Number of proteins in chloroplast

Range ~3,000 proteins
Organism Chloroplast
Reference Andreas Bracher, Spencer M. Whitney, F. Ulrich Hartl, and Manajit Hayer-Hartl, Biogenesis and Metabolic Maintenance of Rubisco, Annu. Rev. Plant Biol. 2017. 68:6.1–6.32 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-arplant-043015-111633 p.6.12 2nd paragraph
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Comments P.6.12 2nd paragraph: "The diversity in both Cpn60 and the Cpn10/Cpn20 cofactors provides for combinatorial possibilities, presumably adjusting the chaperones to protein subsets among the ∼3,000 chloroplast proteins (primary source)."
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