Ben Engel @cellarchlab.com · Sep 25 Time for a thread!🧵 How different is the molecular organization of thylakoids in “higher” plants🌱? To find out, we teamed up with @profmattjohnson.bsky.social to dive into spinach chloroplasts with #CryoET ❄️🔬. Curious? ..Read on! #TeamTomo #PlantScience 🧪 🧶🧬 🌾 elifesciences.org/articles/105... 1/🧵
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Stunning!
Unlike in algae and other phototrophs, plant thylakoids form specialized grana stacks🥞 interconnected by single thylakoids called stromal lamellae. The 3D membrane architecture we observed is consistent with the “helical staircase model” proposed from classical TEM (💚🔬 Andrew Staehelin, RIP). 2/🧵
gorgeous!!!