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SUBMITTER: Garab G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5645462 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Garab Győző G Ughy Bettina B Waard Pieter de P Akhtar Parveen P Javornik Uroš U Kotakis Christos C Šket Primož P Karlický Václav V Materová Zuzana Z Špunda Vladimír V Plavec Janez J van Amerongen Herbert H Vígh László L As Henk Van HV Lambrev Petar H PH
Scientific reports 20171017 1
Chloroplast thylakoid membranes contain virtually all components of the energy-converting photosynthetic machinery. Their energized state, driving ATP synthesis, is enabled by the bilayer organization of the membrane. However, their most abundant lipid species is a non-bilayer-forming lipid, monogalactosyl-diacylglycerol; the role of lipid polymorphism in these membranes is poorly understood. Earlier <sup>31</sup>P-NMR experiments revealed the coexistence of a bilayer and a non-bilayer, isotropi ...[more]