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Lin D, Xue Z, Miao J, Huang Z, Liu X. Activity and Resistance Assessment of a New OSBP Inhibitor, R034-1, in Phytophthora capsici and the Detection of Point Mutations in PcORP1 that Confer Resistance. JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY 2020; 68:13651-13660. [PMID: 33191734 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.0c05531] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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R034-1 is a new member of the piperidinyl thiazole isoxazoline class of fungicides that shows high activity against most plant-pathogenic oomycetes and could effectively inhibit several developmental stages of Phytophthora capsici. Here, the potential resistance risk for R034-1 was evaluated in P. capsici. The baseline sensitivities of 135 isolates to R034-1 showed a unimodal curve, with a mean EC50 value of 0.004 μg/mL. Twelve resistant mutants were generated by fungicide adaptation and displayed lower fitness compared to parental isolates, which suggests that the resistance risk of P. capsici to R034-1 is low. R034-1 and oxathiapiprolin are structurally related, and resistant isolates display cross-resistance to both compounds, suggesting that these fungicides may target the same oxysterol binding protein. Comparison of PcORP1 genes in the resistant mutants and their parental isolates revealed (N767S, N767I, and G700V) amino acid substitutions in the R034-1 resistant mutant. Causality was functionally validated using site-directed mutagenesis of the target gene using the CRISPR/Cas9 system.
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- Dong Lin
- China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
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- China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712110, China
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- China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712110, China
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van den Hoff J, Bell E, Whittock L. Dimorphism in the Antarctic cryptophyte Geminigera cryophila (Cryptophyceae). JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY 2020; 56:1028-1038. [PMID: 32289881 DOI: 10.1111/jpy.13004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2019] [Accepted: 03/16/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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A pink to red-pigmented cryptophyte of undetermined taxonomic affinity was isolated and cloned from two seasonally ice-covered. meromictic, saline Antarctic aquatic environments: Bayly Bay (BB) and Ace Lake (AL). The clones shared a number of morphological and ultrastructural similarities with other cryptomonad genera, which confounded identification by light and electron microscopy. Cellular pigments extracted from the AL clone showed an absorption maximum corresponding to the biliprotein Cr-phycoerythrin 545, thus narrowing its potential taxonomic affinities. Partial 18S SSU ribosomal gene sequences were isolated from both the AL and the BB cryptomonads' nuclear rDNA, whereas PCR-amplified and their molecular phylogenies inferred from the subject sequences. Our results, and the results of another study that used our prepublished sequence data, invariably resolved both clones as very close matches with the Antarctic cryptophyte, Geminigera cryophila. When combined, the morphological, chemical, and molecular evidence suggested that both of our cryptophyte clones were a cryptomorph of the G. cryophila campylomorph. Slight differences between the AL and BB nuclear tree reconstructions suggested divergent microevolution following long-term isolation of the AL population from the surrounding marine ecosystem. This study provides further compelling evidence that certain Cryptophyceae engage in a life-history strategy, which includes alternating morphologically distinct cell-types (dimorphism); cell-types which without molecular analyses could be mistaken as novel taxa.
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- John van den Hoff
- Australian Antarctic Division, 203 Channel Highway, Kingston, Tas, 7050, Australia
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- Australian Antarctic Division, 203 Channel Highway, Kingston, Tas, 7050, Australia
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- Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tas, 7001, Australia
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Miao J, Dong X, Lin D, Wang Q, Liu P, Chen F, Du Y, Liu X. Activity of the novel fungicide oxathiapiprolin against plant-pathogenic oomycetes. PEST MANAGEMENT SCIENCE 2016; 72:1572-7. [PMID: 26577849 DOI: 10.1002/ps.4189] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2015] [Revised: 11/15/2015] [Accepted: 11/16/2015] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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BACKGROUND Oxathiapiprolin was the first of the piperidinyl thiazole isoxazoline class of fungicides to be discovered and developed by DuPont in 2007. Although oxathiapiprolin has been reported to have high activity against plant-pathogenic oomycetes, such as Peronospora belbahrii, Phytophthora nicotianae and Ph. capsici, little is known about its effectiveness against other plant-pathogenic oomycetes and its protective and curative properties. RESULTS Oxathiapiprolin exhibited substantial inhibitory activity against all of the plant-pathogenic oomycetes tested, with EC90 values ranging from 0.14 to 3.36 × 10(-3) µg mL(-1) , except the Pythium species Py. aphanidermatum and Py. deliense. Furthermore, doses as low as 10 µg mL(-1) were found to inhibit zoospore release and motility in Ph. capsici, while the mycelial development and sporangial production of Pseudoperonospora cubensis were restrained by an EC50 of 3.10 × 10(-4) and 5.17 × 10(-4) µg mL(-1) respectively. It was also found that oxathiapiprolin exhibited both protective and curative activity against the development of Ph. capsici infection in pepper plants under greenhouse conditions and in field tests. CONCLUSION The present study demonstrated that the novel fungicide oxathiapiprolin exhibits strong inhibitory activity against a range of agriculturally important plant-pathogenic oomycetes, including Phytophthora spp., Peronophythora litchii, Plasmopara viticola, Pe. parasitica, Ps. cubensis and Py. ultimum. © 2015 Society of Chemical Industry.
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- Jianqiang Miao
- Department of Plant Pathology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Plant Pathology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Plant Pathology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Plant Pathology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Plant Pathology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Plant Protection, Fujian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Fujian, China
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- Institute of Plant Protection, Fujian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Fujian, China
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- Department of Plant Pathology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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Shapiro JA. Nothing in Evolution Makes Sense Except in the Light of Genomics: Read-Write Genome Evolution as an Active Biological Process. BIOLOGY 2016; 5:E27. [PMID: 27338490 PMCID: PMC4929541 DOI: 10.3390/biology5020027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2016] [Revised: 05/20/2016] [Accepted: 06/02/2016] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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The 21st century genomics-based analysis of evolutionary variation reveals a number of novel features impossible to predict when Dobzhansky and other evolutionary biologists formulated the neo-Darwinian Modern Synthesis in the middle of the last century. These include three distinct realms of cell evolution; symbiogenetic fusions forming eukaryotic cells with multiple genome compartments; horizontal organelle, virus and DNA transfers; functional organization of proteins as systems of interacting domains subject to rapid evolution by exon shuffling and exonization; distributed genome networks integrated by mobile repetitive regulatory signals; and regulation of multicellular development by non-coding lncRNAs containing repetitive sequence components. Rather than single gene traits, all phenotypes involve coordinated activity by multiple interacting cell molecules. Genomes contain abundant and functional repetitive components in addition to the unique coding sequences envisaged in the early days of molecular biology. Combinatorial coding, plus the biochemical abilities cells possess to rearrange DNA molecules, constitute a powerful toolbox for adaptive genome rewriting. That is, cells possess "Read-Write Genomes" they alter by numerous biochemical processes capable of rapidly restructuring cellular DNA molecules. Rather than viewing genome evolution as a series of accidental modifications, we can now study it as a complex biological process of active self-modification.
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- James A Shapiro
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Chicago, GCIS W123B, 979 E. 57th Street, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.
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Smith DR, Vinogradov SN, Hoogewijs D. Hemoglobins in the genome of the cryptomonad Guillardia theta. Biol Direct 2014; 9:7. [PMID: 24885221 PMCID: PMC4101818 DOI: 10.1186/1745-6150-9-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2014] [Accepted: 04/29/2014] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Cryptomonads, are a lineage of unicellular and mostly photosynthetic algae, that acquired their plastids through the "secondary" endosymbiosis of a red alga - and still retain the nuclear genome (nucleomorph) of the latter. We find that the genome of the cryptomonad Guillardia theta comprises genes coding for 13 globin domains, of which 6 occur within two large chimeric proteins. All the sequences adhere to the vertebrate 3/3 myoglobin fold. Although several globins have no introns, the remainder have atypical intron locations. Bayesian phylogenetic analyses suggest that the G. theta Hbs are related to the stramenopile and chlorophyte single domain globins.
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- Institute of Physiology and Zürich, Center for Integrative Human Physiology, University of Zürich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, Zürich CH-8057, Switzerland.
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Moreira D, López-García P. The rise and fall of Picobiliphytes: how assumed autotrophs turned out to be heterotrophs. Bioessays 2014; 36:468-74. [PMID: 24615955 DOI: 10.1002/bies.201300176] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Algae are significant members of Earth's biodiversity. Having been studied for a long time, the discovery of new algal phyla is extremely unusual. Recently, the enigmatic "Picobiliphyta," a group of uncultured eukaryotes unveiled using molecular tools, were claimed to represent an unrecognized early branching algal lineage with a nucleomorph (remnant nucleus of a secondary algal endosymbiont) in their plastids. However, subsequent studies rejected the presence of a nucleomorph, and single-cell genomic studies failed to detect any plastid-related genes, ruling out the possibility of plastid occurrence. The isolation of the first "picobiliphyte," Picomonas judraskeda, a tiny organism that feeds on very small (<150 nm) organic particles, came as final proof of their non-photosynthetic lifestyle. Consequently, the group has been renamed Picozoa. The passage from "picobiliphytes" to "picozoa" illustrates the crucial role that classical protistology should play to provide sound biological context for the wealth of data produced by modern molecular techniques.
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- David Moreira
- Unité d'Ecologie, Systématique et Evolution, CNRS UMR8079, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France
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Tanifuji G, Onodera NT, Moore CE, Archibald JM. Reduced Nuclear Genomes Maintain High Gene Transcription Levels. Mol Biol Evol 2013; 31:625-35. [DOI: 10.1093/molbev/mst254] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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Knutson BA. Emergence and expansion of TFIIB-like factors in the plant kingdom. Gene 2013; 526:30-8. [PMID: 23608173 DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2013.04.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/02/2013] [Revised: 03/29/2013] [Accepted: 04/01/2013] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Many gene families in higher plants have expanded in number, giving rise to diverse protein paralogs with specialized biochemical functions. For instance, plant general transcription factors such as TFIIB have expanded in number and in some cases perform specialized transcriptional functions in the plant cell. To date, no comprehensive genome-wide identification of the TFIIB gene family has been conducted in the plant kingdom. To determine the extent of TFIIB expansion in plants, I used the remote homology program HHPred to search for TFIIB homologs in the plant kingdom and performed a comprehensive analysis of eukaryotic TFIIB gene families. I discovered that higher plants encode more than 10 different TFIIB-like proteins. In particular, Arabidopsis thaliana encodes 14 different TFIIB-like proteins and predicted domain architectures of the newly identified TFIIB-like proteins revealed that they have unique modular domain structures that are divergent in sequence and size. Phylogenetic analysis of selected eukaryotic organisms showed that most life forms encode three major TFIIB subfamilies that include TFIIB, Brf, Rrn7/TAF1B/MEE12 subfamilies, while all plants and some algae species encode one or two additional TFIIB-related protein subfamilies. A subset of A. thaliana GTFs have also expanded in number, indicating that GTF diversification and expansion is a general phenomenon in higher plants. Together, these findings were used to generate a model for the evolutionary history of TFIIB-like proteins in eukaryotes.
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- Bruce A Knutson
- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Division of Basic Sciences, 1100 Fairview Ave N, PO Box 19024, Mailstop A1-162, Seattle, WA 98109, USA.
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Moore CE, Curtis B, Mills T, Tanifuji G, Archibald JM. Nucleomorph genome sequence of the cryptophyte alga Chroomonas mesostigmatica CCMP1168 reveals lineage-specific gene loss and genome complexity. Genome Biol Evol 2013; 4:1162-75. [PMID: 23042551 PMCID: PMC3514955 DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evs090] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Cryptophytes are a diverse lineage of marine and freshwater, photosynthetic and secondarily nonphotosynthetic algae that acquired their plastids (chloroplasts) by “secondary” (i.e., eukaryote–eukaryote) endosymbiosis. Consequently, they are among the most genetically complex cells known and have four genomes: a mitochondrial, plastid, “master” nuclear, and residual nuclear genome of secondary endosymbiotic origin, the so-called “nucleomorph” genome. Sequenced nucleomorph genomes are ∼1,000-kilobase pairs (Kbp) or less in size and are comprised of three linear, compositionally biased chromosomes. Although most functionally annotated nucleomorph genes encode proteins involved in core eukaryotic processes, up to 40% of the genes in these genomes remain unidentifiable. To gain insight into the function and evolutionary fate of nucleomorph genomes, we used 454 and Illumina technologies to completely sequence the nucleomorph genome of the cryptophyte Chroomonas mesostigmatica CCMP1168. At 702.9 Kbp in size, the C. mesostigmatica nucleomorph genome is the largest and the most complex nucleomorph genome sequenced to date. Our comparative analyses reveal the existence of a highly conserved core set of genes required for maintenance of the cryptophyte nucleomorph and plastid, as well as examples of lineage-specific gene loss resulting in differential loss of typical eukaryotic functions, e.g., proteasome-mediated protein degradation, in the four cryptophyte lineages examined.
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- Christa E Moore
- Integrated Microbial Biodiversity Program, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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The bulk of the diversity of eukaryotic life is microbial. Although the larger eukaryotes-namely plants, animals, and fungi-dominate our visual landscapes, microbial lineages compose the greater part of both genetic diversity and biomass, and contain many evolutionary innovations. Our understanding of the origin and diversification of eukaryotes has improved substantially with analyses of molecular data from diverse lineages. These data have provided insight into the nature of the genome of the last eukaryotic common ancestor (LECA). Yet, the origin of key eukaryotic features, namely the nucleus and cytoskeleton, remains poorly understood. In contrast, the past decades have seen considerable refinement in hypotheses on the major branching events in the evolution of eukaryotic diversity. New insights have also emerged, including evidence for the acquisition of mitochondria at the time of the origin of eukaryotes and data supporting the dynamic nature of genomes in LECA.
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- Laura A Katz
- Department of Biological Sciences, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts 01063, USA.
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Diversity of Eukaryotic Translational Initiation Factor eIF4E in Protists. Comp Funct Genomics 2012; 2012:134839. [PMID: 22778692 PMCID: PMC3388326 DOI: 10.1155/2012/134839] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2012] [Accepted: 04/09/2012] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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The greatest diversity of eukaryotic species is within the microbial eukaryotes, the protists, with plants and fungi/metazoa representing just two of the estimated seventy five lineages of eukaryotes. Protists are a diverse group characterized by unusual genome features and a wide range of genome sizes from 8.2 Mb in the apicomplexan parasite Babesia bovis to 112,000-220,050 Mb in the dinoflagellate Prorocentrum micans. Protists possess numerous cellular, molecular and biochemical traits not observed in “text-book” model organisms. These features challenge some of the concepts and assumptions about the regulation of gene expression in eukaryotes. Like multicellular eukaryotes, many protists encode multiple eIF4Es, but few functional studies have been undertaken except in parasitic species. An earlier phylogenetic analysis of protist eIF4Es indicated that they cannot be grouped within the three classes that describe eIF4E family members from multicellular organisms. Many more protist sequences are now available from which three clades can be recognized that are distinct from the plant/fungi/metazoan classes. Understanding of the protist eIF4Es will be facilitated as more sequences become available particularly for the under-represented opisthokonts and amoebozoa. Similarly, a better understanding of eIF4Es within each clade will develop as more functional studies of protist eIF4Es are completed.
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Tanifuji G, Onodera NT, Wheeler TJ, Dlutek M, Donaher N, Archibald JM. Complete nucleomorph genome sequence of the nonphotosynthetic alga Cryptomonas paramecium reveals a core nucleomorph gene set. Genome Biol Evol 2010; 3:44-54. [PMID: 21147880 PMCID: PMC3017389 DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evq082] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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Nucleomorphs are the remnant nuclei of algal endosymbionts that were engulfed by nonphotosynthetic host eukaryotes. These peculiar organelles are found in cryptomonad and chlorarachniophyte algae, where they evolved from red and green algal endosymbionts, respectively. Despite their independent origins, cryptomonad and chlorarachniophyte nucleomorph genomes are similar in size and structure: they are both <1 million base pairs in size (the smallest nuclear genomes known), comprised three chromosomes, and possess subtelomeric ribosomal DNA operons. Here, we report the complete sequence of one of the smallest cryptomonad nucleomorph genomes known, that of the secondarily nonphotosynthetic cryptomonad Cryptomonas paramecium. The genome is 486 kbp in size and contains 518 predicted genes, 466 of which are protein coding. Although C. paramecium lacks photosynthetic ability, its nucleomorph genome still encodes 18 plastid-associated proteins. More than 90% of the “conserved” protein genes in C. paramecium (i.e., those with clear homologs in other eukaryotes) are also present in the nucleomorph genomes of the cryptomonads Guillardia theta and Hemiselmis andersenii. In contrast, 143 of 466 predicted C. paramecium proteins (30.7%) showed no obvious similarity to proteins encoded in any other genome, including G. theta and H. andersenii. Significantly, however, many of these “nucleomorph ORFans” are conserved in position and size between the three genomes, suggesting that they are in fact homologous to one another. Finally, our analyses reveal an unexpected degree of overlap in the genes present in the independently evolved chlorarachniophyte and cryptomonad nucleomorph genomes: ∼80% of a set of 120 conserved nucleomorph genes in the chlorarachniophyte Bigelowiella natans were also present in all three cryptomonad nucleomorph genomes. This result suggests that similar reductive processes have taken place in unrelated lineages of nucleomorph-containing algae.
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- Goro Tanifuji
- Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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van Doorn WG, Yoshimoto K. Role of chloroplasts and other plastids in ageing and death of plants and animals: a tale of Vishnu and Shiva. Ageing Res Rev 2010; 9:117-30. [PMID: 19720162 DOI: 10.1016/j.arr.2009.08.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2009] [Revised: 08/25/2009] [Accepted: 08/25/2009] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Chloroplasts (chlorophyll-containing plastids) and other plastids are found in all plants and many animals. They are crucial to the survival of plants and most of the animals that harbour them. An example of a non-photosynthesizing plastid in animals is the apicoplast in the malaria-causing Plasmodium species, which is required for survival of the parasite. Many animals (such as sea slugs, sponges, reef corals, and clams) consume prey containing chloroplasts, or feed on algae. Some of these incorporate the chloroplasts from their food, or whole algal cells, into their own cells. Other species from these groups place algal cells between their own cells. Reef-building corals often lose their intracellular algae as a result of environmental changes, resulting in coral bleaching and death. The sensitivity of the chloroplast internal membranes to temperature stress is one of the reasons for coral death. Chloroplasts can also be a causal factor in the processes leading to whole-plant death, as the knockout of a gene encoding a chloroplast protein delayed the yellowing that proceeds death in tobacco plants. It is concluded that chloroplasts and other plastids are essential to individual survival in many species, including animals, and that they also play a role in triggering death in some plant and animal species.
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Sasaki NV, Sato N. CyanoClust: comparative genome resources of cyanobacteria and plastids. DATABASE-THE JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL DATABASES AND CURATION 2010; 2010:bap025. [PMID: 20428314 PMCID: PMC2860898 DOI: 10.1093/database/bap025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2009] [Revised: 12/09/2009] [Accepted: 12/11/2009] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Cyanobacteria, which perform oxygen-evolving photosynthesis as do chloroplasts of plants and algae, are one of the best-studied prokaryotic phyla and one from which many representative genomes have been sequenced. Lack of a suitable comparative genomic database has been a problem in cyanobacterial genomics because many proteins involved in physiological functions such as photosynthesis and nitrogen fixation are not catalogued in commonly used databases, such as Clusters of Orthologous Proteins (COG). CyanoClust is a database of homolog groups in cyanobacteria and plastids that are produced by the program Gclust. We have developed a web-server system for the protein homology database featuring cyanobacteria and plastids. Database URL: http://cyanoclust.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/.
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- Naobumi V Sasaki
- Department of Life Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, 3-8-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 153-8902, Japan.
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Torres-Machorro AL, Hernández R, Cevallos AM, López-Villaseñor I. Ribosomal RNA genes in eukaryotic microorganisms: witnesses of phylogeny? FEMS Microbiol Rev 2010; 34:59-86. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6976.2009.00196.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Nucleomorphs are the remnant nuclei of algal endosymbionts in cryptophytes and chlorarachniophytes, two evolutionarily distinct unicellular eukaryotic lineages that acquired photosynthesis secondarily by the engulfment of red and green algae, respectively. At less than one million base pairs in size, nucleomorph genomes are the most highly reduced nuclear genomes known, with three small linear chromosomes and a gene density similar to that seen in prokaryotes. The independent origin of nucleomorphs in cryptophytes and chlorarachniophytes presents an interesting opportunity to study the reductive evolutionary forces that have led to their remarkable convergence upon similar genome architectures and coding capacities. In this article, we review the current state of knowledge with respect to the structure, function, origin, and evolution of nucleomorph genomes across the known diversity of cryptophyte and chlorarachniophyte algae.
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- Christa E Moore
- The Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Program in Integrated Microbial Biodiversity, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 1X5, Canada
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Archibald JM, Lane CE. Going, going, not quite gone: nucleomorphs as a case study in nuclear genome reduction. J Hered 2009; 100:582-90. [PMID: 19617523 DOI: 10.1093/jhered/esp055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Nucleomorphs are the relic nuclei of algal endosymbionts that became permanent fixtures inside nonphotosynthetic eukaryotic host cells. These unusual organelles exist in only 2 lineages, the cryptophytes, which possess nucleomorphs and plastids (chloroplasts) derived from the uptake of a red algal endosymbiont, and the chlorarachniophytes, which harbor green algal derived nucleomorphs and plastids. Despite having evolved independently of one another, the nucleomorph genomes of cryptophytes and chlorarachniophytes are strikingly similar in size and basic structure. Both are <1 Mbp in size-the smallest nuclear genomes known-and are composed of only 3 chromosomes, each with its own subtelomeric rDNA repeats. Nucleomorph-containing algae thus represent an interesting system in which to study genome and chromosome evolution in eukaryotes. Here, we provide an overview of nucleomorph genome biology and focus on new information gleaned from comparisons of complete nucleomorph genome sequences, both within and between cryptophytes and chlorarachniophytes. Such comparisons provide fascinating insight into the evolution of these highly derived organelles and, more generally, the potential causes and consequences of genome reduction in eukaryotes.
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- John M Archibald
- Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Integrated Microbial Biodiversity Program, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 1X5, Canada.
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Slamovits CH, Keeling PJ. Evolution of ultrasmall spliceosomal introns in highly reduced nuclear genomes. Mol Biol Evol 2009; 26:1699-705. [PMID: 19380463 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msp081] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Intron reduction and loss is a significant component of genome compaction in many eukaryotic lineages, including yeasts, microsporidia, and some nucleomorphs. Nucleomorphs are the extremely reduced relicts of algal endosymbiont nuclei found in two lineages, cryptomonads and chlorarachniophytes. In cryptomonads, introns are rare or even lost altogether. In contrast, the nucleomorph of the chlorarachniophyte Bigelowiella natans contains the smallest nuclear genome known but paradoxically also retained over 800 tiny spliceosomal introns, ranging from 18 to 21 nt in length. Because introns have not been described in any other chlorarachniophyte nucleomorph, we do not know when these introns were reduced or whether they have been lost in other lineages. To gain insight into the evolution of these unique introns, we sequenced more than 150 spliceosomal introns in the nucleomorph of the chlorarachniophyte Gymnochlora stellata and compared size distribution, sequence features, and patterns of gain/loss. To clarify the possible relationship between intron size and splicing efficiency, we also analyzed the outcome of 580 splicing events. Overall, these data indicate that the radical intron size reduction took place in the ancestor of all extant chlorarachniophytes and that although most introns have been retained through this reductive process, intron loss has also occurred. We also show that intron size is not static, and splicing is not determined strictly by size, but that size does play a strong role in splicing efficiency, likely as part of a combination of sequence features and size.
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The genomic peculiarities among microbial eukaryotes challenge the conventional wisdom of genome evolution. Currently, many studies and textbooks explore principles of genome evolution from a limited number of eukaryotic lineages, focusing often on only a few representative species of plants, animals and fungi. Increasing emphasis on studies of genomes in microbial eukaryotes has and will continue to uncover features that are either not present in the representative species (e.g. hypervariable karyotypes or highly fragmented mitochondrial genomes) or are exaggerated in microbial groups (e.g. chromosomal processing between germline and somatic nuclei). Data for microbial eukaryotes have emerged from recent genome sequencing projects, enabling comparisons of the genomes from diverse lineages across the eukaryotic phylogenetic tree. Some of these features, including amplified rDNAs, subtelomeric rDNAs and reduced genomes, appear to have evolved multiple times within eukaryotes, whereas other features, such as absolute strand polarity, are found only within single lineages.
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- Casey L McGrath
- Department of Biological Sciences, Smith College, Northampton, MA 01063, USA
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Bolte K, Kawach O, Prechtl J, Gruenheit N, Nyalwidhe J, Maier UG. Complementation of a phycocyanin-bilin lyase from Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 with a nucleomorph-encoded open reading frame from the cryptophyte Guillardia theta. BMC PLANT BIOLOGY 2008; 8:56. [PMID: 18485196 PMCID: PMC2408579 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-56] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2007] [Accepted: 05/16/2008] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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BACKGROUND Cryptophytes are highly compartmentalized organisms, expressing a secondary minimized eukaryotic genome in the nucleomorph and its surrounding remnant cytoplasm, in addition to the cell nucleus, the mitochondrion and the plastid. Because the members of the nucleomorph-encoded proteome may contribute to essential cellular pathways, elucidating nucleomorph-encoded functions is of utmost interest. Unfortunately, cryptophytes are inaccessible for genetic transformations thus far. Therefore the functions of nucleomorph-encoded proteins must be elucidated indirectly by application of methods in genetically accessible organisms. RESULTS Orf222, one of the uncharacterized nucleomorph-specific open reading frames of the cryptophyte Guillardia theta, shows homology to slr1649 of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. Recently a further homolog from Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002 was characterized to encode a phycocyanin-beta155-bilin lyase. Here we show by insertion mutagenesis that the Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 slr1649-encoded protein also acts as a bilin lyase, and additionally contributes to linker attachment and/or stability of phycobilisomes. Finally, our results indicate that the phycocyanin-beta155-bilin lyase of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 can be complemented in vivo by the nucleomorph-encoded open reading frame orf222. CONCLUSION Our data show that the loss of phycocyanin-lyase function causes pleiotropic effects in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 and indicate that after separating from a common ancestor protein, the phycoerythrin lyase from Guillardia theta has retained its capacity to couple a bilin group to other phycobiliproteins. This is a further, unexpected example of the universality of phycobiliprotein lyases.
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- Kathrin Bolte
- Philipps-Universität Marburg, Laboratorium für Zellbiologie, Karl-von-Frisch Str., D-35032 Marburg, Germany
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- Philipps-Universität Marburg, Laboratorium für Zellbiologie, Karl-von-Frisch Str., D-35032 Marburg, Germany
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- Philipps-Universität Marburg, Laboratorium für Zellbiologie, Karl-von-Frisch Str., D-35032 Marburg, Germany
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- Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf, Institut für Botanik III, Universitätsstr. 1, D-40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Philipps-Universität Marburg, Laboratorium für Parasitologie, Karl-von-Frisch Str., D-35032 Marburg, Germany
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- Philipps-Universität Marburg, Laboratorium für Zellbiologie, Karl-von-Frisch Str., D-35032 Marburg, Germany
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Phylogeny of endocytic components yields insight into the process of nonendosymbiotic organelle evolution. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2008; 105:588-93. [PMID: 18182495 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0707318105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 106] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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The process by which some eukaryotic organelles, for example the endomembrane system, evolved without endosymbiotic input remains poorly understood. This problem largely arises because many major cellular systems predate the last common eukaryotic ancestor (LCEA) and thus do not provide examples of organellogenesis in progress. A model is emerging whereby gene duplication and divergence of multiple "specificity-" or "identity-" encoding proteins for the various endomembranous organelles produced the diversity of nonendosymbiotically derived cellular compartments present in modern eukaryotes. To address this possibility, we analyzed three molecular components of the endocytic membrane-trafficking machinery. Phylogenetic analyses of the endocytic syntaxins, Rab 5, and the beta-adaptins each reveal a pattern of ancestral, undifferentiated endocytic homologues in the LCEA. Subsequently, these undifferentiated progenitors independently duplicated in widely divergent lineages, convergently producing components with similar endocytic roles, e.g., beta1 and beta2-adaptin. In contrast, beta3, beta4, and all other adaptin complex subunits, as well as paralogues of the syntaxins and Rabs specific for the other membrane-trafficking organelles, all evolved before the LCEA. Thus, the process giving rise to the differentiated organelles of the endocytic system appears to have been interrupted by the major speciation event that produced the extant eukaryotic lineages. These results suggest that although many endocytic components evolved before the LCEA, other major features evolved independently and convergently after diversification into the primary eukaryotic supergroups. This finding provides an example of a basic cellular system that was simpler in the LCEA than in many extant eukaryotes and yields insight into nonendosymbiotic organelle evolution.
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Boore JL. Requirements and standards for organelle genome databases. OMICS-A JOURNAL OF INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY 2007; 10:119-26. [PMID: 16901216 DOI: 10.1089/omi.2006.10.119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Mitochondria and plastids (collectively called organelles) descended from prokaryotes that adopted an intracellular, endosymbiotic lifestyle within early eukaryotes. Comparisons of their remnant genomes address a wide variety of biological questions, especially when including the genomes of their prokaryotic relatives and the many genes transferred to the eukaryotic nucleus during the transitions from endosymbiont to organelle. The pace of producing complete organellar genome sequences now makes it unfeasible to do broad comparisons using the primary literature and, even if it were feasible, it is now becoming uncommon for journals to accept detailed descriptions of genome-level features. Unfortunately, no database is completely useful for this task, since they have little standardization and are riddled with error. Further, the descriptors necessary to make full use of these data are generally lacking. Here, I outline what is currently wrong and what must be done to make this data useful to the scientific community.
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- Jeffrey L Boore
- Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, California 94598, USA.
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The cryptomonads and chlorarachniophytes are two unicellular algal lineages with complex cellular structures and fascinating evolutionary histories. Both groups acquired their photosynthetic abilities through the assimilation of eukaryotic endosymbionts. As a result, they possess two distinct cytosolic compartments and four genomes--two nuclear genomes, an endosymbiont-derived plastid genome and a mitochondrial genome derived from the host cell. Like mitochondrial and plastid genomes, the genome of the endosymbiont nucleus, or 'nucleomorph', of cryptomonad and chlorarachniophyte cells has been greatly reduced through the combined effects of gene loss and intracellular gene transfer. This article focuses on the structure, function, origin and evolution of cryptomonad and chlorarachniophyte nucleomorph genomes in light of recent comparisons of genome sequence data from both groups. It is now possible to speculate on the reasons that nucleomorphs persist in cryptomonads and chlorarachniophytes but have been lost in all other algae with plastids of secondary endosymbiotic origin.
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- John M Archibald
- The Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Program in Evolutionary Biology, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 1X5, Canada.
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Rogers MB, Gilson PR, Su V, McFadden GI, Keeling PJ. The complete chloroplast genome of the chlorarachniophyte Bigelowiella natans: evidence for independent origins of chlorarachniophyte and euglenid secondary endosymbionts. Mol Biol Evol 2006; 24:54-62. [PMID: 16990439 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msl129] [Citation(s) in RCA: 163] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Chlorarachniophytes are amoeboflagellate cercozoans that acquired a plastid by secondary endosymbiosis. Chlorarachniophytes are the last major group of algae for which there is no completely sequenced plastid genome. Here we describe the 69.2-kbp chloroplast genome of the model chlorarachniophyte Bigelowiella natans. The genome is highly reduced in size compared with plastids of other photosynthetic algae and is closer in size to genomes of several nonphotosynthetic plastids. Unlike nonphotosynthetic plastids, however, the B. natans chloroplast genome has not sustained a massive loss of genes, and it retains nearly all of the functional photosynthesis-related genes represented in the genomes of other green algae. Instead, the genome is highly compacted and gene dense. The genes are organized with a strong strand bias, and several unusual rearrangements and inversions also characterize the genome; notably, an inversion in the small-subunit rRNA gene, a translocation of 3 genes in the major ribosomal protein operon, and the fragmentation of the cluster encoding the large photosystem proteins PsaA and PsaB. The chloroplast endosymbiont is known to be a green alga, but its evolutionary origin and relationship to other primary and secondary green plastids has been much debated. A recent hypothesis proposes that the endosymbionts of chlorarachniophytes and euglenids share a common origin (the Cabozoa hypothesis). We inferred phylogenies using individual and concatenated gene sequences for all genes in the genome. Concatenated gene phylogenies show a relationship between the B. natans plastid and the ulvophyte-trebouxiophyte-chlorophyte clade of green algae to the exclusion of Euglena. The B. natans plastid is thus not closely related to that of Euglena, which suggests that plastids originated independently in these 2 groups and the Cabozoa hypothesis is false.
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- Matthew B Rogers
- Botany Department, University of British Columbia, British Columbia, Canada
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Deschamps P, Haferkamp I, Dauvillée D, Haebel S, Steup M, Buléon A, Putaux JL, Colleoni C, d'Hulst C, Plancke C, Gould S, Maier U, Neuhaus HE, Ball S. Nature of the periplastidial pathway of starch synthesis in the cryptophyte Guillardia theta. EUKARYOTIC CELL 2006; 5:954-63. [PMID: 16757743 PMCID: PMC1489276 DOI: 10.1128/ec.00380-05] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The nature of the periplastidial pathway of starch biosynthesis was investigated with the model cryptophyte Guillardia theta. The storage polysaccharide granules were shown to be composed of both amylose and amylopectin fractions with a chain length distribution and crystalline organization very similar to those of starch from green algae and land plants. Most starch granules displayed a shape consistent with biosynthesis occurring around the pyrenoid through the rhodoplast membranes. A protein with significant similarity to the amylose-synthesizing granule-bound starch synthase 1 from green plants was found as the major polypeptide bound to the polysaccharide matrix. N-terminal sequencing of the mature protein proved that the precursor protein carries a nonfunctional transit peptide in its bipartite topogenic signal sequence which is cleaved without yielding transport of the enzyme across the two inner plastid membranes. The enzyme was shown to display similar affinities for ADP and UDP-glucose, while the V(max) measured with UDP-glucose was twofold higher. The granule-bound starch synthase from Guillardia theta was demonstrated to be responsible for the synthesis of long glucan chains and therefore to be the functional equivalent of the amylose-synthesizing enzyme of green plants. Preliminary characterization of the starch pathway suggests that Guillardia theta utilizes a UDP-glucose-based pathway to synthesize starch.
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Gould SB, Sommer MS, Hadfi K, Zauner S, Kroth PG, Maier UG. Protein targeting into the complex plastid of cryptophytes. J Mol Evol 2006; 62:674-81. [PMID: 16752208 DOI: 10.1007/s00239-005-0099-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2005] [Accepted: 07/25/2005] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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The cryptophyte Guillardia theta harbors a plastid surrounded by four membranes. This turns protein targeting of nucleus-encoded endosymbiont localized proteins into quite a challenge, as the respective precursors have to pass either all four membranes to reach the plastid stroma or only the outermost two membranes to enter the periplastidal compartment. Therefore two sets of nuclear-encoded proteins imported into the endosymbiont can be distinguished and their topogenic signals may serve as good indicators for studying protein targeting and subsequent transport across the outermost membranes of the cryptophyte plastid. We isolated genes encoding enzymes involved in two different biochemical pathways, both of which are predicted to be localized inside the periplastidal compartment, and compared their topogenic signals to those of precursor proteins for the plastid stroma, which are encoded on either the nucleus or the nucleomorph. By this and exemplary in vitro and in vivo analyses of the topogenic signal of one protein localized in the periplastidal compartment, we present new data implicating the mechanism of targeting and transport of proteins to and across the outermost plastid membranes. Furthermore, we demonstrate that one single, but conserved amino acid is the triggering key for the discrimination between nucleus-encoded plastid and periplastidal proteins.
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- Sven B Gould
- Cell Biology, Philipps-University Marburg, Karl-von-Frisch Strasse 8, 35042, Marburg, Germany
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Oxygenic photosynthesis is the principal producer of both oxygen and organic matter on earth. The primary step in this process--the conversion of sunlight into chemical energy--is driven by four multi-subunit membrane protein complexes named photosystem I, photosystem II, cytochrome b(6)f complex and F-ATPase. Photosystem I generates the most negative redox potential in nature and thus largely determines the global amount of enthalpy in living systems. The recent structural determination of PSI complexes from cyanobacteria and plants sheds light on the evolutionary forces that shaped oxygenic photosynthesis. The fortuitous formation of our solar system in a space plentiful of elements, our distance from the sun and the long time of uninterrupted evolution enabled the perfection of photosynthesis and the evolution of advanced organisms. The available structural information complements the knowledge gained from genomic and proteomic data to illustrate a more precise scenario for the evolution of life systems on earth.
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- Nathan Nelson
- Department of Biochemistry, The George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, The Daniella Rich Institute for Structural Biology, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
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Keeling PJ, Slamovits CH. Causes and effects of nuclear genome reduction. Curr Opin Genet Dev 2005; 15:601-8. [PMID: 16188433 DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2005.09.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2005] [Accepted: 09/14/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Eukaryotic nuclear genomes are generally considered to be large and gene-sparse, but extreme reduction has taken place several times, resulting in small genomes with a high gene-density. This process involves losing genes, compacting those that remain, or often both. Recently sequenced nuclear genomes include several that have converged to similar gene-densities by many means: variation in numbers and lengths of genes, intergenic regions and introns all contribute, but not equally in any given genome. Genomes of microsporidia and nucleomorphs have taken compaction much further, and in these hyper-compacted genomes there is evidence that some basic processes such as gene expression might be affected by genome form. In these genomes, normally weak forces might become more significant drivers of genome evolution.
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- Patrick J Keeling
- Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Botany Department, University of British Columbia, 3529-6270 University Boulevard, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4, Canada.
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Hashimoto H. The ultrastructural features and division of secondary plastids. JOURNAL OF PLANT RESEARCH 2005; 118:163-72. [PMID: 15937721 DOI: 10.1007/s10265-005-0214-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2004] [Accepted: 09/28/2004] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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Plastids in heterokonts, cryptophytes, haptophytes, dinoflagellates, chlorarachniophytes, euglenoids, and apicomplexan parasites derive from secondary symbiogenesis. These plastids are surrounded by one or two additional membranes covering the plastid-envelope double membranes. Consequently, nuclear-encoded plastid division proteins have to be targeted into the division site through the additional surrounding membranes. Electron microscopic observations suggest that the additional surrounding membranes are severed by mechanisms distinct from those for the division of the plastid envelope. In heterokonts, cryptophytes and haptophytes, the outermost surrounding membrane (epiplastid rough endoplasmic reticulum, EPrER) is studded with cytoplasmic ribosomes and connected to the rER and the outer nuclear envelope. In monoplastidic species belonging to these three groups, the EPrER and the outer nuclear envelope are directly connected to form a sac enclosing the plastid and the nucleus. This nuclear-plastid connection, referred to as the nucleus-plastid consortium (NPC), may be significant to ensure the transmission of the plastids during cell division. The plastid dividing-ring (PD-ring) is a conserved component of the division machinery for both primary and secondary plastids. Also, homologues of the bacterial cell division protein, FtsZ, may be involved in the division of secondary plastids as well as primary plastids, though in secondary plastids they have not yet been localized to the division site. It remains to be examined whether or not dynamin-like proteins and other protein components known to function in the division of primary plastids are used also in secondary plastids. The nearly completed sequencing of the nuclear genome of the diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana will give impetus to molecular and cell biological studies on the division of secondary plastids.
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- Haruki Hashimoto
- Department of Life Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Meguro-ku, Japan.
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Protalveolate phylogeny and systematics and the origins of Sporozoa and dinoflagellates (phylum Myzozoa nom. nov.). Eur J Protistol 2004. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ejop.2004.01.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 101] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Numerous theories have been proposed to account for the pronounced differences in the quantity of non-coding DNA among eukaryotic genomes, but the current repertoire remains incomplete because the only explicit mechanisms it provides involve DNA gain. It has been proposed more recently that biases in spontaneous insertions and deletions (indels) can lead to genome shrinkage by mutational mechanisms alone. The present article provides the first detailed critical discussion of this approach, and covers three different ideas related to it: (1) the general notion of DNA loss by deletion bias, (2) the "DNA loss hypothesis" which supposes that variation in genome size can be attributed to differences in DNA loss rate, and (3) the "mutational equilibrium model" which attempts to describe the long-term evolution of genome size. The mutational equilibrium model is found to be problematic, and it is noted that DNA loss by small indels is too slow in real time to determine variation in genome size above a relatively low threshold. Some alternative explanations for the observed patterns are provided, and the critique also identifies some potential problems with the current dataset. These include a failure to cite a more detailed (and somewhat contradictory) mammalian dataset, a questionable use of arithmetic means with highly skewed data, and important discrepancies among the particular DNA sequences so far analyzed. Overall, evolutionary reductions in genome size are considered important, but the specific mechanism relating to small deletion bias is far too weak to be accepted as a primary determinant of genome size variation in general.
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- T Ryan Gregory
- Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, NY 10024, USA.
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Green BR, Anderson JM, Parson WW. Photosynthetic Membranes and Their Light-Harvesting Antennas. LIGHT-HARVESTING ANTENNAS IN PHOTOSYNTHESIS 2003. [DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-2087-8_1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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