植物激素与细胞骨架的排向

就植物微管和纤维素微纤丝在细胞骨架构成和延展中的作用、植物激素在微管和纤维素微纤丝排向中的调节功能作了介绍,并对细胞扩大和伸长的机制进行了分析和讨论.     

大蒜根尖细胞微管的免疫荧光观察

1963年,先后在动物和高等植物细胞中发现微管结构。已经知道微管不仅具有支持功能,而且在运动、运输和分泌等一系列细胞活动中发挥重要作用。在高等植物细胞中,微管明显地参与形态建成。周质微管(Cortical microtubules)可能与细胞壁中纤维素微纤丝的排列与定向有关。早前期带(Preprophase Bands)预示胞质分裂时细胞板的位置。成膜体微管参     

《Molecular Plant》文章中文摘要

摘要：植物细胞壁具有由高分子量的多糖、蛋白质和木质素组成的复杂结构。在细胞壁多糖中,纤维素,一种含有D-1,4氢键的葡聚糖微纤丝,是细胞壁成分中主要的承重部分,也是工业应用的重要前体。纤维素由多聚纤维素合酶（CesA）大型复合物合成,在质膜沿周质微管分布。     

《Molecular Plant》文章中文摘要

题目：植物细胞壁基质（matrix）多糖的生物合成（综述） 摘要：伸长中的植物细胞的细胞壁主要由纤维素微纤丝和基质多糖（半纤维素和果胶）以及少量结构蛋白和酶蛋白组成。基质多糖在高尔基体中合成,通过胞吐作用输送到细胞壁,并与纤维素微纤丝相嵌。纤维素微纤丝在细胞膜上合成并直接沉积到细胞壁。已知在生长素诱导的伸长细胞中,高尔基体中存在多糖链合成,然而直到最近才鉴定出合成多糖链酶的相关基因。在基因鉴定研究中,     

天然纤维素超显微结构的扫描隧道显微镜研究

用扫描隧道显微镜（ＳＴＭ）对天然纤维素脱脂棉的超显微结构进行了研究,结果表明用ＳＴＭ可直接观察到脱脂棉的微纤丝和基原纤丝。另外,还直接观察到了脱脂棉中纤维素分子的结晶区和非结晶区以及分叉状结构,从而表明棉花纤维素是一种结晶不完全的多聚物。     

天然结晶纤维素的生物合成及其去晶化途径

纤维素是高等植物细胞壁的结构骨架和重要组成成分,由细胞质膜上的纤维素合成酶合成.一个纤维素合成酶亚基合成一根纤维素分子链,多个亚基聚集在一起形成末端复合体(TC),可同时合成多根葡聚糖分子糖链,其在氢键和范德华力作用下快速有序堆积,形成结构紧密的天然微纤丝结晶结构.质膜上有序线性排列的超分子TC合成结晶纤维素Ⅰα,而玫瑰花型排列的TC合成结晶纤维素Ⅰβ.结晶微纤丝的密切有效堆积是植物抗降解的天然屏障.高浓度的酸和离子液体可以在微纤丝间有效扩散,破坏晶体分子链的有序堆积、分子间氢键网络,甚至打断晶体内部的糖苷键,完成天然结晶纤维素的去晶化及解聚过程.酶分子的去晶化过程是发生在微纤丝特定表面上的非均相反应过程,可在常温常压下固或液表面上快速完成,但有效可及表面积是其主要限速瓶颈.因此结合物理、化学方法预处理,低成本高效打破限制酶分子有效扩散的屏障,增加酶分子对结晶纤维素特异性结合的效率和有效可及面积,从而实现天然结晶纤维素高效去晶化及绿色快速降解转化.     

植物细胞壁中纤维素合成的研究进展

纤维素是植物细胞壁的主要成分,是植物细胞壁执行生理功能的基础,也是人类生产和生活中必不可少的一类物质。本文对纤维素合成、合成中所需要的酶以及纤维素沉积中微纤丝的作用等方面进行了综述和探讨, 并对纤维素合成的深入研究进行了展望。     

鲩肠袋虫超微结构的研究:侧重体表皮层(英文)

对专性寄生于草鱼肠道的鲩肠袋虫的体表皮层精细构造进行了研究。结果显示其体表皮层由表膜和表膜下纤维系统两部分组成。表膜的组分有细胞质膜,膜泡层(包括外膜、膜泡、内膜),表膜微管层;表膜下纤维系统主要是由毛基体及其附属纤维结构:动纤丝,纤毛后微管,Ⅰ、Ⅱ型横微管和咽微丝组成。这部分结构下连一电子致密的微丝层,将细胞外质与内质分隔开来;且在微丝层的内侧胞质中分布有很多电子透明泡。此外,对表膜微管层、Ⅱ型横微管、外—内质间微丝层及电子透明泡进行了肠袋虫的种间比较并对上述各部分结构的生物功能进行了讨论。     

小麦叶片细胞周质微管的研究

采用铜网粘附-负染色法,并结合超薄切片,对小麦幼叶和成熟叶片细胞内的周质微管进行了研究,结果如下: (1) 粘附于铜网支持膜上的质膜片段,往往包含一个组织中心的微管体系。微管组织中心具有电子致密度很高的浓密物质。微管从组织中心呈辐射状或扇形分布。微管之间,有单个或数根成束排列, 有的相互平行,有的则相互交叉形成网状结构。微管的外径为24—24.76毫微米,最大长度为12微米。(2) 周质微管与质膜之间有密切联系,两者之间有连丝结构(“桥”)相连接。微管-桥-质膜三者结合形成一个稳定的体系。(3) 不仅质膜能粘附于铜网的福尔马支持膜上,分离原生质体残留的细胞壁纤维素微丝也能粘附于其上。被粘附的网状排列的纤维素微丝与幼叶细胞中周质微管的网状排列相一致,说明周质微管与纤维素微丝排列方向的密切关系。(4) 正在迅速生长的幼叶细胞比成熟叶片具有更多的周质微管和小泡结构(Vesicles),显示这两种细胞器的数量与细胞生长及细胞壁增生加厚的活动强度成正相关。     

中间丝

自60年代后期,陆续发现了直径约8—10nm的细胞质丝。最初由于对这类纤丝的性质不清楚,曾有fila-ments、intermediate filaments、β-filaments、80-100 filaments、100(10nm)filaments诸多命名。至70年代后期才逐渐统一为intermediate filaments(IF)或100A(10nm)filaments。IF的中文名亦很纷繁,如中等纤维、中间纤维、居间纤维、中间丝等。 IF的直径介于肌动蛋白丝与肌球蛋白丝(粗丝)和微管之间,命名冠以“中间”修饰词是恰当的。与微管相对而言,IF、微丝和粗丝同属纤丝filaments范畴。既然microfilaments和thick filaments分别称为微丝和粗丝,那么IF则理应称为中间丝。     

New techniques enable comparative analysis of microtubule orientation, wall texture, and growth rate in intact roots of Arabidopsis

This article explores root epidermal cell elongation and its dependence on two structural elements of cells, cortical microtubules and cellulose microfibrils. The recent identification of Arabidopsis morphology mutants with putative cell wall or cytoskeletal defects demands a procedure for examining and comparing wall architecture and microtubule organization patterns in this species. We developed methods to examine cellulose microfibrils by field emission scanning electron microscopy and microtubules by immunofluorescence in essentially intact roots. We were able to compare cellulose microfibril and microtubule alignment patterns at equivalent stages of cell expansion. Field emission scanning electron microscopy revealed that Arabidopsis root epidermal cells have typical dicot primary cell wall structure with prominent transverse cellulose microfibrils embedded in pectic substances. Our analysis showed that microtubules and microfibrils have similar orientation only during the initial phase of elongation growth. Microtubule patterns deviate from a predominantly transverse orientation while cells are still expanding, whereas cellulose microfibrils remain transverse until well after expansion finishes. We also observed microtubule-microfibril alignment discord before cells enter their elongation phase. This study and the new technology it presents provide a starting point for further investigations on the physical properties of cell walls and their mechanisms of assembly.     

Progress in understanding the role of microtubules in plant cells

Microtubules have long been known to play a key role in plant cell morphogenesis, but just how they fulfill this function is unclear. Transverse microtubules have been thought to constrain the movement of cellulose synthase complexes in order to generate transverse microfibrils that are essential for elongation growth. Surprisingly, some recent studies demonstrate that organized cortical microtubules are not essential for maintaining or re-establishing transversely oriented cellulose microfibrils in expanding cells. At the same time, however, there is strong evidence that microtubules are intimately associated with cellulose synthesis activity, especially during secondary wall deposition. These apparently conflicting results provide important clues as to what microtubules do at the interface between the cell and its wall. I hypothesize that cellulose microfibril length is an important parameter of wall mechanics and suggest ways in which microtubule organization may influence microfibril length. This concept is in line with current evidence that links cellulose synthesis levels and microfibril orientation. Furthermore, in light of new evidence showing that a wide variety of proteins bind to microtubules, I raise the broader question of whether a major function of plant microtubules is in modulating signaling pathways as plants respond to sensory inputs from the environment.     

A kinesin-like protein is essential for oriented deposition of cellulose microfibrils and cell wall strength

Cortical microtubules have long been hypothesized to regulate the oriented deposition of cellulose microfibrils. However, the molecular mechanisms of how microtubules direct the orientation of cellulose microfibril deposition are not known. We have used fibers in the inflorescence stems of Arabidopsis to study secondary wall deposition and cell wall strength and found a fragile fiber (fra1) mutant with a dramatic reduction in the mechanical strength of fibers. The fra1 mutation did not cause any defects in cell wall composition, secondary wall thickening, or cortical microtubule organization in fiber cells. An apparent alteration was found in the orientation of cellulose microfibrils in fra1 fiber walls, indicating that the reduced mechanical strength of fra1 fibers probably was attributable to altered cellulose microfibril deposition. The FRA1 gene was cloned and found to encode a kinesin-like protein with an N-terminal microtubule binding motor domain. The FRA1 protein was shown to be concentrated around the periphery of the cytoplasm but absent in the nucleus. Based on these findings, we propose that the FRA1 kinesin-like protein is involved in the microtubule control of cellulose microfibril order.     

Cellulose microfibril alignment recovers from DCB-induced disruption despite microtubule disorganization

Cellulose microfibril deposition patterns define the direction of plant cell expansion. To better understand how microfibril alignment is controlled, we examined microfibril orientation during cortical microtubule disruption using the temperature-sensitive mutant of Arabidopsis thaliana, mor1-1. In a previous study, it was shown that at restrictive temperature for mor1-1, cortical microtubules lose transverse orientation and cells lose growth anisotropy without any change in the parallel arrangement of cellulose microfibrils. In this study, we investigated whether a pre-existing template of well-ordered microfibrils or the presence of well-organized cortical microtubules was essential for the cell to resume deposition of parallel microfibrils. We first transiently disrupted the parallel order of microfibrils in mor1-1 using a brief treatment with the cellulose synthesis inhibitor 2,6-dichlorobenzonitrile (DCB). We then analysed the alignment of recently deposited cellulose microfibrils (by field emission scanning electron microscopy) as cellulose synthesis recovered and microtubules remained disrupted at the mor1-1 mutant's non-permissive culture temperature. Despite the disordered cortical microtubules and an initially randomized wall texture, new cellulose microfibrils were deposited with parallel, transverse orientation. These results show that transverse cellulose microfibril deposition requires neither accurately transverse cortical microtubules nor a pre-existing template of well-ordered microfibrils. We also demonstrated that DCB treatments reduced the ability of cortical microtubules to form transverse arrays, supporting a role for cellulose microfibrils in influencing cortical microtubule organization.     

Cortical microtubule arrays in the Arabidopsis seedling

Advances in live-cell imaging technology have provided an unprecedented look at the dynamic behaviors of the plant microtubule cytoskeleton. Recent studies revisit the classic question of how plants create cell shape through the patterned construction of the cell wall. Visualization of the cellulose synthase complex traveling in the plasma membrane has brought a watershed of new information about cellulose deposition. Observation of the cellulose synthase complex tracking precisely over the underlying cortical microtubules has provided clear evidence that the microtubule array pattern serves as a spatial template for cellulose microfibril extrusion. Understanding how the microtubules are organized into specific array patterns remains a challenge, though new ideas are arising from genetic and cell biological studies. Long-term time-lapse observations of the microtubule arrays in light-grown hypocotyl cells have revealed a striking process of microtubule patterning possibly linked to the creation of polylamellate cell walls.     

Extending the Microtubule/Microfibril Paradigm : Cellulose Synthesis Is Required for Normal Cortical Microtubule Alignment in Elongating Cells

The cortical microtubule array provides spatial information to the cellulose-synthesizing machinery within the plasma membrane of elongating cells. Until now data indicated that information is transferred from organized cortical microtubules to the cellulose-synthesizing complex, which results in the deposition of ordered cellulosic walls. How cortical microtubules become aligned is unclear. The literature indicates that biophysical forces, transmitted by the organized cellulose component of the cell wall, provide a spatial cue to orient cortical microtubules. This hypothesis was tested on tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.) protoplasts and suspension-cultured cells treated with the cellulose synthesis inhibitor isoxaben. Isoxaben (0.25–2.5 μm) inhibited the synthesis of cellulose microfibrils (detected by staining with 1 μg mL⁻¹ fluorescent dye and polarized birefringence), the cells failed to elongate, and the cortical microtubules failed to become organized. The affects of isoxaben were reversible, and after its removal microtubules reorganized and cells elongated. Isoxaben did not depolymerize microtubules in vivo or inhibit the polymerization of tubulin in vitro. These data are consistent with the hypothesis that cellulose microfibrils, and hence cell elongation, are involved in providing spatial cues for cortical microtubule organization. These results compel us to extend the microtubule/microfibril paradigm to include the bidirectional flow of information.     

Alteration of oriented deposition of cellulose microfibrils by mutation of a katanin-like microtubule-severing protein

It has long been hypothesized that cortical microtubules (MTs) control the orientation of cellulose microfibril deposition, but no mutants with alterations of MT orientation have been shown to affect this process. We have shown previously that in Arabidopsis, the fra2 mutation causes aberrant cortical MT orientation and reduced cell elongation, and the gene responsible for the fra2 mutation encodes a katanin-like protein. In this study, using field emission scanning electron microscopy, we found that the fra2 mutation altered the normal orientation of cellulose microfibrils in walls of expanding cells. Although cellulose microfibrils in walls of wild-type cells were oriented transversely along the elongation axis, cellulose microfibrils in walls of fra2 cells often formed bands and ran in different directions. The fra2 mutation also caused aberrant deposition of cellulose microfibrils in secondary walls of fiber cells. The aberrant orientation of cellulose microfibrils was shown to be correlated with disorganized cortical MTs in several cell types examined. In addition, the thickness of both primary and secondary cell walls was reduced significantly in the fra2 mutant. These results indicate that the katanin-like protein is essential for oriented cellulose microfibril deposition and normal cell wall biosynthesis. We further demonstrated that the Arabidopsis katanin-like protein possessed MT-severing activity in vitro; thus, it is an ortholog of animal katanin. We propose that the aberrant MT orientation caused by the mutation of katanin results in the distorted deposition of cellulose microfibrils, which in turn leads to a defect in cell elongation. These findings strongly support the hypothesis that cortical MTs regulate the oriented deposition of cellulose microfibrils that determines the direction of cell elongation.     

Wall architecture in the cellulose-deficientrsw1 mutant ofArabidopsis thaliana: Microfibrils but not microtubules lose their transverse alignment before microfibrils become unrecognizable in the mitotic and elongation zones of roots

Summary Thersw1 mutant ofArabidopsis thaliana has a single amino acid substitution in a putative glycosyl transferase that causes a temperature-dependent reduction in cellulose production. We used recently described methods to examine root growth by surface marker particles, cell wall structure by field emission scanning electron microscopy and microtubule alignment by immunofluorescence after the mutant is transferred to its restrictive temperature. We find that raising the temperature quickly accelerates root elongation in both wild type and mutant, presumably as a result of general metabolic stimulation, but that in the mutant, the rate declines within 7–8 h and elongation almost ceases after 24 h. Radial swelling begins at about 6 h in the mutant and root diameter continues to increase until about 24 h. The normal transverse alignment of microfibrils is severely impaired in the mutant after 8 h, and chemical inhibition of cellulose synthesis by 2,6-dichlorobenzonitrile causes a similar loss of orientation. After 24 h, microfibrils are not clearly visible in the walls of cells that would have been in the mitotic and early-elongation zone of wild-type roots. Changes in older cells are less marked; loss of transverse microfibril orientation occurs without disruption to the transverse orientation of cortical microtubules. The wild type shows none of the changes except for acceleration of elongation, which in its case is sustained. We conclude that microfibril alignment requires the normal functioning of RSW1 and that, in view of the effects of dichlorobenzonitrile, there may be a more general linkage between the rate of cellulose production and its proper alignment.Abbreviations DCB 2,6-dichlorobenzonitrile - REGR relative elemental growth rate Dedicated to Professor Brian E. S. Gunning on the occasion of his 65th birthday     

Phospholipases may play multiple roles in anisotropic plant cell growth

Both the cortical microtubule cytoskeleton and cellulose microfibrils are important for the anisotropic growth of plant cells. Although the two systems interact, the details of this interaction are far from clear. It has been shown the inhibitors of phospholipase D, phospholipase A₂ and phospholipase C all cause disorganisation of the microtubule cytoskeleton. Since the phospholipases act on the plasma membrane, which links cortical microtubules to cellulose microfibrils in the cell wall, they may play a key role in the communication between the two structures. This communication may take various forms. Microtubule-linked phospholipase activity may cause the organisation of underlying cellulose microfibril liquid crystals. Alternatively, phospholipases may co-operate in the regulation of plasma membrane fluidity, affecting the movement of cellulose synthase complexes in the underlying plasma membrane. GPI-anchored proteins in the plasma membrane, which are cleaved by phospholipases, may possibly play a role.     

A survey of cellulose microfibril patterns in dividing,expanding, and differentiating cells of Arabidopsis thaliana

Cellulose microfibrils are critical for plant cell specialization and function. Recent advances in live cell imaging of fluorescently tagged cellulose synthases to track cellulose synthesis have greatly advanced our understanding of cellulose biosynthesis. Nevertheless, cellulose deposition patterns remain poorly described in many cell types, including those in the process of division or differentiation. In this study, we used field emission scanning electron microscopy analysis of cryo-planed tissues to determine the arrangement of cellulose microfibrils in various faces of cells undergoing cytokinesis or specialized development, including cell types in which cellulose cannot be imaged by conventional approaches. In dividing cells, we detected microfibrillar meshworks in the cell plates, consistent with the concentration at the cell plate of cellulose synthase complexes, as detected by fluorescently tagged CesA6. We also observed a loss of parallel cellulose microfibril orientation in walls of the mother cell during cytokinesis, which corresponded with the loss of fluorescently tagged cellulose synthase complexes from these surfaces. In recently formed guard cells, microfibrils were randomly organized and only formed a highly ordered circumferential pattern after pore formation. In pit fields, cellulose microfibrils were arranged in circular patterns around plasmodesmata. Microfibrils were random in most cotyledon cells except the epidermis and were parallel to the growth axis in trichomes. Deposition of cellulose microfibrils was spatially delineated in metaxylem and protoxylem cells of the inflorescence stem, supporting recent studies on microtubule exclusion mechanisms.