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SUBMITTER: Huesgen PF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3774753 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Huesgen Pitter F PF Alami Meriem M Lange Philipp F PF Foster Leonard J LJ Schröder Wolfgang P WP Schröder Wolfgang P WP Overall Christopher M CM Green Beverley R BR
PloS one 20130916 9
In organisms with complex plastids acquired by secondary endosymbiosis from a photosynthetic eukaryote, the majority of plastid proteins are nuclear-encoded, translated on cytoplasmic ribosomes, and guided across four membranes by a bipartite targeting sequence. In-depth understanding of this vital import process has been impeded by a lack of information about the transit peptide part of this sequence, which mediates transport across the inner three membranes. We determined the mature N-termini ...[more]