Journal
MOLECULAR PLANT
Volume 7, Issue 7, Pages 1105-1120Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mp/ssu022
Keywords
plastid; translation; ribosome; ribosomal protein; evolution; plastid transformation; retrograde signaling; leaf development; palisade cell
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- Max Planck Society
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [FOR 804, BO 1482/15-2]
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Chloroplasts (plastids) possess a genome and their own machinery to express it. Translation in plastids occurs on bacterial-type 70S ribosomes utilizing a set of tRNAs that is entirely encoded in the plastid genome. In recent years, the components of the chloroplast translational apparatus have been intensely studied by proteomic approaches and by reverse genetics in the model systems tobacco (plastid-encoded components) and Arabidopsis (nucleus-encoded components). This work has provided important new insights into the structure, function, and biogenesis of chloroplast ribosomes, and also has shed fresh light on the molecular mechanisms of the translation process in plastids. In addition, mutants affected in plastid translation have yielded strong genetic evidence for chloroplast genes and gene products influencing plant development at various levels, presumably via retrograde signaling pathway(s). In this review, we describe recent progress with the functional analysis of components of the chloroplast translational machinery and discuss the currently available evidence that supports a significant impact of plastid translational activity on plant anatomy and morphology.
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