Journal article
Arabidopsis Chloroplast Chaperonin 10 Is a Calmodulin-Binding Protein
Biochemical and biophysical research communications, Vol.275(2), pp.601-607
08/28/2000
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/107027
PMID: 10964710
Abstract
Calcium regulates diverse cellular activities in plants through the action of calmodulin (CaM). By using 35S-labeled CaM to screen an Arabidopsis seedling cDNA expression library, a cDNA designated as AtCh-CPN10 (Arabidopsis thaliana chloroplast chaperonin 10) was cloned. Chloroplast CPN10, a nuclear-encoded protein, is a functional homolog of E. coli GroES. It is believed that CPN60 and CPN10 are involved in the assembly of Rubisco, a key enzyme involved in the photosynthetic pathway. Northern analysis revealed that AtCh-CPN10 is highly expressed in green tissues. The recombinant AtCh-CPN10 binds to CaM in a calcium-dependent manner. Deletion mutants revealed that there is only one CaM-binding site in the last 31 amino acids of the AtCh-CPN10 at the C-terminal end. The CaM-binding region in AtCh-CPN10 has higher homology to other chloroplast CPN10s in comparison to GroES and mitochondrial CPN10s, suggesting that CaM may only bind to chloroplast CPN10s. Furthermore, the results also suggest that the calcium/CaM messenger system is involved in regulating Rubisco assembly in the chloroplast, thereby influencing photosynthesis.
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- Title
- Arabidopsis Chloroplast Chaperonin 10 Is a Calmodulin-Binding Protein
- Creators
- Tianbao YangB.W Poovaiah
- Publication Details
- Biochemical and biophysical research communications, Vol.275(2), pp.601-607
- Academic Unit
- Horticulture, Department of
- Publisher
- Elsevier Inc
- Identifiers
- 99900546839401842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article