Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10870140 | FEBS Letters | 2014 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
Plant fibrillins are a well-conserved protein family found in the plastids of all photosynthetic organisms, where they perform a wide range of functions. A number of these proteins have been suggested to be involved in the maintenance of thylakoids and the formation of plastoglobules, preventing their coalescence and favoring their clustering via an as-yet unidentified cross-linking mechanism. In this work we show that two members of this group, namely fibrillin 1a and 1b, interact with each other via a head-to-tail mechanism, thus raising the possibility that they form homo- or hetero-oligomers and providing a mechanism to understand the function of these proteins.
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Authors
Francisco Manuel Gámez-Arjona, Juan Carlos de la Concepción, Sandy Raynaud, Ángel Mérida,