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This chapter describes the components of the transcriptional apparatus in plastids (RNA polymerases,promoters, transcription factors) and their roles in transcription. The chromosomes of plastids fromnearly all plants contain genes for core subunits of PEP, a bacterial-type RNA polymerase which mightbe responsible for transcription of all plastid genes in algae but shares responsibility for transcriptionwith one or more nuclear encoded transcriptases (NEP) in higher plants. There is increasing evidencethat the catalytic subunit of NEP is related to RNA polymerases of bacteriophages like T7. NEP andPEP are active throughout leaf development. Transcription of plastid genes and operons by multiplepromoters is common. Promoter recognition by PEP is mediated by σ-factors.Factors supporting NEP in promoter binding are not known yet. Examples of regulation of transcriptionare described demonstrating promoter selection by σ-factorsand activation/repression of gene activity by transcription factors.
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Liere, K., Börner, T. (2007). Transcription and transcriptional regulation in plastids. In: Bock, R. (eds) Cell and Molecular Biology of Plastids. Topics in Current Genetics, vol 19. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/4735_2007_0232
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