Discovery reveals how a specialized structure in plant cells helps regulate photosynthesis
Purdue University scientists have discovered a key mechanism that regulates how plants develop chloroplasts, essential ...
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Plant Cells, Chloroplasts, and Cell Walls
Plant cells have several structures not found in other eukaryotes. In particular, organelles called chloroplasts allow plants to capture the energy of the Sun in energy-rich molecules; cell walls ...
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Molecular architecture of thylakoid membranes within intact spinach chloroplasts
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 ...
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Eukaryotic Cells
An electron micrograph therefore provides an excellent blueprint of a cell's inner ... and chloroplasts is known as the endosymbiotic hypothesis. In addition to double membranes, mitochondria ...
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High-Resolution Structures Illuminate the Chloroplast Protein Import Machinery in Plants
These preproteins are subsequently transported across the outer and inner envelope membranes of the chloroplasts. The translocon machineries, known as the TOC (translocon at the outer chloroplast ...