Publications of D. Karcher

Emadpour, M., Karcher, D. & Bock, R. Boosting riboswitch efficiency by RNA amplification. Nucleic Acids Research 43, (2015).

Zhou, W. B., Karcher, D., Fischer, A., Maximova, E., Walther, D. & Bock, R. Multiple RNA Processing Defects and Impaired Chloroplast Function in Plants Deficient in the Organellar Protein-Only RNase P Enzyme. PLoS One 10, e0120533–e0120533 (2015).

Fuentes, I., Stegemann, S., Golczyk, H., Karcher, D. & Bock, R. Horizontal genome transfer as an asexual path to the formation of new species. Nature 511, 232–235 (2014).

Zhou, W. B., Karcher, D. & Bock, R. Identification of Enzymes for Adenosine-to-Inosine Editing and Discovery of Cytidine-to-Uridine Editing in Nucleus-Encoded Transfer RNAs of Arabidopsis. Plant Physiology 166, 1985–97 (2014).

Zhou, W., Karcher, D. & Bock, R. Importance of adenosine-to-inosine editing adjacent to the anticodon in an Arabidopsis alanine tRNA under environmental stress. Nucleic Acids Research 41, 3362–3372 (2013).

Fuentes, I., Karcher, D. & Bock, R. Experimental reconstruction of the functional transfer of intron-containing plastid genes to the nucleus. Current Biology 22, 763–771 (2012).

Elghabi, Z., Karcher, D., Zhou, F., Ruf, S. & Bock, R. Optimization of the expression of the HIV fusion inhibitor cyanovirin-N from the tobacco plastid genome. Plant Biotechnology Journal 9, 599–608 (2011).

Petersen, K., Schöttler, M. A., Karcher, D., Thiele, W. & Bock, R. Elimination of a group II intron from a plastid gene causes a mutant phenotype. Nucleic Acids Research 39, 5181–5192 (2011).

Verhounig, A., Karcher, D. & Bock, R. Inducible gene expression from the plastid genome by a synthetic riboswitch. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 107, 6204–6209 (2010).

Karcher, D. & Bock, R. Identification of the chloroplast adenosine-to-inosine tRNA editing enzyme. RNA 15, 1251–1257 (2009).

Karcher, D., Koester, D., Schadach, A., Klevesath, A. & Bock, R. The Chlamydomonas Chloroplast HLP Protein Is Required for Nucleoid Organization and Genome Maintenance. Molecular Plant 2, 1223–1232 (2009).

Neupert, J., Karcher, D. & Bock, R. Generation of Chlamydomonas strains that efficiently express nuclear transgenes. Plant Journal 57, 1140–1150 (2009).

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).

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).

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).

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).

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).

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).