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Microtubule reorganization and cell wall deposition have been monitored during the first 30 hours of regeneration of protoplasts of the filamentous green algaMougeotia, using immunofluorescence microscopy to detect microtubules, and the cell-wall stain Tinopal LPW to detect the orientation of cell wall microfibrils. In the cylindrical cells of the alga, cortical microtubules lie in an ordered array, transverse to the long axis of the cells. In newly formed protoplasts, cortical microtubules exhibit some localized order, but within 1 hour microtubules become disordered. However, within 3 to 4 hours, microtubules are reorganized into a highly ordered, symmetrical array centered on two cortical foci. Cell wall synthesis is first detected during early microtubule reorganization. Oriented cell wall microfibrils, co-aligned with the microtubule array, appear subsequent to microtubule reorganization but before cell elongation begins. Most cells elongate in the period between 20 to 30 hours. Elongation is preceded by the aggregation of microtubules into a band intersecting both foci, and transverse to the incipient axis of elongation. The foci subsequently disappear, the microtubule band widens, and microfibrils are deposited in a band which is co-aligned with the band of microtubules. It is proposed that this band of microfibrils restricts lateral expansion of the cells and promotes elongation. Throughout the entire regeneration process inMougeotia, changes in microtubule organization precede and are paralleled by changes in cell wall organization. Protoplast regeneration inMougeotia is therefore a highly ordered process in which the orientation of the rapidly reorganized array of cortical microtubules establishes the future axis of elongation.
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Galway, M.E., Hardham, A.R. Microtubule reorganization, cell wall synthesis and establishment of the axis of elongation in regenerating protoplasts of the algaMougeotia . Protoplasma 135, 130–143 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01277006
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