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Abu-Abied M, Golomb L, Belausov E, Huang S, Geiger B, Kam Z, Staiger CJ, Sadot E. Identification of plant cytoskeleton-interacting proteins by screening for actin stress fiber association in mammalian fibroblasts. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2006; 48:367-79. [PMID: 17010111 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313x.2006.02883.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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Taking advantage of the high conservation of the cytoskeleton building blocks actin and tubulin between plant and animal kingdoms, we developed a functional genomic screen for the isolation of new plant cytoskeleton-binding proteins that uses a mammalian cell expression system. A yellow fluorescent protein (YFP)-fusion cDNA library from Arabidopsis was inserted into rat fibroblasts and screened for fluorescent chimeras localizing to cytoskeletal structures. The high-throughput screen was performed by an automated microscope. An initial set of candidate genes identified in the screen was isolated, sequenced, the full-length cDNAs were synthesized by RT-PCR and tested by biochemical approaches to verify the ability of the genes to bind actin directly. Alternatively, indirect binding via interaction with other actin-binding proteins was studied. The full-length cDNAs were transferred back to plants as YFP chimeras behind the CAMV-35S promoter. We give here two examples of new plant cytoskeletal proteins identified in the pilot screen. ERD10, a member of the dehydrin family of proteins, was localized to actin stress fibers in rat fibroblasts. Its direct binding to actin filaments was confirmed by several biochemical approaches. Touch-induced calmodulin-like protein, TCH2, was also localized to actin stress fibers in fibroblasts, but was unable to bind actin filaments directly in vitro. Nevertheless, it did bind to the IQ domains of Arabidopsis myosin VIII in a calcium-dependent manner. Further evidence for a cytoskeletal function of ERD10 was obtained in planta; GFP-ERD10 was able to protect the actin cytoskeleton from latrunculin-mediated disruption in Nicotiana benthamiana leaves.
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- Mohamad Abu-Abied
- The Institute of Plant Sciences, The Volcani Center, Bet-Dagan 50250 Israel
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Wiśniewska E, Majewska-Sawka A. Cell wall polysaccharides in differentiating anthers and pistils of Lolium perenne. PROTOPLASMA 2006; 228:65-71. [PMID: 16937056 DOI: 10.1007/s00709-006-0175-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2005] [Accepted: 06/08/2005] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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We are presenting the pattern of distribution of several carbohydrate epitopes, which constitute an important component of cell walls, within the anthers and pistils of a monocot grass species, perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.). The results of immunocytochemical studies revealed that the flower organs are rich in (1-->3, 1-->4)-beta-D-glucans and possess surprisingly high amounts of methylesterified pectic domains that bind JIM7 antibody and pectin side chains rich in (1-->4)-beta-D-galactose residues which react with LM5 antibody. The presence of arabinogalactan protein epitopes binding JIM13 is restricted to microspores and ovule integuments. The results are discussed in terms of possible functions of cell wall polysaccharides and arabinogalactan proteins in the differentiation of flower organs.
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- Ewa Wiśniewska
- Institute of Plant Breeding and Acclimatization, Bydgoszcz, Poland.
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Etxeberria E, Gonzalez P, Baroja-Fernandez E, Romero JP. Fluid phase endocytic uptake of artificial nano-spheres and fluorescent quantum dots by sycamore cultured cells: evidence for the distribution of solutes to different intracellular compartments. PLANT SIGNALING & BEHAVIOR 2006; 1:196-200. [PMID: 19521485 PMCID: PMC2634026 DOI: 10.4161/psb.1.4.3142] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2006] [Accepted: 05/03/2006] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Fluid phase endocytic uptake of external solutes in plant cells was further substantiated using artificial polystyrene nano-spheres (40 nm) and CdSe/ZnS quantum dots (20 nm). Both types of artificial nano-particles were taken up by sycamore-cultured cells. However, whereas polystyrene nano-spheres were delivered to the central vacuole, CdSe/ZnS nano-dots were sequestered into cytoplasmic vesicular structures. Using dextran-Texas Red (m.w. 3,000; d-TR) as additional marker, confocal micrographs confirmed the distinct topographic distribution of CdSe/ZnS quantum dots within the cell. Initially, d-TR and CdSe/ZnS quantum dots colocalized within cytoplasmic vesicles. After 18 h incubation, d-TR was distinctly localized in the vacuole whereas CdSe/ZnS quantum dots remained sequestered in cytoplasmic membranous compartments. The data provide a first evidence for the rapid distribution of solutes taken up by endocytosis to distinct intracellular compartments.
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- Ed Etxeberria
- University of Florida; Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences; Citrus Research and Education Center; Department of Horticultural Sciences; Lake Alfred, Florida USA
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- University of Florida; Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences; Citrus Research and Education Center; Department of Horticultural Sciences; Lake Alfred, Florida USA
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- Agrobioteknologia Instituta; Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas and Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoa; Mutiloako etorbidea zembaki gabe; Mutiloabeti, Nafarroa, Spain
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- Agrobioteknologia Instituta; Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas and Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoa; Mutiloako etorbidea zembaki gabe; Mutiloabeti, Nafarroa, Spain
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Pastuglia M, Azimzadeh J, Goussot M, Camilleri C, Belcram K, Evrard JL, Schmit AC, Guerche P, Bouchez D. Gamma-tubulin is essential for microtubule organization and development in Arabidopsis. THE PLANT CELL 2006; 18:1412-25. [PMID: 16698945 PMCID: PMC1475493 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.105.039644] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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The process of microtubule nucleation in plant cells is still a major question in plant cell biology. gamma-Tubulin is known as one of the key molecular players for microtubule nucleation in animal and fungal cells. Here, we provide genetic evidence that in Arabidopsis thaliana, gamma-tubulin is required for the formation of spindle, phragmoplast, and cortical microtubule arrays. We used a reverse genetics approach to investigate the role of the two Arabidopsis gamma-tubulin genes in plant development and in the formation of microtubule arrays. Isolation of mutants in each gene and analysis of two combinations of gamma-tubulin double mutants showed that the two genes have redundant functions. The first combination is lethal at the gametophytic stage. Disruption of both gamma-tubulin genes causes aberrant spindle and phragmoplast structures and alters nuclear division in gametophytes. The second combination of gamma-tubulin alleles affects late seedling development, ultimately leading to lethality 3 weeks after germination. This partially viable mutant combination enabled us to follow dynamically the effects of gamma-tubulin depletion on microtubule arrays in dividing cells using a green fluorescent protein marker. These results establish the central role of gamma-tubulin in the formation and organization of microtubule arrays in Arabidopsis.
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- Martine Pastuglia
- Station de Génétique et d'Amélioration des Plantes, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, 78026 Versailles Cedex, France.
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Hause G, Samaj J, Menzel D, Baluska F. Fine Structural Analysis of Brefeldin A-Induced Compartment Formation After High-Pressure Freeze Fixation of Maize Root Epidermis: Compound Exocytosis Resembling Cell Plate Formation during Cytokinesis. PLANT SIGNALING & BEHAVIOR 2006; 1:134-9. [PMID: 19521493 PMCID: PMC2635009 DOI: 10.4161/psb.1.3.2996] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2006] [Accepted: 05/09/2006] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Formation of large perinuclear brefeldin A (BFA)-induced compartments is a characteristic feature of root apex cells, but it does not occur in shoot apex cells. BFA-induced compartments have been studied mostly using low resolution fluorescence microscopy techniques. Here, we have employed a high-resolution ultrastructural method based on ultra rapid freeze fixation of samples in order to study the formation of BFA-induced compartments in intact maize root epidermis cells in detail. This approach reveals five novel findings. Firstly, plant TGN/PGN elements are not tubular networks, as generally assumed, but rather vesicular compartments. Secondly, TGN/PGN vesicles interact with one another extensively via stalk-like connections and even fuse together via bridge-like structures. Thirdly, BFA-induced compartments are formed via extensive homotypic fusions of the TGN/PGN vesicles. Fourthly, multivesicular bodies (MVBs) are present within the BFA-induced compartments. Fifthly, mitochondria and small vacuoles accummulate abundantly around the large perinuclear BFA-induced compartments.
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- G Hause
- Microscopy Unit; Biocenter; Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg; Halle, Germany
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Schlicht M, Strnad M, Scanlon MJ, Mancuso S, Hochholdinger F, Palme K, Volkmann D, Menzel D, Baluska F. Auxin immunolocalization implicates vesicular neurotransmitter-like mode of polar auxin transport in root apices. PLANT SIGNALING & BEHAVIOR 2006; 1:122-33. [PMID: 19521492 PMCID: PMC2635008 DOI: 10.4161/psb.1.3.2759] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2006] [Accepted: 04/03/2006] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Immunolocalization of auxin using a new specific antibody revealed, besides the expected diffuse cytoplasmic signal, enrichments of auxin at end-poles (cross-walls), within endosomes and within nuclei of those root apex cells which accumulate abundant F-actin at their end-poles. In Brefeldin A (BFA) treated roots, a strong auxin signal was scored within BFA-induced compartments of cells having abundant actin and auxin at their end-poles, as well as within adjacent endosomes, but not in other root cells. Importantly, several types of polar auxin transport (PAT) inhibitors exert similar inhibitory effects on endocytosis, vesicle recycling, and on the enrichments of F-actin at the end-poles. These findings indicate that auxin is transported across F-actin-enriched end-poles (synapses) via neurotransmitter-like secretion. This new concept finds genetic support from the semaphore1, rum1 and rum1/lrt1 mutants of maize which are impaired in PAT, endocytosis and vesicle recycling, as well as in recruitment of F-actin and auxin to the auxin transporting end-poles. Although PIN1 localizes abundantly to the end-poles, and they also fail to support the formation of in these mutants affected in PAT, auxin and F-actin are depleted from their end-poles which also fail to support formation of the large BFA-induced compartments.
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- Markus Schlicht
- IZMB; Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität; Bonn, Germany
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Dhonukshe P, Baluska F, Schlicht M, Hlavacka A, Samaj J, Friml J, Gadella TWJ. Endocytosis of Cell Surface Material Mediates Cell Plate Formation during Plant Cytokinesis. Dev Cell 2006; 10:137-50. [PMID: 16399085 DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2005.11.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 222] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2005] [Revised: 09/15/2005] [Accepted: 11/14/2005] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Dividing plant cells perform a remarkable task of building a new cell wall within the cytoplasm in a few minutes. A long-standing paradigm claims that this primordial cell wall, known as the cell plate, is generated by delivery of newly synthesized material from Golgi apparatus-originated secretory vesicles. Here, we show that, in diverse plant species, cell surface material, including plasma membrane proteins, cell wall components, and exogenously applied endocytic tracers, is rapidly delivered to the forming cell plate. Importantly, this occurs even when de novo protein synthesis is blocked. In addition, cytokinesis-specific syntaxin KNOLLE as well as plasma membrane (PM) resident proteins localize to endosomes that fuse to initiate the cell plate. The rate of endocytosis is strongly enhanced during cell plate formation, and its genetic or pharmacological inhibition leads to cytokinesis defects. Our results reveal that endocytic delivery of cell surface material significantly contributes to cell plate formation during plant cytokinesis.
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- Pankaj Dhonukshe
- Section of Molecular Cytology and Center for Advanced Microscopy, Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Kruislaan 316, 1098 SM Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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Hörmanseder K, Obermeyer G, Foissner I. Disturbance of endomembrane trafficking by brefeldin A and calyculin A reorganizes the actin cytoskeleton of Lilium longiflorum pollen tubes. PROTOPLASMA 2005; 227:25-36. [PMID: 16389491 DOI: 10.1007/s00709-005-0132-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2005] [Accepted: 05/31/2005] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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We investigated the effect of brefeldin A on membrane trafficking and the actin cytoskeleton of pollen tubes of Lilium longiflorum with fluorescent dyes, inhibitor experiments, and confocal laser scanning microscopy. The formation of a subapical brefeldin A-induced membrane aggregation (BIA) was associated with the formation of an actin basket from which filaments extended towards the tip. The orientation of these actin filaments correlated with the trajectories of membrane material stained by FM dyes, suggesting that the BIA-associated actin filaments are used as tracks for retrograde transport. Analysis of time series indicated that these tracks (actin filaments) were either stationary or glided along the plasma membrane towards the BIA together with the attached membranes or organelles. Disturbance of the actin cytoskeleton by cytochalasin D or latrunculin B caused immediate arrest of membrane trafficking, dissipation of the BIA and the BIA-associated actin basket, and reorganization into randomly oriented actin rods. Our observations suggest that brefeldin A causes ectopic activation of actin-nucleating proteins at the BIA, resulting in retrograde movement of membranes not only along but also together with actin filaments. We show further that subapical membrane aggregations and actin baskets supporting retrograde membrane flow can also be induced by calyculin A, indicating that dephosphorylation by type 2 protein phosphatases is required for proper formation of membrane coats and polar membrane trafficking.
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- K Hörmanseder
- Fachbereich Molekulare Biologie, Universität Salzburg, Hellbrunnerstrasse, Salzburg, Austria
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Wang Q, Kong L, Hao H, Wang X, Lin J, Samaj J, Baluska F. Effects of brefeldin A on pollen germination and tube growth. Antagonistic effects on endocytosis and secretion. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2005; 139:1692-703. [PMID: 16299176 PMCID: PMC1310552 DOI: 10.1104/pp.105.069765] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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We assessed the effects of brefeldin A (BFA) on pollen tube development in Picea meyeri using fluorescent marker FM4-64 as a membrane-inserted endocytic/recycling marker, together with ultrastructural studies and Fourier transform infrared analysis of cell walls. BFA inhibited pollen germination and pollen tube growth, causing morphological changes in a dose-dependent manner, and pollen tube tip growth recovered after transferring into BFA-free medium. FM4-64 labeling showed typical bright apical staining in normally growing P. meyeri pollen tubes; this apical staining pattern differed from the V-formation pattern found in angiosperm pollen tubes. Confocal microscopy revealed that exocytosis was greatly inhibited in the presence of BFA. In contrast, the overall uptake of FM4-64 dye was about 2-fold that in the control after BFA (5 microg mL(-1)) treatment, revealing that BFA stimulated endocytosis in a manner opposite to the induced changes in exocytosis. Transmission electron microscopic observation showed that the number of secretory vesicles at the apical zone dramatically decreased, together with the disappearance of paramural bodies, while the number of vacuoles and other larger organelles increased. An acid phosphatase assay confirmed that the addition of BFA significantly inhibited secretory pathways. Importantly, Fourier transform infrared microspectroscopy documented significant changes in the cell wall composition of pollen tubes growing in the presence of BFA. These results suggest that enhanced endocytosis, together with inhibited secretion, is responsible for the retarded growth of pollen tubes induced by BFA.
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- Qinli Wang
- Key Laboratory of Photosynthesis and Molecular Environment Physiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China
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The actin-nucleating Arp2/3 complex is essential for life in yeast and animals, but not in plants, in which mutants of Arp2/3 complex components show relatively minor developmental abnormalities. Animal cells control the activity of the Arp2/3 complex through the suppressor of cyclic AMP receptor (SCAR) complex to achieve cell motility. Amazingly, plants have also retained the SCAR cell-motility pathway, and now provide a unique model for the study of new aspects of SCAR function in the absence of cell motility.
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- Michael J Deeks
- The Integrative Cell Biology Laboratory, School of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, University of Durham, South Road, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK
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Wei L, Liu B, Li Y. Distribution of a kinesin-related protein on Golgi apparatus of tobacco pollen tubes. CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN-CHINESE 2005. [DOI: 10.1007/bf03182668] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Baluska F, Liners F, Hlavacka A, Schlicht M, Van Cutsem P, McCurdy DW, Menzel D. Cell wall pectins and xyloglucans are internalized into dividing root cells and accumulate within cell plates during cytokinesis. PROTOPLASMA 2005; 225:141-55. [PMID: 16228896 DOI: 10.1007/s00709-005-0095-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2004] [Accepted: 12/10/2004] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Recently, we have reported that cell wall pectins are internalized into apical meristem root cells. In cells exposed to the fungal metabolite brefeldin A, all secretory pathways were inhibited, while endocytic pathways remained intact, resulting in accumulation of internalized cell wall pectins within brefeldin A-induced compartments. Here we report that, in addition to the already published cell wall epitopes, rhamnogalacturonan I and xyloglucans also undergo large-scale internalization into dividing root cells. Interestingly, multilamellar endosomes were identified as compartments internalizing arabinan cell wall pectins reactive to the 6D7 antibody, while large vacuole-like endosomes internalized homogalacturonans reactive to the 2F4 antibody. As all endosomes belong topographically to the exocellular space, cell wall pectins deposited in these "cell wall islands", enclosed by the plasma-membrane-derived membrane, are ideally suited to act as temporary stores for rapid formation of cell wall and generation of new plasma membrane. In accordance with this notion, we report that all cell wall pectins and xyloglucans that internalize into endosomes are highly enriched within cytokinetic cell plates and accumulate within brefeldin A compartments. On the other hand, only small amounts of the pectins reactive to the JIM7 antibody, which are produced in the Golgi apparatus, localize to cell plates and they do not accumulate within brefeldin A compartments. In conclusion, meristematic root cells have developed pathways for internalization and recycling of cell wall molecules which are relevant for plant-specific cytokinesis.
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- F Baluska
- Institut für Zelluläre und Molekulare Botanik, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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Ovecka M, Lang I, Baluska F, Ismail A, Illes P, Lichtscheidl IK. Endocytosis and vesicle trafficking during tip growth of root hairs. PROTOPLASMA 2005; 226:39-54. [PMID: 16231100 DOI: 10.1007/s00709-005-0103-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 112] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2005] [Accepted: 03/30/2005] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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The directional elongation of root hairs, "tip growth", depends on the coordinated and highly regulated trafficking of vesicles which fill the tip cytoplasm and are active in secretion of cell wall material. So far, little is known about the dynamics of endocytosis in living root hairs. We analyzed the motile behaviour of vesicles in the apical region of living root hairs of Arabidopsis thaliana and of Triticum aestivum by live cell microscopy. For direct observation of endocytosis and of the fate of endocytic vesicles, we used the fluorescent endocytosis marker dyes FM 1-43 and FM 4-64. Rapid endocytosis was detected mainly in the tip, where it caused a bright fluorescence of the apical cytoplasm. The internalized membranes proceeded through highly dynamic putative early endosomes in the clear zone to larger endosomal compartments in the subapical region that are excluded from the clear zone. The internalized cargo ended up in the dynamic vacuole by fusion of large endosomal compartments with the tonoplast. Before export to these lytic compartments, putative early endosomes remained in the apical zone, where they most probably recycled to the plasma membrane and back into the cytoplasm for more than 30 min. Endoplasmic reticulum was not involved in trafficking pathways of endosomes. Actin cytoskeleton was needed for the endocytosis itself, as well as for further membrane trafficking. The actin-depolymerizing drug latrunculin B modified the dynamic properties of vesicles and endosomes; they became immobilized and aggregated in the tip. Treatment with brefeldin A inhibited membrane trafficking and caused the disappearance of FM-containing vesicles and putative early endosomes from the clear zone; labelled structures accumulated in motile brefeldin A-induced compartments. These large endocytic compartments redispersed upon removal of the drug. Our results hence prove that endocytosis occurs in growing root hairs. We show the localization of endocytosis in the tip and indicate specific endomembrane compartments and their recycling.
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- M Ovecka
- Institution of Cell Imaging and Ultrastructure Research, University of Vienna, Vienna
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Aniento F, Robinson DG. Testing for endocytosis in plants. PROTOPLASMA 2005; 226:3-11. [PMID: 16231096 DOI: 10.1007/s00709-005-0101-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2005] [Accepted: 03/30/2005] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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For many years endocytosis has been regarded with great scepsis by plant physiologists. Although now generally accepted, care must still be taken with experiments designed to demonstrate endocytic uptake at the plasma membrane. We have taken a critical look at the various agents which are in use as markers for plant endocytosis, pointing out pitfalls and precautions which should be taken. We also take this opportunity to introduce the tyrphostins--tyrosine kinase inhibitors--, which also seem to prevent endocytosis in plants.
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- F Aniento
- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad de Valencia, Valencia
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Kwaaitaal MACJ, de Vries SC, Russinova E. Arabidopsis thaliana Somatic Embryogenesis Receptor Kinase 1 protein is present in sporophytic and gametophytic cells and undergoes endocytosis. PROTOPLASMA 2005; 226:55-65. [PMID: 16231101 DOI: 10.1007/s00709-005-0111-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2005] [Accepted: 03/30/2005] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Arabidopsis thaliana plants expressing AtSERK1 fused to yellow-fluorescent protein were generated. Fluorescence was detected predominantly at the cell periphery, most likely the plasma membrane, of cells in ovules, embryo sacs, anthers, and embryos and in seedlings. The AtSERK1 protein was detected in diverse cell types including the epidermis and the vascular bundles. In some cells, fluorescent receptors were seen in small vesicle-like compartments. After application of the fungal toxin Brefeldin A, the fluorescent receptors were rapidly internalized in the root meristem and root vascular tissue. We conclude that the AtSERK1 receptor functions in a common signalling pathway employed in both sporophytic and gametophytic cells.
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- M A C J Kwaaitaal
- Laboratory of Biochemistry, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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Voigt B, Timmers ACJ, Samaj J, Hlavacka A, Ueda T, Preuss M, Nielsen E, Mathur J, Emans N, Stenmark H, Nakano A, Baluska F, Menzel D. Actin-based motility of endosomes is linked to the polar tip growth of root hairs. Eur J Cell Biol 2005; 84:609-21. [PMID: 16032929 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejcb.2004.12.029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 149] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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Plant tip growth has been recognized as an actin-based cellular process requiring targeted exocytosis and compensatory endocytosis to occur at the growth cone. However, the identity of subcellular compartments involved in polarized membrane trafficking pathways remains enigmatic in plants. Here we characterize endosomal compartments in tip-growing root hair cells. We demonstrate their presence at the growing tip and differential distribution upon cessation of tip growth. We also show that both the presence of endosomes as well as their rapid movements within the tip region depends on an intact actin cytoskeleton and involves actin polymerization. In conclusion, actin-propelled endosomal motility is tightly linked to the polar tip growth of root hairs.
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- Boris Voigt
- Institute of Cellular and Molecular Botany, University of Bonn, Kirschallee 1, D-53115 Bonn, Germany
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Samaj J, Read ND, Volkmann D, Menzel D, Baluska F. The endocytic network in plants. Trends Cell Biol 2005; 15:425-33. [PMID: 16006126 DOI: 10.1016/j.tcb.2005.06.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 119] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2005] [Revised: 05/26/2005] [Accepted: 06/27/2005] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Endocytosis and vesicle recycling via secretory endosomes are essential for many processes in multicellular organisms. Recently, higher plants have provided useful experimental model systems to study these processes. Endocytosis and secretory endosomes in plants play crucial roles in polar tip growth, a process in which secretory and endocytic pathways are integrated closely. Plant endocytosis and endosomes are important for auxin-mediated cell-cell communication, gravitropic responses, stomatal movements, cytokinesis and cell wall morphogenesis. There is also evidence that F-actin is essential for endocytosis and that plant-specific myosin VIII is an endocytic motor in plants. Last, recent results indicate that the trans Golgi network in plants should be considered an integral part of the endocytic network.
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- Jozef Samaj
- Institute of Cellular and Molecular Botany, University of Bonn, Kirschallee 1, D-53115 Bonn, Germany
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Paciorek T, Zazímalová E, Ruthardt N, Petrásek J, Stierhof YD, Kleine-Vehn J, Morris DA, Emans N, Jürgens G, Geldner N, Friml J. Auxin inhibits endocytosis and promotes its own efflux from cells. Nature 2005; 435:1251-6. [PMID: 15988527 DOI: 10.1038/nature03633] [Citation(s) in RCA: 534] [Impact Index Per Article: 28.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2005] [Accepted: 04/13/2005] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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One of the mechanisms by which signalling molecules regulate cellular behaviour is modulating subcellular protein translocation. This mode of regulation is often based on specialized vesicle trafficking, termed constitutive cycling, which consists of repeated internalization and recycling of proteins to and from the plasma membrane. No such mechanism of hormone action has been shown in plants although several proteins, including the PIN auxin efflux facilitators, exhibit constitutive cycling. Here we show that a major regulator of plant development, auxin, inhibits endocytosis. This effect is specific to biologically active auxins and requires activity of the Calossin-like protein BIG. By inhibiting the internalization step of PIN constitutive cycling, auxin increases levels of PINs at the plasma membrane. Concomitantly, auxin promotes its own efflux from cells by a vesicle-trafficking-dependent mechanism. Furthermore, asymmetric auxin translocation during gravitropism is correlated with decreased PIN internalization. Our data imply a previously undescribed mode of plant hormone action: by modulating PIN protein trafficking, auxin regulates PIN abundance and activity at the cell surface, providing a mechanism for the feedback regulation of auxin transport.
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- Tomasz Paciorek
- Zentrum für Molekularbiologie der Pflanzen, Universität Tübingen, 72076 Tübingen, Germany
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Zheng H, Rowland O, Kunst L. Disruptions of the Arabidopsis Enoyl-CoA reductase gene reveal an essential role for very-long-chain fatty acid synthesis in cell expansion during plant morphogenesis. THE PLANT CELL 2005; 17:1467-81. [PMID: 15829606 PMCID: PMC1091768 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.104.030155] [Citation(s) in RCA: 252] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2004] [Accepted: 03/15/2005] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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In the absence of cell migration, plant architecture is largely determined by the direction and extent of cell expansion during development. In this report, we show that very-long-chain fatty acid (VLCFA) synthesis plays an essential role in cell expansion. The Arabidopsis thaliana eceriferum10 (cer10) mutants exhibit severe morphological abnormalities and reduced size of aerial organs. These mutants are disrupted in the At3g55360 gene, previously identified as a gene coding for enoyl-CoA reductase (ECR), an enzyme required for VLCFA synthesis. The absence of ECR activity results in a reduction of cuticular wax load and affects VLCFA composition of seed triacylglycerols and sphingolipids, demonstrating in planta that ECR is involved in all VLCFA elongation reactions in Arabidopsis. Epidermal and seed-specific silencing of ECR activity resulted in a reduction of cuticular wax load and the VLCFA content of seed triacylglycerols, respectively, with no effects on plant morphogenesis, suggesting that the developmental phenotypes arise from abnormal sphingolipid composition. Cellular analysis revealed aberrant endocytic membrane traffic and defective cell expansion underlying the morphological defects of cer10 mutants.
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- Huanquan Zheng
- Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z4, Canada
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Etxeberria E, Baroja-Fernandez E, Muñoz FJ, Pozueta-Romero J. Sucrose-inducible endocytosis as a mechanism for nutrient uptake in heterotrophic plant cells. PLANT & CELL PHYSIOLOGY 2005; 46:474-81. [PMID: 15695454 DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pci044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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The capacity of plant heterotrophic organs to transport and accumulate incoming nutrients (mostly in the form of sucrose) directly impacts their final size, crop productivity and nutritional value. Endocytosis as a mechanism for nutrient uptake in heterotrophic cells was investigated using suspension culture cells of sycamore (Acer pseudoplatanus L.) and the endocytic inhibitors wortmannin and LY294002. Time course analysis of sucrose uptake in intact walled cells revealed a two-phase process involving an initial 90 min wortmannin- and LY294002-insensitive sucrose uptake period, followed by a prolonged phase of rapid sucrose accumulation which was greatly inhibited by the two endocytic inhibitors. Walled cells were assessed for their capacity to incorporate the fluorescent endocytosis marker lucifer yellow-CH (LY) in the presence or absence of sucrose. Rates of sucrose and LY accumulation were virtually identical, as was their response to wortmannin. In addition, LY incorporation increased as a function of external sucrose concentration. When sucrose was substituted by other sugars or amino acids, uptake of LY greatly diminished, indicating that sucrose itself is the primary signal of endocytosis. Microscopic observations revealed the formation of vesicles containing LY and its eventual accumulation on the vacuole when sucrose was present in the incubation medium. These results demonstrate the existence of a sucrose-inducible endocytic process as a viable mechanism for solute transport into the vacuole of storage cells.
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- Ed Etxeberria
- Agrobioteknologia eta Natura Baliabideetako Instituta, Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoa eta Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Mutiloako etorbidea zenbaki gabe, 31192 Mutiloabeti, Nafarroa, Spain.
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Kim H, Park M, Kim SJ, Hwang I. Actin filaments play a critical role in vacuolar trafficking at the Golgi complex in plant cells. THE PLANT CELL 2005; 17:888-902. [PMID: 15722471 PMCID: PMC1069706 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.104.028829] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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Actin filaments are thought to play an important role in intracellular trafficking in various eukaryotic cells. However, their involvement in intracellular trafficking in plant cells has not been clearly demonstrated. Here, we investigated the roles actin filaments play in intracellular trafficking in plant cells using latrunculin B (Lat B), an inhibitor of actin filament assembly, or actin mutants that disrupt actin filaments when overexpressed. Lat B and actin2 mutant overexpression inhibited the trafficking of two vacuolar reporter proteins, sporamin:green fluorescent protein (GFP) and Arabidopsis thaliana aleurain-like protein:GFP, to the central vacuole; instead, a punctate staining pattern was observed. Colocalization experiments with various marker proteins indicated that these punctate stains corresponded to the Golgi complex. The A. thaliana vacuolar sorting receptor VSR-At, which mainly localizes to the prevacuolar compartment, also accumulated at the Golgi complex in the presence of Lat B. However, Lat B had no effect on the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) to Golgi trafficking of sialyltransferase or retrograde Golgi to ER trafficking. Lat B also failed to influence the Golgi to plasma membrane trafficking of H+-ATPase:GFP or the secretion of invertase:GFP. Based on these observations, we propose that actin filaments play a critical role in the trafficking of proteins from the Golgi complex to the central vacuole.
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- Hyeran Kim
- Division of Molecular and Life Sciences, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, 790-784, Korea
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Yamada K, Fuji K, Shimada T, Nishimura M, Hara-Nishimura I. Endosomal proteases facilitate the fusion of endosomes with vacuoles at the final step of the endocytotic pathway. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2005; 41:888-98. [PMID: 15743452 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313x.2005.02349.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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The mechanism by which plasma membrane proteins are transported to vacuoles for degradation has not been well characterized in plants. To clarify how plasma membrane proteins are degraded, we monitored the endocytotic pathway in tobacco suspension-cultured BY-2 cells with a fluorescent endocytosis marker, FM4-64. Because of the efficient and rapid delivery of endosomes to the vacuoles, endosomes were scarcely detectable. Interestingly, we found that E-64d, an inhibitor of papain family proteases, caused the accumulation of a large number of endosomes in the cells under the sucrose-starved condition. This result indicates that E-64d attenuates the fusion of endosomes with vacuoles. We identified two papain homologues, which are localized in the endosomes, with a biotinylated inhibitor. We designated them as endosome-localized papains (ENPs). Immunofluorescent analysis revealed that vacuolar sorting receptor, a marker of prevacuolar compartment (PVC), was localized in the endosomes. This result and their acidic nature show that the endosomes correspond to PVC. These results suggest that ENPs facilitate the final step in the vacuolar trafficking pathway under the sucrose-starved condition. We further examined the effects of E-64d on two transgenic Arabidopsis plants that constitutively express a fusion protein composed of green fluorescent protein (GFP) and a plasma membrane protein (GFP-PIP2a or GFP-LTI6b). GFP fluorescence was observed on the plasma membrane of root cells in these transgenic plants. Treatment with E-64d induced the accumulation of GFP-fluorescent endosomes and inhibited the degradation of these fusion proteins. No GFP fluorescence was observed in vacuoles in E-64d-treated transgenic plants. Taken together, these results suggest that endosomal proteases are required for the fusion of endosomes with vacuoles at the final step in the endocytotic pathway for degradation of plasma membrane proteins in plants.
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- Kenji Yamada
- Department of Botany, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan.
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Bloch D, Lavy M, Efrat Y, Efroni I, Bracha-Drori K, Abu-Abied M, Sadot E, Yalovsky S. Ectopic expression of an activated RAC in Arabidopsis disrupts membrane cycling. Mol Biol Cell 2005; 16:1913-27. [PMID: 15703216 PMCID: PMC1073671 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e04-07-0562] [Citation(s) in RCA: 103] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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Rho GTPases regulate the actin cytoskeleton, exocytosis, endocytosis, and other signaling cascades. Rhos are subdivided into four subfamilies designated Rho, Racs, Cdc42, and a plant-specific group designated RACs/Rops. This research demonstrates that ectopic expression of a constitutive active Arabidopsis RAC, AtRAC10, disrupts actin cytoskeleton organization and membrane cycling. We created transgenic plants expressing either wild-type or constitutive active AtRAC10 fused to the green fluorescent protein. The activated AtRAC10 induced deformation of root hairs and leaf epidermal cells and was primarily localized in Triton X-100-insoluble fractions of the plasma membrane. Actin cytoskeleton reorganization was revealed by creating double transgenic plants expressing activated AtRAC10 and the actin marker YFP-Talin. Plants were further analyzed by membrane staining with N-[3-triethylammoniumpropyl]-4-[p-diethylaminophenylhexatrienyl] pyridinium dibromide (FM4-64) under different treatments, including the protein trafficking inhibitor brefeldin A or the actin-depolymeryzing agents latrunculin-B (Lat-B) and cytochalasin-D (CD). After drug treatments, activated AtRAC10 did not accumulate in brefeldin A compartments, but rather reduced their number and colocalized with FM4-64-labeled membranes in large intracellular vesicles. Furthermore, endocytosis was compromised in root hairs of activated AtRAC10 transgenic plants. FM4-64 was endocytosed in nontransgenic root hairs treated with the actin-stabilizing drug jasplakinolide. These findings suggest complex regulation of membrane cycling by plant RACs.
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- Daria Bloch
- Department of Plant Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Israel
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Baluska F, Hlavacka A, Volkmann D, Menzel D. Getting connected: actin-based cell-to-cell channels in plants and animals. Trends Cell Biol 2005; 14:404-8. [PMID: 15308205 DOI: 10.1016/j.tcb.2004.07.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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It has been known for more than one hundred years that plant cells are interconnected by cytoplasmic channels called plasmodesmata. This supracellularity was generally considered to be an exotic feature of walled plants containing immobile cells that are firmly enclosed within robust walls. Unexpectedly, intercellular channels in mobile animal cells have been discovered recently. These are extremely dynamic and sensitive to mechanical stress, which causes their rapid breakage and retraction. Both plasmodesmata and nanotubular cell-to-cell channels are supported by the actin cytoskeleton and exclude microtubules. In this article, we discuss the relevance of cell-to-cell channels not only for intercellular communication but also for the development and morphogenesis of multicellular organisms. We also suggest possible parallels between the cell-to-cell transport of endosomes and intracellular pathogens.
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- Frantisek Baluska
- Institute of Cellular and Molecular Botany, University of Bonn, D-53115 Bonn, Germany.
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The higher plant Golgi apparatus, comprising many individual stacks of membrane bounded cisternae, is one of the most enigmatic of the cytoplasmic organelles. Not only can the stacks receive material from the endoplasmic reticulum, process it and target it to the correct cellular destination, but they can also synthesise and export complex carbohydrates and lipids and most likely act as one end point of the endocytic pathway. In many cells such processing and sorting can take place while the stacks are moving within the cytoplasm and, remarkably, the organelle manages to retain its structural integrity. This review considers some of the latest data and views on transport both to and from the Golgi and the mechanisms by which such activity is regulated.
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- Chris Hawes
- Research School of Biological & Molecular Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, OX3 0BP, UK.
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Murphy AS, Bandyopadhyay A, Holstein SE, Peer WA. Endocytotic cycling of PM proteins. ANNUAL REVIEW OF PLANT BIOLOGY 2005; 56:221-51. [PMID: 15862095 DOI: 10.1146/annurev.arplant.56.032604.144150] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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Plasma membrane protein internalization and recycling mechanisms in plants share many features with other eukaryotic organisms. However, functional and structural differences at the cellular and organismal level mandate specialized mechanisms for uptake, sorting, trafficking, and recycling in plants. Recent evidence of plasma membrane cycling of members of the PIN auxin efflux facilitator family and the KAT1 inwardly rectifying potassium channel demonstrates that endocytotic cycling of some form occurs in plants. However, the mechanisms underlying protein internalization and the signals that stimulate endocytosis of proteins from the cell-environment interface are poorly understood. Here we summarize what is known of endocytotic cycling in animals and compare those mechanisms with what is known in plants. We discuss plant orthologs of mammalian-trafficking proteins involved in endocytotic cycling. The use of the styryl dye FM4-64 to define the course of endocytotic uptake and the fungal toxin brefeldin A to dissect the internalization pathways are particularly emphasized. Additionally, we discuss progress in identifying distinct endosomal populations marked by the small GTPases Ara6 and Ara7 as well as recently described examples of apparent cycling of plasma membrane proteins.
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- Angus S Murphy
- Department of Horticulture, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA.
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Gross A, Kapp D, Nielsen T, Niehaus K. Endocytosis of Xanthomonas campestris pathovar campestris lipopolysaccharides in non-host plant cells of Nicotiana tabacum. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2005; 165:215-26. [PMID: 15720635 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2004.01245.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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The specific recognition of phytopathogenic bacteria by plant cells is generally mediated by a number of signal molecules. The elicitor-active lipopolysaccharides (LPS) of the phytopathogenic bacterium Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris (X.c.c) are recognized by its non-host plant Nicotiana tabacum (N.t.). This LPS was purified and labelled with fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC) for monitoring the fate of these signal molecules in intact plant cells of tobacco. In this study we were able to show that the so-labelled LPS rapidly bound to the cell wall and was then internalized into the cells in a temperature- and energy-dependent way. This uptake of LPS could be outcompeted by the addition of an excess of unlabelled LPS. Furthermore, it was blocked by amantadine, an inhibitor of receptor-mediated endocytosis of mammalian cells. Immunolocalization experiments showed for the first time a significant co-localization of the LPS-elicitor with endosomal structures using an anti-Ara6 antibody. These observations suggest specific endocytosis of LPS(X.c.c.) into tobacco cells. The possibility for a receptor-mediated endocytosis comparable to the mammalian system will be discussed.
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- Andrea Gross
- University Bielefeld, Faculty of Biology, Department of Genetics, POB 100131, D-33501 Bielefeld, Germany
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Russinova E, Borst JW, Kwaaitaal M, Caño-Delgado A, Yin Y, Chory J, de Vries SC. Heterodimerization and endocytosis of Arabidopsis brassinosteroid receptors BRI1 and AtSERK3 (BAK1). THE PLANT CELL 2004; 16:3216-29. [PMID: 15548744 PMCID: PMC535869 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.104.025387] [Citation(s) in RCA: 353] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2004] [Accepted: 09/08/2004] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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In Arabidopsis thaliana brassinosteroid (BR), perception is mediated by two Leu-rich repeat receptor-like kinases, BRASSINOSTEROID INSENSITIVE1 (BRI1) and BRI1-ASSOCIATED RECEPTOR KINASE1 (BAK1) (Arabidopsis SOMATIC EMBRYOGENESIS RECEPTOR-like KINASE3 [AtSERK3]). Genetic, biochemical, and yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) interaction studies suggested that the BRI1-BAK1 receptor complex initiates BR signaling, but the role of the BAK1 receptor is still not clear. Using transient expression in protoplasts of BRI1 and AtSERK3 fused to cyan and yellow fluorescent green fluorescent protein variants allowed us to localize each receptor independently in vivo. We show that BRI1, but not AtSERK3, homodimerizes in the plasma membrane, whereas BRI1 and AtSERK3 preferentially heterodimerize in the endosomes. Coexpression of BRI1 and AtSERK3 results in a change of the steady state distribution of both receptors because of accelerated endocytosis. Endocytic vesicles contain either BRI1 or AtSERK3 alone or both. We propose that the AtSERK3 protein is involved in changing the equilibrium between plasma membrane-located BRI1 homodimers and endocytosed BRI1-AtSERK3 heterodimers.
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- Eugenia Russinova
- Laboratory of Biochemistry, Wageningen University, 6703 HA Wageningen, The Netherlands
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Plant membrane trafficking shares many features with other eukaryotic organisms, including the machinery for vesicle formation and fusion. However, the plant endomembrane system lacks an ER-Golgi intermediate compartment, has numerous Golgi stacks and several types of vacuoles, and forms a transient compartment during cell division. ER-Golgi trafficking involves bulk flow and efficient recycling of H/KDEL-bearing proteins. Sorting in the Golgi stacks separates bulk flow to the plasma membrane from receptor-mediated trafficking to the lytic vacuole. Cargo for the protein storage vacuole is delivered from the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), cis-Golgi, and trans-Golgi. Endocytosis includes recycling of plasma membrane proteins from early endosomes. Late endosomes appear identical with the multivesiculate prevacuolar compartment that lies on the Golgi-vacuole trafficking pathway. In dividing cells, homotypic fusion of Golgi-derived vesicles forms the cell plate, which expands laterally by targeted vesicle fusion at its margin, eventually fusing with the plasma membrane.
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- Gerd Jurgens
- ZMBP, Entwicklungsgenetik, Universitat Tubingen, 72076 Tubingen, Germany.
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Geldner N. The plant endosomal system--its structure and role in signal transduction and plant development. PLANTA 2004; 219:547-560. [PMID: 15221385 DOI: 10.1007/s00425-004-1302-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2004] [Accepted: 04/29/2004] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Endosomes are highly dynamic membrane systems that receive endocytosed plasma membrane proteins and sort them for either degradation or recycling back to the cell surface. In addition, they receive newly synthesised proteins destined for vacuolar/lysosomal compartments. Sorting in the endosomes is necessary for the establishment and maintenance of cell polarity and it is needed to control levels and function of receptors and transporters at the cellular surface. Both processes are crucial for correct cell behaviour during tissue and organ development and for intercellular communication in general. It has therefore become an imperative to investigate structure and function of the endosomal system if we want to obtain a deeper mechanistic understanding of signal transduction and development. This review will compare our current understanding of endosomal trafficking in animals and yeast with what is known in plants, and will highlight some important breakthroughs in our understanding of the role of endosomes in signal transduction and multicellular development in Drosophila, as well as in Arabidopsis.
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- Niko Geldner
- ZMBP, Entwicklungsgenetik, Universität Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 3, 72076, Germany.
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Samaj J, Baluska F, Voigt B, Schlicht M, Volkmann D, Menzel D. Endocytosis, actin cytoskeleton, and signaling. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2004; 135:1150-61. [PMID: 15266049 PMCID: PMC519036 DOI: 10.1104/pp.104.040683] [Citation(s) in RCA: 176] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2004] [Revised: 04/21/2004] [Accepted: 04/21/2004] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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- Jozef Samaj
- Institute of Cellular and Molecular Botany, University of Bonn, D-53115 Bonn, Germany.
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Meckel T, Hurst AC, Thiel G, Homann U. Endocytosis against high turgor: intact guard cells of Vicia faba constitutively endocytose fluorescently labelled plasma membrane and GFP-tagged K-channel KAT1. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2004; 39:182-93. [PMID: 15225284 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313x.2004.02119.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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The relevance of endocytosis in plants against high turgor pressure has frequently been questioned on the basis of energetic considerations. Here, we examine the dynamics of the plasma membrane (PM) in turgid guard cells of Vicia faba by monitoring with confocal microscopy the fate of fluorescent styryl dyes (FM1-43, FM2-10 and FM4-64). As a second marker, we also observe the retrieval of a fluorescent chimaera of the K(+)-inward rectifying channel from Arabidopsis thaliana and the green fluorescent protein (KAT1::GFP). Analysis of cytoplasmic structures, which became labelled by the different styryl dyes, revealed that only FM4-64, the most hydrophobic dye, was a reliable marker of endocytosis, whereas the two other styryl dyes resulted also in an unspecific labelling of different cytoplasmic structures including mitochondria. Over some minutes of incubation in continuous presence of these dyes, endocytic vesicles in the cortical cytoplasm beneath the PM were fluorescently labelled. The identification is based on the observation that the size distribution of these structures is very similar to that of endocytic vesicles obtained from patch-clamp capacitance recordings. Also, these structures are frequently co-labelled with KAT1::GFP. Taken together, the data show that turgid guard cells undergo vigorous constitutive endocytosis and retrieve membrane including the K(+)-channel KAT1 from the PM via endocytic vesicles.
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- Tobias Meckel
- Department of Botany, Darmstadt University of Technology, Schnittspahnstrasse 3, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany.
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Baluska F, Samaj J, Hlavacka A, Kendrick-Jones J, Volkmann D. Actin-dependent fluid-phase endocytosis in inner cortex cells of maize root apices. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2004; 55:463-473. [PMID: 14739268 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erh042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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The fluorescent dye Lucifer Yellow (LY) is a well-known and widely-used marker for fluid-phase endocytosis. In this paper, both light and electron microscopy revealed that LY was internalized into transition zone cells of the inner cortex of intact maize root apices. The internalized LY was localized within tubulo-vesicular compartments invaginating from the plasma membrane at actomyosin-enriched pit-fields and individual plasmodesmata, as well as within adjacent small peripheral vacuoles. The internalization of LY was blocked by pretreating the roots with the F-actin depolymerizing drug latrunculin B, but not with the F-actin stabilizer jasplakinolide. F-actin enriched plasmodesmata and pit-fields of the inner cortex also contain abundant plant-specific unconventional class VIII myosin(s). In addition, 2,3 butanedione monoxime, a general inhibitor of myosin ATPases, partially inhibited the uptake of LY into cells of the inner cortex. Conversely, loss of microtubules did not inhibit fluid-phase endocytosis of LY into these cells. In conclusion, specialized actin- and myosin VIII-enriched membrane domains perform a tissue-specific form of fluid-phase endocytosis in maize root apices. The possible physiological relevance of this process is discussed.
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- F Baluska
- Institute of Cellular and Molecular Botany, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Kirschallee 1, D-53115 Bonn, Germany.
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Boonsirichai K, Sedbrook JC, Chen R, Gilroy S, Masson PH. ALTERED RESPONSE TO GRAVITY is a peripheral membrane protein that modulates gravity-induced cytoplasmic alkalinization and lateral auxin transport in plant statocytes. THE PLANT CELL 2003; 15:2612-25. [PMID: 14507996 PMCID: PMC280565 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.015560] [Citation(s) in RCA: 116] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2003] [Accepted: 08/20/2003] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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ARG1 (ALTERED RESPONSE TO GRAVITY) is required for normal root and hypocotyl gravitropism. Here, we show that targeting ARG1 to the gravity-perceiving cells of roots or hypocotyls is sufficient to rescue the gravitropic defects in the corresponding organs of arg1-2 null mutants. The cytosolic alkalinization of root cap columella cells that normally occurs very rapidly upon gravistimulation is lacking in arg1-2 mutants. Additionally, vertically grown arg1-2 roots appear to accumulate a greater amount of auxin in an expanded domain of the root cap compared with the wild type, and no detectable lateral auxin gradient develops across mutant root caps in response to gravistimulation. We also demonstrate that ARG1 is a peripheral membrane protein that may share some subcellular compartments in the vesicular trafficking pathway with PIN auxin efflux carriers. These data support our hypothesis that ARG1 is involved early in gravitropic signal transduction within the gravity-perceiving cells, where it influences pH changes and auxin distribution. We propose that ARG1 affects the localization and/or activity of PIN or other proteins involved in lateral auxin transport.
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Baluska F, Samaj J, Wojtaszek P, Volkmann D, Menzel D. Cytoskeleton-plasma membrane-cell wall continuum in plants. Emerging links revisited. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2003; 133:482-91. [PMID: 14555777 PMCID: PMC523875 DOI: 10.1104/pp.103.027250] [Citation(s) in RCA: 102] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2003] [Revised: 06/23/2003] [Accepted: 06/30/2003] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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- Frantisek Baluska
- Institute of Botany, Department of Plant Cell Biology, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University of Bonn, 53115 Bonn, Germany.
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Grebe M, Xu J, Möbius W, Ueda T, Nakano A, Geuze HJ, Rook MB, Scheres B. Arabidopsis sterol endocytosis involves actin-mediated trafficking via ARA6-positive early endosomes. Curr Biol 2003; 13:1378-87. [PMID: 12932321 DOI: 10.1016/s0960-9822(03)00538-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 297] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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BACKGROUND In contrast to the intense attention devoted to research on intracellular sterol trafficking in animal cells, knowledge about sterol transport in plant cells remains limited, and virtually nothing is known about plant endocytic sterol trafficking. Similar to animals, biosynthetic sterol transport occurs from the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) via the Golgi apparatus to the plasma membrane. The vesicle trafficking inhibitor brefeldin A (BFA) has been suggested to disrupt biosynthetic sterol transport at the Golgi level. RESULTS Here, we report on early endocytic sterol trafficking in Arabidopsis root epidermal cells by introducing filipin as a tool for fluorescent sterol detection. Sterols can be internalized from the plasma membrane and localize to endosomes positive for the early endosomal Rab5 GTPase homolog ARA6 fused to green fluorescent protein (GFP) (ARA6-GFP). Early endocytic sterol transport is actin dependent and highly BFA sensitive. BFA causes coaccumulation of sterols, endocytic markers like ARA6-GFP, and PIN2, a polarly localized presumptive auxin transport protein, in early endosome agglomerations that can be distinguished from ER and Golgi. Sterol accumulation in such aggregates is enhanced in actin2 mutants, and the actin-depolymerizing drug cytochalasin D inhibits sterol redistribution from endosome aggregations. CONCLUSIONS Early endocytic sterol trafficking involves transport via ARA6-positive early endosomes that, in contrast to animal cells, is actin dependent. Our results reveal sterol-enriched early endosomes as targets for BFA interference in plants. Early endocytic sterol trafficking and recycling of polar PIN2 protein share a common pathway, suggesting a connection between plant endocytic sterol transport and polar sorting events.
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- Markus Grebe
- Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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Kang BH, Rancour DM, Bednarek SY. The dynamin-like protein ADL1C is essential for plasma membrane maintenance during pollen maturation. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2003; 35:1-15. [PMID: 12834397 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313x.2003.01775.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Dynamin-related GTPases regulate a wide variety of dynamic membrane processes in eukaryotes. Here, we investigated the function of ADL1C, a member of the Arabidopsis 68 kDa dynamin-like protein family. Analysis of heterozygous adl1C-1 indicates that the mutation specifically affects post-meiotic male gametogenesis. Fifty percent of the mature pollen from heterozygous adl1C-1 androecia are shriveled and fail to germinate in vitro. During microspore maturation, adl1C-1 pollen grains display defects in the plasma membrane and intine morphology, suggesting that ADL1C is essential for the formation and maintenance of the pollen cell surface and viability during desiccation. Consistent with a role in cell-surface dynamics, immunofluorescence microscopy indicates that ADL1C is localized to the cell plate of dividing somatic cells and to the tip of expanding root hairs. We propose that ADL1C functions in plasma membrane dynamics, and we discuss the role of the ADL1 family in plant growth and development.
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- Byung-Ho Kang
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison 433 Babcock Dr., Madison, WI 53706, USA
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Baluska F, Wojtaszek P, Volkmann D, Barlow P. The architecture of polarized cell growth: the unique status of elongating plant cells. Bioessays 2003; 25:569-76. [PMID: 12766946 DOI: 10.1002/bies.10282] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Polarity is an inherent feature of almost all prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells. In most eukaryotic cells, growth polarity is due to the assembly of actin-based growing domains at particular locations on the cell periphery. A contrasting scenario is that growth polarity results from the establishment of non-growing domains, which are actively maintained at opposite end-poles of the cell. This latter mode of growth is common in rod-shaped bacteria and, surprisingly, also in the majority of plant cells, which elongate along the apical-basal axes of plant organs. The available data indicate that the non-growing end-pole domains of plant cells are sites of intense endocytosis and recycling. These actin-enriched end-poles serve also as signaling platforms, allowing bidirectional exchange of diverse signals along the supracellular domains of longitudinal cell files. It is proposed that these actively remodeled end-poles of elongating plant cells remotely resemble neuronal synapses.
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- Frantisek Baluska
- Institute of Botany, Department of Plant Cell Biology, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University of Bonn, 53115 Bonn, Germany.
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Geldner N, Anders N, Wolters H, Keicher J, Kornberger W, Muller P, Delbarre A, Ueda T, Nakano A, Jürgens G. The Arabidopsis GNOM ARF-GEF mediates endosomal recycling, auxin transport, and auxin-dependent plant growth. Cell 2003; 112:219-30. [PMID: 12553910 DOI: 10.1016/s0092-8674(03)00003-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 767] [Impact Index Per Article: 36.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Exchange factors for ARF GTPases (ARF-GEFs) regulate vesicle trafficking in a variety of organisms. The Arabidopsis protein GNOM is a brefeldin A (BFA) sensitive ARF-GEF that is required for the proper polar localization of PIN1, a candidate transporter of the plant hormone auxin. Mutations in GNOM lead to developmental defects that resemble those caused by interfering with auxin transport. Both PIN1 localization and auxin transport are also sensitive to BFA. In this paper, we show that GNOM localizes to endosomes and is required for their structural integrity. We engineered a BFA-resistant version of GNOM. In plants harboring this fully functional GNOM variant, PIN1 localization and auxin transport are no longer sensitive to BFA, while trafficking of other proteins is still affected by the drug. Our results demonstrate that GNOM is required for the recycling of auxin transport components and suggest that ARF-GEFs regulate specific endosomal trafficking pathways.
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- Niko Geldner
- ZMBP, Entwicklungsgenetik, Universität Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 3, D-72076, Tübingen, Germany
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Nebenführ A. Vesicle traffic in the endomembrane system: a tale of COPs, Rabs and SNAREs. CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY 2002; 5:507-12. [PMID: 12393013 DOI: 10.1016/s1369-5266(02)00303-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Recent years have seen remarkable progress in our understanding of the endomembrane system of plants. A large number of genes and proteins that are involved in membrane exchange between the different compartments of this system have been identified on the basis of their similarity to animal and yeast homologs. These proteins indicate that the endomembrane system in plants functions in essentially the same way as those in other eukaryotes. However, a growing number of examples demonstrate that the dynamic interplay between membrane-exchange proteins can be regulated differently in plant cells. Novel tools and a better understanding of the molecular effects of the inhibitor brefeldin A are helping to unravel these plant-specific adaptations.
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- Andreas Nebenführ
- University of Tennessee, Department of Botany and School of Genome Science and Technology, 437 Hesler Biology, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-1100, USA.
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Nebenführ A, Ritzenthaler C, Robinson DG. Brefeldin A: deciphering an enigmatic inhibitor of secretion. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2002; 130:1102-8. [PMID: 12427977 PMCID: PMC1540261 DOI: 10.1104/pp.011569] [Citation(s) in RCA: 360] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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- Andreas Nebenführ
- Department of Botany, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-1100, USA
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Yu Q, Hlavacka A, Matoh T, Volkmann D, Menzel D, Goldbach HE, Baluska F. Short-term boron deprivation inhibits endocytosis of cell wall pectins in meristematic cells of maize and wheat root apices. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2002; 130:415-21. [PMID: 12226520 PMCID: PMC166573 DOI: 10.1104/pp.006163] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2002] [Revised: 04/22/2002] [Accepted: 05/03/2002] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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By using immunofluorescence microscopy, we observed rapidly altered distribution patterns of cell wall pectins in meristematic cells of maize (Zea mays) and wheat (Triticum aestivum) root apices. This response was shown for homogalacturonan pectins characterized by a low level (up to 40%) of methylesterification and for rhamnogalacturonan II pectins cross-linked by a borate diol diester. Under boron deprivation, abundance of these pectins rapidly increased in cell walls, whereas their internalization was inhibited, as evidenced by a reduced and even blocked accumulation of these cell wall pectins within brefeldin A-induced compartments. In contrast, root cells of species sensitive to the boron deprivation, like zucchini (Cucurbita pepo) and alfalfa (Medicago sativa), do not internalize cell wall pectins into brefeldin A compartments and do not show accumulation of pectins in their cell walls under boron deprivation. For maize and wheat root apices, we favor an apoplastic target for the primary action of boron deprivation, which signals deeper into the cell via endocytosis-mediated pectin signaling along putative cell wall-plasma membrane-cytoskeleton continuum.
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- Qin Yu
- Institute of Botany, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University of Bonn, Kirschallee 1, D-53115 Bonn, Germany
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