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A complex containing PGRL1 and PGR5 is involved in the switch between linear and cyclic electron flow in ArabidopsisGiovanni DalCorso
Lehrstuhl fur Botanik, Department Biologie, Ludwig Maximilians Universitat, Menzinger Str 67, 80638 Munchen, Germany
Cell 132:273-85. 2008..Plants lacking PGRL1 show perturbation of CEF, similar to PGR5-deficient plants. We find that PGRL1 and PGR5 interact physically and associate with PSI. We therefore propose that the PGRL1-PGR5 complex facilitates CEF in eukaryotes...- Mutants for photosystem I subunit D of Arabidopsis thaliana: effects on photosynthesis, photosystem I stability and expression of nuclear genes for chloroplast functionsAnna Ihnatowicz
, , , , Germany
Plant J 37:839-52. 2004..Increased dosage of PsaD2 in the psad1-1 background restores the WT phenotype, indicating that PSI-D1 and PSI-D2 have redundant functions... - Tandem and segmental gene duplication and recombination in the evolution of plant disease resistance geneDario Leister
Abteilung für Pflanzezüchtung und Ertragsphysiologie, Max Planck Instutut für Züchtungsforschung, Koln, Germany
Trends Genet 20:116-22. 2004..Once physically removed from their closest relatives, the NBS-LRR genes might adopt and preserve new specificities because they are less prone to sequence homogenization... - Genomics-based dissection of the cross-talk of chloroplasts with the nucleus and mitochondria in ArabidopsisDario Leister
Abteilung für Pflanzenzüchtung und Genetik, Max Planck Institut fur Zuchtungsforschung, Carl von Linne Weg 10, D 50829 Köln, Germany
Gene 354:110-6. 2005..The recent discovery of the latter mode of control highlights a possibly ancient route to co-ordinate chloroplast and nuclear genome expression... - Chloroplast research in the genomic ageDario Leister
Abteilung für Pflanzenzüchtung und Ertragsphysiologie, Max Planck Institut fur Zuchtungsforschung, Carl von Linne Weg 10, 50829, Koln, Germany
Trends Genet 19:47-56. 2003..Recent advances in transcriptomics and proteomics of the chloroplast make this organelle one of the best understood of all plant cell compartments... - Knock-out of the genes coding for the Rieske protein and the ATP-synthase delta-subunit of Arabidopsis. Effects on photosynthesis, thylakoid protein composition, and nuclear chloroplast gene expressionDaniela Maiwald
Abteilung für Pflanzenzüchtung und Ertragsphysiologie, Max Planck Institut fur Zuchtungsforschung, Carl von Linne Weg 10, D 50829 Köln, Germany
Plant Physiol 133:191-202. 2003.... - Nuclear photosynthetic gene expression is synergistically modulated by rates of protein synthesis in chloroplasts and mitochondriaPaolo Pesaresi
Abteilung für Pflanzenzüchtung und Genetik, Max Planck Institut fur Zuchtungsforschung, D 50829 Cologne, Germany
Plant Cell 18:970-91. 2006.... - The metal ion transporter IRT1 is necessary for iron homeostasis and efficient photosynthesis in Arabidopsis thalianaClaudio Varotto
Zentrum zur Identifikation von Genfunktionen durch Insertionsmutagenese bei Arabidopsis thaliana ZIGIA, Max Planck Institut fur Zuchtungsforschung, Carl von Linne Weg 10, 50829 Köln, Germany
Plant J 31:589-99. 2002.... - Cytoplasmic N-terminal protein acetylation is required for efficient photosynthesis in ArabidopsisPaolo Pesaresi
Abteilung für Pflanzenzüchtung und Ertragsphysiologie, Max Planck Institut fur Zuchtungsforschung, D 50829 Köln, Germany
Plant Cell 15:1817-32. 2003..We suggest that N-acetylation of certain chloroplast precursor protein(s) is necessary for the efficient accumulation of the mature protein(s) in chloroplasts... - The E subunit of photosystem I is not essential for linear electron flow and photoautotrophic growth in Arabidopsis thalianaAnna Ihnatowicz
Abteilung für Pflanzenzüchtung und Genetik, Max Planck Institut fur Zuchtungsforschung, Carl von Linne Weg 10, 50829 Köln, Germany
Planta 226:889-95. 2007..The psae1-3 psae2-1 double mutant totally lacked PSI-E but was still able to grow photoautotrophically, implying that PSI-E is not essential for PSI accumulation and thylakoid electron flow... - Impaired photosystem I oxidation induces STN7-dependent phosphorylation of the light-harvesting complex I protein Lhca4 in Arabidopsis thalianaAnna Ihnatowicz
Abteilung für Pflanzenzüchtung und Genetik, Max Planck Institut fur Zuchtungsforschung, Carl von Linne Weg 10, 50829 Cologne, Germany
Planta 227:717-22. 2008..Thus, under extreme redox conditions, hyperactivation of thylakoid protein kinases and/or reorganization of thylakoid protein complex distribution increase the susceptibility of PSI to phosphorylation... - Single and double knockouts of the genes for photosystem I subunits G, K, and H of Arabidopsis. Effects on photosystem I composition, photosynthetic electron flow, and state transitionsClaudio Varotto
Zentrum zur Identifikation von Genfunktionen durch Insertionsmutagenese bei Arabidopsis thaliana, Max Planck Institut fur Zuchtungsforschung, Carl von Linne Weg 10, 50829 Köln, Germany
Plant Physiol 129:616-24. 2002..Based on the results, we also suggest for PSI-K a role in state transitions... - Functional specialization amongst the Arabidopsis Toc159 family of chloroplast protein import receptorsSybille Kubis
Department of Biology, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, United Kindom
Plant Cell 16:2059-77. 2004..When both atToc159 and the major isoform of the other subtype, atToc132, were absent, an embryo-lethal phenotype resulted, demonstrating the essential role of Toc159 in the import mechanism... - Analysis of 101 nuclear transcriptomes reveals 23 distinct regulons and their relationship to metabolism, chromosomal gene distribution and co-ordination of nuclear and plastid gene expressionAlexander Biehl
, Germany
Gene 344:33-41. 2005..From the evolutionary standpoint, the results provided indicate that functional integration of the proto-chloroplast into the eukaryotic cell was associated with the establishment of different layers of nuclear transcriptional control... - Retrograde plastid redox signals in the expression of nuclear genes for chloroplast proteins of Arabidopsis thalianaVidal Fey
Department for Plant Physiology, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Dornburger Strasse 159, 07743 Jena, Germany
J Biol Chem 280:5318-28. 2005..These redox signals appear to act independently and/or above of cytosolic photoreceptor or known chloroplast-to-nucleus communication avenues... - NUPTs in sequenced eukaryotes and their genomic organization in relation to NUMTsErik Richly
, , , Germany
Mol Biol Evol 21:1972-80. 2004..This implies that original insertions are large and decay over evolutionary time into smaller fragments with diverging sequences. We suggest that tight and loose clusters represent intermediates of this decay process... - Generation and evolutionary fate of insertions of organelle DNA in the nuclear genomes of flowering plantsChristos Noutsos
, , , Germany
Genome Res 15:616-28. 2005..Deletion of organelle DNA at these loci is essentially balanced by insertions of nonorganelle DNA. Deletions are associated with the removal of DNA between perfect repeats, indicating that they originate by replication slippage... - Origin, evolution and genetic effects of nuclear insertions of organelle DNADario Leister
Department Biologie I, Botanik, Ludwig Maximilians Universitat, Menzingerstr 67, D 80638 München, Germany
Trends Genet 21:655-63. 2005..In humans, some insertions of nuclear mitochondrial DNA are associated with heritable diseases. It remains to be determined whether nuclear organelle DNA can contribute beneficially to gene evolution... - Abundantly and rarely expressed Lhc protein genes exhibit distinct regulation patterns in plantsFrank Klimmek
, Department of Plant Physiology, , Sweden
Plant Physiol 140:793-804. 2006..As the Lhcb4.3 gene seems to be present only in Eurosid species and as its regulation pattern varies significantly from that of Lhcb4.1 and Lhcb4.2, we conclude it to encode a distinct Lhc protein type, Lhcb8... - GST-PRIME: an algorithm for genome-wide primer designDario Leister
Department of Biologie I, Botanik, Ludwig Maximilians Universtät München, Munchen, Germany
Methods Mol Biol 402:141-58. 2007..This chapter describes the algorithm used for primer design, its input and output files, and the installation of the standalone package and its use... - Nuclear insertions of organellar DNA can create novel patches of functional exon sequencesChristos Noutsos
Lehrstuhl fur Botanik, Department Biologie I, Ludwig Maximilians Universitat, Menzinger Strasse 67, 80638 Munchen, Germany
Trends Genet 23:597-601. 2007..Organelle-derived DNA insertions might be responsible for many more ancient functional exon acquisitions that are not directly detectable... - Inactivation of the chloroplast ATP synthase gamma subunit results in high non-photochemical fluorescence quenching and altered nuclear gene expression in Arabidopsis thalianaCristina Dal Bosco
Ludwig Maximilians Universitat, Department Biologie I, Botanik, Menzingerstrasse 67, 80638 Munchen, Germany
J Biol Chem 279:1060-9. 2004..On the contrary, the mRNA expression of some photosynthesis genes is significantly up-regulated, probably to compensate for the defect in dpa1... - Plastocyanin is indispensable for photosynthetic electron flow in Arabidopsis thalianaMartin Weigel
, , , , Germany
J Biol Chem 278:31286-9. 2003..Even increased dosage of the gene encoding the cytochrome c6-like protein cannot complement the double mutant phenotype. This demonstrates that in Arabidopsis only plastocyanin can donate electrons to photosystem I in vivo... - Covariations in the nuclear chloroplast transcriptome reveal a regulatory master-switchErik Richly
, , , , Germany
EMBO Rep 4:491-8. 2003..Two classes, probably involving GUN (genomes uncoupled)-type plastid signalling, are characterized by alterations, in opposite directions, in the expression of largely overlapping sets of genes... - The Arabidopsis ppi1 mutant is specifically defective in the expression, chloroplast import, and accumulation of photosynthetic proteinsSybille Kubis
Department of Biology, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, United Kingdom
Plant Cell 15:1859-71. 2003..The data suggest that atToc33 is involved preferentially in the import of photosynthetic proteins and, by extension, that atToc34 is involved in the import of nonphotosynthetic chloroplast proteins... - Protein-protein and protein-function relationships in Arabidopsis photosystem I: cluster analysis of PSI polypeptide levels and photosynthetic parameters in PSI mutantsPaolo Pesaresi
Zentrum zur Identifikation von Genfunktionen durch Insertionsmutagenese bei Arabidopsis thaliana (ZIGIA, , , , Germany
J Plant Physiol 160:17-22. 2003.... - Evolutionary analysis of Arabidopsis, cyanobacterial, and chloroplast genomes reveals plastid phylogeny and thousands of cyanobacterial genes in the nucleusWilliam Martin
Institut fur Botanik, Heinrich Heine Universitat, Universitatsstrasse 1, 40225 Dusseldorf, Germany
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 99:12246-51. 2002.... - Gene-sequence-tag expression analyses of 1,800 genes related to chloroplast functionsJoachim Kurth
Zentrum zur Identifikation von Genfunktionen durch Insertionsmutagenese bei Arabidopsis thaliana (ZIGIA, , , , Germany
Planta 215:101-9. 2002..Differential hybridisation experiments with the prpl11-1 mutant revealed the existence of regulatory networks sensing the protein state of the chloroplast and transmitting the signal to the nucleus... - Mode of amplification and reorganization of resistance genes during recent Arabidopsis thaliana evolutionErik Richly
, , , , Germany
Mol Biol Evol 19:76-84. 2002..Such events may have taken place early during flowering plant evolution, but they generated modules that have been duplicated and remobilized also more recently... - Tracking the function of the cytochrome c6-like protein in higher plantsMartin Weigel
, , , D-50829, , Germany
Trends Plant Sci 8:513-7. 2003..This re-opens the debate on the real function(s) of cytochrome c in the chloroplasts of higher plants... - From genes to photosynthesis in Arabidopsis thalianaDario Leister
, , , Germany
Int Rev Cytol 228:31-83. 2003.... - NUMTs in sequenced eukaryotic genomesErik Richly
, , Germany
Mol Biol Evol 21:1081-4. 2004..Other factors, such as the number and/or stability of mitochondria in the germline, or species-specific mechanisms controlling accumulation/loss of nuclear DNA, might be responsible for the interspecific diversity in NUMT accumulation... - SPL8, an SBP-box gene that affects pollen sac development in ArabidopsisUlrike S Unte
Department of Molecular Plant Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, 50829 Cologne, Germany
Plant Cell 15:1009-19. 2003..The SPL8 mutants described help to uncover the roles of SBP-box genes in plant development... - Interorganellar communicationPaolo Pesaresi
Dipartimento di Produzione Vegetale, Università Statale di Milano c o Fondazione Parco Tecnologico Padano, 26900 Lodi, Italy
Curr Opin Plant Biol 10:600-6. 2007..Retrograde signalling-dependent modulation of nuclear gene expression seems to involve multilayered transcriptional control and the transcription factor ABI4... - An improved prediction of chloroplast proteins reveals diversities and commonalities in the chloroplast proteomes of Arabidopsis and riceErik Richly
, , , D-50829 Cologne, Germany
Gene 329:11-6. 2004..This points to the existence of both conserved nucleus-encoded chloroplast proteins that are predominantly of prokaryotic origin, and a large fraction of taxon-specific chloroplast-targeted proteins, in flowering plants... - Structure, function and regulation of plant photosystem IPoul Erik Jensen
Plant Biochemistry Laboratory, Department of Plant Biology, Faculty of Life Science, University of Copenhagen, DK 1871 Frederiksberg C, Denmark
Biochim Biophys Acta 1767:335-52. 2007..We finish this review by shortly discussing the perspectives for future research on PSI... - Evolutionary tinkering: birth of a novel chloroplast proteinTatjana Kleine
Lehrstuhl fur Botanik, Department Biologie I, Ludwig Maximilians Universitat, Menzinger Str 67, 80638 Munchen, Germany
Biochem J 403:e13-4. 2007.... - Forward genetic screening of insertional mutantsAnja Schneider
, Germany
Methods Mol Biol 323:147-61. 2006.... - Photosystem II core phosphorylation and photosynthetic acclimation require two different protein kinasesVera Bonardi
Botanisches Institut, Department Biologie I, Ludwig Maximilians Universitat, Menzinger Strasse 67, 80638 Munchen, Germany
Nature 437:1179-82. 2005..Therefore the phosphorylation of LHCII, or of an unknown substrate of STN7, is also crucial for the control of photosynthetic gene expression... - A stable LHCII-PSI aggregate and suppression of photosynthetic state transitions in the psae1-1 mutant of Arabidopsis thalianaPaolo Pesaresi
Zentrum zur Identifikation von Genfunktionen durch Insertionsmutagenese bei Arabidopsis thaliana (ZIGIA, , , , Germany
Planta 215:940-8. 2002.... - Evolutionary diversification of mitochondrial proteomes: implications for human diseaseErik Richly
, , , , Germany
Trends Genet 19:356-62. 2003 - A genome phylogeny for mitochondria among alpha-proteobacteria and a predominantly eubacterial ancestry of yeast nuclear genesChristian Esser
Institute of Botany III, , , Germany
Mol Biol Evol 21:1643-60. 2004..Among eubacteria and archaebacteria, proteobacterial and methanogen genomes, respectively, shared more similarity with the yeast genome than other prokaryotic genomes surveyed... - The role of [Delta]1-pyrroline-5-carboxylate dehydrogenase in proline degradationKaren Deuschle
Plant Physiology, Zentrum für Molekularbiologie der Pflanzen, Pflanzenphysiologie, Universitat Tubingen, D 72076 Tubingen, Germany
Plant Cell 16:3413-25. 2004..Accordingly, overexpression of AtP5CDH resulted in decreased sensitivity to externally supplied Pro. Thus, Pro and P5C/Glu semialdehyde may serve as a link between stress responses and cell death... - Root phloem-specific expression of the plasma membrane amino acid proton co-transporter AAP3Sakiko Okumoto
Plant Physiology, , Auf der Morgenstelle 1, , Germany
J Exp Bot 55:2155-68. 2004..Microarray analyses revealed that the expression profile of genes involved in amino acid metabolism did not change drastically, indicating potential compensation by other amino acid transporters... - Competition between linear and cyclic electron flow in plants deficient in Photosystem ISimon Hald
Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Michael Smith Building, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PT, UK
Biochim Biophys Acta 1777:1173-83. 2008..We conclude that, when the concentration of PSI is limiting, cyclic electron flow is still able to compete effectively with linear flow to maintain a high DeltapH to regulate photosynthesis...