Cyanobacteria are thought to be among the first organisms to perform oxygenic photosynthesis using thylakoid membranes, structures inside their cells where this process occurs. Their oxygen ...

The sun is the ultimate source of energy for virtually all organisms. Photosynthetic cells are able to use solar energy to synthesize energy-rich food molecules and to produce oxygen.

The photosynthetic machinery is housed within the thylakoid membranes of plants, algae and cyanobacteria; we study how these complexes are arranged and how the membrane morphology adapts to changing ...

In chloroplasts, cpSRP use two mechanisms to target both chloroplast- and nuclear-encoded proteins to the thylakoid membranes that house the photosynthetic machinery (Fig. 1). The first SRP ...