Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A saclike membrane in the chloroplasts of plant cells that is often arranged in stacks called grana and that is the site of the light reactions of photosynthesis.
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- noun biology a
folded membrane withinplant chloroplasts from whichgrana are made, used inphotosynthesis
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Under these conditions, high light conditions can cause thylakoid membranes to become damaged in a process known as photoinhibition.
Photosynthesis 2009
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Light energy from the sun is captured by photosynthetic pigments and is transferred along a series of proteins and iron-sulfur containing compounds along the thylakoid membranes of the chloroplast; the net result being the formation of high-energy compounds such as ATP and NADPH.
Photosynthesis 2009
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The cells were broken in a Bead-Beater with an ice-jacketed sample chamber by six breakage cycles at full speed (30 s of bursts, followed by 5 min of chilling) after adding an equal volume of glass beads pre-wetted by the thylakoid buffer to the cell suspension.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Qiang Wang et al. 2010
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After washing with 2 mM dodecyl maltoside to remove any of the remaining phycobilisomes, the membranes were washed twice and resuspended in the thylakoid buffer to a Chl concentration of 1 mg ml
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Qiang Wang et al. 2010
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The thylakoid protein complexes were then isolated, solubilized in mild detergents and fractionated by sucrose gradient ultracentrifugation.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Qiang Wang et al. 2010
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Blots of the thylakoid membrane proteins were probed with polyclonal anti-D1 antibodies.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Qiang Wang et al. 2010
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The thylakoid membranes were adjusted to a Chl concentration of 15 µg ml
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Qiang Wang et al. 2010
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The thylakoid protein complexes were then separated by step sucrose gradient ultracentrifugation at 160,000×
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Qiang Wang et al. 2010
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In the exposed peduncle, the membranes constituting the thylakoids were very distinct and plentiful, but in the flag leaf, there was a sharp breakdown at stage 4 and complete disintegration of the thylakoid membranes at stage 5.
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To fractionate the membrane protein complexes, a solution of 10% (the percentage (%) of a solution is calculated as weight to volume (w/v) unless otherwise indicated) dodecyl maltoside was added to the thylakoid membranes to achieve a detergent-to-Chl ratio of 15: 1.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Qiang Wang et al. 2010
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They found that the cyanobacteria from Australia and Canada contained thylakoids, or membrane-bound sacs where photosynthesis occurs.
1.75-billion-year-old fossils help explain how photosynthesis evolved #author.fullName} 2024
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