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Iron-Sulfur Cluster Biosynthesis in Algae with Complex Plastids.


ABSTRACT: Plastids surrounded by four membranes harbor a special compartment between the outer and inner plastid membrane pair, the so-called periplastidal compartment (PPC). This cellular structure is usually presumed to be the reduced cytoplasm of a eukaryotic phototrophic endosymbiont, which was integrated into a host cell and streamlined into a plastid with a complex membrane structure. Up to date, no mitochondrion or mitochondrion-related organelle has been identified in the PPC of any representative. However, two prominent groups, the cryptophytes and the chlorarachniophytes, still harbor a reduced cell nucleus of symbiont origin, the nucleomorph, in their PPCs. Generally, many cytoplasmic and nucleus-located eukaryotic proteins need an iron-sulfur cofactor for their functionality. Beside some exceptions, their synthesis is depending on a so-called iron-sulfur complex (ISC) assembly machinery located in the mitochondrion. This machinery provides the cytoplasm with a still unknown sulfur component, which is then converted into iron-sulfur clusters via a cytosolic iron-sulfur protein assembly (CIA) machinery. Here, we investigated if a CIA machinery is present in mitochondrion-lacking PPCs. By using bioinformatic screens and in vivo-localizations of candidate proteins, we show that the presence of a PPC-specific CIA machinery correlates with the presence of a nucleomorph. Phylogenetic analyses of PPC- and host specific CIA components additionally indicate a complex evolution of the CIA machineries in organisms having plastids surrounded by four membranes.

SUBMITTER: Grosche C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6105332 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Iron-Sulfur Cluster Biosynthesis in Algae with Complex Plastids.

Grosche Christopher C   Diehl Angelika A   Rensing Stefan A SA   Maier Uwe G UG  

Genome biology and evolution 20180801 8


Plastids surrounded by four membranes harbor a special compartment between the outer and inner plastid membrane pair, the so-called periplastidal compartment (PPC). This cellular structure is usually presumed to be the reduced cytoplasm of a eukaryotic phototrophic endosymbiont, which was integrated into a host cell and streamlined into a plastid with a complex membrane structure. Up to date, no mitochondrion or mitochondrion-related organelle has been identified in the PPC of any representative  ...[more]

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