Etioplast Differentiation in Arabidopsis: Both PORA and PORB Restore the Prolamellar Body and Photoactive Protochlorophyllide–F655 to the cop1 …

U Sperling, F Franck, B van Cleve, G Frick… - The Plant …, 1998 - academic.oup.com
The etioplast plastid type of dark-grown angiosperms is defined by the accumulation of the
chlorophyll (Chl) precursor protochlorophyllide (Pchlide) and the presence of the …

Regulation of Etioplast Pigment-Protein Complexes, Inner Membrane Architecture, and Protochlorophyllide a Chemical Heterogeneity by Light-Dependent NADPH …

F Franck, U Sperling, G Frick, B Pochert… - Plant …, 2000 - academic.oup.com
The etioplast of dark-grown angiosperms is characterized by the prolamellar body (PLB)
inner membrane, the absence of chlorophyll, and the accumulation of divinyl and monovinyl …

Arabidopsis light-dependent protochlorophyllide oxidoreductase A (PORA) is essential for normal plant growth and development

T Paddock, D Lima, ME Mason, K Apel… - Plant molecular …, 2012 - Springer
During skotomorphogenesis in angiosperms, NADPH: protochlorophyllide oxidoreductase
(POR) forms an aggregate of photolabile NADPH-POR-protochlorophyllide (Pchlide) ternary …

Arabidopsis protochlorophyllide oxidoreductase A (PORA) restores bulk chlorophyll synthesis and normal development to a porB porC double mutant

TN Paddock, ME Mason, DF Lima… - Plant molecular biology, 2010 - Springer
In angiosperms the strictly light-dependent reduction of protochlorophyllide to chlorophyllide
is catalyzed by NADPH: protochlorophyllide oxidoreductase (POR). The Arabidopsis …

Identification of NADPH: protochlorophyllide oxidoreductases A and B: a branched pathway for light-dependent chlorophyll biosynthesis in Arabidopsis thaliana

GA Armstrong, S Runge, G Frick, U Sperling… - Plant …, 1995 - academic.oup.com
Illumination releases the arrest in chlorophyll (Chl) biosynthesis in etiolated angiosperm
seedlings through the enzymatic photoreduction of protochlorophyllide (Pchlide) to …

An Arabidopsis porB porC double mutant lacking light‐dependent NADPH:protochlorophyllide oxidoreductases B and C is highly chlorophyll‐deficient and …

G Frick, Q Su, K Apel, GA Armstrong - The Plant Journal, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
A key reaction in the biosynthesis of chlorophylls (Chls) a and b from cyanobacteria through
higher plants is the strictly light‐dependent reduction of protochlorophyllide (Pchlide) a to …

Functional Analysis of Isoforms of NADPH:Protochlorophyllide Oxidoreductase (POR), PORB and PORC, in Arabidopsis thaliana

T Masuda, N Fusada, N Oosawa… - Plant and cell …, 2003 - academic.oup.com
NADPH: protochlorophyllide oxidoreductase (POR) catalyzes the light-dependent reduction
of protochlorophyllide. To elucidate the physiological function of three differentially regulated …

Chloroplast biogenesis: the use of mutants to study the etioplast–chloroplast transition

K Philippar, T Geis, I Ilkavets, U Oster… - Proceedings of the …, 2007 - National Acad Sciences
In angiosperm plants, the etioplast–chloroplast transition is light-dependent. A key factor in
this process is the protochlorophyllide oxidoreductase A (PORA), which catalyzes the light …

Distinct roles for light‐dependent NADPH: protochlorophyllide oxidoreductases (POR) A and B during greening in higher plants

S Runge, U Sperling, G Frick, K Apel… - The Plant …, 1996 - Wiley Online Library
Light‐dependent NADPH: protochlorophyllide oxidoreductase (POR), a nuclear‐encoded
plastid‐localized enzyme, catalyzes the photoreduction of protochlorophyllide (Pchlide) to …

Cell growth defect factor1/chaperone-like protein of POR1 plays a role in stabilization of light-dependent protochlorophyllide oxidoreductase in Nicotiana benthamiana …

JY Lee, HS Lee, JY Song, YJ Jung, S Reinbothe… - The Plant …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Angiosperms require light for chlorophyll biosynthesis because one reaction in the pathway,
the reduction of protochlorophyllide (Pchlide) to chlorophyllide, is catalyzed by the light …