Nature Communications (Jun 2021)

Probing the biogenesis pathway and dynamics of thylakoid membranes

  • Tuomas Huokko,
  • Tao Ni,
  • Gregory F. Dykes,
  • Deborah M. Simpson,
  • Philip Brownridge,
  • Fabian D. Conradi,
  • Robert J. Beynon,
  • Peter J. Nixon,
  • Conrad W. Mullineaux,
  • Peijun Zhang,
  • Lu-Ning Liu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23680-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Cyanobacterial thylakoid membranes host the molecular machinery for the light-dependent reactions of photosynthesis and respiratory electron flow. Here, the authors show that newly synthesized thylakoids emerge between the plasma membrane and pre-existing thylakoids and describe the time-dependent assembly process of photosynthetic complexes.