拟南芥叶片细胞包被系统酸性降解的光镜观察

观察了拟南芥叶片细胞包括细胞壁和质膜在内的细胞包被系统在酸性条件下酶促降解的过程。观察发现,处于酸性酶解液中的拟南芥叶片,最初细胞壁完整,细胞排列有序,其后细胞壁开始部分降解,细胞排列逐渐进入无序状态,随后细胞壁完全降解,去壁的原生质体完全进入游离状态,游离原生质体的质膜也随之降解,细胞器溢出后以细胞核为核心积聚、重组为新的原生质体。进一步观察了这一过程中细胞pH值的改变,结果发现,酸性酶解过程中细胞倾向于pH值降低,而细胞器重组产生的新原生质体pH值向正常水平恢复。因此,酸性环境对拟南芥叶片细胞包被系统的降解产生重要的影响。     

植物叶片愈伤组织形成的可能机制

分析了植物叶片在组培条件下形成愈伤组织的过程.文中提出,培养基配方中的酸性物质使植物叶片处于酸性环境中并导致植物正常细胞首先发生细胞壁酸性降解,随后出现原生质体脱离细胞壁,进一步发生细胞器重组或细胞重建,人工培养基的酸性环境使细胞壁强制性地降解后,植物原生质体失去细胞壁的包被后直接处于较酸性的环境中,可能会促使原生体出现酸性快速分裂.因此,植物细胞壁是控制植物细胞完成正常细胞周期的信号载体.     

植物遗传工程转化

将大分子导入完植物细胞的简易方法 美国弗古尼亚州立大学的F.-S.Wu、A.B.Cahoon及M.Shulleeta的研究证实:向完整植物细胞直接转移基因或其它大分子的困难不是由于其细胞壁本身的存在,而是由于细胞壁与质膜之间的紧密接触(限制了大分子通过细胞壁而进入质膜)引起的。他们发现,当利用渗透压变化使细胞壁与质膜之间产生空隙后,大分子就可通过细胞壁,利用直接转移技术(目前需用原生质体)就很容易把大分子导入细胞。 研究还报道,当洋葱表皮细胞或烟草茎细胞进行质壁分离时,蛋白质和DNA就能够穿透进入细胞壁,     

植物原生质体融合

植物细胞一般都包被一层坚硬的细胞壁,除某些例外,细胞壁能阻止细胞质膜间的相互接触,因而细胞间不能融合。随着适用于溶解细胞壁的酶类的开发和无壁细胞(原生质体)的产生,现已能克服这一限制植物细胞融合的困难。将不同来源的原生质体融为一体以创造新的体细胞杂种,这不仅为体细胞遗传学研究提供了新机会,还为植物的遗传操纵提供了新方法,这在目前具有更大的实际意义。现在已可以从一系列典型植物种和农作物种分离出原生质体。原生质体可培养在合适的     

被子植物生殖器官中的传递细胞

传递细胞（ｔｒａｎｓｆｅｒｃｅｌｌ）是一类特殊的薄壁细胞,其特征是细胞壁向内突起生长,形成壁内突的结构,质膜紧贴细胞壁生长,从而使质膜的表面积大大增加,扩大了原生质体表面积与体积之比,有利于细胞吸收和分泌某些物质,在细胞物质的短途运输中起重要作用。超微结构研究表明,传递细胞的细胞核较大,细胞质浓,并富含线粒体、高尔基体等细胞器。传递细胞在被子植物生殖器官中普遍存在,对于这些器官完成其功能起到重要作用。下面简单介绍生殖器官各结构中存在的传递细胞及其功能。１　花柱的通道细胞开放型花柱具有花柱道,花柱…     

第八讲 植物原生质体培养

一、前言植物原生质体就是除去细胞壁以后的裸露细胞。英国植物生理学家Cocking(1960)首先用酶解的方法降解番茄根尖的细胞壁,获得大量而完整的原生质体。植物原生质体可直接从植物各种器官、如根、茎、叶、花、果实的细胞中获得,也可以从培养细胞中获得。一般认为由叶肉组织分离的原生质体遗传性状较一致。而一般     

一种特殊的长寿细胞:毛竹茎秆纤维细胞

利用显微和细胞化学方法,对毛竹(Phyllostachys edulis)茎秆纤维次生壁形成过程中超微结构变化以及ATP酶、Ca2 -ATPase和酸性磷酸酶的超微细胞化学定位进行了研究.研究发现,次生壁形成早期,细胞核具有双层核膜,染色质凝聚,可见大量的线粒体、粗面内质网和高尔基体等细胞器存在于纤维细胞中;随后,双层核膜消失,细胞器将逐渐解体,多泡体开始出现在纤维细胞的细胞质;随着年龄的增加,纤维细胞壁逐渐增厚,并出现多层结构现象,而运输小泡、细胞膜、胞间连丝和凝聚的染色质将持续存在.在次生壁形成的整个过程中,ATP酶、Ca2 -ATPase和酸性磷酸酶在运输小泡、细胞膜、质膜内陷、胞间连丝和凝聚的染色质中将持续存在.结果表明,毛竹茎秆纤维细胞是一种不同于木本双子叶植物的长寿细胞,纤维原生质体中ATP酶和酸性磷酸酶的持续存在与次生壁的持续增厚密切相关.     

植物原生质体的应用

一、前言植物原生质体已越来越引起人们的兴趣。在细胞生物学、遗传学、植物生理学甚至分子生物学的基础研究方面,原生质体作为理想的实验体系已为更多的人所了解。在植物育种及作物改良方面,也正引起植物育种工作者的重视。植物原生质体是被脱掉了细胞壁、仅有质膜包围、裸露而生活的植物细胞。质膜在生命活动中的作用极为重要,例如信息传递、     

植物的细胞壁

绝大多数植物细胞的质膜外都有细胞壁,这是区别予动物细胞的显著特征之一。由于细胞壁的存在,使原生质体的膨胀受到限制,细胞成熟后,使其形态和大小变为固定。细胞壁有保护作用,厚而硬的细胞壁还有支持植物器官的机械作用,同时,细胞壁能影响植物组织的吸收、蒸腾、运输和分泌等功能。     

组织培养条件下喜树叶片细胞壁酸性降解的pH值观察

喜树叶片外植体经组织培养第13 d和23 d后进行解剖学观察,同时比较正常叶片的解剖学特征,发现在pH值为5.8的酸性培养基中,喜树叶片外植体中的海绵组织和栅栏组织等薄壁细胞相继发生明显的细胞壁降解,而表皮细胞发生较微弱的细胞壁降解现象;进行组织培养前,正常叶片的各类细胞未观察到细胞壁降解现象发生。应用BCECF-AM pH荧光探标记并采用激光共聚焦在480 nm波长下进行pH值测定发现,喜树叶片外植体经组织培养第13 d和第23 d后的海绵组织和栅栏组织等薄壁细胞部位的pH值均为5.2,但表皮细胞部位的pH值则为5.7~5.8,而正常叶片各类细胞的pH值平均为5.7。这说明, pH值为5.8的酸性培养基和喜树叶片薄壁细胞内的酸性成分自泌可能共同诱导了其细胞壁的酸性降解。     

Kinetic and Morphological Observations on the Yeast Phase of Histoplasma capsulatum During Protoplast Formation

Protoplast formation by Histoplasma capsulatum yeasts using high concentrations of MgSO(4) occurs either by lysis of the bud or lysis of the entire cell wall. Both mechanisms may also occur simultaneously. Neither the protoplast emerging through a hole in the cell wall nor the freshly released protoplast has a recognizable cell wall or the remnant of such. The protoplast contains all the organelles of the normal cell except for mesosomes. During protoplast formation the nucleus increases in size and produces several nuclear masses by the invaginations of the internal layer of the nuclear membrane. All these nuclear masses are surrounded by the external layer of the nuclear membrane. Several nuclei with a normal nuclear membrane are formed later.     

ATTACHMENT AND FUSION OF GAMETES DURING FERTILIZATION OF PALMARIA SP. (RHODOPHYTA)1

Fertilization of cultured microscopic female gametophytes by spermatia from field-collected male gametophytes of Palmaria sp. was observed by light and transmission electron microscopy. Liberated spermatia had a prophase-arrested nucleus with a pair of polar rings. The protoplast of spermatia was covered with ca. a 3-μm-thick hyaline covering. After spermatium inoculation, the spermatial covering was attached specifically to the coat surrounding the cell wall of the trichogyne. The spermatial covering was eliminated only at the site of gamete attachment, resulting in direct attachment of the spermatial plasma membrane to the trichogyne within 5 min after spermatium inoculation. This direct attachment was followed by completion of spermatial nuclear division and cell wall formation. The polar rings disappeared before prometaphase. The cytoplasm of the binucleate spermatium invaded the trichogyne cell wall and subsequently fused with the trichogyne cytoplasm. The trichogyne could fuse with many spermatia, and many male nuclei (the derivative nuclei of spermatial nuclear division) could enter the trichogyne cytoplasm.     

ORGANIZATION AND BREAKDOWN OF THE PROTOPLAST DURING MATURATION OF PINE TRACHEIDS

The protoplast of maturing axial tracheids in the secondary xylem of shortleaf pine (Pinus echinata Mill.) was studied by transmission and scanning electron microscopy. The mature protoplast is differentiated into two interconnected components: (1) the commonly observed peripheral layer lining the secondary cell wall, and (2) an elaborate reticulum of cytoplasmic filaments and placoids within the central vacuole. The reticulum provides an extensive surface area of vacuolar membranes for rapid exchange of nutrients and metabolites with the vacuolar sap, which is envisaged to function as a vital medium during the period of secondary cell wall synthesis. The breakdown of the protoplast which terminates tracheid maturation is associated with poorly defined alterations of the vacuolar membranes. This is indicated by increased formation of cytoplasmic spherules and membraneous vesicles which may be portions of separated vacuolar membrane during early stages of degradation. Autolysis is supposed to occur when the cytoplasm is exposed to the vacuolar sap after rupture and separation of the vacuolar membranes. The Gomori acid phosphatase technique as combined with electron microscopy produced no evidence of autolysosomal segresomes in strands of intravacuolar reticulum of the cytoplasm.     

Protoplast fragmentation as one of the possible mechanisms of L-transformation of bacteria (Clostridium perfringens)]

As revealed, the action of lysozyme on the cells of Clostridium perfringens BP-6K led to the formation of not only typical spheroplasts, but also of cells whose peripheral parts of the cytoplasm were fragmented by membrane component. Small bodies framed by the membrane proper and containing granular and fibrillar components were formed. They were polymorphic in osmium treatment, and had smooth contours in preliminary use of aldehyde fixation. In the latter case a dense lumpy material analogous to the one which fills the periplasmic zone and serves as a rigid wall component formed at the surface of the protoplasm and bodies-fragments. In case of escape of the bodies into the external environment through the perforations in the cell wall the principal mass of the protoplast remains intact. The morphology of the bodies-fragments indicated a principal possibility of their autonomic existence. It is supposed that the phenomenon described could serve as one of the mechanisms of L-cell formation.     

一种特殊的长寿细胞: 毛竹茎秆纤维细胞

利用显微和细胞化学方法, 对毛竹( Phyllostachys edulis) 茎秆纤维次生壁形成过程中超微结构变化以及ATP 酶、Ca²⁺ -ATP_ase 和酸性磷酸酶的超微细胞化学定位进行了研究。研究发现, 次生壁形成早期,细胞核具有双层核膜, 染色质凝聚, 可见大量的线粒体、粗面内质网和高尔基体等细胞器存在于纤维细胞中; 随后, 双层核膜消失, 细胞器将逐渐解体, 多泡体开始出现在纤维细胞的细胞质; 随着年龄的增加,纤维细胞壁逐渐增厚, 并出现多层结构现象, 而运输小泡、细胞膜、胞间连丝和凝聚的染色质将持续存在。在次生壁形成的整个过程中, ATP 酶、Ca²⁺ -ATP_ase 和酸性磷酸酶在运输小泡、细胞膜、质膜内陷、胞间连丝和凝聚的染色质中将持续存在。结果表明, 毛竹茎秆纤维细胞是一种不同于木本双子叶植物的长寿细胞, 纤维原生质体中ATP 酶和酸性磷酸酶的持续存在与次生壁的持续增厚密切相关。     

Freezing behavior of free protoplasts of winter rye

Free protoplasts prepared from the epicotyls of nonhardened rye seedlings were subjected to fast and slow freezing on a microscope-adapted thermoelectric stage. During rapid freezing to ?12 °C, ice formation occurred inside the protoplasts causing lethal disruption of cell and membrane organization. Under slow freezing to ?12 °C, ice formation occurred outside the protoplast with accompanying dehydration and contraction of the protoplast. Complete rehydration and recovery of the protoplasts occurred upon thawing after slow freezing. Free protoplasts therefore afford a new system for the study of mechanisms of plant cell freezing injury and resistance free of the complications presented by a cell wall.     

Morphological Changes during Conversion of Clostridium saccharoperbutylacetonicum to Protoplasts by Sucrose-Induced Autolysis

When exponentially growing cells of Clostridium saccharoperbutylacetonicum (ATCC 13564) were exposed to hypertonic concentrations of sucrose (0.3–0.5 M), rapid degradation of the cell wall occurred (sucrose-induced autolysis). The morphological changes from the original rod-shaped cells to protoplasts during the sucrose-induced autolysis were investigated by phase contrast and electron microscopy. When the cells were autolysed in the sucrose solution (0.35 M), each cell began to swell at the middle or at one pole and then formed a small bulb at the swollen part. The bulb consisted of the cytoplasm which was enveloped by the plasma membrane and extruded from the small gap produced by the degradation of the cell wall. The bulb gradually enlarged as lysis progressed, and finally became a protoplast which had no cell wall. The large pre-division cell frequently formed the bulb at the middle (septal site), while the small post-division cell formed the bulb at the pole.