Cryo-ET Close-Up of the Pyrenoid (VIDEO)

Princeton University

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This movie demonstrates how cryo-electron tomography can be used to map the three-dimensional architecture of the pyrenoid, imaging its Rubisco enzymes (positions marked by purple spheres) and tubules that deliver materials to the pyrenoid.

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Movie courtesy of Benjamin Engel, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry. The movie appears in the paper by Elizabeth Freeman Rosenzweig, et al. Cell 2017.

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Movie courtesy of Benjamin Engel, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry. The movie appears in the paper by Elizabeth Freeman Rosenzweig, et al. Cell 2017.

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