Thylakoid membrane perforations and connectivity enable intracellular traffic in cyanobacteria

EMBO Journal

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1467-1473

  Nevo, Reinat ^a   Charuvi, Dana ^a,b   Shimoni, Eyal ^a   Schwarz, Rakefet ^c   Kaplan, Aaron ^b   Ohad, Itzhak ^b   Reich, Ziv ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cyanobacteria; Electron tomography; Intracellular trafficking; Photosynthetic (thylakoid) membranes; Vesicles

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL MIGRATION; CELL SIZE; CHLOROPLAST; CYANOBACTERIUM; GRANULE CELL; HOMEOSTASIS; LIPID SOLUBILITY; MEMBRANE FUSION; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; MICROSCOPE; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOSOME; THYLAKOID MEMBRANE; TOMOGRAPHY;

BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CELL MEMBRANE; CYANOBACTERIA; CYTOPLASM; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOTOSYNTHETIC REACTION CENTER COMPLEX PROTEINS;

ALGAE; CYANOBACTERIA; EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 33947105612     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: 14602075     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.emboj.7601594     Document Type: Article

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