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Jörg Meurer is affiliated with Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in Germany. Their research primarily spans the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a focus on Molecular Biology and Plant Science. Additional areas of study include Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience.

The main topics in their body of work cover Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms, RNA modifications and cancer, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, Mitochondrial Function and Pathology, ATP Synthase and ATPases Research, Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance, as well as broader Biochemical and Molecular Research.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Jörg Meurer include Nikolay Manavski, Wei Chi, Qiuxin Li, Reimo Zoschke, and Daili Ji.

The scientist's research has been published repeatedly in several key journals, with multiple contributions to The Plant Journal, Nucleic Acids Research, New Phytologist, PLANT PHYSIOLOGY, and The Plant Cell.

Recent published papers include:

  • Acclimation in plants - the Green Hub consortium, 2020, The Plant Journal
  • The Arabidopsis mTERF-repeat MDA1 protein plays a dual function in transcription and stabilization of specific chloroplast transcripts within the psbE and ndhH operons, 2020, New Phytologist
  • Arabidopsis mTERF9 protein promotes chloroplast ribosomal assembly and translation by establishing ribonucleoprotein interactions in vivo, 2020, Nucleic Acids Research
  • The critical function of the plastid rRNA methyltransferase, CMAL, in ribosome biogenesis and plant development, 2020, Nucleic Acids Research
  • NADP+ supply adjusts the synthesis of photosystem I in Arabidopsis chloroplasts, 2022, PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Best Publications

  • PGR5 Is Involved in Cyclic Electron Flow around Photosystem I and Is Essential for Photoprotection in Arabidopsis

    Yuri Munekage;Masaya Hojo;Jörg Meurer;Tsuyoshi Endo

  • A nuclear-encoded protein of prokaryotic origin is essential for the stability of photosystem II in Arabidopsis thaliana

    Jörg Meurer;Jörg Meurer;Henning Plücken;Klaus V. Kowallik;Peter Westhoff

  • Isolation of high-chlorophyll-fluorescence mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana and their characterisation by spectroscopy, immunoblotting and northern hybridisation

    Jörg Meurer;Karin Meierhoff;Peter Westhoff

  • A Plant Locus Essential for Phylloquinone (Vitamin K1) Biosynthesis Originated from a Fusion of Four Eubacterial Genes

    Jeferson Gross;Won Kyong Cho;Lina Lezhneva;Jon Falk

  • The universally conserved HCF101 protein is involved in assembly of [4Fe-4S]-cluster-containing complexes in Arabidopsis thaliana chloroplasts

    Lina Lezhneva;Katrin Amann;Jörg Meurer

  • Efficient Assembly of Photosystem II in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Requires Alb3.1p, a Homolog of Arabidopsis ALBINO3

    Friedrich Ossenbühl;Vera Göhre;Jörg Meurer;Anja Krieger-Liszkay

  • The assembly of the CAAT-box binding complex at a photosynthesis gene promoter is regulated by light, cytokinin, and the stage of the plastids.

    Victor Kusnetsov;Victor Kusnetsov;Martin Landsberger;Jörg Meurer;Ralf Oelmüller

  • The nucleus-encoded HCF107 gene of Arabidopsis provides a link between intercistronic RNA processing and the accumulation of translation-competent psbH transcripts in chloroplasts.

    Susanne Felder;Karin Meierhoff;Aniruddha P. Sane;Jörg Meurer

  • Inactivation of the chloroplast ATP synthase gamma subunit results in high non-photochemical fluorescence quenching and altered nuclear gene expression in Arabidopsis thaliana

    Cristina Dal Bosco;Lina Lezhneva;Alexander Biehl;Dario Leister

  • A nuclear mutant of Arabidopsis with impaired stability on distinct transcripts of the plastid psbB, psbD/C, ndhH, and ndhC operons.

    Jorg Meurer;Anja Berger;Peter Westhoff

  • Knock‐out of the plastid ribosomal protein L11 in Arabidopsis: effects on mRNA translation and photosynthesis

    Paolo Pesaresi;Claudio Varotto;Jörg Meurer;Peter Jahns

  • The role of plastids in plant speciation

    Stephan Greiner;Uwe Rauwolf;Jörg Meurer;Reinhold G. Herrmann

  • Disruption of the Arabidopsis photosystem I gene psaE1 affects photosynthesis and impairs growth

    Claudio Varotto;Paolo Pesaresi;Jörg Meurer;Ralf Oelmüller

  • Vipp1 is required for basic thylakoid membrane formation but not for the assembly of thylakoid protein complexes.

    Elena Aseeva;Friederich Ossenbühl;Claudia Sippel;Won K. Cho

  • The complete nucleotide sequences of the five genetically distinct plastid genomes of Oenothera, subsection Oenothera: I. Sequence evaluation and plastome evolution

    Stephan Greiner;Xi Wang;Uwe Rauwolf;Martina V. Silber

  • An Essential Pentatricopeptide Repeat Protein Facilitates 5′ Maturation and Translation Initiation of rps3 mRNA in Maize Mitochondria

    Nikolay Manavski;Nikolay Manavski;Virginie Guyon;Jörg Meurer;Udo Wienand

  • Chloroplast HCF101 is a scaffold protein for [4Fe-4S] cluster assembly.

    Serena Schwenkert;Daili J. A. Netz;Jeverson Frazzon;Antonio J. Pierik

  • Effects of selective inactivation of individual genes for low-molecular-mass subunits on the assembly of photosystem II, as revealed by chloroplast transformation: the psbEFLJ operon in Nicotiana tabacum

    M. Swiatek;R. E. Regel;J. Meurer;G. Wanner

  • ACCUMULATION OF PHOTOSYSTEM ONE1, a member of a novel gene family, is required for accumulation of [4Fe-4S] cluster-containing chloroplast complexes and antenna proteins.

    Katrin Amann;Lina Lezhneva;Gerd Wanner;Reinhold G. Herrmann

  • A Peptide Chain Release Factor 2 Affects the Stability of UGA-Containing Transcripts in Arabidopsis Chloroplasts

    Jörg Meurer;Lina Lezhneva;Katrin Amann;Manfred Gödel

Frequent Co-Authors

Reinhold G. Herrmann
Reinhold G. Herrmann Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Dario Leister
Dario Leister Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Peter Westhoff
Peter Westhoff Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Jürgen Soll
Jürgen Soll Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Lixin Zhang
Lixin Zhang East China University of Science and Technology
Itzhak Ohad
Itzhak Ohad Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Lutz A. Eichacker
Lutz A. Eichacker University of Stavanger
Ralf Oelmüller
Ralf Oelmüller Friedrich Schiller University Jena
David Kramer
David Kramer Michigan State University
Francesco Salamini
Francesco Salamini Parco Tecnologico Padano

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