Publications of R. Bock

Keller, J.-M., Frieboes, M. J., Jödecke, L., Kappel, S., Wulff, N., Rindfleisch, T., Sandoval-Ibanez, O., Gerlach, I., Thiele, W., Bock, R., Eirich, J., Finkemeier, I., Schünemann, D., Zoschke, R., Schöttler, M. A. & Armbruster, U. Eukaryote-specific assembly factor DEAP2 mediates an early step of photosystem II assembly in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiology 193, 1970–1986 (2023).

Laskowski, J., Ruf, S., Bock, R. & Zoschke, R. Chloroplasten: kleine Zellorganellen mit großem Potenzial. Biospektrum 29, 803–805 (2023).

Tóth, D., Kuntam, S., Ferenczi, Á., Vidal-Meireles, A., Kovács, L., Wang, L., Sarkadi, Z., Migh, E., Szentmihályi, K., Tengölics, R., Neupert, J., Bock, R., Jonikas, M. C., Molnar, A. & Tóth, S. Z. Chloroplast phosphate transporter CrPHT4-7 regulates phosphate homeostasis and photosynthesis in Chlamydomonas. Plant Physiology (2023). doi:10.1093/plphys/kiad607

Chung, K. P., Loiacono, F. V., Neupert, J., Wu, M. & Bock, R. An RNA thermometer in the chloroplast genome of Chlamydomonas facilitates temperature-controlled gene expression. Nucleic Acids Research 51, 11386–11400 (2023).

Forner, J., Kleinschmidt, D., Meyer, E. H., Gremmels, J., Morbitzer, R., Lahaye, T., Schöttler, M. A. & Bock, R. Targeted knockout of a conserved plant mitochondrial gene by genome editing. Nature Plants 9, 1818–1831 (2023).

Geng, R., Pang, X., Li, X., Shi, S., Hedtke, B., Grimm, B., Bock, R., Huang, J. & Zhou, W. PROGRAMMED CELL DEATH8 interacts with tetrapyrrole biosynthesis enzymes and ClpC1 to maintain homeostasis of tetrapyrrole metabolites in Arabidopsis. New Phytologist 238, 2545–2560 (2023).

Smirnova, J., Loerke, J., Kleinau, G., Schmidt, A., Bürger, J., Meyer, E. H., Mielke, T., Scheerer, P., Bock, R., Spahn, C. M. T. & Zoschke, R. Structure of the actively translating plant 80S ribosome at 2.2 Å resolution. Nature Plants 9, 987–1000 (2023).

Ghandour, R., Gao, Y., Laskowski, J., Barahimipour, R., Ruf, S., Bock, R. & Zoschke, R. Transgene insertion into the plastid genome alters expression of adjacent native chloroplast genes at the transcriptional and translational levels. Plant Biotechnology Journal 21, 711–725 (2023).

Strand, D., Karcher, D., Ruf, S., Schadach, A., Schöttler, M. A., Sandoval-Ibanez, O., Hall, D., Kramer, D. M. & Bock, R. Characterization of mutants deficient in N-terminal phosphorylation of the chloroplast ATP synthase subunit β. Plant Physiology 191, 1818–1835 (2023).

Vidal-Meireles, A., Kuntam, S., Széles, E., Tóth, D., Neupert, J., Bock, R. & Tóth, S. Z. The lifetime of the oxygen-evolving complex subunit PSBO depends on light intensity and carbon availability in Chlamydomonas. Plant, Cell and Environment 46, 422–439 (2023).

Wu, M., Zhang, Q., Dong, Y., Wang, Z., Zhan, W., Ke, Z., Li, S., He, L., Ruf, S., Bock, R. & Zhang, J. Transplastomic tomatoes expressing double-stranded RNA against a conserved gene are efficiently protected from multiple spider mites. New Phytologist 237, 1363–1373 (2023).

Chung, K. P., Gonzalez-Duran, E., Ruf, S., Endries, P. & Bock, R. Control of plastid inheritance by environmental and genetic factors. Nature Plants 9, 68–80 (2023).

Gonzalez-Duran, E. & Bock, R. Chilling stress and loss of an exonuclease lead to biparental inheritance of plastids. Nature Plants 9, 9–10 (2023).

Loiacono, F. V., Walther, D., Seeger, S., Thiele, W., Gerlach, I., Karcher, D., Schöttler, M. A., Zoschke, R. & Bock, R. Emergence of novel RNA editing sites by changes in the binding affinity of a conserved PPR protein. Molecular Biology and Evolution 39, (2022).

Tan, J., Forner, J., Karcher, D. & Bock, R. DNA base editing in nuclear and organellar genomes. Trends in Genetics 38, 1147–1169 (2022).

Hölscher, M., Forner, J., Calderone, S., Krämer, C., Taylor, Z., Loiacono, F. V., Agrawal, S., Karcher, D., Moratti, F. G., Kroop, X. & Bock, R. Expression strategies for the efficient synthesis of antimicrobial peptides in plastids. Nature Communications 13, (2022).

Steinhorst, L., He, G., Moore, L. K., Schültke, S., Schmitz-Thom, I., Cao, Y., Hashimoto, K., Andrés, Z., Piepenburg, K., Ragel, P., Behera, S., Almutairi, B. O., Batistič, O., Wyganowski, T., Köster, P., Edel, K. H., Zhang, C., Krebs, M., Jiang, C., Guo, Y., Quintero, F. J., Bock, R. & Kudla, J. A Ca2+-sensor switch for tolerance to elevated salt stress in Arabidopsis. Developmental Cell 57, 2081–2094 (2022).

Wei, S., Li, X., Lu, Z., Zhang, H., Ye, X., Zhou, Y., Li, J., Yan, Y., Pei, H., Duan, F., Wang, D., Chen, S., Wang, P., Zhang, C., Shang, L., Zhou, Y., Yan, P., Zhao, M., Huang, J., Bock, R., Qian, Q. & Zhou, W. A transcriptional regulator that boosts grain yields and shortens the growth duration of rice. Science 377, (2022).

Sandoval-Ibanez, O., Rolo, D., Ghandour, R., Hertle, A. P., Armarego-Marriott, T., Sampathkumar, A., Zoschke, R. & Bock, R. De-etiolation-induced protein 1 (DEIP1) mediates assembly of the cytochrome b6f complex in Arabidopsis. Nature Communications 13, (2022).

Dong, Y., Wu, M., Zhang, Q., Fu, J., Loiacono, F. V., Yang, Y., Wang, Z., Li, S., Chang, L., Bock, R. & Zhang, J. Control of a sap-sucking insect pest by plastid-mediated RNA interference. Molecular Plant 15, 1176–1191 (2022).