Conceptually, peroxisome abundance is a result of the rate of development fission, de novo synthesis rel-ative to the rate of autophagic degradation and reduction via the segregation of o
Trang 1Peroxisomes as dynamic organelles: peroxisome
abundance in yeast
Ruchi Saraya, Marten Veenhuis and Ida J van der Klei
Molecular Cell Biology, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute (GBB), University of Groningen, Kluyver Centre for Genomics of Industrial Fermentation, Haren, The Netherlands
Introduction
Eukaryotic cells are characterized by the presence of
specific compartments, the organelles The advantages
of compartmentalization may include the creation of
unique microenvironments with specific (bio)chemical
properties to improve the efficiency of certain
pro-cesses or to provide additional pathways for
regula-tion To form and maintain these compartments,
highly complex mechanisms exist in eukaryotic cells
Peroxisomes represent an important class of
organ-elles that are present in almost all eukaryotes [1] Their
function and significance varies with the organism in
which they occur, their developmental stage and
envi-ronmental conditions They are generally involved in
the metabolism of reactive compounds, such as
hydro-gen peroxide or glyoxylate [1]
In yeast, peroxisomes are predominantly involved
in the metabolism of various unusual carbon and
nitrogen sources, such as oleic acid, methanol, d-amino acids and purines [2] Upon transfer of glucose-grown yeast cells to media containing these com-pounds, the number and size of peroxisomes shows a strong increase
The biogenesis of peroxisomes depends on the func-tions of unique genes (termed PEX genes) At present, over 30 PEX genes have been identified, most of which are involved in the process of matrix protein import [3] Two PEX genes (PEX3 and PEX19) have been impli-cated in the targeting and insertion of peroxisomal membrane proteins The remaining PEX genes are involved in regulating organelle size and numbers [4] Conceptually, peroxisome abundance is a result of the rate of development (fission, de novo synthesis) rel-ative to the rate of (autophagic) degradation and reduction via the segregation of organelles to daughter
Keywords
de novo synthesis; fission; organelle
inheritance; peroxisomes; yeast
Correspondence
I J van der Klei, Molecular Cell Biology,
Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and
Biotechnology Institute (GBB), PO Box 14,
NL-9750 AA Haren, The Netherlands
Fax: +31 (0)50 363 8280
Tel: +31 (0)50 363 2179
E-mail: I.J.van.der.klei@rug.nl
(Received 2 March 2010, revised 23 April
2010, accepted 17 May 2010)
doi:10.1111/j.1742-4658.2010.07740.x
Peroxisomes are cell organelles that are present in almost all eukaryotic cells and involved in a large range of metabolic pathways The organelles are highly dynamic in nature: their number and enzyme content is highly variable and continuously adapts to prevailing environmental conditions This review summarizes recent relevant developments in research on pro-cesses that are involved in the regulation of peroxisome abundance and maintenance These processes include fission of the organelles, formation of new peroxisomes from the endoplasmic reticulum, autophagic degradation and segregation⁄ inheritance during cell division
Abbreviations
DRP, dynamin-related protein; PEX, peroxisome gene.
Trang 2cells during cell division (Fig 1) The extent to which
these processes control peroxisome numbers in a
spe-cific cell is still largely unknown In this review we
summarize the current knowledge of the various
pro-cesses regulating peroxisome abundance in yeast
Modes of peroxisome formation
For decades, the classical view on peroxisome
prolifer-ation was that the organelles are autonomous and
rep-licate by fission This growth-and-fission model was
supported by the finding that peroxisomal membrane
and matrix proteins are synthesized on free polysomes
and post-translationally incorporated into pre-existing
organelles In this view the close connection of growing
peroxisomes with the endoplasmic reticulum was
inter-preted to mean the endoplasmic reticulum served as a
source of membrane lipids More recently, evidence
has accumulated in support of a model suggesting that
peroxisomes can arise de novo from the endoplasmic
reticulum This phenomenon was in observed
par-ticularly in specific peroxisome-deficient (pex) yeast
mutants (which lack any peroxisome membrane
rem-nants) upon re-introduction of the corresponding gene
[5–8] Recently, it became clear that the two
machiner-ies – de novo synthesis from the endoplasmic reticulum
and fission of pre-existing peroxisomes – may occur
simultaneously, especially in higher eukaryotes and
in the yeast Yarrowia lipolytica [9–12] However, in wild-type strains of the yeasts Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Hansenula polymorpha this is probably not true, because in these species peroxisomes seem to prolifer-ate exclusively by fission [13,14] In these yeast species
de novo formation is only observed during conditions when the cells lack peroxisomes, in which, by defini-tion, peroxisomes cannot be formed by fission of a pre-existing organelle
Peroxisome formation from the endoplasmic reticulum
De novoperoxisome formation has predominantly been studied in cells with a defect in PEX3 Yeast pex3 cells lack any peroxisome membrane structures, but intact peroxisomes re-appear after re-introduction of the cor-responding deleted gene Upon re-introduction of the PEX3 gene in pex3 cells, the Pex3 produced is first sorted to the perinuclear or cortical endoplasmic retic-ulum, after which it colocalizes with Pex19 in specific compartments, termed pre-peroxisomes In this sce-nario, Pex3 is suggested to be essential for the forma-tion of this initial vesicular subcompartment where it serves as a docking site for Pex19–peroxisomal mem-brane protein complexes that are essential to direct
Fig 1 Hypothetical model of peroxisome abundance In wild-type yeast cells peroxisome numbers may be maintained by a balance between four processes (1) Peroxisome formation from the endoplasmic reticulum (involving Pex3), during which a pre-peroxisomal struc-ture is formed that grows by importing newly synthesized peroxisomal membrane and matrix proteins to form a mastruc-ture peroxisome (2) Per-oxisome fission (involving Pex11 and DRPs), during which a mature perPer-oxisome first elongates, and then divides, to form a new small peroxisome that can grow to form a mature peroxisome (3) Peroxisome inheritance (involving Myo2, Inp2, Inp1, Pex3 and Pex19), in which peroxisomes are faithfully inherited into the newly formed bud (3a) and ⁄ or are retained in the mother cell (3b) during cell division (4) Peroxi-some degradation, when redundant ⁄ exhausted organelles are degraded in the vacuole.
Trang 3various peroxisomal membrane proteins to this newly
formed structure Once a functional peroxisomal
matrix protein import complex is formed, these
pre-peroxisomal structures will import matrix proteins (see
the review by Wolf et al [15] in this miniseries), grow
and subsequently multiply by fission However, the
molecular details of this pathway, for instance the
principles of Pex3 docking and subsequent vesicle
for-mation from the endoplasmic reticulum (which is
pre-dominantly resolved by advanced live-cell imaging
techniques), are still an enigma
The endoplasmic reticulum, as a template for
de novoperoxisome formation during complementation
of yeast pex3 cells, is not debated During this process,
Pex3 is first targeted to the endoplasmic reticulum and,
at a later stage, is present at the peroxisomal
mem-brane However, whether Pex3 invariably traffics via
the endoplasmic reticulum to peroxisomes (i.e also in
wild-type cells), is still uncertain In fact, recent data in
mammalian cells [16,17] indicated that newly
synthe-sized Pex3 protein can also directly sort to pre-existing
peroxisomes
In wild-type cells, peroxisomal membrane proteins
other than Pex3 have also been suggested to travel via
the endoplasmic reticulum to pre-existing organelles
However, the transient localization of certain
peroxi-somal membrane proteins at the endoplasmic
reticu-lum (e.g Pichia pastoris Pex30 and Pex31 [18] may
also be related to other processes For instance, a
vesicular transport pathway has been suggested to exist
which transports endoplasmic reticulum-derived lipids,
together with certain peroxisomal membrane proteins,
to peroxisomes However, recent data indicate that
phopholipids are probably directly transferred from
the endoplasmic reticulum to peroxisomes without
vesicular transport [19] Hence, the physiological role
of the localization of certain peroxisomal membrane
proteinss at the endoplasmic reticulum needs further analysis
The peroxisome fission machinery
Based on studies of the function of Pex11b in mam-malian cells, the process of peroxisome fission has been proposed to involve four, partially overlapping, consecutive steps, namely (a) the insertion of Pex11b into the membrane, (b) the elongation of peroxisomes, (c) the segregation of Pex11b and the formation of Pex11b-enriched patches and (d) the division of per-oxisomes [20,21] (see also Fig 2) Pex11b (or its homolog in other organisms) is important for the ini-tial stages of peroxisome fission (steps a–c), whereas the organelle fission machinery is responsible for the final step (d)
The yeast homolog of mammalian Pex11b is Pex11 Upon overexpression of S cerevisiae PEX11, elongated clusters of peroxisomes were observed and the cyto-plasm of the cells was crowded with peroxisomes [22,23] In contrast, deletion of PEX11 resulted in a strong decrease in peroxisome numbers, which was paralleled by a strong increase in size Very similar observations have been made in many other organisms (e.g filamentous fungi, trypanosomes and human cells; reviewed previously [21]), indicating that the role of Pex11 in peroxisome elongation is highly conserved
Of all the PEX genes known, the expression levels
of PEX11 are enhanced most when peroxisome prolif-eration is induced This is true upon shifting S cerevi-siae cells from glucose- to oleic acid-containing media [24,25], as well as for H polymorpha cells shifted from glucose to methanol [26] Hence, modulating Pex11 levels is an important mode to vary peroxisome abun-dance Unexpectedly, mammalian Pex11b is not induced by peroxisome proliferators
Fig 2 Morphological stages of peroxisome fission Ultrathin sections of KMnO4-fixed cells grown in a methanol-limited chemostat at
D = 0.12 h)1, demonstrating the three stages involved during peroxisome inheritance: (A) elongation into the bud; (B) separation of a small organelle; and (C) the actual fission and migration of a small organelle into the bud The bar represents 0.5 lm.
Trang 4Recently, Knoblach & Rachubinski [27] showed that
in vivo S cerevisiae Pex11 exists in two isoforms,
namely a phosphorylated form and a dephosphorylated
form Interestingly, studies using PEX11
phosphomim-icking mutants indicated that strains producing only
constitutively dephosphorylated Pex11 show a
pheno-type similar to that of pex11 cells, whereas strains
producing constitutive phosphorylated Pex11 show
enhanced peroxisome proliferation, similar to that of
Pex11-overproducing cells This suggests that Pex11
phosphorylation may include a mechanism to regulate
Pex11 activation⁄ inactivation
A recent study of 249 S cerevisiae kinase- and
phos-phatase-deletion strains [28] indeed indicated that
phosphorylation processes are crucial in regulating
per-oxisome abundance In particular, deletion of PHO85,
a cyclin-dependent kinase, had a strongly negative
effect on peroxisome numbers Interestingly,
overex-pression of PHO85 results in hyperphosphorylation of
Pex11 and peroxisome proliferation [27]
The second class of proteins essential for peroxisome
fission is the family of dynamin-related proteins
(DRPs) DRPs are large GTPases that are involved in
membrane fission and fusion events In S cerevisiae,
two DRPs – Vps1 and Dnm1 – play a role in
peroxi-some fission Dnm1 also plays a role in mitochondrial
fission Dnm1 is, in particular, essential for peroxisome
fission during conditions of peroxisome induction by
oleate [29], whereas Vps1 functions in peroxisome
rep-lication under repressing conditions (e.g in the
pres-ence of glucose) Dnm1 is recruited to peroxisomes via
two homologus proteins, Mdv1 and Caf4, which are
associated with the peroxisomal membrane via the
tail-anchored protein, Fis1 [30] Mdv1 is a WD repeat
pro-tein, which is absent in higher eukaryotes Caf4 is an
Mdv1 paralog in S cerevisiae that is absent in other
organisms
In S cerevisiae, Vps1 is involved in peroxisome
fis-sion [29]; however, in H polymorpha, Vps1 does not
play a role in this process [14] In this respect, H
poly-morpha seems to be more similar to mammalian and
plant cells, where a single DRP (Dlp1 or DRP3A,
respectively) is involved in peroxisome fission
Interest-ingly, in Arabidopsis thaliana, it has been shown that
the DRP 5B is responsible for the fission of
chlorop-lasts as well as of peroxisomes [31] Additionally in
A thaliana it has been shown that three out of five
PEX11 isoforms (PEX11c, PEX11d and PEX11e) are
important in the recruitment of Fis1b to the
peroxi-some membrane for the replication of pre-existing
per-oxisomes [32] Similarly, in mammals, Fis1 interacts
with Pex11b [33] As for other peroxisomal membrane
proteins, Pex19, a peroxin important for peroxisomal
membrane biogenesis, is also important for the target-ing of Fis1 to peroxisomes in mammals [34]
Remarkably, the Fis1–DRP organelle fission machinery was initially identified as being responsible for mitochondrial fission [30] Indeed, Fis1 and Dnm1 show a dual localization on peroxisomes and mito-chondria In contrast to peroxisomal Fis1, no proteins involved in Fis1 targeting to mitochondria have yet been identified
Why both organelles share the same fission machin-ery is unknown, but this may serve as a mechanism to coordinate mitochondrial and peroxisome fission (e.g during the cell cycle) Fluorescence microscopy studies
in H polymorpha revealed that green fluorescent pro-tein (GFP)-conjugated Dnm1 is not evenly distributed over the cytosol, but is present as multiple spots that contain many GFP–Dnm1 molecules Interestingly, Mdv1 co-localizes with these Dnm1 spots Live cell imaging revealed that these spots dynamically associate and disassociate from mitochondria and peroxisomes, stressing the fact that the same protein molecules are involved in the fission of both organelles [35]
Peroxisome fission in H polymorpha is fully blocked upon the deletion of DNM1 [14] These cells contain a single, enlarged peroxisome, which forms a long exten-sion that protrudes into the developing bud These extensions are not observed in dnm1 pex11 cells, which
is in agreement with the model in which Pex11 plays a role in peroxisome elongation Notably, as in mamma-lian cells [20], Pex11 is concentrated at the base of these peroxisome extensions in dnm1 cells, indicating that also in yeast the third step in peroxisome fission is the segregation of Pex11 and the formation of Pex11-enriched patches
Other proteins implemented in peroxisome development and abundance
Besides Pex3, Pex11 and Fis1⁄ DRPs as key compo-nents in determining organelle development and abun-dance, other proteins have been identified as regulators
of these processes These include components that were initially identified in the secretory pathway and various recently identified peroxins, and are discussed in more detail below
Components of the secretory pathway Several proteins known to play a role in the secretory pathway and localized to membranes of compartments involved in this pathway (e.g endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi, COP vesicles) have been suggested to play a
Trang 5role in peroxisome abundance These proteins may be
important for de novo peroxisome formation or for the
delivery of endoplasmic reticulum-derived lipids to the
peroxisomal membrane
A recent study indicated a possible role for S
cerevi-siae SEC39, SEC21and DSL in the trafficking of
per-oxisomal membrane proteins from the endoplasmic
reticulum to the peroxisome [36] S cerevisiae ARF1
and ARF3 were also proposed to work antagonistically
during peroxisome proliferation [37]
Emp24 is a protein of the p24 family of proteins
and localizes to the Golgi apparatus, endoplasmic
reticulum and COP vesicles [38] However, a detailed
proteomics study in S cerevisiae suggested that Emp24
is also localized to peroxisomes [39] Moreover, in the
yeast H polymorpha, Emp24 was localized to
peroxi-somes and the endoplasmic reticulum [40]
Interest-ingly, deletion of EMP24 in H polymorpha resulted in
a strong reduction in peroxisome number
Unexpect-edly, this was not caused by a defect in the formation
of peroxisomes from the endoplasmic reticulum, but
by a defect in peroxisome fission Possibly, p24
pro-teins are required to bring various components
involved in peroxisome fission together at the
peroxi-somal membrane to allow organelle elongation at the
initial stage of peroxisome fission
A similar function has recently been suggested for
caveolin-1 at peroxisomes in mammalian cells [41]
Caveolin-1 is crucial for the formation of caveolae,
subtypes of microdomains⁄ rafts that are
morphologi-cally recognizable as flask-like invaginations in the
plasma membrane Recent localization studies in rat
hepatocytes revealed that caveolin-1 is also enriched in
the peroxisomal membrane A function for this protein
at the peroxisomal membrane, however, has not yet
been established
Peroxins
Besides Pex11, two other members of the S cerevisiae
Pex11 family – Pex25 and Pex27 – play a role in
per-oxisome proliferation [23] Data obtained from the
analysis of overexpression strains suggest that both
peripheral membrane proteins function in organelle
fis-sion, in particular under conditions when proliferation
of the organelles is repressed Also, proteins of the
Pex24 protein family (Pex24, Pex28 and Pex29) are
involved in regulating peroxisome numbers All three
proteins are components of the peroxisomal
mem-brane, of which Pex24, but not Pex28 and Pex29, is
induced by growth conditions that promote
peroxi-some proliferation (i.e oleate) Remarkably, deletion
of PEX28 and PEX29 in S cerevisiae is accompanied
by increased numbers of reduced-size organelles [42]
In addition, three other oleate-inducible baker’s yeast proteins (Pex30, Pex31 and Pex32), which show homol-ogy towards Y lipolytica Pex23, have been shown to
be involved in regulating peroxisome numbers [43]
Peroxisome inheritance
During vegetative reproduction of wild-type yeast cells, organelle replication is essential for maintaining the organelle population in the mother cells during multi-ple rounds of budding Upon division, part of the organelle population is administered to the bud In the methylotrophic yeast H polymorpha, this is accompa-nied by asymmetrical peroxisome fission and subse-quent migration of the newly formed, small organelle
to the developing bud The number of organelles migrating to the bud is dependent on the culture con-ditions [44] (Fig 3)
In yeast, peroxisome inheritance requires the func-tion of Inp1, Inp2, the class V myosin motor (Myo2) and the actin skeleton [45–47] Of these, Inp1 has been identified as the peroxisome-specific retention factor, connecting peroxisomes that are retained in the mother cells to a yet-unknown anchoring structure Similarly, Inp1 is also implemented in the retention of peroxi-somes in developing buds [45,48] Unexpectedly, in the absence of Pex11, peroxisome retention is also defec-tive in H polymorpha, despite the fact that Inp1 is properly localized to peroxisomes [48] Hence, Pex11 may have a second function in organelle retention in addition to its role in peroxisome fission
Recently, a function in peroxisome inheritance was also attributed to Pex3 [49] In an elegant study, Munck et al [49] demonstrated that Pex3 also func-tions in peroxisome retention The authors showed that Pex3 interacted directly with Inp1 at the peroxi-somal membrane and suggested a role for Pex3 to recruit Inp1 to the peroxisomal membrane Impor-tantly, the Inp1-binding region in the Pex3 protein could be separated from the regions involved in membrane formation during the de novo synthesis of peroxisomes [49] Hence, Pex3 is a multifunctional pro-tein in peroxisome biology, implemented in formation
of the peroxisome membrane and organelle inheritance Inp2 is a peroxisomal membrane protein that acts as the peroxisomal receptor for Myo2 and attaches the globular tail of Myo2 to the peroxisome, thus allowing transport of the organelle to the bud [46] Recently, the region of Myo2 involved in Inp2 binding was iden-tified using mutant variants of Myo2 [50] These stud-ies also showed that Inp2 is a phosphoprotein whose level of phosphorylation is coupled to the cell cycle
Trang 6Chang et al [51] recently suggested that Inp2 is
unique for baker’s yeast and related species and
pro-vided evidence that Y lipolytica Pex3 and its paralog,
Pex3B, function as the peroxisome-specific receptors of
Myo2 A similar function was attributed to baker’s
yeast Pex3 However, in a subsequent study, Saraya
et al [52] demonstrated that Inp2, although weekly
conserved, is also present and functional in other yeast
species, including H polymorpha The finding that
H polymorpha Inp2 interacted with Myo2 points to a
conserved function for this protein as a binding factor
for Myo2 Remarkably, in H polymorpha, Myo2–Inp2
binding was dependent on Pex19 This is consistent
with the view that Pex19 may have a stabilizing role in
the interaction between Inp2 and Myo2, and also is in
line with the observed defect in peroxisome inheritance
in H polymorpha pex19 cells [53]
Constitutive peroxisome degradation
Peroxisomal membrane proteins are generally
post-translationally incorporated into the organelle
mem-brane This implies that the main quality-control
systems for these proteins reside outside the organelle
(i.e in the cytosol) However, peroxisomes do contain
a few specific proteases that are implemented in the
removal of exhausted or nonfunctional matrix
pro-teins Although different protease activities have been
detected in peroxisomes [54], so far only one gene
encoding a peroxisomal protease, a Lon protease, has been identified in yeast, in contrast to mammals where up to three proteases have been identified [55] Peroxisomal Lon of H polymorpha degrades short-lived or nonfunctional components of the peroxisomal lumen and therefore may participate in a housekeep-ing process aimed at maintainhousekeep-ing a functional peroxi-some population In the absence of Lon, protein aggregates may accumulate in the organelle lumen Such protein aggregates are probably devastating for organelle function and require removal of the entire organelle to maintain cell vitality Recent studies in human cells suggested that the peroxisomal Lon pro-tease is involved in accurate sorting, processing and activation of the peroxisomal enzyme acyl CoA oxidase [56]
Redundant organelles are removed by selective per-oxisome autophagy (see the review in this miniseries
by Oku & Sakai [57] for details) However, constitutive removal of peroxisomes is observed in H polymorpha when cultured under conditions that promote organelle proliferation Hence, under conditions of peroxisome induction, development and degradation of the organ-elles occurs simultaneously The data from Bener Aksam et al [55] suggest that constitutive peroxisome degradation suppresses the negative effects of deletion
of LON This is indicated by the observation that in
an ATG1 deletion background, in which peroxisome turnover is inhibited, deletion of the gene encoding
Fig 3 Peroxisome inheritance numbers vary with environmental conditions In budding cells of methanol-limited cultures of Hansenula poly-morpha cells grown at high dilution rates (A; D = 0.12 h)1), generally only a single peroxisome is inherited to the bud, whereas several small organelles are inherited to buds in cultures grown at low dilution rates (B; D = 0.03 h)1) Electron micrographs of thin sections are shown Cells are fixed in KMnO4 The bar represents 1 lm.
Trang 7peroxisomal Lon resulted in a decrease of cell viability.
This is consistent with the view that timely removal of
these organelles is essential for cell viability Untimely
removal of peroxisomes may result in detrimental
effects (i.e the accumulation of reactive oxygen
spe-cies, finally resulting in cell death) [55] Constitutive
degradation of peroxisomes in H polymorpha is an
autophagic process and thus requires the function of
ATG genes However, the precise sequence of events
that mediate this constitutive degradation process is
still unknown and awaits further elucidation One
pos-sibility is that, similarly to mitochondria, fission
pro-cesses may be involved that allow separation of
dysfunctional, aggregate-containing parts, which are
specifically recognized for degradation [58]
Perspectives
Peroxisomes are extremely flexible and dynamic
organ-elles Several cues are known that cause rapid changes
in their abundance During recent years much progress
has been made in the identification and analysis of
genes involved in changing organelle abundance
How-ever, except for the proteins of the Fis1⁄ DRP organelle
fission machinery, the function of most other proteins
is still very speculative
One problem that may have been underestimated so
far is that – unlike for genes involved in peroxisome
protein import – the underlying mechanism of mutants
displaying aberrant organelle numbers may be related
to two, basically opposite, machineries Obviously, a
protein import defect results in cytosolic
mislocaliza-tion of matrix proteins However, alteramislocaliza-tions in
orga-nelle abundance may, in fact, reflect either defects in
organelle formation or, alternatively, in organelle
turn-over by autophagy Also, mutations that affect the rate
of the two opposite machineries of organelle formation
and degradation to the same extent, will result in an
unaltered steady-state number of peroxisomes Thus,
the mere organelle steady-state number, which is
gen-erally used to determine peroxisome abundance, is not
sufficiently informative about the actual rates of the
different processes that determine organelle abundance
in a separate cell
To understand in more detail the underlying reasons
for the presence of certain phenotypes there is an
urgent need to develop better techniques to establish
the phenotype of mutants more precisely Using live
cell imaging techniques the rates of the processes that
affect peroxisome abundance should be quantitatively
determined in vivo Such data could eventually be used
to develop mathematical models describing the kinetics
of these processes
Organelle fission and de novo synthesis could be studied using photoactivatable proteins or the HaloTag technology, as successfully used in mammalian cells [10,17] The rate of degradation can easily be deter-mined biochemically by determining protein half lives One way to determine the involvement of a gene in
de novosynthesis is to study the effect of mutations on functional complementation of a pex3 mutant with the PEX3 gene Using this approach we showed that DNM1, VPS1and EMP24 are not required for peroxi-some re-introduction from the endoplasmic reticulum
in H polymorpha pex3 cells [14,40] Interestingly, no mutations have so far been described that result in a defect in pex3 mutant complementation Why such genes⁄ mutations have not yet been identified is unknown Possibly these genes are also involved in other endoplasmic reticulum-related process and hence the mutations may be lethal
In addition to the detailed molecular mechanisms
of the various processes, their regulation is still lar-gely unexplored Important questions regarding this include the following What is the signal that triggers the peroxisomes to divide? How are organelles that should be degraded, retained or inherited, distin-guished from the other organelles of the total orga-nelle population?
Systems biology approaches have already been shown to be very helpful in this respect, for example, the analysis of kinase- and phosphatase-deficient mutants [28], proteomics and transcriptomics
Acknowledgements
We thank Rinse de Boer for preparing Figs 2 and 3 This project was carried out within the research pro-gramme of the Kluyver Centre for Genomics of Indus-trial Fermentation, which is part of the Netherlands Genomics Initiative⁄ Netherlands Organization for Sci-entific Research
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