Jörg Meurer

Characterization of soldat8, a Suppressor of Singlet Oxygen-Induced Cell Death in Arabidopsis Seedlings (2009)

Coll, Núria S., Danon, Antoine, Meurer, Jörg, Cho, Won Kyong, Apel, Klaus

The flu mutant of Arabidopsis thaliana overaccumulates in the dark the immediate precursor of chlorophyllide, protochlorophyllide (Pchlide), a potent photosensitizer, that upon illumination generates...

Arabidopsis Mutants Carrying Chimeric Sigma Factor Genes Reveal Regulatory Determinants for Plastid Gene Expression (2009)

Schweer, Jennifer, Geimer, Simon, Meurer, Jörg, Link, Gerhard

Like bacteria, plastids contain sigma factors for promoter binding and transcription initiation. Accumulating evidence suggests that members of the plant sigma factor family can have specialized...

Cluster Analysis and Comparison of Various Chloroplast Transcriptomes and Genes in Arabidopsis thaliana (2009)

Cho, Won Kyong, Geimer, Simon, Meurer, Jörg

Chloroplast RNA metabolism is integrated into wider gene regulatory networks. To explore how, we performed a chloroplast genome-wide expression analysis on numerous nuclear Arabidopsis mutants...

Evidence of a chimeric genome in the cyanobacterial ancestor of plastids (2008)

Gross, Jeferson, Meurer, Jörg, Bhattacharya, Debashish

Abstract Background Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is a vexing fact of life for microbial phylogeneticists. Given the substantial rates of HGT observed in modern-day bacterial chromosomes, it is...

The Complete Nucleotide Sequences of the 5 Genetically Distinct Plastid Genomes of Oenothera, Subsection Oenothera: II. A Microevolutionary View Using Bioinformatics and Formal Genetic Data (2008)

Greiner, Stephan, Wang, Xi, Herrmann, Reinhold G., Rauwolf, Uwe, Mayer, Klaus, Haberer, Georg, ...

A unique combination of genetic features and a rich stock of information make the flowering plant genus Oenothera an appealing model to explore the molecular basis of speciation processes including...

The complete nucleotide sequences of the five genetically distinct plastid genomes of Oenothera, subsection Oenothera: I. Sequence evaluation and plastome evolution (2008)

Greiner, Stephan, Wang, Xi, Rauwolf, Uwe, Silber, Martina V., Mayer, Klaus, Meurer, Jörg, ...

The flowering plant genus Oenothera is uniquely suited for studying molecular mechanisms of speciation. It assembles an intriguing combination of genetic features, including permanent translocation...

Map Positions of 69 Arabidopsis thaliana Genes of All Known Nuclear Encoded Constituent Polypeptides and Various Regulatory Factors of the Photosynthetic Membrane: a Case Study (2001)

Legen, Julia, Miséra, Simson, Herrrmann, Reinhold G., Meurer, Jörg

Landsberg erecta x Columbia F8 recombinant inbred lines of Arabidopsis thaliana, arrayed BAC clones covering most of the genome, and databank sequence information were used to map the positions of 69...

The Nucleus-Encoded HCF107 Gene of Arabidopsis Provides a Link between Intercistronic RNA Processing and the Accumulation of Translation-Competent psbH Transcripts in Chloroplasts

Felder, Susanne, Meierhoff, Karin, Sane, Aniruddha P., Meurer, Jörg, Driemel, Christiane, Plücken, Henning, ...

To understand the functional significance of RNA processing for the expression of plastome-encoded photosynthesis genes, we investigated the nuclear mutation hcf107 of Arabidopsis. The mutation is...

A Peptide Chain Release Factor 2 Affects the Stability of UGA-Containing Transcripts in Arabidopsis Chloroplasts

Meurer, Jörg, Lezhneva, Lina, Amann, Katrin, Gödel, Manfred, Bezhani, Staver, Sherameti, Irena, ...

Positional cloning of the hcf109 (high chlorophyll fluorescence) mutation in Arabidopsis has identified a nucleus-encoded, plastid-localized release factor 2–like protein, AtprfB, indicating that...

Efficient Assembly of Photosystem II in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Requires Alb3.1p, a Homolog of Arabidopsis ALBINO3

Ossenbühl, Friedrich, Göhre, Vera, Meurer, Jörg, Krieger-Liszkay, Anja, Rochaix, Jean-David, Eichacker, Lutz A.

Alb3 homologs Oxa1 and YidC have been shown to be required for the integration of newly synthesized proteins into membranes. Here, we show that although Alb3.1p is not required for integration of the...

ACCUMULATION OF PHOTOSYSTEM ONE1, a Member of a Novel Gene Family, Is Required for Accumulation of [4Fe-4S] Cluster–Containing Chloroplast Complexes and Antenna Proteins

Amann, Katrin, Lezhneva, Lina, Wanner, Gerd, Herrmann, Reinhold G., Meurer, Jörg

To investigate the nuclear-controlled mechanisms of [4Fe-4S] cluster assembly in chloroplasts, we selected Arabidopsis thaliana mutants with a decreased content of photosystem I (PSI) containing...

The Nucleus-Encoded HCF107 Gene of Arabidopsis Provides a Link between Intercistronic RNA Processing and the Accumulation of Translation-Competent psbH Transcripts in Chloroplasts

Felder, Susanne, Meierhoff, Karin, Sane, Aniruddha P., Meurer, Jörg, Driemel, Christiane, Plücken, Henning, ...

To understand the functional significance of RNA processing for the expression of plastome-encoded photosynthesis genes, we investigated the nuclear mutation hcf107 of Arabidopsis. The mutation is...

A Peptide Chain Release Factor 2 Affects the Stability of UGA-Containing Transcripts in Arabidopsis Chloroplasts

Meurer, Jörg, Lezhneva, Lina, Amann, Katrin, Gödel, Manfred, Bezhani, Staver, Sherameti, Irena, ...

Positional cloning of the hcf109 (high chlorophyll fluorescence) mutation in Arabidopsis has identified a nucleus-encoded, plastid-localized release factor 2–like protein, AtprfB, indicating that...

Efficient Assembly of Photosystem II in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Requires Alb3.1p, a Homolog of Arabidopsis ALBINO3

Ossenbühl, Friedrich, Göhre, Vera, Meurer, Jörg, Krieger-Liszkay, Anja, Rochaix, Jean-David, Eichacker, Lutz A.

Alb3 homologs Oxa1 and YidC have been shown to be required for the integration of newly synthesized proteins into membranes. Here, we show that although Alb3.1p is not required for integration of the...

ACCUMULATION OF PHOTOSYSTEM ONE1, a Member of a Novel Gene Family, Is Required for Accumulation of [4Fe-4S] Cluster–Containing Chloroplast Complexes and Antenna Proteins

Amann, Katrin, Lezhneva, Lina, Wanner, Gerd, Herrmann, Reinhold G., Meurer, Jörg

To investigate the nuclear-controlled mechanisms of [4Fe-4S] cluster assembly in chloroplasts, we selected Arabidopsis thaliana mutants with a decreased content of photosystem I (PSI) containing...

Chloroplast biogenesis: The use of mutants to study the etioplast–chloroplast transition

Philippar, Katrin, Geis, Tina, Ilkavets, Iryna, Oster, Ulrike, Schwenkert, Serena, Meurer, Jörg, ...

In angiosperm plants, the etioplast–chloroplast transition is light-dependent. A key factor in this process is the protochlorophyllide oxidoreductase A (PORA), which catalyzes the light-induced...

The Synechocystis sp PCC 6803 Oxa1 Homolog Is Essential for Membrane Integration of Reaction Center Precursor Protein pD1[W]

Ossenbühl, Friedrich, Inaba-Sulpice, Masami, Meurer, Jörg, Soll, Jürgen, Eichacker, Lutz A.

Synechocystis sp PCC 6803 Slr1471p, an Oxa1p/Alb3/YidC homolog, is an essential protein for cell viability for which functions in thylakoid membrane biogenesis and cell division have been proposed....

The complete nucleotide sequences of the five genetically distinct plastid genomes of Oenothera, subsection Oenothera: I. Sequence evaluation and plastome evolution†

Greiner, Stephan, Wang, Xi, Rauwolf, Uwe, Silber, Martina V., Mayer, Klaus, Meurer, Jörg, ...

The flowering plant genus Oenothera is uniquely suited for studying molecular mechanisms of speciation. It assembles an intriguing combination of genetic features, including permanent translocation...

Role of the Low-Molecular-Weight Subunits PetL, PetG, and PetN in Assembly, Stability, and Dimerization of the Cytochrome b6f Complex in Tobacco1[C]

Schwenkert, Serena, Legen, Julia, Takami, Tsuneaki, Shikanai, Toshiharu, Herrmann, Reinhold G., Meurer, Jörg

The cytochrome b6f (Cyt b6f) complex in flowering plants contains nine conserved subunits, of which three, PetG, PetL, and PetN, are bitopic plastid-encoded low-molecular-weight proteins of largely...

The Complete Nucleotide Sequences of the 5 Genetically Distinct Plastid Genomes of Oenothera, Subsection Oenothera: II. A Microevolutionary View Using Bioinformatics and Formal Genetic Data

Greiner, Stephan, Wang, Xi, Herrmann, Reinhold G., Rauwolf, Uwe, Mayer, Klaus, Haberer, Georg, ...

A unique combination of genetic features and a rich stock of information make the flowering plant genus Oenothera an appealing model to explore the molecular basis of speciation processes including...

Molecular Marker Systems for Oenothera Genetics

Rauwolf, Uwe, Golczyk, Hieronim, Meurer, Jörg, Herrmann, Reinhold G., Greiner, Stephan

The genus Oenothera has an outstanding scientific tradition. It has been a model for studying aspects of chromosome evolution and speciation, including the impact of plastid nuclear co-evolution. A...

Cluster Analysis and Comparison of Various Chloroplast Transcriptomes and Genes in Arabidopsis thaliana

Cho, Won Kyong, Geimer, Simon, Meurer, Jörg

Chloroplast RNA metabolism is integrated into wider gene regulatory networks. To explore how, we performed a chloroplast genome-wide expression analysis on numerous nuclear Arabidopsis mutants...

Impact of PsbTc on Forward and Back Electron Flow, Assembly, and Phosphorylation Patterns of Photosystem II in Tobacco1[W][OA]

Umate, Pavan, Fellerer, Christine, Schwenkert, Serena, Zoryan, Mikael, Eichacker, Lutz A., Sadanandam, Abbagani, ...

Photosystem II (PSII) of oxygen-evolving cyanobacteria, algae, and land plants mediates electron transfer from the Mn4Ca cluster to the plastoquinone pool. It is a dimeric supramolecular complex...