Plant and Cell Physiology, 1999, Vol. 40, No. 12 1253-1261
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Developmental Transitions and Dynamics of the Cortical ER of Arabidopsis Cells Seen with Green Fluorescent Protein
1 Biology Department, Division of Natural Sciences, International Christian University 10-2 Osawa 3-chome, Mitaka-shi, Tokyo, 181-8585 Japan
2 Plant Cell Biology Group, Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University PO Box 475 Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
3 Author for correspondence; Email: ridge{at}icu.ac.jp; Fax: +81-422-33-1449
Arabidopsis thaliana plants were stably transformed with DNA encoding green fluorescent protein and with sequences ensuring retention in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). Confocal laser scanning microscopy shows fluorescent ER in many cells of seedlings so allowing developmental changes to be documented. The arrangement of the cortical ER changes as cells mature in the hypocotyl and root epidermis. In the root, cells that have completed expansion have reticulate cortical ER resembling the ER described in many previous studies. Expanding cells, however, show extensive perforated sheets of cortical ER which transform quite abruptly into a loose reticulum at the basipetal end of the elongation zone. The reticulum compacts in trichoblasts beginning at sites where root hairs are about to emerge. The compacted form is maintained throughout the hair until growth ceases and the open reticulate form returns. All forms of cortical ER are dynamic and we use a color overlay method to distinguish stable and moving structures in a single composite image. Reticulate ER continuously rearranges its polygonal layout and perforations move and change their shape in the ER sheets of younger cells. ER deeper in the cell (i.e. not close to the plasma membrane) moves more actively so that almost no tubules remain stable even over short periods of less than one minute. The function of the perforated sheets of cortical ER present in growing cells is unknown.
(Received May 31, 1999; Accepted October 9, 1999)
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