Amphiphilic lipids aggregate in aqueous solution into a variety of structural arrangements.
Among the plethora of ordered structures that have been reported, many have also been …

The synthesis and use of polymer cubosomes have received significant attention in recent
years. Polymer cubosomes are highly stable colloidal particles with triply periodic minimal …

Chlorophyll biosynthesis, crucial to life on Earth, is tightly regulated because its precursors
are phototoxic. In flowering plants, the enzyme light-dependent protochlorophyllide …

Chloroplast biogenesis is a complex process that is integrated with plant development,
leading to fully differentiated and functionally mature plastids. In this work, we used electron …

Etioplasts are photosynthetically inactive plastids that accumulate when light levels are too
low for chloroplast maturation. The etioplast inner membrane consists of a paracrystalline …

The wing scales of the Green Hairstreak butterfly Callophrys rubi consist of crystalline
domains with sizes of a few micrometers, which exhibit a congenitally handed porous chitin …

We propose and investigate an extension of the Caspar–Klug symmetry principles for viral
capsid assembly to the programmable assembly of size-controlled triply periodic polyhedra …

Biogenesis of the complex 3D architecture of plant thylakoids remains an unsolved problem.
Here, we analyzed this process in chloroplasts of germinating Arabidopsis thaliana …

The prolamellar body (PLB) is a periodic bicontinuous membrane structure based on tubular
tetrahedral units. PLBs are present in plant etioplasts and, upon illumination, directly …

Light-dependent protochlorophyllide oxidoreductase (LPOR) has captivated the interest of
the research community for decades. One reason is the photocatalytic nature of the reaction …