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PLANT AND CELL PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 50, Issue 11, Pages 1898-1910Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcp134
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APX4 Arabidopsis Heme Lumen Thylakoid membrane
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- The Swedish Research Councils VR
- FORMAS
- Kempe Foundation
- Wallenberg Foundation
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The TL29 protein is one of the more abundant proteins in the thylakoid lumen of plant chloroplasts. Based on its sequence homology to ascorbate peroxidases, but without any supporting biochemical evidence, TL29 was suggested to be involved in the plant defense system against reactive oxygen species and consequently renamed to APX4. Our in vivo and in vitro analyses failed to show any peroxidase activity associated with TL29; it bound neither heme nor ascorbate. Recombinant overexpressed TL29 had no ascorbate-dependent peroxidase activity, and various mutational analyses aiming to convert TL29 into an ascorbate peroxidase failed. Furthermore, in the thylakoid lumen no such activity could be associated with TL29 and, additionally, TL29 knock-out mutants did not show any decreased peroxidase activity or increased content of radical oxygen species when grown under light stress. Instead we could show that TL29 is a lumen-located component associated with PSII.
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