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Chloroplast thylakoids contain about 25% (W/W) acyl lipid. It has recently been proposed that thylakoids are structurally differentiated into planar bilayer areas, which are enriched in protein and anionic lipids, and highly curved marginal areas which are enriched in neutral galactolipids (Murphy 1982, Murphy, Woodrow 1983a). In this report we present evidence for such a lateral heterogeneity of acyl lipid distribution in thylakoid membranes. Lateral heterogeneities of chlorophyll and protein distribution were also found both in this and previous studies (Anderson, Andersson 1982). Taken together these finding shed considerable light on the molecular organisation of thylakoid membranes. Finally, the functional reconstitution of photosystem II complexes (PSII) with light-harvesting complexes (LHC) into a PSII-LHC complexes with increased antenna sizes is reported.
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Murphy, D.J., Woodrow, I.E. (1984). The Role of Acyl Lipids in the Function and Molecular Organisation of Photosynthetic Membranes. In: Sybesma, C. (eds) Advances in Photosynthesis Research. Advances in Agricultural Biotechnology, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-4973-2_24
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