Publications


2020-Present


Sun, Y., Bakhtiari, S., Valente-Paterno, M., Wu, Y., Law, C., Dai, D., Dhaliwal, J., Huy Bui, K., & Zerges, W. (2021). Chloroplast-localized translation for protein targeting in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Preprint.

Dhaliwal, J., Panozzo, C., Bénard, L., & Zerges, W. (2020). Oxidized RNA Bodies compartmentalize translation quality control in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Preprint.


2015-2019


Sun, Y., Valente-Paterno, M., Bakhtiari, S., Law, C., Zhan, Y., & Zerges, W. (2019). Photosystem Biogenesis is Localized to the Translation Zone in the Chloroplast of Chlamydomonas. The Plant Cell, 31(12), 3057-3072.

Zhan, Y., Marchand, C.H.,…, Zerges, W. (2018). Pyrenoid functions revealed by proteomics in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. PLoS ONE, 13(2):e0185039.

Zerges, W. (2016). Gene Regulation in Developing Chloroplasts Disentangled. PLoS Genetics, 12(7).

Rahim, M.M.A., Vigneault, F., & Zerges, W. (2016). The RNA Structure of cis-acting Translational Elements of the Chloroplast psbC mRNA in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Frontiers in Plant Science, 828(7), 1-13.

Zhan, Y., Dhaliwal, J.S., Adjibade, P., Uniacke, J., Mazroui, R., & Zerges, W. (2015). Localized control of oxidized RNA. Journal of Cell Science, 128, 4210-4219.

Sun, Y., & Zerges, W. (2015). Translational regulation in chloroplasts for development and homeostasis. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics, 1847(9), 809-820.


2010-2014


Nickelsen, J., & Zerges, W. (2013). Thylakoid biogenesis has joined the new era of bacterial cell biology. Frontiers in Plant Science, 4:458.

Simon, D.F., Domingos, R.F., Hauser C., Hutchins, C.M., Zerges, W., & Wilkinson, K.J. (2013). RNA-Seq analysis of the effects of metal nanoparticle exposure on the transcriptome of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Applied Environmental Microbiology, 79(16), 4774-85.

Bohne, A.-V., Schwarz, C., Schottkowski, M., Lidschreiber, M., Piotrowski, M., Zerges, W., & Nickelsen, J. (2013). Reciprocal regulation of protein synthesis and carbon metabolism for thylakoid membrane biogenesis. PLoS Biology, 11(2), 1-18. (Highlighted in Nature Chemical Biology’s News & Views April 2013)

Weis, B.L., Schleiff, E., & Zerges, W. (2013). Protein targeting to subcellular organelles via mRNA localization. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta- Molecular Cell Research, 1833, 260-273.

Schottkowski, M., Peters, M., Zhan, Y., Rifai, O., Zhang, Y., & Zerges, W. (2012). Biogenic membranes of the chloroplast in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S.A., 109(47), 19286-19291.

Hutchins, C.M., Simon, D.F., Zerges, W., & Wilkinson, K.J. (2010). Transcriptomic signatures in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii as Cd biomarkers in metal mixtures. Aquatic Toxicology, 100(1):120-127.


2005-2009


Uniacke, J., & Zerges, W. (2009). Chloroplast protein targeting involves localized translation in Chlamydomonas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A, 106(5), 1349-44.

Uniacke, J., & Zerges, W. (2008). Stress induces the assembly of RNA granules in the chloroplast of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Journal of Cell Biology, 182(4), 641‐6.

Simon, D.F., Descombes, P., Zerges, W., & Wilkinson, K.J. (2008). Global expression profiling of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii exposed to trace levels of free cadmium. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 27(8), 1668‐75.

Uniacke, J., & Zerges, W. (2007). Photosystem II Assembly and Repair Are Differentially Localized in Chlamydomonas. The Plant Cell, 19(11), 3640‐54.