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Dr. Margaret J. Hollingsworth

Associate Professor
Hochstetter 653
phone: (716) 645-2968
e-mail: hollings@buffalo.edu
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Research Summary

Research in our lab concentrates on posttranscriptional processes that affect gene expression in the chloroplast. Our research has its primary focus on cis and trans-acting factors involved in posttranscriptional control of chloroplast gene expression.

Selected Publications

• J.J. Baecker, J.C. Sneddon, M.J. Hollingsworth (2009) " Efficient translation in chloroplasts requires element(s) upstream of the putative ribosome binding site from atpI " Am. J. Bot. 96, 627-636

• P. M. Merhige, D. Both-Kim, M.D. Robida, M. J. Hollingsworth (2005) "RNA-protein complexes that form in the spinach chloroplast atpI 5' untranslated region can be divided into two subcomplexes, each comprised of unique cis-elements and trans-factors" Current Genetics 48, 256-264

• M. Robida, P. Merhige and M. Hollingsworth (2002) "Proteins are shared among many RNA-protein complexes that form in the 5'untranslated regions of spinach chloroplast mRNAs" Current Genetics 41, 53-62

• T. L. Hotchkiss and M. J. Hollingsworth (1999) "ATP synthase 5'untranslated regions are specifically bound by chloroplast polypeptides" Current Genetics 35, 512-520

• T.L. Hotchkiss and M. J. Hollingsworth (1997) "RNA processing affects the expression of the large ATP synthase gene cluster in spinach chloroplasts" Plant Molecular Biology 33, 635-640