Kleptoplasty

Kleptoplasty or kleptoplastidy is a symbiotic phenomenon whereby plastids, (notably chloroplasts), from algae are sequestered by host organisms. The word is derived from Kleptes (κλέπτης) which is Greek for thief. The alga is eaten normally and partially digested, leaving the plastid intact. The plastids are maintained within the host, temporarily retaining functional photosynthesis for use by the predator.[1] The term was coined in 1990 to describe chloroplast symbiosis.[2][3]

Examples

Dinoflagellates

The stability of transient plastids varies considerably across plastid-retaining species. In the dinoflagellates Gymnodinium spp. and Pfisteria piscicida, kleptoplastids are photosynthetically active for only a few days, while kleptoplastids in Dinophysis spp. can be stable for 2 months.[1] In other dinoflagellates, kleptoplasty has been hypothesized to represent either a mechanism permitting functional flexibility, or perhaps an early evolutionary stage in the permanent acquisition of chloroplasts.[4]

Ciliates

Myrionecta rubra

Myrionecta rubra is a ciliate that steals chloroplasts from the cryptomonad Geminigera cryophila.[5]M. rubra represents additional endosymbiosis by transferring its plastids to its predators, the dinoflagellate planktons belonging to the genus Dinophysis.[6]

Karyoklepty is a related process in which the nucleus of the prey cell is kept by the predator as well. This was first described in M. Rubra.[7]

Foraminifera

Some species of the foraminiferan genera Bulimina, Elphidium, Haynesina, Nonion, Nonionella, Nonionellina, Reophax, and Stainforthia have been shown to sequester diatom chloroplasts.[8]

Sacoglossan sea slugs

Costasiella kuroshimae, a Sacoglossan sea slug which uses kleptoplasty to create complex patterns on its body.
Elysia pusilla feeds on the green alga Halimeda and incorporates chloroplasts into its body.
A digestive tubule cell of Elysia clarki, densely packed with sequestered chloroplasts.
C = chloroplast,
N = cell nucleus.
Image taken by electron microscope. Scale bar represents 3 µm.

The only known animals that practice kleptoplasty are sea slugs in the clade Sacoglossa.[9] Several species of Sacoglossan sea slugs capture intact, functional chloroplasts from algal food sources, retaining them within specialized cells lining the mollusc's digestive diverticula. The longest known kleptoplastic association, which can last up to ten months, is found in Elysia chlorotica,[2] which acquires chloroplasts by eating the alga Vaucheria litorea, storing the chloroplasts in the cells that line its gut.[10] Juvenile sea slugs establish the kleptoplastic endosymbiosis when feeding on algal cells, sucking out the cell contents, and discarding everything except the chloroplasts. The chloroplasts are phagocytosed by digestive cells, filling extensively branched digestive tubules, providing their host with the products of photosynthesis.[11] It is not resolved, however, whether the stolen plastids actively secrete photosynthate or whether the slugs profit indirectly from slowly degrading kleptoplasts.[12]

This very unusual ability has led to these sacoglossans being referred to as "solar-powered sea slugs", but it should be noted that the effect of inhibiting photosynthesis is only marginal, if present at all, on the survival rate some species analyzed[13] and that some species even die in the presence of CO2-fixing kleptoplasts due to elevated levels of reactive oxygen species.[14]

Some species of nudibranchs such as Pteraeolidia ianthina sequester whole living symbiotic zooxanthellae within their digestive diverticula, and thus they also manage to be "solar-powered".

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Minnhagen S, Carvalho WF, Salomon PS, Janson S (September 2008). "Chloroplast DNA content in Dinophysis (Dinophyceae) from different cell cycle stages is consistent with kleptoplasty". Environ. Microbiol. 10 (9): 2411–7. doi:10.1111/j.1462-2920.2008.01666.x. PMID 18518896. Retrieved 2008-11-24.
  2. 1 2 S. K. Pierce, S. E. Massey, J. J. Hanten, and N. E. Curtis (June 1, 2003). "Horizontal Transfer of Functional Nuclear Genes Between Multicellular Organisms". Biol. Bull. 204 (3): 237–240. doi:10.2307/1543594. JSTOR 1543594. PMID 12807700. Retrieved 2008-11-24.
  3. ↑ Clark, K. B., K. R. Jensen, and H. M. Strits (1990). "Survey of functional kleptoplasty among West Atlantic Ascoglossa (=Sacoglossa) (Mollusca: Opistobranchia).". The Veliger 33: 339–345. ISSN 0042-3211.
  4. ↑ Gast RJ, Moran DM, Dennett MR, Caron DA (January 2007). "Kleptoplasty in an Antarctic dinoflagellate: caught in evolutionary transition?". Environ. Microbiol. 9 (1): 39–45. doi:10.1111/j.1462-2920.2006.01109.x. PMID 17227410. Retrieved 2008-11-24.
  5. ↑ Matthew D. Johnson, David Oldach, Charles F. Delwiche Diane K. Stoecker "Retention of transcriptionally active cryptophyte nuclei by the ciliate Myrionecta rubra". Nature 445 25 January 2007 doi:10.1038/nature05496.
  6. ↑ Nishitani, G.; Nagai, S.; Baba, K.; Kiyokawa, S.; Kosaka, Y.; Miyamura, K.; Nishikawa, T.; Sakurada, K.; Shinada, A.; Kamiyama, T. (2010). "High-level congruence of Myrionecta rubra prey and Dinophysis species plastid identities as revealed by genetic analyses of isolates from Japanese coastal waters". Applied and Environmental Microbiology 76 (9): 2791–2798. doi:10.1128/AEM.02566-09. PMC 2863437. PMID 20305031.
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  8. ↑ Joan M. Bernhard, Samuel S. Bowser. Benthic foraminifera of dysoxic sediments: chloroplast sequestration and functional morphology. Earth-Science Reviews, 1999 46:149–165.
  9. ↑ Händeler K., Grzymbowski Y. P., Krug P. J. & Wägele H. (2009) "Functional chloroplasts in metazoan cells - a unique evolutionary strategy in animal life". Frontiers in Zoology 6: 28. doi:10.1186/1742-9994-6-28 PMID 19951407.
  10. ↑ Catherine Brahic (24 November 2008). "Solar-powered sea slug harnesses stolen plant genes". New Scientist. Retrieved 24 November 2008.
  11. ↑ "SymBio: Introduction-Kleptoplasty". University of Maine. Retrieved 2008-11-24.
  12. ↑ de Vries, Jan; Christa, Gregor; Gould, Sven B. (2014). "Plastid survival in the cytosol of animal cells". Trends in Plant Science 19 (6): 347–350. doi:10.1016/j.tplants.2014.03.010. ISSN 1360-1385.
  13. ↑ De Vries, Jan; Rauch, Cessa; Christa, Gregor; Gould, Sven B. (2014). "A sea slug’s guide to plastid symbiosis". Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae 83 (4): 415–421. doi:10.5586/asbp.2014.042. ISSN 2083-9480.
  14. ↑ de Vries, J.; Woehle, C.; Christa, G.; Wagele, H.; Tielens, A. G. M.; Jahns, P.; Gould, S. B. (2015). "Comparison of sister species identifies factors underpinning plastid compatibility in green sea slugs". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 282 (1802): 20142519–20142519. doi:10.1098/rspb.2014.2519. ISSN 0962-8452.

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