Plastid RNA polymerases: orchestration of enzymes with different evolutionary origins controls chloroplast biogenesis during the plant life cycle

Plastid sigma factors: Their individual functions and regulation in transcription

(2015) Wei Chi et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

Chloroplast RNA polymerases: Role in chloroplast biogenesis

(2015) Thomas Börner et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

Insights into chloroplast biogenesis and development

(2015) Barry J. Pogson et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

Chloroplast transcription, untangling the Gordian Knot

(2015) Peter Kindgren et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

ZmpTAC12 binds single-stranded nucleic acids and is essential for accumulation of the plastid-encoded polymerase complex in maize

(2015) Jeannette Pfalz et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Coordinated Rates of Evolution between Interacting Plastid and Nuclear Genes in Geraniaceae

(2015) Jin Zhang et al.   PLANT CELL

HEMERA Couples the Proteolysis and Transcriptional Activity of PHYTOCHROME INTERACTING FACTORs in Arabidopsis Photomorphogenesis

(2015) Yongjian Qiu et al.   PLANT CELL

Abscisic acid affects transcription of chloroplast genes via protein phosphatase 2C-dependent activation of nuclear genes: repression by guanosine-3′-5′-bisdiphosphate and activation by sigma factor 5

(2015) Maria V. Yamburenko et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Redox activity of thioredoxin z and fructokinase-like protein 1 is dispensable for autotrophic growth of Arabidopsis thaliana

(2014) Matthias Wimmelbacher et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Adjustments of embryonic photosynthetic activity modulate seed fitness inArabidopsis thaliana

(2014) Guillaume Allorent et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Plastid encoded RNA polymerase activity and expression of photosynthesis genes required for embryo and seed development in Arabidopsis

(2014) Dmitry Kremnev et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Nuclear-encoded factors associated with the chloroplast transcription machinery of higher plants

(2014) Qing-Bo Yu et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Dynamic composition, shaping and organization of plastid nucleoids

(2014) Marta Powikrowska et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

WHIRLY1 is a major organizer of chloroplast nucleoids

(2014) Karin Krupinska et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Subfunctionalization of Sigma Factors during the Evolution of Land Plants Based on Mutant Analysis of Liverwort (Marchantia polymorpha L.) MpSIG1

(2013) Minoru Ueda et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Reconstruction of the Ancestral Plastid Genome in Geraniaceae Reveals a Correlation between Genome Rearrangements, Repeats, and Nucleotide Substitution Rates

(2013) Mao-Lun Weng et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Biogenesis and homeostasis of chloroplasts and other plastids

(2013) Paul Jarvis et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY

Characterization of Four Nuclear-Encoded Plastid RNA Polymerase Sigma Factor Genes in the Liverwort Marchantia polymorpha: Blue-Light- and Multiple Stress-Responsive SIG5 was Acquired Early in the Emergence of Terrestrial Plants

(2013) Takehiko Kanazawa et al.   PLANT AND CELL PHYSIOLOGY

Seed Architecture Shapes Embryo Metabolism in Oilseed Rape

(2013) Ljudmilla Borisjuk et al.   PLANT CELL

Metabolic Effectors Secreted by Bacterial Pathogens: Essential Facilitators of Plastid Endosymbiosis?

(2013) Steven G. Ball et al.   PLANT CELL

Plastid gene expression during chloroplast differentiation and dedifferentiation into non-photosynthetic plastids during seed formation

(2013) Guillaume Allorent et al.   PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

A Major Role for the Plastid-Encoded RNA Polymerase Complex in the Expression of Plastid Transfer RNAs

(2013) R. Williams-Carrier et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

The plastid-localized pfkB-type carbohydrate kinases FRUCTOKINASE-LIKE 1 and 2 are essential for growth and development of Arabidopsis thaliana

(2012) Jonathan Gilkerson et al.   BMC PLANT BIOLOGY

External Light Conditions and Internal Cell Cycle Phases Coordinate Accumulation of Chloroplast and Mitochondrial Transcripts in the Red Alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae

(2012) Y. Kanesaki et al.   DNA RESEARCH

Photoactivated phytochromes interact with HEMERA and promote its accumulation to establish photomorphogenesis in Arabidopsis

(2012) R. M. Galvao et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

Phylogeny, rate variation, and genome size evolution of Pelargonium (Geraniaceae)

(2012) Mao-Lun Weng et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

TAC7, an essential component of the plastid transcriptionally active chromosome complex, interacts with FLN1, TAC10, TAC12 and TAC14 to regulate chloroplast gene expression inArabidopsis thaliana

(2012) Qing-Bo Yu et al.   PHYSIOLOGIA PLANTARUM

The Core of Chloroplast Nucleoids Contains Architectural SWIB Domain Proteins

(2012) J. Melonek et al.   PLANT CELL

The Primary Transcriptome of Barley Chloroplasts: Numerous Noncoding RNAs and the Dominating Role of the Plastid-Encoded RNA Polymerase

(2012) P. Zhelyazkova et al.   PLANT CELL

Regulation of Root Greening by Light and Auxin/Cytokinin Signaling in Arabidopsis

(2012) K. Kobayashi et al.   PLANT CELL

Gain and Loss of Photosynthetic Membranes during Plastid Differentiation in the Shoot Apex of Arabidopsis

(2012) D. Charuvi et al.   PLANT CELL

Transcriptional organization of the large and the small ATP synthase operons, atpI/H/F/A and atpB/E, in Arabidopsis thaliana chloroplasts

(2012) Mustafa Malik Ghulam et al.   PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Effects of Reduced Chloroplast Gene Copy Number on Chloroplast Gene Expression in Maize

(2012) D. B. Udy et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Eukaryotic-type plastid nucleoid protein pTAC3 is essential for transcription by the bacterial-type plastid RNA polymerase

(2012) Y. Yagi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Essential nucleoid proteins in early chloroplast development

(2012) Jeannette Pfalz et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Phylogenetic and functional features of the plastid transcription kinase cpCK2 from Arabidopsis signify a role of cysteinyl SH-groups in regulatory phosphorylation of plastid sigma factors

(2011) Hacer Türkeri et al.   FEBS Journal

Recombinant Whirly1 translocates from transplastomic chloroplasts to the nucleus

(2011) Rena Isemer et al.   FEBS LETTERS

Characterization of the plastid-specific germination and seedling establishment transcriptional programme

(2011) E. Demarsy et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

The transcription machineries of plant mitochondria and chloroplasts: Composition, function, and regulation

(2011) Karsten Liere et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

S1 domain-containing STF modulates plastid transcription and chloroplast biogenesis in Nicotiana benthamiana

(2011) Young Jeon et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Characterization of plastid psb T sense and antisense RNAs

(2011) Ouafa Zghidi-Abouzid et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Chloroplast genomes of photosynthetic eukaryotes

(2011) Beverley R. Green   PLANT JOURNAL

Recent loss of plastid-encoded ndh genes within Erodium (Geraniaceae)

(2011) J. Chris Blazier et al.   PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

On the Inside

(2011) Peter V. Minorsky   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Plastid Proteomics in Higher Plants: Current State and Future Goals

(2011) K. J. van Wijk et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Nucleoid-Enriched Proteomes in Developing Plastids and Chloroplasts from Maize Leaves: A New Conceptual Framework for Nucleoid Functions

(2011) W. Majeran et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Genetic Dissection of Chloroplast Biogenesis and Development: An Overview

(2011) B. J. Pogson et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

A Functional Component of the Transcriptionally Active Chromosome Complex, Arabidopsis pTAC14, Interacts with pTAC12/HEMERA and Regulates Plastid Gene Expression

(2011) Z.-P. Gao et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Chloroplast RNase J compensates for inefficient transcription termination by removal of antisense RNA

(2011) R. E. Sharwood et al.   RNA

The Selaginella Genome Identifies Genetic Changes Associated with the Evolution of Vascular Plants

(2011) J. A. Banks et al.   SCIENCE

Phytochrome signaling mechanisms and the control of plant development

(2011) Meng Chen et al.   TRENDS IN CELL BIOLOGY

A structural phylogenetic map for chloroplast photosynthesis

(2011) John F. Allen et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Arabidopsis HEMERA/pTAC12 Initiates Photomorphogenesis by Phytochromes

(2010) Meng Chen et al.   CELL

Role and regulation of plastid sigma factors and their functional interactors during chloroplast transcription – Recent lessons from Arabidopsis thaliana

(2010) Jennifer Schweer et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY

AT_CHLORO, a Comprehensive Chloroplast Proteome Database with Subplastidial Localization and Curated Information on Envelope Proteins

(2010) Myriam Ferro et al.   MOLECULAR & CELLULAR PROTEOMICS

Etioplast and etio-chloroplast formation under natural conditions: the dark side of chlorophyll biosynthesis in angiosperms

(2010) Katalin Solymosi et al.   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

Plastidial Thioredoxin z Interacts with Two Fructokinase-Like Proteins in a Thiol-Dependent Manner: Evidence for an Essential Role in Chloroplast Development in Arabidopsis and Nicotiana benthamiana

(2010) B. Arsova et al.   PLANT CELL

MRL1, a Conserved Pentatricopeptide Repeat Protein, Is Required for Stabilization of rbcL mRNA in Chlamydomonas and Arabidopsis

(2010) X. Johnson et al.   PLANT CELL

OTP70 is a pentatricopeptide repeat protein of the E subgroup involved in splicing of the plastid transcript rpoC1

(2010) Anne-Laure Chateigner-Boutin et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Function of plastid sigma factors in higher plants: regulation of gene expression or just preservation of constitutive transcription?

(2010) Silva Lerbs-Mache   PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Sigma factor phosphorylation in the photosynthetic control of photosystem stoichiometry

(2010) M. Shimizu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Global analysis of gene activity during Arabidopsis seed development and identification of seed-specific transcription factors

(2010) B. H. Le et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Analysis of oligomeric protein complexes in the chloroplast sub-proteome of nucleic acid-binding proteins from mustard reveals potential redox regulators of plastid gene expression

(2010) Yvonne Schröter et al.   PROTEOMICS

Bacterial Alarmone, Guanosine 5′-Diphosphate 3′-Diphosphate (ppGpp), Predominantly Binds the β′ Subunit of Plastid-Encoded Plastid RNA Polymerase in Chloroplasts

(2009) Michio Sato et al.   CHEMBIOCHEM

Site-specific binding of a PPR protein defines and stabilizes 5′ and 3′ mRNA termini in chloroplasts

(2009) Jeannette Pfalz et al.   EMBO JOURNAL

Molecular Evolution of Multisubunit RNA Polymerases: Sequence Analysis

(2009) William J. Lane et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Arabidopsis Mutants Carrying Chimeric Sigma Factor Genes Reveal Regulatory Determinants for Plastid Gene Expression

(2009) Jennifer Schweer et al.   PLANT AND CELL PHYSIOLOGY

Phage-Type RNA Polymerase RPOTmp Performs Gene-Specific Transcription in Mitochondria of Arabidopsis thaliana

(2009) K. Kuhn et al.   PLANT CELL

A mitochondrial rRNA dimethyladenosine methyltransferase in Arabidopsis

(2009) Uwe Richter et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Genome-Wide Analysis of Plastid Gene Expression in Potato Leaf Chloroplasts and Tuber Amyloplasts: Transcriptional and Posttranscriptional Control

(2009) V. T. Valkov et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Nuclear regulators with a second home in organelles

(2009) Kirsten Krause et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Coordination of gene expression between organellar and nuclear genomes

(2008) Jesse D. Woodson et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

PPDB, the Plant Proteomics Database at Cornell

(2008) Qi Sun et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Plastid Transcriptomics and Translatomics of Tomato Fruit Development and Chloroplast-to-Chromoplast Differentiation: Chromoplast Gene Expression Largely Serves the Production of a Single Protein

(2008) S. Kahlau et al.   PLANT CELL

A Heterocomplex of Iron Superoxide Dismutases Defends Chloroplast Nucleoids against Oxidative Stress and Is Essential for Chloroplast Development in Arabidopsis

(2008) F. Myouga et al.   PLANT CELL

CLB19, a pentatricopeptide repeat protein required for editing ofrpoAandclpPchloroplast transcripts

(2008) Anne-Laure Chateigner-Boutin et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

The Arabidopsis gene YS1 encoding a DYW protein is required for editing of rpoB transcripts and the rapid development of chloroplasts during early growth

(2008) Wenbin Zhou et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Intraplastidial trafficking of a phage-type RNA polymerase is mediated by a thylakoid RING-H2 protein

(2008) Jacinthe Azevedo et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Genome-wide analyses of Geraniaceae plastid DNA reveal unprecedented patterns of increased nucleotide substitutions

(2008) M. M. Guisinger et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Pentatricopeptide repeat proteins: a socket set for organelle gene expression

(2008) C SCHMITZLINNEWEBER et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Plastid signalling to the nucleus and beyond

(2008) Barry J. Pogson et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE