U.S.-Germany Cooperative Research: Regulation of mRNA Stability in Plastids

该奖项支持来自加州大学伯克利分校的Wilhelm Gruissem和两名博士后与德国乌尔姆大学植物系的Joerg Kudla合作进行的研究。该项目将重点阐明参与叶绿体mRNA代谢的酶的作用。此次合作将研究由德国研究小组开发的一种新型叶绿体RNA加工复合物。这项研究工作将利用两个实验室正在开发的试剂和专业知识来研究蛋白质和叶绿体RNA的其他成分之间的相互作用。这项工作将对拟南芥基因的鉴定和表征具有重要意义，并与农业植物工程等实际应用相关。

9910090GruissemThis award supports Wilhelm Gruissem and two post-doctoral students from the University of California-Berkeley in a collaboration with Joerg Kudla of the Department of Botany at the U. of Ulm, Germany. The project will focus on clarifying the roles of the enzymes that participate in chloroplast mRNA metabolism. The collaboration will examine a novel chloroplast RNA processing complex developed by the German group. The research effort will take advantage of the reagents and the expertise that are being developed in both laboratories to investigate interactions between the proteins and other components of chloroplast RNA. This work will have implications for identification and characterization of genes in Arabidopsis, and is relevant to practical applications such as the engineering of plants for agriculture.