Publication Date:
2015-07-15
Description:
Diatoms are one of the most ecologically successful classes of photosynthetic marine eukaryotes in the contemporary oceans. Over the past 30 million years, they have helped to moderate Earth's climate by absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, sequestering it via the biological carbon pump and ultimately burying organic carbon in the lithosphere. The proportion of planetary primary production by diatoms in the modern oceans is roughly equivalent to that of terrestrial rainforests. In photosynthesis, the efficient conversion of carbon dioxide into organic matter requires a tight control of the ATP/NADPH ratio which, in other photosynthetic organisms, relies principally on a range of plastid-localized ATP generating processes. Here we show that diatoms regulate ATP/NADPH through extensive energetic exchanges between plastids and mitochondria. This interaction comprises the re-routing of reducing power generated in the plastid towards mitochondria and the import of mitochondrial ATP into the plastid, and is mandatory for optimized carbon fixation and growth. We propose that the process may have contributed to the ecological success of diatoms in the ocean.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Bailleul, Benjamin -- Berne, Nicolas -- Murik, Omer -- Petroutsos, Dimitris -- Prihoda, Judit -- Tanaka, Atsuko -- Villanova, Valeria -- Bligny, Richard -- Flori, Serena -- Falconet, Denis -- Krieger-Liszkay, Anja -- Santabarbara, Stefano -- Rappaport, Fabrice -- Joliot, Pierre -- Tirichine, Leila -- Falkowski, Paul G -- Cardol, Pierre -- Bowler, Chris -- Finazzi, Giovanni -- England -- Nature. 2015 Aug 20;524(7565):366-9. doi: 10.1038/nature14599. Epub 2015 Jul 13.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Genetique et Physiologie des Microalgues, Departement des Sciences de la vie and PhytoSYSTEMS, Universite de Liege, B-4000 Liege, Belgium. ; Environmental Biophysics and Molecular Ecology Program, Departments of Marine and Coastal Sciences and of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901, USA. ; Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique (IBPC), UMR 7141, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, 13 Rue Pierre et Marie Curie, F-75005 Paris, France. ; Ecole Normale Superieure, PSL Research University, Institut de Biologie de l'Ecole Normale Superieure (IBENS), CNRS UMR 8197, INSERM U1024, 46 rue d'Ulm, F-75005 Paris, France. ; Laboratoire de Physiologie Cellulaire et Vegetale, UMR 5168, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives (CEA), Universite Grenoble Alpes, Institut National Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Institut de Recherche en Sciences et Technologies pour le Vivant (iRTSV), CEA Grenoble, F-38054 Grenoble cedex 9, France. ; Fermentalg SA, F-33500 Libourne, France. ; Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives (CEA), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Universite Paris-Sud, Institut de Biologie et de Technologie de Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette cedex, France. ; Istituto di Biofisica, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via Celoria 26, I-20133 Milan, Italy.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26168400" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Adenosine Triphosphate/metabolism
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Aquatic Organisms/cytology/enzymology/genetics/*metabolism
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Carbon Cycle
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Carbon Dioxide/*metabolism
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Diatoms/*cytology/enzymology/genetics/*metabolism
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Ecosystem
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Mitochondria/*metabolism
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Mitochondrial Proteins/deficiency/metabolism
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NADP/metabolism
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Oceans and Seas
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Oxidation-Reduction
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Oxidoreductases/deficiency/metabolism
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Phenotype
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*Photosynthesis
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Plant Proteins/metabolism
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Plastids/*metabolism
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*Proton-Motive Force
Print ISSN:
0028-0836
Electronic ISSN:
1476-4687
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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