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| Peter KrothSummaryAffiliation: University of Konstanz Country: Germany Publications
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In vivo characterization of diatom multipartite plastid targeting signalsKirk E Apt
Martek Biosciences Corp, 6480 Dobbin Rd, Columbia, MD 21045, USA
J Cell Sci 115:4061-9. 2002..Our data strongly support the hypothesis of a multi-step plastid targeting process in chromophytic algae and raises questions about the continuity of the ER and CER and the function of the latter in polypeptide trafficking...- The peculiar distribution of class I and class II aldolases in diatoms and in red algaePeter G Kroth
Fachbereich Biologie, Universitat Konstanz, Postfach M611, Konstanz, Germany
Curr Genet 48:389-400. 2005.... - Molecular biology and the biotechnological potential of diatomsPeter Kroth
Fachbereich Biologie, Universitat Konstanz, 78457 Konstanz, Germany
Adv Exp Med Biol 616:23-33. 2007.... 
A model for carbohydrate metabolism in the diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum deduced from comparative whole genome analysisPeter G Kroth
Fachbereich Biologie, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
PLoS ONE 3:e1426. 2008..Diatoms are unicellular algae responsible for approximately 20% of global carbon fixation. Their evolution by secondary endocytobiosis resulted in a complex cellular structure and metabolism compared to algae with primary plastids...
The presence and localization of thioredoxins in diatoms, unicellular algae of secondary endosymbiotic originTill Weber
Fachbereich Biologie, Universitat Konstanz, 78457 Konstanz, Germany
Mol Plant 2:468-77. 2009..This is one of the few indications for so far unknown enzymatic reactions in the space between the two pairs of diatom plastid envelope membranes...- Gene expression and activity of digestive proteases in Daphnia: effects of cyanobacterial protease inhibitorsAnke Schwarzenberger
University of Cologne, Cologne Centre for Biosciences, Zülpicher Strasse 47 b, 50674 Cologne, Germany
BMC Physiol 10:6. 2010.... - Presequence acquisition during secondary endocytobiosis and the possible role of intronsOliver Kilian
Fachbereich Biologie, , 78457 Konstanz, Germany
J Mol Evol 58:712-21. 2004.... - Intracellular distribution of the reductive and oxidative pentose phosphate pathways in two diatomsAnsgar Gruber
Pflanzliche Okophysiologie, Universitat Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
J Basic Microbiol 49:58-72. 2009..A 6-phosphogluconolactone dehydrogenase is apparently plastid associated in P. tricornutum and might be active in the periplastidic compartment, suggesting that this compartment might be involved in metabolic processes in diatoms... - In diatoms, the transthylakoid proton gradient regulates the photoprotective non-photochemical fluorescence quenching beyond its control on the xanthophyll cycleJohann Lavaud
Group of Plant Ecophysiology, Biology Department, University of Konstanz, Germany
Plant Cell Physiol 47:1010-6. 2006..It confirms the NPQ model previously proposed for diatoms... - Identification and characterization of a new conserved motif within the presequence of proteins targeted into complex diatom plastidsOliver Kilian
Fachbereich Biologie, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
Plant J 41:175-83. 2005..Furthermore we show that treatment of the cells with Brefeldin A arrests protein transport into the diatom plastids suggesting that a vesicular transport step within the plastid membranes may occur... - Protein targeting into complex diatom plastids: functional characterisation of a specific targeting motifAnsgar Gruber
Plant Ecophysiology, University of Konstanz, Universitatsstrasse 10, 78464, Konstanz, Germany
Plant Mol Biol 64:519-30. 2007..Deletions within the signal peptide domains also impaired plastid import, showing that the presence of F at the N-terminus of the transit peptide together with a cleavable signal peptide is crucial for plastid import... - Bacteria associated with benthic diatoms from Lake Constance: phylogeny and influences on diatom growth and secretion of extracellular polymeric substancesChristian G Bruckner
Fachbereich Biologie, Universitat Konstanz, D 78457 Konstanz, Germany
Appl Environ Microbiol 74:7740-9. 2008..Biofilms were formed only in the presence of bacteria. Phylogenetic analysis and coculture studies indicate an adaptation of Proteobacteria and Bacteroidetes to the microenvironment created by the diatom biofilm... - Protein transport into secondary plastids and the evolution of primary and secondary plastidsPeter G Kroth
Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, 78457 Konstanz, Germany
Int Rev Cytol 221:191-255. 2002..This review deals with current knowledge about the evolution and function of primary and secondary plastids and the respective protein-targeting systems... - Genetic transformation: a tool to study protein targeting in diatomsPeter G Kroth
Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
Methods Mol Biol 390:257-67. 2007..Here a protocol for the genetic transformation of the diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum is described as well as the subsequent characterization of the transformants... - Nucleus-to-nucleus gene transfer and protein retargeting into a remnant cytoplasm of cryptophytes and diatomsSven B Gould
, Marburg, Germany
Mol Biol Evol 23:2413-22. 2006..tricornutum. Furthermore, the described cryptophyte PPC proteins possibly allow the elucidation of the processes by which proteins are involved in different levels of host control over its eukaryotic organelle... - The regulation of carbon and nutrient assimilation in diatoms is significantly different from green algaeChristian Wilhelm
Department of Plant Physiology, Institute of Biology I, University of Leipzig, Johannisallee 23, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
Protist 157:91-124. 2006 - Diatom plastids possess a phosphoribulokinase with an altered regulation and no oxidative pentose phosphate pathwayAndreas K Michels
Institute of Plant Biochemistry, , 40225 Duesseldorf, Germany
Plant Physiol 137:911-20. 2005..We discuss our results in the context of rearrangements of the subcellular compartmentation of metabolic pathways due to the peculiar evolution of diatoms by secondary endocytobiosis... - New insight into Phaeodactylum tricornutum fatty acid metabolism. Cloning and functional characterization of plastidial and microsomal delta12-fatty acid desaturasesFrederic Domergue
Institut fur Allgemeine Botanik, Universitat Hamburg, Ohnhorststrasse 18, Germany
Plant Physiol 131:1648-60. 2003..tricornutum was highly specific for 16:1(Delta9). Our results indicate that in contrast to EPA, which is synthesized in the microsomes, the hexadecatrienoic acid isomer found in P. tricornutum (16:3(Delta6,9,12)) is of plastidial origin... - Protein targeting into the complex plastid of cryptophytesSven B Gould
Cell Biology, Philipps-University Marburg, Karl-von-Frisch Strasse 8, 35042, Marburg, Germany
J Mol Evol 62:674-81. 2006..Furthermore, we demonstrate that one single, but conserved amino acid is the triggering key for the discrimination between nucleus-encoded plastid and periplastidal proteins...