Publications of R. Bock

Stegemann, S.; Bock, R.: Experimental reconstruction of functional gene transfer from the tobacco plastid genome to the nucleus. Plant Cell 18 (11), pp. 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 (414), pp. 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 (2), pp. 239 - 246 (2005)

Sharma, R. K.; Bock, R.; Bansal, K. C. (.c.: Plastid transformation: Safer alternative to transgenic plants. Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants 11 (2), pp. 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 (12), pp. 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 (2), pp. 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 (26), pp. 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 (4), pp. 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 (15), pp. 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 (15), pp. 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 (16), pp. 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 (7), pp. 5570 - 5574 (2002)

Karcher, D.; Bock, R.: Temperature sensitivity of RNA editing and intron splicing reactions in the plastid ndhB transcript. Current Genetics 41 (1), pp. 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 (2), pp. 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 (9), pp. 870 - 875 (2001)

Bock, R.: Sense from nonsense: How the genetic information of chloroplasts is altered by RNA editing. Biochimie 82 (6-7), pp. 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 (2), pp. 97 - 104 (2000)

Ruf, S.; Biehler, K.; Bock, R.: A small chloroplast-encoded protein as a novel architectural component of the light-harvesting antenna. Journal of Cell Biology 149 (2), pp. 369 - 377 (2000)

Hager, M.; Biehler, K.; Illerhaus, J.; Ruf, S.; Bock, R.: Targeted inactivation of the smallest plastid genome-encoded open reading frame reveals a novel and essential subunit of the cytochrome b(6)f complex. EMBO Journal 18 (21), pp. 5834 - 5842 (1999)

Hermann, M.; Bock, R.: Transfer of plastid RNA-editing activity to novel sites suggests a critical role for spacing in editing-site recognition. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 96 (9), pp. 4856 - 4861 (1999)