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. 2023 Feb 21;35(6):1727–1751. doi: 10.1093/plcell/koad049

Table 1.

RBP families in Arabidopsis chloroplasts and mitochondria

Protein family Number of proteins targeted to chloroplastsa Number of proteins targeted to mitochondriaa References
Pentatricopeptide repeat (PPR) proteins 106 328 Supplemental Table S4 in Lurin et al. (2004)
Chloroplast RNA splicing and ribosome maturation (CRM)—proteins 10 5 Barkan et al. (2007) and Zhang et al. (2021)
Whirly (WHY)-proteins 2 1 Prikryl et al. (2008)
Plant organellar RNA recognition (PORR)-proteins 3 11 Kroeger et al. (2009) andFrancs-Small et al. (2012)
DUF794/APO1 2 2 Watkins et al. (2011)
cpRNPs—chloroplast ribonucleoproteins (10) 10 0 Ruwe et al. (2011)
RNA recognition motif proteins (non-cpRNPs) 13 10 Ruwe et al. (2011)
Dead box helicases 11 8 Bobik et al. (2017) and Nawaz and Kang (2017)
RNAse III-like: RNC1 1 0 Watkins et al. (2007)
Peptidyl-tRNA hydrolase: CRS2 1 0 Jenkins and Barkan (2001)
Ribosome-release factors: 3 0 Stoppel et al. (2011)
Tetratricopeptide repeat protein binding RNA (R-TPR)/HCF107 1 0 Sane et al. (2005) and Hammani et al. (2012)
Mitochondrial transcription termination factor (mTERF)—proteins 12 10 Kleine (2012) and Robles and Quesada (2021)
K-homology (KH) domain proteins 3 1 SUBA
All RBP 185 276

Number of proteins is based on SUBA-predictions (Hooper et al. 2014), which incorporate mass-spec. data as well as microscopic localizations. In addition, numbers from references indicated in the last column are considered as well.