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TRANSFER OF PROTEINS FROM THE CHLOROPLAST TO VACUOLES IN CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII (CHLOROPHYTA): A PATHWAY FOR DEGRADATION
Author(s) -
Park Hyoungshin,
Eggink Laura L.,
Roberson Robert W.,
Hoober J. Kenneth
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
journal of phycology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.85
H-Index - 127
eISSN - 1529-8817
pISSN - 0022-3646
DOI - 10.1046/j.1529-8817.1999.3530528.x
Subject(s) - chloroplast , biology , chlamydomonas reinhardtii , chloroplast membrane , vacuole , endomembrane system , pyrenoid , immunoelectron microscopy , chloroplast stroma , chlamydomonas , thylakoid , microbiology and biotechnology , golgi apparatus , contractile vacuole , vesicle , biophysics , cytoplasm , biochemistry , membrane , endoplasmic reticulum , mutant , immunohistochemistry , gene , immunology
Several chloroplast proteins were detected by immunoelectron microscopy within dense granules in cytoplasmic vacuoles in the alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Dangeard. Transfer from chloroplast to vacuoles of two major, pulse‐labeled polypeptides, the large subunit of rubisco and the α subunit of ATPase, which are synthesized on chloroplast ribosomes, was demonstrated by the recovery of these polypeptides in vacuolar granules over a several‐hour time period. The ultrastructure of cryofixed algal cells was examined to search for structures that would provide insight into the transfer of chloroplast proteins to vacuoles. Micrographs showed that the two membranes of the envelope were appressed, with no detectable intermembrane space, over most of the chloroplast surface. Protrusions of the outer membrane of the envelope were occasionally found that enclosed stroma, with particles similar in size to chloroplast ribosomes, but generally not thylakoid membranes. These observations suggest that chloroplast material, especially the stromal phase, was extruded from the chloroplast in membrane‐bound structures, which then interacted with Golgi‐derived vesicles for degradation of the contents by typical lysosomal activities. A protein normally targeted to vacuoles through the endomembrane system for incorporation into the cell wall was detected in Golgi structures and vacuolar granules but not the chloroplast.