Chloroplasts

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A low mutation rate for chloroplast microsatellites. 
  • Arabidopsis HEMERA/pTAC12 initiates photomorphogenesis by phytochromes. 
  • Calcium and calcium receptor CAS promote Arabidopsis thaliana de-etiolation. 
  • Characterization of nucleotide binding sites on chloroplast coupling factor 1. 
  • Characterization of sulfhydryl groups on chloroplast coupling factor 1 exposed by heat activation. 
  • Characterization of the light-responsive promoter of rice chloroplast psbD-C operon and the sequence-specific DNA binding factor. 
  • Chemical cross-linking studies of chloroplast coupling factor 1. 
  • Comparison of the Euglena chloroplast protein synthesizing system with those of prokaryotes and eukaryotes. 
  • Euglena gracilis chloroplast small subunit rRNA. Sequence and base pairing potential of the 3' terminus, cleavage by colicin E3. 
  • Fluorescence energy transfer between ligand binding sites on chloroplast coupling factor 1. 
  • GOBASE--a database of organelle and bacterial genome information. 
  • Genes Translocated into the Plastid Inverted Repeat Show Decelerated Substitution Rates and Elevated GC Content. 
  • Hydrogen sulphide enhances photosynthesis through promoting chloroplast biogenesis, photosynthetic enzyme expression, and thiol redox modification in Spinacia oleracea seedlings. 
  • Initiation of protein synthesis in animal mitochondria. Purification and characterization of translational initiation factor 2. 
  • Introduction and expression of foreign DNA in isolated spinach chloroplasts by electroporation. 
  • Investigation of nucleotide binding sites on chloroplast coupling factor 1 with 3'O-(4-benzoyl)benzoyl adenosine 5'-triphosphate. 
  • Investigation of quercetin binding sites on chloroplast coupling factor 1. 
  • Mechanism of Dual Targeting of the Phytochrome Signaling Component HEMERA/pTAC12 to Plastids and the Nucleus. 
  • Method for studying kinetics of light-induced transport across membranes. 
  • Mitochondrial FtsZ in a chromophyte alga. 
  • NCP activates chloroplast transcription by controlling phytochrome-dependent dual nuclear and plastidial switches. 
  • Nucleotide interactions with the dicyclohexylcarbodiimide-sensitive adenosinetriphosphatase from spinach chloroplasts. 
  • Pervasive migration across rainforest and sandy coastal plain Aechmea nudicaulis (Bromeliaceae) populations despite contrasting environmental conditions. 
  • Photochemical reactions of dibromothymoquinone. 
  • Phylogenetic relationships of the liverworts (Hepaticae), a basal embryophyte lineage, inferred from nucleotide sequence data of the chloroplast gene rbcL. 
  • Phylogenetic relationships, morphological incongruence, and geographic speciation in the fontinalaceae (Bryophyta). 
  • Phytochrome control of maize leaf inorganic pyrophosphatase and adenylate kinase. 
  • Reconciling Conflicting Phylogenies in the Origin of Sweet Potato and Dispersal to Polynesia. 
  • Refugial isolation and range expansions drive the genetic structure of Oxyria sinensis (Polygonaceae) in the Himalaya-Hengduan Mountains. 
  • Rotational dynamics of chloroplast ATP synthase in phospholipid vesicles. 
  • Spatial relationships between specific sites on reconstituted chloroplast proton adenosinetriphosphatase and the phospholipid vesicle surface. 
  • Steady-state ATP synthesis by bacteriorhodopsin and chloroplast coupling factor co-reconstituted into asolectin vesicles. 
  • Stromules: Signal Conduits for Plant Immunity. 
  • Structural investigation of reconstituted chloroplast ATPase with fluorescence measurements. 
  • Structural map of the dicyclohexylcarbodiimide site of chloroplast coupling factor determined by resonance energy transfer. 
  • Structural mapping of chloroplast coupling factor. 
  • Structural mapping of nucleotide binding sites on chloroplast coupling factor. 
  • Structure of oxidative- and photo-phosphorylation coupling factor complexes. 
  • Studies on photosystem I. Characteristics of "310 material" isolated from spinach chloroplasts. 
  • Studies on photosystem I. I. Relationship of plastocyanin, cytochrome f and P700. 
  • Studies on photosystem I. II. Involvement of ferredoxin in cyclic electron flow. 
  • Testing morphological concepts of orders of pleurocarpous mosses (Bryophyta) using phylogenetic reconstructions based on TRNL-TRNF and RPS4 sequences. 
  • The Chloroplast Tubulin Homologs FtsZA and FtsZB from the Red Alga Galdieria sulphuraria Co-assemble into Dynamic Filaments. 
  • The evolution of chloroplast genes and genomes in ferns. 
  • The narrow endemic Norwegian peat moss Sphagnum troendelagicum originated before the last glacial maximum. 
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  • Bennett, Vann, George B. Geller Professor for Research in Molecular Biology in the School of Medicine, Duke Cancer Institute