Biophysics/Introduction/Thylakoid

Thylakoids are naturally occurring stacks of photosynthetic membranes isolated from within plant w:chloroplasts. (See also w:thylakoids) and the following diagram.)

Schematic drawing of thylakoid stacks within plant chloroplasts

External links

• Clegg MT, Gaut BS, Learn GH, Morton BR (July 1994). "Rates and patterns of chloroplast DNA evolution". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 91 (15): 6795–801. doi:10.1073/pnas.91.15.6795. PMID 8041699. PMC 44285. //www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC44285/. 
• Co-Extra research on chloroplast transformation
• Chloroplast - Cell Centered Database
• Chloroplasts
  • Photosynthesis: The Role of Light
• 3D structures of proteins associated with thylakoid membrane

Structures of the cell: Organelles

Related Endomembrane Systems

• Cell membrane => Nucleus => Nucleolus => Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) => Golgi apparatus
  • Parenthesome, Autophagosome, Vesicles, Exosome, Lysosome, Endosome, Phagosome, Vacuole, Cytoplasmic granules, Melanosome, Microbody, Glyoxysome Peroxisome
  • w:Weibel–Palade bodies = ribosomes
  • Cytoskeleton
  • Microfilaments: Intermediate filaments, Microtubules, w:Prokaryotic cytoskeleton, MTOCs, Centrosome, w:Centriole, Basal body, w:Spindle pole body, Myofibril
  • w:Endosymbionts
  • Mitochondrion, w:Plastids, Chloroplast, Chromoplast, Gerontoplast, w:Leucoplast.
• Other internal organelles
  • RNA, Ribosome, Vault, Cytoplasm, Proteasome

• External
  • Undulipodium, Cilium, w:Flagellum, Axoneme, Radial spoke, w:Cell wall, Acrosome
  • B strc: edmb (perx), skel (ctrs), epit, cili, mito, nucl (chro)