CELL WALL REPLICATION IN SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE

1965 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 953-957 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. L. Chung ◽  
R. Z. Hawirko ◽  
P. K. Isaac

Cell wall growth and bud formation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae was studied by labelling with fluorescent antibody. Labelled cells were grown in a glucose yeast extract broth and examined at 15-min intervals. The new cell wall was largely non-fluorescent while the old wall showed no reduction of fluorescence during growth of the bud. Bud formation was initiated as a small bulge on the cell wall, and further increase in size was accompanied by the formation of a constriction around the basal end which led to the separation of the bud from the mother yeast cell. The actively growing area of the bud was an annular band close to the base. It appears that the cell wall of the bud was, almost entirely, newly synthesized and contained very little old cell wall material. The process of wall synthesis is compared with the pattern found in several bacteria and with what is known of the process in other fungi.

2010 ◽  
Vol 77 (5) ◽  
pp. 1556-1562 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reinhard Wirth ◽  
Annett Bellack ◽  
Markus Bertl ◽  
Yvonne Bilek ◽  
Thomas Heimerl ◽  
...  

ABSTRACTThe surfaces of 8 bacterial and 23 archaeal species, including many hyperthermophilicArchaea, could be stained using succinimidyl esters of fluorescent dyes. This allowed us for the first time to analyze the mode of cell wall growth inArchaeaby subculturing stained cells. The data obtained show that incorporation of new cell wall material inArchaeafollows the pattern observed forBacteria: in the coccoid speciesPyrococcus furiosusincorporation was in the region of septum formation while for the rod-shaped speciesMethanopyrus kandleriandMethanothermus sociabilis, a diffuse incorporation of cell wall material over the cell length was observed. Cell surface appendages like fimbriae/pili, fibers, or flagella were detectable by fluorescence staining only in a very few cases although their presence was proven by electron microscopy. Our data in addition prove that Alexa Fluor dyes can be used forin situanalyses at temperatures up to 100°C.


2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (8) ◽  
pp. 513
Author(s):  
Ewen Silvester ◽  
Annaleise R. Klein ◽  
Kerry L. Whitworth ◽  
Ljiljana Puskar ◽  
Mark J. Tobin

Environmental contextSphagnum moss is a widespread species in peatlands globally and responsible for a large fraction of carbon storage in these systems. We used synchrotron infrared microspectroscopy to characterise the acid-base properties of Sphagnum moss and the conditions under which calcium uptake can occur (essential for plant tissue integrity). The work allows a chemical model for Sphagnum distribution in the landscape to be proposed. AbstractSphagnum is one the major moss types responsible for the deposition of organic soils in peatland systems. The cell walls of this moss have a high proportion of carboxylated polysaccharides (polygalacturonic acids), which act as ion exchangers and are likely to be important for the structural integrity of the cell walls. We used synchrotron light source infrared microspectroscopy to characterise the acid-base and calcium complexation properties of the cell walls of Sphagnum cristatum stems, using freshly sectioned tissue confined in a flowing liquid cell with both normal water and D2O media. The Fourier transform infrared spectra of acid and base forms are consistent with those expected for protonated and deprotonated aliphatic carboxylic acids (such as uronic acids). Spectral deconvolution shows that the dominant aliphatic carboxylic groups in this material behave as a monoprotic acid (pKa=4.97–6.04). The cell wall material shows a high affinity for calcium, with a binding constant (K) in the range 103.9–104.7 (1:1 complex). The chemical complexation model developed here allows for the prediction of the chemical environment (e.g. pH, ionic content) under which Ca2+ uptake can occur, and provides an improved understanding for the observed distribution of Sphagnum in the landscape.


1986 ◽  
Vol 62 (6) ◽  
pp. 1703-1712 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. G. Jung ◽  
K. P. Vogel

2009 ◽  
Vol 36 (5) ◽  
pp. 383 ◽  
Author(s):  
John S. Boyer

Recently discovered reactions allow the green alga Chara corallina (Klien ex. Willd., em. R.D.W.) to grow well without the benefit of xyloglucan or rhamnogalactan II in its cell wall. Growth rates are controlled by polygalacturonic acid (pectate) bound with calcium in the primary wall, and the reactions remove calcium from these bonds when new pectate is supplied. The removal appears to occur preferentially in bonds distorted by wall tension produced by the turgor pressure (P). The loss of calcium accelerates irreversible wall extension if P is above a critical level. The new pectate (now calcium pectate) then binds to the wall and decelerates wall extension, depositing new wall material on and within the old wall. Together, these reactions create a non-enzymatic but stoichiometric link between wall growth and wall deposition. In green plants, pectate is one of the most conserved components of the primary wall, and it is therefore proposed that the acceleration-deceleration-wall deposition reactions are of wide occurrence likely to underlie growth in virtually all green plants. C. corallina is one of the closest relatives of the progenitors of terrestrial plants, and this review focuses on the pectate reactions and how they may fit existing theories of plant growth.


Weed Science ◽  
1968 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 344-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter E. Splittstoesser

Barley (Hordeum vulgareL. var. Trail) root growth was inhibited at lower concentrations of 1-(2-methylcyclohexyl)-3-phenylurea (siduron) than was shoot growth. The influence of siduron upon root metabolism was assessed with excised roots grown in 0 or 5 ppm siduron. More glucose-U-14C and leucine-U-14C were degraded to CO2and less were incorporated into cell wall material and protein by roots grown in siduron. However, roots grown in siduron incorporated more adenine-8-14C into nucleic acids and degraded less adenine to CO2than roots grown in water. It was suggested that siduron disrupted the normal nucleic acid metabolism of barley roots which was necessary for protein and cell wall synthesis.


2021 ◽  
Vol 289 ◽  
pp. 110304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eden Eran Nagar ◽  
Liora Berenshtein ◽  
Inbal Hanuka Katz ◽  
Uri Lesmes ◽  
Zoya Okun ◽  
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