Article
Digalactosyldiacylglycerol Is Essential for Organization of the Membrane Structure in Etioplasts.
Plant physiology - 1 Aug 2018
Fujii Sho, Kobayashi Koichi, Nagata Noriko, Masuda Tatsuru, Wada Hajime
Abstract excerpt
Angiosperms germinated in the dark develop etioplasts, the chloroplast precursors, in cotyledon cells. Etioplasts contain lattice membrane structures called prolamellar bodies (PLBs) and lamellar prothylakoids as internal membrane systems. PLBs accumulate the chlorophyll intermediate protochlorophyllide (Pchlide) in a complex with NADPH and light-dependent NADPH:Pchlide oxidoreductase (LPOR). Two galactolipids,...
Topics
- Arabidopsis
- Arabidopsis Proteins
- Carotenoids
- Chlorophyllides
- Chloroplasts
- Galactolipids
- Galactosyltransferases
- Intracellular Membranes
- Multiprotein Complexes
- Mutation
- NADP
