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CELL MOTILITY AND THE CYTOSKELETON
Volume 66, Issue 3, Pages 142-155Publisher
WILEY-LISS
DOI: 10.1002/cm.20337
Keywords
actin; Chara; cytoplasmic streaming; cytoskeleton; growth; Nitella
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- Alexander Von Humboldt foundation
- MaxPlanck Institut fur Zellbiologie
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Motility of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is predominantly microtubule-dependent in animal cells but thought to be entirely actomyosin-dependent in plant cells. Using live cell imaging and transmission electron microscopy to examine ER motility and structural organization in giant internodal cells of characean algae, we discovered that at the onset of cell elongation, the cortical ER situated near the plasma membrane formed a tight meshwork of predominantly transverse ER tubules that frequently coaligned with microtubules. Microtubule depolymerization increased mesh size and decreased the dynamics of the cortical ER. In contrast, perturbing the cortical actin array with cytochalasins did not affect the transverse orientation but decreased mesh size and increased ER dynamics. Our data suggest that myosin-dependent ER motility is confined to the ER strands in the streaming endoplasm, while the more sedate cortical ER uses microtubule-based mechanisms for organization and motility during early stages of cell elongation. We show further that the ER has an inherent, NEM-sensitive dynamics which can be altered via interaction with the cytoskeleton and that tubule formation and fusion events are cytoskeleton-independent. Cell Motil. Cytoskeleton 66: 142-155,2009. (C) 2009 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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