RRC ID 63739
著者 Kodama Y, Miyazaki S.
タイトル Autolysis of Chlorella variabilis in Starving Paramecium bursaria Help the Host Cell Survive Against Starvation Stress.
ジャーナル Curr Microbiol
Abstract The endosymbiosis between Paramecium bursaria and Chlorella spp. is mutualistic. Symbiotic algae localize beneath the host Paramecium cell cortex compete for their attachment sites with preexisting organelle trichocysts. To examine the relationship between P. bursaria trichocysts and their symbiotic algae, algae-bearing or alga-free P. bursaria were starved for several days and the changes in the number of Chlorella sp. and presence or absence of trichocysts were evaluated. We conducted an indirect immunofluorescence microscopy with an anti-trichocyst monoclonal antibody against P. bursaria cells. Indirect immunofluorescence microscopy demonstrated that under starvation and darkness conditions, the immunofluorescence of trichocysts in alga-free P. bursaria decreased much faster than that in the normal algae-bearing P. bursaria. In the latter case, our observations proposed the possibility that the nutrition obtained from symbiotic algal digestion may promote trichocysts synthesis. This algal digestion mechanism may permit host P. bursaria cells to survive for a longer time under starvation condition. To the best of our knowledge, this may be a new benefit that host P. bursaria gain from harboring symbiotic algae.
巻・号 78(2)
ページ 558-565
公開日 2021-2-1
DOI 10.1007/s00284-020-02304-9
PII 10.1007/s00284-020-02304-9
PMID 33389061
MeSH Chlorella* Darkness Microscopy, Fluorescence Paramecium* Symbiosis
IF 1.746
リソース情報
ゾウリムシ Yad1g1N (PB031010B) Yad1w (PB031012B)