PCB6528 Spring 06 Outline

*Lopez-Juez, E and KA Pyke (2005) Plastids unleashed: their development and their integration in plant development. Int J Dev Biol 49:557-577

*Knoop, V (2004) The mitochondrial DNA of land plants: peculiarities in phylogenetic perspective. Curr Genet 46: 123-139

Barbrook, AC, CJ Howe and S Purton (2006) Why are plastid genomes retained in non-photosynthetic organisms? Trends Plant Sci in press

Bowsher, CG and AK Tobin (2001) Compartmentation of metabolism within mitochondria and plastids. J Exptl Bot 52:513-527

Maliga, P (2004) Plastid transformation in higher plants. Annu Rev Plant Physiol 55:289-313

Timmis, JN et al (2004) Endosymbiotic gene transfer: organelle genomes forge eukaryotic chromosomes. Nature Rev Genet 5:123-135

Class	Reading [**denotes required reading*; others are recent / interesting / useful references for your information]
Wed March 29 Fri March 31 Lecture / discussion: Evolution, organization and transformation of organelle genomes [powerpoint]	Lopez-Juez, E and KA Pyke (2005) Plastids unleashed: their development and their integration in plant development. Int J Dev Biol 49:557-577 Knoop, V (2004) The mitochondrial DNA of land plants: peculiarities in phylogenetic perspective. Curr Genet 46: 123-139 Barbrook, AC, CJ Howe and S Purton (2006) Why are plastid genomes retained in non-photosynthetic organisms? Trends Plant Sci in press Bowsher, CG and AK Tobin (2001) Compartmentation of metabolism within mitochondria and plastids. J Exptl Bot 52:513-527 Maliga, P (2004) Plastid transformation in higher plants. Annu Rev Plant Physiol 55:289-313 Timmis, JN et al (2004) Endosymbiotic gene transfer: organelle genomes forge eukaryotic chromosomes. Nature Rev Genet 5:123-135
Mon April 3 Discussion papers	Bendich, A (2004) Circular chloroplast chromosomes: the grand illusion. Plant Cell 16:1661-1666 Oldenburg, DJ and AJ Bendich (2004) Most chloroplast DNA of maize seedlings in linear molecules with defined ends and branched forms. J Mol Biol:335:953-970
Wed April 4 Fri April 7 Lecture / discussion: Organelle gene expression and signaling [powerpoint]	* Giege, P and A Brennicke (2001) From gene to protein in higher plant mitochondria. C R Acad Sci, Paris / Life Sciences 324:209-217 *Pfannschmidt, T and K Liere (2005) Redox regulation and modification of proteins controlling chloroplast gene expression. Antiox and Redox Signal 7:607-618 Binder, S and A Brennicke (2002) Gene expression in plant mitochondria: transcriptional and post transcriptional control. Phil Trans R Soc Lond B 358:181 Stern, DB, MR Hanson and A Barkan (2004) Genetics and genomics of chloroplast biogenesis: maize as a model system. Trends in Plant Sci 9:293-301 Shikanai, T (2006) RNA editing in plant organelles: machinery, physiological function and evolution. Cell Mol Life Sci DOI 10.1007/s00018-005-5449-9 Sinvany-Villalobo, D, O Davydov, G Ben-Ari, A Zaltsman, A Raskind, Z Aaam (2004) Expression in multigene families. Analysis of chloroplast and mitochondrial proteases. Plant Physiol 135: 336 Pfannschmidt T (2003) Chloroplast redox signals: how photosynthesis controls its own genes. Trends Plant Sci 8:33-41 Pfannschmidt, T, K Schutze, V Fey, I Sherameti, R Oelmuller (2003) Chloroplast redox control of nuclear gene expression - a new class of plastid signals in interorganellar communication. Antiox Redox Signal 5:95 Strand A (2004) Plastid -to-nucleus signalling. Curr Opin, Plant Biol 7:621
Mon April 10 Discussion paper	* Dauvillee, D, O Stampacchia, J Girard-Bascou, J-D Rochaix (2003) Tab2 is a novel conserved RNA binding protein required for translation of the chloroplast psaB mRNA. EMBO J 22:6378-6388