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SUBMITTER: Nevo R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1817639 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nevo Reinat R Charuvi Dana D Shimoni Eyal E Schwarz Rakefet R Kaplan Aaron A Ohad Itzhak I Reich Ziv Z
The EMBO journal 20070215 5
Cyanobacteria, the progenitors of plant and algal chloroplasts, enabled aerobic life on earth by introducing oxygenic photosynthesis. In most cyanobacteria, the photosynthetic membranes are arranged in multiple, seemingly disconnected, concentric shells. In such an arrangement, it is unclear how intracellular trafficking proceeds and how different layers of the photosynthetic membranes communicate with each other to maintain photosynthetic homeostasis. Using electron microscope tomography, we sh ...[more]