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. 2022 Apr 21;13:880423. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2022.880423

Table 3.

Proteins co-immunoprecipitated, pulled-down, or co-purified with WHIRLIES in protein complexes of plastids or mitochondria.

Full name and synonymous names WHIRLIES Organelle protein complex Function References
BCCP1 Biotin carboxyl carrier protein 1 of acetyl-CoA carboxylase WHIRLY3 Nucleoid Fatty acid biosynthesis Phinney and Thelen, 2005
CLPC1 CLP protease chaperon 1 WHIRLY3 Nucleoid Proteolysis stress Zheng et al., 2002; Olinares et al., 2011
CRS1 Chloroplast RNA Splicing 1 WHIRLY1 Ribonucleoprotein complex Group IIA intron splicing factor Till et al., 2001; Prikryl et al., 2008
2CPA 2-Cys-Peroxiredoxin A WHIRLY1
WHIRLY3
Redox sensing and redox regulation Liebthal et al., 2020; Telman et al., 2020
FIB1a Fibrillin 1a WHIRLY3 Network around plastoglobuli, interaction with fibrillin 1b indicative of oligomerization Involved in partitioning of proteins in plastids protection against photodamage, stress resistance Singh and McNellis, 2011; Gamez-Arjona et al., 2014
FIB4 Fibrillin 4 WHIRLY3 Interaction with plastoglobules, LHC, photosystem II, thylakoids Development of plastoglobules, resistance to multiple stresses Singh et al., 2010
pTAC4 Plastid transcriptionally active chromosome 4
VIPP, vesicle inducing plastid protein
WHIRLY3 Nucleoid/TAC Chloroplast development Kroll et al., 2001
PPR4 Plastid pentatricopeptide repeat 4 WHIRLY3 Ribonucleoprotein complex rps12 trans-splicing Xu et al., 2019
LHCA1 Light-Harvesting complex of photosystem I, subunit 1 WHIRLY1 Photosystem I Photosynthesis, light adaptation Huang et al., 2017
LHCB5 Light-Harvesting complex of photosystem II, subunit 5 CP26 WHIRLY3 Photosystem II Photosynthesis, tolerance to drought, oxidative stress protection Xu et al., 2012; Chen et al., 2018
ODB1 Organelle DNA-binding protein 1, RAD52-1 WHIRLY2 Large nucleoprotein complexes, likely nucleoids Recombination and repair of mitochondrial DNA Janicka et al., 2012
PetA Cytochrome f WHIRLY3 Cytochrome b6f complex Photosynthesis, electron transport
PRPS5 Plastid ribosomal protein S5, EMB3113 WHIRLY3 Essential component of plastid ribosome 16S rRNA processing, translation cold stress tolerance embryo development Bryant et al., 2011; Zhang et al., 2016
PRPS3 Plastid ribosomal protein S3 WHIRLY3 Essential component of plastid ribosome Translation affects leaf shape Fleischmann et al., 2011
RECA Recombinase A WHIRLY2 Mitochondrial DNA recombination Meng et al., 2020
RNaseH Ribonuclease H WHIRLY1
WHIRLY3
DNA gyrase complex Maintenance of ptDNA, removal of R-loops Yang et al., 2017