Open AccessDynamic Trio: FtsZ, Plastid-Dividing, and Dynamin Rings Control Chloroplast Division
Author(s) -
Nancy A. Eckardt
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
the plant cell
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.324
H-Index - 341
eISSN - 1532-298X
pISSN - 1040-4651
DOI - 10.1105/tpc.150310
Subject(s) - ftsz , biology , organelle , plastid , cell division , chloroplast , division (mathematics) , microbiology and biotechnology , endosymbiosis , mitochondrion , dynamin , cell , genetics , gene , arithmetic , mathematics , endocytosis
Chloroplasts and mitochondria likely evolved from endosymbiosis of bacterial progenitors with a host cell. Thus, it is expected that the division of these organelles bears some resemblance to prokaryotic cell division. However, organelle division is controlled by proteins encoded in the nucleus (
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