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PLANT AND CELL PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 50, Issue 6, Pages 1032-1040Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcp054
Keywords
Arabidopsis thaliana; Blue light; Green fluorescent protein; Mesophyll cell; Mitochondria; Organelle positioning
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- The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) [19039020]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [19039020] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Mitochondria, the power house of the cell, are one of the most dynamic cell organelles. Although there are several reports on actin- or microtubule-dependent movement of mitochondria in plant cells, intracellular positioning and motility of mitochondria under different light conditions remain open questions. Mitochondria were visualized in living Arabidopsis thaliana leaf cells using green fluorescent protein fused to a mitochondrion-targeting signal. In darkness, mitochondria were distributed randomly in palisade cells. In contrast, mitochondria accumulated along the periclinal walls, similar to the accumulation response of chloroplasts, when treated with weak blue light (470nm, 4molm(2)s(1)). Under strong blue light (100molm(2)s(1)), mitochondria occupied the anticlinal positions similar to the avoidance response of chloroplasts and nuclei. While strong red light (660nm, 100molm(2)s(1)) induced the accumulation of mitochondria along the inner periclinal walls, green light exhibited little effect on the distribution of mitochondria. In addition, the mode of movement of individual mitochondria along the outer periclinal walls under different light conditions was precisely analyzed by time-lapse fluorescence microscopy. A gradual increase in the number of static mitochondria located in the vicinity of chloroplasts with a time period of blue light illumination clearly demonstrated the accumulation response of mitochondria. Light-induced co-localization of mitochondria with chloroplasts strongly suggested their mutual metabolic interactions. This is the first characterization of the light-dependent redistribution of mitochondria in plant cells.
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