Spatial organization of thylakoid network in higher plants

Kowalewska, Łucja; Bykowski, Michał; Mostowska, Agnieszka

doi:10.1080/23818107.2019.1619195

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“…The prolamellar body (PLB) is a unique periodic bicontinuous membrane structure of angiosperm etioplasts. It is formed mainly in young, light-deprived tissues having a photosynthetic potential when exposed to light (reviewed in Solymosi and Aronsson, 2013 ; Pogson et al, 2015 ; Kowalewska et al, 2019 ). Therefore, PLBs are persistent structures of plastids in cotyledons or the first true leaves of dark-germinating seedlings, but are also present in, e.g., close buds of some species ( Solymosi and Böddi, 2006 ; Solymosi and Schoefs, 2010 ).…”

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Spatial Nano-Morphology of the Prolamellar Body in Etiolated Arabidopsis thaliana Plants With Disturbed Pigment and Polyprenol Composition

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Mazur

Buszewicz

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Front. Cell Dev. Biol.

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Spatial Nano-Morphology of the Prolamellar Body in Etiolated Arabidopsis thaliana Plants With Disturbed Pigment and Polyprenol Composition

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Buszewicz

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“…Other, findings of reconstructions of serial sections are reviewed in Mustardy (1996), Mustardy and Garab (2003), and Mustardy et al (2008). Wehrmeyer's (1964) concept of spiral-cyclical growth of grana stacks indicates that the helical structure is present at the periphery of a granum from its earliest stage of formation (see also Mustardy 1996;Liang et al 2018;Kowalewska et al 2019). During the later stages of chloroplast development, additional stroma thylakoid helices are added to the initial one, either by splitting of the initial helix, or by conjoining of a grana stack with a ramification of a nearby stroma thylakoid (Brangeon and Mustardy 1979;Mustardy 1996).…”

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A brief history of how microscopic studies led to the elucidation of the 3D architecture and macromolecular organization of higher plant thylakoids

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Paolillo

2020

Photosynth Res

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Microscopic studies of chloroplasts can be traced back to the year 1678 when Antonie van Leeuwenhoek reported to the Royal Society in London that he saw green globules in grass leaf cells with his single-lens microscope. Since then, microscopic studies have continued to contribute critical insights into the complex architecture of chloroplast membranes and how their structure relates to function. This review is organized into three chronological sections: During the classic light microscope period (1678–1940), the development of improved microscopes led to the identification of green grana, a colorless stroma, and a membrane envelope. More recent (1990–2020) chloroplast dynamic studies have benefited from laser confocal and 3D-structured illumination microscopy. The development of the transmission electron microscope (1940–2000) and thin sectioning techniques demonstrated that grana consist of stacks of closely appressed grana thylakoids interconnected by non-appressed stroma thylakoids. When the stroma thylakoids were shown to spiral around the grana stacks as multiple right-handed helices, it was confirmed that the membranes of a chloroplast are all interconnected. Freeze-fracture and freeze-etch methods verified the helical nature of the stroma thylakoids, while also providing precise information on how the electron transport chain and ATP synthase complexes are non-randomly distributed between grana and stroma membrane regions. The last section (2000–2020) focuses on the most recent discoveries made possible by atomic force microscopy of hydrated membranes, and electron tomography and cryo-electron tomography of cryofixed thylakoids. These investigations have provided novel insights into thylakoid architecture and plastoglobules (summarized in a new thylakoid model), while also producing molecular-scale views of grana and stroma thylakoids in which individual functional complexes can be identified.

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“…In the mitochondria of amoeba cells, cubic membrane formation was induced by starvation and/or autophagy processes, where they were slowing the degradation of the organelle and thus contributed to the survival of the cell upon stress conditions (Chong et al, 2017). The prolamellar bodies present in the etioplasts or etio-chloroplasts of dark-grown plants represent another well-known group of cubic phase membranes present in nature [reviewed in Solymosi and Schoefs (2010), Solymosi and Aronsson (2013), Kowalewska et al (2019)]. Due to their very high surface-to-volume ratio, prolamellar bodies are thought to serve as a membrane reserve that can be quickly converted into a large photosynthetic membrane network upon lightdark transition of for instance seedlings germinating in the soil (Ferroni et al, 2009;Kakuszi et al, 2017) or leaf primordia of buds after bud break .…”

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The Effect of Light on Plastid Differentiation, Chlorophyll Biosynthesis, and Essential Oil Composition in Rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis) Leaves and Cotyledons

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It is unclear whether light affects the structure and activity of exogenous secretory tissues like glandular hairs. Therefore, transmission electron microscopy was first used to study plastid differentiation in glandular hairs and leaves of light-grown rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis "Arp") plants kept for 2 weeks under ambient light conditions. During our detailed analyses, among others, we found leucoplasts with tubuloreticular membrane structures resembling prolamellar bodies in stalk cell plastids of peltate glandular hairs. To study the effect of darkness on plastid differentiation, we then dark-forced adult, light-grown rosemary plants for 2 weeks and observed occasionally the development of new shoots with elongated internodes and pale leaves on them. Absorption and fluorescence spectroscopic analyses of the chlorophyllous pigment contents, the native arrangement of the pigment-protein complexes and photosynthetic activity confirmed that the first and second pairs of leaf primordia of darkforced shoots were partially etiolated (contained low amounts of protochlorophyll/ide and residual chlorophylls, had etio-chloroplasts with prolamellar bodies and low grana, and impaired photosynthesis). Darkness did not influence plastid structure in fifth leaves or secretory tissues (except for head cells of peltate glandular hairs in which rarely tubuloreticular membranes appeared). The mesophyll cells of cotyledons of 2week-old dark-germinated rosemary seedlings contained etioplasts with highly regular prolamellar bodies similar to those in mesophyll etio-chloroplasts of leaves and clearly differing from tubuloreticular membranes of secretory cells. Analyses of the essential oil composition obtained after solid phase microextraction and gas chromatography-mass spectroscopy showed that in addition to light, the age of the studied organ (i.e., first leaf primordia and leaf tip vs. fifth, fully developed green leaves) and the type of the organ

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Spatial organization of thylakoid network in higher plants

Cited by 23 publications

References 116 publications

Spatial Nano-Morphology of the Prolamellar Body in Etiolated Arabidopsis thaliana Plants With Disturbed Pigment and Polyprenol Composition

Spatial Nano-Morphology of the Prolamellar Body in Etiolated Arabidopsis thaliana Plants With Disturbed Pigment and Polyprenol Composition

A brief history of how microscopic studies led to the elucidation of the 3D architecture and macromolecular organization of higher plant thylakoids

The Effect of Light on Plastid Differentiation, Chlorophyll Biosynthesis, and Essential Oil Composition in Rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis) Leaves and Cotyledons

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