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Peroxisomes: Dynamic shape-shifters

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

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