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Chloroplast Structure and Function Is Altered in the NCS2 Maize Mitochondrial Mutant

The nonchromosomal stripe 2 (NCS2) mutant of maize (Zea mays L.) has a DNA rearrangement in the mitochondrial genome that segregates with the abnormal growth phenotype. Yet, the NCS2 characteristic ...
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The Effects of Inhibitors of RNA and Protein Synthesis on Chloroplast Structure and Function in Wild-Type Chlamydomonas reinhardi

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Wild-type cells of the unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardi have been grown for several generations in the presence of rifampicin, ...
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Direct transfer of plant genes from chloroplasts into the cell nucleus: Gene function preserved despite structural differences in the DNA

Chloroplasts, the plant cell's green solar power generators, were once living beings in their own right. This changed about one billion years ago, when they were swallowed up but not digested by ...
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Chloroplast Protease Function and Protein Quality Control

Chloroplast proteases are central to maintaining the functional integrity of the photosynthetic machinery. They regulate the degradation of damaged, misfolded, or obsolete proteins, thereby ensuring ...
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Heredity matters: Ancestral protease functions as protein import motor in chloroplasts

Researchers identified a large novel protein complex in the inner chloroplast membrane that functions as a motor to import proteins into the chloroplast. Components of the complex evolved from a ...