• We found that the slug Elysia timida induces changes to the photosynthetic light reactions of the chloroplasts it steals from the alga Acetabularia acetabulum . (elifesciences.org)
  • Once stolen, the chloroplasts, now termed kleptoplasts, remain functional inside the slug's cells for several weeks, essentially creating a photosynthetic slug. (elifesciences.org)
  • In vascular plants, photosynthetic electron transport (PET) chain produces reductive power that is utilised by diverse acceptors involved in both chloroplast and cellular metabolism 1 . (nature.com)
  • They play an indispensable role in the light-driven reactions that enable photosynthetic organisms to convert water and carbon dioxide into oxygen and sugars. (biorxiv.org)
  • We propose that VIA1 is part of a previously unrecognized chloroplast ESCRT-like system that plays a critical role in forming, remodeling, and repairing photosynthetic membranes. (biorxiv.org)
  • It's hard to imagine how plants, one of nature's greatest successes, could be improved, but nanobionic plants which enhance the photosynthetic function of chloroplasts isolated from plants for possible use in solar cells may get a boost. (science20.com)
  • Chloroplasts can still perform these reactions when removed from plants, but after a few hours, they start to break down because light and oxygen damage the photosynthetic proteins. (science20.com)
  • With carbon nanotubes appearing to act as a "prosthetic photoabsorber," photosynthetic activity - measured by the rate of electron flow through the thylakoid membranes - was 49 percent greater than that in isolated chloroplasts without embedded nanotubes. (science20.com)
  • In these plants, the nanotubes moved into the chloroplast and boosted photosynthetic electron flow by about 30 percent. (science20.com)
  • Like plant cells, photosynthetic protists also have chloroplasts. (pressbooks.pub)
  • Through evolution, these ingested bacteria became more specialized in their functions, with the aerobic bacteria becoming mitochondria and the photosynthetic bacteria becoming chloroplasts. (pressbooks.pub)
  • The FHA cycle is active inside the cell, detoxifying superoxide anion radicals (O2·-), which are mainly generated as a result of so-called 'electron leakage' to triplet oxygen (O2) in photosynthetic, mitochondrial, peroxisomal, and probably other electron transport chains (Ozyigit et al. (deepdyve.com)
  • 2016). AA also takes part in the regeneration of α-tocopherol (vitamin E) in photosynthetic membranes and participates in chloroplast metabolism as a cofactor for violaxanthin de-epoxidase, an enzyme involved in xanthophyll cycle-mediated photoprotection (Smirnoff and Wheeler, 2000). (deepdyve.com)
  • The sea slug Elysia timida , however, can steal whole chloroplasts from the cells of the algae it consumes: the stolen structures then become part of the cells in the gut of the slug, allowing the animal to gain energy from sunlight. (elifesciences.org)
  • In both plants and algae, this important process takes place in tiny, specialized places inside the cell called chloroplasts. (acs.org)
  • Thylakoids are membrane-bound compartments located in cyanobacteria and chloroplasts of plants and algae. (biorxiv.org)
  • From inhibitors effects and electronic requirements of the O 2 uptake process, we conclude that an oxidase catalyzing oxidation of plastoquinol and reduction of oxygen to water is present in thylakoid membranes. (elsevierpure.com)
  • Wrapping the particles in polyacrylic acid, a highly charged molecule, allows the particles to penetrate the fatty, hydrophobic membranes that surrounds chloroplasts. (science20.com)
  • Normal chloroplasts contain membranes like stacked pancakes called thylakoids. (cosmosmagazine.com)
  • Like mitochondria, chloroplasts have outer and inner membranes, but within the space enclosed by a chloroplast's inner membrane is a set of interconnected and stacked, fluid-filled membrane sacs called thylakoids ( Figure 2 ). (pressbooks.pub)
  • Around half of these are involved in the production of chloroplasts, the small structures in plant cells that allow them to harvest energy from the sun and produce their own food. (discovermagazine.com)
  • According to the University of Tennessee's Agricultural Extension Service , leaves contain 'chloroplasts' which are disk-like structures within cells that produce food for the tree. (treecanada.ca)
  • Clues to the identity of the protein implied in this process are given by pharmacological and immunological similarities with a protein (IMMUTANS) identified in Arabidopsis chloroplasts. (elsevierpure.com)
  • The absence of VIA1 causes thylakoid swelling upon exposure to high light in Chlamydomonas and defective thylakoid biogenesis in the newly emerging leaf tissue in Arabidopsis, thereby delaying chloroplast development in this tissue. (biorxiv.org)
  • In these chloroplasts, levels of damaging molecules dropped dramatically. (science20.com)
  • This energy is then used to split water molecules, releasing oxygen as a byproduct. (managenergy.tv)
  • This CO 2 is associated with molecules of water (H 2 0) through solar energy, and thus produces glucose (carbon-rich molecules) and oxygen (O 2 ). (cirad.fr)
  • Early chloroplasts were probably independent bacteria that were captured and 'domesticated' by other cells for their ability to extract energy from the sun. (elifesciences.org)
  • The reactants of cellular respiration are glucose (sugar) and oxygen, these are taken in by animals and humans to produce energy. (databasefootball.com)
  • It is widely accepted that in conditions leading to over-reduction, pseudo-cyclic electron transfer enables electrons to flow from water to PSI, with molecular oxygen as alternative electron acceptor 5 . (nature.com)
  • In a water molecule, shared electrons spend more time around the oxygen atom than the hydrogen atoms. (proprofs.com)
  • This means that the oxygen atom attracts the shared electrons more strongly, causing them to spend more time around the oxygen atom. (proprofs.com)
  • As a result, the oxygen atom becomes slightly negatively charged, while the hydrogen atoms become slightly positively charged. (proprofs.com)
  • Using the same delivery technique, the researchers also embedded semiconducting carbon nanotubes, coated in negatively charged DNA, into the chloroplasts. (science20.com)
  • Generation of other radical forms was elevated in trol chloroplasts in all tested conditions, except for the plants pre-acclimated to high-light. (nature.com)
  • Usually plants can completely repair this kind of damage, but extracted chloroplasts can't do it on their own. (science20.com)
  • Plants typically make use of only about 10 percent of the sunlight available to them, but carbon nanotubes could act as artificial antennae that allow chloroplasts to capture wavelengths of light not in their normal range, such as ultraviolet, green, and near-infrared. (science20.com)
  • This produces the oxygen that we all breathe, and it provides the plants that we eat with the nutrients to grow. (litfusegroup.com)
  • Leaf chloroplasts are not found everywhere in plants. (litfusegroup.com)
  • Smirnoff N., The role of active oxygen in the response of plants to water deficit and desiccation, New Phytol. (afs-journal.org)
  • A hemoglobin-like oxygen-binding hemeprotein present in the nitrogen-fixing root nodules of leguminous plants. (bvsalud.org)
  • The common equipment box on the roof of every pressure compartment will include water filtration to convert grey water to potable, compressor for air conditioning, battery to store electricity, and pressurized bottle of oxygen to repressurize in case of pressure loss. (newmars.com)
  • It is not clear then how the sea slug extends the lifespan of its chloroplasts by preventing damage caused by sunlight. (elifesciences.org)
  • Ingenhousz later determined the gas bubbles were oxygen, but never fully understood the significance of what he had observed regarding the sunlight. (visionlearning.com)
  • Slug chloroplasts also rapidly build up a strong proton-motive force upon a dark-to-light transition, which helps them to rapidly switch on photoprotective non-photochemical quenching of excitation energy. (elifesciences.org)
  • Finally, our results suggest that chloroplasts inside E. timida rely on oxygen-dependent electron sinks during rapid changes in light intensity. (elifesciences.org)
  • First, when exposed to light the stolen chloroplasts can quickly switch on a mechanism that dissipates light energy to heat, which is less damaging. (elifesciences.org)
  • Further characterization of Trp-14 using chloroplast transformation in Chlamydomonas indicated that substitution of D1 Trp-14 to Phe, mimicking Trp oxidation enhanced FtsH-mediated D1 degradation under high light, although the substitution did not affect protein stability and PSII activity. (elifesciences.org)
  • In Chlamydomonas reinhardtii mutants deficient in photosystem I because of inactivation of the chloroplast genes psaA or psaB, oxygen evolution from photosystem II occurs at significant rates and is coupled to a stimulation of oxygen uptake. (elsevierpure.com)
  • Photosystem II-dependent O 2 production and O 2 uptake were observed in isolated chloroplast fractions. (elsevierpure.com)
  • Photosystem II-dependent oxygen exchange was insensitive to a variety of inhibitors (azide, carbon monoxide, cyanide, antimycin A, and salicylhydroxamic acid) and radical scavengers. (elsevierpure.com)
  • The dominant pathway in chloroplasts is, however, the one that produces NADPH, by the activity of ferredoxin NADP + oxidoreductase (FNR). (nature.com)
  • One of the few known critical regulators of this process, VIPP1 (Vesicle-Inducing Protein in Plastids 1), was recently shown to be structurally similar to ESCRT-III proteins - the first evidence for ESCRT-like (Endosomal Sorting Complex Required for Transport) machinery in chloroplasts. (biorxiv.org)
  • Using this method, the researchers applied a solution of nanoparticles to the underside of the leaf, where it penetrated tiny pores known as stomata, which normally allow carbon dioxide to flow in and oxygen to flow out. (science20.com)
  • Blue leaf iridescence, a striking form of structural colour originating from specialised chloroplasts. (cosmosmagazine.com)
  • The researchers delivered nanoceria into the chloroplasts using a new technique they developed called lipid exchange envelope penetration, or LEEP. (science20.com)
  • Thus, the simulation provides clues on experimentally inaccessible parameters and describes the functional state of the chloroplast thiol regulatory network. (uni-bielefeld.de)
  • Sacoglossan sea slugs are able to maintain functional chloroplasts inside their own cells, and mechanisms that allow preservation of the chloroplasts are unknown. (elifesciences.org)
  • Hagège D., Kevers C., Salabert P., Gaspar T., Protective systems against activated oxygen species compared in normal and fully habituated non-organogenic sugarbeet calluses, In Vitro Cell Dev. (afs-journal.org)
  • Plant cells have a cell wall, a large central vacuole, chloroplasts, and other specialized plastids, whereas animal cells do not. (coursehero.com)
  • This process, known as Mehler reaction, results in formation of H 2 O 2 which is generated by the superoxide dismutase (SOD) and converted into water and oxygen by ascorbate peroxidase 9 . (nature.com)
  • Priestley, partially credited with the discovery of elemental oxygen, found that when he placed fresh sprigs of mint leaves inside a sealed glass container, a candle would burn longer than if the leaves were not there (Figure 1). (visionlearning.com)
  • They serve as important carbon and nutrient sinks and produce substantial amounts of oxygen for both the sediments and overlying water column. (myfwc.com)