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LIFE-BASEL
卷 12, 期 3, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/life12030429
关键词
cyanobacteria; Trichormus variabilis; akinetes; FIB; SEM tomography; cell-cell communication; FRAP
资金
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG
- German Research Foundation) [GRK1708]
The freshwater cyanobacterium Trichormus variabilis can differentiate into heterocysts and akinetes to survive under different stress conditions. Akinetes have a wrinkled envelope that smoothes out during germination, and the envelope's multilayered architecture helps withstand osmotic stress. Intercommunication decreases during akinete formation but is restored in freshly germinating filaments.
Planktonic freshwater filamentous cyanobacterium Trichormus variabilis ATCC 29413 (previously known as Anabaena variabilis) can differentiate heterocysts and akinetes to survive under different stress conditions. Whilst heterocysts enable diazotrophic growth, akinetes are spore-like resting cells that make the survival of the species possible under adverse growth conditions. Under suitable environmental conditions, they germinate to produce new vegetative filaments. Several morphological and physiological changes occur during akinete formation and germination. Here, using scanning electron microscopy (SEM), we found that the mature akinetes had a wrinkled envelope, and the surface of the envelope smoothened as the cell size increased during germination. Thereupon, the akinete envelope ruptured to release the short emerging filament. Focused ion beam-scanning electron microscopy (FIB/SEM) tomography of immature akinetes revealed the presence of cytoplasmic granules, presumably consisting of cyanophycin or glycogen. In addition, the akinete envelope architecture of different layers, the exopolysaccharide and glycolipid layers, could be visualized. We found that this multilayered envelope helped to withstand osmotic stress and to maintain the structural integrity. Furthermore, by fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP) measurements, using the fluorescent tracer calcein, we found that intercellular communication decreased during akinete formation as compared with the vegetative cells. In contrast, freshly germinating filaments restored cell communication.
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