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Chloroplast biogenesis involves spatial coordination of nuclear and organellar gene expression in Chlamydomonas.

Authors :
Sun Y
Bakhtiari S
Valente-Paterno M
Wu Y
Nishimura Y
Shen W
Law C
Dhaliwal J
Dai D
Bui KH
Zerges W
Source :
Plant physiology [Plant Physiol] 2024 Sep 02; Vol. 196 (1), pp. 112-123.
Publication Year :
2024

Abstract

The localization of translation can direct the polypeptide product to the proper intracellular compartment. Our results reveal translation by cytosolic ribosomes on a domain of the chloroplast envelope in the unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas (Chlamydomonas reinhardtii). We show that this envelope domain of isolated chloroplasts retains translationally active ribosomes and mRNAs encoding chloroplast proteins. This domain is aligned with localized translation by chloroplast ribosomes in the translation zone, a chloroplast compartment where photosystem subunits encoded by the plastid genome are synthesized and assembled. Roles of localized translation in directing newly synthesized subunits of photosynthesis complexes to discrete regions within the chloroplast for their assembly are suggested by differences in localization on the chloroplast of mRNAs encoding either subunit of the light-harvesting complex II or the small subunit of Rubisco. Transcription of the chloroplast genome is spatially coordinated with translation, as revealed by our demonstration of a subpopulation of transcriptionally active chloroplast nucleoids at the translation zone. We propose that the expression of chloroplast proteins by the nuclear-cytosolic and organellar genetic systems is organized in spatially aligned subcompartments of the cytoplasm and chloroplast to facilitate the biogenesis of the photosynthetic complexes.<br />Competing Interests: Conflict of interest statement. None declared.<br /> (© The Author(s) 2024. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of American Society of Plant Biologists.)

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
1532-2548
Volume :
196
Issue :
1
Database :
MEDLINE
Journal :
Plant physiology
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
38709497
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiae256