The basal bodies of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
© Dutcher and O’Toole. 2016
Received: 26 October 2015
Accepted: 9 March 2016
Published: 1 June 2016
The unicellular green alga, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, is a biflagellated cell that can swim or glide. C. reinhardtii cells are amenable to genetic, biochemical, proteomic, and microscopic analysis of its basal bodies. The basal bodies contain triplet microtubules and a well-ordered transition zone. Both the mother and daughter basal bodies assemble flagella. Many of the proteins found in other basal body-containing organisms are present in the Chlamydomonas genome, and mutants in these genes affect the assembly of basal bodies. Electron microscopic analysis shows that basal body duplication is site-specific and this may be important for the proper duplication and spatial organization of these organelles. Chlamydomonas is an excellent model for the study of basal bodies as well as the transition zone.
Phylogeny and conservation of proteins
The green lineage or Viridiplantae consists of the green algae, which include Chlamydomonas, the angiosperms (the land plants), and the gymnosperms (conifers, cycads, ginkgos). They are grouped together because they have chlorophyll a and b and lack phycobiliproteins. The green algae together with the cycads and ginkgos have basal bodies and cilia, while the angiosperms and conifers have lost these organelles. The green algae are often referred to as bikonts because they have two flagella. A unikont (eukaryotic cells with a single flagellum) is thought to be the ancestor of choanoflagellates, fungi, and animals . The uniflagellated green alga Micromonas is an example of a unikont . It is possible to identify mutants in three genes in Chlamydomonas that assemble only one flagellum [13, 25, 42, 45, 46].
Many of the basal body and flagellar proteins are conserved across a wide range of organisms by sequence comparisons [1, 33]. A small number of proteins identified by mutational analysis in a variety of organisms are needed to assemble the microtubule core of basal bodies; these include PLK4, SAS6, SAS4, BLD10/CEP135, POC1, Centrin, SPD2/CEP192, Asterless/CEP152; CEP70, delta-tubulin, and epsilon-tubulin. Chlamydomonas has homologs of all of these based on sequence conservation except PLK4, CEP152, and CEP192. Several lines of evidence suggests that CEP152, CEP192, and PLK4 interact [20, 52] and their concomitant absence in several organisms suggests that other mechanisms exist that allow for control of duplication . For the conserved proteins, mutations or knockdown of SAS6, BLD10/CEP135, Centrin, CEP70, delta-tubulin, and epsilon-tubulin affect basal body duplication and assembly in Chlamydomonas as has been observed in other organisms. The proteomic analysis of basal bodies from Chlamydomonas  identified multiple POC (proteome of centriole) proteins and many have homologs (see below). Because of this conservation in proteins and structure as described below, Chlamydomonas remains an important model organism for basal body and flagellar research.
Basal body structure
Cryo-electron tomography and 3D subtomogram averaging of isolated basal bodies at 33 Å resolution reveal additional densities that represent non-tubulin proteins attached to the triplet microtubules, including a large inner circular structure in the basal body lumen . The basal bodies have also been examined by serial thin-section electron microscopy in an elegant study . This study found evidence of rotational symmetry via a structure called the acorn, which is found at the distal end of the triplet microtubules as they transition to the doublet microtubules of the transition zone. It is a filament of about 10 nm that is present on the A-tubules of doublets 1, 7, 8, and 9.
The cartwheel is very dynamic during mitosis. The length of the cartwheel undergoes significant changes during the cell cycle . The cartwheel length in new probasal bodies that assemble during metaphase is ~107 nm and increases to ~163 nm in telophase. The elongated cartwheel may act to stabilize this forming probasal body . In addition, the elongation of the cartwheel is concurrent with the elongation of triplet MTs of the daughter basal body prior to mitosis. Similar to the triplet MTs, the cartwheel in the developing daughter basal body during elongation is also significantly longer than in interphase (137 + 23 vs. 42 + 5 nm, respectively). This additional length could become the excised SAS-6 structure that templates new centrioles as has been observed in mammalian cells .
The analysis of the uni3 mutant was instrumental in the identification of new tubulin isoforms . The Chlamydomonas genome encodes delta, epsilon, and zeta tubulin isoforms. The loss of δ-tubulin results in the loss of triplet microtubules proximally [13, 42], and the loss of ε-tubulin results in the loss of doublet and triplet microtubules [15, 18, 47]. Antibodies to ε-tubulin showed a ring around the basal bodies as well as two projections coming off of each basal body that overlap the rootlet microtubule. Mutants of ζ-tubulin have not been identified .
Other structures and fibers
These fibers initiate at the beginning of the transition zone when the triplet microtubules become doublet microtubules. The basal body must be anchored to the plasma membrane, and this occurs via transition fibers [5, 12, 48]. The transition fibers are striated and end in knobs at the plasma membrane  and are likely to play roles similar to the distal and subdistal appendages of mammalian cells. The transition fibers may also serve as a docking site for intraflagellar transport (IFT) proteins . Of the appendage proteins found in mammals, the Chlamydomonas genome has only CEP164 and CC2D2A.
The mother and daughter basal bodies are each associated with two microtubules bundles called the rootlet microtubules. Each basal body has a four-membered microtubule and a two-membered microtubule rootlet. The rootlet microtubules are stable and contain acetylated α-tubulin. The rootlets are attached to the basal bodies at specific triplet microtubules and remain associated with the basal bodies during both interphase and mitosis. These microtubules form a cruciate pattern (Fig. 1b).
The rootlet microtubules attached to the basal bodies have at least two functions. The four-membered rootlets mark the cleavage furrow . In mutants with defective basal bodies, the rootlets lose their spatial organization and the cleavage furrow is misplaced relative to the spindle [18, 39]. The four-membered rootlet on the daughter basal body (D4) is also involved in placement of the photosensory eyespot at the end of the mitotic cell cycle. MLT1 localizes to D4 and centrin excludes it from the two-membered daughter rootlet (D2) . Centrin is involved in excluding MLT1 from D2.
Striated fibers overlay the two-membered rootlet microtubules and contain the coiled-coil protein, SF-assemblin . SF-assemblin staining is reduced to two dot-like structures at each spindle pole in metaphase, and at telophase new fibers assemble.
The composition of these fibers is unknown but they also appear as striated fibers. Two proximal fibers attach the mother and daughter basal body at their proximal ends.
This is a calcium-binding protein with EF-hand domains and it is found in several basal body-associated structures. This protein is widely conserved in eukaryotes . Centrin is also found in two patches on the anterior ends of the two-membered microtubule rootlets on the probasal bodies, in the lumen of the basal body, and in the stellate fiber of the transition zone . In addition, centrin is found in the distal striated fibers, and the nucleo-basal body connector.
Distal striated fibers
The mother and daughter basal bodies are connected by a large fiber called the distal striated fiber (DSF), which contain centrin (Fig. 1). The DSF disassembles in mitotic prophase so that the mother and daughter basal bodies can move apart to the opposite sides of the nuclear envelope [31, 41]. The DSF requires triplet microtubules to assemble or attach. Mutations that affect the assembly of triplet microtubules have defects in the assembly/attachment of the DSF .
Nucleo-basal body connector
The two NBBCs extend from both basal bodies and connect basal bodies with the nucleus . Centrin missense mutations result in misorientation and missegregation of the basal bodies [36, 58] that result in a variable number of flagella. It is not clear if this is due to the loss of the DSF, the NBBC, or both.
Basal body duplication
In interphase of the mitotic cell cycle, the basal bodies are attached to the plasma membrane and both the mother and the daughter basal bodies assemble flagella. At the beginning of mitosis, the transition zone is severed from the basal body at the proximal end of the transition zone ([41, 44]. The probasal bodies are elongated and new probasal bodies are initiated in association with the two older basal bodies in prophase/metaphase. The new probasal body appears next to triplet microtubules 7 and 8 of the mature basal bodies. This suggests that there is a unique site that is licensed for duplication in a wild-type cell. The new probasal bodies first assemble singlet microtubules from the cartwheel structure. During telophase/cytokinesis when the doublet and triplet microtubules assemble, the microtubules assemble from the distal to the proximal end of the new probasal bodies . PLK4, which is not present in the Chlamydomonas genome, forms a single spot that precedes the duplication of centrioles in mammalian cells . It has been suggested that this localization provides a site for duplication prior to the recruitment of SAS6.
The basal bodies are found near the poles of the spindle, but they do not appear to act as microtubule organizing centers for astral or spindle microtubules. The older basal bodies remain associated with the plasma membrane [22, 41]. At telophase, the Chlamydomonas cell has four mature basal bodies and four probasal bodies. In centrin mutants (vfl2), segregation of the basal bodies is perturbed as discussed above. Cells with no basal bodies and with too many basal bodies have been observed in the centrin mutants  or epsilon-tubulin mutant (bld2) . In the bld2 mutant, the spindles appear normal. Basal bodies can be regenerated de novo in the cells lacking basal bodies .
There are conflicting results about the presence of basal bodies during meiosis [5, 54]. Triemer and Brown observed the presence of a pair of basal bodies near the nucleus and plasma membrane. Several basal bodies mutants [bld2 (ε-tubulin) and bld10 (CEP135)] have recessive meiotic defects that suggest that basal bodies are needed for the successful completion of meiosis, but it is not known what role these basal bodies play.
Identification of basal body components
Proteomics was performed on isolated basal bodies . In these preparations, chloroplast and mitochondrial proteins accounted for 55/195 proteins identified; some of the unidentified proteins may be from these organelles. Forty-five of the proteins were validated by examining localization to the centrioles in mammalian cells. mRNA levels were increased for 27 proteins and these were named BUG1-BUG27. Several of these are known to have roles in the flagella [27, 28, 50, 59]. Eighteen proteins (POC1-POC18) were postulated to be part of the basal body complex. Two-dimensional gel electrophoresis of basal bodies  reveals over 200 proteins in isolated preparations; additional proteomic analysis may be useful to identify additional proteins.
In mitosis, the transition zones are discarded from the basal bodies by severing that occurs at the proximal end of the transition zone . Proteomics of these transition zone remnants have many of the proteins known to be in the transition zone from other organisms. These include CEP290, NPHP1, NPHP4, MKS1, MKS3/TMEM67, MKS6, Tectonic, AHI1, as well as several BBS proteins. The novel proteins that were identified by proteomics are ESCRT proteins. These include VPS4, VPS23, VPS28, VPS37, VPS60, and the exosome maturation protein ALIX/PCDP6IP . Both subunits of katanin were also found [16, 17, 19]. An aminophospholipid transporter is present as well as two proteins with lipoxygenase homology domains (POC2 and MOT51). The cell cycle proteins, CDKA1 and CYCA1, are also present. Mutants of CDKA1 are required to initiate DNA replication in Chlamydomonas . 33 novel proteins were also identified.
Examination of mRNA levels using synchronized cells shows that most of the known basal body genes, POC genes, and 4 BUG genes (BUG18, 23, 24, 27) show a peak increase in their mRNA levels just before cells enter into mitosis . The levels of ε-tubulin, γ-tubulin, BUG25, a coiled-coil protein, POC7 (UNC-119), and MKS1 mRNA increase earlier when many of the genes involved in DNA replication increase. δ-tubulin levels remain high until the cells reenter interphase with the introduction of light. Most of the BUG genes show patterns that are more similar to the pattern observed for flagellar genes. The cluster that is enriched in known basal body and POC genes contain over 1000 transcripts. These may encode additional proteins needed for basal body and transition zone assembly. As might be expected, the ESCRT proteins found in the transition zone are not in the cluster enriched in basal body genes as they are likely to have multiple functions.
Notable basal body findings
The bld2 mutant was the first mutant identified that fails to assemble basal bodies and this result suggested that basal bodies were not essential in Chlamydomonas [14, 23]. The uni3 mutant, which is a deletion of δ-tubulin, provided the first evidence that additional tubulin isoforms are needed for basal body assembly and maintenance [13, 42], and this was supported by the identification that the BLD2 encodes ε-tubulin. The Chlamydomonas BLD12/SAS6 protein was used in the crystallization of SAS6 (). Evidence for de novo assembly of basal bodies came from using vfl mutants . The calcium-binding protein, centrin, was identified in Chlamydomonas [26, 49]. A missense mutation in one of the EF-hand domains of centrin results in loss of several of the basal body-associated fibers , while knockdown of the centrin gene resulted in a failure to duplicate basal bodies . Comparative genomics using Chlamydomonas and Drosophila was a key to identifying many basal body and flagellar proteins. This lead to the realization that the proteins mutated in Bardet–Biedl Syndrome (BBS) affected flagellar function [1, 33]. Isolation of basal bodies lead to the identification of POC genes . Isolation of transition zone remnants allows for a further proteomic characterization of this important structural region and the finding that multiple ESCRT proteins at this key structure . The site-specific duplication of new basal bodies on specific microtubules was demonstrated in Chlamydomonas .
Strengths and future of basal body research in Chlamydomonas
The strength of Chlamydomonas has come from the ability to use multiple approaches. These include genetics, microscopy, and biochemistry. Chlamydomonas strains are haploid, which makes forward genetics straightforward. In addition, diploid strains can be selected and used for complementation tests. The power of whole genome sequencing has made it easier to use forward genetics to identify new mutations that affect the structure and function of basal bodies and transition zone and then to identify the gene of interest by whole genome sequencing . Most of the known basal body mutants have defects in flagellar assembly; so rapid screens for cells that fail to swim properly can be performed. Basal body mutants that have defects in the triplet microtubules confer supersensitivity to Taxol, so secondary screens can be performed to identify structural mutants . Screens for transition zone mutants are also possible using similar strategies. These mutants can be studied by electron tomography, quick-freeze deep-etch electron microscopy and by proteomics to further understand the assembly pathways for basal bodies and organelles. Since basal bodies are essential to flagellar assembly and function, these studies must include the analysis of the flagellar composition and function as well.
Å: Angstrom, DSF: Distal striated fiber, NBBC: Nucleo-basal body connector, IFT: Intraflagellar transport, D2: Rootlet microtubule associated with daughter basal body with two microtubules, D4: Rootlet microtubule associated with daughter basal body with four microtubules, M2: Rootlet microtubule associated with mother basal body with two microtubules, M4: Rootlet microtubule associated with mother basal body with four microtubules.
BBS: Bardet–Biedl Syndrome, BUG: Basal body upregulated gene, BLD: Bald, CC2D2A: Coiled-Coil And C2 Domain Containing 2A, CEP: Centriole proteome, MLT: Multieye, MOT: Present in motile ciliated organisms, MKS: Meckel’s Syndrome, NPHP: Nephronophthsis, POC: proteome of centrioles, SAS: Spindle assembly abnormal, TMEM: Transmembrane protein, UNI: Uniflagellate, VFL: Variable flagellar number, VPS: Vacuolar Protein Sorting-Associated Protein.
SKD wrote the first draft, and EOT and SKD read and corrected. Both authors read and approved the final manuscript.
This work was supported by a grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences to SKD (GM-032843). The Boulder Lab for 3D Electron Microscopy of Cells was supported by P41GM103431.
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
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