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Plastids contain a second sec translocase system with essential functions.
Plant physiology - 1 Jan 2011
Skalitzky Courtney A, Martin Jonathan R, Harwood Jessica H, Beirne John J, Adamczyk Benjamin J, Heck Gregory R, Cline Kenneth, Fernandez Donna E
Abstract excerpt
Proteins that are synthesized on cytoplasmic ribosomes but function within plastids must be imported and then targeted to one of six plastid locations. Although multiple systems that target proteins to the thylakoid membranes or thylakoid lumen have been identified, a system that can direct the integration of inner envelope membrane proteins from the stroma has not been previously described. Genetics and...
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