Affiliation:
1. Center for Plant Molecular Biology (ZMBP), University of Tübingen, 72076 Tübingen, Germany
Abstract
Plastids in plants are assumed to have evolved from cyanobacteria as they have maintained several bacterial features. Recently, peptidoglycans, as bacterial cell wall components, have been shown to exist in the envelopes of moss chloroplasts. Phylogenomic comparisons of bacterial and plant genomes have raised the question of whether such structures are also part of chloroplasts in angiosperms. To address this question, we visualized canonical amino acids of peptidoglycan around chloroplasts of Arabidopsis and Nicotiana via click chemistry and fluorescence microscopy. Additional detection by different peptidoglycan-binding proteins from bacteria and animals supported this observation. Further Arabidopsis experiments with D-cycloserine and AtMurE knock-out lines, both affecting putative peptidoglycan biosynthesis, revealed a central role of this pathway in plastid genesis and division. Taken together, these results indicate that peptidoglycans are integral parts of plastids in the whole plant lineage. Elucidating their biosynthesis and further roles in the function of these organelles is yet to be achieved.
Funder
Open Access Publishing Fund of University of Tübingen
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