Publications (since 1995)

2020-

• Levin, G*., Yasmin, M., Pienko, T., Yehishalom, N., Hanna, R., Kleifeld, O., Glaser, F., Schuster, G., (2024) The protein phosphorylation landscape in photosystem I of the desert algae Chlorella sp. New Phytologist. doi: 10.1111/nph.19603 (*corresponding Author)
• Levin, G., Yasmin, M., Liveanu, V., Burstein, C., Hanna, R., Kleifeld, O., Simanowitz, C.M., Meir. A., Tadmor, Y., Hirschberg, J., Adir. N., Schuster, G., (2023) A desert Chlorella sp. that thrives at extreme high-light intensities using a unique photoinhibition protection mechanism. The Plant J. doi: 10.1111/tpj.16241
  
• Levin, G. and Schuster, G., (2023) LHC-like Proteins: The Guardians of Photosynthesis. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 24; 2503
• Shlosberg, Y., Schuster, G., Adir, N., (2023) Photosynthetic fuel cells: just an interesting concept or a promise for future technology? BIOELECTRICITY  DOI: 10.1089/bioe.2022.0043
•  Shlosberg, Y., Schuster*, G., Adir*, N., (2022) Harnessing photosynthesis to produce electricity using cyanobacteria, green algae, seaweeds and plants. Frontiers in Plant Science. DOI 10.3389/fpls.2022.955843
• Shlosberg, Y., Schuster, G., Adir, N., (2022) Self-Enclosed Bio-Photoelectrochemical Cell in Succulent Plants. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 14, 48, 53761–53766
• Shlosberg, Y., Spungin. D., Schuster, G., Berman-Frank. I., Adir, N., (2022) Trichodesmium erythraeum produces a higher photocurrent than other cyanobacterial species in bio-photo electrochemical cells. Biochem. Biophys Acta Bioenergetics. 1863; 148910
• Shlosberg, Y., Meirovich, M., Yehezkeli, O., Schuster, G., Adir, N., (2022) Harvesting electrical current from intact plant leaves. Biosensors and Bioelectronics 215, 114558 
• Shlosberg, Y., Krupnik, N., Tóth, T., Eichenbaum, B., Meirovich, M., Meiri, D., Yehezkeli, O., Schuster, G., Alvaro, I., and Adir, N., (2022) Bioelectricity generation from live marine photosynthetic macroalgae. Biosensors and Bioelectronics 198, 113824.
• Shlosberg, Y., Tóth, T., Eichenbaum, B., Keysar, L., Schuster, G., and Adir, N., (2021) Electron mediation and photocurrent enhancement in Dunalliela salina driven bio-photo electrochemical cells. Catalysts. 11: 1220.
• Caspy, I., Neumann, E., Fadeeva, M., Liveanu, V., …( ). Schuster, G., Nelson, N., Lubitz, W., and Nechushtai, R., (2021) Cryo-EM PSI structure reveals adaptation mechanisms to extreme high light in Chlorella ohadii. Nature Plants. 7: 1314-1322.
• Levin, G., Kulikovsky, S., Liveanu, V., Eichenbaum, G., Meir, A., Isaacson, T., Tadmor, Y., Adir, N., Schuster, G., (2021) The desert green algae Chlorella ohadii thrives at excessively high light intensities by exceptionally enhancing the mechanisms that protect photosynthesis from photoinhibition. The Plant J. 106, 1260-1277. doi: 10.1111/tpj.15232
• Shlosberg, Y., Eichenbaum, B., Toth, T., Levin, G., Liveanu., Schuster, G.*, Adir, N*. (2021) NADPH performs mediated electron transfer in cyanobacterial-driven bio photoelectrochemical cells. iScience 24, 101892 (^*corresponding authors).
• Hotto, A.M. Stern, D.B. Schuster, G. (2020) Plant Ribonuclease J: An Essential Player in Maintaining Chloroplast RNA Quality Control for Gene Expression. Plants, 9, 334

2015-2019

• Halpert, M., Liveanu, V., Glaser, F., Schuster,G. (2019) The Arabidopsis chloroplast RNase J displays both exo- and robust endonucleolytic activities. Plant Mol. Biol. 99: 17-29. PDF
• Saper, G., Kallmann, D., Conzuelo, F., Zhao, F., Toth, T., Liveanu, V., .Meir, M., Szymanski, , Aharoni, A., Schuhmann, W., Rothschild^, A., Schuster, G.,^* and Adir, N^* (2018) Live cyanobacteria produce photocurrent and hydrogen using both the respiratory and photosynthetic systems. Nature Comm. 4;9:2168 (*corresponding authors). PDF
• Levy, S.  and Schuster, G. (2016) Polyadenylation and Degradation of RNA in the Mitochondria. Biochem. Soc. Transac. 44: 1475-1482. PDF
• Levy, S., Allerston, CK., Liveanu, V., Haviv, MR., Gileadi. O. and Schuster, G. (2016) Identification of LACTB2, a metallo-beta-lactamase protein, as a human mitochondrial endoribonuclease. Nucl. Acid Res. 44:1813-32. PDF
• Pinhassi, R.I, Kallmann, D., Saper, G., Dotan, H., Linkov, A., Liveanu, V., Schuster, G., Adir, N., and Rothschild,^, A. (2016) Hybrid Bio-Photo-Electro-Chemical Cells for Solar Water Splitting. Nature Comm. 7:12552-12562. PDF
• Pinhassi, R.I., Kallmann, D., Saper, G., Larom, S., Linkov, A., Boulouis, A., Schöttler, M-A., Bock, R., Rothschild, A., Adir^* and Schuster^* G. (2015) Photosynthetic membranes of Synechocystis or plants convert sunlight to photocurrent through different pathways due to different architectures. PLoS One 10(4):e0122616. (^*corresponding authors). PDF
• Larom, S., Kallmann, D., Saper, G., Pinhassi, R.I., Rothschild, A., Dotan, H., Ankonina, G., Schuster^*, G, and Adir^*, N. (2015) The Photosystem II D1-K238E mutation enhances electrical current production using cyanobacterial thylakoid membranes in a bio-photoelectrochemical cell. Photosynth. Res. 126:161–169. (^*corresponding authors). PDF

2010-2014

• Stoppel, R., Manavski, N., Schein, A., Schuster, G., Teubner, M., Schmitz-Linneweber, C. and Meurer, J. (2012) RHON1 is a novel ribonucleic acid-binding protein that supports RNase E function in the Arabidopsis chloroplast. Nucl Acid Res. 40: 8593-8606
• Matos, R., Fialho, AM., Giloh, M., Schuster, G. and Arraiano, CM. (2012) The rnb gene of Synechocystis PCC6803 encodes a RNA hydrolase displaying RNase II and not RNase R enzymatic properties. Plos One 7: e32690
• Levy, S., Portnoy, V., Admon, J. and Schuster, G. (2011) Distinct activities of several RNase J proteins in methanogenic archaea. RNA Biol. 8: 1073-1083. PDF
• Germain, A., Herlich, S., Larom, S., Kim, D., Schuster, G., and Stern, DB. (2011) Mutational analysis of Arabidopsis chloroplast polynucleotide phosphorylase reveals roles for both RNase PH core domains in polyadenylation, RNA 3’ end maturation and intron degradation. Plant J. 67: 381-394. PDF
• Sharwood, RE., Halpert, M., Luro, S., Schuster, G. and Stern, DB. (2011) Chloroplast RNase J compensates for inefficient transcription termination by removal of antisense RNA. RNA 17: 2165-2176. PDF
• Larom, S., Schuster, G. Faris, S., and Adir, N (2011) Twice green. Bioforum 8: 14-17  (in Hebrew)
• Slomovic S. and Schuster G. (2010) Exonucleases and endonucleases involved in polyadenylation-assisted RNA decay. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews (WIREs) 2: 106-123. PDF
• Slomovic S. and Schuster G. (2010) Oligo-dT RT-PCR isolation of polyadenylated RNA degradation intermediates Cookbook for Biomedical Labs, Elsevier, online. Appeared also in Methods Enzymol. (2013) 530:209-226. PDF
• Slomovic S. and Schuster G. (2010) Circularized RT-PCR (cRT): 5′ end, 3′ end, and poly(A) analysis of RNA. Cookbook for Biomedical Labs, Elsevier, online. Appeared also in Methods Enzymol. (2013) 530:227-251. PDF
• Staals R., Bronkhorst A. W., Schilders G., Slomovic S., Schuster G., Heck A. J.R., Raijmakers R. and Pruijn G. J.M. (2010) Dis3-like 1: a novel exoribonuclease associated with the human exosome. EMBO J, 29:2358-2367
• Larom, S., Faris, S., Schuster, G. and Adir, N (2010) Engineering of an alternative electron transfer path in Photosystem II. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. (USA), 107: 9650-9655. PDF
• Slomovic S., Fremder E., Staals R., Pruijn G. and Schuster G. (2010) Addition of poly(A) and poly(A)-rich tails during RNA degradation in the cytoplasm of human cells. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 107: 7407-12. PDF

2005-2009

• Zimmer S.L., Schein A., Zipor G., Stern D.B. and Schuster G. (2009) Polyadenylation in Arabidopsis and Chlamydomonas organelles: The input of nucleotidyltransferases, poly(A)-polymerases and polynucleotide phosphorylase. The Plant J. 59: 88-99
• Slomovic, S., Portnoy, V. and Schuster, G. (2008) Detection and characterization of polyadenylated RNA in eukarya, bacteria, archaea, and organelles. Methods Enz. 447: 501-520
• Schuster, G., and Stern, D. (2009). RNA polyadenylation and decay in mitochondria and chloroplasts. Prog Nucleic Acid Res Mol Biol 85:393-422.
• Portnoy, V. and Schuster, G. (2008) Mycoplasma gallisepticum as the first analyzed bacterium to metabolize RNA without polyadenylation. FEMS Lett. 283: 97-103
• Schein, A., Sheffy-Levin, S., Glazer, F. and Schuster, G. (2008) The RNase E/G-type endoribonuclease of higher plants is located in the chloroplast and cleaves RNA similarly to the E. coli enzyme. RNA 14:1057-1068
• Hacham, Y., Matityahu, I., Schuster, G. and Amir, R. (2008) Overexpression of mutated forms of aspartate kinase and cystathionine g-synthase in tobacco leaves resulted in the high accumulation of methionine and threonine. The Plant J. 54: 260-271.
• Slomovic, S., Portnoy, V., Yehudai-Resheff, S., Bronshtein, E. and Schuster, G. (2008) Polynucleotide phosphorylase and the archaeal exosome as poly(A)-polymerases. Biochem. Biophys. Acta 1779: 247-255. PDF
• Slomovic, S. and Schuster, G. (2008) Stable PNPase RNAi silencing; its effect on the processing and adenylation of human mitochondrial RNA. RNA 14: 310-323.
• Portnoy, V., Palnizky, G., Yehudai-Resheff S., Glazer, F. and Schuster, G. (2008) Analyzing the human polynucleotide-phosphorylase (PNPase) revealed similarities and differences compared to its bacterial and chloroplast counterparts. RNA 14: 297-309.
• Hacham, Y., Song, L., Schuster, G. and Amir, R. (2007) Lysine enhances methionine content by modulating the expression of S-adenosylmethionine synthase. The Plant J. 45: 850-861. 
• Bollenbach, T., Schuster, G., Portnoy V, and Stern, DB. (2007) Polyadenylation, processing and degradation of chloroplast RNA. Topics in Current Genetics 19: 175-211
• Lin-Chao, S., Chiou, NT. and Schuster, G (2007) The PNPase, exosome and RNA helicases as the building components of evolutionarily-conserved RNA degradation mechines J. Bio. Med. Sci. 14:523-532
• Portnoy, V. and Schuster, G. (2006) RNA polyadenylation and degradation in Archaea; roles of the exosome and RNase R. Nucl. Acid. Res. 34: 5923-5931.
• Slomovic, S., Laufer, D., Geiger, D. and Schuster, G. (2006) Polyadenylation of nuclear encoded human ribosomal RNA. Nucl. Acid. Res. 34: 2966-2975.
• Slomovic S, Portnoy V, Liveanu V and Schuster G (2006) RNA Polyadenylation in Prokaryotes and Organelles; Different Tails Tell Different Tales. Crit. Rev. Plant Sci. 25: 65-77
• Hacham, Y., Schuster, G. and Amir, R. (2006) An in vivo internal deletion in the N-terminus of Arabidopsis Cystathionine g-synthase results in CGS expression that is insensitive to methionine. The Plant J. 45: 955-967.
• Portnoy, V., Evguenieva-Hackenberg, E., Klein, F., Walter, P., Lorentzen, E., Klug, G. and Schuster, G. (2005) RNA polyadenylation in Archaea: Not observed in Haloferax while the exosome polyadenylates RNA in Sulfolobus. EMBO Rep. 6: 1188-1193.
• Nir, H., Eichen, Y. and Schuster, G. (2005) The construction of DNA molecules of figure-eight structure. Anal. Biochem. 344: 86-91.
• Slomovic, S., Laufer, D., Geiger, D. and Schuster, G. (2005) Polyadenylation and degradation of human mitochondrial RNA: The prokaryotic past leaves its mark. Mol. Cell. Biol. 25: 6427-6435.

2000-2004

• Nakamura, T., Schuster, G., Sugiura, M. and Sugita, M. (2004) Chloroplast RNA-binding proteins and PPR proteins. Biochemical Society transactions 32: 571-574.
• Bollenbach, T., Schuster, G. and Stern, DB. (2004) Cooperation of endo- and exoribonucleases in chloroplast mRNA turnover. Prog. Nucl. Acid Res. 78: 305-337. 
• Nakamura, T., Meierhoff, K., Westhoff, P. and Schuster, G. (2003) RNA-binding properties of HCF152, an Arabidopsis PPR protein involved in the processing of chloroplast RNA. Eur. J. Biochem. 270: 4070-4081.
• Yehudai-Resheff, S., Portnoy, V., Yogev, S., Adir, N. and Schuster G. (2003) Domain analysis of the chloroplast polynucleotide phosphorylase reveals discrete functions in RNA degradation, polyadenylation, and sequence homology to exosome proteins. Plant Cell. 15: 2003-2019.
• Grunwald, I., Rupprecht, I., Schuster, G. and Kloppstech, K. (2003) Identification of guttation fluid proteins: The presence of pathogenesis-related proteins in non-infected barley plants. Physiol. Plant. 119: 192-202.
• Meierhoff, K., Felder, S., Nakamura, T., Bechtold, N. and Schuster, G. (2003) HCF152, an Arabidopsis PPR protein involved in the processing of chloroplast psbB-psbT-psbH-petB-petD RNAs. Plant Cell, 15: 1480-1495.
• Rott, R., Zipor, G., Portnoy, V., Liveanu, V. and Schuster, G. (2003) RNA Polyadenylation and degradation in cyanobacteria are similar to the chloroplast but different from E. coli. J. Biol Chem. 278: 15771-15777.
• Komine, Y., Kikis, E. A., Schuster, G. and Stern D. B. (2002) In vivo modulation of chloroplast RNA stability by 3’ UTR homopolymeric tails in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 99: 4085-4090.
• Schuster, G. (2002) The molecular mechanism of degradation and polyadenylation of RNA in the chloroplast. Current Topics in Plant Biology 3: 199-206.
• Schuster, G. and Bock, R. (2001) Editing, polyadenylation and degradation of mRNA in the chloroplast. In: Advance in photosynthesis, Vol. 11 (Aro, E.M. and Anderson, B. eds.) Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 121-136.
• Baginsky, S., Shteiman-Kotler, A., Liveanu, V., Yehudai-Reshef, S., Bellaoui, M., Settlage, RE., Shabanowitz, J., Hunt, DF., Schuster, G. and Gruissem, W. (2001) The high-molecular-weight chloroplast RNA processing protein complex is a homo-multimer of PNPase. RNA 7: 1464-1465.
• Yehudai-Resheff, S., Hirsh, M. and Schuster, G. (2001) Polynucleotide phosphorylase (PNPase) functions both as an exonuclease and a poly(A) polymerase in spinach chloroplast. Mol. Cell. Biol. 21: 5408-5416.
• Lisitsky, I., Rott, R. and Schuster, G. (2001) Insertion of poly(A) sequences into an intergenic region increases transcription in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii chloroplasts. Planta 212: 851-857.
• Shteiman-Kotler, A. and Schuster, G. (2000) RNA binding characteristics of the chloroplast S1-like ribosomal protein, CS1. Nucl. Acid. Res. 28: 3310-3315. 
• Yehudai-Resheff, S. and Schuster, G. (2000) Characterization of the E. coli poly(A)-polymerase: specificity to nucleotides, RNA-binding affinities and RNA-structure dependence activity. Nucl. Acid. Res. 28: 1139-1144.
• Komine, Y., Kwong, L., Anguera, M.C., Schuster, G., and Stern, D.B. (2000) Polyadenylation of three classes of chloroplast RNA in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. RNA 6: 598-607.
• Monde, R.A., Schuster, G. and Stern, D.B. (2000) Processing and degradation of chloroplast mRNA. Biochimie 82: 573-582. 

Before 2000

• Lisitsky, I. and Schuster, G. (1999) Polyadenylation and degradation of mRNA in the chloroplast. In: Plant biotechnology and in vitro biology in the 21st century (A. Altman, S. Itzhar and M, Ziv eds.), Kluwer academic publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands pp. 425-428.
• Lisitsky, I., and Schuster, G., (1999) Polyadenylation and degradation of mRNA in the chloroplast. In: The chloroplast: from molecular biology to biotechnology (J. Argyroudi-Akoyunoglou eds.), Kluwer academic publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands. pp. 85-90.
• Schuster, G., Lisitsky, I. and Klaff, P. (1999) Update on chloroplast molecular biology: Polyadenylation and degradation of mRNA in the chloroplast. Plant Physiol. 120: 937-944.
• Rott, R., Liveanu, V., Drager, R., Higgs, D., Stern, D. and Schuster, G. (1999) mRNA Processing in the chloroplast of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii: alternating the endonucleolytic cleavage site effects 3’ end processing in vitro but not in vivo. Plant Mol. Biol. 40: 679-686.
• Lisitsky, I., and Schuster, G. (1999) Preferential degradation of polyadenylated and polyuridinylated RNAs by bacterial exoribonuclease polynucleotide phosphorylase (PNPase). Eur. J. Biochem. 261: 468-474.
• Rott, R., Levy, H., Drager, R., Stern, D. and Schuster, G. (1998) 3’ – processed mRNA is preferentially translated in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii chloroplast. Mol. Cell. Biol. 18: 4605-4611.
• Rott, R., Liveanu, V., Drager, R., Stern, D., and Schuster, G. (1998) Sequence and structure of the 3’ untranslated region are important determinants for accumulation and stability of chloroplast mRNA. Plant Mol. Biol. 36: 307-314.
• Lisitsky, I., Klaff, P. and Schuster, G. (1997) Blocking polyadenylation of mRNA in the chloroplast inhibits its degradation. Plant J. 12: 1173-1178.
• Lisitsky, I., Kotler, A. and Schuster, G. (1997) The mechanism of preferential degradation of polyadenylated RNA in the chloroplast: the exoribonuclease 100RNP/PNPase displays high affinity of binding to poly(A) sequence. J. Biol. Chem. 272: 17648-17653.
• Lisitsky, I., Klaff, P. and Schuster, G. (1996) Addition of destabilizing poly(A)-rich sequences to endonuclease cleavage sites during the degradation of chloroplast mRNA. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 93: 13398-13403.
• Rott, R., Drager, R., Stern, D. and Schuster, G. (1996) The 3’ untranslated regions of chloroplast genes in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii do not serve as efficient transcriptional terminators. Mol. Gen. Genet. 252: 676-683. 
• Yang, J., Schuster, G. and Stern, D. (1996) CSP41, a sequence-specific chloroplast mRNA-binding protein, is an endonuclease. Plant Cell 8: 1409-1420.
• Hayes, R., Kudla, J., Schuster, G., Gabay, L., Maliga, P. and Gruissem, W. (1996) Chloroplast mRNA 3’-end processing by a high molecular weight complex is regulated by nuclear-encoded RNA-binding proteins. EMBO J. 15: 1132-1141.
• Lisitsky, I. and Schuster, G. (1995) Phosphorylation of a chloroplast RNA-binding protein changes the affinity to RNA. Nucl. Acid Res. 23: 2506-2511.
• Lisitsky, I. and Schuster, G. (1995) A method to determine the minimal nucleotide stretch required for binding of ribonucleoprotein to RNA. Anal. Biochem. 224: 603-605. 
• Lisitsky, I., Liveanu, V. and Schuster, G. (1995) RNA-binding characteristics of a ribonucleoprotein from spinach chloroplast. Plant Physiol. 7: 933-941.