Synthetic biology in plastids

Genetic engineering of the chloroplast: novel tools and new applications

(2013) Ralph Bock   CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

High-level semi-synthetic production of the potent antimalarial artemisinin

(2013) C. J. Paddon et al.   NATURE

Direct transfer of whole genomes from bacteria to yeast

(2013) Bogumil J Karas et al.   NATURE METHODS

OrganellarGenomeDRAW—a suite of tools for generating physical maps of plastid and mitochondrial genomes and visualizing expression data sets

(2013) Marc Lohse et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Reverse genetics in complex multigene operons by co-transformation of the plastid genome and its application to the open reading frame previously designatedpsbN

(2013) Katharina Krech et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Strategies for metabolic pathway engineering with multiple transgenes

(2013) Ralph Bock   PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Potential Functional Replacement of the Plastidic Acetyl-CoA Carboxylase Subunit (accD) Gene by Recent Transfers to the Nucleus in Some Angiosperm Lineages

(2013) M. Rousseau-Gueutin et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Efficient metabolic pathway engineering in transgenic tobacco and tomato plastids with synthetic multigene operons

(2013) Y. Lu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Uncovering the Protein Translocon at the Chloroplast Inner Envelope Membrane

(2013) S. Kikuchi et al.   SCIENCE

Plastid-to-nucleus communication, signals controlling the running of the plant cell

(2012) Juan de Dios Barajas-López et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-MOLECULAR CELL RESEARCH

Experimental Reconstruction of the Functional Transfer of Intron- Containing Plastid Genes to the Nucleus

(2012) Ignacia Fuentes et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Rewiring translation - Genetic code expansion and its applications

(2012) Heinz Neumann   FEBS LETTERS

Microbial engineering for the production of advanced biofuels

(2012) Pamela P. Peralta-Yahya et al.   NATURE

Evolutionary constraints on the plastid tRNA set decoding methionine and isoleucine

(2012) Sibah Alkatib et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

The Primary Transcriptome of Barley Chloroplasts: Numerous Noncoding RNAs and the Dominating Role of the Plastid-Encoded RNA Polymerase

(2012) P. Zhelyazkova et al.   PLANT CELL

Identification ofcis-elements conferring high levels of gene expression in non-green plastids

(2012) Jiang Zhang et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Design of chimeric expression elements that confer high-level gene activity in chromoplasts

(2012) Rodrigo Caroca et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

The Plastid Genome-Encoded Ycf4 Protein Functions as a Nonessential Assembly Factor for Photosystem I in Higher Plants

(2012) K. Krech et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

The Contributions of Wobbling and Superwobbling to the Reading of the Genetic Code

(2012) Sibah Alkatib et al.   PLoS Genetics

Toward rational design of bacterial genomes

(2011) Guillaume Cambray et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

Photosystem I: Its biogenesis and function in higher plants

(2011) Mark Aurel Schöttler et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Rampant Gene Loss in the Underground Orchid Rhizanthella gardneri Highlights Evolutionary Constraints on Plastid Genomes

(2011) E. Delannoy et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

An exogenous chloroplast genome for complex sequence manipulation in algae

(2011) Bryan M. O'Neill et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

The chloroplast transformation toolbox: selectable markers and marker removal

(2011) Anil Day et al.   PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL

Nonessential Plastid-Encoded Ribosomal Proteins in Tobacco: A Developmental Role for Plastid Translation and Implications for Reductive Genome Evolution

(2011) Tobias T. Fleischmann et al.   PLANT CELL

Biolistic co-transformation of the nuclear and plastid genomes

(2011) Zouhair Elghabi et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Expression of Plastid Genes: Organelle-Specific Elaborations on a Prokaryotic Scaffold

(2011) A. Barkan   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Plastid Biotechnology: Food, Fuel, and Medicine for the 21st Century

(2011) P. Maliga et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

High Levels of Bioplastic Are Produced in Fertile Transplastomic Tobacco Plants Engineered with a Synthetic Operon for the Production of Polyhydroxybutyrate

(2011) K. Bohmert-Tatarev et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Local Absence of Secondary Structure Permits Translation of mRNAs that Lack Ribosome-Binding Sites

(2011) Lars B. Scharff et al.   PLoS Genetics

Chloroplast RNA Metabolism

(2010) David B. Stern et al.   Annual Review of Plant Biology

Evolution of reduced prokaryotic genomes and the minimal cell concept: Variations on a theme

(2010) Luis Delaye et al.   BIOESSAYS

Beyond the Canonical 20 Amino Acids: Expanding the Genetic Lexicon

(2010) Travis S. Young et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Encoding multiple unnatural amino acids via evolution of a quadruplet-decoding ribosome

(2010) Heinz Neumann et al.   NATURE

Selection of Shine-Dalgarno sequences in plastids

(2010) Oliver Drechsel et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Autoluminescent Plants

(2010) Alexander Krichevsky et al.   PLoS One

Inducible gene expression from the plastid genome by a synthetic riboswitch

(2010) A. Verhounig et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

An organellar maturase associates with multiple group II introns

(2010) R. Zoschke et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Creation of a Bacterial Cell Controlled by a Chemically Synthesized Genome

(2010) D. G. Gibson et al.   SCIENCE

High efficiency plastid transformation in potato and regulation of transgene expression in leaves and tubers by alternative 5′ and 3′ regulatory sequences

(2010) Vladimir T. Valkov et al.   TRANSGENIC RESEARCH

Synthetic cells and organelles: compartmentalization strategies

(2009) Renée Roodbeen et al.   BIOESSAYS

Enzymatic assembly of DNA molecules up to several hundred kilobases

(2009) Daniel G Gibson et al.   NATURE METHODS

Next generation synthetic vectors for transformation of the plastid genome of higher plants

(2009) Sugey Ramona Sinagawa-García et al.   PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Enhancement of Carotenoid Biosynthesis in Transplastomic Tomatoes by Induced Lycopene-to-Provitamin A Conversion

(2009) W. Apel et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Genome-Wide Analysis of Plastid Gene Expression in Potato Leaf Chloroplasts and Tuber Amyloplasts: Transcriptional and Posttranscriptional Control

(2009) V. T. Valkov et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Plastid production of protein antibiotics against pneumonia via a new strategy for high-level expression of antimicrobial proteins

(2009) M. Oey et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Reconstructing evolution: Gene transfer from plastids to the nucleus

(2008) Ralph Bock et al.   BIOESSAYS

Superwobbling facilitates translation with reduced tRNA sets

(2008) Marcelo Rogalski et al.   NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Plastid Transcriptomics and Translatomics of Tomato Fruit Development and Chloroplast-to-Chromoplast Differentiation: Chromoplast Gene Expression Largely Serves the Production of a Single Protein

(2008) S. Kahlau et al.   PLANT CELL

Rpl33, a Nonessential Plastid-Encoded Ribosomal Protein in Tobacco, Is Required under Cold Stress Conditions

(2008) M. Rogalski et al.   PLANT CELL

Biosynthesis of astaxanthin in tobacco leaves by transplastomic engineering

(2008) Tomohisa Hasunuma et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Exhaustion of the chloroplast protein synthesis capacity by massive expression of a highly stable protein antibiotic

(2008) Melanie Oey et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Impact of PsbTc on Forward and Back Electron Flow, Assembly, and Phosphorylation Patterns of Photosystem II in Tobacco

(2008) P. Umate et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

One-step assembly in yeast of 25 overlapping DNA fragments to form a complete synthetic Mycoplasma genitalium genome

(2008) D. G. Gibson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Complete Chemical Synthesis, Assembly, and Cloning of a Mycoplasma genitalium Genome

(2008) D. G. Gibson et al.   SCIENCE

Transplastomic tobacco plants expressing a fatty acid desaturase gene exhibit altered fatty acid profiles and improved cold tolerance

(2008) Wendy Craig et al.   TRANSGENIC RESEARCH