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PLANT CELL REPORTS
Volume 24, Issue 7, Pages 408-417Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00299-005-0948-6
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Bax; cell death; chloroplast; mitochondria; ROS
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Mammalian Bax is known to cause cell death when expressed in plants. We examined transgenic plants expressing both Bax and organelle-targeted green fluorescent protein to determine the cellular changes that occur during Bax-induced cell death. The mitochondria changed morphologically from being bacilli-shaped to being round, eventually becoming swollen. Mitochondria streaming also stopped. The chloroplasts lost membrane function and their contents leaked out, followed by the disruption of the vacuole. Light was not essential for Bax-induced ion leakage or organelle disruption. These results indicate that Bax induces temporal and spatial cell death events at the organelle level in the plant. A heterologous system, using Bax, would therefor be available to investigate cell death, which is commonly conserved in animals and plants.
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