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@ARTICLE{Oberleitner:888273,
author = {Oberleitner, Linda and Poschmann, Gereon and Macorano, Luis
and Schott-Verdugo, Stephan and Gohlke, Holger and Stühler,
Kai and Nowack, Eva C. M.},
title = {{T}he {P}uzzle of {M}etabolite {E}xchange and
{I}dentification of {P}utative {O}ctotrico {P}eptide
{R}epeat {E}xpression {R}egulators in the {N}ascent
{P}hotosynthetic {O}rganelles of {P}aulinella chromatophora},
journal = {Frontiers in microbiology},
volume = {11},
issn = {1664-302X},
address = {Lausanne},
publisher = {Frontiers Media},
reportid = {FZJ-2020-04800},
pages = {607182},
year = {2020},
abstract = {The endosymbiotic acquisition of mitochondria and plastids
more than one billion years ago was central for the
evolution of eukaryotic life. However, owing to their
ancient origin, these organelles provide only limited
insights into the initial stages of organellogenesis. The
cercozoan amoeba Paulinella chromatophora contains
photosynthetic organelles—termed chromatophores—that
evolved from a cyanobacterium ∼100 million years ago,
independently from plastids in plants and algae. Despite the
more recent origin of the chromatophore, it shows tight
integration into the host cell. It imports hundreds of
nucleus-encoded proteins, and diverse metabolites are
continuously exchanged across the two chromatophore envelope
membranes. However, the limited set of chromatophore-encoded
solute transporters appears insufficient for supporting
metabolic connectivity or protein import. Furthermore,
chromatophore-localized biosynthetic pathways as well as
multiprotein complexes include proteins of dual genetic
origin, suggesting that mechanisms evolved that coordinate
gene expression levels between chromatophore and nucleus.
These findings imply that similar to the situation in
mitochondria and plastids, also in P. chromatophora nuclear
factors evolved that control metabolite exchange and gene
expression in the chromatophore. Here we show by mass
spectrometric analyses of enriched insoluble protein
fractions that, unexpectedly, nucleus-encoded transporters
are not inserted into the chromatophore inner envelope
membrane. Thus, despite the apparent maintenance of its
barrier function, canonical metabolite transporters are
missing in this membrane. Instead we identified several
expanded groups of short chromatophore-targeted orphan
proteins. Members of one of these groups are characterized
by a single transmembrane helix, and others contain
amphipathic helices. We hypothesize that these proteins are
involved in modulating membrane permeability. Thus, the
mechanism generating metabolic connectivity of the
chromatophore fundamentally differs from the one for
mitochondria and plastids, but likely rather resembles the
poorly understood mechanism in various bacterial
endosymbionts in plants and insects. Furthermore, our mass
spectrometric analysis revealed an expanded family of
chromatophore-targeted helical repeat proteins. These
proteins show similar domain architectures as known
organelle-targeted expression regulators of the octotrico
peptide repeat type in algae and plants. Apparently these
chromatophore-targeted proteins evolved convergently to
plastid-targeted expression regulators and are likely
involved in gene expression control in the chromatophore.},
cin = {IBI-7 / JSC / NIC},
ddc = {570},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IBI-7-20200312 / I:(DE-Juel1)JSC-20090406 /
I:(DE-Juel1)NIC-20090406},
pnm = {511 - Computational Science and Mathematical Methods
(POF3-511) / Forschergruppe Gohlke $(hkf7_20200501)$},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-511 / $G:(DE-Juel1)hkf7_20200501$},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
pubmed = {33329499},
UT = {WOS:000597304700001},
doi = {10.3389/fmicb.2020.607182},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/888273},
}