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Isolation and characterization of cytoskeletons from cotton fiber cytoplasts

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Over the last 25 yr, success in characterizing the individual protein components of animal cytoskeletons was possible, in part, due to technical advances in the isolation and purification of anucleate cytoskeletons from animal cells. As a step towards characterizing protein components of the plant cytoskeleton, we have isolated cytoskeletons from cytoplasts (anucleate protoplasts) prepared from cotton fiber cells grown in ovule culture. Cytoplasts isolated into a hypertonic, Ca2+-free medium at pH 6.8 retained internal structures after extraction with the detergent, Triton X-100. These structures were shown to include microtubule and microfilament arrays by immunofluorescence and electron microscopy. Actin and tubulin were the only abundant proteins in these preparations, suggesting that microfilaments and microtubules were the major cytoskeleta elements in the isolated cytoskeletons. The absence of additional, relatively abundant proteins suggests that (a) other cytoskeletal arrays potentially present in fiber cells (e.g., intermediate filaments) were either lost during detergent extraction or were minor components of the fiber cell cytoskeleton; and (b) high ratios of individual cytoskeletal-associated proteins relative to actin and tubulin were not required to maintain microtubules and microfilaments in organized structures.

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    John M. Andersland, David C. Dixon, Robert W. Seagull & Barbara A. Triplett

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Andersland, J.M., Dixon, D.C., Seagull, R.W. et al. Isolation and characterization of cytoskeletons from cotton fiber cytoplasts. In Vitro Cell.Dev.Biol.-Plant 34, 173–180 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02822704

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