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Plant Physiol, January 2002, Vol. 128, pp. 108-124
Translocation and Utilization of Fungal Storage Lipid in the
Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis[w]
Berta
Bago,*
Warren
Zipfel,
Rebecca M.
Williams,
Jeongwon
Jun,
Raoul
Arreola,
Peter J.
Lammers,
Philip E.
Pfeffer, and
Yair
Shachar-Hill
Departamento de Microbiología del Suelo y Sistemas
Simbióticos, Estación Experimental del Zaidín,
calle Profesor Albareda 1, 18008-Granada, Spain (B.B.); Applied and
Engineering Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853 (W.Z.,
R.M.W.); Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, New
Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003 (J.J., R.A.,
P.J.L., Y.S.-H.); and Microbial Biophysics and
Biochemistry, Eastern Regional Research Center, U.S. Department of
Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, 600 East Mermaid Lane,
Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania 19038 (B.B., P.E.P.)
The arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) symbiosis is
responsible for huge fluxes of photosynthetically fixed carbon from
plants to the soil. Carbon is transferred from the plant to the fungus
as hexose, but the main form of carbon stored by the mycobiont at all
stages of its life cycle is triacylglycerol. Previous isotopic labeling
experiments showed that the fungus exports this storage lipid from the
intraradical mycelium (IRM) to the extraradical mycelium (ERM). Here,
in vivo multiphoton microscopy was used to observe the movement of
lipid bodies through the fungal colony and to determine their sizes,
distribution, and velocities. The distribution of lipid bodies along
fungal hyphae suggests that they are progressively consumed as they
move toward growing tips. We report the isolation and measurements of
expression of an AM fungal expressed sequence tag that encodes a
putative acyl-coenzyme A dehydrogenase; its deduced amino acid sequence
suggests that it may function in the anabolic flux of carbon from lipid
to carbohydrate. Time-lapse image sequences show lipid bodies moving in
both directions along hyphae and nuclear magnetic resonance analysis of
labeling patterns after supplying 13C-labeled glycerol to
either extraradical hyphae or colonized roots shows that there is
indeed significant bidirectional translocation between IRM and ERM. We
conclude that large amounts of lipid are translocated within the AM
fungal colony and that, whereas net movement is from the IRM to the
ERM, there is also substantial recirculation throughout the fungus.
*
Corresponding author; e-mail berta.bago{at}uv.es; fax
34-958-129600.
[w]
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© 2002 American Society of Plant Physiologists
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