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ArticlePloS one2014

Bioinformatic indications that COPI- and clathrin-based transport systems are not present in chloroplasts: an Arabidopsis model.

Emelie Lindquist, Mohamed Alezzawi, Henrik Aronsson

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Article in PloS one, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Emelie LindquistDepartment of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Mohamed AlezzawiDepartment of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Henrik AronssonDepartment of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
University of Gothenburg · SE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Coated vesicle transport occurs in the cytosol of yeast, mammals and plants. It consists of three different transport systems, the COPI, COPII and clathrin coated vesicles (CCV), all of which participate in the transfer of proteins and lipids between different cytosolic compartments. There are also indications that chloroplasts have a vesicle transport system. Several putative chloroplast-localized proteins, including CPSAR1 and CPRabA5e with similarities to cytosolic COPII transport-related proteins, were detected in previous experimental and bioinformatics studies. These indications raised the hypothesis that a COPI- and/or CCV-related system may be present in chloroplasts, in addition to a COPII-related system. To test this hypothesis we bioinformatically searched for chloroplast proteins that may have similar functions to known cytosolic COPI and CCV components in the model plants Arabidopsis thaliana and Oryza sativa (subsp. japonica) (rice). We found 29 such proteins, based on domain similarity, in Arabidopsis, and 14 in rice. However, many components could not be identified and among the identified most have assigned roles that are not related to either COPI or CCV transport. We conclude that COPII is probably the only active vesicle system in chloroplasts, at least in the model plants. The evolutionary implications of the findings are discussed.

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Computational BiologyAmino Acid SequenceArabidopsisBiological TransportChloroplast ProteinsChloroplastsClathrin-Coated VesiclesCOP-Coated VesiclesGene ExpressionMolecular Sequence DataOryzaSequence Homology, Amino AcidChloroplast Proteins

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PMID25137124
PMCPMC4138088
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