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Chloroplast Fe(III) chelate reductase activity is essential for seedling viability under iron limiting conditions.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 29 Jul 2008
Jeong Jeeyon, Cohu Christopher, Kerkeb Loubna, Pilon Marinus, Connolly Erin L, Guerinot Mary Lou
Abstract excerpt
Photosynthesis, heme biosynthesis, and Fe-S cluster assembly all take place in the chloroplast, and all require iron. Reduction of iron via a membrane-bound Fe(III) chelate reductase is required before iron transport across membranes in a variety of systems, but to date there has been no definitive genetic proof that chloroplasts have such a reduction system. Here we report that one of the eight members of the...
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