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PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
卷 136, 期 3, 页码 3605-3615出版社
AMER SOC PLANT BIOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.1104/pp.104.052928
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Molecular chaperones are required for the translocation of many proteins across organellar membranes, presumably by providing energy in the form of ATP hydrolysis for protein movement. In the chloroplast protein import system, a heat shock protein 100 (Hsp100), known as Hsp93, is hypothesized to be the chaperone providing energy for precursor translocation, although there is little direct evidence for this hypothesis. To learn more about the possible function of Hsp93 during protein import into chloroplasts, we isolated knockout mutant lines that contain T-DNA disruptions in either at HSP93-V or at HSP93-III, which encode the two Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) homologs of Hsp93. at Hsp93-V mutant plants are much smaller and paler than wild-type plants. In addition, mutant chloroplasts contain less thylakoid membrane when compared to the wild type. Plastid protein composition, however, seems to be largely unaffected in at Hsp93-V knockout plants. Chloroplasts isolated from the at Hsp93-V knockout mutant line are still able to import a variety of precursor proteins, but the rate of import of some of these precursors is significantly reduced. These results indicate that at Hsp93-V has an important, but not essential, role in the biogenesis of Arabidopsis chloroplasts. In contrast, knockout mutant plants for at Hsp93-III, the second Arabidopsis Hsp93 homolog, had a visible phenotype identical to the wild type, suggesting that at Hsp93-III may not play as important a role as at Hsp93-V in chloroplast development and/or function.
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