Photosynthesis, the natural process of converting sunlight energy into chemical energy and generating molecular oxygen, is a ...

The macromolecular organization of photosynthetic complexes within the thylakoids of higher plant chloroplasts has been a topic of significant debate. Using in situ cryo-electron tomography, this ...

Chloroplasts, the parts of cells that allow plants and algae to photosynthesize, are thought to have originated more than 1 billion years ago, when photosynthetic cyanobacteria lived symbiotically ...

The research addressed the biogenesis of protein complexes in chloroplasts ... The protein is integrated into the thylakoid membrane and is constantly damaged to such an extent, particularly ...

Continuous repair cycle The research addressed the biogenesis of protein complexes in chloroplasts ... The protein is integrated into the thylakoid membrane and is constantly damaged to such ...

Chloroplast-encoded multi-span thylakoid membrane proteins are crucial for photosynthetic complexes, yet the coordination of their biogenesis remains poorly understood. To identify factors that ...

The thylakoid membrane, located inside the chloroplast, contains proteins and pigments that capture light and convert it into chemical energy. This membrane has two main parts: grana, rich in ...

Thylakoids are little pouches located in the chloroplasts of plants ... However it is now believed that thylakoid membranes in cyanobacteria were what made them capable of using sunlight to ...

In their paper published in the journal Nature, the group describes how they created nanoscale thylakoid structures ... from plant chloroplasts. They then covered them with mouse cells to prevent ...