Plant mitochondria–past, present and future

IM Møller, AG Rasmusson, O Van Aken - The Plant Journal, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The study of plant mitochondria started in earnest around 1950 with the first isolations of
mitochondria from animal and plant tissues. The first 35 years were spent establishing the …

Role of the TOM complex in protein import into mitochondria: structural views

Y Araiso, K Imai, T Endo - Annual Review of Biochemistry, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Mitochondria are central to energy production, metabolism and signaling, and apoptosis. To
make new mitochondria from preexisting mitochondria, the cell needs to import …

The Membrane-Bound NAC Transcription Factor ANAC013 Functions in Mitochondrial Retrograde Regulation of the Oxidative Stress Response in Arabidopsis

I De Clercq, V Vermeirssen, O Van Aken… - The Plant …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Upon disturbance of their function by stress, mitochondria can signal to the nucleus to steer
the expression of responsive genes. This mitochondria-to-nucleus communication is often …

In-depth temporal transcriptome profiling reveals a crucial developmental switch with roles for RNA processing and organelle metabolism that are essential for …

R Narsai, SR Law, C Carrie, L Xu, J Whelan - Plant physiology, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Germination represents a rapid transition from dormancy to a high level of metabolic activity.
In-depth transcriptomic profiling at 10 time points in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) …

New insights into the mechanism of chloroplast protein import and its integration with protein quality control, organelle biogenesis and development

YD Paila, LGL Richardson, DJ Schnell - Journal of molecular biology, 2015 - Elsevier
The translocons at the outer (TOC) and the inner (TIC) envelope membranes of chloroplasts
mediate the targeting and import of several thousand nucleus-encoded preproteins that are …

The lowdown on breakdown: Open questions in plant proteolysis

NA Eckardt, T Avin-Wittenberg, DC Bassham… - The Plant …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Proteolysis, including post-translational proteolytic processing as well as protein
degradation and amino acid recycling, is an essential component of the growth and …

C. elegans as a model to study mitochondrial biology and disease

T Onraet, S Zuryn - Seminars in Cell & Developmental Biology, 2024 - Elsevier
Mitochondria perform a myriad of essential functions that ensure organismal homeostasis,
including maintaining bioenergetic capacity, sensing and signalling the presence of …

The mitochondrial outer membrane protein Tom70-mediator in protein traffic, membrane contact sites and innate immunity

S Kreimendahl, J Rassow - International journal of molecular sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Tom70 is a versatile adaptor protein of 70 kDa anchored in the outer membrane of
mitochondria in metazoa, fungi and amoeba. The tertiary structure was resolved for the …

Defining the Protein Complex Proteome of Plant Mitochondria

J Klodmann, M Senkler, C Rode, HP Braun - Plant physiology, 2011 - academic.oup.com
A classical approach, protein separation by two-dimensional blue native/sodium dodecyl
sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, was combined with tandem mass spectrometry …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular chaperone involvement in chloroplast protein import

Ú Flores-Pérez, P Jarvis - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Molecular …, 2013 - Elsevier
Chloroplasts are organelles of endosymbiotic origin that perform essential functions in
plants. They contain about 3000 different proteins, the vast majority of which are nucleus …