Ubiquitin-based pathway acts inside chloroplasts to regulate photosynthesis
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ABSTRACT: Photosynthesis is the energetic basis for most life on Earth, and in plants it operates inside double-membrane-bound organelles called chloroplasts. The photosynthetic apparatus comprises numerous proteins encoded by the nuclear and organellar genomes. Maintenance of this apparatus requires the action of internal chloroplast proteases, but a role for the nucleocytosolic ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS) was not expected owing to the barrier presented by the double-membrane envelope. Here, we show that photosynthesis proteins (including those encoded internally by chloroplast genes) are ubiquitinated, and processed via the CHLORAD pathway: they are degraded by the 26S proteasome following CDC48-dependent retrotranslocation to the cytosol. This demonstrates that the reach of the UPS extends to the interior of endosymbiotically-derived chloroplasts, where it acts to regulate one of the most fundamental processes of life.
INSTRUMENT(S): Q Exactive
ORGANISM(S): Arabidopsis Thaliana (mouse-ear Cress)
TISSUE(S): Leaf
SUBMITTER: Honglin Chen
LAB HEAD: Shabaz Mohammed
PROVIDER: PXD031388 | Pride | 2022-12-06
REPOSITORIES: Pride
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