thylakoid
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250px|thumb|Thylakoids (dark green) inside a chloroplast Thylakoids are membrane-bound compartments inside chloroplasts and cyanobacteria. They are the site of the light-dependent reactions of photosynthesis. Thylakoids consist of a thylakoid membrane surrounding a thylakoid lumen. Chloroplast thylakoids frequently form stacks of disks referred to as grana (singular: granum). Grana are connected by intergranal or stromal thylakoids, which join granum stacks together as a single functional compartment.
Research
9,728 papers- Evolution of Thylakoid Structural Diversity.Annual review of cell and developmental biology · 2024
- Nature-Inspired Thylakoid-Based Photosynthetic Nanoarchitectures for Biomedical Applications.Small methods · 2024
- A brief history of thylakoid biogenesis.Open biology · 2019
- Thylakoid membrane function in heterocysts.Biochimica et biophysica acta · 2016
- Biogenesis of thylakoid membranes.Biochimica et biophysica acta · 2015
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25 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Structure
- Membrane
- Lumen
- Granum and stroma lamellae
- Formation
- Isolation and fractionation
- Proteins
- Integral membrane proteins
- Photosystems
- Cytochrome b6f complex
- ATP synthase
- Lumen proteins
- Protein expression
- Protein targeting to the thylakoids
- Function
- Water photolysis
- Electron transport chains
- Chemiosmosis
- Source of proton gradient
- ATP generation
- Thylakoid membranes in cyanobacteria
- See also
- References
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250px|thumb|Thylakoids (dark green) inside a chloroplast Thylakoids are membrane-bound compartments inside chloroplasts and cyanobacteria. They are the site of the light-dependent reactions of photosynthesis. Thylakoids consist of a thylakoid membrane surrounding a thylakoid lumen. Chloroplast thylakoids frequently form stacks of disks referred to as grana (singular: granum). Grana are connected by intergranal or stromal thylakoids, which join granum stacks together as a single functional compartment.
In thylakoid membranes, chlorophyll pigments are found in packets called quantasomes. Each quantasome contains 230 to 250 chlorophyll molecules.