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Teranishi K, Shimomura O. Bioluminescence of the arm light organs of the luminous squid Watasenia scintillans. Biochim Biophys Acta Gen Subj 2008; 1780:784-92. [PMID: 18294462 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagen.2008.01.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2007] [Revised: 01/23/2008] [Accepted: 01/24/2008] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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The squid Watasenia scintillans emits blue light from numerous photophores. According to Tsuji [F.I. Tsuji, Bioluminescence reaction catalyzed by membrane-bound luciferase in the "firefly squid", Watasenia scintillans, Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1564 (2002) 189-197.], the luminescence from arm light organs is caused by an ATP-dependent reaction involving Mg2+, coelenterazine disulfate (luciferin), and an unstable membrane-bound luciferase. We stabilized and partially purified the luciferase in the presence of high concentrations of sucrose, and obtained it as particulates (average size 0.6-2 microm). The ATP-dependent luminescence reaction of coelenterazine disulfate catalyzed by the particulate luciferase was investigated in detail. Optimum temperature of the luminescence reaction is about 5 degrees C. Coelenterazine disulfate is a strictly specific substrate in this luminescence system; any modification of its structure resulted in a very heavy loss in its light emission capability. The light emitter is the excited state of the amide anion form of coelenteramide disulfate. The quantum yield of coelenterazine disulfate is calculated at 0.36. ATP could be replaced by ATP-gamma-S, but not by any other analogues tested. The amount of AMP produced in the luminescence reaction was much smaller than that of coelenteramide disulfate, suggesting that the reaction mechanism of the Watasenia bioluminescence does not involve the formation of adenyl luciferin as an intermediate.
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Cheung AY, Wu HM. Structural and signaling networks for the polar cell growth machinery in pollen tubes. ANNUAL REVIEW OF PLANT BIOLOGY 2008; 59:547-72. [PMID: 18444907 DOI: 10.1146/annurev.arplant.59.032607.092921] [Citation(s) in RCA: 188] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Pollen tubes elongate within the pistil to transport sperms to the female gametophytes for fertilization. Pollen tubes grow at their tips through a rapid and polarized cell growth process. This tip growth process is supported by an elaborate and dynamic actin cytoskeleton and a highly active membrane trafficking system that together provide the driving force and secretory activities needed for growth. A polarized cytoplasm with an abundance of vesicles and tip-focused Ca(2+) and H(+) concentration gradients are important for the polar cell growth process. Apical membrane-located Rho GTPases regulate Ca(2+) concentration and actin dynamics in the cytoplasm and are crucial for maintaining pollen tube polarity. Pollen tube growth is marked by periods of rapid and slow growth phases. Activities that regulate and support this tip growth process also show oscillatory fluctuations. How these activities correlate with the rapid, polar, and oscillatory pollen tube growth process is discussed.
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- Alice Y Cheung
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA.
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Wu SJ, Wu JY. Extracellular ATP-induced NO production and its dependence on membrane Ca2+ flux in Salvia miltiorrhiza hairy roots. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2008; 59:4007-16. [PMID: 18977749 PMCID: PMC2576636 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/ern242] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2008] [Revised: 09/02/2008] [Accepted: 09/03/2008] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Extracellular ATP (eATP) is a novel signalling agent, and nitric oxide (NO) is a well-established signal molecule with diverse functions in plant growth and development. This study characterizes NO production induced by exogenous ATP and examines its relationship with other important signalling agents, Ca(2+) and H(2)O(2) in Salvia miltiorrhiza hairy root culture. Exogenous ATP was applied at 10-500 microM to the hairy root cultures and stimulated NO production was detectable within 30 min. The NO level increased with ATP dose from 10-100 microM but decreased from 100-200 muM or higher. The ATP-induced NO production was mimicked by a non-hydrolysable ATP analogue ATPgammaS, but only weakly by ADP, AMP or adenosine. The ATP-induced NO production was blocked by Ca(2+) antagonists, but not affected by a protein kinase inhibitor. ATP also induced H(2)O(2) production, which was dependent on both Ca(2+) and protein kinases, and also on NO biosynthesis. On the other hand, ATP induced a rapid increase in the intracellular Ca(2+) level, which was dependent on NO but not H(2)O(2). The results suggest that NO is implicated in ATP-induced responses and signal transduction in plant cells, and ATP signalling is closely related to Ca(2+) and ROS signalling.
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- Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong
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Foresi NP, Laxalt AM, Tonón CV, Casalongué CA, Lamattina L. Extracellular ATP induces nitric oxide production in tomato cell suspensions. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2007; 145:589-92. [PMID: 17984199 PMCID: PMC2048788 DOI: 10.1104/pp.107.106518] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2007] [Accepted: 09/07/2007] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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- Noelia P Foresi
- Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, 7600 Mar del Plata, Argentina
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Roux SJ, Steinebrunner I. Extracellular ATP: an unexpected role as a signaler in plants. TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2007; 12:522-527. [PMID: 17928260 DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2007.09.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 101] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2007] [Revised: 08/14/2007] [Accepted: 09/25/2007] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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ATP and other nucleoside triphosphates not only drive energy-dependent reactions inside cells, but can also function outside the plasma membrane in the extracellular matrix, where they function as agonists that can induce diverse physiological responses without being hydrolyzed. This external role of ATP is well established in animal cells but only recently has it become apparent that extracellular ATP (eATP) can also function as a signaling agent in plants. Recent data have shown that eATP and other nucleotides can induce an increase in the cytosolic Ca(2+) concentration and diverse downstream changes that influence plant growth and defense responses. Ectoapyrase enzymes that regulate the eATP concentration also have an impact on plant growth. These results beg the question of whether there is a receptor that can bind to eATP and transduce this into signaling changes. Answering this will be key to understanding how eATP and ectoapyrases influence plant growth and development.
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- Stanley J Roux
- Section of Molecular Cell & Developmental Biology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA.
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- Section of Molecular Biotechnology, Technical University of Dresden, 01069 Dresden, Germany
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Plant cells sensing pathogenic microorganisms evoke defence systems that can confer resistance to infection. This innate immune reaction can include triggering of basal defence responses as well as programmed cell death, or hypersensitive response (HR). In both cases (basal defence and HR), pathogen perception is translated into elevated cytosolic Ca(2+) (mediated by plasma membrane and intracellular channels) as an early step in a signalling cascade. Cyclic nucleotide-gated channels contribute to this influx of Ca(2+) into the cell. The molecular nature of other transport proteins contributing to the Ca(2+) elevation is unclear. Pathogen recognition occurs at two levels: the perception of pathogen-associated molecular pattern (PAMP) molecules widely present in microorganisms, and an interaction between pathogen avirulence gene products (if present) and corresponding plant R (resistance) gene products. The Ca(2+) elevation occurring in response to PAMP perception or R gene interactions could occur due to phosphorylation events, G-protein signalling and/or an increase in cyclic nucleotides. Downstream from the initial Ca(2+) rise, the signalling cascade includes: activation of calmodulin and protein kinases, and nitric oxide and reactive oxygen species generation. Some of these downstream events amplify the Ca(2+) signal by further activation of Ca(2+) transporters.
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- Wei Ma
- Agricultural Biotechnology Laboratory, Department of Plant Science, University of Connecticut, 1390 Storrs Rd., Storrs, CT 06269-4163, USA
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Wolf C, Hennig M, Romanovicz D, Steinebrunner I. Developmental defects and seedling lethality in apyrase AtAPY1 and AtAPY2 double knockout mutants. PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2007; 64:657-72. [PMID: 17534719 DOI: 10.1007/s11103-007-9184-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2006] [Accepted: 05/06/2007] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Previously it was shown that the Arabidopsis apyrase genes AtAPY1 and AtAPY2 are crucial for male fertility because mutant pollen (apy1-1; apy2-1) with T-DNA insertions in both genes could not germinate (Steinebrunner et al. (2003) Plant Physiol. 131: 1638-1647). In this study, pollen germination was restored and apyrase T-DNA double knockouts (DKO) apy1-1/apy1-1; apy2-1/apy2-1 were generated by complementation with AtAPY2 under the control of a pollen-specific promoter. The DKO phenotype displayed developmental defects including the lack of functional root and shoot meristems. In cotyledons, morphogenetic and patterning abnormalities were apparent, e.g., unlobed pavement cells and stomatal clusters. Another set of lines was created which carried either AtAPY1 or AtAPY2 under a dexamethasone-(DEX)-inducible promoter as an additional transgene to the pollen-specific gene construct. Application of DEX did not reverse the DKO phenotype to wild-type, but some inducible lines exhibited less severe defects even in the absence of the inducer, probably due to some background expression. However, even these DKO mutants were seedling-lethal and shared other defects regarding cell division, cell expansion and stomatal patterning. Taken together, the defects in the DKO mutants demonstrate that AtAPY1 and AtAPY2 are essential for normal plant development.
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- Carolin Wolf
- Department of Biology, Section of Molecular Biotechnology, Technical University of Dresden, 01062, Dresden, Germany
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Wu J, Steinebrunner I, Sun Y, Butterfield T, Torres J, Arnold D, Gonzalez A, Jacob F, Reichler S, Roux SJ. Apyrases (nucleoside triphosphate-diphosphohydrolases) play a key role in growth control in Arabidopsis. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2007; 144:961-75. [PMID: 17434987 PMCID: PMC1914212 DOI: 10.1104/pp.107.097568] [Citation(s) in RCA: 101] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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Expression of two Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) apyrase (nucleoside triphosphate-diphosphohydrolase) genes with high similarity, APY1 and APY2, was analyzed during seedling development and under different light treatments using beta-glucuronidase fusion constructs with the promoters of both genes. As evaluated by beta-glucuronidase staining and independently confirmed by other methods, the highest expression of both apyrases was in rapidly growing tissues and/or tissues that accumulate high auxin levels. Red-light treatment of etiolated seedlings suppressed the protein and message level of both apyrases at least as rapidly as it inhibited hypocotyl growth. Adult apy1 and apy2 single mutants had near-normal growth, but apy1apy2 double-knockout plants were dwarf, due primarily to reduced cell elongation. Pollen tubes and etiolated hypocotyls overexpressing an apyrase had faster growth rates than wild-type plants. Growing pollen tubes released ATP into the growth medium and suppression of apyrase activity by antiapyrase antibodies or by inhibitors simultaneously increased medium ATP levels and inhibited pollen tube growth. These results imply that APY1 and APY2, like their homologs in animals, act to reduce the concentration of extracellular nucleotides, and that this function is important for the regulation of growth in Arabidopsis.
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- Jian Wu
- Section of Molecular Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
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Hückelhoven R. Cell wall-associated mechanisms of disease resistance and susceptibility. ANNUAL REVIEW OF PHYTOPATHOLOGY 2007; 45:101-27. [PMID: 17352660 DOI: 10.1146/annurev.phyto.45.062806.094325] [Citation(s) in RCA: 308] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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The plant cuticle and cell wall separate microbial pathogens from the products of plant metabolism. While microbial pathogens try to breach these barriers for colonization, plants respond to attempted penetration by a battery of wall-associated defense reactions. Successful pathogens circumvent or suppress plant nonself recognition and basal defense during penetration and during microbial reproduction. Additionally, accommodation of fungal infection structures within intact cells requires host reprogramming. Recent data highlight that both early plant defense to fungal penetration and host reprogramming for susceptibility can function at the host cell periphery. Genetic evidence has also widened our understanding of how fungal pathogens are restricted during penetration at the plant cell wall. This review summarizes the current view of how plants monitor and model their cell periphery during interaction with microbial invaders.
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Major IT, Constabel CP. Insect regurgitant and wounding elicit similar defense responses in poplar leaves: not something to spit at? PLANT SIGNALING & BEHAVIOR 2007; 2:1-3. [PMID: 19704794 PMCID: PMC2633884 DOI: 10.4161/psb.2.1.3589] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2006] [Accepted: 11/08/2006] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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How plants perceive insect attacks is an area of active research. Numerous studies have shown that regurgitant from feeding insects elicits a defense response in plants, which is often assumed to be distinct from a wound response. We have characterized the inducible defense response in hybrid poplar and found it to be qualitatively similar between wounding and application of regurgitant from forest tent caterpillar. We suggest that this is likely attributable to our wounding treatment which is much more intense compared to most other studies. These overlapping responses appear to be activated via jasmonic acid signaling, and we speculate that they are both triggered by elicitors of plant origin. Wounding would release such elicitor molecules when leaf cells are disrupted, and regurgitant may contain them in a modified or processed form. This hypothesis could explain why some other necrosis-inducing stresses also induce herbivore defense genes.
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- Ian T Major
- Centre for Forest Biology & Biology Department; University of Victoria; Victoria, Canada
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Kim SY, Sivaguru M, Stacey G. Extracellular ATP in plants. Visualization, localization, and analysis of physiological significance in growth and signaling. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2006; 142:984-92. [PMID: 16963521 PMCID: PMC1630726 DOI: 10.1104/pp.106.085670] [Citation(s) in RCA: 169] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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Extracellular ATP (eATP) in animals is well documented and known to play an important role in cellular signaling (e.g. at the nerve synapse). The existence of eATP has been postulated in plants; however, there is no definitive experimental evidence for its presence or an explanation as to how such a polar molecule could exit the plant cell and what physiological role it may play in plant growth and development. The presence of eATP in plants (Medicago truncatula) was detected by constructing a novel reporter; i.e. fusing a cellulose-binding domain peptide to the ATP-requiring enzyme luciferase. Application of this reporter to plant roots allowed visualization of eATP in the presence of the substrate luciferin. Luciferase activity could be detected in the interstitial spaces between plant epidermal cells and predominantly at the regions of actively growing cells. The levels of eATP were closely correlated with regions of active growth and cell expansion. Pharmacological compounds known to alter cytoplasmic calcium levels revealed that ATP release is a calcium-dependent process and may occur through vesicular fusion, an important step in the polar growth of actively growing root hairs. Reactive oxygen species (ROS) activity at the root hair tip is not only essential for root hair growth, but also dependent on the cytoplasmic calcium levels. Whereas application of exogenous ATP and a chitin mixture increased ROS activity in root hairs, no changes were observed in response to adenosine, AMP, ADP, and nonhydrolyzable ATP (betagammameATP). However, application of exogenous potato (Solanum tuberosum) apyrase (ATPase) decreased ROS activity, suggesting that cytoplasmic calcium gradients and ROS activity are closely associated with eATP release.
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- Sung-Yong Kim
- National Center for Soybean Biotechnology and Division of Plant Sciences , University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211, USA
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