Photosynthetic directed endosymbiosis to investigate the role of bioenergetics in chloroplast function and evolution
Bidhan Chandra De, Jay Cournoyer, Yang-le Gao, Catherine L. Wallace, Stanley Bram, Angad P. Mehta · 2024
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Bidhan De and co-authors probe how chloroplasts handle energy in a 2024 study. Chloroplasts arose when a host cell took in a light-using bacterium long ago. Modern plant chloroplasts seem to spend most of their own energy on carbon capture and even import energy from the cell.
The team tested carrier proteins that move energy units across the chloroplast wall, drawn from red algae, glaucophytes, and land plants. Carriers from the first two groups could export energy and support the host, while land plant carriers mostly imported it. The contrast sheds a fresh angle on how this ancient partnership changed over time.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Bidhan Chandra De, Jay Cournoyer, Yang-le Gao, Catherine L. Wallace, Stanley Bram, Angad P. Mehta |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 74 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |