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EMBO REPORTS
Volume 6, Issue 6, Pages 545-550Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.7400411
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chloroplast biogenesis; glutamyl-tRNA; NEP; PEP; SIG2
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Chloroplast genes of higher plants are transcribed by two types of RNA polymerase that are encoded by nuclear (NEP (nuclear-encoded plastid RNA polymerase)) or plastid (PEP (plastid-encoded plastid RNA polymerase)) genomes. NEP is largely responsible for the transcription of housekeeping genes during early chloroplast development. Subsequent light-dependent chloroplast maturation is accompanied by repression of NEP activity and activation of PEP. Here, we show that the plastid-encoded transfer RNA for glutamate, the expression of which is dependent on PEP, directly binds to and inhibits the transcriptional activity of NEP in vitro. The plastid tRNA(Glu) thus seems to mediate the switch in RNA polymerase usage from NEP to PEP during chloroplast development.
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