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Peroxisomes: Dynamic shape-shifters

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Breakthrough technologies to study living cells at the subcellular scale reveal that light modulates the dynamic and reversible morphological adaptation of peroxisomes to optimize metabolic exchanges with chloroplasts during photorespiration.

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Figure 1: Dynamic changes of peroxisomes in response to light.

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  1. Francisco J. Corpas is in the Department of Biochemistry, Cell and Molecular Biology of Plants, Estación Experimental del Zaidín, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Apdo 419, E-18080 Granada, Spain.,

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Corpas, F. Peroxisomes: Dynamic shape-shifters. Nature Plants 1, 15039 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nplants.2015.39

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