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Two Mechanosensitive Channel Homologs Influence Division Ring Placement in Arabidopsis Chloroplasts
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Journal Article
Two Mechanosensitive Channel Homologs Influence Division Ring Placement in Arabidopsis Chloroplasts
2011
Overview
Chloroplasts must divide repeatedly to maintain their population during plant growth and development. A number of proteins required for chloroplast division have been identified, and the functional relationships between them are beginning to be elucidated. In both chloroplasts and bacteria, the future site of division is specified by placement of the Filamentous temperature sensitive Z (FtsZ) ring, and the Min system serves to restrict FtsZ ring formation to mid-chloroplast or mid-cell. How the Min system is regulated in response to environmental and developmental factors is largely unstudied. Here, we investigated the role in chloroplast division played by two Arabidopsis thaliana homologs of the bacterial mechanosensitive (MS) channel MscS: MscS-Like 2 (MSL2) and MSL3. Immunofluorescence microscopy and live imaging approaches demonstrated that msl2 msl3 double mutants have enlarged chloroplasts containing multiple FtsZ rings. Genetic analyses indicate that MSL2, MSL3, and components of the Min system function in the same pathway to regulate chloroplast size and FtsZ ring formation. In addition, an Escherichia coli strain lacking MS channels also showed aberrant FtsZ ring assembly. These results establish MS channels as components of the chloroplast division machinery and suggest that their role is evolutionarily conserved.
Publisher
American Society of Plant Biologists
Subject
/ Arabidopsis - ultrastructure
/ Arabidopsis Proteins - genetics
/ Arabidopsis Proteins - metabolism
/ bacteria
/ Chloroplasts - ultrastructure
/ E coli
/ Escherichia coli - metabolism
/ Gene Expression Regulation, Plant
/ Gene Expression Regulation, Plant - physiology
/ genetic techniques and protocols
/ genetics
/ mutants
/ Mutation
/ Plant Leaves - ultrastructure
/ Plants
/ Plants, Genetically Modified
/ Plastids
/ proteins
