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AtECB2, a Pentatricopeptide Repeat Protein, is Required for Chloroplast Transcript accD RNA Editing and Early Chloroplast Biogenesis in Arabidopsis thaliana

作　　者：Yu QB, Jiang Y, Chong K, Yang ZN
影响因子：6.751
刊物名称：Plant Journal
出版年份：2009
卷：59  期：6  页码：1011-1023

论文摘要：

Summary Chloroplast biogenesis is a complex process in higher plants. Screening chloroplast biogenesis mutants and elucidating their molecular mechanisms will provide insight into the process of chloroplast biogenesis. In this paper, we obtained an early chloroplast biogenesis mutant atecb2 that displayed albino cotyledons and was seedling lethal. Microscopy observations revealed that the chloroplast of atecb2 mutants lacked an organized thylakoid membrane. The AtECB2 gene, which is highly expressed in cotyledons and seedlings, encodes a pentatricopeptide repeat protein (PPR) with a C-terminal DYW domain. The AtECB2 protein is localized in the chloroplast and contains a conserved HxExBnBCxxC motif that is similar to the activated site of cytidine deaminase. The AtECB2 mutation affects the expression pattern of plastid-encoded genes. Immunoblot analyses showed that amounts of photosynthetic proteins decreased substantially in atecb2 mutants. Inspection of all reported plastid RNA editing sites revealed that one editing site, accD, is not edited in atecb2 mutants. Therefore, the AtECB2 protein must regulate RNA editing of this site, and the dysfunctional AccD protein from the unedited RNA molecules could lead to the mutated phenotype. All of these results indicate that AtECB2 is required for chloroplast transcript accD RNA editing and early chloroplast biogenesis in Arabidopsis thaliana. 
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