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Volker Knoop is affiliated with the University of Bonn in Germany. Their research primarily falls within the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a focus on Molecular Biology and related subfields including Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Cell Biology, Plant Science, and Biotechnology.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
  • RNA regulation and disease
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Mitochondrial Function and Pathology
  • Fern and Epiphyte Biology

Key recent publications involving Volker Knoop include:

  • C-to-U and U-to-C: RNA editing in plant organelles and beyond, 2022, Journal of Experimental Botany
  • Plant mitochondrial RNA editing factors can perform targeted C-to-U editing of nuclear transcripts in human cells, 2022, Nucleic Acids Research
  • One C-to-U RNA Editing Site and Two Independently Evolved Editing Factors: Testing Reciprocal Complementation with DYW-Type PPR Proteins from the Moss Physcomitrium (Physcomitrella) patens and the Flowering Plants Macadamia integrifolia and Arabidopsis, 2020, The Plant Cell
  • Rickettsial DNA and a trans-splicing rRNA group I intron in the unorthodox mitogenome of the fern Haplopteris ensiformis, 2023, Communications Biology
  • Conquering new grounds: plant organellar C-to-U RNA editing factors can be functional in the plant cytosol, 2024, The Plant Journal

The scientist has frequently published in journals such as The Plant Cell, The Plant Journal, Journal of Experimental Botany, Nucleic Acids Research, and Communications Biology.

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Mareike Schallenberg-Rüdinger
  • Elena Lesch
  • Yingying Yang
  • Bastian Oldenkott
  • Simon Zumkeller

Best Publications

  • The deepest divergences in land plants inferred from phylogenomic evidence.

    Yin Long Qiu;Libo Li;Libo Li;Bin Wang;Bin Wang;Zhiduan Chen

  • The mitochondrial DNA of land plants: peculiarities in phylogenetic perspective

    Volker Knoop

  • RNA editing in bryophytes and a molecular phylogeny of land plants.

    O. Malek;K. Lättig;R. Hiesel;A. Brennicke

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

    Véronique Salone;Mareike Rüdinger;Monika Polsakiewicz;Beate Hoffmann

  • Ginkgo and Welwitschia Mitogenomes Reveal Extreme Contrasts in Gymnosperm Mitochondrial Evolution

    Wenhu Guo;Felix Grewe;Weishu Fan;Gregory J. Young;Gregory J. Young

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

    Volker Knoop

  • 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.

    Julia Hecht;Felix Grewe;Volker Knoop

  • The mitochondrial genome on its way to the nucleus: different stages of gene transfer in higher plants.

    Axel Brennicke;Lutz Grohmann;Rudolf Hiesel;Volker Knoop

  • Expression of the avirulence gene avrBs3 from Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria is not under the control of hrp genes and is independent of plant factors.

    V Knoop;B Staskawicz;U Bonas

  • Transport of magnesium and other divalent cations: evolution of the 2-TM-GxN proteins in the MIT superfamily

    Volker Knoop;Milena Groth-Malonek;Michael Gebert;Karolin Eifler

  • Plant mitochondrial RNA editing.

    Siegfried Steinhauser;Susanne Beckert;Ingrid Capesius;Olaf Malek

  • A Root-Expressed Magnesium Transporter of the MRS2/MGT Gene Family in Arabidopsis thaliana Allows for Growth in Low-Mg2+ Environments

    Michael Gebert;Karoline Meschenmoser;Soňa Svidová;Julian Weghuber

  • A member of a novel Arabidopsis thaliana gene family of candidate Mg2+ ion transporters complements a yeast mitochondrial group II intron-splicing mutant.

    Irene Schock;Juraj Gregan;Siegfried Steinhauser;Rudolf Schweyen

  • A trans-splicing group I intron and tRNA-hyperediting in the mitochondrial genome of the lycophyte Isoetes engelmannii

    Felix Grewe;Prisca Viehoever;Bernd Weisshaar;Volker Knoop

  • Genomics of Chloroplasts and Mitochondria

    Paul G. Wolf;K. G. Karol

  • Trans splicing integrates an exon of 22 nucleotides into the nad5 mRNA in higher plant mitochondria.

    V Knoop;W Schuster;B Wissinger;A Brennicke

  • Ancestors of Trans-Splicing Mitochondrial Introns Support Serial Sister Group Relationships of Hornworts and Mosses with Vascular Plants

    Milena Groth-Malonek;Dagmar Pruchner;Felix Grewe;Volker Knoop

  • A molecular phylogeny of bryophytes based on nucleotide sequences of the mitochondrial nad 5 gene

    Susanne Beckert;Siegfried Steinhauser;Hermann Muhle;Volker Knoop

  • Chloroplast RNA editing going extreme: more than 3400 events of C-to-U editing in the chloroplast transcriptome of the lycophyte Selaginella uncinata

    Bastian Oldenkott;Kazuo Yamaguchi;Sumika Tsuji-Tsukinoki;Nils Knie

  • A unique transcriptome: 1782 positions of RNA editing alter 1406 codon identities in mitochondrial mRNAs of the lycophyte Isoetes engelmannii

    Felix Grewe;Stefan Herres;Prisca Viehöver;Monika Polsakiewicz

Frequent Co-Authors

Axel Brennicke
Axel Brennicke University of Ulm
Rudolf J. Schweyen
Rudolf J. Schweyen Max F. Perutz Laboratories
Ian Small
Ian Small University of Western Australia
Bernd Wissinger
Bernd Wissinger University of Tübingen
Stefan A. Rensing
Stefan A. Rensing University of Freiburg
Frank Kirchhoff
Frank Kirchhoff University of Ulm
Ulrike Steiner
Ulrike Steiner University of Bonn
Cecilia Saccone
Cecilia Saccone University of Bari Aldo Moro
Bernd Weisshaar
Bernd Weisshaar Bielefeld University
Jeffrey D. Palmer
Jeffrey D. Palmer Indiana University

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