Publications of R. Bock

Li, B., Armarego-Marriott, T., Kowalewska, Ł., Thiele, W., Erban, A., Ruf, S., Kopka, J., Schöttler, M. A. & Bock, R. Membrane protein provision controls prothylakoid biogenesis in tobacco etioplasts. The Plant Cell 36, 4862–4880 (2024).

Rolo, D., Sandoval-Ibanez, O., Thiele, W., Schöttler, M. A., Gerlach, I., Zoschke, R., Schwartzmann, J., Meyer, E. H. & Bock, R. CO-EXPRESSED WITH PSI ASSEMBLY1 (CEPA1) is a photosystem I assembly factor in Arabidopsis. The Plant Cell 36, 4179–4211 (2024).

Hammel, A., Cucos, L.-M., Caras, I., Ionescu, I., Tucureanu, C., Tofan, V., Costache, A., Onu, A., Hoepfner, L., Hippler, M., Neupert, J., Popescu, C.-I., Stavaru, C., Branza-Nichita, N. & Bock, R. The red alga Porphyridium as a host for molecular farming: Efficient production of immunologically active hepatitis C virus glycoprotein. PNAS 121, (2024).

Krämer, C., Boehm, C. R., Liu, J., Ting, M. K. Y., Hertle, A. P., Forner, J., Ruf, S., Schöttler, M. A., Zoschke, R. & Bock, R. Removal of the large inverted repeat from the plastid genome reveals gene dosage effects and leads to increased genome copy number. Nature Plants 10, 923–935 (2024).

Loiacono, F. V. & Bock, R. An RNA polymerase that became a Swiss army knife. Cell 187, 1106–1108 (2024).

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).

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).

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).

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).

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).

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).

Wu, M., Dong, Y., Zhang, Q., Li, S., Chang, L., Loiacono, F. V., Ruf, S., Zhang, I. & Bock, R. Efficient control of western flower thrips by plastid-mediated RNA interference. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 119, (2022).

Forner, J., Kleinschmidt, D., Meyer, E. H., Fischer, A., Morbitzer, R., Lahaye, T., Schöttler, M. A. & Bock, R. Targeted introduction of heritable point mutations into the plant mitochondrial genome. Nature Plants 8, 245–256 (2022).

Gao, Y., Thiele, W., Saleh, O., Scossa, F., Aarabi, F., Zhang, H. M., Sampathkumar, A., Kühn, K., Fernie, A. R., Bock, R., Schöttler, M. A. & Zoschke, R. Chloroplast translational regulation uncovers nonessential photosynthesis genes as key players in plant cold acclimation. Plant Cell 34, 2056–2079 (2022).

Zupok, A., Kozul, D., Schöttler, M. A., Niehörster, J., Garbsch, F., Liere, K., Fischer, A., Zoschke, R., Malinova, I., Bock, R. & Greiner, S. A photosynthesis operon in the chloroplast genome drives speciation in evening primroses. The Plant Cell 33, 2583–2601 (2021).

Wu, G. & Bock, R. GUN control in retrograde signaling: How GENOMES UNCOUPLED proteins adjust nuclear gene expression to plastid biogenesis. The Plant Cell 33, 457–574 (2021).