ArticlePlant signaling & behavior2012
New insights on stromules: stroma filled tubules extended by independent plastids.
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- Plant plastids: from evolutionary origins to functional specialization and organelle interactions.Journal of experimental botany · 2025Review
- Organelle extensions in plant cells.Plant physiology · 2021Article
- Stromules: Probing Formation and Function.Plant physiology · 2018Review
- Plastid Envelope-Localized Proteins Exhibit a Stochastic Spatiotemporal Relationship to Stromules.Frontiers in plant science · 2018Article
- Polyprenols Are Synthesized by a PlastidialThe Plant cell · 2017Article
- Chloroplasts extend stromules independently and in response to internal redox signals.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2015Article
- Plastid-produced interorgannellar stress signal MEcPP potentiates induction of the unfolded protein response in endoplasmic reticulum.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2015Article
- Fluorescent Protein Aided Insights on Plastids and their Extensions: A Critical Appraisal.Frontiers in plant science · 2015Review
- The myth of interconnected plastids and related phenomena.Protoplasma · 2015Article
- Fluorescent protein flow within stromules.The Plant cell · 2013Article
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3 authors at 2 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
The recognition of stromules as sporadically extended stroma filled tubules from all kinds of plastids constitutes one of the major insights that resulted from the direct application of green fluorescent protein aided imaging of living plant cells. Observations of dynamic green fluorescent stromules strongly suggested that plastids frequently interact with each other while photo-bleaching of interconnected plastids indicated that proteins can move within the stroma filled tubules. These observations readily fit into the prevailing concept of the endosymbiogenic origins of plastids and provided stromules the status of conduits for inter-plastid communication and macromolecule transfer. However, experimental evidence obtained recently through the use of photoconvertible protein labeled stromules strongly supports plastid independence rather than their interconnectivity. Additional information on stress conditions inducing stromules and observations on their alignment with other organelles suggests that the major role of stromules is to increase the interactive surface of a plastid with the rest of the cytoplasm.
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