Nature Communications (Jun 2017)

Plastid thylakoid architecture optimizes photosynthesis in diatoms

  • Serena Flori,
  • Pierre-Henri Jouneau,
  • Benjamin Bailleul,
  • Benoit Gallet,
  • Leandro F Estrozi,
  • Christine Moriscot,
  • Olivier Bastien,
  • Simona Eicke,
  • Alexander Schober,
  • Carolina Río Bártulos,
  • Eric Maréchal,
  • Peter G Kroth,
  • Dimitris Petroutsos,
  • Samuel Zeeman,
  • Cécile Breyton,
  • Guy Schoehn,
  • Denis Falconet,
  • Giovanni Finazzi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15885
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Phytoplankton and plant plastids have distinct evolutionary origins and membrane organization. Here Floriet al. show that diatom photosynthetic complexes spatially segregate into interconnected subdomains within loose thylakoid stacks enabling fast diffusion of electron carriers and efficient photosynthesis