5. Structural organization of chloroplast is signified by the
presence of double membrane envelope and soluble
phase, the stroma, and an internal membrane system, the
thylakoids.
Both thylakoid and stromal systems are committed for
light reaction and carbon dioxide fixation respectively.
Chloroplast attains diversified shapes. Higher plants
exhibit lens shaped chloroplasts in their cytosol.
The size measures anywhere between 5 and 10 pm long
Chloroplast
10. Stroma contains soluble enzymes known as
rubisco (ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase-
oxygenase), accountable for upto 50% of the total
leaf proteins.
Its molecular weight of 500,000 consists of eight
large subunits and eight small subunits and it is
credited with one of the most abundant available
protein in nature.
It executes photosynthesis by accepting carbon
dioxide as its substrate and reduces this to
carbohydrate status.
13. Several members of monocots show marginal
deviation in their CO2fixation process, generally known
as C4 plants.
The maize, for example, is a C4 plant in which initial
carbon dioxide fixation occurs in leaf mesophyll cells
containing chloroplasts, which lack rubisco and
ultimately devoid of starch.
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14. The enzyme PEP carboxylase (phospho enol pyruvate
carboxylase) acts as a major enzyme, catalyses first half
of the reaction by forming four carbon oxaloacetate,
which is then converted into aspartic acid and malic
acid which are exported to bundle sheath cells, where
they are decarboxylated and CO2 is refixed by bundle
sheath due to the rubisco and operate the Calvin cycle.
In addition to their role in performing photosynthesis
and carbon metabolism, chloroplasts are involved in
other vital functions such as the synthesis of amino acids
and nucleotides, protein synthesis, pigments and
hormones
16. Chloroplast DNA is comparatively large, circular in
nature, commonly denoted as ctDNA.
The presence of DNA in chloroplast was first identified
in 1962.
The size of chloroplast DNA is usually 140 kb in higher
plants and less than 190 kb in lower eukaryotic plants.
However, the size of the ctDNA is generally between 120
and 155 kb.
By employing DNA-binding flourescent dye several
copies of the plastid genome have been visualized.
The size of the chloroplast genome can be comparable
to bacteriophage T4 (165 kb). There are many copies of
circular DNA in chloroplast, i.e., between 20 and 100
copies per chloroplast in higher plants.
18. In higher plants, chloroplast DNA exists as double-
stranded circular molecule.
Unlike nuclear DNA, it does not contain 5-methyl
cytosine and is not associated with histones. Its buoyant
density is around 1.690 gmL-1, which is corresponding to
G + C ratio to approximately 37 per cent.
Measurement is based on DNA-DNA association
through light on the potential coding capacity of the
plastome.
The molecular weight of the plastid DNA is between 80
and 100 million, which corresponds between 12,000 and
150,000 base pairs
22. Chloroplast contains one type of chromosome and
assumes polyploid status.
In young leaves, number of chloroplast attains 200 or
more. DNA replication in plastid is semi conservative.
In chloroplasts of maize and pea, DNA replication
begins at two sites about 7000 base pairs apart and
proceeds in both the directions.
Chloroplasts contain introns. They fall into two classes.
One of the intron classes is located in tRNA genes and
another class in protein coding region.
Several photosynthetic related genes that encode
proteins are located in thylakoid membrane.
24. Several evidences confirmed that chloroplast DNA
contains 45 genes coding for RNA and 27 genes coding
for proteins.
These proteins are mainly involved in chloroplast gene
expression.
The genes coding for proteins of the thylakoid
membrane and another 10 gene products are
committed for electron transport process.
A restriction map for maize chloroplast DNA (139 kb)
reveals that plastome contains unique 22,000 base pair
inverted repeated sequence, containing the rRNA genes
(Fig. 5.1).
Some other plastome with similar repeats contains two
copies of rRNA genes.
27. Ribosomes of chloroplast show sedimentation coefficient of 70
S Svedberg units, i.e., 70 S. The ribosomes of cytoplasm
exhibits 80 S. The 70 S ribosomes are made up of 23 S and 16
S.
Presence of 70 S ribosomes in chloroplast have a resemblance
to prokaryotic ribosome, clearly strengthens the hypothesis of
its prokaryotic origin.
Chloroplast ribosomes contain about 50 ribosomal proteins,
distributed between the two subunits.
The 23 S, 5 S, 4.5 S rRNA are present in the 50 S subunit and
the 16 S rRNA is in the 30 S subunit. Plastid contains tRNA
synthetase enzymes.
The presence of plastid tRNA is able to charge all of the 20
protein amino acids. Synthesis of protein in chloroplast
utilizes normal genetic code.
29. The sequences of the maize and tobacco 16 S rRNA
genes are 1491 and 1486 nucleotides in length,
respectively.
They show 96% sequence homology with each other.
Similarly, DNA sequence of 23 S rRNA genes from
maize and tobacco is 2898 and 2804 nucleotides
respectively.
The distance between 16 S (end) and the 23 S (start)
of rRNA gene is 2408 base pairs in maize and 2080 in
tobacco (Table 5.2). On the contrary, the distance
among prokaryotic organisms is very less, for example,
in E. coli distance is 440 base pairs. Longer distance
among higher plants is due to the presence of introns
upto 950 base pairs.
32. - Chloroplast DNA (cpDNA) is also known as plastid
DNA (ptDNA).
- Circular double stranded DNA molecule
- Chloroplast genome size ranges 120-217kb with
majority of plants fall into 120-160kb. (Pelargonium
has a chloroplast genome size 217kb)contain about
100 genes to synthesize proteins
- cpDNA regions includes Large Single-Copy (LSC) &
Small Single-Copy (SSC) regions, and Inverted
Repeats (IRA & IRB).
- Conifers and a group of legumes lack Inverted
Repeats.
Chloroplast genome
34. - Complete chloroplast DNA sequences of four land
plants (Nicotiana tabacum, Marchantia polymorpha,
Oryza sativa and Epifagus virginiana) were available
for comparative study on structure and gene content
of chloroplast genomes in 1980s.
- At present, the number of complete chloroplast
genome sequences is 122 (from 114 different
organisms).
eg. Arabidopsis thaliana, Coffea arabica, Eucalyptus
globulus, Glycine max, Gossypium hirsutum,
Helianthus annuus, Lycopersicon esculentum,
Nymphaea alba, Phaseolus vulgaris, Pinus koraiensis,
Piper cenocladum, Solanum tuberosum, Triticum
aestivum, Vitis vinifera, Zea mays etc.
Chloroplast genome
35. - cpDNA is a relatively abundant component of
plant total DNA, thus facilitating extraction
and analysis.
- Conservative rate of nucleotide substitution
enables to resolve plant phylogenetic
relationships at deep levels of evolution.
eg. familial level; mono- & dicotyledonous;
- Chloroplast protein-coding genes evolve at a
rate that is on average fivefold slower than
plant nuclear genes.
Characteristics of Chloroplast Genome
36. - Strictly maternally inherited in most
angiosperms while in conifers, inheritance
is paternal.
- Chloroplast DNA is passed on from one
generation to the next with only an
occasional mutation altering the molecule;
sexual recombination does not occur.
Characteristics of Chloroplast Genome
37. - cpDNA regions can be amplified by means
of PCR.
- The resulted PCR products may be
subjected to RFLP or DNA sequencing.
- Common cpDNA regions used in
systematic study:
rbcL (1400bp), trnL-trnF (250-800bp), atpB-
rbcL (1000bp), trnL intron (300bp), matK
(2600bp), trnT-trnL (400-800bp), 16S (1400bp),
rpoC (3600bp) etc.
Molecular Systematics on cpDNA
39. - Restriction site mapping of
the entire chloroplast
genome. (involve the
isolation of chloroplast
DNA from the total DNA)
Molecular Systematics on cpDNA
The whole chloroplast genomes of
different Brassica species were
digested with SacI
40. - Singular structural rearrangements (e.g.
inversions and intron losses).
- Loss of intron of rpl2 gene was found in
species of order Caryophyllales (cacti,
amaranths, carnations, carnivorous plants).
Molecular Systematics on cpDNA
41. - On of the most comprehensive phylogenetic
study of cpDNA rearrangement involved a 22kb
inversion found to be shared by 57 genera
representing all tribes of the family Asteraceae
(sunflowers), a large plant family with 20,000
species and 1100 genera.
- 50kb inversion brought psbA closer to rbcL in
legumes.
- 25kb inversion brought atpA closer to rbcL in
wheat.
Molecular Systematics on cpDNA
42. H. nervosa
H. dyeri
H. dryobalanoides
H. beccariana
H. pierrei
H. latifolia
H. mengerawan
H. myrtifolia
H. ferruginea
H. sangal
H. nutans
H. odorata
H. helferi
H. apiculata
H. wightiana
Neobalanocarpus heimii
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H. pubescens