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Beyond the Green: Understanding the Evolutionary Puzzle of Plant and Algal Cell Walls

Zoë A. Popper, Maria G. Tuohy
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Published June 2010. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.110.158055

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Niklas (2000) defined plants as “photosynthetic eukaryotes,” thereby including brown, red, and green macroalgae and microalgae. These groups share several features, including the presence of a complex, dynamic, and polysaccharide-rich cell wall. Cell walls in eukaryotes are thought to have evolved by lateral transfer from cell wall-producing organisms (Niklas, 2004). Green and red algae originate from a primary endosymbiotic event with a cyanobacterium, which is thought to have occurred over 1,500 million years ago (Palmer et al., 2004). Even though extant cyanobacteria have cell walls that are based on a peptidoglycan-polysaccharide-lipopolysaccharide matrix and thus differ markedly from the polysaccharide-rich cell walls of plants, there is preliminary evidence that they may contain some similar polysaccharides (Hoiczyk and Hansel, 2000), and genes already involved in polysaccharide synthesis or those subsequently coopted into wall biosynthesis may have been transferred during endosymbiosis. Independent secondary endosymbiotic events subsequently gave rise to the Euglenozoa (which lack cell walls) and brown algae (which have cell walls; Palmer et al., 2004). Investigations of the diversity of wall composition, structure, and biosynthesis that include algae, therefore, may lend new insights into wall evolution (Niklas, 2004).

Algal cell wall research, in common with that of land plants, has focused on commercially important species and polysaccharides; thus, the most well-described algal wall components include the commercially and ecologically important laminarans, carrageenans, fucans, and alginates (Mabeau and Kloareg, 1997; Campo et al., 2009). However, there are over 35,600 species of seaweed, and their cell wall components exhibit enormous diversity (for review, see Painter, 1983; Kloareg and Quatrano, 1988; De Reviers, 2002). Even though distinct suites of polysaccharides are known to occur in different taxa such that algal cell wall profiles can be used as taxonomic markers (Parker, 1970; Domozych et al., 1980), some wall components have a wider distribution and are also found in other organisms, including land plants.

Renewed interest in plant and algal cell wall composition (Popper and Fry, 2003, 2004; Niklas, 2004; Vissenberg et al., 2005; Van Sandt et al., 2007; Fry et al., 2008a, 2008b; Popper, 2008; Sørensen et al., 2008), perhaps driven by potential industrial applications (Pauly and Keegstra, 2008) and a desire to better understand cell wall functions (Niklas, 2004), has been facilitated by the development of several techniques capable of screening cell wall polymers. Increased information has added detail to the diversity known to exist in cell wall composition, generated as organisms adapted to specific niches (Sarkar et al., 2009). However, it is also becoming apparent that similarities, as well as differences, exist between plant and algal cell walls. Therefore, examination of the patterns of occurrence of wall components suggests that existing diversity is likely to be the result of a variety of different evolutionary scenarios.

A QUESTION OF ORIGIN

Investigation of the occurrence of wall components and the genes involved in their biosynthesis may suggest whether they are innovations within a particular lineage or have a more ancient origin. Mechanisms of cell wall biosynthesis may have evolved several times from diversification of gene families, may have been retained from ancestral organisms, or may have been acquired through horizontal gene transfer. While horizontal gene transfer is a rare event (Becker and Marin, 2009), several endosymbiotic events gave rise to photosynthetic organisms (Fig. 1; Keeling, 2004; Palmer et al., 2004) and could have been accompanied by transfer of wall biosynthesis genes (Niklas, 2004). Therefore, it could be expected that some cell wall genes and their products are common to both algae and plants. However, it is likely that the majority of land plant cell wall components are the products of directly inherited genes that have diversified within a particular lineage (Yin et al., 2009).

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Figure 1.

Emergence of gene families (CesA and Csl) within the cellulose synthase superfamily responsible for cellulose and hemicellulose synthesis (Yin et al., 2009) mapped onto a simplified eukaryote phylogeny (Keeling, 2004; Palmer et al., 2004; Yoon et al., 2004; adapted from Keeling et al., 2009). CesA* represents members of the cellulose synthase family whose proteins assemble into rosette terminal complexes (Yin et al., 2009). CslA/C represents a single gene that is most similar to the land plant CslA and CslC gene families (Yin et al., 2009). The arrows indicate secondary endosymbiosis events involving green algae, which gave rise to the Euglenozoa (dotted arrow), and red algae, which gave rise to the Stramenopiles (dashed arrow; Keeling, 2004).

Convergent Evolution: Several Routes Result in Similar Wall Components

The recent discovery of lignin in the cell walls of a red alga, Calliathron cheilosporioides (Martone et al., 2009), was surprising for a number of reasons. Most significantly, lignin is normally found in vascular plant cell walls (Table I), which probably last shared a common ancestor with red algae over 1 billion years ago (Martone et al., 2009). Furthermore, recorded diversity in wall composition is usually at a more subtle level and tends to mirror known taxonomic groups, such as the presence of acidic sugar residues in bryophyte xyloglucans (Peña et al., 2008). Thus, the existence of a cell wall component in two groups as distantly related as red algae and vascular plants leads us to consider how this may have occurred.

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Table I. Occurrence of cell wall components in plant and algal cell walls

+, Component is likely to be present; ±, component may be present; −, component is likely to be absent; *, component is absent but an unusual sugar residue constituent of the wall component is present.

There are several evolutionary scenarios that could explain the occurrence of lignin in red algae and vascular plants: (1) lignin could have evolved independently in both lineages; (2) ancient algal genes leading to lignin biosynthesis could have been coopted during the evolution of vascular plants (Niklas and Kutschera, 2009, 2010); (3) the lignin biosynthesis pathway may have existed before the divergence of the embryophytes and subsequently lost from green algae (Xu et al., 2009); or (4) genes for lignin biosynthesis could have been transferred from one organism to another (Niklas, 2004). Lignin is composed of monolignol units. Within vascular plants, gymnosperm lignins are composed almost entirely of guaiacyl units, whereas angiosperm, lycopod (Jin et al., 2005), and Calliathron lignins additionally contain syringyl (S) lignin (Martone et al., 2009). However, S-lignins in lycopods and angiosperms, which diverged approximately 400 million years ago, are derived via distinctly different biosynthetic pathways, implying that S-units evolved in both plant groups via convergent evolution (Weng et al., 2008, 2010). Martone et al. (2009) suggest that S-lignin in Calliathron could represent another example of convergent evolution, and deduction of the lignin biosynthesis pathways in Calliathron could lend support to this theory. Conversely, if lignin was discovered in other algal groups, it could suggest that lignin biosynthesis in land plants has a more ancient origin.

Another potential example of convergent evolution is (1→3),(1→4)-β-d-glucan (MLG), which has been reported from lichens (Honegger and Haisch, 2001; Olafsdottir and Ingolfsdottir, 2001), fungi (Burton and Fincher, 2009; Pettolino et al., 2009), green algae (Eder et al., 2008), horsetails (Equisetum spp.; Fry et al., 2008b; Sørensen et al., 2008), and Poales (Trethewey et al., 2005; Table I).

Within land plants, MLG was only recently discovered in horsetails (Fry et al., 2008b; Sørensen et al., 2008) and was previously thought to have a restricted taxonomic distribution, occurring only in members of the Poales (Trethewey et al., 2005), which last shared a common ancestor with the horsetails over 370 million years ago (Bell and Hemsley, 2000). However, two independent groups, using several methods, concurrently discovered MLG in Equisetum cell walls. Fry et al. (2008b) digested horsetail wall preparations with an MLG-specific enzyme (lichenase; EC 3.2.1.73; Parrish et al., 1960). Quantification of the resulting oligosaccharides by high-pressure liquid chromatography revealed that Equisetum cell walls contain MLG at levels equal to or greater than those found in members of the Poales (Fry et al., 2008b). The presence of MLG in Equisetum cell walls was further supported, and localized within the wall, by monoclonal antibody (mAb) labeling (Sørensen et al., 2008) with a mAb that has a high degree of specificity to MLG (Meikle et al., 1994). The existence of MLG in horsetails was also found to be correlated with the occurrence of a wall-remodeling enzyme capable of grafting MLG to xyloglucan (Fry et al., 2008a).

The cellulose synthase-like gene families CslF, CslH, and CslJ have been shown to be involved in MLG synthesis in grasses (Richmond and Somerville, 2000; Burton et al., 2006, 2008; Doblin et al., 2009). Since these gene families appear to have diverged from within other cellulose synthase-like gene families (Yin et al., 2009) after horsetails had diverged from the lineage that eventually led to the Poales (Fig. 1; Yin et al., 2009), it seems likely that MLG arose independently in horsetails and Poales. The existence of an MLG-like polysaccharide in several groups of only distantly related photosynthetic organisms, putatively including the brown algae (Z.A. Popper, E. Demange, M. Lorenz, and O. Curry, unpublished data; Table I), many of which existed prior to the divergence of the CslF, CslH, and CslJ (Yin et al., 2009), further supports multiple origins of the polymer (Burton and Fincher, 2009).

While the mode of MLG synthesis may be different in Poales and Equisetum, it is of interest that the plants share some common morphological and biochemical features. Poales and horsetails exhibit similar body plans (Niklas, 2004). Additionally, they are both known to accumulate silica in their walls (Hodson et al., 2005), which Fry et al. (2008b) suggested may be correlated with the presence of MLG. If this were the case, it could be expected that liverworts, which have the highest relative mean shoot concentration of silica in land plants, could also contain MLG (Hodson et al., 2005). In fact, lichenase digestion of a cell wall preparation from the leafy liverwort Lophocolea bidentata has indicated that at least some liverworts may contain a polysaccharide similar to MLG (Popper and Fry, 2003). A silica transporter and mutants deficient in silica accumulation have been discovered in rice (Oryza sativa; Ma et al., 2006). If these plants exhibited alterations in MLG amount or deposition patterns, this would lend support to an interaction between MLG and silica.

Diversification within a Lineage

Perhaps the best examined cell wall biosynthetic genes are members of the cellulose synthase superfamily, which appears to have diversified within the land plant lineage to give nine cellulose synthase-like families and one cellulose synthase (CesA) family (Yin et al., 2009).

Cellulose is the most abundant naturally occurring polymer (Hess et al., 1928) and has a widespread distribution, being found in plants (Brown, 1985), algae (Naylor and Russell-Wells, 1934), bacteria (Roberts et al., 2002), cyanobacteria (Nobels et al., 2001), and tunicates (Kimura and Itoh, 1995). In land plants, cellulose may account for 20% to 50% (w/w; and in specialized cell walls, such as cotton [Gossypium hirsutum] fibers, up to 98% [w/w]) of the wall, whereas in red algae, it may only account for 1% to 8% (w/w; Kloareg and Quatrano, 1988). CesAs are widespread among eukaryotes and prokaryotes (Tsekos, 1999; Roberts et al., 2002; Roberts and Roberts, 2009), but those that form rosette terminal complexes have only been sequenced from the land plant lineage (Yin et al., 2009) and probably evolved after the divergence of the land plants from the chlorophytes (Yin et al., 2009; Fig. 1). Cellulose in the Chlorophyta and red and brown algae is synthesized by CesA genes whose origin predates that of the plant-specific CesA genes (Yin et al., 2009) and whose products form linear terminal complexes (Tsekos, 1999). Roberts et al. (2002) suggested that the observed differences in cellulose microfibril diameter between different cellulose-containing organisms (Nobels et al., 2001) could be, at least partially, a result of known differences in the arrangement of terminal complexes (Tsekos, 1999).

Mannans and glucomannans are synthesized by CslAs (Dhugga et al., 2004; Liepman et al., 2005; Goubet et al., 2009). While CslAs appear to be absent from green algae (Yin et al., 2009), these algae contain a specific Csl family that is most homologous to land plant CslA and CslC families (Yin et al., 2009; designated CslA/CslC in Fig. 1). Since mannans are known to occur in green algae, including Codium fragile (Estevez et al., 2009) and Acetabularia acetabulum (Dunn et al., 2007), the products of CslA/CslC could be responsible for mannan synthesis. CslA/CslC appears to be absent from brown and red algae (Yin et al., 2009; Fig. 1), suggesting that an absence of reports for mannans in brown algae (Table I) could be due to a lack of the required biosynthetic machinery. However, some red algae have been reported to contain mannans (Percival et al., 2001). The genes responsible for mannan synthesis in red algae may not be CslAs or their sequences may differ significantly from CslAs such that they were not detected in the screen used by Yin et al. (2009). Ostreococcus, an ancient member of the 1,500-million-year-old green lineage and the smallest known eukaryote (Derelle et al., 2006), was the earliest diverging organism found to contain CslA/CslC (Yin et al., 2009). Although Ostreococcus is wall-less, the existence of the products of CslA/CslC may be involved in cell-surface glycosylation, which Palenik et al. (2003, 2007) suggest may help disguise them from grazers. Taken in the context of a lack of all other plant-like Csl genes (Yin et al., 2009), the existence of a gene responsible for mannan synthesis in green algae and the subsequent evolution of a specific family of CslA genes suggest that the presence of mannan in their cell walls could have facilitated the success and diversification of green algae.

Ancient Origins

Xylans represent a case for the possibility that some plant cell wall components are derived from genes that existed before the divergence of green and red algae. Xylans are found ubiquitously in vascular plants and appear to be present in hornworts (Carafa et al., 2005), charophycean green algae (Domozych et al., 2009), chlorophytes, and red algae (Lahaye et al., 2003), suggesting that they have a cosmopolitan distribution among cell walls of photosynthetic organisms (Table I). Xylans can either be (1→3) or (1→4) linked. Painter (1983) hypothesized that red algae were at an evolutionary branch point, as some red algae, including the relatively basal Bangia fuscopurpurea, are composed of (1→3) linkages while others, such as the more recently diverged Palmaria palmata, have been suggested to contain both (1→3) and (1→4) linkages in the same molecule (Turvey and Williams, 1970). Potentially, green algae and land plants derived the genes for (1→4)-β-d-xylan synthesis from red algae. Additionally, while many land plant cell wall polysaccharides appear to be synthesized by Csls that diverged after green algae (Yin et al., 2009; Fig. 1), evidence for the involvement of Csls in xylan biosynthesis appears to be lacking (Zhou et al., 2006). Instead, a large number of glycosyl transferases (GTs), including FRAGILE FIBER8 (GT47; GT numbers refer to those designated by the CAZy database [http://www.cazy.org]; Cantarel et al., 2009), IRREGULAR XYLEM8 (IRX8) and PARVUS (GT8), and IRX9 and IRX14 (GT43), are implicated (Brown et al., 2005, 2007; Lee et al., 2007; Peña et al., 2007; York and O'Neill, 2008). Querying the CAZy database (Cantarel et al., 2009) reveals that Ostreococcus (the smallest known eukaryote and a member of the prasinophycean green algae) appears to lack members of the GT43 family (Hashimoto et al., 2009) thought to be involved in xylan backbone synthesis (Lee et al., 2007). Ostreococcus contains several other GTs (http://www.cazy.org; Cantarel et al., 2009) that could have a role in xylan synthesis, including GT8, which is involved in glucuronoxylan synthesis (Lee et al., 2007), and GT4, which includes a 1,4-β-d-xylan synthase (EC 2.4.2.24; Bailey and Hassid, 1966), thus supporting an origin for xylan biosynthesis that predates the land plant lineage.

Another group of wall components that appear to have ancient origins are arabinogalactan proteins (AGPs), a group of proteoglycans that exhibit considerable structural and functional diversity and are thought to occur ubiquitously in land plants (Basile, 1980; Basile et al., 1989; Pennell et al., 1989; Knox et al., 1991; Lee et al., 2005). However, they may be much more widely distributed. Immunolabeling and chemical analyses have suggested their occurrence in the charophycean green algae (McCann et al., 2007; Domozych et al., 2009) and chlorophytes (Stanley et al., 2005; Eder et al., 2008; Estevez et al., 2009). We have also detected AGPs in extracts from red and brown algae using the radial gel diffusion assay (Z.A. Popper, Q. Coster, and T. Slattery, unpublished data). At least some AGP functions may be conserved between taxa; localization of AGPs in the utricle apical zone in C. fragile (Estevez et al., 2009) may suggest a role in tip growth that correlates with their reported involvement in the tip growth of moss protonemata (Lee et al., 2005).

The model organism Chlamydomonas, which is a flagellated green alga, has walls that are substantially different from those of land plants, not least because they seem to lack cellulose (Roberts, 1974). Instead, the major wall components are layers of crystalline Ara-rich, Hyp-rich glycoproteins (Miller et al., 1974; Roberts, 1974; Bollig et al., 2007). However, closer examination of the Chlamydomonas glycoproteins shows that they appear to share some features with AGPs, including conservation of an inner core of two Ara residues linked to Hyp (Bollig et al., 2007). This lends support to the argument for a degree of conservation between plant and algal wall components. It also highlights the need for extensive sampling, as some green algae share other wall features with land plants (Fig. 1).

Possible Innovations

Rhamnogalacturonan II (RGII) is perhaps the most distinct example of an innovation in wall composition to have occurred in land plants. It has a highly conserved structure and is present in all vascular plants (Matoh et al., 1996), but if present in extant bryophytes it constitutes less than 0.025% (w/w) of the wall (Matsunaga et al., 2004). Since RGII has not been detected in green algae (Domozych et al., 1980; Becker et al., 1994, 1998), it seems likely that its occurrence in land plants could be correlated with specific evolutionary pressures potentially related to terrestrialization. However, the ability to make some of the relatively unusual monosaccharide residues present in RGII, such as 3-deoxy-d-manno-2-octulosonic acid (Kdo; York et al., 1985), may have deeper origins. Most members of the prasinophyceae have scales or a theca (wall) containing Kdo (York et al., 1985; Becker et al., 1991; Domozych et al., 1991). CMP-Kdo synthetase (CKS) is responsible for generating the activated sugar donor CMP-Kdo required for the synthesis of wall polymers containing Kdo, and sequences for the CKS gene are present in every major plant group, including mosses (Royo et al., 2000). Neither Kdo nor CKS has been found in animals or yeasts. However, they are both present in gram-negative eubacteria (Royo et al., 2000), where they probably represent an example of horizontal gene transfer either from the bacteria to the plant or, more unusually, from the plant to the bacteria (Royo et al., 2000). It is of interest that a putative Kdo transferase gene (AtKDTA; Séveno et al., 2010) has recently been characterized. However, AtKDTA appears to represent an example of a gene that was not transferred from a bacterium (in this case, the ancestor of mitochondria) to a plant following an endosymbiotic event. The evidence for this is that AtKDTA synthesizes a protein that localizes to the mitochondria, where Séveno et al. (2010) hypothesize that it may be involved in the synthesis of a lipid A-like molecule. More significantly, in terms of plant cell wall synthesis, AtKDTA null mutants appear to have an unaltered phenotype and conserved RGII structure and amount, implying that AtKDTA is unlikely to be involved in RGII synthesis (Séveno et al., 2010).

Xyloglucan may also represent a relatively recent innovation. It is present in all land plants (Popper and Fry, 2003, 2004), and immunolabeling suggests that it may be present in some members of the charophycean green algae (Ikegaya et al., 2008; Domozych et al., 2009). The occurrence of xyloglucans in other photosynthetic organisms is unknown (Table I). In addition, the enzymes involved in xyloglucan synthesis appear to have continued to diversify within the land plants. This is suggested by the discovery that moss and liverwort xyloglucans contain GalUA and are structurally distinct from xyloglucans synthesized by vascular plants and hornworts (Peña et al., 2008). There are also several xyloglucan side chains that may be restricted to the relatively recently diverged Asteridae (Hoffman et al., 2005). Furthermore, activity of the enzyme xyloglucan endotransglucosylase, involved in xyloglucan modification (Thompson and Fry, 2001) and consequently plant growth and differentiation (Vissenberg et al., 2005), was found in the chlorophyte Ulva linza but appeared to be absent from red and brown algae (Van Sandt et al., 2007). This suggests that xyloglucan or a structurally similar polysaccharide does not occur in the cell walls of either red or brown algae.

Pectins and pectin-like polymers appear to have a relatively cosmopolitan occurrence and are found in red and green algae as well as land plants (Painter, 1983; Domozych et al., 2007; Eder and Lütz-Meindl, 2008). A polysaccharide has even been isolated from the cyanobacterium Microcystis flos-aquae, which contains the monosaccharide residues GalUA, Rha, Man, Xyl, Glc, and Gal in a similar molar ratio to that found in pectin, although the degree of structural similarity has not been determined (Plude et al., 1991). However, arabinans might be expected to be a land plant innovation. Specifically, they could be predicted to occur only in hornworts and vascular plants because they have been implicated in stomatal opening (Jones et al., 2003). However, LM6, a mAb that recognizes short linear stretches of arabinosyl residues, not only labels guard cell walls (Jones et al., 2003) but has also been found to bind to Chara cell walls (Domozych et al., 2009). The recruitment of arabinans in guard cell function, therefore, might be an example of cooption in function of a preexisting wall polymer.

SAMPLING CELL WALL DIVERSITY

Correlating the occurrence of genes and wall components with phylogenies, as given for CesA and Csls (Fig. 1), undoubtedly has the potential to reveal new insights into wall evolution. However, as discussed by Sørensen et al. (2010), it is dependent on adequate sampling. This could be approached by the detailed analysis of representative plants, but screening may help to optimize which plants are selected for further analysis. With conservative estimates of 260,000 vascular plant species alone (Judd et al., 2002; Angiosperm Phylogeny Group, 2003), investigation of the cell wall composition of photosynthetic organisms necessarily demands a high-throughput approach (Sørensen et al., 2010). The total number of samples is further expanded by taking into consideration variation between tissues and between stages in the life cycle (Sørensen et al., 2010). For example, based on analysis of the products released by enzyme digestion of vegetative cells, xyloglucan was thought to be absent from Chara (Popper and Fry, 2003). However, more recent evidence provided by mAb labeling suggests that xyloglucan may occur in the walls of Chara antheridia (Domozych et al., 2009). Additional evidence will be necessary to determine whether xyloglucan actually does occur in Chara cell walls, because although an anti-xyloglucan mAb was capable of recognizing and binding to an epitope present in Chara cell walls, that epitope could be part of a polymer that is not xyloglucan.

Several techniques have been developed that could greatly facilitate the investigation of wall diversity, including Fourier-transform infrared microspectroscopy (FT-IR; Mouille et al., 2003), oligosaccharide mass profiling (OLIMP; Obel et al., 2006), and comprehensive microarray polymer profiling (CoMPP; Willats et al., 2002; Sørensen et al., 2008).

FT-IR is capable of generating a fingerprint that can distinguish between Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) mutants with altered cellulose, pectin, and xyloglucan compositions (Mouille et al., 2003). This method could be extended to profile different taxa. However, peaks may shift depending on molecular interactions and the environment within the wall (Kačuráková et al., 2000), a phenomenon that is likely to be even more pronounced between distantly related taxa, making unambiguous peak assignment and attribution difficult.

OLIMP utilizes highly specific hydrolases to digest wall components (Obel et al., 2006). The digestion products are then analyzed by matrix-assisted laser-desorption ionization time of flight mass spectrometry, and structural differences are indicated by changes in observed ions (Obel et al., 2006). This method has been applied to the investigation of Arabidopsis cell wall polysaccharides (Obel et al., 2006; Gille et al., 2009) but could be extremely valuable for screening for the existence of structural differences between polysaccharides within diverse plant taxa. Polysaccharides with unknown or unusual structures could then be subjected to further and more detailed methods of analysis. However, structural analysis of a cell wall component using OLIMP is dependent on its ability to be hydrolyzed, and in some taxa a wall component could be present but resist hydrolysis. We recently found that several species of brown algae can be labeled with a mAb that has a high specificity for (1→3),(1→4)-β-d-glucan (Meikle et al., 1994; Z.A. Popper and E. Demange, unpublished data). In addition, polysaccharides extracted from the wall using strong alkali could be digested with lichenase. However, digestion of brown algal cell walls with lichenase prior to labeling did not prevent the anti-MLG mAb from binding (Z.A. Popper and M. Lorenz, unpublished data). It seems likely that digestion was prevented by the presence of high concentrations of wall-bound phenolic compounds (Schoenwaelder and Clayton, 1998, 1999), which have been shown to inhibit enzyme activity (Barwell et al., 1989; Shibata et al., 2003).

To date, CoMPP is the technique that has been most extensively applied toward screening cell wall diversity (Sørensen et al., 2008) and has already resulted in some interesting discoveries, such as the presence of MLG in horsetail cell walls (Sørensen et al., 2008), as discussed earlier.

Using CoMPP, an indication of the likely presence of specific cell wall components within a particular plant species, tissue, or developmental stage is dependent on the reaction of extracted wall components with mAbs or carbohydrate-binding molecules (Moller et al., 2007). Thus, the availability of mAbs and carbohydrate-binding molecules currently limits the full potential of CoMPP. Increased numbers of mAbs, which are continuing to become available (Pattathil et al., 2010), will increase the power of CoMPP and greatly facilitate the analysis of cell wall diversity. The majority of cell wall-specific mAbs were generated against polysaccharides isolated from flowering plant cell walls, but there are exceptions, including those generated against polysaccharides from brown seaweeds (Vreeland, 1972; Vreeland et al., 1982, 1984). Furthermore, each mAb detects a specific epitope wherever it occurs, although interpretation may be complicated by the fact that the epitope recognized by a mAb can exist in different wall components in different taxa.

CoMPP is frequently followed by more extensive characterization of the cell wall using a variety of techniques to both confirm and add detail to the initial results (Sørensen et al., 2008, 2010). In situ methods enable investigation of the wall components in their native environment, facilitating exploration of their intramural associations.

One of the most frequently used in situ methods is labeling using mAbs or carbohydrate-binding molecules. This method can map the tissue-specific location of cell wall components and, when used in concert with advanced microscopy techniques such as electron tomography, can even enable three-dimensional visualization of a component within the wall (Mastronarde, 1997; Otegui et al., 2001; Otegui and Staehelin, 2004; Segui-Simarro et al., 2004). It has been found that the presence of high concentrations of pectin can mask, or prevent, mAb labeling of xyloglucan (Marcus et al., 2008). While the phenomenon of masking complicates the interpretation of mAb labeling, it also yields details regarding interactions between wall components that can be unveiled by a strategy that combines specific enzyme digestion with mAb labeling (Marcus et al., 2008). Further complications could arise from the presence of cell wall components that render hydrolytic enzymes inactive. However, mAb labeling can also be combined with a variety of chemical pretreatments; incubation of Fucus sections in EDTA prior to mAb labeling was found to improve antibody penetration (Vreeland et al., 1984).

CONCLUSION

Becker and Marin (2009) stated that they were “convinced that many plant ‘innovations’ will actually turn out to be innovations of the streptophyte algae,” whereas Niklas (2004) suggested that some plant cell wall features may have even deeper roots and share origins with more ancient algal ancestors. Both hypotheses may be true for different wall components.

Despite the fact that the chlorophytes and streptophytes (land plants and charophycean green algae) last shared a common ancestor 725 to 1,200 million years ago (Becker and Marin, 2009), it appears that through a combination of shared ancestry and convergent evolution they have some common cell wall characteristics. They also share some wall features with red and brown algae (summarized in Table I), to which they are even more distantly related (Yoon et al., 2004). Therefore, while cell wall differentiation may have been of high adaptive importance (Stebbins, 1992), it appears that a degree of conservation also exists. Further characterization of plant and algal cell wall polysaccharides and the enzymes that synthesize them may reveal the existence of core features common to eukaryotic cell walls, despite the presence of different cooccurring cell wall components and diverse intramural interactions.

Acknowledgments

We thank the editor and reviewers for their helpful comments and suggestions and David Domozych, Iben Sørensen, and William Willats for allowing us to read a preprint edition of “How Did Plant Cell Walls Evolve?”

Footnotes

  • ↵1 This work was supported by a National University of Ireland Galway Millennium Grant to Z.A.P.

  • The author responsible for distribution of materials integral to the findings presented in this article in accordance with the policy described in the Instructions for Authors (www.plantphysiol.org) is: Zoë A Popper(zoe.popper{at}nuigalway.ie).

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  • Received April 18, 2010.
  • Accepted April 26, 2010.
  • Published April 26, 2010.

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Zoë A. Popper, Maria G. Tuohy
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