Nucleotide binding and dimerization at the chloroplast pre-protein import receptor, atToc33, are not essential in vivo but do increase import efficiency

Plant Journal

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 297-311

  Aronsson, Henrik ^a   Combe, Jonathan ^b   Patel, Ramesh ^b   Agne, Birgit ^c   Martin, Meryll ^c   Kessler, Felix ^c   Jarvis, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; atToc33; chloroplast protein import; GTPase; ppi1; protein targeting

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; CHLOROPHYLL ACCUMULATION; CHLOROPLAST PROTEIN IMPORT; COMPLEMENTATION; CONVENTIONAL SENSE; FUNCTIONAL INTERACTION; FUNCTIONAL REDUNDANCY; GTP BINDING; GTP HYDROLYSIS; GTPASE ACTIVITY; IN-PLANTS; IN-VITRO; IN-VIVO; MUTANT PLANTS; NATIVE FORMS; NUCLEOTIDE BINDING; OVER-EXPRESSION; PLASTID PROTEINS; PROTEIN IMPORT; PROTEIN TARGETING; TRANSGENIC PLANTS; WILD TYPES; WILD-TYPE LEVELS;

CHLOROPHYLL; DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; DIMERIZATION; HYDROLYSIS; NUCLEOTIDES; PLANTS (BOTANY); PORPHYRINS;

PROTEINS;

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; CHLOROPHYLL; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; TOC33 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CHLOROPLAST; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETICS; HYDROLYSIS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CHLOROPHYLL; CHLOROPLASTS; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GTP PHOSPHOHYDROLASES; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; HYDROLYSIS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 77954434270     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2010.04242.x     Document Type: Article

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