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All plastids (proplastids, leucoplasts, amyloplasts, chromoplasts, etioplasts and chloroplasts) are limited by a pair of outer membranes, known as the envelope. Together, these membranes provide a flexible boundary between the plastid and the surrounding cytosol. Studies with isolated intact chloroplasts have demonstrated the different permeability properties of each envelope membrane (Heber and Heldt, 1981). The outer envelope membrane is freely permeable to small molecules, due to a pore-forming protein (Flügge and Benz, 1984), whereas the inner envelope membrane is the functional border between the plastid stroma and the cytosol. Specific translocators regulate the flow of metabolites across the inner envelope membrane (Heber and Heldt, 1981). Furthermore, biochemical studies of purified envelope membranes (mostly from spinach and pea) have demonstrated the complexity of their enzymatic equipment which has a major role in plastid biogenesis: up to 20 different enzymes involved in the synthesis of plastid components such as galactolipids, phosphatidylglycerol and prenylquinones have been demonstrated and/or characterized in envelope membranes (Douce and Joyard, 1979 ; Douce et al, 1984).
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Douce, R., Alban, C., Block, M.A., Joyard, J. (1989). The Plastid Envelope Membranes: Purification, Composition and Role in Plastid Biogenesis. In: Tager, J.M., Azzi, A., Papa, S., Guerrieri, F. (eds) Organelles in Eukaryotic Cells. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0545-3_11
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