scholarly journals CLASP stabilization of plus ends created by severing promotes microtubule creation and reorientation

2018 ◽  
Vol 218 (1) ◽  
pp. 190-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jelmer J. Lindeboom ◽  
Masayoshi Nakamura ◽  
Marco Saltini ◽  
Anneke Hibbel ◽  
Ankit Walia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Computational Modeling ◽  
Blue Light ◽  
Higher Plants ◽  
Plant Cells ◽  
Alternative Mechanism ◽  
Unanswered Question ◽  
Light Perception ◽  
Major Focus ◽  
Cortical Array

Central to the building and reorganizing cytoskeletal arrays is creation of new polymers. Although nucleation has been the major focus of study for microtubule generation, severing has been proposed as an alternative mechanism to create new polymers, a mechanism recently shown to drive the reorientation of cortical arrays of higher plants in response to blue light perception. Severing produces new plus ends behind the stabilizing GTP-cap. An important and unanswered question is how these ends are stabilized in vivo to promote net microtubule generation. Here we identify the conserved protein CLASP as a potent stabilizer of new plus ends created by katanin severing in plant cells. Clasp mutants are defective in cortical array reorientation. In these mutants, both rescue of shrinking plus ends and the stabilization of plus ends immediately after severing are reduced. Computational modeling reveals that it is the specific stabilization of severed ends that best explains CLASP’s function in promoting microtubule amplification by severing and array reorientation.

scholarly journals CLASP stabilizes microtubule plus ends created by serving to drive cortical array reorientation

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jelmer J. Lindeboom ◽  
Masayoshi Nakamura ◽  
Marco Saltini ◽  
Anneke Hibbel ◽  
Ankit Walia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Computational Modeling ◽  
Blue Light ◽  
Higher Plants ◽  
Alternative Mechanism ◽  
Unanswered Question ◽  
Light Perception ◽  
Major Focus ◽  
Cortical Array ◽  
The Creation

AbstractCentral to building and reorganizing cytoskeletal arrays is the creation of new polymers. While nucleation has been the major focus of study for new microtubule generation, severing has been proposed as an alternative mechanism to create new polymers, a mechanism recently shown to drive the reorientation of cortical arrays of higher plants in response to blue light perception. As severing produces new plus ends behind the stabilizing GTP-cap, an important and unanswered question is how these are stabilized in vivo to promote net microtubule generation. Here we identify the conserved protein CLASP as a potent stabilizer of new plus ends created by katanin severing and find that CLASP is required for rapid cortical array reorientation. In clasp mutants both rescue of shrinking plus ends and the regrowth of plus ends immediately after severing are reduced, computational modeling reveals that it is the specific stabilization of severed ends that explains CLASP’s function in promoting microtubule amplification by severing and cortical array reorientation.

Organization of transport from endoplasmic reticulum to Golgi in higher plants

2000 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 505-512 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. V. Andreeva ◽  
H. Zheng ◽  
C. M. Saint-Jore ◽  
M. A. Kutuzov ◽  
D. E. Evans ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Endoplasmic Reticulum ◽  
Golgi Apparatus ◽  
Membrane Trafficking ◽  
Mammalian Cells ◽  
Fluorescent Protein ◽  
Higher Plants ◽  
Plant Cells ◽  
Yeast Cells ◽  
Green Fluorescent

In plant cells, the organization of the Golgi apparatus and its interrelationships with the endoplasmic reticulum differ from those in mammalian and yeast cells. Endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi apparatus can now be visualized in plant cells in vivo with green fluorescent protein (GFP) specifically directed to these compartments. This makes it possible to study the dynamics of the membrane transport between these two organelles in the living cells. The GFP approach, in conjunction with a considerable volume of data about proteins participating in the transport between endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi in yeast and mammalian cells and the identification of their putative plant homologues, should allow the establishment of an experimental model in which to test the involvement of the candidate proteins in plants. As a first step towards the development of such a system, we are using Sar1, a small G-protein necessary for vesicle budding from the endoplasmic reticulum. This work has demonstrated that the introduction of Sar1 mutants blocks the transport from endoplasmic reticulum to Golgi in vivo in tobacco leaf epidermal cells and has therefore confirmed the feasibility of this approach to test the function of other proteins that are presumably involved in this step of endo-membrane trafficking in plant cells.

scholarly journals Glowing Plants Can Light Up the Night Sky? A Review

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bolong Li ◽  
Ru Chen ◽  
Chenba Zhu ◽  
Fantao Kong
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Engineering ◽  
Higher Plants ◽  
Physical Phenomenon ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Plant Cells ◽  
Artificial Light ◽  
Light Sources ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Living Plant

Luminescence, a physical phenomenon that producing cool light in vivo, has been found in bacteria, fungi and anminals but not yet in terrestrial higher plants. Through genetic engineering, it is feasible to introduce luminescence system into living plant cells as biomarkers. Recently, some plants transformed with luminescent systems can glimmer in darkness, which can be observed by our naked eyes and provide a novel lighting resource. In this review, we summarized the development of luminescence in plant cells, followed by exampling the successful cases of glowing plants transformed with diverse luminescent systems. The potential key factors to optimize a glowing plant are also discussed. Our review is useful for the creation of the optimized glowing plants, which can be used not only in scientific research, but also as promising substitutes of artificial light sources in the future.

In vitro and in vivo polysaccharides assembly: ultrastructural and cytochemical study of growing plant cell wall components.

1978 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 434-435
Author(s):  
D. Reis ◽  
B. Vian ◽  
J. C. Roland
Keyword(s):  
Cell Wall ◽  
Self Assembly ◽  
Plant Cell Wall ◽  
Higher Plants ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Cytochemical Study ◽  
Wall Components

Wall morphogenesis in higher plants is a problem still open to controversy. Until now the possibility of a transmembrane control and the involvement of microtubules were mostly envisaged. Self-assembly processes have been observed in the case of walls of Chlamydomonas and bacteria. Spontaneous gelling interactions between xanthan and galactomannan from Ceratonia have been analyzed very recently. The present work provides indications that some processes of spontaneous aggregation could occur in higher plants during the formation and expansion of cell wall.Observations were performed on hypocotyl of mung bean (Phaseolus aureus) for which growth characteristics and wall composition have been previously defined.In situ, the walls of actively growing cells (primary walls) show an ordered three-dimensional organization (fig. 1). The wall is typically polylamellate with multifibrillar layers alternately transverse and longitudinal. Between these layers intermediate strata exist in which the orientation of microfibrils progressively rotates. Thus a progressive change in the morphogenetic activity occurs.

scholarly journals Recapitulating Cardiac Structure and Function In Vitro from Simple to Complex Engineering

Micromachines ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 386
Author(s):  
Ana Santos ◽  
Yongjun Jang ◽  
Inwoo Son ◽  
Jongseong Kim ◽  
Yongdoo Park
Keyword(s):  
Tissue Engineering ◽  
Extracellular Matrix ◽  
Computational Modeling ◽  
Cardiac Tissue ◽  
Cardiac Development ◽  
Heart Tissue ◽  
Cardiac Tissue Engineering ◽  
Cardiac Cells

Cardiac tissue engineering aims to generate in vivo-like functional tissue for the study of cardiac development, homeostasis, and regeneration. Since the heart is composed of various types of cells and extracellular matrix with a specific microenvironment, the fabrication of cardiac tissue in vitro requires integrating technologies of cardiac cells, biomaterials, fabrication, and computational modeling to model the complexity of heart tissue. Here, we review the recent progress of engineering techniques from simple to complex for fabricating matured cardiac tissue in vitro. Advancements in cardiomyocytes, extracellular matrix, geometry, and computational modeling will be discussed based on a technology perspective and their use for preparation of functional cardiac tissue. Since the heart is a very complex system at multiscale levels, an understanding of each technique and their interactions would be highly beneficial to the development of a fully functional heart in cardiac tissue engineering.

scholarly journals Blue light sensing in higher plants.

2001 ◽  
Vol 276 (20) ◽  
pp. 17620
Author(s):  
John M. Christie ◽  
Winslow R. Briggs
Keyword(s):  
Blue Light ◽  
Higher Plants ◽  
Light Sensing

scholarly journals Stochastic Spatial Heterogeneity in Activities of H+-ATP-ases in Electrically Connected Plant Cells Decreases Threshold for Cooling-Induced Electrical Responses

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (15) ◽  
pp. 8254
Author(s):  
Ekaterina Sukhova ◽  
Daria Ratnitsyna ◽  
Vladimir Sukhov
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Heterogeneity ◽  
Action Potentials ◽  
Higher Plants ◽  
Electrical Response ◽  
Plant Cells ◽  
Excitable Cells ◽  
Molecular Transporters ◽  
Positive Shift ◽  
Stochastic Heterogeneity ◽  
Electrical Responses

H+-ATP-ases, which support proton efflux through the plasma membrane, are key molecular transporters for electrogenesis in cells of higher plants. Initial activities of the transporters can influence the thresholds of generation of electrical responses induced by stressors and modify other parameters of these responses. Previously, it was theoretically shown that the stochastic heterogeneity of individual cell thresholds for electrical responses in a system of electrically connected neuronal cells can decrease the total threshold of the system (“diversity-induced resonance”, DIR). In the current work, we tested a hypothesis about decreasing the thresholds of generation of cooling-induced electrical responses in a system of electrically connected plant cells with increasing stochastic spatial heterogeny in the initial activities of H+-ATP-ases in these cells. A two-dimensional model of the system of electrically connected excitable cells (simple imitation of plant leaf), which was based on a model previously developed in our works, was used for the present investigation. Simulation showed that increasing dispersion in the distribution of initial activities of H+-ATP-ases between cells decreased the thresholds of generation of cooling-induced electrical responses. In addition, the increasing weakly influenced the amplitudes of electrical responses. Additional analysis showed two different mechanisms of the revealed effect. The increasing spatial heterogeneity in activities of H+-ATP-ases induced a weak positive shift of the membrane potential at rest. The shift decreased the threshold of electrical response generation. However, the decreased threshold induced by increasing the H+-ATP-ase activity heterogeneity was also observed after the elimination of the positive shift. The result showed that the “DIR-like” mechanism also participated in the revealed effect. Finally, we showed that the standard deviation of the membrane potentials before the induction of action potentials could be used for the estimation of thresholds of cooling-induced plant electrical responses. Thus, spatial heterogeneity in the initial activities of H+-ATP-ases can be a new regulatory mechanism influencing the generation of electrical responses in plants under actions of stressors.

scholarly journals LanCL1 promotes motor neuron survival and extends the lifespan of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis mice

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 1369-1382 ◽  
Author(s):  
Honglin Tan ◽  
Mina Chen ◽  
Dejiang Pang ◽  
Xiaoqiang Xia ◽  
Chongyangzi Du ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis ◽  
Motor Neuron ◽  
Motor Neurons ◽  
Neuronal Survival ◽  
Disease Onset ◽  
Alternative Mechanism ◽  
Specific Expression ◽  
Motor Neuron Survival ◽  
Lateral Sclerosis

Abstract Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neurodegenerative disease characterized by progressive loss of motor neurons. Improving neuronal survival in ALS remains a significant challenge. Previously, we identified Lanthionine synthetase C-like protein 1 (LanCL1) as a neuronal antioxidant defense gene, the genetic deletion of which causes apoptotic neurodegeneration in the brain. Here, we report in vivo data using the transgenic SOD1G93A mouse model of ALS indicating that CNS-specific expression of LanCL1 transgene extends lifespan, delays disease onset, decelerates symptomatic progression, and improves motor performance of SOD1G93A mice. Conversely, CNS-specific deletion of LanCL1 leads to neurodegenerative phenotypes, including motor neuron loss, neuroinflammation, and oxidative damage. Analysis reveals that LanCL1 is a positive regulator of AKT activity, and LanCL1 overexpression restores the impaired AKT activity in ALS model mice. These findings indicate that LanCL1 regulates neuronal survival through an alternative mechanism, and suggest a new therapeutic target in ALS.

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