., Dressano, K., De Martin, V. D., Oliveira, G. C. X., Bock, R. & Carrer, H. Phylogenetic relationships in Solanaceae and related species based on cpDNA sequence from plastid trnE-trnT region. Crop Breeding and Applied Biotechnology 8, 85–95 (2008).

Neupert, J., Karcher, D. & Bock, R. Design of simple synthetic RNA thermometers for temperature-controlled gene expression in Escherichia coli. Nucleic Acids Research 36, e124 (2008).

Rogalski, M., Karcher, D. & Bock, R. Superwobbling facilitates translation with reduced tRNA sets. Nature structural and molecular biology 15, 192–198 (2008).

Rogalski, M., Schöttler, M. A., Thiele, W., Schulze, W. X. & Bock, R. Rpl33, a nonessential plastid-encoded ribosomal protein in tobacco, is required under cold stress conditions. The Plant Cell 20, 2221–2237 (2008).

Shao, N. & Bock, R. A codon-optimized luciferase from Gaussia princeps facilitates the in vivo monitoring of gene expression in the model alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Current Genetics 53, 381–388 (2008).

Waadt, R., Schmidt, L. K., Lohse, M., Hashimoto, K., Bock, R. & Kudla, J. Multicolor bimolecular fluorescence complementation reveals simultaneous formation of alternative CBL/CIPK complexes in planta. Plant Journal 56, 505–516 (2008).

Zhou, F., Badillo-Corona, J. A., Karcher, D., Gonzalez-Rabade, N., Piepenburg, K., Borchers, A. M. I., Maloney, A. P., Kavanagh, T. A., Gray, J. C. & Bock, R. High-level expression of human immunodeficiency virus antigens from the tobacco and tomato plastid genomes. Plant Biotechnology Journal 6, 897–913 (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).

Bock, R. Towards plastid transformation in maize. ISB News Report 12, 4–7 (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).

Lohse, M., Drechsel, O. & Bock, R. OrganellarGenomeDRAW (OGDRAW): a tool for the easy generation of high-quality custom graphical maps of plastid and mitochondrial genomes. Current Genetics 52, 267–274 (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).

Schöttler, M. A., Fluegel, C., Thiele, W., Stegemann, S. & Bock, R. The plastome-encoded PsaJ subunit is required for efficient Photosystem I excitation, but not for plastocyanin oxidation in tobacco. Biochemical Journal 403, 251–260 (2007).

Schöttler, M. A., Flugel, C., Thiele, W. & Bock, R. Knock-out of the plastid-encoded PetL subunit results in reduced stability and accelerated leaf age-dependent loss of the cytochrome b(6)f complex. Journal of Biological Chemistry 282, 976–985 (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).