A research group has found a new class of proteins in the red algae Cyanidioschyzon merolae that are involved in moving proteins across the membranes of chloroplasts -- subcompartments that ...

To get around these issues, researchers used isolated chloroplasts from a type of primitive red algae called Cyanidioschyzon merolae \- or schyzon, for short - which grows in volcanic hot springs ...

Photosynthetic directed endosymbiosis to investigate the role of bioenergetics in chloroplast function and evolution. Nature Communications, 2024; 15 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-54051-1 ...

The biologists took chloroplasts—the cell components responsible for photosynthesis —from red algae and injected them into hamster cells. As a result, the animal cells gained the ability to ...

They found that most of the proteins in a slug’s chloroplasts were made by the slug — not by the original algae. That meant the slug was helping to maintain the chloroplasts.