Publications of D. Karcher

Frusciante, S.; Demurtas, O. C.; Sulli, M.; Mini, P.; Aprea, G.; Diretto, G.; Karcher, D.; Bock, R.; Giuliano, G.: Heterologous expression of Bixa orellana cleavage dioxygenase 4–3 drives crocin but not bixin biosynthesis. Plant Physiology (2021)

Ginsawaeng, O.; Heise, C.; Sangwan, R.; Karcher, D.; Hernández-Sánchez, I.E.; Sampathkumar, A.; Zuther, E.: Subcellular Localization of Seed-Expressed LEA_4 Proteins Reveals Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation for LEA9 and for LEA48 Homo- and LEA42-LEA48 Heterodimers. Biomolecules 11 (12), 1770 (2021)

Agrawal, S.; Karcher, D.; Ruf, S.; Erban, A.; Hertle, A. P.; Kopka, J.; Bock, R.: Riboswitch-mediated inducible expression of an astaxanthin biosynthetic operon in plastids. Plant Physiology (accepted)

Caroca, R.; Howell, K. A.; Malinova, I.; Burgos, A.; Tiller, N.; Pellizzer, T.; Annunziata, M. G.; Hasse, C.; Ruf, S.; Karcher, D. et al.; Bock, R.: Knock-down of the plastid-encoded acetyl-CoA carboxylase gene uncovers functions in metabolism and development. Plant Physiology 185 (3), pp. 1091 - 1110 (2021)

Agrawal, S.; Karcher, D.; Ruf, S.; Bock, R.: The Functions of Chloroplast Glutamyl-tRNA in Translation and Tetrapyrrole Biosynthesis. Plant Physiology 183 (1), pp. 263 - 276 (2020)

Tan, J.; Zhang, F.; Karcher, D.; Bock, R.: Expanding the genome-targeting scope and the site selectivity of high-precision base editors. Nature Communications 11 (1), 629 (2020)

Xu, P.; Chukhutsina, V.U.; Nawrocki, W.J.; Schansker, G.; Bielczynski, L.W.; Lu, Y.; Karcher, D.; Bock, R.; Croce, R.: Photosynthesis without β-carotene. eLife 9, e58984 (2020)

Tan, J.; Zhang, F.; Karcher, D.; Bock, R.: Engineering of high-precision base editors for site-specific single nucleotide replacement. Nature Communications 10 (1), 439 (2019)

Tan, J.; Zhang, F.; Karcher, D.; Bock, R.: Author Correction: Engineering of high-precision base editors for site-specific single nucleotide replacement (Nature Communications, (2019), 10, 1, (439), 10.1038/s41467-018-08034-8). Nature Communications 10 (1), 2019 (2019)

Moreno, J.C.; Martinez-Jaime, S.; Schwartzmann, J.; Karcher, D.; Tillich, M.; Graf, A.; Bock, R.: Temporal Proteomics of Inducible RNAi Lines of Clp Protease Subunits Identifies Putative Protease Substrates. Plant Physiology 176 (2), pp. 1485 - 1508 (2018)

van Oort, B.; Roy, L. M.; Xu, P.; Lu, Y.; Karcher, D.; Bock, R.; Croce, R.: Revisiting the Role of Xanthophylls in Nonphotochemical Quenching. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 9 (2), pp. 346 - 352 (2018)

Liguori, N.; Xu, P.; van Stokkum, I. H. M.; van Oort, B.; Lu, Y.; Karcher, D.; Bock, R.; Croce, R.: Different carotenoid conformations have distinct functions in light-harvesting regulation in plants. Nature Communications 8, 1994 (2017)

Lu, Y.; Stegemann, S.; Agrawal, S.; Karcher, D.; Ruf, S.; Bock, R.: Horizontal Transfer of a Synthetic Metabolic Pathway between Plant Species. Current Biology 27 (19), pp. 3034 - 3041 (2017)

Moreno, J.C.; Tiller, N.; Diez, M.; Karcher, D.; Tillich, M.; Schöttler, M. A.; Bock, R.: Generation and characterization of a collection of knock-down lines for the chloroplast Clp protease complex in tobacco. Journal of Experimental Botany 68 (9), pp. 2199 - 2218 (2017)

Gnanasekaran, T.; Karcher, D.; Nielsen, A. Z.; Martens, H. J.; Ruf, S.; Kroop, X.; Olsen, C. E.; Motawie, M. S.; Pribil, M.; Moller, B. L. et al.; Bock, R.; Jensen, P. E.: Transfer of the cytochrome P450-dependent dhurrin pathway from Sorghum bicolor into Nicotiana tabacum chloroplasts for light-driven synthesis. Journal of Experimental Botany 67 (8), pp. 2495 - 2506 (2016)

Fuentes, P.; Zhou, F.; Erban, A.; Karcher, D.; Kopka, J.; Bock, R.: A new synthetic biology approach allows transfer of an entire metabolic pathway from a medicinal plant to a biomass crop. eLife 5, e13664 (2016)

Emadpour, M.; Karcher, D.; Bock, R.: Boosting riboswitch efficiency by RNA amplification. Nucleic Acids Research 43 (10), e66 (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 (3), p. 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 (7508), pp. 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 (4), pp. 1985 - 97 (2014)