Publications

  • In 2018
  • Ruwe H, Gutmann B, Schmitz-Linneweber C, Small I, Kindgren P.
    The E-domain of CRR2 participates in sequence-specific recognition of RNA in plastids.
    New Phytol. 2018 Nov 4. doi: 10.1111/nph.15578.
    PMID: 30393849
  • Rojas M, Ruwe H, Miranda RG, Zoschke R, Hase N, Schmitz-Linneweber C, Barkan A.
    Unexpected functional versatility of the pentatricopeptide repeat proteins PGR3, PPR5 and PPR10.
    Nucleic Acids Res. 2018 Nov 2;46(19):10448-10459. doi: 10.1093/nar/gky737.
    PMID: 30125002
  • Hillebrand A, Matz JM, Almendinger M, Müller K, Matuschewski K, Schmitz-Linneweber C.
    Identification of clustered organellar short (cos) RNAs and of a conserved family of organellar RNA-binding proteins, the heptatricopeptide repeat proteins, in the malaria parasite.
    In: Nucleic Acids Res. 2018 Nov 2;46(19):10417-10431. doi: 10.1093/nar/gky710.
    PMID: 30102371
  • Qu Y, Legen J, Arndt J, Henkel S, Hoppe G, Thieme C, Ranzini G, Muino JM, Weihe A, Ohler U, Weber G, Ostersetzer O, Schmitz-Linneweber C.
    Ectopic Transplastomic Expression of a Synthetic MatK Gene Leads to Cotyledon-Specific Leaf Variegation.
    In: Front Plant Sci. 2018 Oct 4;9:1453. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2018.01453. eCollection 2018.
    PMID: 30337934
  • Legen J, Ruf S, Kroop X, Wang G, Barkan A, Bock R, Schmitz-Linneweber C.
    Stabilization and translation of synthetic operon-derived mRNAs in chloroplasts by sequences representing PPR protein-binding sites.
    In: Plant J. 2018 Apr;94(1):8-21. doi: 10.1111/tpj.13863
  • In 2017:
  • Aryamanesh N, Ruwe H, Sanglard LV, Eshraghi L, Bussell JD, Howell KA, Small I, des Francs-Small CC
    The Pentatricopeptide Repeat Protein EMB2654 Is Essential for Trans-Splicing of a Chloroplast Small Ribosomal Subunit Transcript.
    In: Plant Physiol. 2017 Feb;173(2):1164-1176. doi: 10.1104/pp.16.01840. Epub 2016 Dec 23.
    PMID: 28011633 Free PMC Article
  • Ferrari R, Tadini L, Moratti F, Lehniger MK, Costa A, Rossi F, Colombo M, Masiero S, Schmitz-Linneweber C, Pesaresi P
    CRP1 Protein: (dis)similarities between Arabidopsis thaliana and Zea mays.
    In: Front Plant Sci. 2017 Feb 15;8:163. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2017.00163. eCollection 2017.
    PMID: 28261232 Free PMC Article
  • Legen J, Schmitz-Linneweber C
    Stable Membrane-Association of mRNAs in Etiolated, Greening and Mature Plastids.
    In: Int J Mol Sci. 2017 Aug 31;18(9). pii: E1881. doi: 10.3390/ijms18091881.
    PMID: 28858216 Free Article
  • Lehniger MK, Finster S, Melonek J, Oetke S, Krupinska K, Schmitz-Linneweber C
    Global RNA association with the transcriptionally active chromosome of chloroplasts.
    In: Plant Mol Biol. 2017 Sep 8. doi: 10.1007/s11103-017-0649-x [Epub ahead of print]
    PMID: 28887777
  • Teubner M, Fuß J, Kühn K, Krause K, Schmitz-Linneweber C
    The RNA recognition motif protein CP33A is a global ligand of chloroplast mRNAs and is essential for plastid biogenesis and plant development.
    In: Plant J. 2017 Feb; 89(3):472-485. doi: 10.1111/tpj.13396. Epub 2017 Jan 25.
  • In 2016:
  • Douchi D, Qu Y, Longoni P, Legendre-Lefebvre L, Johnson X, Schmitz-Linneweber C, Goldschmidt-Clermont M
    A Nucleus-Encoded Chloroplast Phosphoprotein Governs Expression of the Photosystem I Subunit PsaC in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.
    In: Plant Cell. 2016 April 25, 28(5):1182-99, doi:: http:/​/​dx.​doi.​org/​10.​1105/​tpc.​15.​00725
  • Luyten W, Antal P, Braeckman BP, Bundy J, Cirulli F, Fang-Yen C, Fuellen G, Leroi A, Liu Q, Martorell P, Metspalu A, Perola M, Ristow M, Saul N, Schoofs L, Siems K, Temmerman L, Smets T, Wolk A, Rattan SI
    Ageing with elegans: a research proposal to map healthspan pathways.
    In: Biogerontology. 2016 Aug;17(4):771-82. doi: 10.1007/s10522-016-9644-x. Epub 2016 Apr 4.
  • Ruwe H, Wang G, Gusewski S, Schmitz-Linneweber C
    Systematic analysis of plant mitochondrial and chloroplast small RNAs suggests organelle-specific mRNA stabilization mechanisms
    In: Nucleic Acids Res. 2016 May 27, pp. 1-12. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkw466
  • Wu W, Liu S, Ruwe H, Zhang D, Melonek J, Zhu Y, Hu X, Gusewski S, Yin P, Small ID, Howell KA, Huang J
    SOT1, a pentatricopeptide repeat protein with a small MutS-related domain, is required for correct processing of plastid 23S-4.5S rRNA precursors in Arabidopsis thaliana.
    In: Plant J. 2016 Mar;85(5):607-21. doi: 10.1111/tpj.13126.
    PMID: 26800847 Free full text
  • In 2015:
  • Romani I, Manavski N, Morosetti A, Tadini L, Maier S, Kühn K, Ruwe H, Schmitz-Linneweber C, Wanner G, Leister D, Kleine T
    mTERF6, a Member of the Arabidopsis Mitochondrial Transcription Termination Factor Family, Is Required for Maturation of Chloroplast tRNAIle(GAU)
    In: Plant Physiol. 2015 Jul 7, pp.00964.2015. doi: http:/​/​dx.​doi.​org/​10.​1104/​pp.​15.​00964
    PMID: 26152711 [PubMed]
  • Schmitz-Linneweber C, Lampe MK, Sultan LD, Ostersetzer-Biran O
    Organellar maturases: A window into the evolution of the spliceosome
    In: Biochim Biophys Acta. 2015 Sep;1847(9):798-808. doi: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2015.01.009. Epub 2015 Jan 24.
    PMID: 25626174 [PubMed]
  • In 2014:
  • Börner T, Zhelyazkova P, Legen J and Schmitz-Linneweber C 
    Chloroplast Gene Expression — RNA Synthesis and Processing
    In: Wollman F-A, Theg, S (eds): Plastid Biology, Springer, Heidelberg, New York, London, 2014, pp. 3-47. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-1136-3_1.
  • Jalal A, Schwarz C, Schmitz-Linneweber C, Vallon O, Nickelsen J, Bohne AV
    A Small Multifunctional Pentatricopeptide Repeat Protein in the Chloroplast of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
    In: Mol Plant. 2014 Dec 17. pii: S1674-2052(14)00040-9. doi: 10.1016/j.molp.2014.11.019.
  • Loizeau K, Qu Y, Depp S, Fiechter V, Ruwe H, Lefebvre-Legendre L, Schmitz-Linneweber C, Goldschmidt-Clermont M.
    Small RNAs reveal two target sites of the RNA-maturation factor Mbb1 in the chloroplast of Chlamydomonas
    In: Nucleic Acids Res., 2014 Mar 1;42(5):3286-97 2013 Oct 30. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkt1272. [Epub 2013 Dec 11]
    PMID: 24335082 [PubMed]; PMCID: PMC3950674
  • In 2013:
  • Finster S, Eggert E, Zoschke R, Weihe A, Schmitz-Linneweber C
    Light-dependent, plastome-wide association of the plastid-encoded RNA polymerase with chloroplast DNA
    In: Plant J., 2013 Oct 7; doi: 10.1111/tpj.12339 [Epub 2013 Nov 8]
    PMID: 24118403 [PubMed]
  • Hertel S, Zoschke R, Neumann L, Qu Y, Axmann I, Schmitz-Linneweber C 
    Multiple checkpoints for the expression of the chloroplast-encoded splicing factor MatK
    In: Plant Physiol., 2013 Dec;163(4):1686-98. doi: 10.1104/pp.113.227579. [Epub 2013 Oct 30]
    PMCID: PMC3850197
  • Ruwe H, Castandet B, Schmitz-Linneweber C, Stern D
    Arabidopsis Chloroplast Quantitative Editotype
    In: FEBS Lett. 2013 May 2;587(9):1429-33. doi: 10.1016/j.febslet.2013.03.022 Free Article
  • Zoschke R, Qu Y, Zubo YO, Börner T, Schmitz-Linneweber C (2012)
    Mutation op the pentatricopeptid repeat-SMR protein SVR7 impairs accumulation and translation of chloroplast ATP synthase subunits in Arabidopsis thaliana
    In: J Plant Res. 2013 May;126(3):403-14. doi: 10.1007/s10265-012-0527-1. Epub 2012 Oct 18.
  • In 2012:
  • Finster S, Legen J, Qu Y, Schmitz-Linneweber C 
    RNA Binding Proteins for Chloroplasts RNA Processing In :Genomics of Chloroplasts and Mitochondria (R Bock, V Knoop, eds.), 2012
    In: Photosynthesis and respiration, Springer, New York
  • Kupsch C, Ruwe H, Gusewski S, Tilich M, Small I, Schmitz-Linneweber C 
    Arabidopsis chloroplast RNA binding proteins CP31A and CP29A associate with large transcript pools and confer cold stress tolerance by influencing multiple chloroplast RNA processing steps
    In: Plant Cell. 2012 Oct;24(10):4266-80.
  • Qi Y, Armbruster U, Schmitz-Linnewber C, Delannoy E, de Longevialle AF, Rühle T, Small I, Jahns P, Leister D
    Arabidopsis CSP41 proteins form multimeric complexes that bind and stabilize distinct plastid transcripts
    In: J Exp Bot. 2012 Feb;63(3):1251-70. doi: 10.1093/jxb/err347. Epub 2011 Nov 16.
  • Ruwe H, Schmitz-Linneweber C
    Short non-coding RNA fragments accumulating in Chloroplasts: footprints of RNA binding proteins?
    In: Nucleic Acids Research, Volume 40, Issue 7, 1 April 2012, Pages 3106–3116, https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkr1138
  • Stoppel R, Manavski N, Schein A, Schuster G, Teubner M, Schmitz-Linneweber C, Meurer J
    RHON 1 is a novel ribonucleic acid-binding protein that supports RNase E function in the Arabidopsis chloroplast
    In: Nucleic Acids Res. 2012 Sep 1; 40(17):8593-606
  • Zoschke R, Kroeger T, Belcher S, Schöttler MA, Barkan A, Schmitz-Linneweber C
    The Pentatricopeptid Repeat-SMR Protein ATP4 promotes translation of the chloroplast atpB/E mRNA
    In: Plant J. 2012 Nov;72(4):547-58. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2012.05081.x. Epub 2012 Oct 8.
  • In 2011:
  • Kupsch C, Schmitz-Linneweber C (2011)
    RNA processing in a tiny transcriptom
    In: Cell Cycle.10:3635
  • Ruwe H, Kupsch C, Teubner M, Schmitz-Linneweber C (2011)
    The RNA_recognition motif in chloroplasts
    In: J Plant Physiol. 168:1361-71
  • In 2010:
  • Melonek J, Mulisch M, Schmitz-Linneweber C, Grabowski E, Hensel G, Krupinska K (2010)
    Whirly1 in chloroplasts associates with intron containing RNAs and rarely co-localizes with nucleoids
    In: Planta 232:471-81
  • Zoschke R, Kupsch C, and Schmitz-Linneweber C (2010)
    RNA Binding Proteins for Chloroplast RNA Processing.
    In: Plant Mitochondria (R. Kempken, ed.). Springer, New York; in press
  • Zoschke R, Nakamura M, Liere K, Sugiura M, Börner T, and Schmitz-Linneweber C (2010)
    An Organellar Maturase Associates with Multiple Group II Introns
    In: Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 107:3245-3250.
  • In 2009:
  • Tillich M, Le Sy V, Schulerowitz K, von Haeseler A, Maier U, and Schmitz-Linneweber C (2009)
    Frequent Losses and a Rare Gain of Chloroplast RNA Editing Sites in Seed Plants
    In: BMC Evol Biol. 9:201.
  • Tillich M, Hardel S, Kupsch C, Armbruster U, Delannoy E, Gualberto J, Lehwark P, Leister D, Small I, and Schmitz-Linneweber C (2009)
    Chloroplast ribonucleoprotein CP31A is required for editing and stability of specific chloroplast mRNAs
    In: Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 106:6002-6007.
  • Zoschke R, Ostersetzer O, Börner T, and Schmitz-Linneweber C (2009)
    Analysis of the Regulation of MatK Gene Expression
    In: Endocytobiosis and Cell research. 119: 127-135.
  • In 2008:
  • Beick S, Schmitz-Linneweber C, Williams-Carrier R, Jensen B and Barkan A (2008)
    The pentatricopeptide repeat protein PPR5 stabilizes a specific tRNA precursor in maize chloroplasts
    In: Mol Cell Biol. 28:5337-5347.
  • Schmitz-Linneweber C and Small I (2008)
    Pentatricopeptide repeat proteins – a socket set for organelle gene expression
    In: Trends Plant Sci. 13:663-670.
  • Maier U-G, Bozarth A, Funk H, Zauner S, Rensing SA, Schmitz-Linneweber C, Börner T, and Tillich M (2008)
    Complex chloroplast RNA metabolism: just debugging the genetic program?
    In: BMC Biol. 6:36-40.
  • O’Toole N, Hattori M, Andres C, Iida K, Lurin C, Schmitz-Linneweber C, Sugita M, and Small I (2008)
    On the expansion of the pentatricopeptide repeat gene family in plants
    In: Mol Biol Evol. 25:1120-1128.
  • In 2007:
  • Legen J, Wanner G, Herrmann RG, Small I, and Schmitz-Linneweber C. 2007
    Plastid tRNA genes trnC-GCA and trnN-GUU are essentialfor plant cell development
    In: Plant J. 51:751-762.
  • Schmitz-Linneweber C, and Barkan, A (2007)
    RNA splicing and RNA editing in chloroplasts
    In: Plastid Development. Topics in Current Genetics. (R. Bock., ed.) Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. 19, 213-248.
  • In 2006:
  • Schmitz-Linneweber C, Williams-Carrier R, Williams-Voelker PM, Kroeger, TS, Vichas, A, and Barkan A (2006)
    A pentatricopeptide repeat protein facilitates the trans-splicing of the maize chloroplast rps12 pre-mRNA
    In: Plant Cell. 18:2650-2663.
  • Tillich M, Poltnigg P, Kushnir S, and Schmitz-Linneweber C. (2006)
    Conservation of plastid RNA editing factors independently of their target sites
    In: EMBO R. 7:308-13
  • In 2005:
  • Schmitz-Linneweber C, Kushnir S, Babiychuk E, Poltnigg P, Herrmann RG, and Maier RM (2005)
    The failure to edit the plastid atpA mRNA is the primary cause of nucleo/plastid incompatibility in Atropa/Nicotiana cybrids
    In: Plant Cell. 17:1815-1828.
  • Tillich M, Funk HT, Schmitz-Linneweber C, Poltnigg P, Sabater B, Martin M, and Maier RM (2005)
    Editing of plastid RNA in Arabidopsis thaliana ecotypes
    In: Plant J. 43:708-715.
  • Schmitz-Linneweber C, Williams-Carrier R, and Barkan A. 2005.
    RNA coimmunoprecipitation and microarray analysis shows the PPR protein CRP1 to be associated with the 5′-untranslated regions of mRNAs whose translation it regulates
    In: Plant Cell. 17:2791-27804.
  • In 2004:
  • Funk HT, Poltnigg P, Schmitz-Linneweber C, and Tillich M (2004)
    Transcript polishing in higher plant plastids by RNA editing
    In: Endocytobiosis Cell Res. 15:451-503.
  • Maier, RM and Schmitz-Linneweber C (2004)
    Plastid Genomes. In: Molecular Biology and Biotechnology of Plant Organelles. (Danielle, H. Chase, C. eds).
    In: Kluwer, Dordrecht. 115-150.
  • Martín M, Casano LM, Zapata JM, Guéra A, del Campo EM, Schmitz-Linneweber C, Maier RM and Sabater B (2004)
    Role of thylakoid Ndh complex and peroxidase in the protection against photooxidative stress: fluorescence and enzyme activities in wild-type and ndhF deficient tobacco
    In: Phys. Plantarum. 122:443-452.
  • Schmitz-Linneweber C, Herrmann RG and Maier RM. (2004)
    The fluctuation of plastid RNA editing in plant evolution
    In: Endocytobiosis Cell Res. 15:246-255.
  • In 2003:
  • Herrmann RG, Maier RM and Schmitz-Linneweber C (2003)
    Eukaryotic genome evolution: rearrangement and coevolution of compartmentalized genetic information
    In: Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2003 358:87-97.
  • Schmitz-Linneweber C, Tillich M, Poltnigg P and Maier RM (2003)
    A role for plastid RNA editing in reproductive isolation of plant species
    In: Recent Res. Devel. Plant Mol. Biol. 1:323-38.
  • In 2002:
  • Sabater B, Martin M, Schmitz-Linneweber C and Maier RM (2002)
    The Origin and Evolution of Plastid RNA Editing: Clustering of RNA Editing Sites as a Consequence of Transitory Loss of Gene Function?
    Persp Plant Ecol Evol Sys. 5:81-89.
  • Schmitz-Linneweber C, Regel R, Du TG, Hupfer H, Herrmann RG and Maier RM (2002)
    The plastid chromosome of Atropa belladonna and its comparison with that of Nicotiana tabacum: the role of RNA editing in generating divergence in the process of plant speciation
    In: Mol Biol Evol. 19:1602-12.
  • In 2001:
  • Legen J, Schmitz-Linneweber C, Drescher A, Hupfer H, Tillich M, Herrmann RG and Maier RM (2001)
    Decoding of the ndhH operon from spinach: an example for the complexity of plastid gene expression in higher plants
    In: Endocytobiosis and Cell Res. 14:11-20.
  • Tillich M, Schmitz-Linneweber C, Herrmann RG and Maier RM (2001)
    The plastid chromosome of maize (Zea mays): Update of the complete sequence and transcript editing sites
    In: Maize Genet. Corp.; News Letters. 75:42-44
  • Till B, Schmitz-Linneweber C, Williams-Carrier R and Barkan A (2001)
    CRS1 is a novel group II intron splicing factor that was derived from a domain of ancient origin
    In: RNA. 7:1227-38.
  • Schmitz-Linneweber C, Tillich M, Herrmann RG and Maier RM (2001)
    Heterologous, splicingdependent RNA editing in chloroplasts: allotetraploidy provides trans-factors
    In: EMBO J. 20:4874-4883.
  • Schmitz-Linneweber C, Maier RM, Alcaraz J-P, Cottet A, Herrmann RG and Mache R (2001)
    The plastid chromosome of spinach (Spinacia oleracea): complete nucleotide sequence and gene organization
    In: Plant Mol Biol. 45:307-315.