Apicomplexan parasites, such as Toxoplasma gondii and Plasmodium falciparum, are the
cause of many important human and animal diseases. While T. gondii tachyzoites replicate …

▪ Abstract Plastid division is essential for the maintenance of plastid populations in cells
undergoing division and for the accumulation of large chloroplast numbers in photosynthetic …

Chloroplast division in plant cells is orchestrated by a complex macromolecular machine
with components positioned on both the inner and outer envelope surfaces. The only plastid …

Among the events that accompanied the evolution of chloroplasts from their endosymbiotic
ancestors was the host cell recruitment of the prokaryotic cell division protein FtsZ to function …

Chloroplasts have retained the bacterial FtsZ for division, whereas mitochondria lack FtsZ
except in some lower eukaryotes. Instead, mitochondrial division involves a dynamin-related …

During plastid division, the dynamin-related protein ACCUMULATION AND REPLICATION
OF CHLOROPLASTS5 (ARC5) is recruited from the cytosol to the surface of the outer …

Chloroplast division is driven by a macromolecular complex containing components that are
positioned on the cytosolic surface of the outer envelope, the stromal surface of the inner …

We report the identification of a nucleus-encoded minE gene, designated AtMinE1, of
Arabidopsis. The encoded AtMinE1 protein possesses both N-and C-terminal extensions …

During plastid division, two structures have been detected at the division site in separate
analyses. The plastid-dividing ring can be detected by transmission electron microscopy as …

The plastid division apparatus (called the plastid-dividing ring) has been detected in several
plant and algal species at the constricted region of plastids by transmission electron …