Acclimation in plants–the Green Hub consortium

T Kleine, T Nägele, HE Neuhaus… - The Plant …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Acclimation is the capacity to adapt to environmental changes within the lifetime of an
individual. This ability allows plants to cope with the continuous variation in ambient …

Co-translational protein folding and sorting in chloroplasts

F Ries, C Herkt, F Willmund - Plants, 2020 - mdpi.com
Cells depend on the continuous renewal of their proteome composition during the cell cycle
and in order to replace aberrant proteins or to react to changing environmental conditions. In …

A role for heritable transcriptomic variation in maize adaptation to temperate environments

G Sun, H Yu, P Wang, M Lopez-Guerrero, RV Mural… - Genome Biology, 2023 - Springer
Background Transcription bridges genetic information and phenotypes. Here, we evaluated
how changes in transcriptional regulation enable maize (Zea mays), a crop originally …

The versatile interactome of chloroplast ribosomes revealed by affinity purification mass spectrometry

LD Westrich, VL Gotsmann, C Herkt, F Ries… - Nucleic acids …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
In plant cells, chloroplast gene expression is predominantly controlled through post-
transcriptional regulation. Such fine-tuning is vital for precisely orchestrating protein complex …

Fast and global reorganization of the chloroplast protein biogenesis network during heat acclimation

R Trösch, F Ries, LD Westrich, Y Gao, C Herkt… - The Plant …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Photosynthesis is a central determinant of plant biomass production, but its homeostasis is
increasingly challenged by heat. Little is known about the sensitive regulatory principles …

The state of oligomerization of Rubisco controls the rate of synthesis of the Rubisco large subunit in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

W Wietrzynski, E Traverso, FA Wollman… - The Plant …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT Ribulose 1, 5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (Rubisco) is present in all
photosynthetic organisms and is a key enzyme for photosynthesis-driven life on Earth. Its …

A truncated variant of the ribosome-associated trigger factor specifically contributes to plant chloroplast ribosome biogenesis

F Ries, J Gorlt, S Kaiser, V Scherer, C Seydel… - Nature …, 2025 - nature.com
Molecular chaperones are essential throughout a protein's life and act already during
protein synthesis. Bacteria and chloroplasts of plant cells share the ribosome-associated …

STIC2 selectively binds ribosome-nascent chain complexes in the cotranslational sorting of Arabidopsis thylakoid proteins

DS Stolle, L Osterhoff, P Treimer, J Lambertz… - The EMBO …, 2024 - embopress.org
Chloroplast-encoded multi-span thylakoid membrane proteins are crucial for photosynthetic
complexes, yet the coordination of their biogenesis remains poorly understood. To identify …

CLPB3 is required for the removal of chloroplast protein aggregates and thermotolerance in Chlamydomonas

E Kreis, J Niemeyer, M Merz… - Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
In the cytosol of plant cells, heat-induced protein aggregates are resolved by the CASEIN
LYTIC PROTEINASE/HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 100 (CLP/HSP100) chaperone family …

Genomic footprints of repeated evolution of CAM photosynthesis in a Neotropical species radiation

M De La Harpe, M Paris, J Hess… - Plant, Cell & …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The adaptive radiation of Bromeliaceae (pineapple family) is one of the most diverse among
Neotropical flowering plants. Diversification in this group was facilitated by shifts in several …