We've been seeing a lot of "in situ" lately in titles from fancy journals (not pointing any fingers 👀). I’ve delayed posting this, but as more and more come out, I'm afraid "in situ" is becoming an empty buzzword, much like "near-atomic" was for SPA 🔬 1/n #cryo-ET #cryo-EM #cryoET #cryoEM 🧪

Excited to share my paper! 🥳 Today in #Nature we reveal an 8 MDa Hdr electron bifurcating super-assembly in class I methanogens that couples the first and last steps of hydrogenotrophic methanogenesis. A lineage-specific adaptation to anaerobic niches. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The cyanobacterium Acaryochloris marina can photosynthesize using far-red light at the edge of the visible spectrum. A new #ScienceAdvances study uncovers the basis of this system, offering insight into how plant photosynthesis could use longer wavelengths of light. https://scim.ag/43udhqY

Far-red chlorophyll d clusters extend photosystem I absorption toward the red limit

The cyanobacterium A. marina shows how photosynthetically active radiation can be expanded into the far-red spectral region.

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This paper we (@hfmarcoleong.bsky.social and I) really love came out last week in @natcomms.nature.com 🎉 In there we have: a cool new subunit, new Chl f sites, and (finally) the long wavelength spectral assignment (www.nature.com/articles/s41...)

Have you ever looked at the night sky and wondered if there’s a chlorophyll f in the reaction centre of Photosystem I from far-red light adapted cyanobacteria? 🦠 Well, we did (don’t judge) and the work that followed is now out as a First Release in @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Locating the missing chlorophylls f in far-red photosystem I

The discovery of chlorophyll f-containing photosystems, with their long-wavelength photochemistry, represented a distinct, low-energy paradigm for oxygenic photosynthesis. Structural studies on chloro...

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I'm happy to say that our new paper (and the first one out of my PhD thesis) is out! We describe the CryoEM structure of the phycobilisomes expressed during far-red light photoacclimation, and try to make sense of why these cyano are fond of "minimalism" :) doi.org/10.1038/s420...

Structure of a stripped-down and tuned-up far-red phycobilisome - Communications Biology

CryoEM structure of far-red light adapted allophycocyanin unveils evolutionary adaptations for far-red light photosynthesis and the molecular strategies for efficient light-harvesting under far-red li...

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