Isolation of myosin XI genes from the Closterium peracerosum-strigosum- littorale complex and analysis of their expression during sexual reproduction

Journal of Plant Research

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 105-113

  Hamada, Saeko ^a,b   Sekimoto, Hiroyuki ^c   Tanabe, Yoichi ^a,b   Tsuchikane, Yuki ^a   Ito, Motomi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Closterium; Cytokinesis; Myosin XI; Real time PCR; Sexual cell division; Sexual reproduction

Indexed keywords

MYOSIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; GREEN ALGA; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ALGAE, GREEN; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYOSINS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ALGAE; CHARALES; CLOSTERIUM; CLOSTERIUM PERACEROSUM-STRIGOSUM-LITTORALE COMPLEX; VIRIDIPLANTAE;

EID: 33645307948     PISSN: 09189440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10265-005-0249-8     Document Type: Article

References (52)

1. Adachi J, Hasegawa M (1996) MOLPHY version 2.3: programs for molecular phylogenetics based on maximum likelihood. Comput Sci Monogr 28:1-150
2. Ajtai K, Garamszegi SP, Watanabe S, Ikebe M, Burghardt TP (2004) The myosin cardiac loop participates functionally in the actomyosin interaction. J Biol Chem 279:23415-23421
3. Akatsuka T, Sekimoto H, Iwai H, Fukumoto R, Fujii T (2003) Mucilage secretion regulated by sex pheromones in Closterium peracerosum-strigosum- littorale complex. Plant Cell Physiol 44:1081-1087
4. 2+ and calmodulin on the motile activity of characean myosin in vitro. Plant Cell Physiol 42:828-834
5. Bezanilla M, Horton AC, Sevener HC, Quatrano RS (2003) Phylogenetic analysis of new plant myosin sequences. J Mol Evol 57:229-239
6. Dayhoff MO (1978) Atlas of protein sequence and structure, vol 5, Suppl 3. National Biomedical Research Foundation, Georgetown University, Washington DC
7. Felsenstein J (1995) PHYLIP (phylogeny inference package) version 3.572c. Department of Genetics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
8. Hasegawa M, Kishino H (1994) Accuracies of the simple methods for estimating the bootstrap probability of a maximum-likelihood tree. Mol Biol Evol 11:142-145
9. Hodge T, Cope MJA (2000) A myosin family tree. J Cell Sci 113:3353-3354
10. Holweg C, Nick P (2004) Arabidopsis myosin XI mutant is defective in organelle movement and polar auxin transport. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 101:10488-10493
11. Holzinger A, Monajembashi S, Greulich KO, Lutz-Meindl U (2002) Impairment of cytoskeleton-dependent vesicle and organelle translocation in green algae: combined use of a microfocused infrared laser as microbeam and optical tweezers. J Microsc 208:77-83
12. Ichimura T (1971) Sexual cell division and conjugation-papilla formation in sexual reproduction of Closterium stringosum. In: Nisizawa K (ed) Proceedings of the 7th international seaweed symposium, University of Tokyo Press, Tokyo, pp 208-214
13. Ichimura T (1973) The life cycle and its control in some species of Closterium, with special reference to the biological species problem. D Sci Thesis, University of Tokyo
14. Jiang SY, Ramachandran S (2004) Identification and molecular characterization of myosin gene family in Oryza sativa genome. Plant Cell Physiol 15:590-599
15. Jones DT, Taylor WR, Thornton M (1992) The rapid generation of mutation data matrices from protein sequences. Comput Appl Biosci 8:275-282
16. Kamitsubo E (1966) Motile protoplasmic fibrils in cells of Characeae II. Linear fibrillar structure and its bearing on protoplasmic streaming. Proc Jpn Acad 42:640-643
17. Karol KG, McCourt RM, Cimino MT, Delwiche CF (2001) The closest living relatives of land plants. Science 294:2351-2353
18. Kashiyama T, Kimura N, Mimura T, Yamamoto K (2000) Cloning and characterization of a myosin from characean alga, the fastest motor protein in the world. J Biochem 127:1065-1070
19. Kato T, Tonomura Y (1977) Identification of myosin in Nitella flexilis. J Biochem 82:777-782
20. Kersey YM, Hepler PK, Palevitz BA, Wessels NK (1976) Polarity of actin filaments in characean algae. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 73:165-167
21. Kinkema M, Schiefelbein J (1994) A myosin from a higher plant has structural similarities to class V myosins. J Mol Biol 239:591-597
22. Kinkema M, Wang H, Schiefelbein J (1994) Molecular analysis of the myosin gene family in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Mol Biol 26:1139-1153
23. Kishino HT, Miyata T, Hasegawa M (1990) Maximum likelihood inference of protein phylogeny and the origin of chloroplasts. J Mol Evol 30:151-160
24. Korn ED (2000) Coevolution of head, neck, and tail domains of myosin heavy chains. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 97:12559-12564
25. Lewis LA, McCourt RM (2004) Green algae and the origin of land plants. Am J Bot 91:1535-1556
26. Miller DD, Scordilis SP, Hepler PK (1995) Identification and localization of three classes of myosins in pollen tubes of Lilium longiflorum and Nicotiana alata. J Cell Sci 108:2549-2563
27. Molchan TM, Valster AH, Hepler PK (2002) Actomyosin promotes cell plate alignment and late lateral expansion in Tradescantia stamen hair cells. Planta 214:683-693
28. Morimatsu M, Nakamura A, Sumiyoshi H, Sakabe N, Taniguchi H, Kohama K, Higashi-Fujime S (2000) The molecular structure of the fastest myosin from green algae. Chara. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 270:147-152
29. Murray MG, Thompson WF (1980) Rapid isolation of high molecular weight plant DNA. Nucleic Acids Res 8:4321-4325
30. Nagai R, Rebhun L (1966) Cytoplasmic microfilaments in streaming Nitella cells. J Ultrastruct Res 14:571-589
31. Pickett-Heaps JD, Fowke LC (1970) Mitosis, cytokinesis, and cell elongation in the desmid, Closterium littorale. J Phycol 6:189-215
32. Qiu YL, Palmer JD (1999) Phylogeny of early land plants: insights from genes and genomes. Trends Plant Sci 4:26-30
33. Saitou N, Nei M (1987) The neighbor-joining method: a new method for reconstructing phylogenetic trees. Mol Biol Evol 4:406-425
34. Sekimoto H (2000) Intercellular communication during sexual reproduction of Closterium (Conjugatophyceae). J Plant Res 113:343-352
35. Sekimoto H (2002) Production and secretion of a biologically active Closterium sex pheromone by Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Plant Physiol Biochem 40:789-794
36. Sekimoto H, Sone Y, Fujii T (1995) Biochemical, physiological, and molecular analysis of sexual isolation in the species complex Closterium peracerosum-strigosum-littorale (Chlorophyta). J Phycol 31:611-615
37. Sekimoto H, Tanabe Y, Takizawa M, Ito N, Fukumoto R, Ito M (2003) Expressed sequence tags from the Closterium peracerosum-strigosum-littorale complex, a unicellular charophycean alga, in the sexual reproduction process. DNA Res 10:147-153
38. Sellers JR, Goodson HV, Wang F (1996) A myosin family reunion. J Muscle Res Cell Motil 17:7-22
39. Shimmen T, Yokota E (2004) Cytoplasmic streaming in plants. Curr Opin Cell Biol 16:68-72
40. Tanabe Y (2004) Origin and evolution of MADS-box genes in green plants. D Sci Thesis, Chiba University, Japan
41. Thompson JD, Gibson TJ, Plewniak F, Jeanmougin F, Higgins DG (1997) The CLUSTAL_X windows interface: flexible strategies for multiple sequence alignment aided by quality analysis tools. Nucleic Acids Res 25:4876-4882
42. Tominaga M, Kojima H, Yokota E, Orii H, Nakamori R, Katayama E, Anson M, Shimmen T, Oiwa K (2003) Higher plant myosin XI moves processively on actin with 35 nm steps at high velocity. EMBO J 22:1263-1272
43. Tsuchikane Y, Fukumoto R, Akatsuka S, Fujii T, Sekimoto H (2003) Sex pheromones that induce sexual cell division in the Closterium peracerosum-strigosum-littorale complex (Charophyta). J Phycol 39:303-309
44. Turmel M, Otis C, Lemieus C (2003) The mitochondrial genome of Chara vulgaris: insights into the mitochondrial DNA architecture of the last common ancestor of green algae and land plants. Plant Cell 15:1888-1903
45. Vugrek O (2003) Ten years of plant myosin genetics. Period Biol 105:229-236
46. Vugrek O, Sawitzky H, Menzel D (2003) Class XIII myosins from the green alga Acetabularia: driving force in organelle transport and tip growth? J Muscle Res Cell Mot 24:87-97
47. Watanabe MM (1977) Biosystematics in Closterium of sexual unicellular green algae and Calothrix and Spirulina of asexual filamentous blue green algae, with special reference to the analyses of natural populations. D Sci Thesis, Hokkaido University, Japan
48. Yamamoto K, Kikuyama M, Sutoh-Yamamoto N, Kamitsubo E, Katayama E (1995) Myosin from Alga Chara: unique structure revealed by electron microscopy. J Mol Biol 254:109-112
49. Yokota E (2000) Identification and characterization of higher plant myosins responsible for cytoplasmic streaming. J Plant Res 113:511-519
50. Yokota E, McDonald AR, Liu B, Shimmen T, Palevitz BA (1995) Localization of a 170 kDa myosin heavy chain in plant cells. Protoplasma 185:178-187
51. 2+ ions. Plant Physiol 119:231-239
52. Yokota E, Yukawa C, Muto S, Sonobe S, Shimmen T (1999b) Biochemical and immunocytochemical characterization of two types of myosins in cultured tobacco bright yellow-2 cells. Plant Physiol 121:525-534