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First published online 7 March 2006
doi: 10.1242/jcs.02847
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1 Laboratoire de Dynamique de la Compartimentation Cellulaire, Institut des Sciences du Végétal, CNRS UPR2355, 9 Gif-sur-Yvette CEDEX, France
2 Laboratoire de Biologie Cellulaire, INRA, Route de Saint Cyr, 78026 Versailles CEDEX, France
* Author for correspondence (e-mail: bsj{at}isv.cnrs-gif.fr)
Accepted 14 December 2005
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The polar localisation of PIN proteins at the plasmamembrane was not reflected by any asymmetric distribution of cytoplasmic organelles. In addition, PIN proteins were inserted in a symmetrical manner at both sides of the cell plate during cytokinesis. Together, the data indicate that the localisation of PIN proteins is a postmitotic event, which depends on local characteristics of the plasma membrane and its direct environment. In this context, we present evidence that microtubule arrays might define essential positional information for PIN localisation. This information seems to require the presence of an intact cell wall.
Key words: Plant cell polarity, PIN proteins, Endomembrane, Cytoskeleton, Immunocytochemistry, Confocal microscopy
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; Friml et al., 2003; Reinhardt et al., 2003). Auxin distribution throughout the whole plant is controlled by at least two families of plasma-membrane associated proteins, called AUX/LAX and PIN-FORMED (PIN). These so-called transport facilitators, regulate auxin fluxes in and out of the cells (Gälweiler et al., 1998; Swarup et al., 2001). Since these proteins are often localised on one side of the cell only, it has been proposed that they can generate auxin fluxes through tissues, thus creating differences in hormone concentrations. This has been particularly well established for the PIN proteins (Gälweiler et al., 1998), which are facilitators of auxin efflux. In vascular tissues, for example, these proteins occur on the apical or basal pole of cells in the same cell file. In this way, they supposedly create upwards or downwards directed auxin fluxes. Although PIN proteins have been intensively studied (Benková et al., 2003; Friml et al., 2003; Geldner et al., 2001; Geldner et al., 2003a), the cellular mechanism of their polarised positioning within the cells is not understood (Geldner et al., 2003a; Steinmann et al., 1999; Willemsen et al., 2003). Recently, it was shown that a protein kinase called PINOID (PID) plays an important role in this process (Benjamins, 2004; Friml et al., 2004). Although the precise targets of this enzyme are not known, there is evidence that it interacts with cytoskeletal proteins (Benjamins, 2004). In this context it is important to note that an important role has been proposed for the actin cytoskeleton in recycling of some of the carriers to specific sides of the cells (Geldner et al., 2001). On the whole, however, the cellular basis of PIN localisation remains poorly understood. Here, we have used immunocytochemistry and PIN::GFP fusions to explore the cellular processes involved in PIN localisation. Our results suggest that the establishment and maintenance of polarity in plant cells is a post-mitotic event, which might involve endocytic and exocytic processes. In this context, we provide evidence that the Golgi apparatus functions as a junction between the exocytic and endocytic pathways for PIN trafficking. Actin might be involved in this, either by modulating the movement of both Golgi stacks and PIN-labelled compartments or by mediating the transport of Golgi-derived products to the cell surface, but not by directing endocytic recruitment. In addition, we show that microtubules play an indirect role in PIN localisation, as their prolonged disruption leads to a reorganisation of growth axis and cell polarity in plant cells. They therefore appear essential for the pluricellular pattern of PIN proteins.
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), the antibody still labelled polar localised protein(s) (Fig. 2D). Together, the results confirmed that the antibody stained at least one other PIN protein.
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) and shows a distinctive effect on the functional organisation of endomembrane compartments (Satiat-Jeunemaitre et al., 1996a).
AtPIN-labelled structures versus the ER-Golgi complex
Typical JIM84-labelled, µm-sized Golgi stacks were homogeneously dispersed throughout the cytoplasm of all maize root cells (Fig. 3B) (Satiat-Jeunemaitre and Hawes, 1992). The JIM84 antibody also labelled the plasma membrane (Satiat-Jeunemaitre and Hawes, 1992) in many, but not all root cells (Fig. 3B) (see also Horsley et al., 1993 and figures and comments within) (Couchy et al., 1998; Couchy et al., 2003). Double immunostaining showed a partial association of AtPIN-labelled organelles and JIM84-labelled Golgi stacks (Fig. 3A-C). The colocalisation was variable, but on average about 20% of the AtPIN-labelled structures colocalised with JIM84 (Fig. 3D). These colocalisation events were randomly distributed within the cells.
Double immunostaining with AtPIN-antibody and antibodies against calreticulin, an endoplasmic reticulum (ER) marker (Kluge et al., 2004), showed that there was no colabelling of the two antibodies in differentiating cells (not shown). Together, these results show that the Golgi network is actively involved in trafficking of the PIN proteins. However, the topology of the labelled compartments did not reflect any polarity.
AtPIN-labelled structures versus the prevacuolar marker m-Rab
To characterise the remaining 70-90% of the PIN-labelled structures that were not associated with the Golgi stacks, we next investigated whether there was any colocalisation between AtPIN-labelled membranes and pre-vacuolar compartments (PVCs). PVCs are randomly distributed within cells (Bolte et al., 2004a). They possibly function in the regulation of trafficking events between the Golgi stacks and lytic vacuoles (Bolte et al., 2004a; Kotzer et al., 2004). PVCs are essentially defined by the presence of specific vacuolar sorting receptors (VSRs) involved in protein sorting to vacuoles and might represent a junction compartment between endocytic and secretory pathways (Tse et al., 2004; Geldner, 2004). In control root cells, the m-Rabmc polyclonal antibody (a PVC marker) (Bolte et al., 2004a). stained punctate structures dispersed through the cytoplasm (Fig. 3F). In the merged picture (Fig. 3G) of an AtPIN-stained cell (Fig. 3E) and m-Rabmc-stained cells (Fig. 3F), no colocalisation of the stained structures was ever observed. These results were confirmed with other markers for PVCs such as PEP12 or BP80 (data not shown).
In conclusion, our data show that PVCs are not involved in trafficking of the PIN proteins. They indicate that the majority of AtPIN-labelled organelles is associated with subcellular compartments that have yet to be identified, but which could correspond to endosomal membranes (Geldner, 2004). In addition, we provide evidence that about 20% of the intracellular PIN labelling is associated with the Golgi apparatus.
The effect of BFA on AtPIN- and JIM84-labelled structures
We next analysed the effect of BFA on AtPIN-labelled compartments in maize root cells. As seen on longitudinal sections (Fig. 2F), polar plasma membrane staining with AtPIN was weaker after a 90-minute treatment with BFA (Fig. 2, compare F with E) and almost disappeared after a 150-minute treatment (Fig. 2G) (see also Baluska et al., 2002 and Fig. 3H within). This BFA effect on polar staining was concomitant with the formation of two to four fluorescent areas within the cell (Fig. 2F,G), reminiscent of `BFA compartments' (Satiat-Jeunemaitre and Hawes, 1992; Satiat-Jeunemaitre and Hawes 1993) (see also Baluska et al., 2002 and Fig. 3H within). These BFA-induced modifications of plasma membrane staining were also clearly seen on isolated root cells (Fig. 3H,K). At the subcellular level, a third additional BFA effect was observed because there was a clear decrease, or even loss, in the number of the µm-sized intracellular immunolabelled objects (Fig. 3H).
BFA is known to block exocytosis but not endocytosis (for a review see Satiat-Jeunemaitre et al., 1996a). Therefore, the observed AtPIN staining of BFA-like compartments might come from two sources: an accumulation of Golgi-derived PIN proteins on their way to the plasma membrane (because of a block of exocytosis) and/or an accumulation of PIN proteins derived from the plasma membrane (through an internalisation process) (see also Geldner et al., 2001). Regarding the observed decrease of plasma membrane labelling, it might either be due to protein degradation (simply reflecting the halflife of PIN proteins) or blocked recycling processes.
We next performed double labelling with JIM84 and AtPIN antibody on roots treated with BFA. This showed that PIN proteins (Fig. 3H,K) are localised in the same BFA compartments as the JIM84 labelled Golgi membranes (Fig. 3). Within these compartments, however, JIM84-labelling only partially overlapped with PIN labelling. This often led to a ring-like pattern of double-stained membranes around a domain only stained by AtPIN antibody (Fig. 3J). This specific organisation within the BFA compartment suggests that the two labelled populations have a distinct molecular signature which is sufficient to keep them separated. Incidently, the fact that the JIM84 plasma membrane-labelling remained in many BFA-treated cells suggests that, the JIM84-labelled BFA structures are predominantly made of Golgi-rather than plasma membrane-derived membranes (see also Satiat-Jeunemaitre and Hawes 1992; Satiat-Jeunemaitre and Hawes 1994; Steele-King et al., 1999).
After BFA treatment AtPIN-labelled membranes colocalised neither with ER markers (not shown) nor with PVC markers (Fig. 3K-M). mRab-labelled structures were often bigger than those in control cells, but the basic 3D pattern was rarely altered by BFA (Fig. 3L). This was also found for other PVCs markers such as PEP12 and BP80 (data not shown), or trans-Golgi-network markers (Geldner et al., 2003a).
Analysis of AtPIN labelling in dividing cells
In interphase cells, we never observed any asymmetry in the distribution of intracellular PIN compartments, which could be related to the polar insertion of the proteins at the cell surface. We next investigated whether the polar localisation could be traced back to a mitotic event. In particular, we tested the hypothesis that the proteins were asymmetrically inserted into the phragmoplast.
The cell plate was strongly labelled by AtPIN (Fig. 4C,D), suggesting that the insertion of PIN proteins within the plasma membrane takes place as the new plasma membrane is formed (see also Geldner et al., 2001 and fig. 2F within). A triple staining of dividing cells with DNA specific probes, microtubule antibodies and AtPIN confirmed that, the insertion of proteins began during anaphase together with the progression of the phragmoplast (Fig. 4A-D). At higher magnification, no asymmetry in membrane labelling was ever detected at this level, suggesting that proteins were targeted to both sides of the cell plate. Intracellular objects, resembling those in interphase cells gathered preferentially around the phragmoplast. This spatial distribution was symmetrical on each side of the cell plate (Fig. 4D). This symmetry of PIN-labelled structures around the cell plate was also clearly seen in BFA-treated cells (Fig. 4E), where BFA-induced aggregates were distributed in a symmetric manner on each side of the cell plate.
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As a whole, these observations suggest that, the asymmetrical localisation of PIN proteins is not linked to positional information within the endomembrane system and occurs after cell division. It, therefore, depends on local properties of the cortical cytoplasm or the plasma membrane.
Involvement of the actin network in polar distribution of PIN proteins
The cytoskeleton might be involved in the formation of local cytoplasmic subdomains. In particular, actin appears to be involved in the recycling of PIN proteins (Geldner et al., 2001). We further extended these observations by analysing the detailed effects of actin depolymerisation on the localisation of PIN proteins. Here, we took advantage of the better resolution provided by isolated cells of maize roots.
Latrunculin has no effect on polar staining but affects both AtPIN- and JIM84-labelled structures
Short latrunculin treatments of up to 2 hours had no obvious effect on the polar distribution of PIN proteins within maize root cells (Fig. 4G). The number of cells exhibiting polar plasma membrane staining was similar to that observed in control cells (data not shown). Therefore, actin seems to have a limited role in the polar localisation of PIN. By contrast, latrunculin clearly had an effect on the appearance of the intracellular staining because there, AtPIN-labelled objects had a larger diameter than in untreated cells (compare Fig. 4G with Fig. 3A). In some cells, AtPIN-labelled objects even gathered in labelled domains the size of several µm. This observation is in agreement with that described in Arabidopsis root tissues, where "small irregular dots of PIN1 label were sometimes appearing underneath the plasma membrane" after treatment with cytochalasin D (Geldner et al., 2001; Grebe et al., 2003).
Interestingly, Golgi stacks (Fig. 4F) and PIN-labelled compartments (Fig. 4G) showed similarities in their reactivity to latrunculinB. Moreover, most of the AtPIN-labelled structures were now associated with Golgi staining, PIN often appearing enclosed in the JIM84 aggregates (Fig. 4H). Live cell imaging techniques have demonstrated that Golgi stacks move along actin cables and that actin depolymerisation provokes the accumulation of Golgi stacks (Boevink et al., 1998). A similar phenomenon could account for the behaviour of PIN labelled compartments. These latrunculin experiments suggest that actin is involved in AtPIN intracellular movements. However, they do not reveal a role of actin in the maintenance of polar labelling.
LatrunculinB inhibits some but not all effects of BFA on PIN-labelled structures
To further test the involvement of actin on PIN trafficking, we analysed the effects of latrunculin pre-treatment on the BFA-induced reorganisation of PIN proteins in maize roots. This showed that the BFA effects were partially dominant over the latrunculin effects. First, 92% of the PIN-labelled cells lacking actin filaments still lost their plasma membrane staining after subsequent treatment with BFA (Fig. 4J), suggesting that the BFA-induced protein retrieval from the plasma membrane was actin independent. Second, the intracellular AtPIN-labelled compartments significantly increased in size under BFA treatment, even in the absence of actin filaments (Fig. 4, compare J with G). Similar observations were made for JIM84 epitopes under the same experimental conditions (Fig. 4, compare I with F) and, again, the two populations merged in the same aggregates (Fig. 4K). These results indicate that both PIN-labelled compartments and Golgi stacks were modified by BFA in an actin-independent manner. Third, the formation of the two or three massive BFA compartments did not occur anymore in the absence of actin filaments (compare Fig. 4J with Fig. 3H), suggesting that the final coalescence of BFA-induced Golgi and PIN-labelled compartment is actin dependent.
These observations are summarised in Fig. 5, concordant with our earlier hypothesis that the formation of BFA compartments results from a sequence of distinct events (see Satiat-Jeunemaitre et al., 1996b). Some of these are actin dependent (aggregation of Golgi units and PIN-labelled structures in two to four fluorescent areas), whereas others are actin independent (modification of compartment morphology). These two effects probably concern two distinct molecular machineries. In all cases, our latrunculin- and latrunculin-BFA-based experiments show that actin is not involved in BFA-induced retrievial of PIN proteins from plasma membrane. In addition, the data do not indicate that actin is involved in initiating specific local asymmetry and polarity within the cell cortex.
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). Nevertheless, these experiments were based on short-term treatments with oryzalin and did not question the long-term effects of microtubule disruption on polar organisation at cell and tissue level. We, therefore, performed two additional experiments. First, we investigated the distribution of PIN proteins in a mutant with a disorganised interphase microtubule arrays. Second, we looked at the short- and long-term effects a complete absence of microtubules might have.
AtPIN labelling in ton mutants
The ton mutants are characterised by a the lack of preprophase bands and the presence of disorganised cortical microtubule arrays (Fig. 6A), the division planes being randomly organised within the tissue (Traas et al., 1995; Camilleri et al., 2002). Cells expressing the weak allele ton2.1 (Fig. 6B), PIN proteins, were still asymmetrically distributed, although the pattern along cell files was less regular. In root cells expressing the strong allele ton2.2 (Fig. 6C), labelling of subdomains of the plasma membrane was still observed but organisation of the polarity at the tissue level was lost. These observations suggest that, the presence of ordered cortical arrays of microtubules is not required for the establishment of polarity at the cell level but in their absence, cells lose the ability to target the PIN protein in a coherent way. Therefore, microtubules appear to be essential for the tissue patterning of PIN proteins.
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On short treatment of maize roots with high concentrations of oryzalin, microtubules rapidly depolymerised, whereas polar AtPIN-labelling remained unchanged (Fig. 6D-F). These observations confirm that, in interphase cells, microtubules are not involved in the establishment or short-term maintenance of cell polarity.
After longer treatments (8-42 hours), growth of maize or Arabidopsis plantlets continued but showed radially swollen root tips (not shown). The changes in root morphology were associated with laterally swollen cells. Whereas PIN proteins were still present in the plasma membranes, the typical basoapical polarity of the labelling was hardly recognisable on longitudinal root sections (Fig. 6, compare H-J with G). Subdomains of the plasma membrane were still labelled, but cell polarity had changed. Analysis of both transverse (Fig. 6K) and longitudinal sections (Fig. 6H-J) revealed that the PIN proteins were not redistributed randomly, but were relocalised to one longitudinal side of the cells, towards the centre of the central cylinder of the roots. The phenomenon of PIN relocation was also observed in maize roots (Fig. 6L). These results suggest that microtubules were indirectly involved in the control of the final cellular location of PIN.
PIN1 labelling in BY-2 cells and protoplasts
To study the behaviour of PIN proteins in a simple system, we constructed a BY-2 cell line expressing AtPIN1::GFP. Growing BY-2 cells exhibit helical arrays of microtubules within the cells that become randomly organised when cell walls are removed (Couchy et al., 2003). AtPIN1::GFP was localised only to the transverse cell surfaces of the BY-2 cell ribbon, and labelled intracellular structures (Fig. 7A). In dividing cells, the cell plate was symmetrically labelled by AtPIN1::GFP. Interestingly, this symmetry was maintained after mitosis (Fig. 7B), outlining the transverse cell surfaces of the BY-2 cell ribbons. The fate of this transverse staining was followed when microtubules were disorganised during protoplast formation (Fig. 7C-H) or by treatment with oryzalin (Fig. 7I-L). Fig. 7 shows a redistribution of the AtPIN1 proteins over the plasma membrane during protoplast formation (Fig. 7C-H). Preferential staining of membrane subdomains between two cells is still observed as long as the cells stay in close contact, even if these cells lose their original shape. The cell plate was still stained for AtPIN1 (Fig. 7D). When wall digestion finally separated the two cells, AtPIN1 staining of plasma membrane subdomains was still visible for a few minutes (Fig. 7E), but rapidly exhibited a perfect regular staining of the whole plasma membrane (Fig. 7G). When BY-2 cells were treated with oryzalin, cell shape was progressively modified (Fig. 7I-L). Cells enlarged laterally, finally producing aggregates of round cells (Fig. 7J-L). Differential labelling with AtPIN was still observed as long as the initial cell-cell contacts were maintained (Fig. 7K,L).
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Together, these results - obtained on plants and cell suspensions - suggest that microtubules act indirectly on PIN localisation. They might do so by interfering with the establishment of cell-cell interactions, which seems to play an important role in the final cellular distribution of PIN proteins.
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; Geldner et al., 2001) but little attention was paid to intracellularly labelled organelles. Here, we show that PIN proteins are differentially associated with these organelles. The major proportion of PIN-labelled organelles (80%) was associated with punctate structures distinct from ER domains, Golgi stacks and prevacuolar compartments. By extrapolation of what has been suggested in Arabidopsis root cells (Geldner et al., 2001), the major part of these PIN-labelled organelles might be recycling or endocytic compartments. Endosomes in plant cells may be described as punctate structures covering heterogeneous populations of compartments stained by FM4-64 - a definition to be handled with care (see Bolte et al., 2004b and discussion within). These structures are similar in size but are indeed distinct from the Golgi (Robert et al., 2005; Geldner, 2004). They might represent an heterogenous population of organelles, including PVCs (Tse et al., 2004), and might specifically bear proteins like GNOM, an ARF-GEF protein involved in PIN1 protein recycling (Geldner et al., 2003a; Geldner et al., 2003b), or KOR1, an endo-1,4-ß glucanase involved in cellulose synthesis (Robert et al., 2005). The morphological and functional features of the endosome population harbouring PIN proteins still need to be clarified.
We now also provide evidence, that a significant proportion of the PIN proteins is associated with the Golgi apparatus. This association suggests that, a level of regulation for PIN trafficking takes place at the Golgi, operating either as an exocytic and/or endocytic compartment (Tanchak et al., 1984; Bolte et al., 2004b; Hawes and Satiat-Jeunemaitre, 2005). These active PIN trafficking pathways between the Golgi stacks and plasma membrane do neither overlap with the vacuolar secretory pathway nor with the putative `late' endocytic pathways (Tse et al., 2004) because no PVCs were PIN-labelled.
The question remains as to when and how PIN proteins are polarly distributed within the cell. An obvious moment when PIN can be polarly distributed is cytokinesis. In such a scenario, PIN would be only deposited on one side of the phragmoplast. It has been previously shown that, in Arabidopsis root cells, PIN proteins are inserted in the newly forming cell plate between daughter cells (Geldner et al., 2001). Our results in maize root cells confirm this feature. In addition, we show that a symmetric vesicle distribution on each side of the cell plate occurs, suggesting that PIN proteins are continuously inserted on both sides of the forming cell plate. Therefore, the basal membrane to be targeted ultimately by PIN is defined after mitosis, an hypothesis already suggested by Geldner et al. (Geldner et al., 2004). Nevertheless, the fact that the phragmoplast systematically accumulates PIN proteins shows that cell division has to be considered as a level of regulation. Interestingly, the post-mitotic definition of the targeted membrane seems to be correlated to the organisation of cells in tissues: in BY-2 cells organised in a ribbon-like structure, this asymmetry does not appear on the transverse walls. It has been proposed that specific endocytic trafficking processes explain the maintenance of specific subdomains within the cells (Geldner, 2004; Grebe, 2004), although the occurrence of such differential turnover needs further experimental evidence.
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; Geldner et al., 2003a; Baluska et al., 2002), which would be actin dependent. However, global BFA effects are probably the sum of distinct BFA effects (Merigout et al., 2002), rendering their interpretation difficult. Our results modulate the interpretation of BFA data because they show that PIN retrieval from the plasma membrane under BFA treatment is independent of actin. They also show that PIN proteins are trapped, together with JIM84-labelled epitopes, in BFA-induced structures - PIN proteins being often in the core of these compartments. The accumulation of PIN proteins in BFA compartments might result from both the retrieval of PIN from plasma membrane (which in this case is an actin-independent process), a reorganisation of PIN-labelled Golgi membranes (which is only partly actin dependent, see Results) and a BFA-induced block of PIN proteins en route to the plasma membrane (an actin-dependent process). In contrast to PIN proteins, the accumulation of JIM84-labelled epitopes in BFA-compartments mostly derived from Golgi membranes because plasma membrane staining is still in place in most of the BFA-treated cells. Such sub-compartmentation between PIN and Golgi markers in these BFA-induced compartments has already been described for other probes of the endomembrane system (Geldner et al., 2003a; Grebe et al., 2003). It probably results from slight differences in the molecular signature of Golgi stacks and endosome-like compartments, leading to a structural hierarchy within the endomembrane system. It is tempting to consider that the original molecular gradients between Golgi and plasma membrane present in control cells, are actually mirrored in the organisation of BFA compartments, as suggested by earlier electron microscopy studies (Satiat-Jeunemaitre and Hawes, 1993; Satiat-Jeunemaitre et al., 1996a). These differences in molecular signatures might be due to the lipid component (known to be differentially affected by BFA) (Mérigout et al., 2002), or to proteins such as distinct ARF-GEFs with different sensitivities to BFA (Peyroche et al., 1999). The ARF-GEF protein GNOM has been reported to be a key BFA-sensitive marker for plant endosome-like structures (Geldner et al., 2003a), but not for the Golgi stacks. To discover the rules governing the formation of a BFA compartment could identify sorting mechanisms along the secretory pathway.
Microtubules are required for developmental information underlying PIN insertion
Our results do not indicate any direct role of actin filaments or microtubules in the maintenance of cell polarity, because PIN localisation is maintained during treatments of up to several hours with latrunculin and oryzalin. This does not mean that the cytoskeleton is not at all involved in PIN localisation. Actin is known to be involved in exocytosis processes (Picton and Steer, 1981) and, as discussed above, in the movement of PIN-labelled vesicles; therefore actin must somehow interact with the mechanism that controls the insertion of the proteins in specific domains. The position of certain (endo-)membrane associated proteins also depends on the presence of microtubules, as shown recently for the KOR1 protein involved in cell wall synthesis (Robert et al., 2005). Although we did not find such a direct role of the microtubules in PIN labelling, our results clearly indicate an indirect one.
The defects in polar PIN pattern observed in ton-mutant cells coincide with severe defects in cell-to-cell alignment, suggesting that ordered arrays of microtubules are necessary for cells to coordinate their polarity with respect to each other. After long-term oryzalin treatment, PIN proteins are redistributed on lateral plasma membranes specifically on the inner side of the cells towards the central cylinder showing that, in absence of microtubules, the cells have lost information on the position of the main polar axis.
This shows that the microtubule network (or its associated proteins) might play an indirect role in the final location of PIN, by determining somehow essential positional information within tissues. Hereby, cell-cell contacts might be particularly important as illustrated by our observations of BY-2 cells expressing AtPIN1::GFP, which show that polar PIN labelling was lost as soon as the cell-cell contacts were lost. Therefore, future work aimed at understanding the mechanism of PIN localisation should also be focused on the extracellular matrix.
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). Maize caryopses (Zea mays, LG20.80, Limagrain, France) were grown as described in Satiat-Jeunemaitre and Hawes (Satiat-Jeunemaitre and Hawes, 1992). Arabidopsis seeds (ecotype Columbia) were grown for 7 days in continuous light (24 hours) at 23°C, on a solid Murashige and Skoog medium. Ton, pinoid and pin-formed1 mutants were grown as previously described (Traas et al., 1995; Christensen et al., 2000; Vernoux et al., 2000). Seeds of stably transformed plantlets of Arabidopsis expressing an AtPIN1::GFP construct under its own promoter were kindly provided by J. Friml (Benková et al., 2003).
Drug treatments
Treatments were performed either by immersing the roots in the treating solutions at 26°C in darkness, or on solid medium containing the drug - either in Petri dishes or in 500 ml or 1 litre Schott bottles. Brefeldin A (BFA, Sigma) stock solution was 20 mg/ml in dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO). Treatment with BFA (100 µg/ml) was for 1 hour or more (see text) as previously described (Satiat-Jeunemaitre and Hawes, 1992). Oryzalin (gift of DowElanco, Letcombe Regis, U.K.) stock solution was 288 µM in acetone; freshly prepared as previously described (Satiat-Jeunemaitre et al., 1996b). Cells were treated with 1.7 µM, 17 µM and 28 µM for 3, 8, or 42 hours. Latrunculin B (Sigma) stock solution was 10 mM in water and cells were treated with 25 µM for 1 hour.
AtPIN antibody design
A highly conserved peptide sequence (p74) of 16 amino acids and located in a glycine-rich domain of the large intra-cytosolic loop of AtPIN1 (indicated by asterisks in the AtPIN1 sequence in Fig. 8) was used to raise a rabbit antiserum (Eurogentec, Belgium). The serum was purified on an affinity column by using the peptide, and subsequently named AtPIN-antibody.
AtPIN1::GFP fusion and BY-2 cell transformation
pBIN+ plasmid containing AtPIN1::GFP (Benková et al., 2003) was inserted into an LBA4404 Agrobacterium tumefaciens strain that contained the helper plasmid. Agrobacteria were co-cultured with BY-2 cells for 2 days at 26°C in the dark. Co-cultures were washed with 400 µg/ml cefotaxim and spread on Petri dishes holding 400 µm/ml cefotaxim and 50 µg/ml kanamycin. Resistant calli were transferred into liquid-medium culture supplemented with 50 µg/ml kanamycin.
Protein extraction and western blot analysis
Protein extracts from maize and Arabidopsis root apices, BY-2 and Arabidopsis suspension cultures, and protoplasts were blotted from a SDS-polyacrylamide gel in a Trans-Blot SD semi-dry transfer cell (Bio-Rad France, Marne la Coquette, France). Immunoblots were visualised by chemiluminescence (Lumi-Light System, Roche, Mannheim, Germany), using horseradish peroxidase (HRP)-conjugated anti-rabbit antibodies at 1:1000 (Roche, Mannheim, Germany).
Immunofluorescence staining
Immunostaining procedures were performed on tissue sections embedded in PEG, on partially digested tissues or cells, or on whole-mounts of Arabidopsis thaliana roots as previously described (Bolte et al., 2006; Satiat-Jeunemaitre and Hawes, 2001; Geldner et al., 2003b, respectively). Single- and double-labelling was performed as previously described (Couchy et al., 2003; Bolte et al., 2004a). A rat monoclonal antibody JIM84, was used undiluted as a Golgi marker (Horsley et al., 1993). A rabbit polyclonal antibody against m-Rabmc was used as a PreVacuolar Compartment marker (Bolte et al., 2004a). A mouse monoclonal antibody against 
-tubulin (clone DM1A, Interchim) was used at 1:200. Secondary antibodies were purchased either from Sigma (FITC-conjugated anti-rabbit, anti-mouse or anti-rat IgGs, used at 1:60, 1:40 or 1:40, respectively), Interchim (Cy3-conjugated anti-mouse, anti-rat, or anti-rabbit IgG used at 1:800), or Molecular Probes (Alexa-Fluor-488- or Alexa-Fluor-568-conjucated anti-mouse, anti-rat, anti-rabbit IgG, used at 1: 800). Nuclei were counterstained with 33342 or propidium iodide (1 µg/ml).
Confocal microscopy - image analysis and assessment of colocalisation events
Slides were observed and images were collected with an upright laser scanning confocal microscope TCS SP2 (Leica Microsystems, Mannheim, Germany). Different fluorochromes were detected sequentially frame-by-frame with the acousto-optical tunable filter system (AOTF) using 488 nm and 543 nm laser lines. The images were usually coded green (fluorescein-isothiocyanate or Alexa Fluor 488) and red (Alexa Fluor 568) giving yellow colocalisation signals in merged images. The oil objectives used were 40x NA 1.25 and 63x NA 1.30, giving a resolution of approximately 200 nm in the XY-plane and 400 nm along the Z-axis (pinhole 1 Airy unit). Images were processed using Adobe Photoshop (Adobe Systems).
Colocalisation events after double-labelling were assessed by statistical analysis using Metamorph (Roper Scientific). In this method, the distance between the centroids of two labelled objects was calculated for each apparent colocalisation event. When this distance was below the resolution limit of the objective used (63x), we considered that there was a true colocalisation of labels. We then determined the percentage of co-stained objects per optical section (n=73 optical sections).
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