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The biological role of lipids goes far beyond the formation of a structural membrane bilayer platform for membrane proteins and controlling fluxes across the membranes. For example, in photosynthetic thylakoid membranes, lipids occupy well-defined binding niches within protein complexes and determine the structural organization of membrane proteins and their function by controlling generic physicochemical membrane properties. In this chapter, two-dimensional thin-layer chromatography (2D TLC) and gas chromatography (GC) techniques are presented for quantitative analysis of lipid classes and fatty acids in thylakoid membranes. In addition, lipid extraction methods from isolated thylakoid membranes and leaves are described together with a procedure for derivatization of fatty acids to fatty acid methyl esters (FAME) that is required for GC analysis.
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The authors acknowledge support from the US National Science Foundation (MCB-1616982), the US Department of Energy (DE-SC0017160), the US Department of Agriculture (ARC grant WNP00775), and the US National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA, 2011-68005-30416) and USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Hatch project 0119.
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Kirchhoff, H., Yarbrough, R. (2018). Evaluation of Lipids for the Study of Photosynthetic Membranes. In: Covshoff, S. (eds) Photosynthesis. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1770. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7786-4_18
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