title: Thylakoid Development and Galactolipid Synthesis in Cyanobacteria.
abstract: Cyanobacteria carry out oxygenic photosynthesis and share many features with chloroplasts, including thylakoid membranes, which are mainly composed of membrane lipids and protein complexes that mediate photosynthetic electron transport. Although the functions of the various thylakoid protein complexes have been well characterized, the details underlying the biogenesis of thylakoid membranes remain unclear. Galactolipids are the major constituents of the thylakoid membrane system, and all the genes involved in galactolipid biosynthesis were recently identified. In this chapter, I summarize recent advances in our understanding of the factors involved in thylakoid development, including regulatory proteins and enzymes that mediate lipid biosynthesis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Science, Faculty of Science, Shizuoka University, 836 Ohya, Suruga-ku, Shizuoka, 422-8529, Japan. awai.koichiro@shizuoka.ac.jp.|Research Institute of Electronics, Shizuoka University, 3-5-1 Johoku, Naka-ku, Hamamatsu, 432-8011, Japan. awai.koichiro@shizuoka.ac.jp.|JST, PRESTO, 4-1-8 Honcho, Kawaguchi, Saitama, 332-0012, Japan. awai.koichiro@shizuoka.ac.jp.
authors.forename: Koichiro
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Awai
mesh_terms: D002240:Carbohydrate Sequence; D000458:Cyanobacteria / Q000378:metabolism*; D038983:Galactolipids / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010100:Oxygen / Q000378:metabolism; D010788:Photosynthesis; D045322:Photosynthetic Reaction Center Complex Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D013379:Substrate Specificity; D020524:Thylakoids / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D038983:Galactolipids; D045322:Photosynthetic Reaction Center Complex Proteins; D010100:Oxygen
keywords: Epimerase; Galactolipid; Glycosyltransferase; Photosynthetic protein complex; Thylakoid membrane; VIPP1