The Phosphoenolpyruvate/Phosphate Translocator Is Required for Phenolic Metabolism, Palisade Cell Development, and Plastid-Dependent Nuclear Gene Expression

1999 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 1609 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen J. Streatfield ◽  
Andreas Weber ◽  
Elizabeth A. Kinsman ◽  
Rainer E. Hausler ◽  
Jianming Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gene Expression ◽  
Nuclear Gene ◽  
Cell Development ◽  
Palisade Cell ◽  
Phenolic Metabolism ◽  
Nuclear Gene Expression ◽  
Phosphate Translocator

scholarly journals The Phosphoenolpyruvate/Phosphate Translocator Is Required for Phenolic Metabolism, Palisade Cell Development, and Plastid-Dependent Nuclear Gene Expression

1999 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 1609-1621 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen J. Streatfield ◽  
Andreas Weber ◽  
Elizabeth A. Kinsman ◽  
Rainer E. Häusler ◽  
Jianming Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gene Expression ◽  
Nuclear Gene ◽  
Cell Development ◽  
Palisade Cell ◽  
Phenolic Metabolism ◽  
Nuclear Gene Expression ◽  
Phosphate Translocator

Chloroplast Redox Control of Nuclear Gene Expression—A New Class of Plastid Signals in Interorganellar Communication

2003 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Pfannschmidt ◽  
Katia Schütze ◽  
Vidal Fey ◽  
Irena Sherameti ◽  
Ralf Oelmüller
Keyword(s):  
Gene Expression ◽  
Nuclear Gene ◽  
Redox Control ◽  
New Class ◽  
Nuclear Gene Expression

scholarly journals Introns mediate post-transcriptional enhancement of nuclear gene expression in the green microalga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

PLoS Genetics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (7) ◽  
pp. e1008944 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Baier ◽  
Nick Jacobebbinghaus ◽  
Alexander Einhaus ◽  
Kyle J. Lauersen ◽  
Olaf Kruse
Keyword(s):  
Gene Expression ◽  
Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii ◽  
Nuclear Gene ◽  
Nuclear Gene Expression ◽  
Green Microalga

scholarly journals Dinoflagellate Host Chloroplasts and Mitochondria Remain Functional During Amoebophrya Infection

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ehsan Kayal ◽  
Catharina Alves-de-Souza ◽  
Sarah Farhat ◽  
Lourdes Velo-Suarez ◽  
Joanne Monjol ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gene Expression ◽  
Carbon Fixation ◽  
Nuclear Gene ◽  
Host Cells ◽  
Infection Period ◽  
Nuclear Gene Expression ◽  
Intracellular Parasites ◽  
Electron Transport Chains ◽  
Complete Digestion ◽  
Host Nucleus

Dinoflagellates are major components of phytoplankton that play critical roles in many microbial food webs, many of them being hosts of countless intracellular parasites. The phototrophic dinoflagellate Scrippsiella acuminata (Dinophyceae) can be infected by the microeukaryotic parasitoids Amoebophrya spp. (Syndiniales), some of which primarily target and digest the host nucleus. Early digestion of the nucleus at the beginning of the infection is expected to greatly impact the host metabolism, inducing the knockout of the organellar machineries that highly depend upon nuclear gene expression, such as the mitochondrial OXPHOS pathway and the plastid photosynthetic carbon fixation. However, previous studies have reported that chloroplasts remain functional in swimming host cells infected by Amoebophrya. We report here a multi-approach monitoring study of S. acuminata organelles over a complete infection cycle by nucleus-targeting Amoebophrya sp. strain A120. Our results show sustained and efficient photosystem II activity as a hallmark of functional chloroplast throughout the infection period despite the complete digestion of the host nucleus. We also report the importance played by light on parasite production, i.e., the amount of host biomass converted to parasite infective propagules. Using a differential gene expression analysis, we observed an apparent increase of all 3 mitochondrial and 9 out of the 11 plastidial genes involved in the electron transport chains (ETC) of the respiration pathways during the first stages of the infection. The longer resilience of organellar genes compared to those encoded by the nucleus suggests that both mitochondria and chloroplasts remain functional throughout most of the infection. This extended organelle functionality, along with higher parasite production under light conditions, suggests that host bioenergetic organelles likely benefit the parasite Amoebophrya sp. A120 and improve its fitness during the intracellular infective stage.

scholarly journals Overexpression of chloroplast-targeted ferrochelatase 1 results in a genomes uncoupled chloroplast-to-nucleus retrograde signalling phenotype

2020 ◽  
Vol 375 (1801) ◽  
pp. 20190401 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mike T. Page ◽  
Tania Garcia-Becerra ◽  
Alison G. Smith ◽  
Matthew J. Terry
Keyword(s):  
Gene Expression ◽  
Feedback Inhibition ◽  
Nuclear Gene ◽  
Signalling Pathway ◽  
Chloroplast Genes ◽  
Nuclear Gene Expression ◽  
Retrograde Signalling ◽  
Genes Encoding ◽  
Retrograde Signal

Chloroplast development requires communication between the progenitor plastids and the nucleus, where most of the genes encoding chloroplast proteins reside. Retrograde signals from the chloroplast to the nucleus control the expression of many of these genes, but the signalling pathway is poorly understood. Tetrapyrroles have been strongly implicated as mediators of this signal with the current hypothesis being that haem produced by the activity of ferrochelatase 1 (FC1) is required to promote nuclear gene expression. We have tested this hypothesis by overexpressing FC1 and specifically targeting it to either chloroplasts or mitochondria, two possible locations for this enzyme. Our results show that targeting of FC1 to chloroplasts results in increased expression of the nuclear-encoded chloroplast genes GUN4 , CA1 , HEMA1 , LHCB2.1, CHLH after treatment with Norflurazon (NF) and that this increase correlates to FC1 gene expression and haem production measured by feedback inhibition of protochlorophyllide synthesis. Targeting FC1 to mitochondria did not enhance the expression of nuclear-encoded chloroplast genes after NF treatment. The overexpression of FC1 also increased nuclear gene expression in the absence of NF treatment, demonstrating that this pathway is operational in the absence of a stress treatment. Our results therefore support the hypothesis that haem synthesis is a promotive chloroplast-to-nucleus retrograde signal. However, not all FC1 overexpression lines enhanced nuclear gene expression, suggesting there is still a lot we do not understand about the role of FC1 in this signalling pathway. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Retrograde signalling from endosymbiotic organelles’.

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