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Functional Specificity of Cardiolipin Synthase Revealed by the Identification of a Cardiolipin Synthase CrCLS1 in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Microbiology, January 2016
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Title
Functional Specificity of Cardiolipin Synthase Revealed by the Identification of a Cardiolipin Synthase CrCLS1 in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
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Frontiers in Microbiology, January 2016
DOI 10.3389/fmicb.2015.01542
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Chun-Hsien Hung, Koichi Kobayashi, Hajime Wada, Yuki Nakamura

Abstract

Phosphatidylglycerol (PG) and cardiolipin (CL) are two essential classes of phospholipid in plants and algae. Phosphatidylglycerophosphate synthase (PGPS) and cardiolipin synthase (CLS) involved in the biosynthesis of PG and CL belong to CDP-alcohol phosphotransferase and share overall amino acid sequence homology. However, it remains elusive whether PGPS and CLS are functionally distinct in vivo. Here, we report identification of a gene encoding CLS in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, CrCLS1, and its functional compatibility. Whereas CrCLS1 did not complement the growth phenotype of a PGPS mutant of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803, it rescued the temperature-sensitive growth phenotype, growth profile with different carbon sources, phospholipid composition and enzyme activity of Δcrd1, a CLS mutant of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. These results suggest that CrCLS1 encodes a functional CLS of C. reinhardtii as the first identified algal CLS, whose enzyme function is distinct from that of PGPSs from C. reinhardtii. Comparison of CDP-alcohol phosphotransferase motif between PGPS and CLS among different species revealed a possible additional motif that might define the substrate specificity of these closely related enzymes.

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Unknown 9 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 4 44%
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 22%
Researcher 1 11%
Professor > Associate Professor 1 11%
Student > Postgraduate 1 11%
Other 0 0%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 44%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 11%
Medicine and Dentistry 1 11%
Unknown 3 33%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 23 January 2016.
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#13,961,191
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#11,420
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#200,294
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#225
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