Plastid chaperonin proteins Cpn60α and Cpn60β are required for plastid division in <it>Arabidopsis thaliana</it>
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Plastids arose from a free-living cyanobacterial endosymbiont and multiply by binary division as do cyanobacteria. Plastid division involves nucleus-encoded homologs of cyanobacterial division proteins such as FtsZ, MinD, MinE, and A...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2009-04-01
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| Series: | BMC Plant Biology |
| Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2229/9/38 |