Regulators of protein translation reveal new pathways to plant productivity

这一提议旨在对光合作用蛋白生产的控制进行变革性的研究。光合作用是作物改良的一个关键目标，可以解决全球粮食安全问题。改善光合作用需要精确控制光合蛋白。人们不知道这是如何在蛋白质生产水平上实现的。令人兴奋的是，研究小组发现了细胞蛋白质生产是如何响应光合作用需求而发生变化的。该项目致力于揭示RNA簇如何衰变或翻译成基于RNA特征和连接结合蛋白的新蛋白质。这将允许操纵目标蛋白质的积累，以揭示尚未探索的改善光合作用的方法。

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.