Chloroplasts are intracellular organelles in plants which contain the entire machinery
necessary for the process of photosynthesis. They also participate in the biosynthesis of …

Programmed cell death (PCD) is crucial in plant organogenesis and survival. In this review
the involvement of mitochondria and chloroplasts in PCD execution is critically assessed …

The complete nucleotide sequence (155 844 bp) of tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum var. Bright
Yellow 4) chloroplast DNA has been determined. It contains two copies of an identical 25 …

Cytochromes c are haemoproteins which carry out electron transfer in a wide variety of
biological systems, necessitating different kinds of cytochrome c to fulfill different biological …

Representative samples of mitochondrial and chloroplast targetting peptides have been
analyzed in terms of amino acid composition, positional amino acid preferences and …

Background Cytochrome fis the high potential electron acceptor of the chloroplast
cytochrome b 6 fcomplex, and is the electron donor to plastocyanin. The 285-residue …

We have constructed the first physical map of a gymnosperm chloroplast genome and
compared its organization with those of a fern and several angiosperms by heterologous …

Publisher Summary Metals at the active sites of metalloproteins display special properties
and are generally impressively efficient in their functional roles. The metal or metals are said …

In the living cell, proteins are efficiently sorted to a whole range of subcellular compartments.
In many cases, sorting specificity is mediated by short 'sorting signals' attached either …

It is already over 10 years since the publication of the now-classic review by Anderson on
thylakoid membrane organisation [1]. The past decade has witnessed dramatic advances in …