Chloroplasts articles within Nature

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• Letter | 21 November 2018

  TIC236 links the outer and inner membrane translocons of the chloroplast

  TIC236 is an inner-membrane protein that binds to the outer-membrane channel TOC75 to create a long, stable bridge that enables the transport of proteins into chloroplasts.

  • Yih-Lin Chen
  • , Lih-Jen Chen
  •  & Hsou-min Li

• Letter | 01 July 2015

  Eye-like ocelloids are built from different endosymbiotically acquired components

  Dinoflagellate eye-like ocelloids are built from pre-existing organelles of disparate origin, including a cornea-like layer made of mitochondria and a retinal body made of anastomosing plastids.

  • Gregory S. Gavelis
  • , Shiho Hayakawa
  •  & Brian S. Leander

• Letter | 24 August 2011

  A plastidial sodium-dependent pyruvate transporter

  • Tsuyoshi Furumoto
  • , Teppei Yamaguchi
  •  & Katsura Izui