ABC1K atypical kinases in plants: filling the organellar kinase void.
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SUBMITTER: Lundquist PK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3926664 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Sep
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ABC1K atypical kinases in plants: filling the organellar kinase void.
Lundquist Peter K PK Davis Jerrold I JI van Wijk Klaas J KJ
Trends in plant science 20120611 9
Surprisingly few protein kinases have been demonstrated in chloroplasts or mitochondria. Here, we discuss the activity of bc(1) complex kinase (ABC1K) protein family, which we suggest locate in mitochondria and plastids, thus filling the kinase void. The ABC1Ks are atypical protein kinases and their ancestral function is the regulation of quinone synthesis. ABC1Ks have proliferated from one or two members in non-photosynthetic organisms to more than 16 members in algae and higher plants. In this ...[more]
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