Invisible No Longer: Peptidoglycan in Moss Chloroplasts
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IN BRIEF by Nancy Hofmann [email protected]
Most bacteria have a peptidoglycan layer between the inner and outer membranes (reviewed in Typas et al., 2012). The cyanobacterial endosymbiont that gave rise to plastids would have contained such a peptidoglycan wall including d-amino acids. Indeed, peptidoglycan…