Sorting of nuclear-encoded chloroplast membrane proteins

• Published in: Current opinion in plant biology Vol. 40; pp. 1 - 7
• Main Authors: Lee, Dong Wook, Lee, Junho, Hwang, Inhwan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Elsevier Ltd 01.12.2017
• Subjects: biogenesis; cytosol; eukaryotic cells; membrane proteins; thylakoids

•Chloroplasts have three membranes, outer/inner envelopes and thylakoid membranes.•AKR2 coordinates cytosolic sorting and insertion of proteins into outer envelope.•Two pathways operate for biogenesis of inner envelope proteins.•The cpSRP pathway plays a key role in biogenesis of LHCPs into thylakoi...