New evidence shows plant leaves absorb airborne microplastics, a previously overlooked route for the particles to enter crops ...

More insight into the process could improve crop productivity WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University scientists have discovered a key mechanism that regulates how plants develop chloroplasts, ...

The pleura (plural: pleurae) is a two-layered membrane that covers the lung. Between the layers is a small amount of lubricating fluid, known as pleural fluid, which helps cushion the lung and reduce ...

Edited by Donald Ort, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL; received December 10, 2024; accepted January 28, 2025 ...

Specialized transporters in the outer chloroplast membrane must convey these proteins into the chloroplast. Yoon and Chien identified a crucial amino acid of the transporter that, when modified ...

Specialized transporters in the outer chloroplast membrane must convey these proteins into the chloroplast. Altering this amino acid and the chemical modification can dramatically disrupt chloroplast ...

Our cryo-ET study of intact spinach chloroplasts provides insights that span scales from the level of local membrane architecture (fine 3D ultrastructure of individual grana and connecting stromal ...

2018). This creates a stable backbone to facilitate the translocation of chloroplast preproteins into the stroma. TOC75 and TIC236, homologs of BamA and TamB5 (bacterial outer- and inner-membrane ...

Here the authors use mRNA display to discover peptide inhibitors of BamA, an essential factor that catalyzes the membrane insertion of bacterial outer membrane proteins. They show that three ...