Chloroplast Protein Import
- 1 March 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Plant Physiology
- Vol. 89 (3) , 993-999
- https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.89.3.993
Abstract
The first step of chloroplast protein import is binding of a precursor protein to the surface of the organelle. Precursor binding for the small subunit of ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase to isolated pea chloroplasts was investigated using a receptor-ligand binding assay. Translation of precursors was blocked by conducting the binding assays at 0.degree.C. Binding of precursor was judged to be receptor mediated by the following criteria: (a) precursor binding was saturable at between 1500 and 3500 molecules per chloroplast; (b) binding is a high affinity interaction with a dissociation constant of 6 to 10 nanomoles; (c) binding is physiologically productive since most of the bound precursors could be imported from the bound state; and (d) precursor binding was sensitive to both protease and the sulfhydryl modifying reagent N-ethylmaleimide. The effects of these two reagents differed in that protease reduced the total number of binding sites from the surface of chloroplasts but had little effect on binding affinity, whereas N-ethylmaleimide reduced the binding affinity but had little or no effect on receptor density.This publication has 29 references indexed in Scilit:
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