ArticleThe Journal of cell biology1998
A SecY homologue is required for the elaboration of the chloroplast thylakoid membrane and for normal chloroplast gene expression.
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- PUMPKIN, the Sole Plastid UMP Kinase, Associates with Group II Introns and Alters Their Metabolism.Plant physiology · 2019Article
- Two paths diverged in the stroma: targeting to dual SEC translocase systems in chloroplasts.Photosynthesis research · 2018Review
- Chloroplast Translation: Structural and Functional Organization, Operational Control, and Regulation.The Plant cell · 2018Review
- PSA3, a Protein on the Stromal Face of the Thylakoid Membrane, Promotes Photosystem I Accumulation in Cooperation with the Assembly Factor PYG7.Plant physiology · 2017Article
- Translation and Co-translational Membrane Engagement of Plastid-encoded Chlorophyll-binding Proteins Are Not Influenced by Chlorophyll Availability in Maize.Frontiers in plant science · 2017Article
- A PPR protein in the PLS subfamily stabilizes the 5'-end of processed rpl16 mRNAs in maize chloroplasts.Nucleic acids research · 2016Article
- Functional Update of the Auxiliary Proteins PsbW, PsbY, HCF136, PsbN, TerC and ALB3 in Maintenance and Assembly of PSII.Frontiers in plant science · 2016Review
- FtsHi4 is essential for embryogenesis due to its influence on chloroplast development in Arabidopsis.PloS one · 2014Article
- Mutation of the pentatricopeptide repeat-SMR protein SVR7 impairs accumulation and translation of chloroplast ATP synthase subunits in Arabidopsis thaliana.Journal of plant research · 2013Article
- Plastids contain a second sec translocase system with essential functions.Plant physiology · 2011Article
- The Arabidopsis thylakoid protein PAM68 is required for efficient D1 biogenesis and photosystem II assembly.The Plant cell · 2010Article
- Site-specific binding of a PPR protein defines and stabilizes 5' and 3' mRNA termini in chloroplasts.The EMBO journal · 2009Article
- Plastid protein import and sorting: different paths to the same compartments.Current opinion in plant biology · 2008Review
- Two CRM protein subfamilies cooperate in the splicing of group IIB introns in chloroplasts.RNA (New York, N.Y.) · 2008Article
- A CRM domain protein functions dually in group I and group II intron splicing in land plant chloroplasts.The Plant cell · 2007Article
- Loss or retention of chloroplast DNA in maize seedlings is affected by both light and genotype.Planta · 2006Article
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Abstract
Results of in vitro and genetic studies have provided evidence for four pathways by which proteins are targeted to the chloroplast thylakoid membrane. Although these pathways are initially engaged by distinct substrates and involve some distinct components, an unresolved issue has been whether multiple pathways converge on a common translocation pore in the membrane. A homologue of eubacterial SecY called cpSecY is localized to the thylakoid membrane. Since SecY is a component of a protein-translocating pore in bacteria, cpSecY likely plays an analogous role. To explore the role of cpSecY, we obtained maize mutants with transposon insertions in the corresponding gene. Null cpSecY mutants exhibit a severe loss of thylakoid membrane, differing in this regard from mutants lacking cpSecA. Therefore, cpSecY function is not limited to a translocation step downstream of cpSecA. The phenotype of cpSecY mutants is also much more pleiotropic than that of double mutants in which both the cpSecA- and DeltapH-dependent thylakoid-targeting pathways are disrupted. Therefore, cpSecY function is likely to extend beyond any role it might play in these targeting pathways. CpSecY mutants also exhibit a defect in chloroplast translation, revealing a link between chloroplast membrane biogenesis and chloroplast gene expression.
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