Genetic analysis of chloroplast c-type cytochrome assembly in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii: One chloroplast locus and at least four nuclear loci are required for heme attachment.
Genetic analysis of chloroplast c-type cytochrome assembly in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii: One chloroplast locus and at least four nuclear loci are required for heme attachment.
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莱茵衣藻叶绿体 c 型细胞色素组装的遗传分析：血红素附着需要 1 个叶绿体基因座和至少 4 个核基因座。
DOI：
10.1093/genetics/148.2.681
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发表时间：
1998
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影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
Merchant,S
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作者：
Xie,Z;Culler,D;Dreyfuss,BW;Kuras,R;Wollman,FA;Girard-Bascou,J;Merchant,S
Chloroplasts contain up to two c-type cytochromes, membrane-anchored cytochrome f and soluble cytochrome c6. To elucidate the post-translational events required for their assembly, acetate-requiring mutants of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii that have combined deficiencies in both plastid-encoded cytochrome f and nucleus-encoded cytochrome c6have been identified and analyzed. For strains ct34 and ct59, where the phenotype displays uniparental inheritance, the mutations were localized to the chloroplast ccsA gene, which was shown previously to be required for heme attachment to chloroplast apocytochromes. The mutations in another eight strains were localized to the nuclear genome. Complementation tests of these strains plus three previously identified strains of the same phenotype (ac206, F18, and F2D8) indicate that the 11 ccs strains define four nuclear loci, CCS1–CCS4. We conclude that the products of the CCS1–CCS4 loci are not required for translocation or processing of the preproteins but, like CcsA, they are required for the heme attachment step during assembly of both holocytochrome f and holocytochrome c6. The ccsA gene is transcribed in each of the nuclear mutants, but its protein product is absent in ccs1 mutants, and it appears to be degradation susceptible in ccs3 and ccs4 strains. We suggest that Ccs1 may be associated with CcsA in a multisubunit “holocytochrome c assembly complex,” and we hypothesize that the products of the other CCS loci may correspond to other subunits.
