Dziubek, D., Poeker, L., Jäger, L., Lehmann, M., Leister, D., Armbruster, U., and Geigenberger, P. (2025). Dissection of photosynthetic short and long-term acclimation to fluctuating light reveals specific functions within the chloroplast thioredoxin network. Journal of Experimental Botany. doi:10.1093/jxb/eraf121
Kappel, S., Frieboes, M.J., Yokoyama, R., Kappel, C., Tóth, S.Z., Fernie, A.R., Jahns, P., Smirnoff, N., Aarabi, F., and Armbruster, U. (2025). Developmental and environmental effects on VTC2-dependent leaf ascorbate accumulation and functions. Journal of Experimental Botany. doi: 10.1093/jxb/eraf035
Stolle, D.S., Osterhoff, L., Treimer, P., Lambertz, J., Karstens, M., Keller, J.-M., Gerlach, I., Bischoff, A., Dünschede, B., Rödiger, A., Herrmann, C., Baginsky, S., Hofmann, E., Zoschke, R., Armbruster, U., Nowaczyk, M.M., and Schünemann, D. (2024) STIC2 selectively binds ribosome-nascent chain complexes in the cotranslational sorting of Arabidopsis thylakoid proteins. EMBO J (2024) 43: 4699 - 4719
Uflewski, M., Rindfleisch, T., Korkmaz, K., Tietz, E., Mielke, S., Correa Galvis, V., Dünschede, B., Luzarowski, M., Skirycz, A., Schwarzländer, M., Strand, D.D., Hertle, A.P., Schünemann, D., Walther, D., Thalhammer, A., Wolff, M., and Armbruster, U. (2024). The thylakoid proton antiporter KEA3 regulates photosynthesis in response to the chloroplast energy status. Nat Commun 15, 2792.
Dziubek, D., Poeker, L., Siemitkowska, B., Graf, A., Marino, G., Alseekh, S., Arrivault, S., Fernie, A.R., Armbruster, U., and Geigenberger, P. (2024). NTRC and thioredoxins m1/m2 underpin the light acclimation of plants on proteome and metabolome levels. Plant Physiol 194, 982-1005.
Kunz, H.H., Armbruster, U., Mühlbauer, S., de Vries, J., and Davis, G.A. (2024). Chloroplast ion homeostasis - what do we know and where should we go? New Phytol 243, 543-559.
Kappel, S., Thiele W., Gefen-Treves, S., Henze, A., Armbruster, U. and Schöttler M.A. (2023). 'A congestion downstream of PSI causes the over-reduction of the electron transport chain in pgr5 independent of membrane energization', bioRxiv: 2023.09.01.555968
von Bismarck, T., Wendering, P., Perez de Souza, L., Russ, J., Strandberg, L., Heyneke, E., Walker, B.J., Schöttler, M.A., Fernie, A.R., Nikoloski, Z., and Armbruster, U. (2023a). 'Growth in fluctuating light buffers plants against photorespiratory perturbations.' Nat Commun 14, 7052.
Dziubek D., Poeker L. , Siemiątkowska B., Graf A. , Marino G., Alseekh S., Arrivault S., Fernie A.R. , Armbruster U. and Geigenberger P. (2023) 'NTRC and Thioredoxins M1/M2 Underpin the Light Acclimation of Plants on Proteome and Metabolome Levels'. Plant Physiology kiad535. doi: 10.1093/plphys/kiad535
von Bismarck, T., Korkmaz, K., Russ, J., Skurk, K., Kaiser, E., Correa Galvis, V., Cruz, J.A., Strand, D.D., Kohl, K., Eirich, J., Finkemeier, I., Jahns, P., Kramer, D.M., and Armbruster, U. (2023b). 'Light acclimation interacts with thylakoid ion transport to govern the dynamics of photosynthesis in Arabidopsis'. New Phytol 237, 160-176.
Keller, J.M., Frieboes, M.J., Jödecke, L., Kappel, S., Wulff, N., Rindfleisch, T., Sandoval-Ibanez, O., Gerlach, I., Thiele, W., Bock, R., Eirich, J., Finkemeier, I., Schünemann, D., Zoschke, R., Schöttler, M.A., and Armbruster, U. (2023). 'Eukaryote-specific assembly factor DEAP2 mediates an early step of photosystem II assembly in Arabidopsis.' Plant Physiol 193, 1970-1986.
Lopez L.S., Volkner C., Day P.M., Lewis C.M., Lewis C.L., Schneider D., Correa Galvis V., Cruz J.A., Armbruster U., Kramer D.M., Kunz H.H. (2022) 'The Arabidopsis T-DNA mutant SALK_008491 carries a 14-kb deletion on chromosome 3 that provides rare insights into the plant response to dynamic light stress' Plant Direct 6: e429
Hohner R., Day P.M., Zimmermann S.E., Lopez L.S., Kramer M., Giavalisco P., Correa Galvis V., Armbruster U., Schottler M.A., Jahns P., Krueger S., Kunz H.H. (2021) 'Stromal NADH supplied by PHOSPHOGLYCERATE DEHYDROGENASE3 is crucial for photosynthetic performance' Plant Physiol 186: 142-167
Uflewski M., Mielke S., Correa Galvis V., von Bismarck T., Chen X., Tietz E., Russ J., Luzarowski M., Sokolowska E., Skirycz A., Eirich J., Finkemeier I., Schottler M.A., Armbruster U. (2021) 'Functional characterization of proton antiport regulation in the thylakoid membrane' Plant Physiol 187: 2209-2229
Hertle A.P., Garcia-Cerdan J.G., Armbruster U., Shih R., Lee J.J., Wong W., Niyogi K.K. (2020) 'A Sec14 domain protein is required for photoautotrophic growth and chloroplast vesicle formation in Arabidopsis thaliana' Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 117: 9101-9111
Kaiser E., Walther D., Armbruster U. (2020) 'Growth under Fluctuating Light Reveals Large Trait Variation in a Panel of Arabidopsis Accessions' Plants (Basel) 9
Correa Galvis V., Strand D.D., Messer M., Thiele W., Bethmann S., Hubner D., Uflewski M., Kaiser E., Siemiatkowska B., Morris B.A., Toth S.Z., Watanabe M., Bruckner F., Hofgen R., Jahns P., Schottler M.A., Armbruster U. (2020) 'H(+) Transport by K(+) EXCHANGE ANTIPORTER3 Promotes Photosynthesis and Growth in Chloroplast ATP Synthase Mutants' Plant Physiol 182: 2126-2142
Armbruster U., Strand D.D. (2020) 'Regulation of chloroplast primary metabolism' Photosynth Res 145: 1-3
Treves H., Siemiatkowska B., Luzarowska U., Murik O., Fernandez-Pozo N., Moraes T.A., Erban A., Armbruster U., Brotman Y., Kopka J., Rensing S.A., Szymanski J., Stitt M. (2020) 'Multi-omics reveals mechanisms of total resistance to extreme illumination of a desert alga' Nat Plants 6: 1031-1043
Hohner R., Galvis V.C., Strand D.D., Volkner C., Kramer M., Messer M., Dinc F., Sjuts I., Bolter B., Kramer D.M., Armbruster U., Kunz H.H. (2019) 'Photosynthesis in Arabidopsis Is Unaffected by the Function of the Vacuolar K(+) Channel TPK3' Plant Physiol 180: 1322-1335
Kaiser E., Correa Galvis V., Armbruster U. (2019) 'Efficient photosynthesis in dynamic light environments: a chloroplast's perspective' Biochem J 476: 2725-2741
Armbruster U., Correa Galvis V., Kunz H.H., Strand D.D. (2017) 'The regulation of the chloroplast proton motive force plays a key role for photosynthesis in fluctuating light' Curr Opin Plant Biol 37: 56-62
Thormahlen I., Zupok A., Rescher J., Leger J., Weissenberger S., Groysman J., Orwat A., Chatel-Innocenti G., Issakidis-Bourguet E., Armbruster U., Geigenberger P. (2017) 'Thioredoxins Play a Crucial Role in Dynamic Acclimation of Photosynthesis in Fluctuating Light' Mol Plant 10: 168-182
Aranda-Sicilia M.N., Aboukila A., Armbruster U., Cagnac O., Schumann T., Kunz H.H., Jahns P., Rodriguez-Rosales M.P., Sze H., Venema K. (2016) 'Envelope K+/H+ Antiporters AtKEA1 and AtKEA2 Function in Plastid Development' Plant Physiol 172: 441-449
Aranda-Sicilia M.N., Aboukila A., Armbruster U., Cagnac O., Schumann T., Kunz H.H., Jahns P., Rodriguez-Rosales M.P., Sze H., Venema K. (2016) 'Envelope K+/H+ Antiporters AtKEA1 and AtKEA2 Function in Plastid Development' Plant Physiol 172: 441-449
Armbruster U., Leonelli L., Correa Galvis V., Strand D., Quinn E.H., Jonikas M.C., Niyogi K.K. (2016) 'Regulation and Levels of the Thylakoid K+/H+ Antiporter KEA3 Shape the Dynamic Response of Photosynthesis in Fluctuating Light' Plant Cell Physiol 57: 1557-1567
Schwarz N., Armbruster U., Iven T., Bruckle L., Melzer M., Feussner I., Jahns P. (2015) 'Tissue-specific accumulation and regulation of zeaxanthin epoxidase in Arabidopsis reflect the multiple functions of the enzyme in plastids' Plant Cell Physiol 56: 346-357
Armbruster U., Carrillo L.R., Venema K., Pavlovic L., Schmidtmann E., Kornfeld A., Jahns P., Berry J.A., Kramer D.M., Jonikas M.C. (2014) 'Ion antiport accelerates photosynthetic acclimation in fluctuating light environments' Nat Commun 5: 5439
Zhang R., Patena W., Armbruster U., Gang S.S., Blum S.R., Jonikas M.C. (2014) 'High-Throughput Genotyping of Green Algal Mutants Reveals Random Distribution of Mutagenic Insertion Sites and Endonucleolytic Cleavage of Transforming DNA' Plant Cell 26: 1398-1409
Armbruster U., Labs M., Pribil M., Viola S., Xu W., Scharfenberg M., Hertle A.P., Rojahn U., Jensen P.E., Rappaport F., Joliot P., Dormann P., Wanner G., Leister D. (2013) 'Arabidopsis CURVATURE THYLAKOID1 proteins modify thylakoid architecture by inducing membrane curvature' Plant Cell 25: 2661-2678
Armbruster U., Ruhle T., Kreller R., Strotbek C., Zuhlke J., Tadini L., Blunder T., Hertle A.P., Qi Y., Rengstl B., Nickelsen J., Frank W., Leister D. (2013) 'The photosynthesis affected mutant68-like protein evolved from a PSII assembly factor to mediate assembly of the chloroplast NAD(P)H dehydrogenase complex in Arabidopsis' Plant Cell 25: 3926-3943
Hertle A.P., Blunder T., Wunder T., Pesaresi P., Pribil M., Armbruster U., Leister D. (2013) 'PGRL1 is the elusive ferredoxin-plastoquinone reductase in photosynthetic cyclic electron flow' Mol Cell 49: 511-523
Qi Y., Armbruster U., Schmitz-Linneweber C., Delannoy E., de Longevialle A.F., Ruhle T., Small I., Jahns P., Leister D. (2012) 'Arabidopsis CSP41 proteins form multimeric complexes that bind and stabilize distinct plastid transcripts' J Exp Bot 63: 1251-1270
Armbruster U., Pesaresi P., Pribil M., Hertle A., Leister D. (2011) 'Update on chloroplast research: new tools, new topics, and new trends' Mol Plant 4: 1-16
Armbruster U., Zuhlke J., Rengstl B., Kreller R., Makarenko E., Ruhle T., Schunemann D., Jahns P., Weisshaar B., Nickelsen J., Leister D. (2010) 'The Arabidopsis thylakoid protein PAM68 is required for efficient D1 biogenesis and photosystem II assembly' Plant Cell 22: 3439-3460
Armbruster U., Hertle A., Makarenko E., Zuhlke J., Pribil M., Dietzmann A., Schliebner I., Aseeva E., Fenino E., Scharfenberg M., Voigt C., Leister D. (2009) 'Chloroplast proteins without cleavable transit peptides: rare exceptions or a major constituent of the chloroplast proteome?' Mol Plant 2: 1325-1335
Tillich M., Hardel S.L., Kupsch C., Armbruster U., Delannoy E., Gualberto J.M., Lehwark P., Leister D., Small I.D,. Schmitz-Linneweber C. (2009) 'Chloroplast ribonucleoprotein CP31A is required for editing and stability of specific chloroplast mRNAs' Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106: 6002-6007
Noutsos C., Kleine T., Armbruster U., DalCorso G., Leister D. (2007) 'Nuclear insertions of organellar DNA can create novel patches of functional exon sequences' Trends Genet 23: 597-601
David K.M., Armbruster U., Tama N., Putterill J. (2006) 'Arabidopsis GIGANTEA protein is post-transcriptionally regulated by light and dark' FEBS Lett 580: 1193-1197
