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CYTOLOGY AND GENETICS
Volume 43, Issue 2, Pages 73-79Publisher
ALLERTON PRESS INC
DOI: 10.3103/S0095452709020017
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The effects of an exogeneous NO donor, sodium nitroprusside, on the orientation and organization of cortical microtubules in Arabidopsis thaliana root cells expressing GFP-MAP4 were studied in vivo. It was found that sodium nitroprusside treatment (10-500 mu M, 24 h) caused the acceleration of primary root growth and enhanced initiation of root hairs in the differentiation zone. The influence of sodium nitroprusside revealed in changes in the orientation and organization of cortical microtubules in different types of cells of A. thaliana root. The most sensitive to sodium nitroprusside exposure were microtubules in epidermal cells of the elongation zone, where native transverse orientation of cortical microtubules turned into random, oblique, or longitudinal relative to the primary root axis. We suggest that NO, as one of the intracellular secondary messengers, triggers cell differentiation by reorientation of cortical microtubules, possibly via tubulin nitrotyrosination.
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