Beautiful expansion microscopy of the Chlamy pyrenoid by our friends in the Jonikas lab. Check out that ultrastructural detail on the tubule membranes! 🔬🧪
Ben Engel
Pyrenoid tubules are essential for supercharging COâ‚‚ fixation, but they're hard to resolve by microscopy. So, we physically expanded cells to see where different proteins go (3 examples below). The central tubule region appears specialized for COâ‚‚ delivery!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
