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Arabidopsis chloroplast lipid transport protein TGD2 disrupts membranes and is part of a large complex.
The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology - 1 Jun 2011
Roston Rebecca, Gao Jinpeng, Xu Changcheng, Benning Christoph
Abstract excerpt
In most plants the assembly of the photosynthetic thylakoid membrane requires lipid precursors synthesized at the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). Thus, the transport of lipids from the ER to the chloroplast is essential for biogenesis of the thylakoids. TGD2 is one of four proteins in Arabidopsis required for lipid import into the chloroplast, and was found to bind phosphatidic acid in vitro. However, the...
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