Publications of L. B. Scharff

Scharff, L. B., Ehrnthaler, M., Janowski, M., Childs, L. H., Hasse, C., Gremmels, J., Ruf, S., Zoschke, R. & Bock, R. Shine-Dalgarno Sequences Play an Essential Role in the Translation of Plastid mRNAs in Tobacco. Plant Cell 29, 3085–3101 (2017).

Ehrnthaler, M., Scharff, L. B., Fleischmann, T. T., Hasse, C., Ruf, S. & Bock, R. Synthetic Lethality in the Tobacco Plastid Ribosome and Its Rescue at Elevated Growth Temperatures. The Plant Cell 26, 765–776 (2014).

Fristed, R., Scharff, L. B., Clarke, C., Wang, Q., Lin, C., Merchant, S. & Bock, R. RBF1, a Plant Homolog of the Bacterial Ribosome-Binding Factor RbfA, Acts in Processing of the Chloroplast 16S Ribosomal RNA. Plant Physiology 164, 201–215 (2014).

Alkatib, S., Scharff, L. B., Rogalski, M., Fleischmann, T. T., Matthes, A., Seeger, S., Schöttler, M. A., Ruf, S. & Bock, R. The Contributions of Wobbling and Superwobbling to the Reading of the Genetic Code. PLoS Genetics 8, (2012).

Alkatib, S., Fleischmann, T. T., Scharff, L. B. & Bock, R. Evolutionary constraints on the plastid tRNA set decoding methionine and isoleucine. Nucleic Acids Research 40, 6713–6724 (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).

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).

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).

Oey, M., Lohse, M., Scharff, L. B., Kreikemeyer, B. & Bock, R. Plastid production of protein antibiotics against pneumonia via a new strategy for high-level expression of antimicrobial proteins. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 106, 6579–6584 (2009).

Krause, K. & Scharff, L. B. in Progress in Botany 97–115 (Springer, 2014). doi:10.1007/978-3-642-38797-5_3

Scharff, L. B. & Bock, R. Synthetic biology in plastids. The Plant Journal 77, 783–798 (2014).