Protein transport towards the thylakoid lumen: post-translational translocation in tandem |
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Authors: | Sjef Smeekens Peter Weisbeek |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Molecular Cellbiology, University of Utrecht, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands;(2) Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Utrecht, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands |
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Abstract: | Many proteins found in the chloroplast are synthesized in the cytoplasm as precursor molecules containing transit peptides. Proteins targeted to the stroma must pass through the two envelope membranes to reach their destination. Proteins located in the chloroplast lumen also have to be transferred across the thylakoid membrane. That is, lumen proteins must cross three biological membranes in order to reach their final location. Recent evidence shows that the routing of plastocyanin towards the lumen involves two post-translational transport processes mediated by two different regions of the transit peptide and two different processing proteases. It is postulated that the genetic information for the plastocyanin precursor, which already contained a signal peptide, was transferred from the endosymbiont to the nucleus. Then a chloroplast-specific targeting-peptide was added. |
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Keywords: | chloroplast protein transport thylakoid lumen transit peptide processing plastocyanin |
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