The Arabidopsis KNOLLE Protein Is a Cytokinesis-specific Syntaxin
Open Access
- 15 December 1997
- journal article
- Published by Rockefeller University Press in The Journal of cell biology
- Vol. 139 (6), 1485-1493
- https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.139.6.1485
Abstract
In higher plant cytokinesis, plasma membrane and cell wall originate by vesicle fusion in the plane of cell division. The Arabidopsis KNOLLE gene, which is required for cytokinesis, encodes a protein related to vesicle-docking syntaxins. We have raised specific rabbit antiserum against purified recombinant KNOLLE protein to show biochemically and by immunoelectron microscopy that KNOLLE protein is membrane associated. Using immunofluorescence microscopy, KNOLLE protein was found to be specifically expressed during mitosis and, unlike the plasma membrane H+-ATPase, to localize to the plane of division during cytokinesis. Arabidopsis dynamin-like protein ADL1 accumulates at the plane of cell plate formation in knolle mutant cells as in wild-type cells, suggesting that cytokinetic vesicle traffic is not affected. Furthermore, electron microscopic analysis indicates that vesicle fusion is impaired. KNOLLE protein was detected in mitotically dividing cells of various parts of the developing plant, including seedling root, inflorescence meristem, floral meristems and ovules, and the cellularizing endosperm, but not during cytokinesis after the male second meiotic division. Thus, KNOLLE is the first syntaxin-like protein that appears to be involved specifically in cytokinetic vesicle fusion.Keywords
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