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, ...

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 ...

One effector of wheat disease pathogen is found to prevent the entry of thioredoxin into chloroplast. This disrupts the thioredoxin-mediated monomerization of STAYGREEN, a key regulator of ...

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 ...

this has turned out to be a prescient description of the interior of eukaryotic cells. In addition to membrane-encased organelles—the nucleus, mitochondria, and Golgi apparatus, to name a ...

Thylakoids inside the chloroplast swell, leading to a “a whirling of thylakoids upon themselves,” as the authors put it in their paper. The thylakoids, which are often depicted as stacked, ...

2006), or the envelope membranes (Schleiff et al., 2003b; Bräutigam and Weber, 2009) have been analyzed in the past. The current knowledge on the proteomic content of chloroplasts has been deposited ...