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Structural Basis for Specific Substrate Recognition by the Chloroplast Signal Recognition Particle Protein cpSRP43

Stengel, Katharina F., Holdermann, Iris, Cain, Peter, Robinson, Colin, Wild, Klemens, Sinning, Irmgard (2008) Structural Basis for Specific Substrate Recognition by the Chloroplast Signal Recognition Particle Protein cpSRP43. Science, 321 (5886). pp. 253-256. ISSN 0036-8075. (doi:10.1126/science.1158640) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:37726)

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Abstract

Secretory and membrane proteins carry amino-terminal signal sequences that, in cotranslational targeting, are recognized by the signal recognition particle protein SRP54 without sequence specificity. The most abundant membrane proteins on Earth are the light-harvesting chlorophyll a/b binding proteins (LHCPs). They are synthesized in the cytoplasm, imported into the chloroplast, and posttranslationally targeted to the thylakoid membrane by cpSRP, a heterodimer formed by cpSRP54 and cpSRP43. We present the 1.5 angstrom crystal structure of cpSRP43 characterized by a unique arrangement of chromodomains and ankyrin repeats. The overall shape and charge distribution of cpSRP43 resembles the SRP RNA, which is absent in chloroplasts. The complex with the internal signal sequence of LHCPs reveals that cpSRP43 specifically recognizes a DPLG peptide motif. We describe how cpSPR43 adapts the universally conserved SRP system to posttranslational targeting and insertion of the LHCP family of membrane proteins.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1126/science.1158640
Subjects: Q Science > QH Natural history > QH301 Biology
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Natural Sciences > Biosciences
Depositing User: Colin Robinson
Date Deposited: 06 Jan 2014 12:01 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 10:14 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/37726 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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