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Figon F, Hurbain I, Heiligenstein X, Trépout S, Lanoue A, Medjoubi K, Somogyi A, Delevoye C, Raposo G, Casas J. Catabolism of lysosome-related organelles in color-changing spiders supports intracellular turnover of pigments. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2021; 118:e2103020118. [PMID: 34433668 PMCID: PMC8536372 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2103020118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Pigment organelles of vertebrates belong to the lysosome-related organelle (LRO) family, of which melanin-producing melanosomes are the prototypes. While their anabolism has been extensively unraveled through the study of melanosomes in skin melanocytes, their catabolism remains poorly known. Here, we tap into the unique ability of crab spiders to reversibly change body coloration to examine the catabolism of their pigment organelles. By combining ultrastructural and metal analyses on high-pressure frozen integuments, we first assess whether pigment organelles of crab spiders belong to the LRO family and second, how their catabolism is intracellularly processed. Using scanning transmission electron microscopy, electron tomography, and nanoscale Synchrotron-based scanning X-ray fluorescence, we show that pigment organelles possess ultrastructural and chemical hallmarks of LROs, including intraluminal vesicles and metal deposits, similar to melanosomes. Monitoring ultrastructural changes during bleaching suggests that the catabolism of pigment organelles involves the degradation and removal of their intraluminal content, possibly through lysosomal mechanisms. In contrast to skin melanosomes, anabolism and catabolism of pigments proceed within the same cell without requiring either cell death or secretion/phagocytosis. Our work hence provides support for the hypothesis that the endolysosomal system is fully functionalized for within-cell turnover of pigments, leading to functional maintenance under adverse conditions and phenotypic plasticity. First formulated for eye melanosomes in the context of human vision, the hypothesis of intracellular turnover of pigments gets unprecedented strong support from pigment organelles of spiders.
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- Florent Figon
- Institut de Recherche sur la Biologie de l'Insecte, CNRS UMR 7261, Université de Tours, 37200 Tours, France;
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- Institut Curie, CNRS UMR 144, Structure and Membrane Compartments, Paris Sciences & Lettres (PSL) Research University, 75005 Paris, France
- Institut Curie, CNRS UMR 144, Cell and Tissue Imaging Facility (Plateforme d'Imagerie Cellulaire et Tissulaire, Infrastructures en Biologie, Santé et Agronomie [PICT-IBiSA]), PSL Research University, 75005 Paris, France
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- Institut Curie, INSERM U1196, CNRS UMR 9187, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Biomolécules et Biotechnologies Végétales, Équipe d'Accueil 2106, Université de Tours, 37200 Tours, France
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- Institut Curie, CNRS UMR 144, Structure and Membrane Compartments, Paris Sciences & Lettres (PSL) Research University, 75005 Paris, France
- Institut Curie, CNRS UMR 144, Cell and Tissue Imaging Facility (Plateforme d'Imagerie Cellulaire et Tissulaire, Infrastructures en Biologie, Santé et Agronomie [PICT-IBiSA]), PSL Research University, 75005 Paris, France
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- Institut Curie, CNRS UMR 144, Structure and Membrane Compartments, Paris Sciences & Lettres (PSL) Research University, 75005 Paris, France
- Institut Curie, CNRS UMR 144, Cell and Tissue Imaging Facility (Plateforme d'Imagerie Cellulaire et Tissulaire, Infrastructures en Biologie, Santé et Agronomie [PICT-IBiSA]), PSL Research University, 75005 Paris, France
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- Institut de Recherche sur la Biologie de l'Insecte, CNRS UMR 7261, Université de Tours, 37200 Tours, France;
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Kimler VA, Taylor JD. Morphological studies on the mechanisms of pigmentary organelle transport in fish xanthophores and melanophores. Microsc Res Tech 2002; 58:470-80. [PMID: 12242704 DOI: 10.1002/jemt.10165] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Pigmentary organelle translocations within fish chromatophores undergo physiological color changes when exposed to external signals. Chromatophores can be isolated in high yields, and their pigmentary organelles can be tracked readily by microscopy. The combined efforts of morphology and biomolecular chemistry have led to the identification of and determination of the interrelationships between cytoskeletal elements and accessory proteins, motor molecules, cytomatrix, and pigmentary organelles of various sizes. Fish chromatophores have been classified as fast, intermediate, and slow translocators, based on the relative numbers of microtubules. Studies on cultured goldfish (Carassius auratus L.) xanthophores for over 20 years have demonstrated that in this slow translocator, tubulovesicular structures of the smooth endoplasmic reticular (SER) cisternae are involved in the disperson and aggregation of associated carotenoid droplets (CD) with some involvement of cytoskeletal elements. Killifish (Fundulus heteroclitus L.) melanophore, a fast translocator, was also examined. Recent work demonstrates a bright fluorescent "starburst"-like spot that we call an actin filament-organizing center (AFOC) with radiating microfilaments, akin to the microtubule-organizing center (MTOC) with radiating microtubules. Melanosomes translocate single-file on microtubules and are not associated with SER cisternae. Slower CD dispersion or aggregation in goldfish xanthophores seems to be predominantly microfilament-based transport, or microfilament- and microtubule-based transport, respectively. Faster melanosome translocations in killifish melanophores are based on microtubules, with our evidence indicating microfilament involvement. Neural crest-derived chromatophores are models for vesicular transport in axons, and immunocytochemical and imaging technologies may help to elucidate the cellular transport mechanisms.
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- Victoria A Kimler
- Department of Basic Clinical Sciences, University of Detroit Mercy, Michigan 48219, USA.
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Meyer-Rochow VB, Royuela M. Calponin, caldesmon, and chromatophores: The smooth muscle connection. Microsc Res Tech 2002; 58:504-13. [PMID: 12242708 DOI: 10.1002/jemt.10169] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Observations on pigment translocations in fish chromatophores and speculations on the chemo-mechanical transduction processes responsible for the recorded chromatosome motilities are briefly reviewed. The presence of the two smooth muscle proteins caldesmon and calponin is confirmed by immunocytochemistry for melanophores and iridophores of the Antarctic fishes Pagothenia borchgrevinki and Trematomus bernacchii. Troponin, a typical vertebrate skeletal muscle protein is absent from the chromatophores of the two fish species. It is suggested that calponin's role, in the presence of Ca(2+) and calmodulin, is that of a modulator and that caldesmon, a molecule that competes with calponin for actin binding sites, is in a position in which it can switch on and off Ca(2+)-dependent contractility and relaxation. Freshly caught Antarctic fish are receiving conflicting signals, when hauled from the dark under-ice to the bright above-ice environment (nor-adrenaline secretion promoting aggregation, but exposure to bright light bringing on pigment dispersion); it is in such situations that the two proteins in question could play important roles. The precise nature of their involvement still needs to be worked out, but the fact that they do exist in the chromatophores at all, appears to have an ontogenetic background.
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Rubina KA, Gulak PV, Smirnova EA, Starodubov SM, Onishchenko GE. Identification of microtubule-organizing centers in interphase melanophores of Xenopus laevis larvae in vivo. PIGMENT CELL RESEARCH 1999; 12:295-310. [PMID: 10541039 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0749.1999.tb00763.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The morphological characteristics of microtubule-organizing centers (MTOCs) in dermal interphase melanophores of Xenopus laevis larvae in vivo at 51-53 stages of development has been studied using immunostained semi-thick sections by fluorescent microscopy combined with computer image analysis. Computer image analysis of melanophores with aggregated and dispersed pigment granules, stained with the antibodies against the centrosome-specific component (CTR210) and tubulin, has revealed the presence of one main focus of microtubule convergence in the cell body, which coincides with the localization of the centrosome-specific antigen. An electron microscopy of those melanophores has shown that aggregation or dispersion of melanosomes is accompanied by changes in the morphological arrangement of the MTOC/centrosome. The centrosome in melanophores with dispersed pigment exhibits a conventional organization, and their melanosomes are situated in an immediate vicinity of the centrioles. In melanophores with aggregated pigment, MTOC is characterized by a three-zonal organization: the centrosome with centrioles, the centrosphere, and an outlying radial arrangement of microtubules and their associated inclusions. The centrosome in interphase melanophores is presumed to contain a pair of centrioles or numerous centrioles. Because of an inability of detecting additional MTOCs, it has been considered that an active MTOC in interphase melanophores of X. laevis is the centrosome. We assume that remaining intact microtubules in the cytoplasmic processes of mitotic melanophores (Rubina et al., 1999) derive either from the aster or the centrosome active at the interphase.
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- K A Rubina
- Department of Cytology and Histology, Moscow State University, Russia.
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Rubina KA, Starodubov SM, Nikeryasova EN, Onishchenko GE. Microtubule-organizing centers in the mitotic melanophores of Xenopus laevis larvae in vivo: ultrastructural study. PIGMENT CELL RESEARCH 1999; 12:98-106. [PMID: 10231197 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0749.1999.tb00749.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Mitotic melanophores of Xenopus laevis larvae at 51-53 stages of development were morphologically studied using light and electron microscopy, with special reference to their microtubule-organizing centers. These melanophores represented a highly branched cell shape in mitosis, each cell process is distributed with melanosomes without exhibiting any responsiveness to hormonal (melatonin) stimulation, and upon completion of mitosis, recovered the ability to translocate these granules in response to such a stimulus. At the metaphase, these cells contained bipolar or multipolar spindles, whose poles were composed of three zones: the centrosome with centrioles; the centrosphere; and an outlying radial arrangement of microtubules and their associated inclusions. In these mitotic melanophores, a number of microtubules are distributed within the radially stretching cell processes, whereas an abundance of microtubules reside in the spindles. Possible origins of the microtubules observed in these cytoplasmic processes are discussed in relation to the loss of the ability of pigment translocation during mitosis.
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- K A Rubina
- Department of Cytology and Histology, Moscow State University, Russia.
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Ichikawa Y, Ohtani H, Miura I. The erythrophore in the larval and adult dorsal skin of the brown frog, Rana ornativentris: its differentiation, migration, and pigmentary organelle formation. PIGMENT CELL RESEARCH 1998; 11:345-54. [PMID: 9870546 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0749.1998.tb00493.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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To determine whether or not the erythrophore originates from xanthophores in the dorsal skin of the brown frog, Rana ornativentris, we morphologically examined the differentiation and migration of the two chromatophore types and their pigmentary organelle formation. At an early tadpole stage, three kinds of chromatophores, xanthophores, iridophores, and melanophores, appeared in the subdermis, whereas the erythrophore did so just before the foreleg protrusion stage. By the middle of metamorphosis, most chromatophores other than erythrophores had migrated to the subepidermal space. Erythrophores, which appeared late in the subdermis, proliferated actively there during metamorphosis and finished moving into the subepidermal space by the completion of metamorphosis. Carotenoid vesicles and pterinosomes within the erythrophores and xanthophores showed several significant differences in structure. In xanthophores, carotenoid vesicles were abundant throughout life, whereas those in erythrophores decreased in number with the growth of the frogs. The fibrous materials contained in the pterinosomes were initially scattered but soon formed a concentric lamellar structure. In erythrophores, the lamellar structure began to form at the periphery of the organelles but at the center in xanthophores. In addition, the pterinosomes of erythrophores were uniform in size throughout development, while those of xanthophores showed a tendency to become smaller after metamorphosis. The pterinosomes of xanthophores were significantly larger than those of erythrophores. These findings suggest that an erythrophore is not a transformed xanthophore, although they resemble each other closely in many respects.
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- Y Ichikawa
- Department of Health Science, Faculty of Human Life and Environment Science, Hiroshima Women's University, Japan.
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