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Published on October 6, 2006; 10.1105/tpc.106.041343

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Received January 22, 2006
Returned for revision August 2, 2006
Accepted September 18, 2006

A Posttranslationally Regulated Protease, VheA, Is Involved in the Liberation of Juveniles from Parental Spheroids in Volvox carteri

Kazutake Fukada 1, Tan Inoue 1, and Hideaki Shiraishi 1*

1 Department of Gene Mechanisms, Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: siraisi{at}kuchem.kyoto-u.ac.jp.

The lineage of volvocine algae includes unicellular Chlamydomonas and multicellular Volvox in addition to their colonial relatives intermediate in size and cell number. In an asexual life cycle, daughter cells of Chlamydomonas hatch from parental cell walls soon after cell division, while Volvox juveniles are released from parental spheroids after the completion of various developmental events required for the survival of multicellular juveniles. Thus, heterochronic change in the timing of hatching is considered to have played an important role in the evolution of multicellularity in volvocine algae. To study the hatching process in Volvox carteri, we purified a 125-kD Volvox hatching enzyme (VheA) from a culture medium with enzymatic activity to degrade the parental spheroids. The coding region of vheA contains a prodomain with a transmembrane segment, a subtilisin-like Ser protease domain, and a functionally unknown domain, although purified 125-kD VheA does not contain a prodomain. While 143-kD VheA with a prodomain is synthesized long before the hatching stage, 125-kD VheA is released into the culture medium during hatching due to cleavage processing at the site between the prodomain and the subtilisin-like Ser protease domain, indicating that posttranslational regulation is involved in the determination of the timing of hatching.






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