Plastids are a diverse group of plant organelles that perform essential functions including
important steps in many biosynthetic pathways. Chloroplasts are the best characterized type …

Most chloroplast proteins are encoded in the nucleus and synthesized on free, cytosolic
ribosomes in precursor form. Each precursor has an amino‐terminal extension called a …

Chloroplasts originated from an endosymbiotic event in which a free-living cyanobacterium
was engulfed by an ancestral eukaryotic host. During evolution the majority of the …

The development and maintenance of chloroplasts relies on the contribution of protein
subunits from both plastid and nuclear genomes. Most chloroplast proteins are encoded by …

Protein import into plant chloroplasts is a fascinating topic that is being investigated by many
research groups. Since the majority of chloroplast proteins are synthesised as precursor …

Virtually all chloroplasts in extant photosynthetic eukaryotes derive from a single
endosymbiotic event that probably occurred more than a billion years ago between a host …

The photosynthetic chloroplast is the hallmark organelle of green plants. During the
endosymbiotic evolution of chloroplasts, the vast majority of genes from the original …

Chloroplasts are but one type of a diverse group of essential organelles that distinguish
plant cells and house many critical biochemical pathways, including photosynthesis. The …

Chloroplasts are essential organelles in the cells of plants and algae. The functions of these
specialized plastids are largely dependent on the~ 3000 proteins residing in the organelle …

Plastids are a heterogeneous family of organelles found ubiquitously in plant and algal cells.
Most prominent are the chloroplasts, which carry out such essential processes as …