Prospective function of FtsZ proteins in the secondary plastid of chlorarachniophyte algae.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Division of double-membraned plastids (primary plastids) is performed by constriction of a ring-like division complex consisting of multiple plastid division proteins. Consistent with the endosymbiotic origin of primary plastids, some of the plastid division proteins are descended from cyanobacterial cell division machinery, and the others are of host origin. In several algal lineages, complex plastids, the "secondary plastids", have been acquired by the endosymbiotic uptake of primary plastid-bearing algae, and are surrounded by three or four membranes. Although homologous genes for primary plastid division proteins have been found in genome sequences of secondary plastid-bearing organisms, little is known about the function of these proteins or the mechanism of seconda

SUBMITTER: Hirakawa Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4641359 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature