Publications Volker Knoop

Mareike Rüdinger, Ute Volkmar, Henning Lenz, Milena Groth-Malonek, Volker Knoop (2012)

Nuclear DYW-type PPR gene families diversify with increasing RNA editing frequencies in liverwort and moss mitochondria

J Mol Evol, in press.

Mareike Rüdinger, Lillian Fritz-Laylin, Monika Polsakiewicz, Volker Knoop (2011)

Plant-type mitochondrial RNA editing in the protist Naegleria gruberi

RNA 17(12):2058-62.

Ute Volkmar, Milena Groth-Malonek, Jochen Heinrichs, Hermann Muhle, Monika Polsakiewicz, Volker Knoop (2011)

Exclusive conservation of mitochondrial group II intron nad4i548 among liverworts and its use for phylogenetic studies in this ancient plant clade

Plant Biology, in press.

Mareike Rüdinger, Péter Szövényi, Stefan A. Rensing, Volker Knoop (2011)

Assigning DYW-type PPR proteins to RNA editing sites in the funariid mosses Physcomitrella patens and Funaria hygrometrica

Plant Journal 67:370-380.

Julia Hecht, Felix Grewe, Volker Knoop (2011)

Extreme RNA editing in coding islands and abundant microsatellites in repeat sequences of Selaginella moellendorffii mitochondria: the root of frequent plant mtDNA recombination in early tracheophytes

Genome Biology and Evolution, 3:344-358.

Felix Grewe, Stefan Herres, Prisca Viehoever, Monika Polsakiewicz, Bernd Weisshaar, Volker Knoop (2011)

A unique transcriptome: 1782 positions of RNA editing alter 1406 codon identities in mitochondrial mRNAs of the lycophyte Isoetes engelmannii
Nucleic Acids Research 39(7):2890-2902.

Volker Knoop (2011)

When you can't trust the DNA: RNA editing changes transcript sequences

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences 68(4):567-586.

Volker Knoop, Ute Volkmar, Julia Hecht, Felix Grewe (2011)
Mitochondrial genome evolution in the plant lineage.
Chapter 1 in: “Plant Mitochondria” (ed. Frank Kempken), Advances in Plant Biology, Springer

Volker Knoop, Mareike Rüdinger (2010)
DYW-type PPR proteins in a heterolobosean protist: Plant RNA editing factors involved in an ancient horizontal gene transfer?
FEBS Letters 584(20): 4287-4291.

Ute Volkmar, Volker Knoop (2010)
Introducing intron locus cox1i624 for phylogenetic analyses in bryophytes: on the issue of Takakia as sister genus to all other extant mosses.
J. Mol. Evol., 70: 506-518.

Henning Lenz, Mareike Rüdinger, Ute Volkmar, Simon Fischer, Stefan Herres, Felix Grewe, Volker Knoop (2010)
Introducing PREPACT – The Plant RNA Editing Prediction and Analysis Computer Tool and an update on RNA editing site nomenclature.

Current Genetics 56:189-201.

Katharina Händeler, Heike Wägele, Ute Wahrmund, Mareike Rüdinger, Volker Knoop (2010)
Slugs’ last meals: Kleptoplastids in Sacoglossa (Opisthobranchia, Gastropoda): Molecular identification of sequestered chloroplasts from different algal origins.
Molecular Ecology Resources 10(6):968-78.

Volker Knoop (2010)
Looking for sense in the nonsense: a short review of non-coding organellar DNA elucidating the phylogeny of bryophytes.
Tropical Bryology 31:50-60.

Ute Wahrmund, Diertmar Quandt, Volker Knoop (2010)
The phylogeny of mosses: addressing open issues with a new mitochondrial locus: group I intron cobi420
Mol. Phylogenet. Evol 54: 417-26.

Michael Gebert, Karoline Meschenmoser, Soňa Svidová, Julian Weghuber, Rudolf Schweyen, Karolin Eifler, Henning Lenz, Katrin Weyand, Volker Knoop (2009)
A root-expressed magnesium transporter of the AtMRS2/MGT gene family in Arabidopsis thaliana allows for growth in low-Mg²⁺ environments.
Plant Cell 21(12):4018-30.

Ute Wahrmund, Theresia Rein, Kai F. Müller, Milena Groth-Malonek, Volker Knoop (2009)

Fifty mosses on five trees: Comparing phylogenetic information in three types of non-coding mitochondrial DNA and two chloroplast loci.

Plant Syst. Evol. 282: 241-55.

Felix Grewe, Prisca Viehoever, Bernd Weisshaar, Volker Knoop (2009)
A trans-splicing group I intron and tRNA-hyperediting in the mitochondrial genome of the lycophyte Isoetes engelmannii.
Nucl. Acids Res. 37(15): 5093-5104.

Mareike Rüdinger, Helena T. Funk, Stefan A. Rensing, Uwe Maier, Volker Knoop (2009)
RNA editing: only eleven sites are present in the Physcomitrella patens mitochondrial transcriptome and a universal nomenclature proposal.

Mol. Genet. Genomics 281:473-481.

Ute Wahrmund, Milena Groth-Malonek, Volker Knoop (2008)

Tracing plant mitochondrial DNA evolution: Rearrangements of the ancient mitochondrial gene cluster trnA-trnT-nad7
in liverwort phylogeny.
J. Mol. Evol. 66: 621-629.

Mareike Rüdinger, Monika Polsakiewicz, Volker Knoop (2008)

Organellar RNA editing and plant-specific extensions of pentatricopeptide repeat (PPR) proteins in jungermanniid
but not in marchantiid liverworts

Mol. Biol. Evol. 25(7): 1405-1414.

Mahalia A. Ahimsa-Müller, Anne Markert, Sabine Hellwig, Volker Knoop, Ulrike Steiner,Christel Drewke,Eckhard Leistner (2007)
Clavicipitaceous Fungi Associated with Ergoline Alkaloid-Containing Convolvulaceae.
J. Nat. Prod.: 70:1955-1960.

Veronique Salone, Mareike Rüdinger, Monika Polsakiewicz, Beate Hoffmann, Milena Groth-Malonek, Boris Szurek, Ian Small, Volker Knoop, Claire Lurin (2007)

A hypothesis on the identification of the editing enzyme in plant organelles.

FEBS Letters 581: 4132-4138.

Milena Groth-Malonek, Ute Wahrmund, Monika Polsakiewicz and Volker Knoop (2007)
Evolution of a pseudogene: Exclusive survival of a functional mitochondrial nad7 gene supports Haplomitrium as the earliest liverwort lineage and proposes a secondary loss of RNA editing in Marchantiidae.
Mol. Biol. Evol. 24(4):1068-1074.

Milena Groth-Malonek, Theresia Rein, Rosemary Wilson, Henk Groth, Jochen Heinrichs, Volker Knoop (2007)

Different fates of two mitochondrial gene spacers in early land plant evolution.

Int J. Plant Sci. 168(5):709-717.

Qiu, Y.-L., L. Li, B. Wang, Z. Chen, V. Knoop, M. Groth-Malonek, O. Dombrovska, J. Lee, L. Kent, J. Rest, G. F. Estabrook, T. A. Hendry, D. W. Taylor, C. M. Testa, M. Ambros, B. Crandall-Stotler, R. J. Duff, M. Stech, W. Frey, D. Quandt, C. C. Davis. (2006)
The deepest divergences in land plants inferred from phylogenomic evidence.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 103(42):15511-6.

Volker Knoop und Kai Müller cover-knoop-mueller

Gene und Stammbäume

Elsevier Spektrum Akademischer Verlag.
ISBN-13: 978-3827416421, 29,50 €.

Ulrike Steiner, Mahalia Ahimsa-Müller, Anne Markert, Sabine Kucht, Julia Groß, Nicole Kauf, Monika Kuzma, Monika Zych, Marc Lamshöft, Miroslawa Furmanowa, Volker Knoop, Christel Drewke, Eckhard Leistner (2006)

Molecular characterization of a seed transmitted clavicipitaceous fungus occuring on dicotyledoneous plants (Convolvulaceae).

Planta 224(3): 533-544.

Volker Knoop, Milena Groth-Malonek, Michael Gebert, Karolin Eifler, Katrin Weyand (2005)
Transport of magnesium and other divalent cations: Evolution of the 2-TM-GxN proteins in the MIT superfamily.
Mol. Gen. Genomics, 274: 205-216.

Milena Groth-Malonek and Volker Knoop (2005)

Bryophytes and other basal land plants: the mitochondrial perspective.

Taxon 54(2): 293-297.

Volker Knoop (2005)
Mitochondrial insights for land plant phylogeny and a case study in ferns.
Nova Acta Leopoldina NF92(342):47-60.

Jan Münch, Michael Schindler, Steffen Wildum, Nicola Bailer, Voker Knoop, Aine Mc Knight, Francis J. Novembre, Frank Kirchhoff (2005)
Primary sooty mangabey simian immunodeficiency virus and human immunodeficiency virus type 2 Nef Alleles Modulate Cell Surface Expression of Various Human receptors and Enhance Viral Infectivity and Replication.
J. Virol. 79(16):10547-60.

Milena Groth-Malonek, Dagmar Pruchner, Felix Grewe and Volker Knoop (2005)

Ancestors of trans-splicing mitochondrial introns support serial sister group relationships of hornworts and mosses with vascular plants.

Mol. Biol. Evol. 22(1): 117-125.

Volker Knoop (2004)
The mitochondrial DNA of Plants: Peculiarities in Phylogenetic Perspective.
Current Genetics 46: 123-139. DOI: 10.1007/s00294-004-0522-8

Volker Knoop, Koichi Yosinaga, Yin-Long Qiu (2004)
Molecular Phylogeny of Bryophytes and Peculiarities of their Chloroplast and Mitochondrial DNAs.
in: “New Frontiers in Bryology: Physiology, Molecular Biology and Applied Genomics” (Eds.: Andrew J. Wood, Melvin J. Oliver & David J. Cove. Kluwer, Dordrecht.)

Frank Kirchhoff, Michael Schindler, Nicola Bailer, G. Herma Renkema, Kalle Saksela, Volker Knoop, Michaela C. Müller-Trutwin, Mario L. Santiago, Frederic Bibollet-Ruche, Matthias T. Dittmar, Jonathan L. Heeney, Beatrice H. Hahn, Jan Münch (2004)
Nef Proteins from Chimpanzees Infected with Simian Immunodeficiency Virus and Humans Infected with Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Groups N and O Interact with p21-Activated Kinase 2 and Modulate Cell Surface Expression of Various Human Receptors.
J. Virol. 78(13): 6864–6874
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.78.13.6864–6874.2004

Volker Knoop & Axel Brennicke (2002)
Molecular Biology of the Plant Mitochondrion.
Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences 21(2):111-126

Dagmar Pruchner, Susanne Beckert, Hermann Muhle, Volker Knoop (2002)
Divergent intron conservation in the mitochondrial nad2 gene: signatures for the three bryophyte classes mosses, liverworts and hornworts and the lycophytes.
J. Mol. Evol. 55:265-271.

Dagmar Pruchner, Brigitte Nassal, Michael Schindler, Volker Knoop (2001)
Mosses share mitochondrial group II intron with flowering plants, not with liverworts.
Mol. Gen. Genom. 266:608-613.

Susanne Beckert, Hermann Muhle, Dagmar Pruchner, Volker Knoop (2001)
The mitochondrial nad2 gene as a novel marker locus for phylogenetic analysis among early land plants: a comparative analysis in mosses.
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 18(1):117-126.

Irene Schock, Juraj Gregan, Siegfried Steinhauser, Rudolf Schweyen, Axel Brennicke & Volker Knoop (2000)
A member of a novel Arabidopsis thaliana gene family of candidate Mg2+-ion transporters complements a yeast mitochondrial group II intron splicing mutant.
The Plant Journal 24(4): 489-501.

Attimonelli M, Altamura N, Benne R, Brennicke A, Cooper JM, D'Elia D, Montalvo A, Pinto B, De Robertis M, Golik P, Knoop V, Lanave C, Lazowska J, Licciulli F, Malladi BS, Memeo F, Monnerot M, Pasimeni R, Pilbout S, Schapira AH, Sloof P, Saccone C (2000)
MitBASE : a comprehensive and integrated mitochondrial DNA database. The present status.
Nucleic Acids Res. 28: 148-152.

Volker Knoop & Axel Brennicke (1999)
RNA-Editing 1999
Biologie in unserer Zeit 29(6): 336-345.

Siegfried Steinhauser, Olaf Malek, Irene Schock, Susanne Beckert, Volker Knoop (1999)
Group II introns in plant mitochondria: Trans-splicing and transgenic approaches
In: "Plant Mitochondria: From Gene to Function" (Eds. Møller IM, Gardeström P, Glimelius K, Glaser E), Backhuys, Leiden, NL, pp.201-206.

Sibyl Vangerow, Thomas Teerkorn, Volker Knoop (1999)
Phylogenetic information in the mitochondrial nad5 gene of pteridophytes: RNA editing and intron sequences
Plant Biol. 1(2):235-243.

Siegfried Steinhauser, Susanne Beckert, Ingrid Capesius, Olaf Malek, Volker Knoop (1999)
Plant mitochondrial RNA editing - extreme in hornworts and dividing the liverworts?
NOTE: The title of this paper has erroneously been shortened at the hyphen at the final publishing stage.
J. Mol. Evol.48(3):303-312. At the publisher.

Susanne Beckert, Siegfried Steinhauser, Hermann Muhle, Volker Knoop (1999)
A molecular phylogeny of bryophytes based on nucleotide sequences of the mitochondrial nad5 gene
Plant Syst. Evol. 218(3-4): 179-192

Allan Rasmusson, Staffan Svensson, Volker Knoop, Lutz Grohmann, Axel Brennicke (1999)
Homologues of yeast and bacterial rotenone-insensitive NADH dehydrogenases in higher eukaryotes: two enzymes are present in potato mitochondria
The Plant Journal 20(1):79-87.

M. Attimonelli, N. Altamura, R. Benne, C. Boyen, A. Brennicke, A. Carone, J.M. Cooper, D. D'Elia, A. De Montalvo, B. de Pinto, M. De Robertis, P. Golik, J.M. Grienenberger, V. Knoop, C. Lanave, J. Lazowska, A. Lemagnen, B.S. Malladi, F. Memeo, M. Monnerot, S.Pilbout, A.H.V. Shapira, P. Sloof, P. Slonimski, K. Stevens and C. Saccone (1999)
MitBASE : A comprehensive and integrated mitochondrial DNA database
Nucleic Acids. Res. 27: 128-133.

Anita Marchfelder, Stefan Binder, Axel Brennicke and Volker Knoop (1998)
RNA editing by base conversion in plant organellar RNAs
In: Modification and Editing of RNA (Chapter 17), Eds. Henri Grosjean and Rob Benne, ASM Press, Washington DC.

Philippe Giegé, Volker Knoop, Axel Brennicke (1998)
Complex II subunit 4 (sdh4) homologous sequences in plant mitochondrial genomes
Curr.