Thylakoid membrane thickness

Value 4.9 nm Range: ±0.5 nm
Organism Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Reference Engel, B. D., Schaffer, M., Kuhn Cuellar, L., Villa, E., Plitzko, J. M., and Baumeister, W. (2015). Native architecture of the Chlamydomonas chloroplast revealed by in situ cryo-electron tomography. Elife 4, 1–29. p.4 bottom paragraphPubMed ID25584625
Method in situ cryo-electron tomography
Comments P.4 bottom paragraph: "Throughout the chloroplast, thylakoids were most commonly found in stacks of variable length but uniform spacing. Thylakoid stacks had a lateral repeat distance of 22.4 ± 1.3 nm, with 4.9 ± 0.5 nm thylakoid membranes, 9.0 ± 1.4 nm thylakoid lumina, and 3.6 ± 0.5 nm interthylakoid stromal spaces (± denotes standard deviation, n = 38 thylakoids from eight stacks)."
Entered by Avi Flamholz
ID 111325