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Tanaka S, Kerfeld CA, Sawaya MR, Cai F, Heinhorst S, Cannon GC, Yeates TO. Atomic-Level Models of the Bacterial Carboxysome Shell. Science 2008; 319:1083-6. [DOI: 10.1126/science.1151458] [Citation(s) in RCA: 321] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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Cannon GC, Bradburne CE, Aldrich HC, Baker SH, Heinhorst S, Shively JM. Microcompartments in prokaryotes: carboxysomes and related polyhedra. Appl Environ Microbiol 2001; 67:5351-61. [PMID: 11722879 PMCID: PMC93316 DOI: 10.1128/aem.67.12.5351-5361.2001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 183] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
Affiliation(s)
- G C Cannon
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, Mississippi 39406-5043, USA.
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McCormick PM, Cannon GC, Heinhorst S. Expression of the copper metallothionein CUPI from Saccharomyces cerevisiae in the cyanobacterium Synechococcus R2-PIM8(smtA). Curr Microbiol 1999; 38:155-62. [PMID: 9922466 DOI: 10.1007/pl00006780] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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The coding sequence for Saccharomyces cerevisiae copper metallothionein (CUPI), the protein responsible for enhanced sequestration of Cu2+ in yeast, was placed under the control of an inducible synthetic Escherichia coli promoter in the cyanobacterial vector pTrcIK. Strain R2-PIM8(smtA) of Synechococcus sp. PCC 7942 was transformed with the resulting construct pMcK2, and the yeast CUPI gene was integrated into its genome via homologous recombination. The pMcK2 plasmid directed the synthesis of a protein product of the expected size in an in vitro E. coli transcription/translation system. In the transgenic cyanobacteria, the integrated CUPI gene was transcribed and produced a protein product with the expected metallothionein characteristics, as determined by 109Cd2+ binding assays. At this level of expression, the yeast metallothionein, although functional, did not increase the tolerance range of the transgenic Synechococcus to Cu2+ or Cd2+ beyond that of the untransformed R2-PIM8(smtA).
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- P M McCormick
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS 39406-5043, USA
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Cannon GC, Ward LN, Case CI, Heinhorst S. The 68 kDa DNA compacting nucleoid protein from soybean chloroplasts inhibits DNA synthesis in vitro. Plant Mol Biol 1999; 39:835-45. [PMID: 10350096 DOI: 10.1023/a:1006135615924] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Nucleoids were purified from chloroplasts of dividing soybean cells and their polypeptide composition analyzed by SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Of the 15-20 nucleoid-associated polypeptides, several demonstrated DNA binding activity. Upon disruption of the nucleoids with high concentrations of NaCl, a subset of these proteins and the majority of chloroplast DNA were recovered in the supernatant after centrifugation. Removal of the salt by dialysis resulted in formation of nucleoprotein complexes resembling genuine nucleoids. Purification of these structures revealed three major proteins of 68, 35 and 18 kDa. After purification of the 68 kDa protein to homogeneity, this protein was able to compact purified chloroplast DNA into a nucleoid-like structure in a protein concentration-dependent fashion. Addition of the 68 kDa protein to an in vitro chloroplast DNA replication system resulted in complete inhibition of nucleotide incorporation at concentrations above 300 ng of 68 kDa protein per microg of template DNA. These results led to in situ immunofluorescence studies of chloroplasts replicating DNA which suggested that newly synthesized DNA is not co-localized with nucleoids. Presumably, either the plastid replication machinery has means of removing nucleoid proteins prior to replication or the concentration of nucleoid proteins is tightly regulated and the proteins turned over in order to allow replication to proceed.
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- G C Cannon
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg 39406-4043, USA
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A DNA polymerase was partially purified and characterized from the photosynthetic organelles (cyanelles) of the protist, Cyanophora paradoxa. While cyanelles have several cyanobacterial features, such as a lysozyme-sensitive cell wall, unstacked thylakoids and light harvesting phycobilisomes, their genome size and structure resemble those of chloroplasts, suggesting that cyanelles occupy a unique intermediate position between chloroplasts and their phylogenetic ancestors, the cyanobacteria. When comparing the biochemical characteristics of the cyanelle DNA polymerase to those of its counterparts from higher plant chloroplasts and from a cyanobacterium, it is clear that the cyanelle enzyme resembles chloroplast DNA polymerases which are eukaryotic gamma-type enzymes.
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- M A White
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg 39406-5043, USA
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In order to better understand the biochemical mechanisms of DNA metabolism in chloroplasts, repair of UV induced plastome damage in vivo was determined by exposure of soybean suspension cells to UV light and subsequent quantitation of the damage remaining in nuclear and chloroplast encoded genes with time by quantitative polymerase chain reaction (QPCR). The kinetics of damage repair in the nuclear rbcS gene suggest that photoreactivation and dark mechanisms are active, while for the plastome encoded psbA gene only a light-dependent repair process was detected which is considerably slower than would be expected for photolyase-mediated photoreactivation.
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- G C Cannon
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg 39406-5043, USA
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Bailey JC, Heinhorst S, Cannon GC. Accuracy of Deoxynucleotide Incorporation by Soybean Chloroplast DNA Polymerases Is Independent of the Presence of a 3[prime] to 5[prime] Exonuclease. Plant Physiol 1995; 107:1277-1284. [PMID: 12228434 PMCID: PMC157262 DOI: 10.1104/pp.107.4.1277] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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DNA polymerase was purified from soybean (Glycine max) chloroplasts that were actively replicating DNA. The main form (form I) of the enzyme was associated with a low level of 3[prime] to 5[prime] exonuclease activity throughout purification, although the ratio of exonuclease to polymerase activity decreased with each successive purification step. A second form (form II) of DNA polymerase, which elutes from DEAE-cellulose at a higher salt concentration than form I, was devoid of any exonuclease activity. To assess the potential function of the 3[prime] to 5[prime] exonuclease in proofreading, the fidelity of deoxynucleotide incorporation was measured for form I DNA polymerase throughout purification. Despite the steadily decreasing ratio of 3[prime] to 5[prime] exonuclease to polymerase activity, the extent of misincorporation by form I enzyme remained unchanged during the final purification steps, suggesting that the exonuclease did not contribute to the accuracy of DNA synthesis by this polymerase. Fidelity of form I DNA polymerase, when compared with that of form II, revealed a higher level of misincorporation for form I enzyme, a finding that is consistent with the exonuclease playing little or no role in exonucleolytic proofreading.
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- J. C. Bailey
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, Mississippi 39406
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Hedrick LA, Heinhorst S, White MA, Cannon GC. Analysis of soybean chloroplast DNA replication by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis. Plant Mol Biol 1993; 23:779-92. [PMID: 8251631 DOI: 10.1007/bf00021533] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Chloroplast DNA replication was studied in the green, autotrophic suspension culture line SB-1 of Glycine max. Three regions (restriction fragments Sac I 14.5, Pvu II 4.1 and Pvu II 14.8) on the plastome were identified that displayed significantly higher template activity in in vitro DNA replication assays than all other cloned restriction fragments of the organelle genome, suggesting that these clones contain sequences that are able to direct initiation of DNA replication in vitro. In order to confirm that the potential in vitro origin sites are functional in vivo as well, replication intermediates were analyzed by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis using cloned restriction fragments as probes. The two Pvu II fragments that supported deoxynucleotide incorporation in vitro apparently do not contain a functional in vivo replication origin since replication intermediates from these areas of the plastome represent only fork structures. The Sac I 14.5 chloroplast DNA fragment, on the other hand, showed intermediates consistent with a replication bubble originating within its borders, which is indicative of an active in vivo origin. Closer examination of cloned Sac I 14.5 sub-fragments confirmed high template activity in vitro for two, S/B 5 and S/B 3, which also seem to contain origin sites utilized in vivo as determined by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis. The types of replication intermediate patterns obtained for these sub-fragments are consistent with the double D-loop model for chloroplast DNA replication with both origins being located in the large unique region of the plastome [17, 18]. This is the first report of a chloroplast DNA replication origin in higher plants that has been directly tested for in vivo function.
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- L A Hedrick
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg 39406-5043
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Meissner K, Heinhorst S, Cannon GC, Börner T. Purification and characterization of a gamma-like DNA polymerase from Chenopodium album L. Nucleic Acids Res 1993; 21:4893-9. [PMID: 8177736 PMCID: PMC311402 DOI: 10.1093/nar/21.21.4893] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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A DNA polymerase activity from mitochondria of the dicotyledonous angiosperm Chenopodium album L. was purified almost 9000 fold by successive column chromatography steps on DEAE cellulose, heparin agarose and ssDNA cellulose. The enzyme was characterized as a gamma-class polymerase, based on its resistance to inhibitors of the nuclear DNA polymerase alpha and its preference for poly(rA).(dT)12-18 over activated DNA in vitro. The molecular weight was estimated to be 80,000-90,000. A 3' to 5' exonuclease activity was found to be tightly associated with the DNA polymerase activity through all purification steps. This is the first report of an association between a DNA polymerase and an exonuclease activity in plant mitochondria.
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- K Meissner
- FB Biologie, Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Germany
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Chloroplasts contain multiple copies of a DNA molecule (the plastome) that encodes many of the gene products required to perform photosynthesis. The plastome is replicated by nuclear-encoded proteins and its copy number seems to be highly regulated by the cell in a tissue-specific and developmental manner. Our understanding of the biochemical mechanism by which the plastome is replicated and the molecular basis for its regulation is limited. In this commentary we review our present understanding of chloroplast DNA replication and examine current efforts to elucidate its mechanism at a molecular level.
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A DNA polymerase has been highly purified from Anacystis nidulans R2. Electrophoretic analysis in sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gels revealed that the final fraction contains three bands of Mr 107,000, 93,000, and 51,000, respectively. Analysis of purified DNA polymerase activity in situ indicates that of the three polypeptides the Mr 107,000 species has the catalytic activities. The native molecular weight of the enzyme was estimated by glycerol gradient sedimentation to be 100,000. The enzyme has an absolute requirement for a divalent cation. Mg2+ can be replaced with Mn2+, but the DNA polymerase is less active. Potassium chloride stimulates the enzyme, while potassium phosphate has no apparent effect. The enzyme is active over a pH range from 7.5 to 9.5 in 50mM Tris-HCl buffer. The ability of the cyanobacterial DNA polymerase to use activated DNA as a template, its associated 3'----5' and 5'----3' exonuclease activities, as well as its resistance to N-ethylmaleimide, dideoxynucleotides, arabinosyl-CTP and aphidicolin suggest a similarity between this enzyme and E. coli DNA polymerase I. This is the first characterization of a DNA polymerase from a cyanobacterium.
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- H J Lin
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg 39406
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A DNA helicase activity was detected in extracts of purified chloroplasts from the SB-1 cell line of Glycine max and partially purified by column chromatography on DEAE cellulose, phosphocellulose, and single-stranded DNA cellulose. The chloroplast helicase has a DNA-dependent ATPase activity, and its strand displacement activity is strictly dependent upon the presence of a nucleoside triphosphate and Mg2+ or Mn2+. Strand displacement activity does not require a free unannealed single-strand or replication fork-like structure.
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- G C Cannon
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg 39406
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DNA polymerases were purified from chloroplasts and mitochondria of cultured Glycine max cells. The chloroplast enzyme exists in two forms which are indistinguishable from each other biochemically. All three organellar enzymes have an estimated molecular weight of 85,000 to 90,000 and prefer poly(rA)dT(12-18) over activated DNA as a template in vitro. Maximum activity of the chloroplast and mitochondrial DNA polymerases requires KCl and a reducing agent, and the enzymes are completely resistant to inhibitors of DNA polymerase alpha. Taken together, these properties classify the soybean organellar enzymes as DNA polymerases gamma. A unique feature that distinguishes the plant enzymes from their animal counterparts is their resistance to dideoxyribonucleotides.
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- S Heinhorst
- Department of Chemistry, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, Mississippi 39406
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Cannon GC, Van KT, Heinhorst S, Trinh TH, Weissbach A. An Examination of the Plastid DNA of Hypohaploid Nicotiana plumbaginifolia Plants. Plant Physiol 1989; 90:390-3. [PMID: 16666781 PMCID: PMC1061734 DOI: 10.1104/pp.90.2.390] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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DNA was extracted from different morphological types of hypohaploid Nicotiana plumbaginifolia plants. The cellular levels of chloroplast DNA (expressed as percent of total DNA) were found to be approximately two- to threefold higher in two albino hypohaploids than in a green hypohaploid. The level of chloroplast DNA in the green hypohaploid was not significantly different from either in vitro or in vivo grown haploid N. plumbaginifolia plants. Molecular hybridization with DNA probes for the large subunit of ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase from spinach and with Pvull fragments representing the entire Nicotiana tabacum chloroplast genome revealed no gross qualitative differences in the chloroplast DNAs of hypohaploid plants. Based on these observations we have concluded that the lack of chloroplast function observed in the albino forms of hypohaploid N. plumbaginifolia plants is not due to changes in the chloroplast genome.
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- G C Cannon
- Department of Chemistry, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, Mississippi 39401
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Cannon GC, Heinhorst S, Weissbach A. Organellar DNA synthesis in permeabilized soybean cells. Plant Mol Biol 1986; 7:331-341. [PMID: 24302403 DOI: 10.1007/bf00032563] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/1986] [Revised: 07/01/1986] [Accepted: 07/08/1986] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Cultured cells of Glycine max (L.) Merr. v. Corsoy were permeabilized by treatment with L-α-lysophosphatidylcholine (LPC). The permeabilized cells were capable of uptake and incorporation of deoxynucleoside triphosphates into DNA. Incorporation of exogenous nucleotides into DNA was linear for at least 90 minutes and the initial rate of incorporation approached 50% of the theoretical in vivo rate of DNA synthesis. However, DNA synthesis in the permeabilized cells was unaffected by the potent DNA polymerase α inhibitor, aphidicolin. Analysis of newly synthesized DNA by molecular hybridization revealed that only organellar DNA was synthesized by the permeabilized cells. The LPC treated cells were also permeable to a protein as large as DNase I. The permeabilized cells were capable of RNA and protein synthesis as indicated by incorporation of radiolabeled UTP and leucine, respectively, into acid-precipitable material.
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- G C Cannon
- Department of Cell Biology, Roche Institute of Molecular Biology, Roche Research Center, 07110, Nutley, NJ, U.S.A
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The levels of chloroplast DNA in a cultured photoautotrophic soybean (Glycine max [L.] Merr. v Corsoy) cell line were determined by molecular hybridization. The cells were also grown photomixotrophically and heterotrophically as suspension cultures and the level of plastid DNA was found to be constant at approximately 26% of the total cellular DNA in all three growth modes. By comparison, total cellular DNA extracted from plants of the same variety used as the explant source for the cultured cells contained 12.3 to 18.9% (leaves and seeds) and 6.1 to 8.9% (roots) plastid DNA.
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- G Cannon
- Department of Cell Biology, Roche Institute of Molecular Biology, Roche Research Center, Nutley, New Jersey 07110
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A study of DNA hybridization to DNA covalently bound to nylon membranes was made in order to develop a quantitative method for molecular hybridization using a nylon-based matrix. Chloroplast DNA was covalently attached to nylon membranes by irradiation at 254 nm. Under hybridization conditions the initial rate of DNA loss from the nylon membranes was 5-10% per 24 h, while under comparable conditions DNA bound to nitrocellulose membranes was lost at a rate of 38 to 61% per 24 h. Several sets of hybridization conditions were examined to select one giving reasonable hybridization rates and minimal loss of bound DNA. Under the conditions selected [Denhardt's solution (D. Denhardt, 1966, Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 23, 641-646), 0.5 M NaCl, 0.1% sodium dodecyl sulfate, and 31.4% formamide at 50 degrees C for 92 h], hybridization was observed to be 29% more efficient on nylon membranes than on nitrocellulose. Several attempts to remove previously hybridized DNA from nylon membranes proved only partially successful. Reuse of the membranes, therefore, was of limited value. Quantitative hybridization of total radiolabeled tobacco cellular DNA to cloned tobacco chloroplast DNA attached to nylon yielded results similar to those previously reported using nitrocellulose membranes. However, use of nylon membranes greatly facilitated the manipulations required in the procedure.
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Heinhorst S, Cannon G, Weissbach A. Chloroplast DNA synthesis during the cell cycle in cultured cells of Nicotiana tabacum: inhibition by nalidixic acid and hydroxyurea. Arch Biochem Biophys 1985; 239:475-9. [PMID: 2988450 DOI: 10.1016/0003-9861(85)90714-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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The effects of nalidixic acid and hydroxyurea on nuclear and chloroplast DNA formation in cultured cells of Nicotiana tabacum were investigated. At low concentrations (5 and 20 micrograms/ml) nalidixic acid, an inhibitor of DNA gyrase, exhibited a greater inhibitory effect on plastid DNA synthesis than on nuclear DNA formation. Since the plastid genome is a circular double-stranded DNA, this is consistent with the proven involvement of a DNA gyrase in the replication of closed circular duplex DNA genomes in procaryotic cells. At a high concentration of nalidixic acid (50 micrograms/ml), DNA synthesis in both the plastid and nuclear compartment was rapidly inhibited. Removal of the drug from the culture medium led to the resumption of DNA synthesis in 8 h. Hydroxyurea, an inhibitor of ribonucleoside diphosphate reductase, also depresses nuclear as well as plastid DNA formation. Removal of hydroxyurea from the blocked cells leads to a burst of nuclear DNA synthesis, suggesting that the cells had been synchronized at the G1/S boundary. The recovery of plastid DNA synthesis occurs within the same time frame as that of nuclear DNA. However, whereas plastid DNA formation is then maintained at a constant rate, nuclear DNA synthesis reaches a peak and subsequently declines. These results indicate that the synthesis of plastid DNA is independent of the cell cycle events governing nuclear DNA formation in cultured plant cells.
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Cannon G, Heinhorst S, Siedlecki J, Weissbach A. Chloroplast DNA synthesis in light and dark grown cultured Nicotiana tabacum cells as determined by molecular hybridization. Plant Cell Rep 1985; 4:41-45. [PMID: 24253680 DOI: 10.1007/bf00269202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/1984] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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A simple method using molecular hybridization was devised to quantitatively measure chloroplast DNA synthesis in vivo. Total cellular DNA isolated from Nicotiana tabacum suspension cells, labeled with (3)H-thymidine, was hybridized to nitrocellulose membrane-bound cloned chloroplast DNA (ct DNA) fragments. Colorless, dark grown N. tabacum cells were found to contain approximately 3300-4800 chloroplast genome copies per cell, whereas light grown, green cells contain about 9500-12000 chloroplast genomes per cell. This difference in ct DNA levels suggests that the chloroplast genome is somewhat amplified during growth of the cells in the light. The hybridization technique was also used to measure the efficiency of hybridization between cloned spinach ct DNA and tobacco ct DNA. The two DNAs were found to cross-hybridize with an efficiency of 69-75%.
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- G Cannon
- Department of Cell Biology, Roche Institute of Molecular Biology, Roche Research Center, 07110, Nutley, NJ, USA
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Heinhorst S, Cannon G, Weissbach A. Plastid and nuclear DNA synthesis are not coupled in suspension cells ofNicotiana tabacum. Plant Mol Biol 1985; 4:3-12. [PMID: 24310651 DOI: 10.1007/bf02498710] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/01/1984] [Revised: 07/17/1984] [Accepted: 07/23/1984] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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The relationship between nuclear and plastid DNA synthesis in cultured tobacco cells was measured by following(3)H-thymidine incorporation into total cellular DNA in the absence or presence of specific inhibitors. Plastid DNA synthesis was determined by hybridization of total radiolabeled cellular DNA to cloned chloroplast DNA.Cycloheximide, an inhibitor of nuclear encoded cytoplasmic protein synthesis, caused a rapid and severe inhibition of nuclear DNA synthesis and a delayed inhibition of plastid DNA synthesis. By contrast, chloramphenicol which only inhibits plastid and mitochondrial protein production, shows little inhibition of either nuclear or plastid DNA synthesis even after 24 h of exposure to the cells.The inhibition of nuclear DNA synthesis by aphidicolin, which specifically blocks the nuclear DNA polymeraseα, has no significant effect on plastid DNA formation. Conversely, the restraint of plastid DNA synthesis exerted by low levels of ethidium bromide has no effect on nuclear DNA synthesis.These results show that the synthesis of plastid and nuclear DNA are not coupled to one another. However, both genomes require the formation of cytoplasmic proteins for their replication, though our data suggest that different proteins regulate the biosynthesis of nuclear and plastid DNA.
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- S Heinhorst
- Department of Cell Biology, Roche Institute of Molecular Biology, Roche Research Center, 07110, Nutley, NJ, USA
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