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Westermann J. Two Is Company, but Four Is a Party-Challenges of Tetraploidization for Cell Wall Dynamics and Efficient Tip-Growth in Pollen. PLANTS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2021; 10:plants10112382. [PMID: 34834745 PMCID: PMC8623246 DOI: 10.3390/plants10112382] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2021] [Revised: 11/01/2021] [Accepted: 11/03/2021] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Some cells grow by an intricately coordinated process called tip-growth, which allows the formation of long tubular structures by a remarkable increase in cell surface-to-volume ratio and cell expansion across vast distances. On a broad evolutionary scale, tip-growth has been extraordinarily successful, as indicated by its recurrent 're-discovery' throughout evolutionary time in all major land plant taxa which allowed for the functional diversification of tip-growing cell types across gametophytic and sporophytic life-phases. All major land plant lineages have experienced (recurrent) polyploidization events and subsequent re-diploidization that may have positively contributed to plant adaptive evolutionary processes. How individual cells respond to genome-doubling on a shorter evolutionary scale has not been addressed as elaborately. Nevertheless, it is clear that when polyploids first form, they face numerous important challenges that must be overcome for lineages to persist. Evidence in the literature suggests that tip-growth is one of those processes. Here, I discuss the literature to present hypotheses about how polyploidization events may challenge efficient tip-growth and strategies which may overcome them: I first review the complex and multi-layered processes by which tip-growing cells maintain their cell wall integrity and steady growth. I will then discuss how they may be affected by the cellular changes that accompany genome-doubling. Finally, I will depict possible mechanisms polyploid plants may evolve to compensate for the effects caused by genome-doubling to regain diploid-like growth, particularly focusing on cell wall dynamics and the subcellular machinery they are controlled by.
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- Jens Westermann
- Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, Department of Biology, ETH Zürich, Universitätsstrasse 2, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland
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Henderson SW, Wege S, Gilliham M. Plant Cation-Chloride Cotransporters (CCC): Evolutionary Origins and Functional Insights. Int J Mol Sci 2018; 19:E492. [PMID: 29415511 PMCID: PMC5855714 DOI: 10.3390/ijms19020492] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2017] [Revised: 01/31/2018] [Accepted: 02/01/2018] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Genomes of unicellular and multicellular green algae, mosses, grasses and dicots harbor genes encoding cation-chloride cotransporters (CCC). CCC proteins from the plant kingdom have been comparatively less well investigated than their animal counterparts, but proteins from both plants and animals have been shown to mediate ion fluxes, and are involved in regulation of osmotic processes. In this review, we show that CCC proteins from plants form two distinct phylogenetic clades (CCC1 and CCC2). Some lycophytes and bryophytes possess members from each clade, most land plants only have members of the CCC1 clade, and green algae possess only the CCC2 clade. It is currently unknown whether CCC1 and CCC2 proteins have similar or distinct functions, however they are both more closely related to animal KCC proteins compared to NKCCs. Existing heterologous expression systems that have been used to functionally characterize plant CCC proteins, namely yeast and Xenopus laevis oocytes, have limitations that are discussed. Studies from plants exposed to chemical inhibitors of animal CCC protein function are reviewed for their potential to discern CCC function in planta. Thus far, mutations in plant CCC genes have been evaluated only in two species of angiosperms, and such mutations cause a diverse array of phenotypes-seemingly more than could simply be explained by localized disruption of ion transport alone. We evaluate the putative roles of plant CCC proteins and suggest areas for future investigation.
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- Sam W Henderson
- ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, University of Adelaide, PMB1, Glen Osmond, SA 5064, Australia.
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- ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, University of Adelaide, PMB1, Glen Osmond, SA 5064, Australia.
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- ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, University of Adelaide, PMB1, Glen Osmond, SA 5064, Australia.
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Suwińska A, Wasąg P, Zakrzewski P, Lenartowska M, Lenartowski R. Calreticulin is required for calcium homeostasis and proper pollen tube tip growth in Petunia. PLANTA 2017; 245:909-926. [PMID: 28078426 PMCID: PMC5391374 DOI: 10.1007/s00425-017-2649-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2016] [Accepted: 01/05/2017] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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MAIN CONCLUSION Calreticulin is involved in stabilization of the tip-focused Ca 2+ gradient and the actin cytoskeleton arrangement and function that is required for several key processes driving Petunia pollen tube tip growth. Although the precise mechanism is unclear, stabilization of a tip-focused calcium (Ca2+) gradient seems to be critical for pollen germination and pollen tube growth. We hypothesize that calreticulin (CRT), a Ca2+-binding/buffering chaperone typically residing in the lumen of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) of eukaryotic cells, is an excellent candidate to fulfill this role. We previously showed that in Petunia pollen tubes growing in vitro, CRT is translated on ER membrane-bound ribosomes that are abundant in the subapical zone of the tube, where CRT's Ca2+-buffering and chaperone activities might be particularly required. Here, we sought to determine the function of CRT using small interfering RNA (siRNA) to, for the first time in pollen tubes growing in vitro, knockdown expression of a gene. We demonstrate that siRNA-mediated post-transcriptional silencing of Petunia hybrida CRT gene (PhCRT) expression strongly impairs pollen tube growth, cytoplasmic zonation, actin cytoskeleton organization, and the tip-focused Ca2+ gradient. Moreover, reduction of CRT alters the localization and disturbs the structure of the ER in abnormally elongating pollen tubes. Finally, cytoplasmic streaming is inhibited, and most of the pollen tubes rupture. Our data clearly show an interplay between CRT, Ca2+ gradient, actin-dependent cytoplasmic streaming, organelle positioning, and vesicle trafficking during pollen tube elongation. Thus, we suggest that CRT functions in Petunia pollen tube growth by stabilizing Ca2+ homeostasis and acting as a chaperone to assure quality control of glycoproteins passing through the ER.
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- Anna Suwińska
- Laboratory of Developmental Biology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Toruń, Poland
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- Laboratory of Isotope and Instrumental Analysis, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Toruń, Poland
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- Laboratory of Developmental Biology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Toruń, Poland
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- Laboratory of Developmental Biology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Toruń, Poland
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- Laboratory of Isotope and Instrumental Analysis, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Toruń, Poland.
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Ueda J, Miyamoto K, Uheda E, Oka M, Yano S, Higashibata A, Ishioka N. Close relationships between polar auxin transport and graviresponse in plants. PLANT BIOLOGY (STUTTGART, GERMANY) 2014; 16 Suppl 1:43-49. [PMID: 24128007 DOI: 10.1111/plb.12101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/27/2012] [Accepted: 07/18/2013] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Gravitational force on Earth is one of the major environmental factors affecting plant growth and development. Spacecraft and the International Space Station (ISS), and a three-dimensional (3-D) clinostat have been available to clarify the effects of gravistimulation on plant growth and development in space and on ground conditions, respectively. Under a stimulus-free environment such as space conditions, plants show a growth and developmental habit designated as 'automorphosis' or 'automorphogenesis'. Recent studies in hormonal physiology, together with space and molecular biology, have demonstrated the close relationships between automorphosis and polar auxin transport. Reduced polar auxin transport in space conditions, or induced by the application of polar auxin transport inhibitors, substantially induced automorphosis or automorphosis-like growth and development, indicating that polar auxin transport is responsible for graviresponse in plants. This concise review covers graviresponse in plants and automorphosis observed in space conditions, and polar auxin transport related to graviresponse in etiolated Alaska and ageotropum pea seedlings. Molecular aspects of polar auxin transport clarified in recent studies are also described.
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- J Ueda
- Graduate School of Science, Osaka Prefecture University, Naka-ku, Sakai, Osaka, Japan
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Volkmann D, Baluška F, Menzel D. Eduard Strasburger (1844-1912): founder of modern plant cell biology. PROTOPLASMA 2012; 249:1163-1172. [PMID: 22543688 DOI: 10.1007/s00709-012-0406-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2012] [Accepted: 03/25/2012] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Eduard Strasburger, director of the Botany Institute and the Botanical Garden at the University of Bonn from 1881 to 1912, was one of the most admirable scientists in the field of plant biology, not just as the founder of modern plant cell biology but in addition as an excellent teacher who strongly believed in "education through science." He contributed to plant cell biology by discovering the discrete stages of karyokinesis and cytokinesis in algae and higher plants, describing cytoplasmic streaming in different systems, and reporting on the growth of the pollen tube into the embryo sac and guidance of the tube by synergides. Strasburger raised many problems which are hot spots in recent plant cell biology, e.g., structure and function of the plasmodesmata in relation to phloem loading (Strasburger cells) and signaling, mechanisms of cell plate formation, vesicle trafficking as a basis for most important developmental processes, and signaling related to fertilization.
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- Dieter Volkmann
- Institute of Cellular and Molecular Botany (IZMB), University of Bonn, Kirschallee 1, 53125, Bonn, Germany.
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Umezu N, Umeki N, Mitsui T, Kondo K, Maruta S. Rice kinesin O12 is identical to kinesin OsKCH1. J Biochem 2012; 152:207-8. [PMID: 22843988 DOI: 10.1093/jb/mvs076] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Cai G, Cresti M. Are kinesins required for organelle trafficking in plant cells? FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2012; 3:170. [PMID: 22837763 PMCID: PMC3402901 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2012.00170] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2012] [Accepted: 07/09/2012] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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Plant cells exhibit active movement of membrane-bounded materials, which is more pronounced in large cells but is also appreciable in medium-sized cells and in tip-growing cells (such as pollen tubes and root hairs). Trafficking of organelles (such as Golgi bodies, endoplasmic reticulum, peroxisomes, and mitochondria) and vesicles is essential for plant cell physiology and allows a more or less homogeneous distribution of the cell content. It is well established that the long-range trafficking of organelles is dependent essentially on the network of actin filaments and is powered by the enzyme activity of myosins. However, some lines of evidence suggest that microtubules and members of the kinesin microtubule-based motor superfamily might have a role in the positioning and/or short-range movement of cell organelles and vesicles. Data collected in different cells (such as trichomes and pollen tubes), in specific stages of the plant cell life cycle (for example, during phragmoplast development) and for different organelle classes (mitochondria, Golgi bodies, and chloroplasts) encourage the hypothesis that microtubule-based motors might play subtle yet unclarified roles in organelle trafficking. In some cases, this function could be carried out in cooperation with actin filaments according to the model of "functional cooperation" by which motors of different families are associated with the organelle surface. Since available data did not provide an unambiguous conclusion with regard to the role of kinesins in organelle transport, here we want to debate such hypothesis.
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- Giampiero Cai
- *Correspondence: Giampiero Cai, Dipartimento Scienze Ambientali, University of Siena, Via Mattioli 4, Siena 53100, Italy. e-mail:
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Kasprowicz A, Smolarkiewicz M, Wierzchowiecka M, Michalak M, Wojtaszek P. Introduction: Tensegral World of Plants. MECHANICAL INTEGRATION OF PLANT CELLS AND PLANTS 2011. [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-19091-9_1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Ueda J, Miyamoto K, Uheda E, Oka M. Auxin transport and a graviresponse in plants: Relevance to ABC proteins. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2011. [DOI: 10.2187/bss.25.69] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Woolner S, Bement WM. Unconventional myosins acting unconventionally. Trends Cell Biol 2009; 19:245-52. [PMID: 19406643 DOI: 10.1016/j.tcb.2009.03.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 114] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2009] [Revised: 03/26/2009] [Accepted: 03/27/2009] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Unconventional myosins are proteins that bind actin filaments in an ATP-regulated manner. Because of their association with membranes, they have traditionally been viewed as motors that function primarily to transport membranous organelles along actin filaments. Recently, however, a wealth of roles for myosins that are not obviously related to organelle transport have been uncovered, including organization of F-actin, mitotic spindle regulation and gene transcription. Furthermore, it has also become apparent that the motor domains of different myosins vary strikingly in their biophysical attributes. We suggest that the assumption that most unconventional myosins function primarily as organelle transporters might be misguided.
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- Sarah Woolner
- Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, UK.
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Sattarzadeh A, Franzen R, Schmelzer E. The Arabidopsis class VIII myosin ATM2 is involved in endocytosis. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2008; 65:457-68. [PMID: 18393384 DOI: 10.1002/cm.20271] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Members of the class XI of the myosin superfamily comprising higher plant, actin-based molecular motors have been shown to be involved in peroxisome and Golgi vesicle trafficking comparable to yeast and animal class V myosins. The tasks of the second class of myosins of higher plants, class VIII, are unclear. In this study the class VIII myosin ATM2 from the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana was selected for the examination of cargo specificity in vivo. Fluorescent protein-fusion plasmid constructs with fragments of the ATM2 cDNA were generated and used for Agrobacterium tumefaciens-based transient transformation of Nicotiana benthamiana leaves. The resulting subcellular localization patterns were recorded by live imaging with confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM) in epidermal leaf cells. Expression of a nearly full-length construct displayed labeling of filaments and vesicles, a head + neck fragment led to decoration of filaments only. However, expression of fluorescent protein-tagged C-terminal tail domain constructs labeled vesicular structures of different appearance. Most importantly, coexpression of different RFP/YFP-ATM2 tail fusion proteins showed colocalization and, hence, binding to the same type of vesicular target. Further coexpression experiments of RFP/YFP-ATM2 tail fusion proteins with the endosomal marker FYVE and the endosomal tracer FM4-64 demonstrated colocalization with endosomes. Colocalization was also detected by expression of the CFP-tagged membrane receptor BRI1 as marker, which is constantly recycled via endosomes. Occasionally the ATM2 tail targeted to sites at the plasma membrane closely resembling the pattern obtained upon expression of the YFP-ATM1 C-terminal tail. ATM1 is known for its localization at the plasma membrane at sites of plasmodesmata.
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- Amirali Sattarzadeh
- Max-Planck-Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Central Microscopy, Cologne, Germany
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Walter N, Holweg CL. Head-neck domain of Arabidopsis myosin XI, MYA2, fused with GFP produces F-actin patterns that coincide with fast organelle streaming in different plant cells. BMC PLANT BIOLOGY 2008; 8:74. [PMID: 18598361 PMCID: PMC2504477 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-74] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2008] [Accepted: 07/03/2008] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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BACKGROUND The cytoskeletal mechanisms that underlie organelle transport in plants are intimately linked to acto-myosin function. This function is mediated by the attachment of myosin heads to F-actin and the binding of cargo to the tails. Acto-myosin also powers vigorous cytoplasmic streaming in plant cells. Class XI myosins exhibit strikingly fast velocities and may have extraordinary roles in cellular motility. Studies of the structural basis of organelle transport have focused on the cargo-binding tails of myosin XI, revealing a close relationship with the transport of peroxisomes, mitochondria, and Golgi-vesicles. Links between myosin heads and F-actin-based motility have been less investigated. To address this function, we performed localization studies using the head-neck domain of AtMYA2, a myosin XI from Arabidopsis. RESULTS We expressed the GFP-fused head-neck domain of MYA2 in epidermal cells of various plant species and found that it associated with F-actin. By comparison to other markers such as fimbrin and talin, we revealed that the myosin-labeled F-actin was of a lower quality and absent from the fine microfilament arrays at the cell cortex. However, it colocalized with cytoplasmic (transvacuolar) F-actin in areas coinciding with the tracks of fast organelles. This observation correlates well with the proposed function of myosin XI in organelle trafficking. The fact that organelle streaming was reduced in cells expressing the GFP-MYA2-head6IQ indicated that the functionless motor protein inhibits endogenous myosins. Furthermore, co-expression of the GFP-MYA2-head6IQ with other F-actin markers disrupted its attachment to F-actin. In nuclei, the GFP-myosin associated with short bundles of F-actin. CONCLUSION The localization of the head of MYA2 in living plant cells, as investigated here for the first time, suggests a close linkage between this myosin XI and cytoplasmic microfilaments that support the rapid streaming of organelles such as peroxisomes. Potential roles of MYA2 may also exist in the cell nucleus. Whether the low quality of the F-actin-labeling by MYA2-head6IQ compared to other F-actin-binding proteins (ABPs) signifies a weak association of the myosin with actin filaments remains to be proven by other means than in vivo. Clues for the mode of contact between the myosin molecules and F-actin so far cannot be drawn from sequence-related data.
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- Nadine Walter
- University of Freiburg, Biology II, Schänzlestrasse 1, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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- University of Freiburg, Biology II, Schänzlestrasse 1, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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Iwabuchi K, Takagi S. How and why do plant nuclei move in response to light? PLANT SIGNALING & BEHAVIOR 2008; 3:266-268. [PMID: 19704650 PMCID: PMC2634198 DOI: 10.4161/psb.3.4.5213] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2008] [Accepted: 10/28/2007] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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We recently found that nuclei take different intracellular positions depending upon dark and light conditions in Arabidopsis thaliana leaf cells. Under dark conditions, nuclei in both epidermal and mesophyll cells are distributed baso-centrally within the cell (dark position). Under light conditions, in contrast, nuclei are distributed along the anticlinal walls (light position). Nuclear repositioning from the dark to light positions is induced specifically by blue light at >50 micromol m(-2) s(-1) in a reversible manner. Using analysis of mutant plants, it was demonstrated that the response is mediated by the blue-light photoreceptor phototropin2. Intriguingly, phototropin2 also seems to play an important role in the proper positioning of nuclei and chloroplasts under dark conditions. Light-dependent nuclear positioning is one of the organelle movements regulated by phototropin2. However, the mechanisms of organelle motility, physiological significance, and generality of the phenomenon are poorly understood. In this addendum, we discussed how and why nuclei move depending on light, together with future perspectives.
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- Kosei Iwabuchi
- Department of Biological Sciences; Graduate School of Science; Osaka University; Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan
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Peremyslov VV, Prokhnevsky AI, Avisar D, Dolja VV. Two class XI myosins function in organelle trafficking and root hair development in Arabidopsis. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2008; 146:1109-16. [PMID: 18178669 PMCID: PMC2259062 DOI: 10.1104/pp.107.113654] [Citation(s) in RCA: 173] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2007] [Accepted: 12/24/2007] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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Multigene families encoding class XI myosins are conserved in higher plants, however, little information is available on specific functions of these ubiquitous molecular motors. We isolated gene knockout mutants for all 13 class XI myosins present in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) genome. Inactivation of 11 myosin genes resulted in no discernible phenotypes under the normal growth conditions. In contrast, the knockouts of the remaining two myosin genes, XI-2 (formerly MYA2) and XI-K, exhibited similar defects in root hair elongation suggesting that the myosin-driven motility plays a significant role in a polar tip growth. Strikingly, inactivation of each of these myosins also reduced trafficking of Golgi stacks, peroxisomes, and mitochondria in root hairs and in leaf epidermal cells. These results indicate that myosins XI-K and XI-2 play major and overlapping roles in the cell dynamics in Arabidopsis and highlight the redundant nature of myosin function in plants.
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- Valera V Peremyslov
- Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
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Avisar D, Prokhnevsky AI, Makarova KS, Koonin EV, Dolja VV. Myosin XI-K Is required for rapid trafficking of Golgi stacks, peroxisomes, and mitochondria in leaf cells of Nicotiana benthamiana. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2008; 146:1098-108. [PMID: 18178670 PMCID: PMC2259067 DOI: 10.1104/pp.107.113647] [Citation(s) in RCA: 172] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2007] [Accepted: 12/24/2007] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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A prominent feature of plant cells is the rapid, incessant movement of the organelles traditionally defined as cytoplasmic streaming and attributed to actomyosin motility. We sequenced six complete Nicotiana benthamiana cDNAs that encode class XI and class VIII myosins. Phylogenetic analysis indicates that these two classes of myosins diverged prior to the radiation of green algae and land plants from a common ancestor and that the common ancestor of land plants likely possessed at least seven myosins. We further report here that movement of Golgi stacks, mitochondria, and peroxisomes in the leaf cells of N. benthamiana is mediated mainly by myosin XI-K. Suppression of myosin XI-K function using dominant negative inhibition or RNA interference dramatically reduced movement of each of these organelles. When similar approaches were used to inhibit functions of myosin XI-2 or XI-F, only moderate to marginal effects were observed. Organelle trafficking was virtually unaffected in response to inhibition of each of the three class VIII myosins. Interestingly, none of the tested six myosins appears to be involved in light-induced movements of chloroplasts. Taken together, these data strongly suggest that myosin XI-K has a major role in trafficking of Golgi stacks, mitochondria, and peroxisomes, whereas myosins XI-2 and XI-F might perform accessory functions in this process. In addition, our analysis of thousands of individual organelles revealed independent movement patterns for Golgi stacks, mitochondria, and peroxisomes, indicating that the notion of coordinated cytoplasmic streaming is not generally applicable to higher plants.
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- Dror Avisar
- Department of Botany and Plant Pathology and Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
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Golomb L, Abu-Abied M, Belausov E, Sadot E. Different subcellular localizations and functions of Arabidopsis myosin VIII. BMC PLANT BIOLOGY 2008; 8:3. [PMID: 18179725 PMCID: PMC2275265 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2007] [Accepted: 01/08/2008] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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BACKGROUND Myosins are actin-activated ATPases that use energy to generate force and move along actin filaments, dragging with their tails different cargos. Plant myosins belong to the group of unconventional myosins and Arabidopsis myosin VIII gene family contains four members: ATM1, ATM2, myosin VIIIA and myosin VIIIB. RESULTS In transgenic plants expressing GFP fusions with ATM1 (IQ-tail truncation, lacking the head domain), fluorescence was differentially distributed: while in epidermis cells at the root cap GFP-ATM1 equally distributed all over the cell, in epidermal cells right above this region it accumulated in dots. Further up, in cells of the elongation zone, GFP-ATM1 was preferentially positioned at the sides of transversal cell walls. Interestingly, the punctate pattern was insensitive to brefeldin A (BFA) while in some cells closer to the root cap, ATM1 was found in BFA bodies. With the use of different markers and transient expression in Nicotiana benthamiana leaves, it was found that myosin VIII co-localized to the plasmodesmata and ER, colocalized with internalized FM4-64, and partially overlapped with the endosomal markers ARA6, and rarely with ARA7 and FYVE. Motility of ARA6 labeled organelles was inhibited whenever associated with truncated ATM1 but motility of FYVE labeled organelles was inhibited only when associated with large excess of ATM1. Furthermore, GFP-ATM1 and RFP-ATM2 (IQ-tail domain) co-localized to the same spots on the plasma membrane, indicating a specific composition at these sites for myosin binding. CONCLUSION Taken together, our data suggest that myosin VIII functions differently in different root cells and can be involved in different steps of endocytosis, BFA-sensitive and insensitive pathways, ER tethering and plasmodesmatal activity.
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- Lior Golomb
- The Institute of Plant Sciences, The Volcani Center, Bet-Dagan 50250, Israel
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- The Institute of Plant Sciences, The Volcani Center, Bet-Dagan 50250, Israel
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- The Institute of Plant Sciences, The Volcani Center, Bet-Dagan 50250, Israel
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- The Institute of Plant Sciences, The Volcani Center, Bet-Dagan 50250, Israel
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Higaki T, Sano T, Hasezawa S. Actin microfilament dynamics and actin side-binding proteins in plants. CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY 2007; 10:549-56. [PMID: 17936064 DOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2007.08.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2007] [Revised: 08/17/2007] [Accepted: 08/23/2007] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Actin microfilaments are highly organized and essential intracellular components of organelle movement and cell morphogenesis in plants. The organization of these microfilaments undergoes dynamic changes during cell division, elongation, and differentiation. Recent live-cell imaging of plant actin microfilaments has revealed their native organization and remarkable dynamics. In addition, characterization of plant actin side-binding proteins has progressed rapidly by genetic, biochemical, and bioinformatic approaches. The gathering and integration of microscopy-based information from actin microfilament dynamics and the molecular identification of actin side-binding proteins have provided considerable insights into actin microfilament-dependent events and actin microfilament organization in plants.
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- Takumi Higaki
- Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8562, Japan
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Wang H, Zhang H, Gao F, Li J, Li Z. Comparison of gene expression between upland and lowland rice cultivars under water stress using cDNA microarray. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2007; 115:1109-26. [PMID: 17846741 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-007-0637-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2007] [Accepted: 08/21/2007] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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To elucidate the differences in the regulation of water stress tolerance between two genotypes of rice, upland-rice (UR, resistant to water stress) and lowland-rice (LR, susceptible to water stress), we constructed subtracted cDNA libraries from polyethyleneglycol (PEG)-treated and non-treated rice seedlings (IRAT109, an upland-rice variety) by suppression subtractive hybridization (SSH), from which about 2,000 recombinant colonies were picked and amplified. Then, a cDNA microarray containing these expressed sequence tags (ESTs) was used to analyze the gene expression profiles in UR and LR in response to PEG treatment. Microarray data revealed that the majority of genes expressed in UR and LR are almost identical and Student's t test showed that 13% of all the ESTs detected in leaves and 7% of that in roots expressed differentially in transcripts abundance between the two genotypes. After sequencing, it was found that 64 and 79 unique ESTs expressed at higher levels in UR and LR, respectively. Many of the ESTs that showed higher expression in UR upon PEG treatment represented genes for transcription factors, genes playing roles in detoxification or protection against oxidative stress, and genes that help in maintaining cell turgor. In contrast, some ESTs that showed higher expression in LR were genes functioning in the degradation of cellular components. Based on data from this study and previous reports, we suggest that overexpression of some genes that expressed at higher level in UR may improve water stress tolerance in LR and other plant species.
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- Haiguang Wang
- Key Lab of Crop Genomics and Genetic Improvement of Ministry of Agriculture, Crop Heterosis and Utilization of Ministry of Education and Beijing Key Lab of Crop Genetic Improvement, China Agricultural University, China.
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Krzeszowiec W, Gabryś H. Phototropin Mediated Relocation of Myosins in Arabidopsis thaliana. PLANT SIGNALING & BEHAVIOR 2007; 2:333-6. [PMID: 19516997 PMCID: PMC2634205 DOI: 10.4161/psb.2.5.4509] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2007] [Accepted: 05/21/2007] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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BACKGROUND The mechanism of the light-dependent movements of chloroplasts is based on actin and myosin but its details are largely unknown. The movements are activated by blue light in terrestrial angiosperms. The aim of the present study was to determine the role of myosin associated with the chloroplast surface in the light-induced chloroplast responses in Arabidopsis thaliana. The localization of myosins was investigated under blue light intensities generating avoidance and accumulation responses of chloroplasts. The localization was compared in wild type plants and in phot2 mutant lacking the avoidance response. RESULTS Wild type and phot2 mutant plants were irradiated with strong (36 microEm(-2)s(-1)) and/or weak (0.8 microEm(-2)s(-1)) blue light. The leaf tissue was immunolabeled with antimyosin antibodies. Different arrangements of myosins were observed in the mesophyll depending on the fluence rate in wild type plants. In tissue irradiated with weak blue light myosins were associated with chloroplast envelopes. In contrast, in tissue irradiated with strong blue light chloroplasts were almost myosin-free. The effect did not occur in red light and in the phot2 mutant. CONCLUSIONS Myosin displacement is blue light specific, i.e., it is associated with the activation of a specific blue-light photoreceptor. We suggest that the reorganization of myosins is essential for chloroplast movement. Myosins appear to be the final step of the signal transduction pathway starting with phototropin2 and leading to chloroplast movements.
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- Weronika Krzeszowiec
- Department of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry; Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology; Jagiellonian University; Kraków, Poland
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Hachikubo Y, Ito K, Schiefelbein J, Manstein DJ, Yamamoto K. Enzymatic Activity and Motility of Recombinant Arabidopsis Myosin XI, MYA1. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2007; 48:886-91. [PMID: 17504816 DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcm054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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We expressed recombinant Arabidopsis myosin XI (MYA1), in which the motor domain of MYA1 was connected to an artificial lever arm composed of triple helical repeats of Dictyostelium alpha-actinin, in order to understand its motor activity and intracellular function. The V(max) and K(actin) of the actin-activated Mg(2+) ATPase activity of the recombinant MYA1 were 50.7 Pi head(-1) s(-1) and 30.2 microM, respectively, at 25 degrees C. The recombinant MYA1 could translocate actin filament at the maximum velocity of 1.8 microm s(-1) at 25 degrees C in the in vitro motility assay. The value corresponded to a motility of 3.2 microm s(-1) for native MYA1 if we consider the difference in the lever arm length, and this value was very close to the velocity of cytoplasmic streaming in Arabidopsis hypocotyl epidermal cells. The extent of inhibition by ADP of the motility of MYA1 was similar to that of the well-known processive motor, myosin V, suggesting that MYA1 is a processive motor. The dissociation rate of the actin-MYA1-ADP complex induced by ATP (73.5 s(-1)) and the V(max) value of the actin-activated Mg(2+) ATPase activity revealed that MYA1 stays in the actin-bound state for about 70% of its mechanochemical cycle time. This high ratio of actin-bound states is also a characteristic of processive motors. Our results strongly suggest that MYA1 is a processive motor and involved in vesicle transport and/or cytoplasmic streaming.
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- You Hachikubo
- Department of Biology, Chiba University, Inageku, Chiba, 263-8522 Japan
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Oocytes in the C. elegans gonad enlarge rapidly. During the stage of enlargement, they are transcriptionally quiescent, and it is not understood how they acquire large quantities of materials such as mRNA and protein. Enlarging oocytes are connected via cytoplasmic bridges to a large, younger population of transcriptionally active germ cells at various stages of mitosis and meiosis. We show here that there is a general streaming of gonad cytoplasm towards and into the enlarging oocytes, originating primarily from pachytene-stage germ cells. Because previous studies suggested that most or all of the pachytene germ cells have the potential to differentiate into oocytes, the pachytene cells appear to function transiently as nurse cells. Somatic gonadal cells that surround the germ cells do not appear essential for streaming. Instead, materials appear to be pulled into oocytes by forces generated either in, or adjacent to, the enlarging oocytes themselves. Streaming appears to be driven by the actomyosin cytoskeleton, although we show that populations of both microfilaments and microtubules are oriented in the direction of flow. Our study shows that oocyte enlargement in C. elegans differs significantly from that in Drosophila, where a small number of specialized nurse cells expel their contents into the enlarging oocyte.
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- Uta Wolke
- Division of Basic Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
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van der Honing HS, Emons AMC, Ketelaar T. Actin based processes that could determine the cytoplasmic architecture of plant cells. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-MOLECULAR CELL RESEARCH 2007; 1773:604-14. [PMID: 16962185 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamcr.2006.07.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2006] [Revised: 06/09/2006] [Accepted: 07/21/2006] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Actin polymerisation can generate forces that are necessary for cell movement, such as the propulsion of a class of bacteria, including Listeria, and the protrusion of migrating animal cells. Force generation by the actin cytoskeleton in plant cells has not been studied. One process in plant cells that is likely to depend on actin-based force generation is the organisation of the cytoplasm. We compare the function of actin binding proteins of three well-studied mammalian models that depend on actin-based force generation with the function of their homologues in plants. We predict the possible role of these proteins, and thus the role of actin-based force generation, in the production of cytoplasmic organisation in plant cells.
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- Hannie S van der Honing
- Laboratory of Plant Cell Biology, Wageningen University, Arboretumlaan 4, 6703BD Wageningen, The Netherlands
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Lovy-Wheeler A, Cárdenas L, Kunkel JG, Hepler PK. Differential organelle movement on the actin cytoskeleton in lily pollen tubes. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2007; 64:217-32. [PMID: 17245769 DOI: 10.1002/cm.20181] [Citation(s) in RCA: 99] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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We have examined the arrangement and movement of three major compartments, the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), mitochondria, and the vacuole during oscillatory, polarized growth in lily pollen tubes. These movements are dependent on the actin cytoskeleton, because they are strongly perturbed by the anti-microfilament drug, latrunculin-B, and unaffected by the anti-microtubule agent, oryzalin. The ER, which has been labeled with mGFP5-HDEL or cytochalasin D tetramethylrhodamine, displays an oscillatory motion in the pollen tube apex. First it moves apically in the cortical region, presumably along the cortical actin fringe, and then periodically folds inward creating a platform that transects the apical domain in a plate-like structure. Finally, the ER reverses its direction and moves basipetally through the central core of the pollen tube. When subjected to cross-correlation analysis, the formation of the platform precedes maximal growth rates by an average of 3 s (35-40 degrees ). Mitochondria, labeled with Mitotracker Green, are enriched in the subapical region, and their movement closely resembles that of the ER. The vacuole, labeled with carboxy-dichlorofluorescein diacetate, consists of thin tubules arranged longitudinally in a reticulate network, which undergoes active motion. In contrast to the mitochondria and ER, the vacuole is located back from the apex, and never extends into the apical clear zone. We have not been able to decipher an oscillatory pattern in vacuole motion. Because this motion is dependent on actin and not tubulin, we think this is due to a different myosin from that which drives the ER and mitochondria.
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- Alenka Lovy-Wheeler
- Department of Biology and Plant Biology Graduate Program, Morrill Science Center III, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA
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Sottosanto JB, Saranga Y, Blumwald E. Impact of AtNHX1, a vacuolar Na+/H+ antiporter, upon gene expression during short- and long-term salt stress in Arabidopsis thaliana. BMC PLANT BIOLOGY 2007; 7:18. [PMID: 17411438 PMCID: PMC1853094 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2229-7-18] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2006] [Accepted: 04/05/2007] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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BACKGROUND AtNHX1, the most abundant vacuolar Na+/H+ antiporter in Arabidopsis thaliana, mediates the transport of Na+ and K+ into the vacuole, influencing plant development and contributing to salt tolerance. In this report, microarray expression profiles of wild type plants, a T-DNA insertion knockout mutant of AtNHX1 (nhx1), and a 'rescued' line (NHX1::nhx1) were exposed to both short (12 h and 48 h) and long (one and two weeks) durations of a non-lethal salt stress to identify key gene transcripts associated with the salt response that are influenced by AtNHX1. RESULTS 147 transcripts showed both salt responsiveness and a significant influence of AtNHX1. Fifty-seven of these genes showed an influence of the antiporter across all salt treatments, while the remaining genes were influenced as a result of a particular duration of salt stress. Most (69%) of the genes were up-regulated in the absence of AtNHX1, with the exception of transcripts encoding proteins involved with metabolic and energy processes that were mostly down-regulated. CONCLUSION While part of the AtNHX1-influenced transcripts were unclassified, other transcripts with known or putative roles showed the importance of AtNHX1 to key cellular processes that were not necessarily limited to the salt stress response; namely calcium signaling, sulfur metabolism, cell structure and cell growth, as well as vesicular trafficking and protein processing. Only a small number of other salt-responsive membrane transporter transcripts appeared significantly influenced by AtNHX1.
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- Jordan B Sottosanto
- Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, One Shields Ave, Davis, CA 95616, USA
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, One Shields Ave, Davis, CA 95616, USA
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, One Shields Ave, Davis, CA 95616, USA
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Jiang SY, Cai M, Ramachandran S. ORYZA SATIVA MYOSIN XI B controls pollen development by photoperiod-sensitive protein localizations. Dev Biol 2007; 304:579-92. [PMID: 17289016 DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2007.01.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2006] [Revised: 11/29/2006] [Accepted: 01/04/2007] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Myosins are actin-based motor proteins responsible for various motility and signal transduction. Only a small set of myosin classes is present inplants, and little is known about their functions. Here we showed how a rice myosin gene controlled pollen development by sensing changed environmental factors. The analysis is based on a gene-trapped Ds insertion mutant Oryza sativa myosin XI B (osmyoXIB). This mutant showed male sterility under short day length (SD) conditions and fertility under long day length (LD) conditions. Under both SD and LD conditions, the OSMYOXIB transcript was detected in whole anthers. However, under SD conditions, the OSMYOXIB-GUS fusion protein was localized only in the epidermal layer of anthers due to the lack of 3'-untranslated region (3'-UTR) and to dilute (DIL) domain sequences following the Ds insertion. As a result, mutant pollen development was affected, leading to male sterility. By contrast, under LD conditions, the fusion protein was localized normally in anthers. Despite normal localization, the protein was only partially functional due to the lack of DIL domain sequences, resulting in limited recovery of pollen fertility. This study also provides a case for a novel molecular aspect of gene expression, i.e., cell layer-specific translation in anthers.
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- Shu-Ye Jiang
- Rice Functional Genomics Group, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, the National University of Singapore 117604, Singapore
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Holweg CL. Living markers for actin block myosin-dependent motility of plant organelles and auxin. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2007; 64:69-81. [PMID: 17009330 DOI: 10.1002/cm.20164] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Expression-based techniques using recombinant actin-binding proteins (ABPs) have been developed as advantageous means of visualising actin filaments. As actin function is linked to the movement of cellular cargoes, and overexpression of ABPs may compete with endogenous cytoskeletal proteins, such as myosins, secondary effects on cellular motility might be observed during actin visualisation. Cytoplasmic streaming and auxin transport were chosen as examples of cargo movement and investigated in two Arabidopsis thaliana lines stably transformed with fluorescently labelled talin (GFP-mTn) or fimbrin (GFP-FABD2). In both lines, the maximal streaming velocity of organelles was reduced to 80% in hypocotyl epidermal cells, where actin was broadly equally labelled by both ABPs. In contrast, observations of streaming and actin organisation during treatments with cytochalasin D (CD) suggested GFP-mTn-labelled actin to remain more stable. Furthermore, basipetal auxin transport was undisturbed in the GFP-FABD2 line but reduced by GFP-mTn. Remarkably, treatments with CD and 2,3-butanedione monoxime, which immobilizes myosin by impairing its ATPase, produced not only failures in organelle movement but also in basipetal auxin transport in the wild-type. These observations suggest that myosin is involved in processes of auxin translocation. In parallel, reduced motility in transgenic plants may be explained by a disturbed acto-myosin interplay, if overexpressed ABPs block the processive movement of myosin along actin filaments. This report shows that the use of live markers for actin visualisation may affect motility of cellular compounds and underlines the general need for critical investigation of actin-related processes in wild-type as well as transgenic plants prior to further interpretation.
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- Carola L Holweg
- Universität Karlsruhe, Botanisches Institut I, Karlsruhe, Germany.
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Romagnoli S, Cai G, Faleri C, Yokota E, Shimmen T, Cresti M. Microtubule- and Actin Filament-Dependent Motors are Distributed on Pollen Tube Mitochondria and Contribute Differently to Their Movement. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2007; 48:345-61. [PMID: 17204488 DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcm001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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The pollen tube exhibits cytoplasmic streaming of organelles, which is dependent on the actin-myosin system. Although microtubule-based motors have also been identified in the pollen tube, many uncertainties exist regarding their role in organelle transport. As part of our attempt to understand the role of microtubule-based movement in the pollen tube of tobacco, we investigated the cooperation between microtubules and actin filaments in the transport of mitochondria and Golgi vesicles, which are distributed differently in the growing pollen tube. The analysis was performed using in vitro motility assays in which organelles move along both microtubules and actin filaments. The results indicated that the movement of mitochondria and Golgi vesicles is slow and continuous along microtubules but fast and irregular along actin filaments. In addition, the presence of microtubules in the motility assays forces organelles to use lower velocities. Actin- and tubulin-binding tests, immunoblotting and immunogold labeling indicated that different organelles bind to identical myosins but associate with specific kinesins. We found that a 90 kDa kinesin (previously known as 90 kDa ATP-MAP) is associated with mitochondria but not with Golgi vesicles, whereas a 170 kDa myosin is distributed on mitochondria and other organelle classes. In vitro and in vivo motility assays indicate that microtubules and kinesins decrease the speed of mitochondria, thus contributing to their positioning in the pollen tube.
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- Silvia Romagnoli
- Dipartimento Scienze Ambientali G. Sarfatti, Università di Siena, via Mattioli 4, I-53100 Siena, Italy
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Shimmen T. The sliding theory of cytoplasmic streaming: fifty years of progress. JOURNAL OF PLANT RESEARCH 2007; 120:31-43. [PMID: 17252175 DOI: 10.1007/s10265-006-0061-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 107] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2006] [Accepted: 11/22/2006] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Fifty years ago, an important paper appeared in Botanical Magazine Tokyo. Kamiya and Kuroda proposed a sliding theory for the mechanism of cytoplasmic streaming. This pioneering study laid the basis for elucidation of the molecular mechanism of cytoplasmic streaming--the motive force is generated by the sliding of myosin XI associated with organelles along actin filaments, using the hydrolysis energy of ATP. The role of the actin-myosin system in various plant cell functions is becoming evident. The present article reviews progress in studies on cytoplasmic streaming over the past 50 years.
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- Teruo Shimmen
- Department of Life Science, Graduate School of Life Science, University of Hyogo, Harima Science Park City, Hyogo 678-1297, Japan.
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Ahad A, Nick P. Actin is bundled in activation-tagged tobacco mutants that tolerate aluminum. PLANTA 2007; 225:451-68. [PMID: 16909289 DOI: 10.1007/s00425-006-0359-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2006] [Accepted: 07/10/2006] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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A panel of aluminum-tolerant (AlRes) mutants was isolated by protoplast-based T-DNA activation tagging in the tobacco cultivar SR1. The mutants fell into two phenotypic classes: a minority of the mutants were fertile and developed similarly to the wild type (type I), the majority was male-sterile and grew as semi-dwarfs (type II). These traits, along with the aluminum tolerance, were inherited in a monogenic dominant manner. Both types of mutants were characterized by excessive bundling of actin microfilaments and by a strongly increased abundance of actin, a phenotype that could be partially phenocopied in the wild type by treatment with aluminum chloride. The actin bundles could be dissociated into finer strands by addition of exogenous auxin in both types of mutants. However, actin microfilaments and leaf expansion were sensitive to blockers of actin assembly in the wild type and in the mutants of type I, whereas they were more tolerant in the mutants of type II. The mutants of type II displayed a hypertrophic development of vasculature, manifest in form of supernumerary leaf veins and extended xylem layers in stems and petioles. Whereas mutants of type I were characterized by a normal, but aluminum-tolerant polar auxin-transport, auxin-transport was strongly promoted in the mutants of type II. The phenotype of these mutants is discussed in terms of reduced endocytosis leading, concomitantly with aluminum tolerance, to changes in polar auxin transport.
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- Abdul Ahad
- Umeå Plant Science Centre, Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå University, 90187, Umeå, Sweden.
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Ojangu EL, Järve K, Paves H, Truve E. Arabidopsis thaliana myosin XIK is involved in root hair as well as trichome morphogenesis on stems and leaves. PROTOPLASMA 2007; 230:193-202. [PMID: 17458634 DOI: 10.1007/s00709-006-0233-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2006] [Accepted: 04/12/2006] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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Myosins form a large superfamily of molecular motors that move along actin filaments. The functions of myosins in plant cells are thought to be related to various processes: cell division, movement of mitochondria and chloroplasts, cytoplasmic streaming, rearrangement of transvacuolar strands, and statolith positioning. Class VIII and XI myosins are represented in the Arabidopsis thaliana genome by 4 and 13 potential genes, respectively. The roles of individual class XI myosins and their cellular targets in A. thaliana are still unclear. In this work we implemented a reverse genetic approach to analyse the loss-of-function mutants of XIK, a representative of class XI myosins in A. thaliana. Three different T-DNA insertion mutants in the myosin XIK gene showed similar phenotypes: impaired growth of root hair cells, twisted shape of stem trichomes, and irregular size, branch positioning, and branch expansion of leaf trichomes. Morphometric analysis of mutant seedlings showed that the average length of root hairs was reduced up to 50% in comparison with wild-type root hairs, suggesting an involvement of the class XI myosin XIK in tip growth. On leaves, the proportion of trichomes with short branches was doubleed in mutant plants, and the mutant trichomes possessed a mildly twisted shape. Therefore, we concluded that myosin XIK is involved also in the elongation of stalks and branches of trichomes.
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- E-L Ojangu
- Department of Gene Technology, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia
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Paves H, Truve E. Myosin inhibitors block accumulation movement of chloroplasts in Arabidopsis thaliana leaf cells. PROTOPLASMA 2007; 230:165-9. [PMID: 17458631 DOI: 10.1007/s00709-006-0230-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2006] [Accepted: 03/14/2006] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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Chloroplasts alter their distribution within plant cells depending on the external light conditions. Myosin inhibitors 2,3-butanedione monoxime (BDM), N-ethylmaleimide (NEM), and 1-(5-iodonaphthalene-1-sulfonyl)-1H-hexahydro-1,4-diazepine hydrochloride (ML-7) were used to study the possible role of myosins in chloroplast photorelocation in Arabidopsis thaliana mesophyll cells. None of these agents had an effect on the chloroplast high-fluence-rate avoidance movement but all of the three myosin inhibitors blocked the accumulation movement of chloroplasts after a high-fluence-rate irradiation of the leaves. The results suggest that myosins have a role in A. thaliana chloroplast photorelocation.
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- H Paves
- Department of Gene Technology, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia.
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Müller S, Han S, Smith LG. Two kinesins are involved in the spatial control of cytokinesis in Arabidopsis thaliana. Curr Biol 2006; 16:888-94. [PMID: 16682350 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2006.03.034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 98] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2006] [Revised: 03/02/2006] [Accepted: 03/03/2006] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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In plant cells, the plane of division is anticipated at the onset of mitosis by the presence of a preprophase band (PPB) of microtubules and F-actin at a cortical site that circumscribes the nucleus. During cytokinesis, the microtubule- and F-actin-based phragmoplast facilitates construction of a new cell wall and is guided to the forecast division site. Proper execution of this process is essential for establishing the cellular framework of plant tissues. The microtubule binding protein TANGLED1 (TAN1) of maize is a key player in the determination of division planes . Lack of TAN1 leads to misguided phragmoplasts and mispositioned cell walls in maize. In a yeast two-hybrid screen for TAN1-interacting proteins, a pair of related kinesins was identified that shares significant sequence homology with two kinesin-12 genes in Arabidopsis thaliana (A. thaliana): PHRAGMOPLAST ORIENTING KINESIN 1 and 2 (POK1, POK2). POK1 and POK2 are expressed in tissues enriched for dividing cells. The phenotype of pok1;pok2 double mutants strongly resembles that of maize tan1 mutants, characterized by misoriented mitotic cytoskeletal arrays and misplaced cell walls. We propose that POK1 and POK2 participate in the spatial control of cytokinesis, perhaps via an interaction with the A. thaliana TAN1 homolog, ATN.
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- Sabine Müller
- Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA.
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Nick P. Noise yields order--auxin, actin, and polar patterning. PLANT BIOLOGY (STUTTGART, GERMANY) 2006; 8:360-70. [PMID: 16807829 DOI: 10.1055/s-2006-923969] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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Plant patterns have to integrate environmental cues and to cope with a high level of noise in the sensory outputs of individual cells. In the first part of this review, we demonstrate that local self-amplification linked to lateral inhibition can meet this requirement. In the second part, we describe the search for candidates for such self-amplification loops in the context of auxin-dependent cell growth using Graminean coleoptiles as a model. Auxin-dependent reorganization of actin microfilaments interfered with the auxin sensitivity of growth. Auxin might control the intracellular transport of factors important for auxin sensing via the actomyosin system. By means of a rice mutant with elevated auxin responsiveness, we identified an auxin response factor (OSARF1), whose expression is upregulated by auxin as a second candidate for a self-amplification loop. We studied the cross-talk between auxin signalling and environmental cues in the rice mutant hebiba, where the photoinhibition of growth is impaired. We found that jasmonate plays a central role in this cross-talk correlated to a downregulation of auxin responsiveness. To obtain an insight into auxin-dependent coordination, we analyzed a tobacco cell line with axial cell divisions. By a combination of modelling and physiological manipulation, we could demonstrate that auxin synchronizes the divisions of adjacent cells on the background of strong heterogeneity of individual cells. We conclude that self-amplification of auxin signalling coupled to mutual competition for available auxin provides a versatile tool to fulfill the special requirements posed by patterning in plants.
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- P Nick
- Institut of Botany 1, University of Karlsruhe, Kaiserstrasse 2, 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany.
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Feng XL, Ni WM, Elge S, Mueller-Roeber B, Xu ZH, Xue HW. Auxin flow in anther filaments is critical for pollen grain development through regulating pollen mitosis. PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2006; 61:215-26. [PMID: 16786302 DOI: 10.1007/s11103-006-0005-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2005] [Accepted: 01/03/2006] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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It was well known that auxin is critical for anther/pollen grain development, however, the clear distribution and detailed effects of auxin during floral development are still unclear. We have shown here that, through analyzing GUS activities of Arabidopsis lines harboring auxin response elements DR5-GUS, auxin was mainly accumulated in the anther during flower stages 10-12. Further studies employing the indoleacetic acid-lysine synthetase (iaaL) coding gene from Pseudomonas syringae subsp. savastanoi under control of the promoter region of Arabidopsis phosphatidylinositol monophosphate 5-kinase 1 gene, which conducts the anther filament-specific expression, showed that block of auxin flow of filaments resulted in shortened filaments and significantly defective pollen grains. Similar phenotype was observed in tobacco plants transformed with the same construct, confirming the effects of auxin flow in filaments on anther development. Detailed studies further revealed that the meiosis process of pollen grain was normal while the mitosis at later stage was significantly defected, indicating the effects of auxin flow in filaments on pollen grain mitosis process. Analysis employing [(14)C]IAA, as well as the observation on the expression of AtPIN1, coding for auxin efflux carrier, demonstrated the presence of polar auxin transport in anther filaments and pollen grains.
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- Xiao-Li Feng
- National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, Institute of Plant Physiology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences/SIBS, Chinese Academy of Sciences, PR China
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Estrada de Martin P, Novick P, Ferro-Novick S. The organization, structure, and inheritance of the ER in higher and lower eukaryotes. Biochem Cell Biol 2006; 83:752-61. [PMID: 16333327 DOI: 10.1139/o05-159] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is a fundamental organelle required for protein assembly, lipid biosynthesis, and vesicular traffic, as well as calcium storage and the controlled release of calcium from the ER lumen into the cytosol. Membranes functionally linked to the ER by vesicle-mediated transport, such as the Golgi complex, endosomes, vacuoles-lysosomes, secretory vesicles, and the plasma membrane, originate largely from proteins and lipids synthesized in the ER. In this review we will discuss the structural organization of the ER and its inheritance.
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- Paula Estrada de Martin
- Department of Cell Biology, Yale University School of Medicine, Boyer Center for Molecular Medicine, New Haven, CT 06519, USA
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Hamada S, Sekimoto H, Tanabe Y, Tsuchikane Y, Ito M. Isolation of myosin XI genes from the Closterium peracerosum-strigosum-littorale complex and analysis of their expression during sexual reproduction. JOURNAL OF PLANT RESEARCH 2006; 119:105-13. [PMID: 16456621 DOI: 10.1007/s10265-005-0249-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2005] [Accepted: 10/21/2005] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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Myosins comprise a large superfamily of molecular motors that generate mechanical force in ATP-dependent interactions with actin filaments. On the basis of their conserved motor domain sequences, myosins can be divided into at least 17 classes, 3 of which (VIII, XI, XIII) are found in plants. Although full sequences of myosins are available from several species of green plants, little is known about the functions of these proteins. Additionally, sequence information for algal myosin is incomplete, and little attention has been given to the molecular evolution of myosin from green plants. In the present study, the Closterium peracerosum-strigosum-littorale complex was used as a model system for investigating a unicellular basal charophycean alga. This organism has been well studied with respect to sexual reproduction between its two mating types. Three types of partial sequences belonging to class XI myosins were obtained using degenerate primers designed to amplify motor domain sequences. Real-time polymerase chain reaction analysis of the respective myosin genes during various stages of the algal life cycle showed that one of the genes was more highly expressed during sexual reproduction, and that expression was cell-cycle-dependent in vegetatively grown cells.
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- Saeko Hamada
- Department of General Systems Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan.
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The cytoskeleton plays important roles in plant cell shape determination by influencing the patterns in which cell wall materials are deposited. Cortical microtubules are thought to orient the direction of cell expansion primarily via their influence on the deposition of cellulose into the wall, although the precise nature of the microtubule-cellulose relationship remains unclear. In both tip-growing and diffusely growing cell types, F-actin promotes growth and also contributes to the spatial regulation of growth. F-actin has been proposed to play a variety of roles in the regulation of secretion in expanding cells, but its functions in cell growth control are not well understood. Recent work highlighted in this review on the morphogenesis of selected cell types has yielded substantial new insights into mechanisms governing the dynamics and organization of cytoskeletal filaments in expanding plant cells and how microtubules and F-actin interact to direct patterns of cell growth. Nevertheless, many important questions remain to be answered.
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- Laurie G Smith
- Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0116, USA.
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Yuasa T, Hashimoto H. A Calcium-dependent Protein Kinase (CDPK) in the Unicellular Green Alga Closterium ehrenbergii. Microbes Environ 2006. [DOI: 10.1264/jsme2.21.278] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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- Takashi Yuasa
- Department of Plant Resources, Graduate School of Bioresource and Bioenvironmental Sciences, Kyushu University
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- Department of Life and Cognitive Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo
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Blancaflor EB, Wang YS, Motes CM. Organization and function of the actin cytoskeleton in developing root cells. INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF CYTOLOGY 2006; 252:219-64. [PMID: 16984819 DOI: 10.1016/s0074-7696(06)52004-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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The actin cytoskeleton is a highly dynamic structure, which mediates various cellular functions in large part through accessory proteins that tilt the balance between monomeric G-actin and filamentous actin (F-actin) or by facilitating interactions between actin and the plasma membrane, microtubules, and other organelles. Roots have become an attractive model to study actin in plant development because of their simple anatomy and accessibility of some root cell types such as root hairs for microscopic analyses. Roots also exhibit a remarkable developmental plasticity and possess a delicate sensory system that is easily manipulated, so that one can design experiments addressing a range of important biological questions. Many facets of root development can be regulated by the diverse actin network found in the various root developmental regions. Various molecules impinge on this actin scaffold to define how a particular root cell type grows or responds to a specific environmental signal. Although advances in genomics are leading the way toward elucidating actin function in roots, more significant strides will be realized when such tools are combined with improved methodologies for accurately depicting how actin is organized in plant cells.
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- Elison B Blancaflor
- Plant Biology Division, Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73401, USA
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Wojtaszek P, Anielska-Mazur A, Gabryś H, Baluška F, Volkmann D. Recruitment of myosin VIII towards plastid surfaces is root-cap specific and provides the evidence for actomyosin involvement in root osmosensing. FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOLOGY : FPB 2005; 32:721-736. [PMID: 32689170 DOI: 10.1071/fp05004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2004] [Accepted: 04/22/2005] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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The existence of a cell wall-plasma membrane-cytoskeleton (WMC) continuum in plants has long been postulated. However, the individual molecules building such a continuum are still largely unknown. We test here the hypothesis that the integrin-based multiprotein complexes of animal cells have been replaced in plants with more dynamic entities. Using an experimental approach based on protoplast digestion mixtures, and utilising specific antibodies against Arabidopsis ATM1 myosin, we reveal possible roles played by plant-specific unconventional myosin VIII in the functioning of WMC continuum. We demonstrate rapid relocation (less than 5 min) of myosin VIII to statolith surfaces in maize root-cap cells, which is accompanied by the reorganisation of actin cytoskeleton. Upon prolonged stimulation, myosin VIII is also recruited to plasmodesmata and pit-fields of plasmolysing root cap statocytes. The osmotic stimulus is the major factor inducing relocation, but the cell wall-cytoskeleton interactions also play an important role. In addition, we demonstrate the tight association of myosin VIII with the surfaces of chloroplasts, and provide an indication for the differences in the mechanisms of plastid movement in roots and leaves of plants. Overall, our data provide evidence for the active involvement of actomyosin complexes, rooted in the WMC continuum, in the cellular volume control and maintenance of spatial relationships between cellular compartments.
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- Przemysław Wojtaszek
- Institute of Cellular and Molecular Botany, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Kirschallee 1, 53115 Bonn, Germany
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- Department of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, Faculty of Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 7, 30-387 Kraków, Poland
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- Department of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, Faculty of Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 7, 30-387 Kraków, Poland
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- Institute of Cellular and Molecular Botany, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Kirschallee 1, 53115 Bonn, Germany
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- Institute of Cellular and Molecular Botany, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Kirschallee 1, 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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Hashimoto K, Igarashi H, Mano S, Nishimura M, Shimmen T, Yokota E. Peroxisomal localization of a myosin XI isoform in Arabidopsis thaliana. PLANT & CELL PHYSIOLOGY 2005; 46:782-9. [PMID: 15792961 DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pci085] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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The genome of Arabidopsis thaliana contains 13 myosin XI isoforms. Here we prepared a specific antibody against a peptide that mimics a unique C-terminal region from the myosin XI isoform, MYA2. The resulting antibody was used to demonstrate that MYA2 in Arabidopsis protein extracts co-sedimented with actin filaments and dissociated from the filaments with ATP treatment. Immunolocalization studies showed that MYA2 co-localized predominantly with actin filaments in clustered punctuate dots in leaf epidermal cells, root hair cells and suspension-cultured cells. In a transgenic plant in which peroxisomes are labeled with green fluorescent protein, some MYA2 signals were localized on peroxisomes in an actin-dependent manner. We propose that the peroxisome is one of the cargos translocated by MYA2 on actin filaments.
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- Kohsuke Hashimoto
- Department of Life Science, Graduate School of Life Science, University of Hyogo, Harima Science Park City, Hyogo, 678-1297 Japan.
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Vandenbussche F, Verbelen JP, Van Der Straeten D. Of light and length: regulation of hypocotyl growth in Arabidopsis. Bioessays 2005; 27:275-84. [PMID: 15714558 DOI: 10.1002/bies.20199] [Citation(s) in RCA: 120] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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At all stages, plant development results from a complex integration of multiple endogenous and environmental signals. The sedentary nature of plants strongly enhances the impact of the environment on plant development as compared to animal development. The embryonic and postembryonic seedling stem, called the hypocotyl, of the model species Arabidopsis (thale cress) has proved to be an excellent system for studying such signal interplay in the regulation of growth and developmental responses. The extension of the hypocotyl, which is regulated by a network of interacting factors, including light and plant hormones, is such a process. These regulatory factors often reciprocally regulate their biosynthesis and/or signalling. Here we present the current state of knowledge about the regulation of hypocotyl growth by a large repertoire of internal and external cues.
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- Filip Vandenbussche
- Unit Plant Hormone signalling and Bio-imaging, Department of Molecular Genetics, Ghent University, Belgium
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Baluska F, Volkmann D, Menzel D. Plant synapses: actin-based domains for cell-to-cell communication. TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2005; 10:106-11. [PMID: 15749467 DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2005.01.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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For many years it has been known that plants perform rapid long-distance signalling using classical action potentials that have impacts on diverse processes in plants. Plants also synthesize numerous neuronal molecules and fulfill some criteria for intelligent behaviour. Analysis of recent breakthrough data from ecophysiology studies has revealed that plant roots can discriminate between 'self' and 'non-self'; in animals, this ability to discriminate is dependent on the activities of neuronal synapses. Here, we propose that plant cells establish modes of information exchange between each other that have properties in common with neuronal synapses. Moreover, plants also assemble adhesive contacts that orchestrate cell-to-cell communication between the host cells when challenged with pathogens, parasites and potential symbionts. We propose that these adhesive contacts resemble the immunological synapses found in animals.
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- Frantisek Baluska
- Institute of Cellular and Molecular Botany, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University of Bonn, Kirschallee 1, D 53115 Bonn, Germany.
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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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Lee YRJ, Liu B. Cytoskeletal motors in Arabidopsis. Sixty-one kinesins and seventeen myosins. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2004; 136:3877-83. [PMID: 15591445 PMCID: PMC535821 DOI: 10.1104/pp.104.052621] [Citation(s) in RCA: 112] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2004] [Revised: 10/28/2004] [Accepted: 11/01/2004] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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- Yuh-Ru Julie Lee
- Section of Plant Biology, University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA
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