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Published on April 22, 2009; 10.1104/pp.109.137240

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Received February 18, 2009
Accepted April 14, 2009

CIA2 coordinatedly up-regulates protein import and synthesis in leaf chloroplasts

Chih-Wen Sun *, Yen-Chiao Huang , and Hsin-Yen Chang

Department of Life Sciences, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei 116, Taiwan

* Corresponding author; email: cwsun{at}ntnu.edu.tw.

Plastid biogenesis and maintenance depend on the coordinated assembly of proteins imported from the cytosol with proteins translated within plastids. Chloroplasts in leaf cells have a greater need for protein import and protein synthesis than plastids in other organs due to the large amount of proteins required for photosynthesis. We previously reported that the Arabidopsis transcription factor CIA2 specifically up-regulates leaf expression of genes encoding protein translocons Toc33 and Toc75, which are essential for protein import into chloroplasts. Protein import efficiency was therefore reduced in cia2-mutant chloroplasts. To further understand the function of CIA2, gene expression profiles of the wild type and a cia2 mutant were compared by microarray analysis. Interestingly, in addition to genes encoding protein translocon components, other genes down-regulated in cia2 almost exclusively encode chloroplast ribosomal proteins. Isolated cia2-mutant chloroplasts showed reduced translation efficiency and steady-state accumulation of plastid-encoded proteins. When CIA2 was ectopically expressed in roots, expression of both the protein-translocon and ribosomal-protein genes increased. Further analyses in vivo revealed that CIA2 up-regulated these genes by binding directly to their promoter regions. We propose that CIA2 is an important factor responsible for fulfilling the higher protein demands of leaf chloroplasts by coordinatedly increasing both protein import and protein translation efficiencies.






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