Journal
PLANT DIRECT
Volume 5, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
JOHN WILEY & SONS LTD
DOI: 10.1002/pld3.356
Keywords
chloroplast envelope; intermembrane space; mar1; protein transport; Tic22; Tic236; Toc75
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- Academia Sinica
- Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan [110-2326-B-001-016]
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Chloroplasts are divided into six subcompartments, and Tic22 is one of the proteins identified as localizing to the intermembrane space. Research suggests that Tic22 may use part of the general translocon for import into the intermembrane space.
Chloroplasts are divided into six subcompartments: the outer membrane, intermembrane space, and inner membrane of the envelope, the stroma, the thylakoid membrane, and the thylakoid lumen. Compared with our knowledge of protein import into other subcompartments, extremely little is known about how proteins are imported into the intermembrane space of the envelope. Tic22 was one of the first proteins identified as localizing to the intermembrane space and the only one for which import has been analyzed in some detail. However, conflicting results have been obtained concerning whether the general translocon is used to import Tic22 into the intermembrane space. Taking advantage of available translocon component mutants, we reanalyzed import of Tic22. We reveal reduced in vitro import of Tic22 preprotein (prTic22) into chloroplasts isolated from the Arabidopsis mar1 and tic236 mutants, which are functional knockdown mutants of the outer-membrane channel Toc75 and the intermembrane space linker Tic236, respectively. Import competition experiments also showed that prTic22 import was reduced by excess amounts of a stroma-targeted preprotein. Our results indicate that prTic22 uses at least part of the general translocon for import into the intermembrane space.
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