Searching for substrates of the metallo protease FtsH11 of Arabidopsis thaliana using N-terminal proteomics

• FtsH11 is a membrane-bound metalloprotease localized in mitochondria and in the chloroplast envelope of Arabidopsis thaliana. An ftsh11 knock-out mutant has been shown to develop a chlorotic phenotype in prolonged photoperiods. The proteome of the ftsh11 chloroplast revealed increased abundance of several Calvin cycle enzymes, chaperones and some other proteins, however, none of those proteins could be verified to be an FtsH11 substrate (Harald Aigner, Raik Wagner, Lars L.E. Sjögren, Holger Eubel, A. Harvey Millar, Adrian K. Clarke, Christiane Funk, 2012, manuscript submitted). Here, we have used positional proteomics to identify peptides that report FtsH11 processing events. In this work we were able to identify seven chloroplast-localized proteins that are processed in wild type, but not in ftsh11.  

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