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Tomo T, Okumura A, Suzuki T, Okuhara M, Katayama R, Isayama N, Nagao R, Iwai M, Dohmae N, Enami I. Lysyl oxidase-like protein secreted from an acidophilic red alga, Cyanidium caldarium. PLANT DIRECT 2018; 2:e00084. [PMID: 31245685 PMCID: PMC6508830 DOI: 10.1002/pld3.84] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2018] [Revised: 09/11/2018] [Accepted: 09/12/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Cyanidium caldarium is a primitive acidophilic red alga which grown optimally at pH 1-3. When the alga was cultured at pH 6, which is the upper limit of acidity for its survival, most of the algal cells became large cells with four endospores which did not split into daughter cells. This suggests that the alga survives in the endospore state at pH 6 to protect against nutrient uptake deficiency due to low pH gradient across the cell membranes. The alga was also found to secrete an extracellular protein specifically at pH 6. The protein was identified to be lysyl oxidase-like protein, which had been reported to be widely distributed in the animal kingdom but not yet found in the plant kingdom. In the plant kingdom, only two primitive acidophilic algae, C. caldarium and Cyanidioschyzon merolae, possess a gene encoding this protein.
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- Tatsuya Tomo
- Department of BiologyTokyo University of ScienceTokyoJapan
- Graduate School of ScienceTokyo University of ScienceTokyoJapan
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- Department of Integrated Sciences in Physics and BiologyCollege of Humanities and SciencesNihon UniversityTokyoJapan
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- Biomolecular Characterization UnitRIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource ScienceSaitamaJapan
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- Department of BiologyTokyo University of ScienceTokyoJapan
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- Department of BiologyTokyo University of ScienceTokyoJapan
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- Research Institute for Interdisciplinary ScienceOkayama UniversityOkayamaJapan
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- School of Life Science and TechnologyTokyo Institute of TechnologyYokohamaJapan
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- Biomolecular Characterization UnitRIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource ScienceSaitamaJapan
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- Department of BiologyTokyo University of ScienceTokyoJapan
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Yoshida Y. Insights into the Mechanisms of Chloroplast Division. Int J Mol Sci 2018; 19:ijms19030733. [PMID: 29510533 PMCID: PMC5877594 DOI: 10.3390/ijms19030733] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2018] [Revised: 02/28/2018] [Accepted: 03/01/2018] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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The endosymbiosis of a free-living cyanobacterium into an ancestral eukaryote led to the evolution of the chloroplast (plastid) more than one billion years ago. Given their independent origins, plastid proliferation is restricted to the binary fission of pre-existing plastids within a cell. In the last 25 years, the structure of the supramolecular machinery regulating plastid division has been discovered, and some of its component proteins identified. More recently, isolated plastid-division machineries have been examined to elucidate their structural and mechanistic details. Furthermore, complex studies have revealed how the plastid-division machinery morphologically transforms during plastid division, and which of its component proteins play a critical role in generating the contractile force. Identifying the three-dimensional structures and putative functional domains of the component proteins has given us hints about the mechanisms driving the machinery. Surprisingly, the mechanisms driving plastid division resemble those of mitochondrial division, indicating that these division machineries likely developed from the same evolutionary origin, providing a key insight into how endosymbiotic organelles were established. These findings have opened new avenues of research into organelle proliferation mechanisms and the evolution of organelles.
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- Yamato Yoshida
- Department of Science, College of Science, Ibaraki University, Ibaraki 310-8512, Japan.
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TerBush AD, Porzondek CA, Osteryoung KW. Functional Analysis of the Chloroplast Division Complex Using Schizosaccharomyces pombe as a Heterologous Expression System. MICROSCOPY AND MICROANALYSIS : THE OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF MICROSCOPY SOCIETY OF AMERICA, MICROBEAM ANALYSIS SOCIETY, MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 2016; 22:275-289. [PMID: 26917361 DOI: 10.1017/s1431927616000143] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Chloroplast division is driven by a macromolecular complex that assembles at the midplastid. The FtsZ ring (Z ring) is the central structure in this complex, and is composed of the functionally distinct cytoskeletal proteins FtsZ1 and FtsZ2. Recent studies in the heterologous Schizosaccharomyces pombe system showed that Arabidopsis FtsZ1 and FtsZ2 filaments have distinct assembly and turnover characteristics. To further analyze these FtsZs, we employed this system to compare the assembly and dynamic properties of FtsZ1 and FtsZ2 lacking their N- and/or C-termini with those of their full-length counterparts. Our data provide evidence that the N-terminus of FtsZ2 is critical for its structural dominance over FtsZ1, and that the N- and C-termini promote polymer bundling and turnover of both FtsZs and contribute to their distinct behaviors. We also assessed how ARC6 affects FtsZ2 filament dynamics, and found that it interacts with and stabilizes FtsZ2 filaments in S. pombe independent of its presumed Z-ring tethering function in planta. Finally, we generated FtsZ1-FtsZ2 coexpression constructs to facilitate reconstitution of more complex interaction networks. Our experiments yield new insight into factors influencing FtsZ behavior and highlight the utility of S. pombe for analyzing chloroplast FtsZs and their assembly regulators.
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- Allan D TerBush
- 1Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Graduate Program,Michigan State University,East Lansing,MI 48824,USA
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- 3Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Undergraduate Program,Michigan State University,East Lansing,MI 48824,USA
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Hirakawa Y, Ishida KI. Prospective function of FtsZ proteins in the secondary plastid of chlorarachniophyte algae. BMC PLANT BIOLOGY 2015; 15:276. [PMID: 26556725 PMCID: PMC4641359 DOI: 10.1186/s12870-015-0662-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2015] [Accepted: 11/03/2015] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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BACKGROUND Division of double-membraned plastids (primary plastids) is performed by constriction of a ring-like division complex consisting of multiple plastid division proteins. Consistent with the endosymbiotic origin of primary plastids, some of the plastid division proteins are descended from cyanobacterial cell division machinery, and the others are of host origin. In several algal lineages, complex plastids, the "secondary plastids", have been acquired by the endosymbiotic uptake of primary plastid-bearing algae, and are surrounded by three or four membranes. Although homologous genes for primary plastid division proteins have been found in genome sequences of secondary plastid-bearing organisms, little is known about the function of these proteins or the mechanism of secondary plastid division. RESULTS To gain insight into the mechanism of secondary plastid division, we characterized two plastid division proteins, FtsZD-1 and FtsZD-2, in chlorarachniophyte algae. FtsZ homologs were encoded by the nuclear genomes and carried an N-terminal plastid targeting signal. Immunoelectron microscopy revealed that both FtsZD-1 and FtsZD-2 formed a ring-like structure at the midpoint of bilobate plastids with a projecting pyrenoid in Bigelowiella natans. The ring was always associated with a shallow plate-like invagination of the two innermost plastid membranes. Furthermore, gene expression analysis confirmed that transcripts of ftsZD genes were periodically increased soon after cell division during the B. natans cell cycle, which is not consistent with the timing of plastid division. CONCLUSIONS Our findings suggest that chlorarachniophyte FtsZD proteins are involved in partial constriction of the inner pair of plastid membranes, but not in the whole process of plastid division. It is uncertain how the outer pair of plastid membranes is constricted, and as-yet-unknown mechanism is required for the secondary plastid division in chlorarachniophytes.
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- Yoshihisa Hirakawa
- Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8572, Japan.
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- Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8572, Japan.
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Plastid division is fundamental to the biology of plant cells. Division by binary fission entails the coordinated assembly and constriction of four concentric rings, two internal and two external to the organelle. The internal FtsZ ring and external dynamin-like ARC5/DRP5B ring are connected across the two envelopes by the membrane proteins ARC6, PARC6, PDV1, and PDV2. Assembly-stimulated GTPase activity drives constriction of the FtsZ and ARC5/DRP5B rings, which together with the plastid-dividing rings pull and squeeze the envelope membranes until the two daughter plastids are formed, with the final separation requiring additional proteins. The positioning of the division machinery is controlled by the chloroplast Min system, which confines FtsZ-ring formation to the plastid midpoint. The dynamic morphology of plastids, especially nongreen plastids, is also considered here, particularly in relation to the production of stromules and plastid-derived vesicles and their possible roles in cellular communication and plastid functionality.
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Sumiya N, Owari S, Watanabe K, Kawano S. ROLE OF MULTIPLE FTSZ RINGS IN CHLOROPLAST DIVISION UNDER OLIGOTROPHIC AND EUTROPHIC CONDITIONS IN THE UNICELLULAR GREEN ALGA NANNOCHLORIS BACILLARIS (CHLOROPHYTA, TREBOUXIOPHYCEAE)(1). JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY 2012; 48:1187-1196. [PMID: 27011278 DOI: 10.1111/j.1529-8817.2012.01204.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Chloroplasts of the unicellular green alga Nannochloris bacillaris Naumann cultured under nutrient-enriched conditions have multiple rings of FtsZ, a prokaryote-derived chloroplast division protein. We previously reported that synthesis of excess chloroplast DNA and formation of multiple FtsZ rings occur simultaneously. To clarify the role of multiple FtsZ rings in chloroplast division, we investigated chloroplast DNA synthesis and ring formation in cells cultured under various culture conditions. Cells transferred from a nutrient-enriched medium to an inorganic medium in the light showed a drop in cell division rate, a reduction in chloroplast DNA content, and changes in the shape of chloroplast nucleoids as cells divided. We then examined DNA synthesis by immunodetecting BrdU incorporated into DNA strands using the anti-BrdU antibody. BrdU-labeled nuclei were clearly observed in cells 48 h after transfer into the inorganic medium, while only weak punctate signals were visible in the chloroplasts. In parallel, the number of FtsZ rings decreased from 6 to only 1. When the cells were transferred from an inorganic medium to a nutrient-enriched medium, the number of cells increased only slightly in the first 12 h after transfer; after this time, however, they started to divide more quickly and increased exponentially. Chloroplast nucleoids changed from punctate to rod-like structures, and active chloroplast DNA synthesis and FtsZ ring formation were observed. On the basis of our results, we conclude that multiple FtsZ ring assembly and chloroplast DNA duplication under nutrient-rich conditions facilitate chloroplast division after transfer to oligotrophic conditions without further duplication of chloroplast DNA and formation of new FtsZ rings.
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- Nobuko Sumiya
- Department of Integrated Biosciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo, Building FSB-601, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8562, Japan
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- Department of Integrated Biosciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo, Building FSB-601, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8562, Japan
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- Department of Integrated Biosciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo, Building FSB-601, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8562, Japan
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- Department of Integrated Biosciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo, Building FSB-601, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8562, Japan
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Structure, regulation, and evolution of the plastid division machinery. INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2012; 291:115-53. [PMID: 22017975 DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-386035-4.00004-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Plastids have evolved from a cyanobacterial endosymbiont, and their continuity is maintained by the plastid division and segregation which is regulated by the eukaryotic host cell. Plastids divide by constriction of the inner- and outer-envelope membranes. Recent studies revealed that this constriction is performed by a large protein and glucan complex at the division site that spans the two envelope membranes. The division complex has retained certain components of the cyanobacterial division complex along with components developed by the host cell. Based on the information on the division complex at the molecular level, we are beginning to understand how the division complex has evolved and how it is assembled, constricted, and regulated in the host cell. This chapter reviews the current understanding of the plastid division machinery and some of the questions that will be addressed in the near future.
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Pyke KA. Plastid division. AOB PLANTS 2010; 2010:plq016. [PMID: 22476074 PMCID: PMC2995336 DOI: 10.1093/aobpla/plq016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2010] [Revised: 08/19/2010] [Accepted: 09/28/2010] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS Plastids undergo a process of binary fission in order to replicate. Plastid replication is required at two distinct stages of plant growth: during cell division to ensure correct plastid segregation, and during cell expansion and development to generate large populations of functional plastids, as in leaf mesophyll cells. This review considers some of the recent advances in the understanding of how plastids undergo binary fission, a process which uses several different proteins, both internal and external to the plastid, which have been derived from the original endosymbiont's genome as well as new proteins that have been recruited from the host genome. KEY POINTS Several of the proteins currently used in this process in higher plants have homologues in modern-day bacteria. An alternative mode of replication by a budding-type mechanism also appears to be used in some circumstances. The review also highlights how most of our knowledge of plastid division is centred on the chloroplast developing in leaf mesophyll cells and a role for plastid division during the development of other plastid types is poorly understood. Whilst models for a protein-based mechanism have been devised, exactly how the division process is controlled at the plastid level and at the plastid population level is poorly understood.
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- Kevin Andrew Pyke
- Plant and Crop Sciences Division , School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham , Sutton Bonington Campus, Loughborough LE12 5RD , UK
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Yoshida Y, Kuroiwa H, Misumi O, Yoshida M, Ohnuma M, Fujiwara T, Yagisawa F, Hirooka S, Imoto Y, Matsushita K, Kawano S, Kuroiwa T. Chloroplasts divide by contraction of a bundle of nanofilaments consisting of polyglucan. Science 2010; 329:949-53. [PMID: 20724635 DOI: 10.1126/science.1190791] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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In chloroplast division, the plastid-dividing (PD) ring is a main structure of the PD machinery and is a universal structure in the plant kingdom. However, the components and formation of the PD ring have been enigmatic. By proteomic analysis of PD machineries isolated from Cyanidioschyzon merolae, we identified the glycosyltransferase protein plastid-dividing ring 1 (PDR1), which constructs the PD ring and is widely conserved from red alga to land plants. Electron microscopy showed that the PDR1 protein forms a ring with carbohydrates at the chloroplast-division site. Fluorometric saccharide ingredient analysis of purified PD ring filaments showed that only glucose was included, and down-regulation of PDR1 impaired chloroplast division. Thus, the chloroplasts are divided by the PD ring, which is a bundle of PDR1-mediated polyglucan filaments.
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- Yamato Yoshida
- Laboratory of Cell Biology, Department of Life Science, College of Science, Research Information Center for Extremophile, Rikkyo University, Toshima, Tokyo 171-8501, Japan
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Glynn JM, Yang Y, Vitha S, Schmitz AJ, Hemmes M, Miyagishima SY, Osteryoung KW. PARC6, a novel chloroplast division factor, influences FtsZ assembly and is required for recruitment of PDV1 during chloroplast division in Arabidopsis. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2009; 59:700-11. [PMID: 19453460 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313x.2009.03905.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Chloroplast division in plant cells is accomplished through the coordinated action of the tubulin-like FtsZ ring inside the organelle and the dynamin-like ARC5 ring outside the organelle. This coordination is facilitated by ARC6, an inner envelope protein required for both assembly of FtsZ and recruitment of ARC5. Recently, we showed that ARC6 specifies the mid-plastid positioning of the outer envelope proteins PDV1 and PDV2, which have parallel functions in dynamin recruitment. PDV2 positioning involves direct ARC6-PDV2 interaction, but PDV1 and ARC6 do not interact indicating that an additional factor functions downstream of ARC6 to position PDV1. Here, we show that PARC6 (paralog of ARC6), an ARC6-like protein unique to vascular plants, fulfills this role. Like ARC6, PARC6 is an inner envelope protein with its N-terminus exposed to the stroma and Arabidopsis parc6 mutants exhibit defects of chloroplast and FtsZ filament morphology. However, whereas ARC6 promotes FtsZ assembly, PARC6 appears to inhibit FtsZ assembly, suggesting that ARC6 and PARC6 function as antagonistic regulators of FtsZ dynamics. The FtsZ inhibitory activity of PARC6 may involve its interaction with the FtsZ-positioning factor ARC3. A PARC6-GFP fusion protein localizes both to the mid-plastid and to a single spot at one pole, reminiscent of the localization of ARC3, PDV1 and ARC5. Although PARC6 localizes PDV1, it is not required for PDV2 localization or ARC5 recruitment. Our findings indicate that PARC6, like ARC6, plays a role in coordinating the internal and external components of the chloroplast division complex, but that PARC6 has evolved distinct functions in the division process.
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- Jonathan M Glynn
- Genetics Program, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
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Fujiwara MT, Sekine K, Yamamoto YY, Abe T, Sato N, Itoh RD. Live Imaging of Chloroplast FtsZ1 Filaments, Rings, Spirals, and Motile Dot Structures in the AtMinE1 Mutant and Overexpressor of Arabidopsis thaliana. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2009; 50:1116-26. [DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcp063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Sato M, Mogi Y, Nishikawa T, Miyamura S, Nagumo T, Kawano S. The dynamic surface of dividing cyanelles and ultrastructure of the region directly below the surface in Cyanophora paradoxa. PLANTA 2009; 229:781-91. [PMID: 19096871 DOI: 10.1007/s00425-008-0872-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2008] [Accepted: 11/26/2008] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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The cyanelles of glaucocystophytes are probably the most primitive of known extant plastids and the closest to cyanobacteria. Their kidney shape and FtsZ arc during the early stage of division define cyanelle division. In order to deepen and expand earlier results (Planta 227:177-187, 2007), cells of Cyanophora paradoxa were fixed with two different chemical and two different freeze-fixation methods. In addition, cyanelles from C. paradoxa were isolated to observe the surface structure of dividing cyanelles using field emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM). A shallow furrow started on one side of the division plane. The furrow subsequently extended, covering the entire division circle, and then invaginated deeply, becoming clearly visible. The typical FtsZ arc was 2.3-3.4 microm long. This length matches that of the cleavage furrow observed using FE-SEM. The cyanelle cleavage furrows are from one-fourth to one-half of the circumference of the division plane. The shallow furrow that appears on the cyanelle outer surface effectively changes the division plane. Using freeze-fixation methods, the electron-dense stroma and peptidoglycan could be distinguished. In addition, an electron-dense belt structure (the cyanelle ring) was observed inside the leading edge at the cyanelle division plane. The FtsZ arc is located at the division plane ahead of the cyanelle ring. Immunogold-TEM localization shows that FtsZ is located interiorly of the cyanelle ring. The lack of an outer PD ring, together with the arch-shaped furrow, suggests that the mechanical force of the initial (arch shaped) septum furrow constriction comes from inside the cyanelle.
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- Mayuko Sato
- Department of Integrated Biosciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo, Bldg. FSB-601, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba, 277-8562, Japan
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Grossman AR. In the Grip of Algal Genomics. TRANSGENIC MICROALGAE AS GREEN CELL FACTORIES 2008; 616:54-76. [DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-75532-8_6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Vítová M, Hendrychová J, Cízková M, Cepák V, Umen JG, Zachleder V, Bisová K. Accumulation, activity and localization of cell cycle regulatory proteins and the chloroplast division protein FtsZ in the alga Scenedesmus quadricauda under inhibition of nuclear DNA replication. PLANT & CELL PHYSIOLOGY 2008; 49:1805-1817. [PMID: 18977763 DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcn162] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Synchronized cultures of the green alga Scenedesmus quadricauda were grown in the absence (untreated cultures) or in the presence (FdUrd-treated cultures) of 5-fluorodeoxyuridine, the specific inhibitor of nuclear DNA replication. The attainment of commitment points, at which the cells become committed to nuclear DNA replication, mitosis and cellular division, and the course of committed processes themselves were determined for cell cycle characterization. FdUrd-treated cultures showed nearly unaffected growth and attainment of the commitment points, while DNA replication(s), nuclear division(s) and protoplast fission(s) were blocked. Interestingly, the FdUrd-treated cells possessed a very high mitotic histone H1 kinase activity in the absence of any nuclear division(s). Compared with the untreated cultures, the kinase activity as well as mitotic cyclin B accumulation increased continuously to high values without any oscillation. Division of chloroplasts was not blocked but occurred delayed and over a longer time span than in the untreated culture. The FtsZ protein level in the FdUrd-treated culture did not exceed the level in the untreated culture, but rather, in contrast to the untreated culture, remained elevated. FtsZ structures were both localized around pyrenoids and spread inside of the chloroplast in the form of spots and mini-rings. The abundance and localization of the FtsZ protein were comparable in untreated and FdUrd-treated cells until the end of the untreated cell cycle. However, in the inhibitor-treated culture, the signal did not decrease and was localized in intense spots surrounding the chloroplast/cell perimeter; this was in agreement with both the elevated protein level and persisting chloroplast division.
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- Milada Vítová
- Laboratory of Cell Cycles of Algae, Institute of Microbiology, ASCR, 37981 Trebon, Czech Republic
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Sumiya N, Hirata A, Kawano S. MULTIPLE FtsZ RING FORMATION AND REDUPLICATED CHLOROPLAST DNA IN NANNOCHLORIS BACILLARIS (CHLOROPHYTA, TREBOUXIOPHYCEAE) UNDER PHOSPHATE-ENRICHED CULTURE(1). JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY 2008; 44:1476-1489. [PMID: 27039862 DOI: 10.1111/j.1529-8817.2008.00589.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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We examined the effects of phosphate enrichment on chloroplasts of the unicellular green alga Nannochloris bacillaris Naumann. The doubling time of cells was similar in phosphate-limited (no β-glycerophosphate) and phosphate-enriched (2 mM β-glycerophosphate) media. The lengths of cells and chloroplasts were similar, regardless of phosphate concentration. The relationship between the ring formation of the prokaryote-derived chloroplast division protein FtsZ and phosphate concentration was examined using indirect fluorescent antibody staining. The number of FtsZ rings increased as the phosphate concentration of the medium increased. Multiple FtsZ rings were formed in cells in phosphate-enriched medium; up to six FtsZ rings per chloroplast were observed. The number of FtsZ rings increased as the chloroplast grew. The FtsZ ring located near the center of the chloroplast had the strongest fluorescence. The FtsZ ring at the relative center of all FtsZ rings was used for division. Plastid division rings did not multiply in phosphate-enriched culture. The chloroplast DNA content was 2.3 times greater in phosphate-enriched than in phosphate-limited culture and decreased in cells cultured in phosphate-enriched medium containing 5-fluorodeoxyuridine (FdUr). In the presence of FdUr, only one FtsZ ring formed, even under phosphate enrichment. This finding suggests that excessive chloroplast DNA replication induces multiple FtsZ ring formation in phosphate-enriched culture. We propose a multiple FtsZ ring formation model under phosphate enrichment.
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- Nobuko Sumiya
- Department of Integrated Biosciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo, Building FSB-601, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8562, Japan
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- Department of Integrated Biosciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo, Building FSB-601, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8562, Japan
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- Department of Integrated Biosciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo, Building FSB-601, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8562, Japan
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Fujiwara MT, Hashimoto H, Kazama Y, Abe T, Yoshida S, Sato N, Itoh RD. The Assembly of the FtsZ Ring at the Mid-Chloroplast Division Site Depends on a Balance Between the Activities of AtMinE1 and ARC11/AtMinD1. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2008; 49:345-61. [DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcn012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Chloroplasts are descendants of cyanobacteria and divide by binary fission. Several components of the division apparatus have been identified in the past several years and we are beginning to appreciate the plastid division process at a mechanistic level. In this review, we attempt to summarize the most recent developments in the field and assemble these observations into a working model of plastid division in plants.
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- Jonathan M Glynn
- Genetics Program, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
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Misumi O, Yoshida Y, Nishida K, Fujiwara T, Sakajiri T, Hirooka S, Nishimura Y, Kuroiwa T. Genome analysis and its significance in four unicellular algae, Cyanidioschyzon [corrected] merolae, Ostreococcus tauri, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, and Thalassiosira pseudonana. JOURNAL OF PLANT RESEARCH 2008; 121:3-17. [PMID: 18074102 DOI: 10.1007/s10265-007-0133-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2007] [Accepted: 10/30/2007] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Algae play a more important role than land plants in the maintenance of the global environment and productivity. Progress in genome analyses of these organisms means that we can now obtain information on algal genomes, global annotation and gene expression. The full genome information for several algae has already been analyzed. Whole genomes of the red alga Cyanidioschyzon [corrected] merolae, the green algae Ostreococcus tauri and Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, and the diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana have been sequenced. Genome composition and the features of cells among the four algae were compared. Each alga maintains basic genes as photosynthetic eukaryotes and possesses additional gene groups to represent their particular characteristics. This review discusses and introduces the latest research that makes the best use of the particular features of each organism and the significance of genome analysis to study biological phenomena. In particular, examples of post-genome studies of organelle multiplication in C. merolae based on analyzed genome information are presented.
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- Osami Misumi
- Department of Life Science, Graduate School of Science, Rikkyo University, Tokyo 171-8501, Japan
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Maple J, Mateo* A, Møller SG. Plastid Division Regulation and Interactions with the Environment. PLANT CELL MONOGRAPHS 2008. [DOI: 10.1007/7089_2008_20] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/13/2023]
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Yoshida Y, Nishida K, Kuroiwa T, Kawano S. Novel Dynamics of FtsZ Ring Before Plastid Abscission. CYTOLOGIA 2008. [DOI: 10.1508/cytologia.73.197] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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- Yamato Yoshida
- Department of Integrated Biosciences, Graduate school of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo
- Laboratory of Cell Biology, Department of Life Science, College of Science, Research Information Center for Extremophile, Rikkyo (St. Paul's) University
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- Laboratory of Cell Biology, Department of Life Science, College of Science, Research Information Center for Extremophile, Rikkyo (St. Paul's) University
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- Laboratory of Cell Biology, Department of Life Science, College of Science, Research Information Center for Extremophile, Rikkyo (St. Paul's) University
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- Department of Integrated Biosciences, Graduate school of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo
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Sato M, Nishikawa T, Kajitani H, Kawano S. Conserved relationship between FtsZ and peptidoglycan in the cyanelles of Cyanophora paradoxa similar to that in bacterial cell division. PLANTA 2007; 227:177-87. [PMID: 17704941 DOI: 10.1007/s00425-007-0605-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2007] [Accepted: 07/27/2007] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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Cyanelles of the biflagellate protist Cyanophora paradoxa have retained the peptidoglycan layer, which is critical for division, as indicated by the inhibitory effects of beta-lactam antibiotics. An FtsZ ring is formed at the division site during cyanelle division. We used immunofluorescence microscopy to observe the process of FtsZ ring formation, which is expected to lead cyanelle division, and demonstrated that an FtsZ arc and a split FtsZ ring emerge during the early and late stages of cyanelle division, respectively. We used an anti-FtsZ antibody to observe cyanelle FtsZ rings. We observed bright, ring-shaped fluorescence of FtsZ in cyanelles. Cyanelles were kidney-shaped shortly after division. Fluorescence indicated that FtsZ did not surround the division plane at an early stage of division, but rather formed an FtsZ arc localized at the constriction site. The constriction spread around the cyanelle, which gradually became dumbbell shaped. After the envelope's invagination, the ring split parallel to the cyanelle division plane without disappearing. Treatment of C. paradoxa cells with ampicillin, a beta-lactam antibiotic, resulted in spherical cyanelles with an FtsZ arc or ring on the division plane. Transmission electron microscopy of the ampicillin-treated cyanelle envelope membrane revealed that the surface was not smooth. Thus, the inhibition of peptidoglycan synthesis by ampicillin causes the inhibition of septum formation and a marked delay in constriction development. The formation of the FtsZ arc and FtsZ ring is the earliest sign of cyanelle division, followed by constriction and septum formation.
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- Mayuko Sato
- Department of Integrated Biosciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo, Bldg FSB-601, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan.
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Maple J, Møller SG. Plastid division coordination across a double-membraned structure. FEBS Lett 2007; 581:2162-7. [PMID: 17350001 DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2007.02.062] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2006] [Revised: 02/19/2007] [Accepted: 02/26/2007] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Chloroplasts still retain components of the bacterial cell division machinery and research over the past decade has led to an understanding of how these stromal division proteins assemble and function as a complex chloroplast division machinery. However, during evolution plant chloroplasts have acquired a number of cytosolic division proteins, indicating that unlike the cyanobacterial ancestors of plastids, chloroplast division in higher plants require a second division machinery located on the chloroplast outer envelope membrane. Here we review the current understanding of the stromal and cytosolic plastid division machineries and speculate how two protein machineries coordinate their activities across a double-membraned structure.
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- Jodi Maple
- Centre for Organelle Research, Department of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Stavanger, N-4036 Stavanger, Norway
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Gremillon L, Kiessling J, Hause B, Decker EL, Reski R, Sarnighausen E. Filamentous temperature-sensitive Z (FtsZ) isoforms specifically interact in the chloroplasts and in the cytosol of Physcomitrella patens. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2007; 176:299-310. [PMID: 17888112 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2007.02169.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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Plant filamentous temperature-sensitive Z (FtsZ) proteins have been reported to be involved in biological processes related to plastids. However, the precise functions of distinct isoforms are still elusive. Here, the intracellular localization of the FtsZ1-1 isoform in a moss, Physcomitrella patens, was examined. Furthermore, the in vivo interaction behaviour of four distinct FtsZ isoforms was investigated. Localization studies of green fluorescent protein (GFP)-tagged FtsZ1-1 and fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) analyses employing all dual combinations of four FtsZ isoforms were performed in transient protoplast transformation assays. FtsZ1-1 is localized to network structures inside the chloroplasts and exerts influence on plastid division. Interactions between FtsZ isoforms occur in distinct ordered structures in the chloroplasts as well as in the cytosol. The results expand the view of the involvement of Physcomitrella FtsZ proteins in chloroplast and cell division. It is concluded that duplication and diversification of ftsZ genes during plant evolution were the main prerequisites for the successful remodelling and integration of the prokaryotic FtsZ-dependent division mechanism into the cellular machineries of distinct complex processes in plants.
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- Louis Gremillon
- Plant Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, Schaenzlestr. 1, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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- Plant Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, Schaenzlestr. 1, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry, Department of Secondary Metabolism, Weinberg 3, 06120 Halle/Saale, Germany
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- Plant Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, Schaenzlestr. 1, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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- Plant Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, Schaenzlestr. 1, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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- Plant Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, Schaenzlestr. 1, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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Yoshida Y, Kuroiwa H, Misumi O, Nishida K, Yagisawa F, Fujiwara T, Nanamiya H, Kawamura F, Kuroiwa T. Isolated Chloroplast Division Machinery Can Actively Constrict After Stretching. Science 2006; 313:1435-8. [PMID: 16960006 DOI: 10.1126/science.1129689] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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Chloroplast division involves plastid-dividing, dynamin, and FtsZ (PDF) rings. We isolated intact supertwisted (or spiral) and circular PDF machineries from chloroplasts of the red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae. After individual intact PDF machineries were stretched to four times their original lengths with optical tweezers, they spontaneously returned to their original sizes. Dynamin-released PDF machineries did not retain the spiral structure and could not be stretched. Thus, dynamin may generate the motive force for contraction by filament sliding in dividing chloroplasts, in addition to pinching-off the membranes.
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- Yamato Yoshida
- Laboratory of Cell Biology, Department of Life Science, College of Science, Rikkyo (St. Paul's) University, Toshima, Tokyo 171-8501, Japan
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de Pater S, Caspers M, Kottenhagen M, Meima H, ter Stege R, de Vetten N. Manipulation of starch granule size distribution in potato tubers by modulation of plastid division. PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL 2006; 4:123-34. [PMID: 17177791 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7652.2005.00163.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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Starch granule size is an important parameter for starch applications in industry. Starch granules are formed in amyloplasts, which are, like chloroplasts, derived from proplastids. Division processes and associated machinery are likely to be similar for all plastids. Essential roles for FtsZ proteins in plastid division in land plants have been revealed. FtsZ forms the so-called Z ring which, together with inner and outer plastid division rings, brings about constriction of the plastid. It has been shown that modulation of the expression level of FtsZ may result in altered chloroplast size and number. To test whether FtsZ is also involved in amyloplast division and whether this, in turn, may affect the starch granule size in crop plants, FtsZ protein levels were either reduced or increased in potato. As shown previously in other plant species, decreased StFtsZ1 protein levels in leaves resulted in a decrease in the number of chloroplasts in guard cells. More interestingly, plants with increased StFtsZ1 protein levels in tubers resulted in less, but larger, starch granules. This suggests that the stoichiometry between StFtsZ1 and other components of the plastid division machinery is important for its function. Starch from these tubers also had altered pasting properties and phosphate content. The importance of our results for the starch industry is discussed.
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- Sylvia de Pater
- TNO Nutrition and Food Research, Department of Applied Plant Sciences, Zernikedreef 9, 2333 CK Leiden, the Netherlands.
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Kiefel BR, Gilson PR, Beech PL. Cell biology of mitochondrial dynamics. INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF CYTOLOGY 2006; 254:151-213. [PMID: 17147999 DOI: 10.1016/s0074-7696(06)54004-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Mitochondria are the product of an ancient endosymbiotic event between an alpha-proteobacterium and an archael host. An early barrier to overcome in this relationship was the control of the bacterium's proliferation within the host. Undoubtedly, the bacterium (or protomitochondrion) would have used its own cell division apparatus to divide at first and, today a remnant of this system remains in some "ancient" and diverse eukaryotes such as algae and amoebae, the most conserved and widespread of all bacterial division proteins, FtsZ. In many of the eukaryotes that still use FtsZ to constrict the mitochondria from the inside, the mitochondria still resemble bacteria in shape and size. Eukaryotes, however, have a mitochondrial morphology that is often highly fluid, and in their tubular networks of mitochondria, division is clearly complemented by mitochondrial fusion. FtsZ is no longer used by these complex eukaryotes, and may have been replaced by other proteins better suited to sustaining complex mitochondrial networks. Although proteins that divide mitochondria from the inside are just beginning to be characterized in higher eukaryotes, many division proteins are known to act on the outside of the organelle. The most widespread of these are the dynamin-like proteins, which appear to have been recruited very early in the evolution of mitochondria. The essential nature of mitochondria dictates that their loss is intolerable to human cells, and that mutations disrupting mitochondrial division are more likely to be fatal than result in disease. To date, only one disease (Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease 2A) has been mapped to a gene that is required for mitochondrial division, whereas two other diseases can be attributed to mutations in mitochondrial fusion genes. Apart from playing a role in regulating the morphology, which might be important for efficient ATP production, research has indicated that the mitochondrial division and fusion proteins can also be important during apoptosis; mitochondrial fragmentation is an early triggering (and under many stimuli, essential) step in the pathway to cell suicide.
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- Ben R Kiefel
- Center for Cellular and Molecular Biology, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia
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Miyagishima SY. Origin and evolution of the chloroplast division machinery. JOURNAL OF PLANT RESEARCH 2005; 118:295-306. [PMID: 16143878 DOI: 10.1007/s10265-005-0226-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2005] [Accepted: 07/13/2005] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Chloroplasts were originally established in eukaryotes by the endosymbiosis of a cyanobacterium; they then spread through diversification of the eukaryotic hosts and subsequent engulfment of eukaryotic algae by previously nonphotosynthetic eukaryotes. The continuity of chloroplasts is maintained by division of preexisting chloroplasts. Like their ancestors, chloroplasts use a bacterial division system based on the FtsZ ring and some associated factors, all of which are now encoded in the host nuclear genome. The majority of bacterial division factors are absent from chloroplasts and several new factors have been added by the eukaryotic host. For example, the ftsZ gene has been duplicated and modified, plastid-dividing (PD) rings were most likely added by the eukaryotic host, and a member of the dynamin family of proteins evolved to regulate chloroplast division. The identification of several additional proteins involved in the division process, along with data from diverse lineages of organisms, our current knowledge of mitochondrial division, and the mining of genomic sequence data have enabled us to begin to understand the universality and evolution of the division system. The principal features of the chloroplast division system thus far identified are conserved across several lineages, including those with secondary chloroplasts, and may reflect primeval features of mitochondrial division.
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- Shin-Ya Miyagishima
- Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 48824, USA.
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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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Miyagishima SY, Nozaki H, Nishida K, Nishida K, Matsuzaki M, Kuroiwa T. Two types of FtsZ proteins in mitochondria and red-lineage chloroplasts: the duplication of FtsZ is implicated in endosymbiosis. J Mol Evol 2004; 58:291-303. [PMID: 15045484 DOI: 10.1007/s00239-003-2551-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2003] [Accepted: 09/09/2003] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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The ancestors of plastids and mitochondria were once free-living bacteria that became organelles as a result of endosymbiosis. According to this theory, a key bacterial division protein, FtsZ, plays a role in plastid division in algae and plants as well as in mitochondrial division in lower eukaryotes. Recent studies have shown that organelle division is a process that combines features derived from the bacterial division system with features contributed by host eukaryotic cells. Two nonredundant versions of FtsZ, FtsZ1 and FtsZ2, have been identified in green-lineage plastids, whereas most bacteria have a single ftsZ gene. To examine whether there is also more than one type of FtsZ in red-lineage chloroplasts (red algal chloroplasts and chloroplasts that originated from the secondary endosymbiosis of red algae) and in mitochondria, we obtained FtsZ sequences from the complete sequence of the primitive red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae and the draft sequence of the stramenopile (heterokont) Thalassiosira pseudonana. Phylogenetic analyses that included known FtsZ proteins identified two types of chloroplast FtsZ in red algae (FtsZA and FtsZB) and stramenopiles (FtsZA and FtsZC). These analyses also showed that FtsZB emerged after the red and green lineages diverged, while FtsZC arose by the duplication of an ftsZA gene that in turn descended from a red alga engulfed by the ancestor of stramenopiles. A comparison of the predicted proteins showed that like bacterial FtsZ and green-lineage FtsZ2, FtsZA has a short conserved C-termmal sequence (the C-terminal core domain), whereas FtsZB and FtsZC, like the green-lineage FtsZ1, lack this sequence. In addition, the Cyanidioschyzon and Dictyostelium genomes encode two types of mitochondrial FtsZ proteins, one of which lacks the C-terminal variable domain. These results suggest that the acquisition of an additional FtsZ protein with a modified C terminus was common to the primary and secondary endosymbioses that produced plastids and that this also occurred during the establishment of mitochondria, presumably to regulate the multiplication of these organelles.
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- Shin-ya Miyagishima
- Department of Life Sciences, College of Science, Rikkyo (St. Paul's) University, 3-34-1 Nishiikebukuro, Toshima-ku, Tokyo 171-8501, Japan,
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Sakai A, Takano H, Kuroiwa T. Organelle Nuclei in Higher Plants: Structure, Composition, Function, and Evolution. INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF CYTOLOGY 2004; 238:59-118. [PMID: 15364197 DOI: 10.1016/s0074-7696(04)38002-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Plant cells have two distinct types of energy-converting organelles: plastids and mitochondria. These organelles have their own DNAs and are regarded as descendants of endosymbiotic prokaryotes. The organelle DNAs associate with various proteins to form compact DNA-protein complexes, which are referred to as organelle nuclei or nucleoids. Various functions of organelle genomes, such as DNA replication and transcription, are performed within these compact structures. Fluorescence microscopy using the DNA-specific fluorochrome 4',6-diamidino-2-phenylindole has played a pivotal role in establishing the concept of "organelle nuclei." This fluorochrome has also facilitated the isolation of morphologically intact organelle nuclei, which is indispensable for understanding their structure and composition. Moreover, development of an in vitro transcription?DNA synthesis system using isolated organelle nuclei has provided us with a means of measuring and analyzing the function of organelle nuclei. In addition to these morphological and biochemical approaches, genomics has also had a great impact on our ability to investigate the components of organelle nuclei. These analyses have revealed that organelle nuclei are not a vestige of the bacterial counterpart, but rather are a complex system established through extensive interaction between organelle and cell nuclear genomes during evolution. Extensive diversion or exchange during evolution is predicted to have occurred for several important structural proteins, such as major DNA-compacting proteins, and functional proteins, such as RNA and DNA polymerases, resulting in complex mechanisms to control the function of organelle genomes. Thus, organelle nuclei represent the most dynamic front of interaction between the three genomes (cell nuclear, plastid, and mitochondrial) constituting eukaryotic plant cells.
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- Atsushi Sakai
- Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Nara Women's University, Nara 630-8506, Japan
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Katayama N, Takano H, Sugiyama M, Takio S, Sakai A, Tanaka K, Kuroiwa H, Ono K. Effects of antibiotics that inhibit the bacterial peptidoglycan synthesis pathway on moss chloroplast division. PLANT & CELL PHYSIOLOGY 2003; 44:776-81. [PMID: 12881507 DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcg096] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Moss chloroplasts should prove useful for studying the cyanobacteria-derived system in chloroplasts. To determine the effects of antibiotics that inhibit bacterial peptidoglycan synthesis, the numbers of chloroplasts in treated Physcomitrella patens cells were counted. Ampicillin and D-cycloserine caused a rapid decrease in the number of chloroplasts per cell. Fosfomycin affected half of the cells, while vancomycin affected a few cells. Conversely, bacitracin had no effect. With the decrease in chloroplast number, macrochloroplasts appeared in antibiotic-treated cells. Removal of the antibiotics resulted in the recovery of chloroplast number, suggesting that the decrease in number was directly dependent on the antibiotic treatment. Microscopic observations showed that the decrease in the number of chloroplasts resulted from cell division without chloroplast division. These results suggest that enzymes derived from the bacterial peptidoglycan synthesis pathway are related to moss chloroplast division.
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- Nami Katayama
- Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, 860-8555 Japan
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Photosynthetic eukaryotes have evolved plastid division mechanisms since acquisition of plastids through endosymbiosis. The emerging evolutionary origin of the plastid division mechanism is remarkably complex. The constituents of the division apparatus of plastids may have complex origins. The one constituent is the plastid FtsZ ring taken over from the cyanobacteria-like ancestral endosymbionts. The second is the doublet of concentric plastid dividing rings (or triplet in red algae), possibly acquired by ancestral host eukaryotes following the primary endosymbiotic event. Placement of the division apparatus at the correct division site may involve a system analogous to the bacterial Min system. Plastid nucleoid partitioning may be mediated by binding to envelope or thylakoid membranes. Multiple copies of plastid DNA and symmetrical distribution of the nucleoids in the plastids may permit faithful transmission to daughter plastids via equal binary plastid divisions. Cyanelles retain peptidoglycan wall and cyanelle division occurs through septum formation such as bacterial cell division. Cyanelle division involves the cyanelle ring analogous to the inner stromal plastid-dividing (PD) ring. According to the prevailing hypothesis that primary endosymbiosis occurred only once, cyanelle division may represent an intermediate stage between cyanobacterial division and the well-known plastid division among extant plants. With the secondary plastids, which are surrounded by three or four membranes, the PD ring also participates in division of the inner two "true" plastid envelope membranes, and the third and the outermost membranes divide by unknown mechanisms.
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- Haruki Hashimoto
- Department of Life Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan
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Wang D, Kong D, Wang Y, Hu Y, He Y, Sun J. Isolation of two plastid division ftsZ genes from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii and its evolutionary implication for the role of FtsZ in plastid division. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2003; 54:1115-1116. [PMID: 12598582 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erg117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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In order to elucidate the origin of the plastid division gene ftsZ in green plant lineage, and to understand the significance of this divergence for the function of FtsZ proteins in plants, two full-length cDNAs (accession numbers AF449446 and AB084236) were isolated from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, a base species of green plant lineage. A phylogenetic analysis based on amino acid sequences of eukaryotic FtsZs reveals that an ancient duplication of the ftsZ gene occurred after the endosymbiotic event. The ancient duplication implies that two ftsZ families might play an indispensable role at the early endosymbiotic stage.
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- Dong Wang
- College of Life Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
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Izumi Y, Ono K, Takano H. Inhibition of plastid division by ampicillin in the pteridophyte Selaginella nipponica Fr. et Sav. PLANT & CELL PHYSIOLOGY 2003; 44:183-9. [PMID: 12610221 DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcg028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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We investigated the effect of the beta-lactam antibiotic, ampicillin, on plastid division in the pteridophyte Selaginella nipponica. Guard cells of plantlets treated with 1 mM ampicillin only often had one plastid, whereas guard cells of untreated plantlets had two to four plastids. We generated a S. nipponica cell culture system and used it to investigate the effects of ampicillin. Treatment with 1 mM ampicillin had no effect on cell division in culture. We classified cultured cells into four types based on the number of plastids they contained: one (Type I), two (Type II), three or four (Type III) and more than five (Type IV). After 3 d in culture, the percentage of each cell type (I-IV) was 29.5, 46.7, 20.9, and 1.9%, respectively. Subsequently, the percentage of Types III and IV increased gradually, reaching 61.9 and 11.4%, respectively, after 15 d in culture in the absence of ampicillin. When 1 mM ampicillin was added, there was a minimal increase in the number of Type III and IV cells, with high percentages of Type I and II cells (32.4 and 45.7%, respectively) after 15 d. These results suggest that ampicillin inhibits plastid division in S. nipponica.
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- Yoshihiro Izumi
- Faculty of Education and Welfare Science, Oita University, Dannoharu, Oita, 870-1192 Japan.
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Osteryoung KW. Chloroplast division: a work of ARTEMIS. Curr Biol 2002; 12:R844-5. [PMID: 12498703 DOI: 10.1016/s0960-9822(02)01349-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Chloroplasts contain three membrane systems that constrict together during division of the organelle. A newly identified protein, ARTEMIS, may shed light on the nuclear control of chloroplast division, and also on the mechanism of thylakoid membrane fission and how this is coordinated with fission of the two envelope membranes.
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- Katherine W Osteryoung
- Department of Plant Biology, 166 Plant Biology Building, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA.
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Reski R. Rings and networks: the amazing complexity of FtsZ in chloroplasts. TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2002; 7:103-105. [PMID: 11906832 DOI: 10.1016/s1360-1385(02)02232-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Bacteria have proteins that can form filaments and rings, and these are thought to be the evolutionary progenitors of actin and tubulin. Plant homologues of the most intensively studied bacterial FtsZ protein are nuclear-encoded by a small gene family, are plastid-bound and participate in the plastid division process. The hypothesis is put forward that FtsZ and other proteins form a filamentous network in plastids, a plastoskeleton, which keeps these organelles in shape and helps them to divide.
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- Ralf Reski
- Plant Biotechnology, Freiburg University, Schänzlestr. 1, D-79104, Freiburg, Germany.
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Tounou E, Takio S, Sakai A, Ono K, Takano H. Ampicillin Inhibits Chloroplast Division in Cultured Cells of the Liverwort Marchantia polymorpha. CYTOLOGIA 2002. [DOI: 10.1508/cytologia.67.429] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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- Center for Marine Environment Studies, Kumamoto University
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- Department of Biological Science, Faculty of Science, Nara Women’s University
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- Department of Biological Science, Faculty of Science, Kumamoto University
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