Publications of S. Ruf

Zhang, J.; Khan, S. A.; Hasse, C.; Ruf, S.; Heckel, D. G.; Bock, R.: Full crop protection from an insect pest by expression of long double-stranded RNAs in plastids. Science 347 (6225), pp. 991 - 994 (2015)

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 (2), pp. 765 - 776 (2014)

Ruf, S.; Bock, R.: Plastid transformation in tomato. Chloroplast Biotechnology: Methods and Protocols (2014)

Krech, K.; Fu, H.-Y.; Thiele, W.; Ruf, S.; Schöttler, M. A.; Bock, R.: Reverse genetics in complex multigene operons by co-transformation of the plastid genome and its application to the open reading frame previously designated psbN. The Plant Journal 75 (6), pp. 1062 - 1074 (2013)

Caroca, R.; Howell, K. A.; Hasse, C.; Ruf, S.; Bock, R.: Design of chimeric expression elements that confer high-level gene activity in chromoplasts. Plant Journal 73 (3), pp. 368 - 379 (2013)

Shanmugabalaji, V.; Besagni, C.; Piller, L. E.; Douet, V.; Ruf, S.; Bock, R.; Kessler, F.: Dual targeting of a mature plastoglobulin/fibrillin fusion protein to chloroplast plastoglobules and thylakoids in transplastomic tobacco plants. Plant Molecular Biology 81 (1-2), pp. 13 - 25 (2013)

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 (11), e1003076 (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 (2), pp. 579 - 591 (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 (1), pp. 115 - 128 (2012)

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 (5), pp. 599 - 608 (2011)

Elghabi, Z.; Ruf, S.; Bock, R.: Biolistic co-transformation of the nuclear and plastid genomes. Plant Journal 67 (5), pp. 941 - 948 (2011)

Li, W.; Ruf, S.; Bock, R.: Chloramphenicol acetyltransferase as selectable marker for plastid transformation. Plant Molecular Biology 76 (3-5), pp. 443 - 451 (2011)

Albus, C. A.; Ruf, S.; Schöttler, M. A.; Lein, W.; Kehr, J.; Bock, R.: Y3IP1, a Nucleus-Encoded Thylakoid Protein, Cooperates with the Plastid-Encoded Ycf3 Protein in Photosystem I Assembly of Tobacco and Arabidopsis. The Plant Cell 22 (8), pp. 2838 - 2855 (2010)

Ahlert, D.; Stegemann, S.; Kahlau, S.; Ruf, S.; Bock, R.: Insensitivity of chloroplast gene expression to DNA methylation. Molecular Genetics and Genomics 282 (1), pp. 17 - 24 (2009)

Fey, H.; Piano, D.; Horn, R.; Fischer, D.; Schmidt, M.; Ruf, S.; Schroeder, W. P.; Bock, R.; Buechel, C.: Isolation of highly active photosystem II core complexes with a His-tagged Cyt b559 subunit from transplastomic tobacco plants. Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta-Bioenergetics 1777 (12), pp. 1501 - 1509 (2008)

Ahmadabadi, M.; Ruf, S.; Bock, R.: A leaf-based regeneration and transformation system for maize (Zea mays L.). Transgenic Research 16 (4), pp. 437 - 448 (2007)

Bohne, A. V.; Ruf, S.; Boerner, T.; Bock, R.: Faithful transcription initiation from a mitochondrial promoter in transgenic plastids. Nucleic Acids Research 35 (21), pp. 7256 - 7266 (2007)

Ruf, S.; Karcher, D.; Bock, R.: Determining the transgene containment level provided by chloroplast transformation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 104 (17), pp. 6998 - 7002 (2007)

Wurbs, D.; Ruf, S.; Bock, R.: Contained metabolic engineering in tomatoes by expression of carotenoid biosynthesis genes from the plastid genome. Plant Journal 49 (2), pp. 276 - 288 (2007)

Li, W. M.; Ruf, S.; Bock, R.: Constancy of organellar genome copy numbers during leaf development and senescence in higher plants. Molecular Genetics and Genomics 275 (2), pp. 185 - 192 (2006)