Poly(A)+ RNA during vegetative development of Acetabularia peniculus
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- DOI: 10.1007/BF02680131
Poly(A)+ RNA during vegetative development of Acetabularia peniculus
Abstract
In the juvenile stage, the diploid giant-celled green algae Acetabularia spp. are differentiated into an upright stalk and an irregularly branched rhizoid. Early amputation and grafting experiments as well as biochemical and molecular analyses have shown that mRNA (as poly(A)+ RNA) is continuously supplied from the primary nucleus in the rhizoid and accumulates in the stalk apex. In the present study, localization of poly(A)+ RNA in the juvenile stage of the Acetabularia peniculus was investigated by fluorescent in situ hybridization using oligo(dT) as a probe. The signal was localized in the apical cytoplasm and, in addition, multiple longitudinal striations throughout the stalk and rhizoid cytoplasm. A large portion of the poly(A)+ RNA striations exhibited structural polarity, broadened at one end and gradually thinned toward the other end. Some of the striations in the rhizoid cytoplasm were continuous with a zone of signal in the area of the perinuclear rim. The poly(A)+ RNA striations were associated with thick bands of longitudinal actin bundles which run through the entire length of the stalk. Cytochalasin D caused fragmentation of the actin bundles and irregular distribution of the fluorescent signal. We suggest that the poly(A)+ RNA striations constitute a hitherto unknown form of packaged mRNA that is transported over large distances along the actin cytoskeleton to be stored and expressed in the growing apex.
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