Journal
PROTIST
Volume 163, Issue 4, Pages 658-670Publisher
ELSEVIER GMBH
DOI: 10.1016/j.protis.2011.10.004
Keywords
Budding; Chlorella sp.; digestive vacuole membrane; dynamin; endosymbiosis; Paramecium bursaria
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- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) [22870023, 22370082, 23657157]
- Inoue Foundation for Science
- Narishige Zoological Science Award
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [22370082, 24770228, 23657157, 22870023] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Cells of the ciliate Paramecium bursaria harbor symbiotic Chlorella spp. in their cytoplasm. To establish endosymbiosis with alga-free P. bursaria, symbiotic algae must leave the digestive vacuole (DV) to appear in the cytoplasm by budding of the DV membrane. This budding was induced not only by intact algae but also by boiled or fixed algae. However, this budding was not induced when food bacteria or India ink were ingested into the DVs. These results raise the possibility that P. bursaria can recognize sizes of the contents in the DVs. To elucidate this possibility, microbeads with various diameters were mixed with alga-free P. bursaria and traced their fate. Microbeads with 0.20 mu m diameter did not induce budding of the DVs. Microbeads with 0.80 mu m diameter produced DVs of 5-10 mu m diameter at 3 min after mixing; then the DVs fragmented and became vacuoles of 2-5 mu m diameter until 3 h after mixing. Each microbead with a diameter larger than 3.00 mu m induced budding similarly to symbiotic Chlorella. These observations reveal that induction of DV budding depends on the size of the contents in the DVs. Dynasore, a dynamin inhibitor, greatly inhibited DV budding, suggesting that dynamin might be involved in DV budding. (C) 2011 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved.
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