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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
agricultural and biological sciences
Metabolic effectors secreted by bacterial pathogens: Essential facilitators of plastid endosymbiosis?
Plant Cell, Volume 25, No. 1, Year 2013
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Under the endosymbiont hypothesis, over a billion years ago a heterotrophic eukaryote entered into a symbiotic relationship with a cyanobacterium (the cyanobiont). This partnership culminated in the plastid that has spread to forms as diverse as plants and diatoms. However, why primary plastid acquisition has not been repeated multiple times remains unclear. Here, we report a possible answer to this question by showing that primary plastid endosymbiosis was likely to have been primed by the secretion in the host cytosol of effector proteins from intracellular Chlamydiales pathogens. We provide evidence suggesting that the cyanobiont might have rescued its afflicted host by feeding photosynthetic carbon into a chlamydiacontrolled assimilation pathway. © 2013 American Society of Plant Biologists. All rights reserved.
Authors & Co-Authors
Ball, Steven G.
France, Lille
Université de Lille
Subtil, Agathe
France, Paris
Cnrs Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Bhattacharya, Debashish
United States, New Brunswick
Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences
Moustafa, Ahmed M.
Egypt, New Cairo
American University in Cairo
Weber, Andreas P.M.
Germany, Dusseldorf
Heinrich-heine-universität Düsseldorf
Gehre, Lena
France, Paris
Cnrs Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Colleoni, Christophe
France, Lille
Université de Lille
Arias, Maria Cecilia
France, Lille
Université de Lille
Cenci, Ugo
France, Lille
Université de Lille
Dauvillée, David
France, Lille
Université de Lille
Statistics
Citations: 91
Authors: 10
Affiliations: 5
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1105/tpc.112.101329
ISSN:
10404651
e-ISSN:
1532298X
Research Areas
Environmental
Noncommunicable Diseases