Publications of R. Bock

Lohmann, A., Schöttler, M. A., Brehelin, C., Kessler, F., Bock, R., Cahoon, E. B. & Doermann, P. Deficiency in Phylloquinone (Vitamin K1) Methylation Affects Prenyl Quinone Distribution, Photosystem I Abundance, and Anthocyanin Accumulation in the Arabidopsis AtmenG Mutant. Journal of Biological Chemistry 281, 40461–40472 (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).

Stegemann, S. & Bock, R. Experimental reconstruction of functional gene transfer from the tobacco plastid genome to the nucleus. Plant Cell 18, 2869–2878 (2006).

Bellucci, M., De Marchis, F., Mannucci, R., Bock, R. & Arcioni, S. Cytoplasm and chloroplasts are not suitable subcellular locations for beta-zein accumulation in transgenic plants. Journal of Experimental Botany 56, 1205–1212 (2005).

Berger, I. J., Carraro, D. M., Bock, R., Azevedo, R. A. & Carrer, H. Cloning and sequence analysis of tomato cpDNA fragments: towards developing homologous chloroplast transformation vectors. Brazilian Journal of Plant Physiology 17, 239–246 (2005).

Sharma, R. K., Bock, R. & Bansal, K. C. (kailashbansal@hotmail.com). Plastid transformation: Safer alternative to transgenic plants. Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants 11, 179–185 (2005).

Fiebig, A., Stegemann, S. & Bock, R. Rapid evolution of RNA editing sites in a small non-essential plastid gene. Nucleic Acids Research 32, 3615–3622 (2004).

Zandueta-Criado, A. & Bock, R. Surprising features of plastid ndhD transcripts: addition of non-encoded nucleotides and polysome association of mRNAs with an unedited start codon. Nucleic Acids Research 32, 542–550 (2004).

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).

Albrecht, V., Weinl, S., Blazevic, D., D'Angelo, C., Batistic, O., Kolukisaoglu, U., Bock, R., Schulz, B., Harter, K. & Kudla, J. The calcium sensor CBL1 integrates plant responses to abiotic stresses. Plant Journal 36, 457–470 (2003).

Bondarava, N., De Pascalis, L., Al-Babili, S., Goussias, C., Golecki, J. R., Beyer, P., Bock, R. & Krieger-Liszkay, A. Evidence that cytochrome b(559) mediates the oxidation of reduced plastoquinone in the dark. Journal of Biological Chemistry 278, 13554–13560 (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).

Hager, M., Hermann, M., Biehler, A., Krieger-Liszkay, A. & Bock, R. Lack of the small plastid-encoded PsbJ polypeptide results in a defective water-splitting apparatus of photosystem II, reduced photosystem I levels, and hypersensitivity to light. Journal of Biological Chemistry 277, 14031–14039 (2002).

Karcher, D. & Bock, R. The amino acid sequence of a plastid protein is developmentally regulated by RNA editing. Journal of Biological Chemistry 277, 5570–5574 (2002).

Karcher, D. & Bock, R. Temperature sensitivity of RNA editing and intron splicing reactions in the plastid ndhB transcript. Current Genetics 41, 48–52 (2002).

Kudla, J., Albertazzi, F. J., Blazevic, D., Hermann, M. & Bock, R. Loss of the mitochondrial cox2 intron 1 in a family of monocotyledonous plants and utilization of mitochondrial intron sequences for the construction of a nuclear intron. Molecular Genetics and Genomics 267, 223–230 (2002).

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).

Bock, R. Sense from nonsense: How the genetic information of chloroplasts is altered by RNA editing. Biochimie 82, 549–557 (2000).

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).