Publications of S. Ruf

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)

Lung, B.; Zemann, A.; Madej, M. J.; Schuelke, M.; Techritz, S.; Ruf, S.; Bock, R.; Huttenhofer, A.: Identification of small non-coding RNAs from mitochondria and chloroplasts. Nucleic Acids Research 34 (14), pp. 3842 - 3852 (2006)

Rogalski, M.; Ruf, S.; Bock, R.: Tobacco plastid ribosomal protein S18 is essential for cell survival. Nucleic Acids Research 34 (16), pp. 4537 - 4545 (2006)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Ruf, S.; Koessel, H.; Bock, R.: Targeted Inactivation of a Tobacco Intron-Containing Open Reading Frame Reveals a Novel Chloroplast-Encoded Photosystem I-Related Gene. Journal of Cell Biology 139 (1), pp. 95 - 102 (1997)

Ruf, S.; Bock, R.: Plastid Transformation in Tomato: A Vegetable Crop and Model Species. In: Chloroplast Biotechnology: Methods and Protocols, Vol. 2317, pp. 217 - 228 (Ed. Maliga, P.). Springer US, New York, NY (2021)

Ruf, S.; Bock, R.: In vivo analysis of RNA editing in plastids. In: RNA and DNA Editing: Methods and Protocols, 8, pp. 137 - 150 (Ed. Aphasizhev, R.). Humana Press Inc., Totowa, NJ, USA (2011)

Bock, R.; Drescher, A.; Ruf, S.: Reverse genetics in higher plant plastids. In: From Symbiosis to Eukaryotism, pp. 427 - 437 (Eds. Wagner, E.; Normann, J.; Greppin, H.; Hackstein, J. H. P.; Herrmann, R. G. et al.). Geneva University Press (1999)

Bock, R.; Albertazzi, F. J.; Freyer, R.; Fuchs, M.; Ruf, S.; Zeltz, P.; Maier, R. M.: Transcript editing in chloroplasts of higher plants. In: Eukaryotism and Symbiosis, pp. 123 - 137 (Eds. Schenk, H. E. A.; Herrmann, R.; Jeon, K. W.; Mueller, N. E.; Schwemmler, W.). Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg (1997)