The plastid transcription kinase (PTK), a component of the major RNA polymerase complex from mustard chloroplasts, has been implicated in redox-mediated regulation of plastid gene expression. A cloning strategy to define the PTK gene(s) resulted in the isolation of a full-length cDNA for a protein with overall high homology with the alpha subunit of cytosolic casein kinase (CK2) that contained an N-terminal extension for a putative plastid transit peptide. Using in organello chloroplast import studies, immunodetection and MS, we found that the corresponding protein, termed cpCK2alpha, is targeted to the chloroplast and is associated with the plastid RNA polymerase PEP-A. The bacterially overexpressed protein shows CK2 kinase activity and is subject to glutathione inhibition in the same way as authentic chloroplast PTK. Furthermore, it readily phosphorylates components of the plastid transcription apparatus in vitro with a substrate specificity similar to that of PTK.
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