TRR 1:  Endosymbiosis: From Prokaryotes to Eukaryotic Organelles

• Subject Area: Biology ; Medicine
• Term: from 2000 to 2012
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 5484340

• Final Report Year: 2013

Final Report Abstract

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Publications

• (2001) Heterologous, splicing-dependent RNA editing in chloroplasts: allotetraploidy provides trans-factors. EMBO J. 20, 4874-4883
  Schmitz-Linneweber, C., Tillich, M., Herrmann, R.G. and Maier, R.M.
  
• (2001) Pyruvate: NADP+ oxidoreductase from the mitochonrion of Euglena gracilis and from the apicomplexan Cryptosporidium parvum: A fusion of pyruvate:ferredoxin oxidoreductase and NADPH-cytochrome P450 reductase. Mol. Biol. Evol. 18, 710-720
  Rotte, C., Stejskal,. F., Zhu, G., Keithly, J.S., Martin, W.
  
• (2001) The highly reduced genome of an eslaved alal nucleus. Nature 410, 1091-1096
  Douglas, S., Zauner, S., Fraunholz, M., Penny, S., Deng, L.-T., Wu, X., Reith, M., Cavalier-Smith, T., Maier U.-G.
  
• (2001) VIPP1, a nuclear gene of Arabidopsis thaliana essential for thylakoid membrane formation. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 98, 4238-4242
  Kroll, D., Meierhoff, K., Bechtholt, N., Kinoshita, M., Westphal, S., Vothknecht, U.C., Soll, J., Westhoff, P.
  
• (2002) A peptide chain release factor specifically affects stability of UGA containing transcripts in Arabidopsis Thaliana chloroplasts. Plant Cell 14, 12
  Meurer, J., Lezhneva L., Amann, K., Gödel, M., Bezhani, S., Sherameti, I., Oelmüller, R.
  
• (2002) In vivo characterization of diatom multipartite plastid targeting signals. J. Cell Science 115, 4061-4069
  Apt, K.E., Zaslavkaia, L., Lippmeier, J.C., Lang, M., Kilian, O., Wetherbee, R., Grossman, A.R., und Kroth, P.G.
  
• (2004) Alb3.1p is an assembly factor for photosystem II in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Plant Cell 16, 1790-1800
  Ossenbühl, F., Göhre, V., Meurer, J., Krieger-Liszkay, A., Rochaix, J-D., Eichacker, L.A.
  
• (2004) Endosymbiotic gene transfer: Organelle genomes forge eukaryotic chromosomes. Nature Rev. Genet. 5, 123-135
  Timmis, J.N., Ayliffe, M.A:, Huang, C.Y. Martin, M.
  
• (2004) Euglena gracilis rhodoquinone: ubiquinone ratio and mitochondrial proteome differ under aerobic and anaerobic conditions. J. Biol. Chem. 279, 22422-22429
  Hoffmeister, M., van der Klei, A., Rotte, C., vcan Grinsven, K.W.A., van Hellemond, J.J., Henze, K., Tielens, A.G.M., Martin, W.
  
• (2004) The hydrogenase-like Nar1p is essential for maturation of cytosolic and nuclear iron-sulfur proteins. EMBO J. 23, 2105-2115
  Balk, J., Pierik, A,J., Aguilar Netz, D., Mühlenhoff, U., Lill, R.
  
• (2004) Toc12, a novel subunit of the intermembrane space preprotein translocon of chloroplasts. Mol. Biol. Cell 15, 5130-5144
  Becker, T., Hirtz, J., Vogel, M. Caliebe, A., Bukau, B., Soll, J., Schleiff, E.
  
• (2005) Pigment deficiency in nightshade/tobacco cybrids is caused by the failure to edit the plastid atpA mRNA. Plant Cell 17, 1815-1828
  Schmitz-Linneweber, C., Kushnir, S., Babiychuk, E., Poltnigg, P., Herrmann, R.G., Maier, R.M.
  
• (2006) A second thylakoid membrane-localized Alb3/OxaI/YidC homologue is involved in proper chloroplast biogenesis in Arabidopsis thaliana. J. Biol. Chem. 24, 16632-42
  Gerdes, L., Bals, T., Klostermann, E., Hünken, M., Philippar, K., Soll, J., Schünemann, D.
  
• (2006) Calcium regulation of Chloroplast protein translocation is mediate by calmodulinbinding to Tic32. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 103, 16051-16056
  Chirgi, F., Hörmann, F., Bölter, B., Stanp, A., Stammers, D., Soll, J., and Vothknecht, U.C.
  
• (2006) Eukaryote evolution: changes and challenges. Nature, 440, 623-630
  Embley, T.M., Martin, W.
  
• (2006) HCF153, a novel nuclear encoded factor necessary during a posttranslational step of cytochrome b6f complex biogenesis. Plant J. 45, 101-112
  Lennartz,K., Bossmann, S., Bechthold,N., Westhoff, P., Meierhoff, K.
  
• (2007) Ancestral genome sizes specify the minimum rate of lateral gene transfer during prokaryote evolution. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 104, 870-875
  Dagan, T., Martin, W.
  
• (2007) Functional and phylogenetic properties of the poreforming beta-barrel transporters of the Omp85 family. J. Biol. Chem. 282, 1882-1890
  Bredemeier, R., Schlegel, T., Ertel, F., Vojta, A., Borissenko, L., Bohnsack, M.T., Groll, M., von Haeseler, A., Schleiff, E.
  
• (2007) Phylogenetic diversity of "Endomicrobia" and their specific affiliation with termite gut flagellates. Microbiology 153, 3458-3465
  Ideda-Ohtsubo, w., Desai, M., Stingl, U., Brune, A.
  
• (2007) The nuclear-encoded factor HCF173 is involved in the initiation of translation of the psbA mRNA in Arabidopsis Thaliana. Plant Cell 19, 1329-1346
  Schult, K., Meierhoff, K., Paradies, S., Töller, T., Wolff, P., Westhoff, P.
  
• (2008) A complex containing PGRL1 and PGR5 is involved in the switch between linear and cyclic electron flow in Arabidopsis. Cell 132, 273-285
  DalCorso, G., Pesatesi, P., Masiero, S., Aseeva, E., Schünemann, D., Finazzi, G., Joliot, P., Barbato, R., Leister, D.
  
• (2008) Modular networks and cumulative impact of lateral transfer in prokaryote genome evolution. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 105, 10039-10044
  Dagan, T., Atzy-Randrup, Y., Martin, W.
  
• (2008). Localization and functionality of microsporidian iron-sulphur cluster assembly proteins. Nature 452, 624-628
  Goldberg, A.V., Molik, S., Tsaousis, A.D., Neumann, K., Kuhnke, G., Delbac, F., Vivares, C.P., Hirt, R.P., Lill, R. & Embley, M.
  
• (2009) An unusual ERAD-like complex is targeted to the apicoplast of Plasmodium falciparum. Eukaryot Cell 8:1134-45
  Borski, J.M.
  
• (2009) Genomic Footprints of a Cryptic Plastid Endosymbiosis in Diatoms. Science 324, 1724-1726
  Moustafa A, Beszteri B, Maier UG, Bowler C, Valentin K, Bhattacharya D
  
• (2009) Interaction of the periplasmic PratA factor and the PsbA (D1) protein during biogenesis of photosystem II in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. J. Biol. Chem. 284, 1813-1819
  Schottkowski, M., Gkalympoudis, S., Tzekova, N., Stelljes, C., Schünemann, D., Ankele, E. and Nickelsen, J.
  
• (2009) Methods to characterise iron-sulfur proteins in eukaryotes. Nature Protocols. 4, 753-766
  Pierik, A., Netz, D.J.A., Lill, R.
  
• (2009) Seeing red and green in diatom genomes. Science 324:1651– 1652
  Dagan T, Martin W
  
• (2010) The energetics of genome complexity. Nature 467:929–93
  Lane N., Martin W.
  
• (2011) A plastidial sodium-dependent pyruvate transporter. Nature 476: 472-475
  Furumoto, T., Yamaguchi, T., Ohshima-Ichie, Y., Nakamura, M., Tsuchida-Iwata, Y., Shimamura, M., Ohnishi, J., Hata, S., Gowik, U., Westhoff, P., Bräutigam, A., Weber, A.P.M., Izui, K.
  
• (2011) Evolution of C4 photosynthesis in the genus Flaveria – how many and which genes does it take to make C4? Plant Cell 23: 2087-2105
  Gowik U, Bräutigam A, Weber KL, Weber APM, Westhoff P
  
• (2011) Recruitment of a ribosomal release factor for light- and stressdependent regulation of petB transcript stability in Arabidopsis chloroplasts. Plant Cell 23, 2680-2695
  Stoppel R., Lezhneva L, Schwenkert S., Torabi S., Felder S., Meierhoff K., Westhoff P. and Meurer J.
  
• (2011) Transcriptomic evidence that longevity of acquired plastids in the photosynthetic slugs Elysia timida and Plakobranchus ocellatus does not entail lateral transfer of algal nuclear genes. Mol. Biol. Evol. 28, 699–706
  Wägele H, Deusch O, Händeler K, Martin R, Schmitt V, Christa G, Pinzger B, Dagan T, Klussmann-Kolb A, Martin W
  
• (2012) Cyanophora paradoxa genome elucidates origin of photosynthesis in algae and plants. Science 335: 843-847
  Price D.C., Chan C.X., Yoon H.S., Yang E.C., Qiu H., Weber A.P.M., Schwacke R., Gross J., Blouin N.A., Lane C., Reyes-Prieto A., Durnford D.G., Neilson J.A.D., Lang B.F., Burger G., Steiner J.M., Löffelhardt W., Meuser J.E., Posewitz M.C., Ball S., Arias M.C., Henrissat B., Coutinho B.M., Rensing S.A., Symeonidi A., Doddapaneni H., Green B.R., Rajah V.D., Boore J., Bhattacharya D.
  
• (2012) Essential Role of VIPP1 in Chloroplast Envelope Maintenance in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell 24, 3695-3707
  Zhang L., Kato Y., Otters S., Vothknecht U.C. and Sakamoto W.
  
• (2012) Eukaryotic DNA polymerases require an iron-sulfur cluster for the formation of active complexes. Nat. Chem. Biol. 8, 125-132
  Netz, D.J., Stith, C.M., Stümpfig, M., Köpf, G., Vogel, D., Genau, H.M., Stodola, J.L., Lill, R., Burgers, P.M., Pierik, A.J.
  
• (2012) Initial steps in photosystem II assembly and preloading with manganese take place in biogenesis centers in Synechocystis. Plant Cell 24, 660-675
  Stengel, A., Gügel, I., Hilger, D., Rengstl, B., Jung, H. and Nickelsen, J.
  
• (2012) MMS19 assembles iron-sulfur proteins required for DNA metabolism and genomic integrity. Science 337, 195-199
  Stehling, O., Vashisht, A.A., Mascarenhas, J., Jonsson, Z.O., Sharma, T., Netz, D.J.A., Pierik, A.J., Wohlschlegel, J.A., & Lill, R.
  
• (2012) Nucleus-encoded light-harvesting chlorophyll
  Nick, S., Meurer, J., Soll, J., Ankele, E.
  
• (2001) Vipp1 deletionmutant of Synechocystis. A connection between nacterial phage shock and thylakoid biogenesis? Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 98, 4243-4248
  Westphal, S., Heins, L., Soll, J., Vothknecht, U.C.