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Chloroplast Ribosomes

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Handbook of Genetics

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Chloroplasts have a certain degree of genetic independence, since they possess their own set of double-stranded DNA which is replicated, transcribed, and translated by chloroplast-specific enzyme systems. The ribosomes occurring within the chloroplasts (hereafter referred to as chloroplast ribosomes) play an important role in chloroplast genome expression, and since their discovery by Lyttleton (1960, 1962) an impressive number of papers have appeared dealing with numerous aspects of the structure and function of these ribosomes. The earlier work in this field was mainly concerned with the identification of chloroplast ribosomes and their separation from the cell-sap ribosomes. It was, and to a certain degree still is, difficult to obtain preparative amounts of pure chloroplast ribosomes (or their subunits) possessing acceptable polymerizing activity. It is not surprising, therefore, that our knowledge of chloroplast ribosome functions (such as the mechanisms of the initiation, elongation, and termination of polypeptides) and our ability to reconstitute ribosomes from their components are modest compared to the corresponding advances with bacterial or animal ribosomes.

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