TY - JOUR
T1 - Light-activated translation of chloroplast mRNAS
AU - Bruick, Richard K.
AU - Mayfield, Stephen P.
PY - 1999/5/1
Y1 - 1999/5/1
N2 - The integrated regulation of mRNA stability, processing and translation facilitates the expression of several chloroplast genes, particularly in response to changes in illumination. Nuclear and chloroplast-encoded factors that mediate the expression of specific chloroplast messages have been characterized from green algae and plants. Recent studies suggest that the chloroplast might have recruited eukaryotic proteins, which are usually found in the cytoplasm or the endoplasmic reticulum, to couple the level of photosynthetic activity to gene expression via translational activation. Consequently, elements required for translational initiation of chloroplast messages differ from their prokaryotic ancestors. These results suggest that chloroplast translational regulation is a hybrid between prokaryotic and eukaryotic systems.
AB - The integrated regulation of mRNA stability, processing and translation facilitates the expression of several chloroplast genes, particularly in response to changes in illumination. Nuclear and chloroplast-encoded factors that mediate the expression of specific chloroplast messages have been characterized from green algae and plants. Recent studies suggest that the chloroplast might have recruited eukaryotic proteins, which are usually found in the cytoplasm or the endoplasmic reticulum, to couple the level of photosynthetic activity to gene expression via translational activation. Consequently, elements required for translational initiation of chloroplast messages differ from their prokaryotic ancestors. These results suggest that chloroplast translational regulation is a hybrid between prokaryotic and eukaryotic systems.
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U2 - 10.1016/S1360-1385(99)01402-8
DO - 10.1016/S1360-1385(99)01402-8
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:0033044525
SN - 1360-1385
VL - 4
SP - 190
EP - 195
JO - Trends in Plant Science
JF - Trends in Plant Science
IS - 5
ER -