Article
Effects of selective inactivation of individual genes for low-molecular-mass subunits on the assembly of photosystem II, as revealed by chloroplast transformation: the psbEFLJoperon in Nicotiana tabacum.
Molecular genetics and genomics : MGG - 1 Mar 2003
Swiatek M, Regel R E, Meurer J, Wanner G, Pakrasi H B, Ohad I, Herrmann R G
Abstract excerpt
Photosystem (PSII) is a supramolecular polypeptide complex found in oxygenic photosynthetic membranes, which is capable of extracting electrons from water for the reduction of plastoquinone. An intriguing feature of this assembly is the fact that it includes more than a dozen low-mass polypeptides of generally unknown function. Using a transplastomic approach, we have individually disrupted the genes of the...
Topics
- Base Sequence
- Chloroplasts
- DNA, Plant
- Gene Targeting
- Genes, Plant
- Microscopy, Electron
- Mutation
- Operon
- Phenotype
- Photosynthetic Reaction Center Complex Proteins
- Photosystem I Protein Complex
- Photosystem II Protein Complex