Abstract
Calmodulin (CaM) was visualized light-microscopically by the fluorescent CaM inhibitors fluphenazine and chlorpromazine, both phenothiazines, during polar tip growth of pollen tubes of Lilium longiflorum, root hairs of Lepidium sativum, moss caulonema of Funaria hygrometrica, fungal hyphae of Achlya spec. and in the alga Acetabularia mediterranea, as well as during multipolar tip growth in Micrasterias denticulata. Young pollen tubes and root hairs showed tip fluorescence; at later stages and in the growing parts of the other subjects the fluorescence was almost uniform. After treatment with cytochalasin B, punctuate fluorescence occurred in the clear zone adjacent to the tip of pollen tubes. The observations indicate that there is CaM in all our tested systems detectable with this method. It may play a key role in starting polar growth. As in pollen tubes, CaM might be in part associated with the microfilament network at the tip, and thus regulate vesicle transport and cytoplasmic streaming.
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Abbreviations
- CaM:
-
calmodulin
- CB:
-
cytochalasin B
- CTC:
-
chlorotetracycline
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Haußer, I., Herth, W. & Reiss, HD. Cllmodulin in tip-growing plant cells, visualized by fluorescing calmodulin-binding phenothiazines. Planta 162, 33–39 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00397418
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