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SUBMITTER: Tottey S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC307702 | biostudies-literature | 2003 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tottey Stephen S Block Maryse A MA Allen Michael M Westergren Tomas T Albrieux Catherine C Scheller Henrik V HV Merchant Sabeeha S Jensen Poul Erik PE
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20031212 26
CHL27, the Arabidopsis homologue to Chlamydomonas Crd1, a plastid-localized putative diiron protein, is required for the synthesis of protochlorophyllide and therefore is a candidate subunit of the aerobic cyclase in chlorophyll biosynthesis. delta-Aminolevulinic acid-fed antisense Arabidopsis plants with reduced amounts of Crd1/CHL27 accumulate Mg-protoporphyrin IX monomethyl ester, the substrate of the cyclase reaction. Mutant plants have chlorotic leaves with reduced abundance of all chloroph ...[more]