Formation and function of bacterial organelles

C Greening, T Lithgow - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2020 - nature.com
Advances in imaging technologies have revealed that many bacteria possess organelles
with a proteomically defined lumen and a macromolecular boundary. Some are bound by a …

Photosystem II assembly: from cyanobacteria to plants

J Nickelsen, B Rengstl - Annual review of plant biology, 2013 - annualreviews.org
Photosystem II (PSII) is an integral-membrane, multisubunit complex that initiates electron
flow in oxygenic photosynthesis. The biogenesis of this complex machine involves the …

Structure and dynamics of thylakoids in land plants

M Pribil, M Labs, D Leister - Journal of experimental botany, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Thylakoids of land plants have a bipartite structure, consisting of cylindrical grana stacks,
made of membranous discs piled one on top of the other, and stroma lamellae which are …

Recent advances in understanding the assembly and repair of photosystem II

PJ Nixon, F Michoux, J Yu, M Boehm… - Annals of …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background Photosystem II (PSII) is the light-driven water: plastoquinone
oxidoreductase of oxygenic photosynthesis and is found in the thylakoid membrane of …

[HTML][HTML] High resolution clear native electrophoresis for in-gel functional assays and fluorescence studies of membrane protein complexes

I Wittig, M Karas, H Schagger - Molecular & Cellular Proteomics, 2007 - ASBMB
Clear native electrophoresis and blue native electrophoresis are microscale techniques for
the isolation of membrane protein complexes. The Coomassie Blue G-250 dye, used in blue …

Assembling and maintaining the Photosystem II complex in chloroplasts and cyanobacteria

J Komenda, R Sobotka, PJ Nixon - Current opinion in plant biology, 2012 - Elsevier
Plants, algae and cyanobacteria grow because of their ability to use sunlight to extract
electrons from water. This vital reaction is catalysed by the Photosystem II (PSII) complex, a …

Effect of light cycles (night/day) on CO2 fixation and biomass production by microalgae in photobioreactors

E Jacob-Lopes, CHG Scoparo, LMCF Lacerda… - … and Processing: Process …, 2009 - Elsevier
The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of the photoperiod on the biomass
production and carbon dioxide fixation rates using a photosynthetic culture of the …

Biogenic regions of cyanobacterial thylakoids form contact sites with the plasma membrane

A Rast, M Schaffer, S Albert, W Wan, S Pfeffer, F Beck… - Nature plants, 2019 - nature.com
Little is known about how the photosynthetic machinery is arranged in time and space
during the biogenesis of thylakoid membranes. Using in situ cryo-electron tomography to …

[HTML][HTML] Strategies for psbA gene expression in cyanobacteria, green algae and higher plants: from transcription to PSII repair

P Mulo, I Sakurai, EM Aro - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) …, 2012 - Elsevier
The Photosystem (PS) II of cyanobacteria, green algae and higher plants is prone to light-
induced inactivation, the D1 protein being the primary target of such damage. As a …

[HTML][HTML] Co-existence of photosynthetic and respiratory activities in cyanobacterial thylakoid membranes

CW Mullineaux - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Bioenergetics, 2014 - Elsevier
The thylakoid membranes of cyanobacteria are the major sites of respiratory electron
transport as well as photosynthetic light reactions. The photosynthetic and respiratory …