AUTHOR=Zhang Lin , Zhou Wen , Che Liping , Rochaix Jean-David , Lu Congming , Li Wenjing , Peng Lianwei TITLE=PPR Protein BFA2 Is Essential for the Accumulation of the atpH/F Transcript in Chloroplasts JOURNAL=Frontiers in Plant Science VOLUME=10 YEAR=2019 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/plant-science/articles/10.3389/fpls.2019.00446 DOI=10.3389/fpls.2019.00446 ISSN=1664-462X ABSTRACT=
As a fascinating and complicated nanomotor, chloroplast ATP synthase comprises nine subunits encoded by both the nuclear and plastid genomes. Because of its uneven subunit stoichiometry, biogenesis of ATP synthase and expression of plastid-encoded ATP synthase genes requires assistance by nucleus-encoded factors involved in transcriptional, post-transcriptional, and translational steps. In this study, we report a P-class pentatricopeptide repeat (PPR) protein BFA2 (Biogenesis Factor required for ATP synthase 2) that is essential for accumulation of the dicistronic