A model for the evolution of the plastid
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Heiko Vogel; Sabine Fischer; Klaus Valentin
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Article
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1996
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Springer
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English
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Plastids possess a bacteria-like sec apparatus that is involved in protein import into the thylakoid lumen. We have analyzed one of the genes essential for this process, secY. A secY gene from the unicellular red alga Cyanidium caldarium was found to be transcriptionally active, demonstrating for th