Three decades in transport business: studies of metabolite transport in chloroplasts - a personal perspective.
This article gives an historical overview of our group's research on various metabolite translocators of chloroplasts, such as the translocators for phosphorylated intermediates of the Calvin-Benson cycle and of glycolysis, of ADP and ATP, of dicarboxylates, of pyruvate and of hexoses; how it began and where it led to. Wherever appropriate, references will be made to research in other laboratories.
Heldt
Hans-Walter
HW
Abteilung Biochemie der Pflanze, Albrecht-von Haller-Institut fuer Pflanzenwissenschaften, Universität Göttingen, Untere Karspuele 2, 37073, Göttingen, Germany, hheldt@gwdg.de.