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Eukaryotic Cell, April 2006, p. 753-761, Vol. 5, No. 4
1535-9778/06/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/EC.5.4.753-761.2006
Copyright © 2006, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Cell Division of Giardia intestinalis: Flagellar Developmental Cycle Involves Transformation and Exchange of Flagella between Mastigonts of a Diplomonad Cell{dagger}

Eva Nohynková,1* Pavla Tumová,1 and Jaroslav Kulda2

Department of Tropical Medicine, 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague and Faculty Hospital Bulovka,1 Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic2

Received 22 August 2005/ Accepted 23 January 2006

Giardia intestinalis is a binucleated diplomonad possessing four pairs of flagella of distinct location and function. Its pathogenic potential depends on the integrity of a complex microtubular cytoskeleton that undergoes a profound but poorly understood reorganization during cell division. We examined the cell division of G. intestinalis with the aid of light and electron microscopy and immunofluorescence methods and present here new observations on the reorganization of the flagellar apparatus in the dividing Giardia. Our results demonstrated the presence of a flagellar maturation process during which the flagella migrate, assume different position, and transform to different flagellar types in progeny until their maturation is completed. For each newly assembled flagellum it takes three cell cycles to become mature. The mature flagellum of Giardia is the caudal one that possesses a privileged basal body at which the microtubules of the adhesive disk nucleate. In contrast to generally accepted assumption that each of the two diplomonad mastigonts develops separately, we found that they are developmentally linked, exchanging their cytoskeletal components at the early phase of mitosis. The presence of the flagellar maturation process in a metamonad protist Giardia suggests that the basal body or centriole maturation is a universal phenomenon that may represent one of the core processes in a eukaryotic cell.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Tropical Medicine, 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague, Studnickova 7, 128 00 Prague 2, Czech Republic. Phone: 224 968 524. Fax: 224 968 525. E-mail: enohy{at}lf1.cuni.cz.

{dagger} Supplemental material for this article may be found at http://ec.asm.org/.

Eukaryotic Cell, April 2006, p. 753-761, Vol. 5, No. 4
1535-9778/06/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/EC.5.4.753-761.2006
Copyright © 2006, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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