Glycerolipids constituting the matrix of photosynthetic membranes, from cyanobacteria to
chloroplasts of eukaryotic cells, comprise monogalactosyldiacylglycerol …

Photosynthesis, the driving force for life on earth, has been studied by biochemists,
biophysicists, plant physiologists, and agronomists. Similarly, lipids have attracted the …

Photosynthetic membranes have a unique lipid composition that has been remarkably well
conserved from cyanobacteria to chloroplasts. These membranes are characterized by a …

In this chapter we focus our attention on the enigmatic structural and functional roles of the
major, non-bilayer lipid monogalactosyl-diacylglycerol (MGDG) in the thylakoid membrane …

Galactolipids (MGDG and DGDG), sulfolipid and phosphatidylglycerol are the main
constituents of plastid membranes. Glycerolipid biosynthesis requires first the assembly of …

The lipid bilayer of the thylakoid membrane in plant chloroplasts and cyanobacterial cells is
predominantly composed of four unique lipid classes; monogalactosyldiacylglycerol …

Thylakoid membranes in cyanobacterial cells and chloroplasts of algae and higher plants
are the sites of oxygenic photosynthesis. The lipid composition of the thylakoid membrane is …

Phosphoglycerolipids are abundant membrane constituents in prokaryotic and eukaryotic
cells. However, glycoglycerolipids are the predominant lipids in chloroplasts of plants and …

Oxygen-evolving photosynthesis is a process common to eukaryotic algae, higher plants,
and one group of photosynthetic prokaryotes, the cyanobacteria (blue-green algae). Light …

Sulfoquinovosyl diacylglycerol (SQDG) and phosphatidylglycerol (PG) are lipids with
negative charges, distributed among membranes of chloroplasts of plants and their …