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First published online September 16, 2009; 10.1104/pp.109.142331 Plant Physiology 151:1366-1376 (2009) © 2009 American Society of Plant Biologists OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE
Miniature1-Encoded Cell Wall Invertase Is Essential for Assembly and Function of Wall-in-Growth in the Maize Endosperm Transfer Cell1,[W],[OA]Department of Microbiology and Cell Science, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611 (B.-H.K., Y.X., D.S.W.); Interdisciplinary Center for Biotechnology Research, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32610 (B.-H.K.); Department of Plant Pathology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611 (D.P.-R., P.S.C.); and United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Gainesville, Florida 32611 (P.S.C.)
The miniature1 (mn1) seed phenotype in maize (Zea mays) is due to a loss-of-function mutation at the Mn1 locus that encodes a cell wall invertase (INCW2) that localizes exclusively to the basal endosperm transfer cells (BETCs) of developing seeds. A common feature of all transfer cells is the labyrinth-like wall-in-growth (WIG) that increases the plasma membrane area, thereby enhancing transport capacity in these cells. To better understand WIG formation and roles of INCW2 in the BETC development, we examined wild-type and mn1 mutant developing kernels by cryofixation and electron microscopy. In Mn1 seeds, WIGs developed uniformly in the BETC layer during 7 to 17 d after pollination, and the secretory/endocytic organelles proliferated in the BETCs. Mitochondria accumulated in the vicinity of WIGs, suggesting a functional link between them. In the mn1 BETCs, WIGs were stunted and their endoplasmic reticulum was swollen; Golgi density in the mutant BETCs was 51% of the Mn1 Golgi density. However, the polarized distribution of mitochondria was not affected. INCW2-specific immunogold particles were detected in WIGs, the endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi stacks, and the trans-Golgi network in the Mn1 BETCs, while immunogold particles were extremely rare in the mutant BETCs. Levels of WIG development in the empty pericarp4 mutant was heterogeneous among BETCs, and INCW2 immunogold particles were approximately four times more abundant in the larger WIGs than in the stunted WIGs. These results indicate that polarized secretion is activated during WIG formation and that INCW2 is required for normal development of WIGs to which INCW2 is localized.
The maize (Zea mays) endosperm is composed of four distinct tissue types: the aleurone layer, the starch endosperm, the embryo-surrounding region, and the basal endosperm transfer layer (BETL; Costa et al., 2004  ; Olsen, 2004). The functions of cells in the first two tissue types are considered essential to seed germination, whereas the other two, which are spatially distinct in the kernel, are postulated to play roles in seed development. At maturity, the bulk of the endosperm consists of storage cells packed with starch and storage proteins. The aleurone layer is the outermost layer of the endosperm and is often composed of a single cell layer. The embryo-surrounding region cells surround the cavity in which the embryo develops and are predominantly located underneath a developing embryo. The BETL is at the base of the endosperm adjacent to the maternal pedicel tissue, and this is the outermost filial cell layer in direct contact with the maternal pedicel. The BETL is composed of two to three strata of highly specialized transfer cells (Kiesselbach, 1949; Davis et al., 1990). The major morphological feature of the transfer cell is the labyrinth-like proliferation of their cell wall into the cytoplasm, called wall-in-growth (WIG), which serves to increase the plasma membrane area. This unique feature of the BETL cell is postulated to confer a greater solute transport capacity to these cells.
Transfer cells are ubiquitous among plants and are most often located at the aposymplastic junctions between maternal and filial generations of developing seeds (Offler et al., 2003
It has been demonstrated that the BETL is critical for normal seed development in maize. Charlton et al. (1995)
Developing maize seeds are symplastically isolated from their maternal tissue, and one of the most often postulated functions of the BETL is acquisition of nutrients from maternal postphloem regions in the pedicel (for review, see Thompson et al., 2001
Our objectives for this study are 2-fold. (1) To monitor BETL development in Mn1 and mn1 kernels by light and electron microscopy to test whether WIG development in the mn1 mutant is similar to or impaired in comparison with the wild type. Given that several seed-lethal phenotypes in maize are correlated with structural aberrations in the BETL (discussed above) and that mn1 is a well-defined single gene mutant with a known causal biochemical alteration specific to this region of the kernel, characterizing WIG formation in the mn1 mutant is of great interest. (2) To determine subcellular localization of the Mn1-encoded INCW2 by immunoelectron microscopy. Cryofixation and low-temperature embedding techniques provide plant samples in which proteins are immobilized to their native locations and are thus suitable for high-resolution localization by immunogold labeling (Kang and Staehelin, 2008
WIG Development Is Retarded in mn1 Mutant Kernels
Figure 1
shows the BETL region in semithin sections (500 nm) of the Mn1 (A–C) and mn1-1 (D–F) kernels at 7, 12, and 17 DAP. In both genotypes, basal endosperm transfer cells (BETCs) are aligned side by side, forming a cell layer on top of the nucellar placento-chalazal layer. WIGs are easily observed in 12- and 17-DAP Mn1 BETCs after staining by toluidine blue. Accumulation of cell wall material on the basal cell wall was clearly resolved in the 12-DAP BETCs (Fig. 1B, asterisks), but Mn1 BETCs at 7 DAP were devoid of such basal cell wall thickening (Fig. 1A). The 17-DAP WIGs were long and dense, occupying the basal side of the BETCs (Fig. 1C). The nucleus and vacuoles are too big to be fitted into the space between the WIGs and appeared to have been driven to the apical cytoplasm (Fig. 1C). Toluidine blue staining was weaker in the 17-DAP WIGs than in the 12-DAP WIGs, suggesting a change in the chemical composition of the WIGs. WIGs were most elaborate in the BETCs in contact with the placento-chalazal layer but gradually diminished in the BETCs farther from the placento-chalazal layer (Fig. 1B). Davis et al. (1990)
WIGs were not observed in 7-DAP mn1-1 BETCs, similar to the Mn1 wild-type BETCs (data not shown). Even at 12 DAP, most mn1-1 BETCs were devoid of WIGs when examined by bright-field light microscopy (Fig. 1D). Only a few cells had thin ingrowths from the basal cell walls at this stage (Fig. 1D, dashed circle). WIGs proliferated in the mn1-1 BETCs during the period from 12 to 17 DAP (Fig. 1E). However, the amount of WIG formation in the mutant was far reduced when compared with the massive growth in the Mn1 BETCs during the same period (Fig. 1, C and F, double arrows). Similarly impaired WIG development was observed in the BETCs of mn1-Neuffer, another loss-of-function allele of mn1 (data not shown).
To characterize WIG formation and the accompanying reorganization of the BETCs in detail, we examined BETCs from the Mn1 kernels using transmission electron microscopy (Fig. 2 ). Developing maize kernels were cryopreserved before WIGs were detected (7 DAP), during active WIG growth (12 DAP), and after WIGs had enlarged (17 DAP). At 7 DAP, no regular WIG was detected but short WIG initials were budding from the basal primary cell wall (Fig. 2B, arrows). Only a few Golgi stacks, trans-Golgi network compartments (TGNs), and multivesicular bodies were seen in these immature BETCs lacking WIGs (for Golgi density, see Fig. 6A below).
At 12 DAP, BETCs have convoluted WIGs at the basal cell wall and along the side walls. The WIGs were thickest at the basal wall and decreased in size from the basal to the apical direction along the side wall (Fig. 2C). In the electron micrographs, two regions in the WIGs were distinguished by their differential staining properties. The electron-opaque cell wall containing fibrous substances (Fig. 2D, solid circle) constituted the principal structure, and dark blotches (Fig. 2D, dashed circle) of varying sizes were deposited over the fibrous cell wall. The spotty pattern of staining was obvious from the 7-DAP WIG initials (Fig. 2B) but had faded in the 17-DAP WIGs (Fig. 2I). BETCs at 12 DAP had a large number of Golgi stacks and TGNs with their Golgi density increased seven times from that of the 7-DAP BETCs (see Fig. 6A below). Numerous TGN cisternae on the trans-side of Golgi stacks, free-floating TGN cisternae, and secretory vesicles derived from the TGN were seen in the vicinity of WIGs (Fig. 2, E–G; Supplemental Fig. S1C) as well as in the central cytoplasm (Supplemental Fig. S1D). In addition, 12-DAP BETCs had clusters of multivesicular bodies of diverse sizes in the cytoplasm (Fig. 2F; Supplemental Fig. S1D). Long endoplasmic reticulum (ER) tubules permeated the cytoplasm in both 7- and 12-DAP BETCs, but the ER tubules were excluded from the WIG zone (Supplemental Fig. S1, A and B). The proliferation of secretory/recycling compartments and vesicles provides evidence that membrane trafficking is up-regulated during WIG development.
In 17-DAP BETCs, Golgi stacks, mitochondria, and the ER were tightly packed in the central cytoplasm (Fig. 2, H and J) and interstices of the WIGs (Fig. 2, I and K). The ER in 17-DAP BETCs was thicker than the thin tubular ER seen in the 12-DAP BETCs (Fig. 2K). In earlier stages, nuclei were round and located in the cell center (Figs. 1, A and B, and 2, A and C). In 17-DAP BETCs, dark and pleiomorphic nuclei were located at the apical tip (Figs. 1C and 2H). Golgi stack density was higher in the 17-DAP BETCs than in the 12-DAP BETCs (Fig. 6A), and their morphology differed from the earlier stage Golgi stacks. The outer rim of medial and trans-Golgi cisternae in the 17-DAP Golgi stacks was hypertrophied (Fig. 2K; see Fig. 4B below), and their TGN cisternae were associated with vesicles larger than vesicles of the 12-DAP TGNs (Fig. 2, J and K; see Fig. 4, B and C, below). Similar morphological features of Golgi stacks have been reported from electron microscopy investigations of mucilage-secreting plant cells (Craig and Staehelin, 1988
Spatial Proximity of Mitochondria and the WIGs Mitochondria were easily noticed in the BETCs, owing to their abundance and unique spatial distribution. Most of the mitochondria were spherical in all the examined stages. Mitochondria at 17 DAP were larger (0.636 ± 0.169 µm) than mitochondria at 12 DAP (0.335 ± 0.079 µm), and their matrix staining was weaker (Fig. 2, E and I, asterisks). Interestingly, mitochondria accumulated at the basal cytoplasm adjacent to the WIG in the BETCs. Mitochondria started concentrating in the basal cytoplasm at 7 DAP even before any WIG was detected (Fig. 2 A, B, and L). This early onset of mitochondrial concentration indicates that the BETC polarity is established prior to WIG formation. In 12-DAP BETCs, mitochondria clearly displayed spatial association with the WIG and the spatial proximity persisted throughout the WIG development (Fig. 2, M and N), suggesting a functional link between them. In 17-DAP BETCs, the spaces between the WIGs were so crowded with mitochondria and the ER that membranes of the organelles were oppressed to each other and to the plasma membrane (Fig. 2I). Unlike the mitochondria, Golgi stacks, TGN cisternae, and multivesicular bodies did not display spatial association with the WIGs (data not shown).
We carried out electron microscopy analyses of mn1-1 mutant BETCs (Fig. 3 ) to compare their ultrastructural features with those of Mn1 BETCs. The 12-DAP mn1-1 BETL consisted of cells with varying amounts of WIGs, as shown in Figure 1D. The two BETCs in Figure 3, A and B, are from a 12-DAP mn1-1 kernel. The BETC in Figure 3A has WIGs, while no WIG is detected in Figure 3B BETC. In the mn1-1 BETCs at 12 DAP, however, individual WIGs are not fully interconnected and the dark blotchy pattern is less discernible (Fig. 3, A and C). Another abnormality in the mn1-1 BETCs was their swollen ER. Most of the ER lumina were round and dilated (Fig. 3, A, C, and G), in contrast to the thin ER tubules of the same stage Mn1 BETCs (Fig. 2, E and F; Supplemental Fig. S2, A and B).
The mn1-1 WIG elaborated during the period from 12 to 17 DAP (Fig. 3D). The 17-DAP mn1-1 WIGs were analogous to the basal WIGs of 12-DAP Mn1 BETCs in that the WIGs formed a large network and the dark WIG segments in the WIG were easily distinguished (Fig. 3, D and E). The ER swelling became more extreme in the 17-DAP BETCs. In particular, extensive ER cisternae with spherical holes were often noticed in the mutant BETCs (Fig. 3, D, F, and H). The Golgi stacks in the 17-DAP Mn1 BETCs were characterized by the bulbous periphery of trans-Golgi cisternae and large TGN vesicles. Golgi stacks in 17-DAP mn1-1 BETCs did not display such morphological characteristics (Fig. 3H), suggesting that cell wall polysaccharide secretion is affected in the mutant BETCs. In both 12- and 17-DAP mn1-1 BETCs, Golgi cisternae were thin and few vesicles were associated with Golgi stacks and TGN compartments (Fig. 3, G and H). Golgi densities in the mn1-1 BETCs were also lower (approximately 50%) than in the Mn1 BETCs at both 12 and 17 DAP, although the density in the mn1-1 BETCs increased during that period (see Fig. 6A below). Despite the retarded WIG development and the abnormal ER in the mn1-1 mutant, polar distribution of mitochondria adjacent to the WIG was not disrupted (Fig. 3, A, B, and E, arrowheads), indicating that the cell polarity establishment is functional in the mutant BETCs. We have examined BETCs in the mn1-Neuffer mutant allele by electron microscopy and observed cellular abnormalities consistent with the results from mn1-1 mutant BETCs (data not shown).
To determine the cellular localization of INCW2, we performed immunogold labeling experiments with an INCW2 antibody (Figs. 4
and 5
). This antibody is INCW2 specific by several criteria; most notably, it showed no INCW2 protein in the mn1-1 mutant by both western-blot analysis and light microscopy immunolocalization in developing kernels. Additionally, this absence of INCW2 epitope agrees with the fact that the mn1-1 mutant lacks the Mn1 RNA throughout endosperm development (Cheng et al., 1996
The BETC cell wall consists of the outer primary cell wall and inner WIGs. The primary cell wall is constructed during the early stage of endosperm development and constitutes the original cell boundary. The WIGs are built as a secondary cell wall during BETC maturation. In electron micrographs, the primary cell wall can be distinguished from WIGs based on its position, staining property, and layered pattern, which WIGs do not have (Figs. 2 and 5). The localization of INCW2 gold particles was specifically confined to the WIGs, indicating that the primary cell wall is devoid of INCW2 (Fig. 5, A and B).
To further investigate the relation between INCW2 and WIG development, we analyzed INCW2 localization in a previously described seed-lethal emp4 mutant, in which WIG development is aberrant (Gutierrez-Marcos et al., 2007
In this study, we demonstrated that Golgi number increases, that Golgi remodeling indicative of massive polysaccharide secretion occurs during WIG development, and that INCW2, a BETC-specific cell wall invertase, is delivered to the WIG by Golgi-derived vesicles. We also showed that WIG formation is impaired in the mn1 mutant BETCs where INCW2 is absent. In the mutant, Golgi stacks are fewer and do not display the morphological changes observed in the wild-type BETCs. Given that the INCW2 deficiency of the mn1-1 mutant leads to reduced hexose levels (S. LeClere, E.A. Schmelz, and P.S. Chourey, unpublished data), we suggest that the defective WIG formation in the mn1 mutant may result from rate-limiting levels of monosaccharides that are essential for cell wall polysaccharide synthesis and glycosylation reactions.
Bright-field imaging of semithin sections revealed that the WIGs in the mn1 BETL kernels are stunted and display nonuniform growth along the BETC layer (Fig. 1D). The retarded growth of mn1 WIGs is similar to that reported from studies of 2N x 4N hybrids (Charlton et al., 1995
Multiple types of model systems have been utilized for cellular and molecular characterizations of the plant secretory pathway. They include Arabidopsis root tip cells, protoplasts, root hair tips, and pollen tube tips as well as tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) suspension cultured BY-2 cells and leaf epidermal cells (Brandizzi et al., 2004
The main advantage of the BETL system over other model systems is that the maize BETL consists of a uniform cell population in which transfer cells develop synchronously. This cell arrangement facilitates isolating RNA transcripts and proteins specific to BETCs at certain developmental stages for transcriptomic or proteomic analysis. Although the genome of Arabidopsis is the best-annotated among plant species, the amount of RNA or protein that can be isolated from a particular cell type is limited, due to the small size of Arabidopsis plants. We have been able to isolate micrograms of high-quality RNA from the maize BETL consistently by cryosectioning and microdissection. We are currently listing genes highly expressed in maize BETCs by means of parallel sequencing technology (Margulies et al., 2005
The density and morphological features of Golgi stacks in the mn1 mutant BETCs indicate that Golgi activity is restrained in the mn1 mutant. This observation is not unexpected, given that hexose activity producing hexoses from Suc is limited in the mn1 mutant BETCs. The Golgi is the primary site for protein glycosylation, oligosaccharide addition to glycolipids, and synthesis of noncellulosic cell wall polysaccharides (Staehelin and Newcomb, 2000
It is puzzling, however, why low levels of hexoses led to the ER swelling that resulted in enormous ER cisternae in 17-DAP BETCs. One possible explanation is that protein-folding quality control might be affected in the mutant ER. Oligosaccharide residues are added to Asn residues of nascent polypeptides in the ER lumen, and this N-glycosylation is involved in the quality control system that blocks misfolded proteins from leaving the ER (Pattison and Amtmann, 2009
It was shown that Golgi stacks in the Arabidopsis seed coat cells proliferate and display morphological features indicative of active polysaccharide synthesis and secretion during mucilage export (Young et al., 2008 Despite the abnormalities in the secretory pathway, cell polarity is established normally in the mn1 BETCs. This conclusion is supported by the polarized distribution of mitochondria and WIG assembly on the basal cell wall in the mutant, suggesting that cell polarity establishment is not affected by the low hexose levels in the mn1 mutant BETC.
Plants have three types of invertases, which are located in the cell wall, in the cytoplasm, and in the vacuole (Roitsch and Gonzalez, 2004
Construction of the primary cell wall cellularizes BETCs during the syncytial stage, and the WIG is a secondary cell wall built on the original primary cell wall later in endosperm development (Scanlon and Takacs, 2009 WIG development is impaired in the emp4 BETCs, and INCW2 immunogold particle density in the emp4 WIG was generally lower than in the Mn1 WIGs. Interestingly, BETCs with larger WIGs had as many as four times more immunogold particles than BETCs with smaller WIGs in the emp4 mutant kernel. This positive correlation between INCW2 accumulation in the WIG and WIG proliferation suggests that they are interdependent, reinforcing each other. The monosaccharides produced by the INCW2 are essential building blocks for constructing the WIG. For INCW2 to function properly, BETCs have to up-regulate polysaccharide synthesis to build WIGs that accommodate INCW2.
Plant Materials Immature maize (Zea mays) kernels of homozygous Mn1 and the mn1 reference alleles in the W22 inbred line were harvested at various stages of development marked by DAP. At the time of harvest, kernels were excised from the ear with care to include the pedicel region, to ensure preservation of the basal part of the endosperm. Heterozygous Emp4-1 plants were selfed, and the F2 ears showing 3:1 segregation for normal and defective kernels were marked. Homozygous emp4-1 defective kernels were readily identifiable at as early as the 12-DAP stage; mutant kernels were processed for semithin sections and immunogold labeling as described below.
Developing maize kernels were dissected with a biopsy punch (2 mm in diameter) to isolate the basal area of the kernels. The dissected kernel specimens containing the BETL were transferred to B-type aluminum planchettes (Technotrade International). A Suc solution (150 mM) was added to fill the planchettes, and the kernel samples were frozen with a HPM 100 high-pressure freezer (Leica). The whole process from dissection to freezing was completed within 1 min. The frozen BETL samples were freeze substituted in acetone containing 2% OsO4 at –80°C for 4 d. After substitution, the samples were slowly warmed up to –20°C over 24 h, from –20°C to 4°C over 12 h, and from 4°C to room temperature over 4 h in the AFS2 automatic freeze substitution system (Leica). The samples were washed three times with anhydrous acetone and embedded in Epon resin (Ted Pella). After polymerization, samples were sliced into 500- and 80-nm sections for bright-field imaging and transmission electron microscopy imaging, respectively. The 500-nm sections were stained with toluidine blue and examined with an Olympus BH2 compound microscope using a Retiga 200R digital camera. The 80-nm sections were stained with an aqueous uranyl acetate solution (2%, w/v) and subsequently with a lead citrate solution (26 g L–1 lead nitrate and 35 g L–1 sodium citrate). Electron micrographs were captured with a Hitachi H-7000 transmission electron microscope operated at 80 kV.
The high-pressure-frozen BETC samples were freeze substituted in 0.1% uranyl acetate and 0.25% glutaraldehyde in acetone at –80°C for 3 d. After substitution, the samples were warmed up to –50°C over 30 h and washed four times with dry acetone at –50°C. The BETC samples were then embedded in HM20 acrylic resin (Ted Pella) at –50°C, and the resin was polymerized under UV light at –50°C for 36 h. All of the freeze substitution, temperature transition, resin embedding, and UV polymerization were carried out in the AFS2 automatic freeze substitution system (Leica). The polymerized samples were sliced into 100-nm-thick sections and immunogold labeled with an anti-INCW2 antibody (Cheng et al., 1996
To calculate Golgi stack densities (numbers of Golgi stacks µm–2 cytoplasm), images from six BETCs at each stage were taken and numbers of Golgi stacks in the electron micrographs were counted. Surface areas of the cytoplasm were measured with ImageJ 1.38X (National Institutes of Health; http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/). The cytoplasmic areas were measured after excluding nuclei and WIGs in the cells. A total of 19 Golgi stacks at 7 DAP, 93 Golgi stacks at 12 DAP, and 104 Golgi stacks at 17 DAP were identified in the wild-type BETCs. For mn1-1 mutant BETCs, 49 Golgi stacks at 12 DAP and 57 Golgi stacks at 17 DAP were counted. Golgi density in 7-DAP mn1-1 BETCs was not determined because Golgi stacks are extremely rare (<10) in the images. Golgi stacks in which stack architecture was clearly distinguished were counted for measuring Golgi density. Immunogold particle density (numbers of immunogold particles µm–2 WIG) was calculated in a similar way. We enumerated 927, 772, and 163 INCW2-specific gold particles in the wild-type WIGs, thick WIGs of emp4, and thin WIGs of emp4, respectively. The densities were calculated after WIG surface areas were measured with ImageJ 1.38X. For gold particle density measurements, 17-DAP BETC samples of each genotype were examined. The mitochondrial diameters were calculated by measuring widths of 39 mitochondria from 12-DAP and 75 mitochondria from 17-DAP Mn1 BETC electron micrographs. Mitochondria in which cristae are clearly resolved were selected for measurement. Because mitochondria in the BETCs were basically round, variation in diameters due to how two opposing points on their circumferences were chosen was insignificant, but the largest diameters were recorded. Average, SD, and histograms were calculated with Microsoft Excel 2008.
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We thank Drs. Giuseppe Gavazzi and Jose Gutierez-Marcos for a generous gift of heterozygous Emp4/– seeds for this study. We also thank Drs. D. Pring and E. Taliercio for critical reading of the manuscript. We are grateful to Q.-B. Li, Bob Hennen, and the staff at the Electron Microscopy and Bio-imaging Laboratory of the Interdisciplinary Center for Biotechnology Research for their technical support. This was a cooperative investigation of the Department of Microbiology and Cell Science, University of Florida, and U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service and Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences. Received June 3, 2009; accepted September 14, 2009; published September 16, 2009.
1 This work was supported by the start-up fund from the Department of Microbiology and Cell Science, University of Florida (to B.-H.K.), the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences-Interdisciplinary Center for Biotechnology Research Innovative Project Initiative (to B.-H.K.), and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (grant no. 6615–21000–009–00D to P.S.C.).  The authors responsible for distribution of materials integral to the findings presented in this article in accordance with the policy described in the Instructions for Authors (www.plantphysiol.org) are: Byung-Ho Kang (bkang{at}ufl.edu) and Prem S. Chourey (psch{at}ufl.edu).
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