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ARC3, a chloroplast division factor, is a chimera of prokaryotic FtsZ and part of eukaryotic phosphatidylinositol-4-phosphate 5-kinase.
Plant & cell physiology - 1 Aug 2004
Shimada Hiroshi, Koizumi Masato, Kuroki Kouta, Mochizuki Mariko, Fujimoto Hitoshi, Ohta Hiroyuki, Masuda Tatsuru, Takamiya Ken-ichiro
Abstract excerpt
The arc3 (accumulation and replication of chloroplast) mutant of Arabidopsis thaliana has a small number of abnormally large chloroplasts in the cell, suggesting that chloroplast division is arrested in the mutant and ARC3 has an important role in the initiation of chloroplast division. To elucidate the role of ARC3, first we identified the ARC3 gene, and determined the location of ARC3 protein during chloroplast...
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