Nature Communications (Mar 2020)

How paired PSII–LHCII supercomplexes mediate the stacking of plant thylakoid membranes unveiled by structural mass-spectrometry

  • Pascal Albanese,
  • Sem Tamara,
  • Guido Saracco,
  • Richard A. Scheltema,
  • Cristina Pagliano

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15184-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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The supramolecular organization of PSII-LHCII supercomplexes determines the plant thylakoid structure. Here, via structural mass spectrometry, Albanese et al. show how stroma-exposed N-termini of LHCII subunits, interacting with each other in adjacent membranes, can mediate membrane folding in grana stacks.