Reference: Okamoto S, et al. (2016) Morphology of mitochondrial nucleoids in respiratory-deficient yeast cells varies depending on the unit length of the mitochondrial DNA sequence. FEMS Yeast Res 16(5)

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We investigated the morphology of mitochondrial nucleoids (mt-nucleoids) and mitochondria in Saccharomyces cerevisiae rho(+) and rho(-) cells with DAPI staining and mitochondria-targeted GFP. Whereas the mt-nucleoids appeared as strings of beads in wild-type rho(+) cells at log phase, the mt-nucleoids in hypersuppressive rho(-) cells (HS40 rho(-) cells) appeared as distinct punctate structures. In order to elucidate whether the punctate mt-nucleoids are common to other rho(-) cells, we observed the mt-nucleoids in rho(-) strains that retain different unit lengths of the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequence. As a result, rho(-) cells that have long mtDNA sequences, of more than 30 kb, had mt-nucleoids with a strings-of-beads appearance in tubular mitochondria. In contrast, rho(-) cells that have short mtDNA sequences, of <1 kb, had punctate mt-nucleoids in tubular mitochondria. This indicates that the morphology of mt-nucleoids in rho(-) cells significantly varies depending on the unit length of their mtDNA sequence. Analyses of mt-nucleoids suggest that the punctate mt-nucleoids in HS40 rho(-) cells consist of concatemeric mtDNAs and oligomeric circular mtDNAs associated with Abf2p and other nucleoid proteins.

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Okamoto S, Inai T, Miyakawa I
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