ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2008
Evolutionary linkage between eukaryotic cytokinesis and chloroplast division by dynamin proteins.
Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 43 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
43 citing papers in PubMed, 79 citations in OpenAlex.
- The RNA-binding protein RNP1A is essential and interacts with contractility kit proteins to facilitate cell mechanics.Journal of cell science · 2026Article
- Distinct filament morphology and membrane tethering features of the dual FtsZ paralogs in Odinarchaeota.The EMBO journal · 2025Article
- Protein import into bacterial endosymbionts and evolving organelles.The FEBS journal · 2025Review
- Antiviral Mx proteins have an ancient origin and widespread distribution among eukaryotes.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Antiviral Mx proteins have an ancient origin and widespread distribution among eukaryotes.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Mating type specific transcriptomic response to sex inducing pheromone in the pennate diatom Seminavis robusta.The ISME journal · 2021Article
- Review
- The Ringleaders: Understanding the Apicomplexan Basal Complex Through Comparison to Established Contractile Ring Systems.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2021Review
- Analysis of an improved Cyanophora paradoxa genome assembly.DNA research : an international journal for rapid publication of reports on genes and genomes · 2019Article
- Dynamin-Like Protein B ofCells · 2019Article
- The dynamin-like protein Fzl promotes thylakoid fusion and resistance to light stress in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.PLoS genetics · 2019Article
- Insights into the Mechanisms of Chloroplast Division.International journal of molecular sciences · 2018Review
- Dynamin-Like Proteins Are Potentially Involved in Membrane Dynamics within Chloroplasts and Cyanobacteria.Frontiers in plant science · 2018Article
- Evolution of cytokinesis-related protein localization during the emergence of multicellularity in volvocine green algae.BMC evolutionary biology · 2017Article
- Membrane Trafficking Modulation during Entamoeba Encystation.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Two dynamin-like proteins stabilize FtsZ rings duringProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2017Article
- SH3 Domain-Containing Protein 2 Plays a Crucial Role at the Step of Membrane Tubulation during Cell Plate Formation.The Plant cell · 2017Article
- Regulation of chloroplast and nucleomorph replication by the cell cycle in the cryptophyte Guillardia theta.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Ancient dynamin segments capture early stages of host-mitochondrial integration.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2015Article
- Phosphatidylinositol 4-phosphate negatively regulates chloroplast division in Arabidopsis.The Plant cell · 2015Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Chloroplasts have evolved from a cyanobacterial endosymbiont and been retained for more than 1 billion years by coordinated chloroplast division in multiplying eukaryotic cells. Chloroplast division is performed by ring structures at the division site, encompassing both the inside and the outside of the two envelopes. A part of the division machinery is derived from the cyanobacterial cytokinetic activity based on the FtsZ protein. In contrast, other parts of the division machinery involve proteins specific to eukaryotes, including a member of the dynamin family. Each member of the dynamin family is involved in the division or fusion of a distinct eukaryotic membrane system. To gain insight into the kind of ancestral dynamin protein and eukaryotic membrane activity that evolved to regulate chloroplast division, we investigated the functions of the dynamin proteins that are most closely related to chloroplast division proteins. These proteins in the amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum and Arabidopsis thaliana localize at the sites of cell division, where they are involved in cytokinesis. Our results suggest that the dynamin for chloroplast division is derived from that involved in eukaryotic cytokinesis. Therefore, the chloroplast division machinery is a mixture of bacterial and eukaryotic cytokinesis components, with the latter a key factor in the synchronization of endosymbiotic cell division with host cell division, thus helping to establish the permanent endosymbiotic relationship.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.