Publications of R. Bock

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).

Krech, K., Ruf, S., Masduki, F. F., Thiele, W., Bednarczyk, D., Albus, C. A., Tiller, N., Hasse, C., Schöttler, M. A. & Bock, R. The plastid genome-encoded Ycf4 protein functions as a non-essential assembly factor for photosystem I in higher plants. Plant Physiology 159, 579–591 (2012).

Stegemann, S., Keuthe, M., Greiner, S. & Bock, R. Horizontal transfer of chloroplast genomes between plant species. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 109, 2434–2438 (2012).

Tiller, N., Weingartner, M., Thiele, W., Maximova, E., Schöttler, M. A. & Bock, R. The plastid-specific ribosomal proteins of Arabidopsis thaliana can be divided into non-essential proteins and genuine ribosomal proteins. The Plant Journal 69, 302–316 (2012).

Zhang, J., Ruf, S., Hasse, C., Childs, L., Scharff, L. B. & Bock, R. Identification of cis-elements conferring high levels of gene expression in non-green plastids. Plant Journal 72, 115–128 (2012).

De Smet, I., Voss, U., Lau, S., Wilson, M., Shao, N., Timme, R. E., Swarup, R., Kerr, I., Hodgman, C., Bock, R., Bennett, M., Juergens, G. & Beeckman, T. Unraveling the Evolution of Auxin Signaling. Plant Physiology 155, 209–221 (2011).

Drechsel, O. & Bock, R. Selection of Shine-Dalgarno sequences in plastids. Nucleic Acids Research 39, 1427–1438 (2011).

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).

Elghabi, Z., Ruf, S. & Bock, R. Biolistic co-transformation of the nuclear and plastid genomes. Plant Journal 67, 941–948 (2011).

Fleischmann, T. T., Scharff, L. B., Alkatib, S., Hasdorf, S., Schöttler, M. A. & Bock, R. Nonessential plastid-encoded ribosomal proteins in tobacco: a developmental role for plastid translation and implications for reductive genome evolution. The Plant Cell 23, 3137–3155 (2011).

Gonzalez-Rabade, N., McGowan, E. G., Zhou, F., McCabe, M. S., Bock, R., Dix, P. J., Gray, J. C. & Ma, J. K. C. Immunogenicity of chloroplast-derived HIV-1 p24 and a p24-Nef fusion protein following subcutaneous and oral administration in mice. Plant Biotechnology Journal 9, 629–638 (2011).

Li, W., Ruf, S. & Bock, R. Chloramphenicol acetyltransferase as selectable marker for plastid transformation. Plant Molecular Biology 76, 443–451 (2011).

Lytovchenko, A., Eickmeier, I., Pons, C., Osorio, S., Szecowka, M., Lehmberg, K., Arrivault, S., Tohge, T., Pineda, B., Anton, M. T., Hedtke, B., Lu, Y., Fisahn, J., Bock, R., Stitt, M., Grimm, B., Granell, A. & Fernie, A. R. Tomato fruit photosynthesis is seemingly unimportant in primary metabolism and ripening but plays a considerable role in seed development. Plant Physiology 157, 1650–1663 (2011).

Maliga, P. & Bock, R. Plastid Biotechnology: Food, Fuel, and Medicine for the 21st Century. Plant Physiology 155, 1501–1510 (2011).

Obata, T., Matthes, A., Koszior, S., Lehmann, M., Araujo, W. L., Bock, R., Sweetlove, L. J. & Fernie, A. R. Alteration of mitochondrial protein complexes in relation to metabolic regulation under short-term oxidative stress in Arabidopsis seedlings. Phytochemistry 72, 1081–1091 (2011).

Petersen, K. & Bock, R. High-level expression of a suite of thermostable cell wall-degrading enzymes from the chloroplast genome. Plant Molecular Biology 76, 311–321 (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).

Rott, M., Martins, N. F., Thiele, W., Lein, W., Bock, R., Kraemer, D. M. & Schöttler, M. A. ATP Synthase Repression in Tobacco Restricts Photosynthetic Electron Transport, CO2 Assimilation, and Plant Growth by Overacidification of the Thylakoid Lumen. The Plant Cell 23, 304–321 (2011).

Scharff, L. B., Childs, L., Walther, D. & Bock, R. Local Absence of Secondary Structure Permits Translation of mRNAs that Lack Ribosome-Binding Sites. PLoS Genetics 7, e1002155 (2011).

Ahmadabadi, M. & Bock, R. Development of a highly responsive leaf-based regeneration system for Peperomia species. Turkish Journal of Botany 34, 329–334 (2010).