Photosynthesis: Putting light-harvesters on the spot
Wednesday, October 19, 2011 - 13:30
in Biology & Nature
Researchers now describe how the light-harvesting complexes required for photosynthesis get to their site of action in the plant cell. The team has demonstrated for the first time that a membrane protein interacts with a single soluble protein to anchor the subunits of the light-harvesting complexes in the membrane. The researchers propose a new model that explains the integration into the membrane through the formation of a pore.