Structure and dynamics of interfacial peptides and proteins from vibrational sum-frequency generation spectroscopy

S Hosseinpour, SJ Roeters, M Bonn, W Peukert… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Proteins at interfaces play important roles in cell biology, immunology, bioengineering, and
biomimetic material design. Many biological processes are based on interfacial protein …

Chloroplast lipids and their biosynthesis

G Hölzl, P Dörmann - Annual Review of Plant Biology, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Chloroplasts contain high amounts of monogalactosyldiacylglycerol (MGDG) and
digalactosyldiacylglycerol (DGDG) and low levels of the anionic lipids …

Role of membrane glycerolipids in photosynthesis, thylakoid biogenesis and chloroplast development

K Kobayashi - Journal of plant research, 2016 - Springer
The lipid bilayer of the thylakoid membrane in plant chloroplasts and cyanobacterial cells is
predominantly composed of four unique lipid classes; monogalactosyldiacylglycerol …

Plant phospholipid diversity: emerging functions in metabolism and protein–lipid interactions

Y Nakamura - Trends in plant science, 2017 - cell.com
Phospholipids are essential components of biological membranes and signal transduction
cascades in plants. In recent years, plant phospholipid research was greatly advanced by …

Lipidomic studies of membrane glycerolipids in plant leaves under heat stress

Y Higashi, K Saito - Progress in lipid research, 2019 - Elsevier
Environmental stresses cause membrane damage in terrestrial plants. Studies on the lipids
obtained from these plants are required to understand their adaptation to climate change …

[PDF][PDF] Bacterial Vipp1 and PspA are members of the ancient ESCRT-III membrane-remodeling superfamily

J Liu, M Tassinari, DP Souza, S Naskar, JK Noel… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Membrane remodeling and repair are essential for all cells. Proteins that perform these
functions include Vipp1/IM30 in photosynthetic plastids, PspA in bacteria, and ESCRT-III in …

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 …

Selective elimination of membrane-damaged chloroplasts via microautophagy

S Nakamura, J Hidema, W Sakamoto, H Ishida… - Plant …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Plant chloroplasts constantly accumulate damage caused by visible wavelengths of light
during photosynthesis. Our previous study revealed that entire photodamaged chloroplasts …

[PDF][PDF] PspA adopts an ESCRT-III-like fold and remodels bacterial membranes

B Junglas, ST Huber, T Heidler, L Schlösser, D Mann… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
PspA is the main effector of the phage shock protein (Psp) system and preserves the
bacterial inner membrane integrity and function. Here, we present the 3.6 Å resolution …

[PDF][PDF] Structural basis for VIPP1 oligomerization and maintenance of thylakoid membrane integrity

TK Gupta, S Klumpe, K Gries, S Heinz, W Wietrzynski… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Vesicle-inducing protein in plastids 1 (VIPP1) is essential for the biogenesis and
maintenance of thylakoid membranes, which transform light into life. However, it is unknown …