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Although the majority of chloroplast polypeptides are imported from the cytosol, a number of them are transcribed and translated within the organelle (Ellis, 1981). Most of these chloroplast-encoded polypeptides are subunits of large complexes which contain at least one nuclear-encoded subunit, so that coordinated expression of chloroplast and nuclear genes is essential for correct biogenesis of the complexes. This is the case for the major thylakoid membrane complexes involved in photosynthesis; for example the H+-ATP synthase is composed of six chloroplast- and probably three nuclear-encoded subunits (see the preceding paper). In this paper we examine the organization, expression and evolution of the chloroplast atp genes as an initial approach to an understanding of these processes.
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Hudson, G.S., Mason, J.G., Koller, B., Whitfeld, P.R., Bottomley, W. (1989). Expression and Evolution of the Chloroplast ATP Synthase Genes. In: Marzuki, S. (eds) Molecular Structure, Function, and Assembly of the ATP Synthases. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0593-4_4
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