scholarly journals From Fuzziness to Clarity: Regulation of DRP5B Ring Dynamics at the Chloroplast Division Site

2020 ◽  
Vol 182 (4) ◽  
pp. 1802-1803
Author(s):  
Tianhu Sun
2016 ◽  
Vol 113 (47) ◽  
pp. E7629-E7638 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nobuko Sumiya ◽  
Takayuki Fujiwara ◽  
Atsuko Era ◽  
Shin-ya Miyagishima

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.


2005 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. 2493-2502 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keiji Nishida ◽  
Fumi Yagisawa ◽  
Haruko Kuroiwa ◽  
Toshiyuki Nagata ◽  
Tsuneyoshi Kuroiwa

Mitochondrial and chloroplast division controls the number and morphology of organelles, but how cells regulate organelle division remains to be clarified. Here, we show that each step of mitochondrial and chloroplast division is closely associated with the cell cycle in Cyanidioschyzon merolae. Electron microscopy revealed direct associations between the spindle pole bodies and mitochondria, suggesting that mitochondrial distribution is physically coupled with mitosis. Interconnected organelles were fractionated under microtubule-stabilizing condition. Immunoblotting analysis revealed that the protein levels required for organelle division increased before microtubule changes upon cell division, indicating that regulation of protein expression for organelle division is distinct from that of cytokinesis. At the mitochondrial division site, dynamin stuck to one of the divided mitochondria and was spatially associated with the tip of a microtubule stretching from the other one. Inhibition of microtubule organization, proteasome activity or DNA synthesis, respectively, induced arrested cells with divided but shrunk mitochondria, with divided and segregated mitochondria, or with incomplete mitochondrial division restrained at the final severance, and repetitive chloroplast division. The results indicated that mitochondrial morphology and segregation but not division depend on microtubules and implied that the division processes of the two organelles are regulated at distinct checkpoints.


2008 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 345-361 ◽  
Author(s):  
Makoto T. Fujiwara ◽  
Haruki Hashimoto ◽  
Yusuke Kazama ◽  
Tomoko Abe ◽  
Shigeo Yoshida ◽  
...  

Cell Research ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 19 (7) ◽  
pp. 877-886 ◽  
Author(s):  
Min Zhang ◽  
Yong Hu ◽  
Jingjing Jia ◽  
Dapeng Li ◽  
Runjie Zhang ◽  
...  

2003 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 655-665 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shin-ya Miyagishima ◽  
Keiji Nishida ◽  
Toshiyuki Mori ◽  
Motomichi Matsuzaki ◽  
Tetsuya Higashiyama ◽  
...  

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 862-885
Author(s):  
Cheng Chen ◽  
Lingyan Cao ◽  
Yue Yang ◽  
Katie J. Porter ◽  
Katherine W. Osteryoung

2001 ◽  
Vol 153 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stanislav Vitha ◽  
Rosemary S. McAndrew ◽  
Katherine W. Osteryoung

Among the events that accompanied the evolution of chloroplasts from their endosymbiotic ancestors was the host cell recruitment of the prokaryotic cell division protein FtsZ to function in chloroplast division. FtsZ, a structural homologue of tubulin, mediates cell division in bacteria by assembling into a ring at the midcell division site. In higher plants, two nuclear-encoded forms of FtsZ, FtsZ1 and FtsZ2, play essential and functionally distinct roles in chloroplast division, but whether this involves ring formation at the division site has not been determined previously. Using immunofluorescence microscopy and expression of green fluorescent protein fusion proteins in Arabidopsis thaliana, we demonstrate here that FtsZ1 and FtsZ2 localize to coaligned rings at the chloroplast midpoint. Antibodies specific for recognition of FtsZ1 or FtsZ2 proteins in Arabidopsis also recognize related polypeptides and detect midplastid rings in pea and tobacco, suggesting that midplastid ring formation by FtsZ1 and FtsZ2 is universal among flowering plants. Perturbation in the level of either protein in transgenic plants is accompanied by plastid division defects and assembly of FtsZ1 and FtsZ2 into filaments and filament networks not observed in wild-type, suggesting that previously described FtsZ-containing cytoskeletal-like networks in chloroplasts may be artifacts of FtsZ overexpression.


2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadine Silber ◽  
Christian Mayer ◽  
Cruz L. Matos de Opitz ◽  
Peter Sass

AbstractCell division is a central and essential process in most bacteria, and also due to its complexity and highly coordinated nature, it has emerged as a promising new antibiotic target pathway in recent years. We have previously shown that ADEP antibiotics preferably induce the degradation of the major cell division protein FtsZ, thereby primarily leading to a depletion of the cytoplasmic FtsZ pool that is needed for treadmilling FtsZ rings. To further investigate the physiological consequences of ADEP treatment, we here studied the effect of ADEP on the different stages of the FtsZ ring in rod-shaped bacteria. Our data reveal the disintegration of early FtsZ rings during ADEP treatment in Bacillus subtilis, indicating an essential role of the cytoplasmic FtsZ pool and thus FtsZ ring dynamics during initiation and maturation of the divisome. However, progressed FtsZ rings finalized cytokinesis once the septal peptidoglycan synthase PBP2b, a late-stage cell division protein, colocalized at the division site, thus implying that the concentration of the cytoplasmic FtsZ pool and FtsZ ring dynamics are less critical during the late stages of divisome assembly and progression.


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