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Is the debate over grana stacking formation finally solved?

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Kirchhoff and colleagues claimed that grana stacking can be fully explained by the physicochemical balance between competing attractive van der Waals (vdW) forces, and repulsive electrostatic double layer (EDL) and hydration forces1. Moreover, they refuted the long-standing conclusion that grana stacking cannot be justified by combining the three forces in action.

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Fig. 1: Calculation of the vdW forces between cell membranes.

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M.M.G. acknowledges support from Swiss National Science Foundation (P400P2_186747 and 174952). S.H.A. and A.S. acknowledge financial support from Pasargad Institute for Advanced Innovative Solutions (PIAIS) under Supporting Grant scheme (project SG1-RMS1908-01).

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Moazzami Gudarzi, M., Aboutalebi, S.H. & Satalov, A. Is the debate over grana stacking formation finally solved?. Nat. Plants 7, 277–278 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-021-00880-7

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