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ARC3 is a stromal Z-ring accessory protein essential for plastid division.
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- Dual Cytoplasmic and Chloroplastic Mechanisms Fine-Tune Chloroplast Division through ARC3 Protein Stability.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Article
- Enhanced chloroplast FtsZ-ring constriction by the ARC6-ARC3 module inProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- MoBiFC: development of a modular bimolecular fluorescence complementation toolkit for the analysis of chloroplast protein-protein interactions.Plant methods · 2022Article
- Three Diverse Granule Preparation Methods for Proteomic Analysis of Mature Rice (Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- A novel amphiphilic motif at the C-terminus of FtsZ1 facilitates chloroplast division.The Plant cell · 2022Article
- Mutation of SlARC6 leads to tissue-specific defects in chloroplast development in tomato.Horticulture research · 2021Article
- Residue 49 of AtMinD1 Plays a Key Role in the Guidance of Chloroplast Division by Regulating the ARC6-AtMinD1 Interaction.Frontiers in plant science · 2021Article
- Allelic Variation in the Chloroplast Division GenePlant physiology · 2019Article
- MaizeThe Journal of cell biology · 2019Article
- ARC3 Activation by PARC6 Promotes FtsZ-Ring Remodeling at the Chloroplast Division Site.The Plant cell · 2019Article
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- MCD1 Associates with FtsZ Filaments via the Membrane-Tethering Protein ARC6 to Guide Chloroplast Division.The Plant cell · 2018Article
- The chloroplast division protein ARC6 acts to inhibit disassembly of GDP-bound FtsZ2.The Journal of biological chemistry · 2018Article
- Ethylene Exerts Species-Specific and Age-Dependent Control of Photosynthesis.Plant physiology · 2018Review
- Bacterial Heterologous Expression System for Reconstitution of Chloroplast Inner Division Ring and Evaluation of Its Contributors.International journal of molecular sciences · 2018Review
- The Molecular Machinery of Chloroplast Division.Plant physiology · 2018Review
- The Arabidopsis arc5 and arc6 mutations differentially affect plastid morphology in pavement and guard cells in the leaf epidermis.PloS one · 2018Article
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Abstract
In plants, chloroplast division is an integral part of development, and these vital organelles arise by binary fission from pre-existing cytosolic plastids. Chloroplasts arose by endosymbiosis and although they have retained elements of the bacterial cell division machinery to execute plastid division, they have evolved to require two functionally distinct forms of the FtsZ protein and have lost elements of the Min machinery required for Z-ring placement. Here, we analyse the plastid division component accumulation and replication of chloroplasts 3 (ARC3) and show that ARC3 forms part of the stromal plastid division machinery. ARC3 interacts specifically with AtFtsZ1, acting as a Z-ring accessory protein and defining a unique function for this family of FtsZ proteins. ARC3 is involved in division site placement, suggesting that it might functionally replace MinC, representing an important advance in our understanding of the mechanism of chloroplast division and the evolution of the chloroplast division machinery.
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