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Targeting of a foreign protein to chloroplasts by fusion to the transit peptide from the small subunit of ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase

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Chimaeric genes can be constructed which fuse the transit peptide of a small subunit of the chloroplast-located ribulose l,5-bisphosphate carboxylase with a bacterial protein. The fusion protein is translocated into chloroplasts and cleaved in a similar way to the small subunit polypeptide precursor.

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  1. Michael P. Timko, Albert P. Kausch and Anthony R. Cashmore: Laboratory of Cell Biology, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York 10021, USA

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Van den Broeck, G., Timko, M., Kausch, A. et al. Targeting of a foreign protein to chloroplasts by fusion to the transit peptide from the small subunit of ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase. Nature 313, 358–363 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1038/313358a0

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