Quantifying CO2-dependent positional changes of mitochondria in wild-type and miro mutants of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii using ellipsoid shape approximations.

Abstract excerpt

Exposure of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (Chlamydomonas throughout) to very low levels of CO2 (VLC) elicits the synthesis of a carbon concentrating mechanism (CCM; concentrates CO2 around ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase, the Calvin-Benson cycle enzyme involved in the initial CO2 fixation reaction). Additionally, VLC levels cause relocation of the network of mitochondrial membranes from the cell interior,...

Topics

• Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
• Carbon Dioxide
• Mitochondria
• Mutation
• Chloroplasts
• Microscopy, Confocal