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YCF1: A Green TIC?
The Plant cell - 1 Jul 2015
de Vries Jan, Sousa Filipa L, Bölter Bettina, Soll Jürgen, Gould Sven B
Abstract excerpt
A pivotal step in the transformation of an endosymbiotic cyanobacterium to a plastid some 1.5 billion years ago was the evolution of a protein import apparatus, the TOC/TIC machinery, in the common ancestor of Archaeplastida. Recently, a putative new TIC member was identified in Arabidopsis thaliana: TIC214. This finding is remarkable for a number of reasons: (1) TIC214 is encoded by ycf1, so it would be the...
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