Regulators of protein translation reveal new pathways to plant productivity

这项提议旨在对光合蛋白生产的控制提出变革性的见解。光合作用是作物改良的关键目标，可以解决全球粮食安全问题。提高光合作用需要对光合作用蛋白质进行精确控制。目前还不清楚这是如何在蛋白质生产的水平上实现的。令人兴奋的是，研究小组发现了细胞蛋白质生产如何随着光合作用需求的变化而变化。该项目致力于揭示基于RNA特征和连接结合蛋白的RNA簇是如何衰退或翻译成新的蛋白质的。这将允许操纵目标蛋白质的积累，以揭示改善光合作用的未知方法。

This proposal aims to make transformative insights into the control of photosynthetic protein production. Photosynthesis is a key target for crop improvement that can address global food security. Improving photosynthesis requires precision control of photosynthetic proteins. It was unknown how this is achieved at the level of protein production. Excitingly, the team discovered how cellular protein production changes in response to photosynthetic demand. The project strives to uncover how clusters of RNAs are decayed or translated into new proteins based on RNA features and linked binding proteins. This will allow manipulation of the accumulation of target proteins towards the goal of revealing unexplored ways to improve photosynthesis.