Sebastian Pintscher

This paper reports a 13-subunit c-ring in the Chlamydomonas chloroplast ATP synthase, which lowers the H+/ATP cost of carbon fixation compared to the 14-subunit structure in spinach.

This study uses cryo-EM to show that ChlI forms filamentous helical oligomers in the presence of Mg2+ and nucleotides, with ATP-driven assemblies interacting with ChlD and showing subunit compaction.

This study uses cryo-EM to determine the structure of LPOR-Chlide complexes, revealing a novel photocatalytic mechanism and structural basis for membrane remodeling.