FEBS Letters
Volume 581, Issue 12 , Pages 2215-2222, 25 May 2007

Making the connections – The crucial role of metabolite transporters at the interface between chloroplast and cytosol

Edited by Ulf-Ingo Flügge and Julian Schroeder

  • Andreas P.M. Weber

      Affiliations

    • Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding authors. Fax: +49 211 8113706 (A.P.M. Weber); +47 776 46333 (K. Fischer).
    • Present address: Institute of Plant Biochemistry, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Universitätsstraße 1, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany.
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  • Karsten Fischer

      Affiliations

    • Institute for Biology, University of Tromsø, 9037 Tromsø, Norway
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding authors. Fax: +49 211 8113706 (A.P.M. Weber); +47 776 46333 (K. Fischer).

Received 22 January 2007; received in revised form 6 February 2007; accepted 7 February 2007. published online 15 February 2007.

Abstract 

Eukaryotic cells are most fascinating because of their high degree of compartmentation. This is particularly true for plant cells, due to the presence of chloroplasts, photosynthetic organelles of endosymbiotic origin that can be traced back to a single cyanobacterial ancestor. Plastids are major hubs in the metabolic network of plant cells, their metabolism being heavily intertwined with that of the cytosol and of other organelles. Solute transport across the plastid envelope by metabolite transporters is key to integrating plastid metabolism with that of other cellular compartments. Here, we review the advances in understanding metabolite transport across the plastid envelope membrane.

Keywords: Chloroplast, Envelope, Metabolite transport, Metabolic network, Endosymbiosis, Evolution

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PII: S0014-5793(07)00156-1

doi:10.1016/j.febslet.2007.02.010

FEBS Letters
Volume 581, Issue 12 , Pages 2215-2222, 25 May 2007

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