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According to current schemes of the glycerolipid synthesis, fatty acids are synthesized and then desaturated in plastids (1). Since the activity of UDP-galactose:1,2-diacylglycerol galactosyltransferase, which is involved in the biosynthesis of galactolipids, was first found in envelope membranes isolated from chloroplasts (2), it has been assumed that the sites of synthesis of glycerolipids and of the desaturation of fatty acids in plastids are confined to the envelope membranes and are not present in the thylakoid membranes (3–5). However, several lines of evidence suggest that the thylakoid membranes might also be a site of glycerolipid synthesis and desaturation (6–8).
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Mustardy, L., Los, D.A., Gombos, Z., Tsvetkova, N., Nishida, I., Murata, N. (1997). Intracellular Distribution of Fatty Acid Desaturases in Cyanobacterial Cells and Higher-Plant Chloroplasts. In: Williams, J.P., Khan, M.U., Lem, N.W. (eds) Physiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Plant Lipids. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2662-7_28
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