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Journal of Cell Science, Vol 52, Issue 1 351-371, Copyright © 1981 by Company of Biologists

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Development of the cell wall in Tetraselmis: role of the Golgi apparatus and extracellular wall assembly

DS Domozych, KD Stewart and KR Mattox

The green algal flagellate, Tetraselmis, is a key transition organism in the phylogeny of green algae. It has been proposed that the cell wall of Tetraselmis arose evolutionarily from the fusion of scales and that this event secondarily caused the alteration of some cytoplasmic processes such as mitotic and cytokinetic mechanisms. Ultrastructural and developmental studies of the cell wall were performed with several strains of Tetraselmis. Two major wall types are reported. The wall of type 1 cells consists of a thick inner region covered by a layer of regularly repeating subunits of 26 nm, comparable to the subunits found in the median W2-W6 layer of Chlamydomonas. The more elaborate type 2 cell wall consists of a thick median wall layer, homologous to the type 1 inner wall, with additional inner and outer strata of hairs, grains and scales. Development of the cell wall begins in the endomembrane system, particularly the Golgi apparatus, where fibrillar tufts and electron-dense droplets are synthesized, modified and transported to the outside. Here, the tufts and droplets are displaced around the protoplast and assemble in several steps to yield the intact wall. Edge-growth assembly of the wall occurs here synchronously with cytoplasmic developments to yield the characteristic anterior flagellar pit. Models explaining various aspects of this development are discussed. When released from the cell, the wall subunits are not completely comparable to stellate scales, but appear to correspond to developmental stages of scales in green flagellates possessing body scales.


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