#nitroplast — Public Fediverse posts

Discovery of Nitrogen-Fixing Cell-organelle Nitroplast in a Eukaryotic Algae   
Biosynthesis of proteins and nucleic acid require nitrogen however atmospheric nitrogen is not available to eukaryotes for organic synthesis............
#cyanobacteria #eukaryoticsignatureproteins #nitrogenfixation #nitroplast #prokaryotes
Umesh Prasad

https://www.scientificeuropean.co.uk/sciences/biology/discovery-of-nitrogen-fixing-cell-organelle-nitroplast-in-a-eukaryotic-algae/

Scientists discover first nitrogen-fixing organelle https://news.ucsc.edu/2024/04/nitrogen-fixing-organelle.html

Nitrogen-fixing organelle in a marine alga https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adk1075

"The #organelle is the 4th example in history of primary #endosymbiosis — the process by which a prokaryotic cell is engulfed by a eukaryote and evolves beyond #symbiosis into an organelle... It’s very rare that organelles arise from these types of things... the #nitroplast appears to have evolved about 100 million years ago"

#protists #algae #microbes