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Evidence for a protein transported through the secretory pathway en route to the higher plant chloroplast

Villarejo A, Buren S, Larsson S, Dejardin A, Monne M, Rudhe C, Karlsson J, Jansson S, Lerouge P, Rolland N, von Heijne G, Grebe M, Bako L, Samuelsson G

Abstract

In contrast to animal and fungal cells, green plant cells contain one or multiple chloroplasts, the organelle(s) in which photosynthetic reactions take place. Chloroplasts are believed to have originated from an endosymbiotic event and contain DNA that codes for some of their proteins. Most chloroplast proteins are encoded by the nuclear genome and imported with the help of sorting signals that are intrinsic parts of the polypeptides. Here, we show that a chloroplast-located protein in higher plants takes an alternative route through the secretory pathway, and becomes N-glycosylated before entering the chloroplast

Published in

Nature Cell Biology
2005, Volume: 7, number: 12, pages: 1224-1231
Publisher: NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP

    UKÄ Subject classification

    Forest Science

    Publication identifier

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/ncb1330

    Permanent link to this page (URI)

    https://res.slu.se/id/publ/7156