ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2001
Vipp1 deletion mutant of Synechocystis: a connection between bacterial phage shock and thylakoid biogenesis?
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- VIA1 is a conserved regulator of thylakoid membrane integrity that acts through VIPP1.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Exploring thylakoid emergence: evolution of membrane biogenesis and photosystem II assembly in early-diverging cyanobacteria.The New phytologist · 2026Article
- Lipid metabolism and contact site homologs are present at the chloroplast envelope-thylakoid interface.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Exploring Thylakoid Emergence: Evolution of Membrane Biogenesis and Photosystem II assembly in early-diverging Cyanobacteria.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Membrane interaction of cyanobacterial and chloroplast ESCRT-III proteins.The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology · 2026Review
- The cyanobacterial ESCRT-III protein IM30 forms biomolecular condensates at physiologically relevant conditions.Biophysical journal · 2026Article
- Chloroplast heat shock protein cpHsc70-1 interacts with thylakoid membrane remodeling protein VIPP1 C-terminal tail and controls VIPP1 oligomer assembly.PNAS nexus · 2026Article
- Membrane binding of a cyanobacterial ESCRT-III protein crucially involves the helix α1-3 hairpin conserved in all superfamily members.Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society · 2025Article
- Thylakostasis: key factors in thylakoid membrane organization with emphasis on biogenesis and remodeling proteins in vascular plants.Plant & cell physiology · 2025Review
- Genome analysis of dark-adapted variants identifies the phosphatase gene phsP involved in the regulation of photosynthetic and dark-heterotrophic growth in the cyanobacterium Leptolyngbya boryana.Plant & cell physiology · 2025Article
- The thylakoid membrane remodeling protein VIPP1 forms bundled oligomers in tobacco chloroplasts.Plant physiology · 2025Article
- The cyanobacterial protein VIPP1 forms ESCRT-III-like structures on lipid bilayers.Nature structural & molecular biology · 2025Article
- Mechanism for Vipp1 spiral formation, ring biogenesis, and membrane repair.Nature structural & molecular biology · 2025Article
- Structural basis for Vipp1 membrane binding: from loose coats and carpets to ring and rod assemblies.Nature structural & molecular biology · 2025Article
- Extracellular Vesicle-Mediated Secretion of Chlorophyll Biosynthetic Intermediates in the Cyanobacterium Leptolyngbya boryana.Plant & cell physiology · 2025Article
- Monomer unfolding of a bacterial ESCRT-III superfamily member is coupled to oligomer disassembly.Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society · 2024Article
- Structure, biogenesis, and evolution of thylakoid membranes.The Plant cell · 2024Review
- Exploring the Origins and Evolution of Oxygenic and Anoxygenic Photosynthesis in Deeply Branched Cyanobacteriota.Molecular biology and evolution · 2024Article
- The phage shock protein (PSP) envelope stress response: discovery of novel partners and evolutionary history.mSystems · 2024Article
- BacA: a possible regulator that contributes to the biofilm formation ofFrontiers in microbiology · 2024Article
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Abstract
Plant chloroplasts originated from an endosymbiotic event by which an ancestor of contemporary cyanobacteria was engulfed by an early eukaryotic cell and then transformed into an organelle. Oxygenic photosynthesis is the specific feature of cyanobacteria and chloroplasts, and the photosynthetic machinery resides in an internal membrane system, the thylakoids. The origin and genesis of thylakoid membranes, which are essential for oxygenic photosynthesis, are still an enigma. Vipp1 (vesicle-inducing protein in plastids 1) is a protein located in both the inner envelope and the thylakoids of Pisum sativum and Arabidopsis thaliana. In Arabidopsis disruption of the VIPP1 gene severely affects the plant's ability to form properly structured thylakoids and as a consequence to carry out photosynthesis. In contrast, Vipp1 in Synechocystis appears to be located exclusively in the plasma membrane. Yet, as in higher plants, disruption of the VIPP1 gene locus leads to the complete loss of thylakoid formation. So far VIPP1 genes are found only in organisms carrying out oxygenic photosynthesis. They share sequence homology with a subunit encoded by the bacterial phage shock operon (PspA) but differ from PspA by a C-terminal extension of about 30 amino acids. In two cyanobacteria, Synechocystis and Anabaena, both a VIPP1 and a pspA gene are present, and phylogenetic analysis indicates that VIPP1 originated from a gene duplication of the latter and thereafter acquired its new function. It also appears that the C-terminal extension that discriminates VIPP1 proteins from PspA is important for its function in thylakoid formation.
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