Specialized transporters in the outer chloroplast membrane must convey those proteins into the chloroplast. A new paper in Science Advances by Gyeong Mee Yoon, associate professor of botany and plant ...

1 Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA 2 Department of Biology, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON, Canada The translocon at the outer ...

Specialized transporters in the outer chloroplast membrane must convey these proteins into the chloroplast. Yoon and Chien identified a crucial amino acid of the transporter that, when modified ...

Specialized transporters in the outer chloroplast membrane must convey these proteins into the chloroplast. Altering this amino acid and the chemical modification can dramatically disrupt chloroplast ...

A research team in Munich has now discovered that the outer envelope membrane of chloroplasts could play a key role in this process. Plants absorb carbon dioxide and use the sun and water to turn ...

Most chloroplast proteins are imported from the cytosol through the translocon at the outer envelope membrane of chloroplasts (TOC). Previous work has shown that TOC components are regulated by the ...

Protein import into chloroplasts is mediated by two membrane protein complexes called TOC and TIC in the outer and inner envelope membrane, respectively. These complexes play a key role in chloroplast ...

A research group led by Osaka University identifies a new type of protein from the red algae Cyanidioschyzon merolae associated with the import of chloroplast protein precursors and the mechanism of ...

and transported across the outer and inner envelope membranes of chloroplasts. “From C. merolae, we found a new targeting factor associated with the recognition of chloroplast preproteins ...

Our reverse genetic experiments revealed a genetic interaction between the E2 SUMO conjugating enzyme, SCE1, and the protein import machinery at the chloroplast outer membrane. To determine whether ...