Publications of R. Bock

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).

Zhou, F., Karcher, D. & Bock, R. Identification of a plastid intercistronic expression element (IEE) facilitating the expression of stable translatable monocistronic mRNAs from operons. Plant Journal 52, 961–972 (2007).

Ahlert, D., Piepenburg, K., Kudla, J. & Bock, R. Evolutionary origin of a plant mitochondrial group II intron from a reverse transcriptase/maturase-encoding ancestor. Journal of Plant Research 119, 363–371 (2006).

D'Angelo, C., Weinl, S., Batistic, O., Pandey, G. K., Cheong, Y. H., Schultke, S., Albrecht, V., Ehlert, B., Schulz, B., Harter, K., Luan, S., Bock, R. & Kudla, J. Alternative complex formation of the Ca2+-regulated protein kinase CIPK1 controls abscisic acid-dependent and independent stress responses in Arabidopsis. Plant Journal 48, 857–872 (2006).

Kahlau, S., Aspinall, S., Gray, J. C. & Bock, R. Sequence of the tomato chloroplast DNA and evolutionary comparison of solanaceous plastid genomes. Journal of Molecular Evolution 63, 194–207 (2006).

Khakhlova, O. & Bock, R. Elimination of deleterious mutations in plastid genomes by gene conversion. Plant Journal 46, 85–94 (2006).

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).