Chapter title |
Primary Endosymbiosis: Emergence of the Primary Chloroplast and the Chromatophore, Two Independent Events
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Chapter number | 1 |
Book title |
Plastids
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Published in |
Methods in molecular biology, January 2018
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DOI | 10.1007/978-1-4939-8654-5_1 |
Pubmed ID | |
Book ISBNs |
978-1-4939-8653-8, 978-1-4939-8654-5
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Authors |
Eric Maréchal, Maréchal, Eric |
Abstract |
The emergence of semiautonomous organelles, such as the mitochondrion, the chloroplast, and more recently, the chromatophore, are critical steps in the evolution of eukaryotes. They resulted from primary endosymbiotic events that seem to share general features, i.e., an acquisition of a bacterium/cyanobacteria likely via a phagocytic membrane, a genome reduction coinciding with an escape of genes from the organelle to the nucleus, and finally the appearance of an active system translocating nuclear-encoded proteins back to the organelles. An intense mobilization of foreign genes of bacterial origin, via horizontal gene transfers, plays a critical role. Some third partners, like Chlamydia, might have facilitated the transition from cyanobacteria to the early chloroplast. This chapter describes our current understanding of primary endosymbiosis, with a specific focus on primary chloroplasts considered to have emerged more than one billion years ago, and on the chromatophore, having emerged about one hundred million years ago. |
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