The bacterium Ralstonia eutropha has been used as a model organism for the commercial production of PHAs.

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There are Seven different types of thioredoxin in cells, Trx f, m, x, y, and z are located in the chloroplasts, o in mitochondria, and h in the cytosol, endoplasmic reticulum, and plasma membrane.

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Trx proteins are characterized by a canonical disulfide active site consisting of Cys‐Gly‐Pro‐ Cys

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Trx have common tertiary structure called the thioredoxin fold, which consists of five antiparallel beta sheets sandwiched between three alpha helices.

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Trx is regulated by PSII & PSI

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Trx regulates plastid phosphoribulokinase (PRK) and NADP–glyceraldehyde-3‐phosphate dehydrogenase (NADP–GAPD) by noncovalent associations with the nuclear‐encoded chloroplast protein CP12 (an ≈8.5‐kDa protein)