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Published on January 4, 2008; 10.1104/pp.107.113647
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Received November 27, 2007
Accepted December 24, 2007
Myosin XI-K Is Required for Rapid Trafficking of Golgi Stacks, Peroxisomes and Mitochondria in Leaf Cells of Nicotiana benthamiana
Dror Avisar , Alexey I. Prokhnevsky , Kira S. Makarova , Eugene V. Koonin , and Valerian V. Dolja *
Department of Botany and Plant Pathology and Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331 and National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20894
* Corresponding author; email: doljav{at}science.oregonstate.edu.
A prominent feature of plant cells is the rapid, incessant movement of the organelles traditionally defined as cytoplasmic streaming and attributed to actomyosin motility. We sequenced six complete Nicotiana benthamiana cDNAs that encode class XI and class VIII myosins. Phylogenetic analysis indicates that these two classes of myosins diverged prior to the radiation of green algae and land plants from a common ancestor, and that the common ancestor of land plants likely possessed at least seven myosins. We further report here that movement of Golgi stacks, mitochondria and peroxisomes in the leaf cells of N. benthamiana is mediated mainly by myosin XI-K. Suppression of myosin XI-K function using dominant negative inhibition or RNA interference dramatically reduced movement of each of these organelles. When similar approaches were used to inhibit functions of myosins XI-2 or XI-F, only moderate to marginal effects were observed. Organelle trafficking was virtually unaffected in response to inhibition of each of the three class VIII myosins. Interestingly, none of the tested six myosins appears to be involved in light-induced movements of chloroplasts. Taken together, these data strongly suggest that myosin XI-K has a major role in trafficking of Golgi stacks, mitochondria and peroxisomes, whereas myosins XI-2 and XI-F might perform accessory functions in this process. In addition, our analysis of thousands of individual organelles revealed independent movement patterns for Golgi stacks, mitochondria, and peroxisomes indicating that the notion of coordinated cytoplasmic streaming is not generally applicable to higher plants.
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