ArticlePlant physiology2004
Starch division and partitioning. A mechanism for granule propagation and maintenance in the picophytoplanktonic green alga Ostreococcus tauri.
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- Bridging the gap between omics and earth system science to better understand how environmental change impacts marine microbes.Global change biology · 2016Review
- Functional demonstrations of starch binding domains present in Ostreococcus tauri starch synthases isoforms.BMC research notes · 2015Article
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- Starch metabolism in Arabidopsis.The arabidopsis book · 2012Article
- Rice debranching enzyme isoamylase3 facilitates starch metabolism and affects plastid morphogenesis.Plant & cell physiology · 2011Article
- Microarray data can predict diurnal changes of starch content in the picoalga Ostreococcus.BMC systems biology · 2011Article
- Carbohydrate-active enzymes from the zygomycete fungus Rhizopus oryzae: a highly specialized approach to carbohydrate degradation depicted at genome level.BMC genomics · 2011Article
- Ostreococcus tauri ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase reveals alternative paths for the evolution of subunit roles.The Journal of biological chemistry · 2009Article
- Cloning, characterisation and comparative analysis of a starch synthase IV gene in wheat: functional and evolutionary implications.BMC plant biology · 2008Article
- Overlapping functions of the starch synthases SSII and SSIII in amylopectin biosynthesis in Arabidopsis.BMC plant biology · 2008Article
- Early gene duplication within chloroplastida and its correspondence with relocation of starch metabolism to chloroplasts.Genetics · 2008Article
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Abstract
Whereas Glc is stored in small-sized hydrosoluble glycogen particles in archaea, eubacteria, fungi, and animal cells, photosynthetic eukaryotes have resorted to building starch, which is composed of several distinct polysaccharide fractions packed into a highly organized semicrystalline granule. In plants, both the initiation of polysaccharide synthesis and the nucleation mechanism leading to formation of new starch granules are currently not understood. Ostreococcus tauri, a unicellular green alga of the Prasinophyceae family, defines the tiniest eukaryote with one of the smallest genomes. We show that it accumulates a single starch granule at the chloroplast center by using the same pathway as higher plants. At the time of plastid division, we observe elongation of the starch and division into two daughter structures that are partitioned in each newly formed chloroplast. These observations suggest that in this system the information required to initiate crystalline polysaccharide growth of a new granule is contained within the preexisting polysaccharide structure and the design of the plastid division machinery.
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