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He J, Huang Y, Li L, Lin S, Ma M, Wang Y, Lin S. Novel Plastid Genome Characteristics in Fugacium kawagutii and the Trend of Accelerated Evolution of Plastid Proteins in Dinoflagellates. Genome Biol Evol 2024; 16:evad237. [PMID: 38155596 PMCID: PMC10781511 DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evad237] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2023] [Revised: 12/19/2023] [Accepted: 12/22/2023] [Indexed: 12/30/2023] Open
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Typical (peridinin-containing) dinoflagellates possess plastid genomes composed of small plasmids named "minicircles". Despite the ecological importance of dinoflagellate photosynthesis in corals and marine ecosystems, the structural characteristics, replication dynamics, and evolutionary forcing of dinoflagellate plastid genomes remain poorly understood. Here, we sequenced the plastid genome of the symbiodiniacean species Fugacium kawagutii and conducted comparative analyses. We identified psbT-coding minicircles, features previously not found in Symbiodiniaceae. The copy number of F. kawagutii minicircles showed a strong diel dynamics, changing between 3.89 and 34.3 copies/cell and peaking in mid-light period. We found that F. kawagutii minicircles are the shortest among all dinoflagellates examined to date. Besides, the core regions of the minicircles are highly conserved within genus in Symbiodiniaceae. Furthermore, the codon usage bias of the plastid genomes in Heterocapsaceae, Amphidiniaceae, and Prorocentraceae species are greatly influenced by selection pressure, and in Pyrocystaceae, Symbiodiniaceae, Peridiniaceae, and Ceratiaceae species are influenced by both natural selection pressure and mutation pressure, indicating a family-level distinction in codon usage evolution in dinoflagellates. Phylogenetic analysis using 12 plastid-encoded proteins and five nucleus-encoded plastid proteins revealed accelerated evolution trend of both plastid- and nucleus-encoded plastid proteins in peridinin- and fucoxanthin-dinoflagellate plastids compared to plastid proteins of nondinoflagellate algae. These findings shed new light on the structure and evolution of plastid genomes in dinoflagellates, which will facilitate further studies on the evolutionary forcing and function of the diverse dinoflagellate plastids. The accelerated evolution documented here suggests plastid-encoded sequences are potentially useful for resolving closely related dinoflagellates.
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- Jiamin He
- State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, College of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361102, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, College of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361102, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, College of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361102, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, College of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361102, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, College of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361102, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, College of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361102, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, College of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361102, China
- Department of Marine Sciences, University of Connecticut, Groton, CT 06340, USA
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Zackova Suchanova J, Bilcke G, Romanowska B, Fatlawi A, Pippel M, Skeffington A, Schroeder M, Vyverman W, Vandepoele K, Kröger N, Poulsen N. Diatom adhesive trail proteins acquired by horizontal gene transfer from bacteria serve as primers for marine biofilm formation. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2023; 240:770-783. [PMID: 37548082 DOI: 10.1111/nph.19145] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2023] [Accepted: 07/02/2023] [Indexed: 08/08/2023]
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Biofilm-forming benthic diatoms are key primary producers in coastal habitats, where they frequently dominate sunlit intertidal substrata. The development of gliding motility in raphid diatoms was a key molecular adaptation that contributed to their evolutionary success. However, the structure-function correlation between diatom adhesives utilized for gliding and their relationship to the extracellular matrix that constitutes the diatom biofilm is unknown. Here, we have used proteomics, immunolocalization, comparative genomics, phylogenetics and structural homology analysis to investigate the evolutionary history and function of diatom adhesive proteins. Our study identified eight proteins from the adhesive trails of Craspedostauros australis, of which four form a new protein family called Trailins that contain an enigmatic Choice-of-Anchor A (CAA) domain, which was acquired through horizontal gene transfer from bacteria. Notably, the CAA-domain shares a striking structural similarity with one of the most widespread domains found in ice-binding proteins (IPR021884). Our work offers new insights into the molecular basis for diatom biofilm formation, shedding light on the function and evolution of diatom adhesive proteins. This discovery suggests that there is a transition in the composition of biomolecules required for initial surface colonization and those utilized for 3D biofilm matrix formation.
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- Jirina Zackova Suchanova
- B CUBE Center for Molecular Bioengineering, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, 01307, Germany
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- Department of Biology, Protistology and Aquatic Ecology, Ghent University, Ghent, 9000, Belgium
- Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Technologiepark 71, Ghent, 9052, Belgium
- VIB Center for Plant Systems Biology, Technologiepark 71, Ghent, 9052, Belgium
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- B CUBE Center for Molecular Bioengineering, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, 01307, Germany
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- Biotechnology Center (BIOTEC), Technische Universität Dresden, Tatzberg 47-49, Dresden, 01307, Germany
- Centre for Scalable Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence (ScaDS.AI), Chemnitzer Str. 46b, Dresden, 01187, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Germany Center for Systems Biology, Pfotenhauerstraße 108, Dresden, 01307, Germany
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- Biological and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA, UK
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- Biotechnology Center (BIOTEC), Technische Universität Dresden, Tatzberg 47-49, Dresden, 01307, Germany
- Centre for Scalable Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence (ScaDS.AI), Chemnitzer Str. 46b, Dresden, 01187, Germany
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- Department of Biology, Protistology and Aquatic Ecology, Ghent University, Ghent, 9000, Belgium
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- Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Technologiepark 71, Ghent, 9052, Belgium
- VIB Center for Plant Systems Biology, Technologiepark 71, Ghent, 9052, Belgium
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- B CUBE Center for Molecular Bioengineering, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, 01307, Germany
- Cluster of Excellence Physics of Life, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, 01062, Germany
- Faculty of Chemistry and Food Chemistry, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, 01062, Germany
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- B CUBE Center for Molecular Bioengineering, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, 01307, Germany
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Kim JI, Jo BY, Park MG, Yoo YD, Shin W, Archibald JM. Evolutionary Dynamics and Lateral Gene Transfer in Raphidophyceae Plastid Genomes. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2022; 13:896138. [PMID: 35769291 PMCID: PMC9235467 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.896138] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2022] [Accepted: 05/09/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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The Raphidophyceae is an ecologically important eukaryotic lineage of primary producers and predators that inhabit marine and freshwater environments worldwide. These organisms are of great evolutionary interest because their plastids are the product of eukaryote-eukaryote endosymbiosis. To obtain deeper insight into the evolutionary history of raphidophycean plastids, we sequenced and analyzed the plastid genomes of three freshwater and three marine species. Our comparison of these genomes, together with the previously reported plastid genome of Heterosigma akashiwo, revealed unexpected variability in genome structure. Unlike the genomes of other analyzed species, the plastid genome of Gonyostomum semen was found to contain only a single rRNA operon, presumably due to the loss of genes from the inverted repeat (IR) region found in most plastid genomes. In contrast, the marine species Fibrocapsa japonica contains the largest IR region and overall plastid genome for any raphidophyte examined thus far, mainly due to the presence of four large gene-poor regions and foreign DNA. Two plastid genes, tyrC in F. japonica and He. akashiwo and serC in F. japonica, appear to have arisen via lateral gene transfer (LGT) from diatoms, and several raphidophyte open reading frames are demonstrably homologous to sequences in diatom plasmids and plastid genomes. A group II intron in the F. japonica psbB gene also appears to be derived by LGT. Our results provide important insights into the evolutionary history of raphidophyte plastid genomes via LGT from the plastids and plasmid DNAs of diatoms.
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- Jong Im Kim
- Department of Biology, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, South Korea
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- Nakdonggang National Institute of Biological Resources, Sangju, South Korea
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- LOHABE, Department of Oceanography, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, South Korea
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- Department of Marine Biology, College of Ocean Sciences and Technology, Kunsan National University, Kunsan, South Korea
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- Department of Biology, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, South Korea
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
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Solak CN, Gastineau R, Lemieux C, Turmel M, Gorecka E, Trobajo R, Rybak M, Yılmaz E, Witkowski A. Nitzschia anatoliensis sp. nov., a cryptic diatom species from the highly alkaline Van Lake (Turkey). PeerJ 2021; 9:e12220. [PMID: 34733585 PMCID: PMC8544256 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.12220] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2020] [Accepted: 09/06/2021] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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In this article we describe Nitzschia anatoliensis Górecka, Gastineau & Solak sp. nov., an example of a diatom species inhabiting extreme habitats. The new species has been isolated and successfully grown from the highly alkaline Van Lake in East Turkey. The description is based on morphology (light and scanning electron microscopy), the sequencing of its organellar genomes and several molecular phylogenies. This species could easily be overlooked because of its extreme similarity to Nitzschia aurariae but molecular phylogenies indicate that they are only distantly related. Furthermore, molecular data suggest that N. anatoliensis may occur in several alkaline lakes of Asia Minor and Siberia, but was previously misidentified as Nitzschia communis. It also revealed the very close genetic proximity between N. anatoliensis and the endosymbiont of the dinotom Kryptoperidinium foliaceum, providing additional clues on what might have been the original species of diatoms to enter symbiosis.
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- Cüneyt Nadir Solak
- Department of Biology, Arts and Science Faculty, Dumlupınar University, Kütahya, Turkey
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- Institute of Marine and Environmental Sciences, University of Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland
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- Département de biochimie, de microbiologie et de bio-informatique, Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes, Université Laval, Québec, Québec, Canada
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- Département de biochimie, de microbiologie et de bio-informatique, Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes, Université Laval, Québec, Québec, Canada
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- Institute of Marine and Environmental Sciences, University of Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland
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- Marine and Continental Waters Program, IRTA-Institute of Agriculture and Food Research and Technology, Sant Carles de la Ràpita, Catalonia, Spain
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- Department of Agroecology and Forest Utilization, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Land Management and Environmental Protection, University of Rzeszów, Rzeszów, Poland
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- Department of Biology, Arts and Science Faculty, Dumlupınar University, Kütahya, Turkey.,Institute of Marine and Environmental Sciences, University of Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland
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- Institute of Marine and Environmental Sciences, University of Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland
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Gastineau R, Hansen G, Poulin M, Lemieux C, Turmel M, Bardeau JF, Leignel V, Hardivillier Y, Morançais M, Fleurence J, Gaudin P, Méléder V, Cox EJ, Davidovich NA, Davidovich OI, Witkowski A, Kaczmarska I, Ehrman JM, Soler Onís E, Quintana AM, Mucko M, Mordret S, Sarno D, Jacquette B, Falaise C, Séveno J, Lindquist NL, Kemp PS, Eker-Develi E, Konucu M, Mouget JL. Haslea silbo, A Novel Cosmopolitan Species of Blue Diatoms. BIOLOGY 2021; 10:biology10040328. [PMID: 33919887 PMCID: PMC8070900 DOI: 10.3390/biology10040328] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2021] [Revised: 04/09/2021] [Accepted: 04/10/2021] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Specimens of a new species of blue diatoms from the genus Haslea Simonsen were discovered in geographically distant sampling sites, first in the Canary Archipelago, then North Carolina, Gulf of Naples, the Croatian South Adriatic Sea, and Turkish coast of the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. An exhaustive characterization of these specimens, using a combined morphological and genomic approach led to the conclusion that they belong to a single new to science cosmopolitan species, Haslea silbo sp. nov. A preliminary characterization of its blue pigment shows similarities to marennine produced by Haslea ostrearia, as evidenced by UV-visible spectrophotometry and Raman spectrometry. Life cycle stages including auxosporulation were also observed, providing data on the cardinal points of this species. For the two most geographically distant populations (North Carolina and East Mediterranean), complete mitochondrial and plastid genomes were sequenced. The mitogenomes of both strains share a rare atp6 pseudogene, but the number, nature, and positions of the group II introns inside its cox1 gene differ between the two populations. There are also two pairs of genes fused in single ORFs. The plastid genomes are characterized by large regions of recombination with plasmid DNA, which are in both cases located between the ycf35 and psbA genes, but whose content differs between the strains. The two sequenced strains hosts three plasmids coding for putative serine recombinase protein whose sequences are compared, and four out of six of these plasmids were highly conserved.
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- Romain Gastineau
- Institute of Marine and Environmental Sciences, University of Szczecin, Mickiewicza 16a, 70-383 Szczecin, Poland; (N.A.D.); (A.W.)
- Correspondence:
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- Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 4, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark;
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- Research and Collections, Canadian Museum of Nature, P.O. Box 3443, Station D, Ottawa, ON K1P 6P4, Canada;
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- Département de biochimie, de microbiologie et de Bio-Informatique, Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes, Université Laval, Québec, QC G1V 0A6, Canada; (C.L.); (M.T.)
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- Département de biochimie, de microbiologie et de Bio-Informatique, Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes, Université Laval, Québec, QC G1V 0A6, Canada; (C.L.); (M.T.)
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- Institut des Molécules et Matériaux du Mans (IMMM UMR 6283), Le Mans Université, Avenue Olivier Messiaen, CEDEX 9, 72085 Le Mans, France; (J.-F.B.); (B.J.)
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- FR CNRS 3473 IUML, Mer-Molécules-Santé (MMS, EA 2160), Le Mans Université, Avenue Olivier Messiaen, CEDEX 9, 72085 Le Mans, France; (V.L.); (Y.H.); (C.F.); (J.S.); (J.-L.M.)
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- FR CNRS 3473 IUML, Mer-Molécules-Santé (MMS, EA 2160), Le Mans Université, Avenue Olivier Messiaen, CEDEX 9, 72085 Le Mans, France; (V.L.); (Y.H.); (C.F.); (J.S.); (J.-L.M.)
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- FR CNRS 3473 IUML, Mer-Molécules-Santé (MMS, EA 2160), Université de Nantes, 2 rue de la Houssinière, CEDEX 3, 44322 Nantes, France; (M.M.); (J.F.); (V.M.)
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- FR CNRS 3473 IUML, Mer-Molécules-Santé (MMS, EA 2160), Université de Nantes, 2 rue de la Houssinière, CEDEX 3, 44322 Nantes, France; (M.M.); (J.F.); (V.M.)
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- UMR 6112 CNRS LPG, Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géosciences, Nantes Université, 2 rue de la Houssinière, CEDEX 3, 44322 Nantes, France;
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- FR CNRS 3473 IUML, Mer-Molécules-Santé (MMS, EA 2160), Université de Nantes, 2 rue de la Houssinière, CEDEX 3, 44322 Nantes, France; (M.M.); (J.F.); (V.M.)
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- The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK;
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- Institute of Marine and Environmental Sciences, University of Szczecin, Mickiewicza 16a, 70-383 Szczecin, Poland; (N.A.D.); (A.W.)
- Karadag Scientific Station–Natural Reserve of the Russian Academy of Sciences, p/o Kurortnoe, Feodosiya, 98188 Crimea, Russia;
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- Karadag Scientific Station–Natural Reserve of the Russian Academy of Sciences, p/o Kurortnoe, Feodosiya, 98188 Crimea, Russia;
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- Institute of Marine and Environmental Sciences, University of Szczecin, Mickiewicza 16a, 70-383 Szczecin, Poland; (N.A.D.); (A.W.)
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- Department of Biology, Mount Allison University, Sackville, NB E4L 1G7, Canada;
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- Digital Microscopy Facility, Mount Allison University, Sackville, NB E4L 1G7, Canada;
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- Observatorio Canario de Algas Nocivas (OCHABs), Parque Científico Tecnólogico Marino de Taliarte (FPCT-ULPGC), c/ Miramar, 121 Taliarte, 35214 Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain;
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- Banco Español de Algas (BEA), Instituto de Oceanografía y Cambio Global (IOCAG), Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC), Muelle de Taliarte s/n, 35214 Telde, Islas Canarias, Spain;
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- Faculty of Science, Biology Department, University of Zagreb, Rooseveltov trg 6, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia;
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- Department of Research Infrastructure for Marine Biological Resources, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, 80121 Naples, Italy; (S.M.); (D.S.)
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- Department of Research Infrastructure for Marine Biological Resources, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, 80121 Naples, Italy; (S.M.); (D.S.)
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- Institut des Molécules et Matériaux du Mans (IMMM UMR 6283), Le Mans Université, Avenue Olivier Messiaen, CEDEX 9, 72085 Le Mans, France; (J.-F.B.); (B.J.)
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- FR CNRS 3473 IUML, Mer-Molécules-Santé (MMS, EA 2160), Le Mans Université, Avenue Olivier Messiaen, CEDEX 9, 72085 Le Mans, France; (V.L.); (Y.H.); (C.F.); (J.S.); (J.-L.M.)
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- FR CNRS 3473 IUML, Mer-Molécules-Santé (MMS, EA 2160), Le Mans Université, Avenue Olivier Messiaen, CEDEX 9, 72085 Le Mans, France; (V.L.); (Y.H.); (C.F.); (J.S.); (J.-L.M.)
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- Institute of Marine Sciences, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Morehead City, NC 28557, USA;
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- Kemp Fisheries LLC, 2333 Shore Drive, Morehead City, NC 28557, USA;
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- Institute of Graduate Studies in Science, Department of Biotechnology, Mersin University, Ciftlikkoy, Mersin 33343, Turkey; (E.E.-D.); (M.K.)
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- Institute of Graduate Studies in Science, Department of Biotechnology, Mersin University, Ciftlikkoy, Mersin 33343, Turkey; (E.E.-D.); (M.K.)
- BW24-Department of Green Chemistry and Technology, Ghent University, Coupure Links 653, B9000 Gent, Belgium
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- FR CNRS 3473 IUML, Mer-Molécules-Santé (MMS, EA 2160), Le Mans Université, Avenue Olivier Messiaen, CEDEX 9, 72085 Le Mans, France; (V.L.); (Y.H.); (C.F.); (J.S.); (J.-L.M.)
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Yamada N, Sakai H, Onuma R, Kroth PG, Horiguchi T. Five Non-motile Dinotom Dinoflagellates of the Genus Dinothrix. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2020; 11:591050. [PMID: 33329655 PMCID: PMC7710806 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2020.591050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2020] [Accepted: 10/21/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Dinothrix paradoxa and Gymnodinium quadrilobatum are benthic dinoflagellates possessing diatom-derived tertiary plastids, so-called dinotoms. Due to the lack of available genetic information, their phylogenetic relationship remains unknown. In this study, sequencing of 18S ribosomal DNA (rDNA) and the rbcL gene from temporary cultures isolated from natural samples revealed that they are close relatives of another dinotom, Galeidinium rugatum. The morphologies of these three dinotoms differ significantly from each other; however, they share a distinctive life cycle, in which the non-motile cells without flagella are their dominant phase. Cell division occurs in this non-motile phase, while swimming cells only appear for several hours after being released from each daughter cell. Furthermore, we succeeded in isolating and establishing two novel dinotom strains, HG180 and HG204, which show a similar life cycle and are phylogenetically closely related to the aforementioned three species. The non-motile cells of strain HG180 are characterized by the possession of a hemispheroidal cell covered with numerous nodes, while those of the strain HG204 form aggregations consisting of spherical smooth-surface cells. Based on the similarity in life cycles and phylogenetic closeness, we conclude that all five species should belong to a single genus, Dinothrix, the oldest genus within this clade. We transferred Ga. rugatum and Gy. quadrilobatum to Dinothrix, and described strains HG180 and HG204 as Dinothrix phymatodea sp. nov. and Dinothrix pseudoparadoxa sp. nov.
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- Norico Yamada
- Department of Natural History Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
- Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
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- Department of Natural History Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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- Department of Natural History Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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- Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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Optimal Growth Temperature and Intergenic Distances in Bacteria, Archaea, and Plastids of Rhodophytic Branch. BIOMED RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2020; 2020:3465380. [PMID: 32025518 PMCID: PMC6991167 DOI: 10.1155/2020/3465380] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2019] [Revised: 10/19/2019] [Accepted: 12/23/2019] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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The lengths of intergenic regions between neighboring genes that are convergent, divergent, or unidirectional were calculated for plastids of the rhodophytic branch and complete archaeal and bacterial genomes. Statistically significant linear relationships between any pair of the medians of these three length types have been revealed in each genomic group. Exponential relationships between the optimal growth temperature and each of the three medians have been revealed as well. The leading coefficients of the regression equations relating all pairs of the medians as well as temperature and any of the medians have the same sign and order of magnitude. The results obtained for plastids, archaea, and bacteria are also similar at the qualitative level. For instance, the medians are always low at high temperatures. At low temperatures, the medians tend to statistically significant greater values and scattering. The original model was used to test our hypothesis that the intergenic distances are optimized in particular to decrease the competition of RNA polymerases within the locus that results in transcribing shortened RNAs. Overall, this points to an effect of temperature for both remote and close genomes.
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Li C, Gastineau R, Turmel M, Witkowski A, Otis C, Car A, Lemieux C. Complete chloroplast genome of the tiny marine diatom Nanofrustulum shiloi (Bacillariophyta) from the Adriatic Sea. MITOCHONDRIAL DNA PART B-RESOURCES 2019; 4:3374-3376. [PMID: 33366000 PMCID: PMC7707228 DOI: 10.1080/23802359.2019.1673245] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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We report the chloroplast genome sequence of Nanofrustulum shiloi, a tiny araphid pennate diatom collected from the Adriatic Sea. The 160,994-bp N. shiloi genome displays a quadripartite structure and its gene repertoire resembles those of other diatom chloroplast genomes. Besides the genes located in the inverted repeat, psbY is duplicated. A gene-poor region in the large single-copy region contains multiple ORFs sharing sequence similarities with plasmids and chloroplast ORFs found in other diatom species. The genome features a single intron, a group II intron in petB. Phylogenomic analysis identified N. shiloi at a basal position within the araphid 2 clade.
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- Chunlian Li
- Ecological Institute, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.,Institute of Marine and Environmental Sciences, University of Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland
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- Institute of Marine and Environmental Sciences, University of Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland
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- Département de biochimie, de microbiologie et de bio-informatique, Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes, Université Laval, Québec, Canada
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- Institute of Marine and Environmental Sciences, University of Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland
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- Département de biochimie, de microbiologie et de bio-informatique, Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes, Université Laval, Québec, Canada
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- Institute for Marine and Coastal Research, University of Dubrovnik, Dubrovnik, Croatia
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- Département de biochimie, de microbiologie et de bio-informatique, Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes, Université Laval, Québec, Canada
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Yamada N, Bolton JJ, Trobajo R, Mann DG, Dąbek P, Witkowski A, Onuma R, Horiguchi T, Kroth PG. Discovery of a kleptoplastic 'dinotom' dinoflagellate and the unique nuclear dynamics of converting kleptoplastids to permanent plastids. Sci Rep 2019; 9:10474. [PMID: 31324824 PMCID: PMC6642167 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-46852-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2019] [Accepted: 07/05/2019] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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A monophyletic group of dinoflagellates, called ‘dinotoms’, are known to possess evolutionarily intermediate plastids derived from diatoms. The diatoms maintain their nuclei, mitochondria, and the endoplasmic reticulum in addition with their plastids, while it has been observed that the host dinoflagellates retain the diatoms permanently by controlling diatom karyokinesis. Previously, we showed that dinotoms have repeatedly replaced their diatoms. Here, we show the process of replacements is at two different evolutionary stages in two closely related dinotoms, Durinskia capensis and D. kwazulunatalensis. We clarify that D. capensis is a kleptoplastic protist keeping its diatoms temporarily, only for two months. On the other hand, D. kwazulunatalensis is able to keep several diatoms permanently and exhibits unique dynamics to maintain the diatom nuclei: the nuclei change their morphologies into a complex string-shape alongside the plastids during interphase and these string-shaped nuclei then condense into multiple round nuclei when the host divides. These dynamics have been observed in other dinotoms that possess permanent diatoms, while they have never been observed in any other eukaryotes. We suggest that the establishment of this unique mechanism might be a critical step for dinotoms to be able to convert kleptoplastids into permanent plastids.
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- Norico Yamada
- Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Baden-Württemberg, 78457, Germany.
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, Western Cape, 7701, South Africa
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- Marine and Continental Waters Program, Institute for Food and Agricultural Research and Technology, Sant Carles de la Ràpita, Catalonia, 43540, Spain
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- Marine and Continental Waters Program, Institute for Food and Agricultural Research and Technology, Sant Carles de la Ràpita, Catalonia, 43540, Spain.,Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, EH5 3LR, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, University of Szczecin, Szczecin, West Pomerania, 70383, Poland
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- Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, University of Szczecin, Szczecin, West Pomerania, 70383, Poland
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- Department of Gene Function and Phenomics, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Sizuoka, 4118540, Japan
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, 0600810, Japan
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- Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Baden-Württemberg, 78457, Germany
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Hamsher SE, Keepers KG, Pogoda CS, Stepanek JG, Kane NC, Kociolek JP. Extensive chloroplast genome rearrangement amongst three closely related Halamphora spp. (Bacillariophyceae), and evidence for rapid evolution as compared to land plants. PLoS One 2019; 14:e0217824. [PMID: 31269054 PMCID: PMC6608930 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0217824] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2018] [Accepted: 05/21/2019] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Diatoms are the most diverse lineage of algae, but the diversity of their chloroplast genomes, particularly within a genus, has not been well documented. Herein, we present three chloroplast genomes from the genus Halamphora (H. americana, H. calidilacuna, and H. coffeaeformis), the first pennate diatom genus to be represented by more than one species. Halamphora chloroplast genomes ranged in size from ~120 to 150 kb, representing a 24% size difference within the genus. Differences in genome size were due to changes in the length of the inverted repeat region, length of intergenic regions, and the variable presence of ORFs that appear to encode as-yet-undescribed proteins. All three species shared a set of 161 core features but differed in the presence of two genes, serC and tyrC of foreign and unknown origin, respectively. A comparison of these data to three previously published chloroplast genomes in the non-pennate genus Cyclotella (Thalassiosirales) revealed that Halamphora has undergone extensive chloroplast genome rearrangement compared to other genera, as well as containing variation within the genus. Finally, a comparison of Halamphora chloroplast genomes to those of land plants indicates diatom chloroplast genomes within this genus may be evolving at least ~4–7 times faster than those of land plants. Studies such as these provide deeper insights into diatom chloroplast evolution and important genetic resources for future analyses.
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- Sarah E. Hamsher
- Department of Biology, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, Michigan, United States of America
- Annis Water Resources Institute, Grand Valley State University, Muskegon, Michigan, United States of America
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America
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- Department of Biology, Colorado Mountain College, Edwards, Colorado, United States of America
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America
- Museum of Natural History, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America
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Crowell RM, Nienow JA, Cahoon AB. The complete chloroplast and mitochondrial genomes of the diatom Nitzschia palea (Bacillariophyceae) demonstrate high sequence similarity to the endosymbiont organelles of the dinotom Durinskia baltica. JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY 2019; 55:352-364. [PMID: 30536677 DOI: 10.1111/jpy.12824] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2018] [Accepted: 11/07/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Nitzschia palea is a common freshwater diatom used as a bioindicator because of its tolerance of polluted waterways. There is also evidence it may be the tertiary endosymbiont within the "dinotom" dinoflagellate Durinskia baltica. A putative strain of N. palea was collected from a pond on the University of Virginia's College at Wise campus and cultured. For initial identification, three markers were sequenced-nuclear 18S rDNA, the chloroplast 23S rDNA, and rbcL. Morphological characteristics were determined using light and scanning electron microscopy; based on these observations the cells were identified as N. palea and named strain "Wise." DNA from N. palea was deep sequenced and the chloroplast and mitochondrial genomes assembled. Single gene phylogenies grouped N. palea-Wise within a clearly defined N. palea clade and showed it was most closely related to the strain "SpainA3." The chloroplast genome of N. palea is 119,447 bp with a quadripartite structure, 135 protein-coding, 28 tRNA, and 3 rRNA genes. The mitochondrial genome is 37,754 bp with a single repeat region as found in other diatom chondriomes, 37 protein-coding, 23 tRNA, and 2 rRNA genes. The chloroplast genomes of N. palea and D. baltica have identical gene content, synteny, and a 92.7% pair-wise sequence similarity with most differences occurring in intergenic regions. The N. palea mitochondrial genome and D. baltica's endosymbiont mitochondrial genome also have identical gene content and order with a sequence similarity of 90.7%. Genome-based phylogenies demonstrated that D. baltica is more similar to N. palea than any other diatom sequence currently available. These data provide the genome sequences of two organelles for a widespread diatom and show they are very similar to those of Durinskia baltica's endosymbiont.
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- Roseanna M Crowell
- Department of Natural Sciences, University of Virginia's College at Wise, Wise, Virginia, 24293, USA
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- Department of Biology, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, Georgia, 31698, USA
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- Department of Natural Sciences, University of Virginia's College at Wise, Wise, Virginia, 24293, USA
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Kim JI, Shin H, Škaloud P, Jung J, Yoon HS, Archibald JM, Shin W. Comparative plastid genomics of Synurophyceae: inverted repeat dynamics and gene content variation. BMC Evol Biol 2019; 19:20. [PMID: 30634905 PMCID: PMC6330437 DOI: 10.1186/s12862-018-1316-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2018] [Accepted: 12/04/2018] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The Synurophyceae is one of most important photosynthetic stramenopile algal lineages in freshwater ecosystems. They are characterized by siliceous scales covering the cell or colony surface and possess plastids of red-algal secondary or tertiary endosymbiotic origin. Despite their ecological and evolutionary significance, the relationships amongst extant Synurophyceae are unclear, as is their relationship to most other stramenopiles. RESULTS Here we report a comparative analysis of plastid genomes sequenced from five representative synurophycean algae. Most of these plastid genomes are highly conserved with respect to genome structure and coding capacity, with the exception of gene re-arrangements and partial duplications at the boundary of the inverted repeat and single-copy regions. Several lineage-specific gene loss/gain events and intron insertions were detected (e.g., cemA, dnaB, syfB, and trnL). CONCLUSIONS Unexpectedly, the cemA gene of Synurophyceae shows a strong relationship with sequences from members of the green-algal lineage, suggesting the occurrence of a lateral gene transfer event. Using a molecular clock approach based on silica fossil record data, we infer the timing of genome re-arrangement and gene gain/loss events in the plastid genomes of Synurophyceae.
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- Jong Im Kim
- Department of Biology, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, 34134, South Korea
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- Department of Biology, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, 34134, South Korea
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- Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Benátská 2, CZ-12800, Prague 2, Czech Republic
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- Department of General Education, Hongik University, Seoul, 04066, South Korea
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, 16419, South Korea
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 4R2, Canada.
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- Department of Biology, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, 34134, South Korea.
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Figueroa-Martinez F, Jackson C, Reyes-Prieto A. Plastid Genomes from Diverse Glaucophyte Genera Reveal a Largely Conserved Gene Content and Limited Architectural Diversity. Genome Biol Evol 2019; 11:174-188. [PMID: 30534986 PMCID: PMC6330054 DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evy268] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 12/10/2018] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Plastid genome (ptDNA) data of Glaucophyta have been limited for many years to the genus Cyanophora. Here, we sequenced the ptDNAs of Gloeochaete wittrockiana, Cyanoptyche gloeocystis, Glaucocystis incrassata, and Glaucocystis sp. BBH. The reported sequences are the first genome-scale plastid data available for these three poorly studied glaucophyte genera. Although the Glaucophyta plastids appear morphologically “ancestral,” they actually bear derived genomes not radically different from those of red algae or viridiplants. The glaucophyte plastid coding capacity is highly conserved (112 genes shared) and the architecture of the plastid chromosomes is relatively simple. Phylogenomic analyses recovered Glaucophyta as the earliest diverging Archaeplastida lineage, but the position of viridiplants as the first branching group was not rejected by the approximately unbiased test. Pairwise distances estimated from 19 different plastid genes revealed that the highest sequence divergence between glaucophyte genera is frequently higher than distances between species of different classes within red algae or viridiplants. Gene synteny and sequence similarity in the ptDNAs of the two Glaucocystis species analyzed is conserved. However, the ptDNA of Gla. incrassata contains a 7.9-kb insertion not detected in Glaucocystis sp. BBH. The insertion contains ten open reading frames that include four coding regions similar to bacterial serine recombinases (two open reading frames), DNA primases, and peptidoglycan aminohydrolases. These three enzymes, often encoded in bacterial plasmids and bacteriophage genomes, are known to participate in the mobilization and replication of DNA mobile elements. It is therefore plausible that the insertion in Gla. incrassata ptDNA is derived from a DNA mobile element.
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- Francisco Figueroa-Martinez
- Department of Biology, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada.,CONACyT-Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Iztapalapa, Biotechnology Department, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Department of Biology, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada.,School of Biosciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
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- Department of Biology, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
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Klinger CM, Paoli L, Newby RJ, Wang MYW, Carroll HD, Leblond JD, Howe CJ, Dacks JB, Bowler C, Cahoon AB, Dorrell RG, Richardson E. Plastid Transcript Editing across Dinoflagellate Lineages Shows Lineage-Specific Application but Conserved Trends. Genome Biol Evol 2018; 10:1019-1038. [PMID: 29617800 PMCID: PMC5888634 DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evy057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 03/09/2018] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Dinoflagellates are a group of unicellular protists with immense ecological and evolutionary significance and cell biological diversity. Of the photosynthetic dinoflagellates, the majority possess a plastid containing the pigment peridinin, whereas some lineages have replaced this plastid by serial endosymbiosis with plastids of distinct evolutionary affiliations, including a fucoxanthin pigment-containing plastid of haptophyte origin. Previous studies have described the presence of widespread substitutional RNA editing in peridinin and fucoxanthin plastid genes. Because reports of this process have been limited to manual assessment of individual lineages, global trends concerning this RNA editing and its effect on the biological function of the plastid are largely unknown. Using novel bioinformatic methods, we examine the dynamics and evolution of RNA editing over a large multispecies data set of dinoflagellates, including novel sequence data from the peridinin dinoflagellate Pyrocystis lunula and the fucoxanthin dinoflagellate Karenia mikimotoi. We demonstrate that while most individual RNA editing events in dinoflagellate plastids are restricted to single species, global patterns, and functional consequences of editing are broadly conserved. We find that editing is biased toward specific codon positions and regions of genes, and generally corrects otherwise deleterious changes in the genome prior to translation, though this effect is more prevalent in peridinin than fucoxanthin lineages. Our results support a model for promiscuous editing application subsequently shaped by purifying selection, and suggest the presence of an underlying editing mechanism transferred from the peridinin-containing ancestor into fucoxanthin plastids postendosymbiosis, with remarkably conserved functional consequences in the new lineage.
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- Christen M Klinger
- Department of Cell Biology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Cell Biology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.,Institut de Biologie de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure (IBENS), Ecole Normale Supérieure, CNRS, INSERM, PSL Research University, Paris, France
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- Department of Biology, Middle Tennessee State University
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- Center for Computational Science and Department of Computer Science, Columbus State University, Columbus, GA 31907
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- Center for Computational Science and Department of Computer Science, Columbus State University, Columbus, GA 31907
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- Department of Cell Biology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Institut de Biologie de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure (IBENS), Ecole Normale Supérieure, CNRS, INSERM, PSL Research University, Paris, France
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- Department of Natural Sciences, The University of Virginia's College at Wise
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- Institut de Biologie de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure (IBENS), Ecole Normale Supérieure, CNRS, INSERM, PSL Research University, Paris, France
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Kamikawa R, Azuma T, Ishii KI, Matsuno Y, Miyashita H. Diversity of Organellar Genomes in Non-photosynthetic Diatoms. Protist 2018; 169:351-361. [PMID: 29803116 DOI: 10.1016/j.protis.2018.04.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2018] [Revised: 04/17/2018] [Accepted: 04/19/2018] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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We determined the complete sequences of the plastid and mitochondrial genomes of three non-photosynthetic Nitzschia spp., as well as those of a photosynthetic close relative, Nitzschia palea. All the plastid genomes and the three mitochondrial genomes determined were found to be circularly mapping, and the other mitochondrial genomes were predicted to be of a linear form with telomere-like structures at both ends. We found that all the non-photosynthetic plastid genomes are streamlined and lack a common gene set: two RNA genes, and 60 protein-coding genes, most of which are related to photosynthetic functions. Nevertheless, the non-photosynthetic plastid genomes commonly retain ATP synthase complex genes, although atpE is missing in Nitzschia sp. NIES-3581 and three other non-photosynthetic species lack atpF instead of atpE. This observation suggests an evolutionary constraint against the loss of ATP synthase complex genes. All the non-photosynthetic diatom plastid genomes lacked two genes, thiS and thiG, involved in thiamin biosynthesis. Consistent with this gene loss, non-photosynthetic Nitzschia spp. were incapable of thriving in vitamin B1-lacking media. This study clearly demonstrated not only the evolutionary trends of plastid genome reduction but also the linkage between plastid genome reduction and a biological change of nutrient requirements in Nitzschia.
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- Ryoma Kamikawa
- Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Yoshida Nihonmatsu cho, Sakyo ku, Kyoto, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan.
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- Faculty of Integrated Human Studies, Kyoto University, Yoshida Nihonmatsu cho, Sakyo ku, Kyoto, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
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- Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Yoshida Nihonmatsu cho, Sakyo ku, Kyoto, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
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- Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Yoshida Nihonmatsu cho, Sakyo ku, Kyoto, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
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- Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Yoshida Nihonmatsu cho, Sakyo ku, Kyoto, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
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Kretschmann J, Žerdoner Čalasan A, Gottschling M. Molecular phylogenetics of dinophytes harboring diatoms as endosymbionts (Kryptoperidiniaceae, Peridiniales), with evolutionary interpretations and a focus on the identity of Durinskia oculata from Prague. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2018; 118:392-402. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2017.10.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2017] [Revised: 09/27/2017] [Accepted: 10/20/2017] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Absence of co-phylogeny indicates repeated diatom capture in dinophytes hosting a tertiary endosymbiont. ORG DIVERS EVOL 2017. [DOI: 10.1007/s13127-017-0348-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Yamada N, Sym SD, Horiguchi T. Identification of Highly Divergent Diatom-Derived Chloroplasts in Dinoflagellates, Including a Description of Durinskia kwazulunatalensis sp. nov. (Peridiniales, Dinophyceae). Mol Biol Evol 2017; 34:1335-1351. [PMID: 28333196 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msx054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Dinoflagellates are known to possess chloroplasts of multiple origins derived from a red alga, a green alga, haptophytes, or diatoms. The monophyletic "dinotoms" harbor a chloroplast of diatom origin, but their chloroplasts are polyphyletic belonging to one of four genera: Chaetoceros, Cyclotella, Discostella, or Nitzschia. It has been speculated that serial replacement of diatom-derived chloroplasts by other diatoms has caused this diversity of chloroplasts. Although previous work suggested that the endosymbionts of Nitzschia origin might not be monophyletic, this has not been seriously investigated. To infer the number of replacements of diatom-derived chloroplasts in dinotoms, we analyzed the phylogenetic affinities of 14 species of dinotoms based on the endosymbiotic rbcL gene and SSU rDNA, and the host SSU rDNA. Resultant phylogenetic trees revealed that six species of Nitzschia were taken up by eight marine dinoflagellate species. Our phylogenies also indicate that four separate diatom species belonging to three genera were incorporated into the five freshwater dinotoms. Particular attention was paid to two crucially closely related species, Durinskia capensis and a novel species, D. kwazulunatalensis, because they possess distantly related Nitzschia species. This study clarified that any of a total of at least 11 diatom species in five genera are employed as an endosymbiont by 14 dinotoms, which infers a more frequent replacement of endosymbionts in the world of dinotoms than previously envisaged.
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- Norico Yamada
- Department of Natural History Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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- School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Science, University of the Witwatersrand, Wits, South Africa
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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Dorrell RG, Gile G, McCallum G, Méheust R, Bapteste EP, Klinger CM, Brillet-Guéguen L, Freeman KD, Richter DJ, Bowler C. Chimeric origins of ochrophytes and haptophytes revealed through an ancient plastid proteome. eLife 2017; 6. [PMID: 28498102 PMCID: PMC5462543 DOI: 10.7554/elife.23717] [Citation(s) in RCA: 99] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2016] [Accepted: 05/08/2017] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Plastids are supported by a wide range of proteins encoded within the nucleus and imported from the cytoplasm. These plastid-targeted proteins may originate from the endosymbiont, the host, or other sources entirely. Here, we identify and characterise 770 plastid-targeted proteins that are conserved across the ochrophytes, a major group of algae including diatoms, pelagophytes and kelps, that possess plastids derived from red algae. We show that the ancestral ochrophyte plastid proteome was an evolutionary chimera, with 25% of its phylogenetically tractable nucleus-encoded proteins deriving from green algae. We additionally show that functional mixing of host and plastid proteomes, such as through dual-targeting, is an ancestral feature of plastid evolution. Finally, we detect a clear phylogenetic signal from one ochrophyte subgroup, the lineage containing pelagophytes and dictyochophytes, in plastid-targeted proteins from another major algal lineage, the haptophytes. This may represent a possible serial endosymbiosis event deep in eukaryotic evolutionary history. DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.23717.001 The cells of most plants and algae contain compartments called chloroplasts that enable them to capture energy from sunlight in a process known as photosynthesis. Chloroplasts are the remnants of photosynthetic bacteria that used to live freely in the environment until they were consumed by a larger cell. “Complex” chloroplasts can form if a cell that already has a chloroplast is swallowed by another cell. The most abundant algae in the oceans are known as diatoms. These algae belong to a group called the stramenopiles, which also includes giant seaweeds such as kelp. The stramenopiles have a complex chloroplast that they acquired from a red alga (a relative of the seaweed used in sushi). However, some of the proteins in their chloroplasts are from other sources, such as the green algal relatives of plants, and it was not clear how these chloroplast proteins have contributed to the evolution of this group. Many of the proteins that chloroplasts need to work properly are produced by the host cell and are then transported into the chloroplasts. Dorrell et al. studied the genetic material of many stramenopile species and identified 770 chloroplast-targeted proteins that are predicted to underpin the origins of this group. Experiments in a diatom called Phaeodactylum confirmed these predictions and show that many of these chloroplast-targeted proteins have been recruited from green algae, bacteria, and other compartments within the host cell to support the chloroplast. Further experiments suggest that another major group of algae called the haptophytes once had a stramenopile chloroplast. The current haptophyte chloroplast does not come from the stramenopiles so the haptophytes appear to have replaced their chloroplasts at least once in their evolutionary history. The findings show that algal chloroplasts are mosaics, supported by proteins from many different species. This helps us understand why certain species succeed in the wild and how they may respond to environmental changes in the oceans. In the future, these findings may help researchers to engineer new species of algae and plants for food and fuel production. DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.23717.002
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- Richard G Dorrell
- IBENS, Département de Biologie, École Normale Supérieure, CNRS, Inserm, PSL Research University, Paris, France
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- School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, United States
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- IBENS, Département de Biologie, École Normale Supérieure, CNRS, Inserm, PSL Research University, Paris, France
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- Institut de Biologie Paris-Seine, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
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- Institut de Biologie Paris-Seine, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
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- Sorbonne Universités, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, CNRS UMR 7144.,Adaptation et Diversité en Milieu Marin, Équipe EPEP, Station Biologique de Roscoff, Roscoff, France
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- IBENS, Département de Biologie, École Normale Supérieure, CNRS, Inserm, PSL Research University, Paris, France
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Chloroplasts evolved from a cyanobacterial endosymbiont. It is believed that the synchronization of endosymbiotic and host cell division, as is commonly seen in existing algae, was a critical step in establishing the permanent organelle. Algal cells typically contain one or only a small number of chloroplasts that divide once per host cell cycle. This division is based partly on the S-phase-specific expression of nucleus-encoded proteins that constitute the chloroplast-division machinery. In this study, using the red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae, we show that cell-cycle progression is arrested at the prophase when chloroplast division is blocked before the formation of the chloroplast-division machinery by the overexpression of Filamenting temperature-sensitive (Fts) Z2-1 (Fts72-1), but the cell cycle progresses when chloroplast division is blocked during division-site constriction by the overexpression of either FtsZ2-1 or a dominant-negative form of dynamin-related protein 5B (DRP5B). In the cells arrested in the prophase, the increase in the cyclin B level and the migration of cyclin-dependent kinase B (CDKB) were blocked. These results suggest that chloroplast division restricts host cell-cycle progression so that the cell cycle progresses to the metaphase only when chloroplast division has commenced. Thus, chloroplast division and host cell-cycle progression are synchronized by an interactive restriction that takes place between the nucleus and the chloroplast. In addition, we observed a similar pattern of cell-cycle arrest upon the blockage of chloroplast division in the glaucophyte alga Cyanophora paradoxa, raising the possibility that the chloroplast division checkpoint contributed to the establishment of the permanent organelle.
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Rubanov LI, Seliverstov AV, Zverkov OA, Lyubetsky VA. A method for identification of highly conserved elements and evolutionary analysis of superphylum Alveolata. BMC Bioinformatics 2016; 17:385. [PMID: 27645252 PMCID: PMC5028923 DOI: 10.1186/s12859-016-1257-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2016] [Accepted: 09/13/2016] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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Background Perfectly or highly conserved DNA elements were found in vertebrates, invertebrates, and plants by various methods. However, little is known about such elements in protists. The evolutionary distance between apicomplexans can be very high, in particular, due to the positive selection pressure on them. This complicates the identification of highly conserved elements in alveolates, which is overcome by the proposed algorithm. Results A novel algorithm is developed to identify highly conserved DNA elements. It is based on the identification of dense subgraphs in a specially built multipartite graph (whose parts correspond to genomes). Specifically, the algorithm does not rely on genome alignments, nor pre-identified perfectly conserved elements; instead, it performs a fast search for pairs of words (in different genomes) of maximum length with the difference below the specified edit distance. Such pair defines an edge whose weight equals the maximum (or total) length of words assigned to its ends. The graph composed of these edges is then compacted by merging some of its edges and vertices. The dense subgraphs are identified by a cellular automaton-like algorithm; each subgraph defines a cluster composed of similar inextensible words from different genomes. Almost all clusters are considered as predicted highly conserved elements. The algorithm is applied to the nuclear genomes of the superphylum Alveolata, and the corresponding phylogenetic tree is built and discussed. Conclusion We proposed an algorithm for the identification of highly conserved elements. The multitude of identified elements was used to infer the phylogeny of Alveolata. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12859-016-1257-5) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Lev I Rubanov
- Institute for Information Transmission Problems (Kharkevich Institute), Russian Academy of Sciences, Bolshoi Karetnyi per. 19, Building 1, Moscow, 127051, Russia.
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- Institute for Information Transmission Problems (Kharkevich Institute), Russian Academy of Sciences, Bolshoi Karetnyi per. 19, Building 1, Moscow, 127051, Russia
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- Institute for Information Transmission Problems (Kharkevich Institute), Russian Academy of Sciences, Bolshoi Karetnyi per. 19, Building 1, Moscow, 127051, Russia
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- Institute for Information Transmission Problems (Kharkevich Institute), Russian Academy of Sciences, Bolshoi Karetnyi per. 19, Building 1, Moscow, 127051, Russia
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Hehenberger E, Burki F, Kolisko M, Keeling PJ. Functional Relationship between a Dinoflagellate Host and Its Diatom Endosymbiont. Mol Biol Evol 2016; 33:2376-90. [DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msw109] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Du Q, Bi G, Mao Y, Sui Z. The complete chloroplast genome of Gracilariopsis lemaneiformis (Rhodophyta) gives new insight into the evolution of family Gracilariaceae. JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY 2016; 52:441-50. [PMID: 27273536 DOI: 10.1111/jpy.12406] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2015] [Accepted: 01/19/2016] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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The complete chloroplast genome of Gracilariopsis lemaneiformis was recovered from a Next Generation Sequencing data set. Without quadripartite structure, this chloroplast genome (183,013 bp, 27.40% GC content) contains 202 protein-coding genes, 34 tRNA genes, 3 rRNA genes, and 1 tmRNA gene. Synteny analysis showed plasmid incorporation regions in chloroplast genomes of three species of family Gracilariaceae and in Grateloupia taiwanensis of family Halymeniaceae. Combined with reported red algal plasmid sequences in nuclear and mitochondrial genomes, we postulated that red algal plasmids may have played an important role in ancient horizontal gene transfer among nuclear, chloroplast, and mitochondrial genomes. Substitution rate analysis showed that purifying selective forces maintaining stability of protein-coding genes of nine red algal chloroplast genomes over long periods must be strong and that the forces acting on gene groups and single genes of nine red algal chloroplast genomes were similar and consistent. The divergence of Gp. lemaneiformis occurred ~447.98 million years ago (Mya), close to the divergence time of genus Pyropia and Porphyra (443.62 Mya).
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- Qingwei Du
- Key Laboratory of Marine Genetics and Breeding (MOE), College of Marine Life Sciences, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266003, China
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Genetics and Breeding (MOE), College of Marine Life Sciences, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266003, China
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Genetics and Breeding (MOE), College of Marine Life Sciences, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266003, China
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Genetics and Breeding (MOE), College of Marine Life Sciences, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266003, China
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Blank CE, Hinman NW. Cyanobacterial and algal growth on chitin as a source of nitrogen; ecological, evolutionary, and biotechnological implications. ALGAL RES 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.algal.2016.02.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Zverkov OA, Seliverstov AV, Lyubetsky VA. Regulation of Expression and Evolution of Genes in Plastids of Rhodophytic Branch. Life (Basel) 2016; 6:E7. [PMID: 26840333 PMCID: PMC4810238 DOI: 10.3390/life6010007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2015] [Revised: 01/20/2016] [Accepted: 01/25/2016] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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A novel algorithm and original software were used to cluster all proteins encoded in plastids of 72 species of the rhodophytic branch. The results are publicly available at http://lab6.iitp.ru/ppc/redline72/ in a database that allows fast identification of clusters (protein families) both by a fragment of an amino acid sequence and by a phylogenetic profile of a protein. No such integral clustering with the corresponding functions can be found in the public domain. The putative regulons of the transcription factors Ycf28 and Ycf29 encoded in the plastids were identified using the clustering and the database. A regulation of translation initiation was proposed for the ycf24 gene in plastids of certain red algae and apicomplexans as well as a regulation of a putative gene in apicoplasts of Babesia spp. and Theileria parva. The conserved regulation of the ycf24 gene expression and specificity alternation of the transcription factor Ycf28 were shown in the plastids. A phylogenetic tree of plastids was generated for the rhodophytic branch. The hypothesis of the origin of apicoplasts from the common ancestor of all apicomplexans from plastids of red algae was confirmed.
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- Oleg Anatolyevich Zverkov
- Institute for Information Transmission Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Kharkevich Institute), Bolshoy Karetny per. 19, Build. 1, Moscow 127051, Russia.
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- Institute for Information Transmission Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Kharkevich Institute), Bolshoy Karetny per. 19, Build. 1, Moscow 127051, Russia.
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- Institute for Information Transmission Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Kharkevich Institute), Bolshoy Karetny per. 19, Build. 1, Moscow 127051, Russia.
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Lyubetsky V, Gershgorin R, Seliverstov A, Gorbunov K. Algorithms for reconstruction of chromosomal structures. BMC Bioinformatics 2016; 17:40. [PMID: 26780836 PMCID: PMC4717669 DOI: 10.1186/s12859-016-0878-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2015] [Accepted: 01/06/2016] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND One of the main aims of phylogenomics is the reconstruction of objects defined in the leaves along the whole phylogenetic tree to minimize the specified functional, which may also include the phylogenetic tree generation. Such objects can include nucleotide and amino acid sequences, chromosomal structures, etc. The structures can have any set of linear and circular chromosomes, variable gene composition and include any number of paralogs, as well as any weights of individual evolutionary operations to transform a chromosome structure. Many heuristic algorithms were proposed for this purpose, but there are just a few exact algorithms with low (linear, cubic or similar) polynomial computational complexity among them to our knowledge. The algorithms naturally start from the calculation of both the distance between two structures and the shortest sequence of operations transforming one structure into another. Such calculation per se is an NP-hard problem. RESULTS A general model of chromosomal structure rearrangements is considered. Exact algorithms with almost linear or cubic polynomial complexities have been developed to solve the problems for the case of any chromosomal structure but with certain limitations on operation weights. The computer programs are tested on biological data for the problem of mitochondrial or plastid chromosomal structure reconstruction. To our knowledge, no computer programs are available for this model. CONCLUSIONS Exactness of the proposed algorithms and such low polynomial complexities were proved. The reconstructed evolutionary trees of mitochondrial and plastid chromosomal structures as well as the ancestral states of the structures appear to be reasonable.
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- Vassily Lyubetsky
- Institute for Information Transmission Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Kharkevich Institute), Bolshoi Karetnyi lane, 19, 127051, Moscow, Russia.
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- Institute for Information Transmission Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Kharkevich Institute), Bolshoi Karetnyi lane, 19, 127051, Moscow, Russia.
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- Institute for Information Transmission Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Kharkevich Institute), Bolshoi Karetnyi lane, 19, 127051, Moscow, Russia.
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- Institute for Information Transmission Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Kharkevich Institute), Bolshoi Karetnyi lane, 19, 127051, Moscow, Russia.
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Histone proteins and the nucleosomal organization of chromatin are near-universal eukaroytic features, with the exception of dinoflagellates. Previous studies have suggested that histones do not play a major role in the packaging of dinoflagellate genomes, although several genomic and transcriptomic surveys have detected a full set of core histone genes. Here, transcriptomic and genomic sequence data from multiple dinoflagellate lineages are analyzed, and the diversity of histone proteins and their variants characterized, with particular focus on their potential post-translational modifications and the conservation of the histone code. In addition, the set of putative epigenetic mark readers and writers, chromatin remodelers and histone chaperones are examined. Dinoflagellates clearly express the most derived set of histones among all autonomous eukaryote nuclei, consistent with a combination of relaxation of sequence constraints imposed by the histone code and the presence of numerous specialized histone variants. The histone code itself appears to have diverged significantly in some of its components, yet others are conserved, implying conservation of the associated biochemical processes. Specifically, and with major implications for the function of histones in dinoflagellates, the results presented here strongly suggest that transcription through nucleosomal arrays happens in dinoflagellates. Finally, the plausible roles of histones in dinoflagellate nuclei are discussed.
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Simonsenia aveniformis sp. nov. (Bacillariophyceae), molecular phylogeny and systematics of the genus, and a new type of canal raphe system. Sci Rep 2015; 5:17115. [PMID: 26596906 PMCID: PMC4656994 DOI: 10.1038/srep17115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2015] [Accepted: 10/26/2015] [Indexed: 12/01/2022] Open
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The genus Simonsenia is reviewed and S. aveniformis described as new for science by light and electron microscopy. The new species originated from estuarine environments in southern Iberia (Atlantic coast) and was isolated into culture. In LM, Simonsenia resembles Nitzschia, with bridges (fibulae) beneath the raphe, which is marginal. It is only electron microscope (EM) examination that reveals the true structure of the raphe system, which consists of a raphe canal raised on a keel (wing), supported by rib like braces (fenestral bars) and tube-like portulae; between the portulae the keel is perforated by open windows (fenestrae). Based on the presence of portulae and a fenestrated keel, Simonsenia has been proposed to be intermediate between Bacillariaceae and Surirellaceae. However, an rbcL phylogeny revealed that Simonsenia belongs firmly in the Bacillariaceae, with which it shares a similar chloroplast arrangement, rather than in the Surirellaceae. Lack of homology between the surirelloid and simonsenioid keels is reflected in subtle differences in the morphology and ontogeny of the portulae and fenestrae. The diversity of Simonsenia has probably been underestimated, particularly in the marine environment.
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Yamada N, Tanaka A, Horiguchi T. Pigment compositions are linked to the habitat types in dinoflagellates. JOURNAL OF PLANT RESEARCH 2015; 128:923-932. [PMID: 26243150 DOI: 10.1007/s10265-015-0745-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2015] [Accepted: 06/22/2015] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Compared to planktonic species, there is little known about the ecology, physiology, and existence of benthic dinoflagellates living in sandy beach or seafloor environments. In a previous study, we discovered 13(2),17(3)-cyclopheophorbide a enol (cPPB-aE) from sand-dwelling benthic dinoflagellates. This enol had never been detected in phytoplankton despite the fact that it is a chlorophyll a catabolite. We speculated from this discovery that habitat selection might be linked to pigment compositions in dinoflagellates. To test the hypothesis of habitat selection linking to pigment compositions, we conducted extensive analysis of pigments with high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) for 40 species using 45 strains of dinoflagellates including three habitat types; sand-dwelling benthic forms, tidal pool inhabitants and planktonic species. The 40 dinoflagellates are also able to be distinguished into two types based on their chloroplast origins; red alga-derived secondary chloroplasts and diatom-derived tertiary ones. By plotting the pigments profiles onto three habitats, we noticed that twelve pigments including cPPB-aE were found to occur only in benthic sand-dwelling species of red alga-derived type. The similar tendency was also observed in dinoflagellates with diatom-derived chloroplasts, i.e. additional sixteen pigments including chl c 3 were found only in sand-dwelling forms. This is the first report of the occurrence of chl c 3 in dinoflagellates with diatom-derived chloroplasts. These results clarify that far greater diversity of pigments are produced by the dinoflagellates living in sand regardless of chloroplast types relative to those of planktonic and tidal pool forms. Dinoflagellates seem to produce a part of their pigments in response to their habitats.
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- Norico Yamada
- Department of Natural History Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-0810, Japan
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- JST/CREST, Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-0819, Japan
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- Department of Natural History Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-0810, Japan.
- Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-0810, Japan.
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Dorrell RG, Howe CJ. Integration of plastids with their hosts: Lessons learned from dinoflagellates. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2015; 112:10247-54. [PMID: 25995366 PMCID: PMC4547248 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1421380112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [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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After their endosymbiotic acquisition, plastids become intimately connected with the biology of their host. For example, genes essential for plastid function may be relocated from the genomes of plastids to the host nucleus, and pathways may evolve within the host to support the plastid. In this review, we consider the different degrees of integration observed in dinoflagellates and their associated plastids, which have been acquired through multiple different endosymbiotic events. Most dinoflagellate species possess plastids that contain the pigment peridinin and show extreme reduction and integration with the host biology. In some species, these plastids have been replaced through serial endosymbiosis with plastids derived from a different phylogenetic derivation, of which some have become intimately connected with the biology of the host whereas others have not. We discuss in particular the evolution of the fucoxanthin-containing dinoflagellates, which have adapted pathways retained from the ancestral peridinin plastid symbiosis for transcript processing in their current, serially acquired plastids. Finally, we consider why such a diversity of different degrees of integration between host and plastid is observed in different dinoflagellates and how dinoflagellates may thus inform our broader understanding of plastid evolution and function.
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- Richard G Dorrell
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1QW, United Kingdom; School of Biology, École Normale Superieure, Paris 75005, France
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1QW, United Kingdom
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Gavelis GS, White RA, Suttle CA, Keeling PJ, Leander BS. Single-cell transcriptomics using spliced leader PCR: Evidence for multiple losses of photosynthesis in polykrikoid dinoflagellates. BMC Genomics 2015; 16:528. [PMID: 26183220 PMCID: PMC4504456 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-015-1636-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2014] [Accepted: 05/18/2015] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Most microbial eukaryotes are uncultivated and thus poorly suited to standard genomic techniques. This is the case for Polykrikos lebouriae, a dinoflagellate with ultrastructurally aberrant plastids. It has been suggested that these plastids stem from a novel symbiosis with either a diatom or haptophyte, but this hypothesis has been difficult to test as P. lebouriae dwells in marine sand rife with potential genetic contaminants. RESULTS We applied spliced-leader targeted PCR (SLPCR) to obtain dinoflagellate-specific transcriptomes on single-cell isolates of P. lebouriae from marine sediments. Polykrikos lebouriae expressed nuclear-encoded photosynthetic genes that were characteristic of the peridinin-plastids of dinoflagellates, rather than those from a diatom of haptophyte. We confirmed these findings at the genomic level using multiple displacement amplification (MDA) to obtain a partial plastome of P. lebouriae. CONCLUSION From these data, we infer that P. lebouriae has retained the peridinin plastids ancestral for dinoflagellates as a whole, while its closest relatives have lost photosynthesis multiple times independently. We discuss these losses with reference to mixotrophy in polykrikoid dinoflagellates. Our findings demonstrate new levels of variation associated with the peridinin plastids of dinoflagellates and the usefulness of SLPCR approaches on single cell isolates. Unlike other transcriptomic methods, SLPCR has taxonomic specificity, and can in principle be adapted to different splice-leader bearing groups.
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- Gregory S Gavelis
- Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z4, Canada.
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- Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z4, Canada.
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- Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z4, Canada.
- Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z4, Canada.
- Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z4, Canada.
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- Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z4, Canada.
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- Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z4, Canada.
- Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z4, Canada.
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Diversity and Evolutionary History of Iron Metabolism Genes in Diatoms. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0129081. [PMID: 26052941 PMCID: PMC4460010 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0129081] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2015] [Accepted: 05/05/2015] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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Ferroproteins arose early in Earth’s history, prior to the emergence of oxygenic photosynthesis and the subsequent reduction of bioavailable iron. Today, iron availability limits primary productivity in about 30% of the world’s oceans. Diatoms, responsible for nearly half of oceanic primary production, have evolved molecular strategies for coping with variable iron concentrations. Our understanding of the evolutionary breadth of these strategies has been restricted by the limited number of species for which molecular sequence data is available. To uncover the diversity of strategies marine diatoms employ to meet cellular iron demands, we analyzed 367 newly released marine microbial eukaryotic transcriptomes, which include 47 diatom species. We focused on genes encoding proteins previously identified as having a role in iron management: iron uptake (high-affinity ferric reductase, multi-copper oxidase, and Fe(III) permease); iron storage (ferritin); iron-induced protein substitutions (flavodoxin/ferredoxin, and plastocyanin/cytochrome c6) and defense against reactive oxygen species (superoxide dismutases). Homologs encoding the high-affinity iron uptake system components were detected across the four diatom Classes suggesting an ancient origin for this pathway. Ferritin transcripts were also detected in all Classes, revealing a more widespread utilization of ferritin throughout diatoms than previously recognized. Flavodoxin and plastocyanin transcripts indicate possible alternative redox metal strategies. Predicted localization signals for ferredoxin identify multiple examples of gene transfer from the plastid to the nuclear genome. Transcripts encoding four superoxide dismutase metalloforms were detected, including a putative nickel-coordinating isozyme. Taken together, our results suggest that the majority of iron metabolism genes in diatoms appear to be vertically inherited with functional diversity achieved via possible neofunctionalization of paralogs. This refined view of iron use strategies in diatoms elucidates the history of these adaptations, and provides potential molecular markers for determining the iron nutritional status of different diatom species in environmental samples.
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Hehenberger E, Imanian B, Burki F, Keeling PJ. Evidence for the retention of two evolutionary distinct plastids in dinoflagellates with diatom endosymbionts. Genome Biol Evol 2015; 6:2321-34. [PMID: 25172904 PMCID: PMC4217693 DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evu182] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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Dinoflagellates harboring diatom endosymbionts (termed “dinotoms”) have undergone a process often referred to as “tertiary endosymbiosis”—the uptake of algae containing secondary plastids and integration of those plastids into the new host. In contrast to other tertiary plastids, and most secondary plastids, the endosymbiont of dinotoms is distinctly less reduced, retaining a number of cellular features, such as their nucleus and mitochondria and others, in addition to their plastid. This has resulted in redundancy between host and endosymbiont, at least between some mitochondrial and cytosolic metabolism, where this has been investigated. The question of plastidial redundancy is particularly interesting as the fate of the host dinoflagellate plastid is unclear. The host cytosol possesses an eyespot that has been postulated to be a remnant of the ancestral peridinin plastid, but this has not been tested, nor has its possible retention of plastid functions. To investigate this possibility, we searched for plastid-associated pathways and functions in transcriptomic data sets from three dinotom species. We show that the dinoflagellate host has indeed retained genes for plastid-associated pathways and that these genes encode targeting peptides similar to those of other dinoflagellate plastid-targeted proteins. Moreover, we also identified one gene encoding an essential component of the dinoflagellate plastid protein import machinery, altogether suggesting the presence of a functioning plastid import system in the host, and by extension a relict plastid. The presence of the same plastid-associated pathways in the endosymbiont also extends the known functional redundancy in dinotoms, further confirming the unusual state of plastid integration in this group of dinoflagellates.
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- Elisabeth Hehenberger
- Department of Botany, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Department of Botany, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Department of Botany, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Department of Botany, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Kamikawa R, Tanifuji G, Kawachi M, Miyashita H, Hashimoto T, Inagaki Y. Plastid genome-based phylogeny pinpointed the origin of the green-colored plastid in the dinoflagellate Lepidodinium chlorophorum. Genome Biol Evol 2015; 7:1133-40. [PMID: 25840416 PMCID: PMC4419806 DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evv060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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Unlike many other photosynthetic dinoflagellates, whose plastids contain a characteristic carotenoid peridinin, members of the genus Lepidodinium are the only known dinoflagellate species possessing green alga-derived plastids. However, the precise origin of Lepidodinium plastids has hitherto remained uncertain. In this study, we completely sequenced the plastid genome of Lepidodinium chlorophorum NIES-1868. Our phylogenetic analyses of 52 plastid-encoded proteins unite L. chlorophorum exclusively with a pedinophyte, Pedinomonas minor, indicating that the green-colored plastids in Lepidodinium spp. were derived from an endosymbiotic pedinophyte or a green alga closely related to pedinophytes. Our genome comparison incorporating the origin of the Lepidodinium plastids strongly suggests that the endosymbiont plastid genome acquired by the ancestral Lepidodinium species has lost genes encoding proteins involved in metabolism and biosynthesis, protein/metabolite transport, and plastid division during the endosymbiosis. We further discuss the commonalities and idiosyncrasies in genome evolution between the L. chlorophorum plastid and other plastids acquired through endosymbiosis of eukaryotic photoautotrophs.
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- Ryoma Kamikawa
- Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies and Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Japan
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- Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
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- The National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
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- Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies and Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Japan
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- Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan Center for Computational Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
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- Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan Center for Computational Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
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Onuma R, Horiguchi T. Kleptochloroplast Enlargement, Karyoklepty and the Distribution of the Cryptomonad Nucleus in Nusuttodinium (= Gymnodinium) aeruginosum (Dinophyceae). Protist 2015; 166:177-95. [PMID: 25771111 DOI: 10.1016/j.protis.2015.01.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2014] [Revised: 01/13/2015] [Accepted: 01/24/2015] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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The unarmoured freshwater dinoflagellate Nusuttodinium (= Gymnodinium) aeruginosum retains a cryptomonad-derived kleptochloroplast and nucleus, the former of which fills the bulk of its cell volume. The paucity of studies following morphological changes to the kleptochloroplast with time make it unclear how the kleptochloroplast enlarges and why the cell ultimately loses the cryptomonad nucleus. We observed, both at the light and electron microscope level, morphological changes to the kleptochloroplast incurred by the enlargement process under culture conditions. The distribution of the cryptomonad nucleus after host cell division was also investigated. The volume of the kleptochloroplast increased more than 20-fold, within 120h of ingestion of the cryptomonad. Host cell division was not preceded by cryptomonad karyokinesis so that only one of the daughter cells inherited a cryptomonad nucleus. The fate of all daughter cells originating from a single cell through five generations was closely monitored, and this observation revealed that the cell that inherited the cryptomonad nucleus consistently possessed the largest kleptochloroplast for that generation. Therefore, this study suggests that some important cryptomonad nucleus division mechanism is lost during ingestion process, and that the cryptomonad nucleus carries important information for the enlargement of the kleptochloroplast.
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- Ryo Onuma
- Department of Natural History Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University, North 10, West 8, Sapporo 060-0810 Japan
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- Department of Natural History Sciences, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, North 10, West 8, Sapporo, 060-0810 Japan.
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Brembu T, Winge P, Tooming-Klunderud A, Nederbragt AJ, Jakobsen KS, Bones AM. The chloroplast genome of the diatom Seminavis robusta: New features introduced through multiple mechanisms of horizontal gene transfer. Mar Genomics 2014; 16:17-27. [DOI: 10.1016/j.margen.2013.12.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2013] [Revised: 11/29/2013] [Accepted: 12/04/2013] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Richardson E, Dorrell RG, Howe CJ. Genome-wide transcript profiling reveals the coevolution of plastid gene sequences and transcript processing pathways in the fucoxanthin dinoflagellate Karlodinium veneficum. Mol Biol Evol 2014; 31:2376-86. [PMID: 24925926 PMCID: PMC4137713 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msu189] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Plastids utilize a complex gene expression machinery, which has coevolved with the underlying genome sequence. Relatively, little is known about the genome-wide evolution of transcript processing in algal plastids that have undergone complex endosymbiotic events. We present the first genome-wide study of transcript processing in a plastid acquired through serial endosymbiosis, in the fucoxanthin-containing dinoflagellate Karlodinium veneficum. The fucoxanthin dinoflagellate plastid has an extremely divergent genome and utilizes two unusual transcript processing pathways, 3'-poly(U) tail addition and sequence editing, which were acquired following the serial endosymbiosis event. We demonstrate that poly(U) addition and sequence editing are widespread features across the Karl. veneficum plastid transcriptome, whereas other dinoflagellate plastid lineages that have arisen through independent serial endosymbiosis events do not utilize either RNA processing pathway. These pathways constrain the effects of divergent sequence evolution in fucoxanthin plastids, for example by correcting mutations in the genomic sequence that would otherwise be deleterious, and are specifically associated with transcripts that encode functional plastid proteins over transcripts of recently generated pseudogenes. These pathways may have additionally facilitated divergent evolution within the Karl. veneficum plastid. Transcript editing, for example, has contributed to the evolution of a novel C-terminal sequence extension on the Karl. veneficum AtpA protein. We furthermore provide the first complete sequence of an episomal minicircle in a fucoxanthin dinoflagellate plastid, which contains the dnaK gene, and gives rise to polyuridylylated and edited transcripts. Our results indicate that RNA processing in fucoxanthin dinoflagellate plastids is evolutionarily dynamic, coevolving with the underlying genome sequence.
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Probert I, Siano R, Poirier C, Decelle J, Biard T, Tuji A, Suzuki N, Not F. Brandtodinium gen. nov. and B. nutricula comb. Nov. (Dinophyceae), a dinoflagellate commonly found in symbiosis with polycystine radiolarians. JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY 2014; 50:388-99. [PMID: 26988195 DOI: 10.1111/jpy.12174] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2013] [Accepted: 08/27/2013] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Symbiotic interactions between pelagic hosts and microalgae have received little attention, although they are widespread in the photic layer of the world ocean, where they play a fundamental role in the ecology of the planktonic ecosystem. Polycystine radiolarians (including the orders Spumellaria, Collodaria and Nassellaria) are planktonic heterotrophic protists that are widely distributed and often abundant in the ocean. Many polycystines host symbiotic microalgae within their cytoplasm, mostly thought to be the dinoflagellate Scrippsiella nutricula, a species originally described by Karl Brandt in the late nineteenth century as Zooxanthella nutricula. The free-living stage of this dinoflagellate has never been characterized in terms of morphology and thecal plate tabulation. We examined morphological characters and sequenced conservative ribosomal markers of clonal cultures of the free-living stage of symbiotic dinoflagellates isolated from radiolarian hosts from the three polycystine orders. In addition, we sequenced symbiont genes directly from several polycystine-symbiont holobiont specimens from different oceanic regions. Thecal plate arrangement of the free-living stage does not match that of Scrippsiella or related genera, and LSU and SSU rDNA-based molecular phylogenies place these symbionts in a distinct clade within the Peridiniales. Both phylogenetic analyses and the comparison of morphological features of culture strains with those reported for other closely related species support the erection of a new genus that we name Brandtodinium gen. nov. and the recombination of S. nutricula as B. nutricula comb. nov.
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- Ian Probert
- UPMC-CNRS, FR2424, Roscoff Culture Collection, Station Biologique de Roscoff, Place Georges Teissier, Roscoff, 29682, France
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- IFREMER, Centre de Brest, DYNECO/Pelagos, ZI de la Pointe du Diable CS 170, Plouzané, 29280, France
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- UPMC-CNRS, UMR 7144, Station Biologique de Roscoff, Place Georges Teissier, Roscoff, 29682, France
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- UPMC-CNRS, UMR 7144, Station Biologique de Roscoff, Place Georges Teissier, Roscoff, 29682, France
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- UPMC-CNRS, UMR 7144, Station Biologique de Roscoff, Place Georges Teissier, Roscoff, 29682, France
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- Department of Botany, National Museum of Nature and Science, 4-1-1 Amakubo, Tsukuba, 305-0005, Japan
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- Institute of Geology and Paleontology, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, 980-8578, Japan
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- UPMC-CNRS, UMR 7144, Station Biologique de Roscoff, Place Georges Teissier, Roscoff, 29682, France
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Ruck EC, Nakov T, Jansen RK, Theriot EC, Alverson AJ. Serial gene losses and foreign DNA underlie size and sequence variation in the plastid genomes of diatoms. Genome Biol Evol 2014; 6:644-54. [PMID: 24567305 PMCID: PMC3971590 DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evu039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 02/18/2014] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Photosynthesis by diatoms accounts for roughly one-fifth of global primary production, but despite this, relatively little is known about their plastid genomes. We report the completely sequenced plastid genomes for eight phylogenetically diverse diatoms and show them to be variable in size, gene and foreign sequence content, and gene order. The genomes contain a core set of 122 protein-coding genes, with 15 additional genes exhibiting complex patterns of 1) gene losses at varying phylogenetic scales, 2) functional transfers to the nucleus, 3) gene duplication, divergence, and differential retention of paralogs, and 4) acquisitions of putatively functional recombinase genes from resident plasmids. The newly sequenced genomes also contain several previously unreported genes, highlighting how poorly characterized diatom plastid genomes are overall. Genome size variation reflects major expansions of the inverted repeat region in some cases but, more commonly, large-scale expansions of intergenic regions, many of which contain unique open reading frames of likely foreign origin. Although many gene clusters are conserved across species, rearrangements appear to be frequent in most lineages.
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin
- Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University (KAU), Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
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Imanian B, Keeling PJ. Horizontal gene transfer and redundancy of tryptophan biosynthetic enzymes in dinotoms. Genome Biol Evol 2014; 6:333-43. [PMID: 24448981 PMCID: PMC3942023 DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evu014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 01/14/2014] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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A tertiary endosymbiosis between a dinoflagellate host and diatom endosymbiont gave rise to "dinotoms," cells with a unique nuclear and mitochondrial redundancy derived from two evolutionarily distinct eukaryotic lineages. To examine how this unique redundancy might have affected the evolution of metabolic systems, we investigated the transcription of genes involved in biosynthesis of the amino acid tryptophan in three species, Durinskia baltica, Kryptoperidinium foliaceum, and Glenodinium foliaceum. From transcriptome sequence data, we recovered two distinct sets of protein-coding transcripts covering the entire tryptophan biosynthetic pathway. Phylogenetic analyses suggest a diatom origin for one set of the proteins, which we infer to be expressed in the endosymbiont, and that the other arose from multiple horizontal gene transfer events to the dinoflagellate ancestor of the host lineage. This is the first indication that these cells retain redundant sets of transcripts and likely metabolic pathways for the biosynthesis of small molecules and extend their redundancy to their two distinct nuclear genomes.
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- Behzad Imanian
- Department of Botany, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Department of Botany, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Endosymbiotic gene transfer in tertiary plastid-containing dinoflagellates. EUKARYOTIC CELL 2013; 13:246-55. [PMID: 24297445 DOI: 10.1128/ec.00299-13] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Plastid establishment involves the transfer of endosymbiotic genes to the host nucleus, a process known as endosymbiotic gene transfer (EGT). Large amounts of EGT have been shown in several photosynthetic lineages but also in present-day plastid-lacking organisms, supporting the notion that endosymbiotic genes leave a substantial genetic footprint in the host nucleus. Yet the extent of this genetic relocation remains debated, largely because the long period that has passed since most plastids originated has erased many of the clues to how this process unfolded. Among the dinoflagellates, however, the ancestral peridinin-containing plastid has been replaced by tertiary plastids on several more recent occasions, giving us a less ancient window to examine plastid origins. In this study, we evaluated the endosymbiotic contribution to the host genome in two dinoflagellate lineages with tertiary plastids. We generated the first nuclear transcriptome data sets for the "dinotoms," which harbor diatom-derived plastids, and analyzed these data in combination with the available transcriptomes for kareniaceans, which harbor haptophyte-derived plastids. We found low level of detectable EGT in both dinoflagellate lineages, with only 9 genes and 90 genes of possible tertiary endosymbiotic origin in dinotoms and kareniaceans, respectively, suggesting that tertiary endosymbioses did not heavily impact the host dinoflagellate genomes.
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Cavalier-Smith T. Symbiogenesis: Mechanisms, Evolutionary Consequences, and Systematic Implications. ANNUAL REVIEW OF ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS 2013. [DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-110411-160320] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Kim GH, Jeong HJ, Yoo YD, Kim S, Han JH, Han JW, Zuccarello GC. Still acting green: continued expression of photosynthetic genes in the heterotrophic Dinoflagellate Pfiesteria piscicida (Peridiniales, Alveolata). PLoS One 2013; 8:e68232. [PMID: 23874554 PMCID: PMC3712967 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0068232] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2013] [Accepted: 06/02/2013] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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The loss of photosynthetic function should lead to the cessation of expression and finally loss of photosynthetic genes in the new heterotroph. Dinoflagellates are known to have lost their photosynthetic ability several times. Dinoflagellates have also acquired photosynthesis from other organisms, either on a long-term basis or as “kleptoplastids” multiple times. The fate of photosynthetic gene expression in heterotrophs can be informative into evolution of gene expression patterns after functional loss, and the dinoflagellates ability to acquire new photosynthetic function through additional endosymbiosis. To explore this we analyzed a large-scale EST database consisting of 151,091 unique sequences (29,170 contigs, 120,921 singletons) obtained from 454 pyrosequencing of the heterotrophic dinoflagellate Pfiesteria piscicida. About 597 contigs from P. piscicida showed significant homology (E-value <e−30) with proteins associated with plastid and photosynthetic function. Most of the genes involved in the Calvin-Benson cycle were found, genes of the light-dependent reaction were also identified. Also genes of associated pathways including the chorismate pathway and genes involved in starch metabolism were discovered. BLAST searches and phylogenetic analysis suggest that these plastid-associated genes originated from several different photosynthetic ancestors. The Calvin-Benson cycle genes are mostly associated with genes derived from the secondary plastids of peridinin-containing dinoflagellates, while the light-harvesting genes are derived from diatoms, or diatoms that are tertiary plastids in other dinoflagellates. The continued expression of many genes involved in photosynthetic pathways indicates that the loss of transcriptional regulation may occur well after plastid loss and could explain the organism's ability to “capture” new plastids (i.e. different secondary endosymbiosis or tertiary symbioses) to renew photosynthetic function.
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- Gwang Hoon Kim
- Department of Biology, Kongju National University, Kongju, Korea
- * E-mail: (GHK); (HJJ)
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- School of Earth and Environmental Science, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
- * E-mail: (GHK); (HJJ)
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- School of Earth and Environmental Science, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Biology, Kongju National University, Kongju, Korea
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- Department of Biology, Kongju National University, Kongju, Korea
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- Department of Biology, Kongju National University, Kongju, Korea
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- School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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Gottschling M, McLean TI. New home for tiny symbionts: Dinophytes determined as Zooxanthella are Peridiniales and distantly related to Symbiodinium. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2013; 67:217-22. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2013.01.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2012] [Revised: 12/21/2012] [Accepted: 01/07/2013] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Butterfield ER, Howe CJ, Nisbet RER. An analysis of dinoflagellate metabolism using EST data. Protist 2012; 164:218-36. [PMID: 23085481 DOI: 10.1016/j.protis.2012.09.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2012] [Revised: 09/10/2012] [Accepted: 09/10/2012] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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The dinoflagellates are an important group of eukaryotic, single celled algae. They are the sister group of the Apicomplexa, a group of intracellular parasites and photosynthetic algae including the malaria parasite Plasmodium. Many apicomplexan mitochondria have a number of unusual features, including the lack of a pyruvate dehydrogenase and the existence of a branched TCA cycle. Here, we analyse dinoflagellate EST (expressed sequence tag) data to determine whether these features are apicomplexan-specific, or if they are more widespread. We show that dinoflagellates have replaced a key subunit (E1) of pyruvate dehydrogenase with a subunit of bacterial origin and that transcripts encoding many of the proteins that are essential in a conventional ATP synthase/Complex V are absent, as is the case in Apicomplexa. There is a pathway for synthesis of starch or glycogen as a storage carbohydrate. Transcripts encoding isocitrate lyase and malate synthase are present, consistent with ultrastructural reports of a glyoxysome. Finally, evidence for a conventional haem biosynthesis pathway is found, in contrast to the Apicomplexa, Chromera and early branching dinoflagellates (Perkinsus, Oxyrrhis).
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- Erin R Butterfield
- Sansom Institute for Health Research, University of South Australia, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia
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Zverkov OA, Seliverstov AV, Lyubetsky VA. Plastid-encoded protein families specific for narrow taxonomic groups of algae and protozoa. Mol Biol 2012. [DOI: 10.1134/s0026893312050123] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Imanian B, Pombert JF, Dorrell RG, Burki F, Keeling PJ. Tertiary endosymbiosis in two dinotoms has generated little change in the mitochondrial genomes of their dinoflagellate hosts and diatom endosymbionts. PLoS One 2012; 7:e43763. [PMID: 22916303 PMCID: PMC3423374 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043763] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2012] [Accepted: 07/25/2012] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Mitochondria or mitochondrion-derived organelles are found in all eukaryotes with the exception of secondary or tertiary plastid endosymbionts. In these highly reduced systems, the mitochondrion has been lost in all cases except the diatom endosymbionts found in a small group of dinoflagellates, called 'dinotoms', the only cells with two evolutionarily distinct mitochondria. To investigate the persistence of this redundancy and its consequences on the content and structure of the endosymbiont and host mitochondrial genomes, we report the sequences of these genomes from two dinotoms. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS The endosymbiont mitochondrial genomes of Durinskia baltica and Kryptoperidinium foliaceum exhibit nearly identical gene content with other diatoms, and highly conserved gene order (nearly identical to that of the raphid pennate diatom Fragilariopsis cylindrus). These two genomes are differentiated from other diatoms' by the fission of nad11 and by an insertion within nad2, in-frame and unspliced from the mRNA. Durinskia baltica is further distinguished from K. foliaceum by two gene fusions and its lack of introns. The host mitochondrial genome in D. baltica encodes cox1 and cob plus several fragments of LSU rRNA gene in a hugely expanded genome that includes numerous pseudogenes, and a trans-spliced cox3 gene, like in other dinoflagellates. Over 100 distinct contigs were identified through 454 sequencing, but intact full-length genes for cox1, cob and the 5' exon of cox3 were present as a single contig each, suggesting most of the genome is pseudogenes. The host mitochondrial genome of K. foliaceum was difficult to identify, but fragments of all the three protein-coding genes, corresponding transcripts, and transcripts of several LSU rRNA fragments were all recovered. CONCLUSIONS/SIGNIFICANCE Overall, the endosymbiont and host mitochondrial genomes in the two dinotoms have changed surprisingly little from those of free-living diatoms and dinoflagellates, irrespective of their long coexistence side by side in dinotoms.
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- Behzad Imanian
- Department of Botany, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Department of Botany, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Department of Botany, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Department of Botany, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Department of Botany, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Barbrook AC, Dorrell RG, Burrows J, Plenderleith LJ, Nisbet RER, Howe CJ. Polyuridylylation and processing of transcripts from multiple gene minicircles in chloroplasts of the dinoflagellate Amphidinium carterae. PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2012; 79:347-57. [PMID: 22562591 DOI: 10.1007/s11103-012-9916-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2012] [Accepted: 04/14/2012] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Although transcription and transcript processing in the chloroplasts of plants have been extensively characterised, the RNA metabolism of other chloroplast lineages across the eukaryotes remains poorly understood. In this paper, we use RT-PCR to study transcription and transcript processing in the chloroplasts of Amphidinium carterae, a model peridinin-containing dinoflagellate. These organisms have a highly unusual chloroplast genome, with genes located on multiple small 'minicircle' elements, and a number of idiosyncratic features of RNA metabolism including transcription via a rolling circle mechanism, and 3' terminal polyuridylylation of transcripts. We demonstrate that transcription occurs in A. carterae via a rolling circle mechanism, as previously shown in the dinoflagellate Heterocapsa, and present evidence for the production of both polycistronic and monocistronic transcripts from A. carterae minicircles, including several regions containing ORFs previously not known to be expressed. We demonstrate the presence of both polyuridylylated and non-polyuridylylated transcripts in A. carterae, and show that polycistronic transcripts can be terminally polyuridylylated. We present a model for RNA metabolism in dinoflagellate chloroplasts where long polycistronic precursors are processed to form mature transcripts. Terminal polyuridylylation may mark transcripts with the correct 3' end.
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MESH Headings
- Chloroplasts/genetics
- DNA, Circular/genetics
- DNA, Circular/metabolism
- DNA, Protozoan/genetics
- DNA, Protozoan/metabolism
- Dinoflagellida/genetics
- Dinoflagellida/metabolism
- Genes, Chloroplast
- Genes, Protozoan
- Models, Biological
- Poly U/metabolism
- RNA Processing, Post-Transcriptional
- RNA, Protozoan/genetics
- RNA, Protozoan/metabolism
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- Adrian C Barbrook
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Building O, Downing Site, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge, CB2 1QW, UK.
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Dorrell RG, Howe CJ. What makes a chloroplast? Reconstructing the establishment of photosynthetic symbioses. J Cell Sci 2012; 125:1865-75. [PMID: 22547565 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.102285] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
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Earth is populated by an extraordinary diversity of photosynthetic eukaryotes. Many eukaryotic lineages contain chloroplasts, obtained through the endosymbiosis of a wide range of photosynthetic prokaryotes or eukaryotes, and a wide variety of otherwise non-photosynthetic species form transient associations with photosynthetic symbionts. Chloroplast lineages are likely to be derived from pre-existing transient symbioses, but it is as yet poorly understood what steps are required for the establishment of permanent chloroplasts from photosynthetic symbionts. In the past decade, several species that contain relatively recently acquired chloroplasts, such as the rhizarian Paulinella chromatophora, and non-photosynthetic taxa that maintain photosynthetic symbionts, such as the sacoglossan sea slug Elysia, the ciliate Myrionecta rubra and the dinoflagellate Dinophysis, have emerged as potential model organisms in the study of chloroplast establishment. In this Commentary, we compare recent molecular insights into the maintenance of chloroplasts and photosynthetic symbionts from these lineages, and others that might represent the early stages of chloroplast establishment. We emphasise the importance in the establishment of chloroplasts of gene transfer events that minimise oxidative stress acting on the symbiont. We conclude by assessing whether chloroplast establishment is facilitated in some lineages by a mosaic of genes, derived from multiple symbiotic associations, encoded in the host nucleus.
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- Richard G Dorrell
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1QW, UK.
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Gross J, Bhattacharya D, Pelletreau KN, Rumpho ME, Reyes-Prieto A. Secondary and Tertiary Endosymbiosis and Kleptoplasty. ADVANCES IN PHOTOSYNTHESIS AND RESPIRATION 2012. [DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-2920-9_2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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