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Chloroplast outer envelope protein CHUP1 is essential for chloroplast anchorage to the plasma membrane and chloroplast movement.
Plant physiology - 1 Oct 2008
Oikawa Kazusato, Yamasato Akihiro, Kong Sam-Geun, Kasahara Masahiro, Nakai Masato, Takahashi Fumio, Ogura Yasunobu, Kagawa Takatoshi, Wada Masamitsu
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Chloroplasts change their intracellular distribution in response to light intensity. Previously, we isolated the chloroplast unusual positioning1 (chup1) mutant of Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana). This mutant is defective in normal chloroplast relocation movement and shows aggregation of chloroplasts at the bottom of palisade mesophyll cells. The isolated gene encodes a protein with an actin-binding motif....
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