Michael Schroda

TL;DR: Analyses of the Chlamydomonas genome advance the understanding of the ancestral eukaryotic cell, reveal previously unknown genes associated with photosynthetic and flagellar functions, and establish links between ciliopathy and the composition and function of flagella.

TL;DR: The Mercator pipeline automatically assigns functional terms to protein or nucleotide sequences using the MapMan 'BIN' ontology, which is tailored for functional annotation of plant 'omics' data.

TL;DR: It is shown that the H SP70A promoter serves as a transcriptional activator when placed upstream of the promoters RBCS2, beta 2 TUB and HSP70B, and that transformation rates obtained for the eubacterial resistance gene aadA were significantly increased, when expression of this gene was controlled by the HSP 70A-RBCS 2 promoter fusion as compared to the RBCs2 promoter alone.

TL;DR: Dark-grown Chlamydomonas reinhardtii cultures that were illuminated at low fluence rates before exposure to high-light conditions exhibited a faster rate of recovery from photoinhibition than did dark-grown cells that were directly exposed to photoinhibitory conditions.

TL;DR: Comparison of the N-replete versus N-deplete proteome indicated that abundant proteins with a high N content are reduced in N-starved cells, while the proteins that are increased have lower than average N contents, suggesting an approach for engineering increased N-use efficiency.