LOEWE-Zentrum für Synthetische Mikrobiologie (SynMikro), Hans-Meerwein-Strasse, Marburg, Germany.
Genome Biol Evol. 2011;3:375-82. doi: 10.1093/gbe/evr031. Epub 2011 Apr 17.
Algae with secondary plastids such as diatoms maintain two different eukaryotic cytoplasms. One of them, the so-called periplastidal compartment (PPC), is the naturally minimized cytoplasm of a eukaryotic endosymbiont. In order to investigate the protein composition of the PPC of diatoms, we applied knowledge of the targeting signals of PPC-directed proteins in searches of the genome data for proteins acting in the PPC and proved their in vivo localization via expressing green fluorescent protein (GFP) fusions. Our investigation increased the knowledge of the protein content of the PPC approximately 3-fold and thereby indicated that this narrow compartment was functionally reduced to some important cellular functions with nearly no housekeeping biochemical pathways.
具有次级质体(如硅藻)的藻类维持着两种不同的真核细胞质。其中之一,所谓的周质腔(PPC),是一种真核内共生体自然最小化的细胞质。为了研究硅藻 PPC 的蛋白质组成,我们应用了 PPC 定向蛋白靶向信号的知识,在基因组数据中搜索作用于 PPC 的蛋白,并通过表达绿色荧光蛋白(GFP)融合体来证明它们的体内定位。我们的研究使 PPC 的蛋白质含量增加了约 3 倍,从而表明这个狭窄的腔室在功能上已经减少到一些重要的细胞功能,几乎没有维持生物化学途径。