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ReviewFrontiers in plant science2015

Copper Delivery to Chloroplast Proteins and its Regulation.

Guadalupe Aguirre, Marinus Pilon

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Review in Frontiers in plant science, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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17citing papers in PubMed
3.7field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed, 64 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Guadalupe AguirreBiology Department, Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO, USA.
Marinus PilonBiology Department, Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO, USA.
Colorado State University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Copper is required for photosynthesis in chloroplasts of plants because it is a cofactor of plastocyanin, an essential electron carrier in the thylakoid lumen. Other chloroplast copper proteins are copper/zinc superoxide dismutase and polyphenol oxidase, but these proteins seem to be dispensable under conditions of low copper supply when transcripts for these proteins undergo microRNA-mediated down regulation. Two ATP-driven copper transporters function in tandem to deliver copper to chloroplast compartments. This review seeks to summarize the mechanisms of copper delivery to chloroplast proteins and its regulation. We also delineate some of the unanswered questions that still remain in this field.

Indexed as

copper deficiencycopper transporting P-type ATPaseCu-miRNAphotosynthesisplastocyaninpolyphenol oxidasesuperoxide dismutase

Identifiers

PMID26793223
PMCPMC4709454
OpenAlexW2279087517

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