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The variegated mutants lacking chloroplastic FtsHs are defective in D1 degradation and accumulate reactive oxygen species.
Plant physiology - 1 Dec 2009
Kato Yusuke, Miura Eiko, Ido Kunio, Ifuku Kentaro, Sakamoto Wataru
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In the photosynthetic apparatus, a major target of photodamage is the D1 reaction center protein of photosystem II (PSII). Photosynthetic organisms have developed a PSII repair cycle in which photodamaged D1 is selectively degraded. A thylakoid membrane-bound metalloprotease, FtsH, was shown to p...
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