ArticleProtoplasma2011
Inhibitors of myosin, but not actin, alter transport through Tradescantia plasmodesmata.
Article in Protoplasma, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
16 citing papers in PubMed, 43 citations in OpenAlex.
- The influence of electrical charge on plasmodesma conductivity.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Microscopic probing into plasmodesmata (PD) and PD-derived intercellular gateways (PdIGs): Beyond morphology.Protoplasma · 2026Review
- Distributing Plant Developmental Regulatory Proteins via Plasmodesmata.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Regulating bulb dormancy release and flowering in lily through chemical modulation of intercellular communication.Plant methods · 2023Article
- Epigenetic silencing of callose synthase by VIL1 promotes bud-growth transition in lily bulbs.Nature plants · 2023Article
- Sphingolipids at Plasmodesmata: Structural Components and Functional Modulators.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Review
- Function of Plasmodesmata in the Interaction of Plants with Microbes and Viruses.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2022Article
- Diverse regulation of plasmodesmal architecture facilitates adaptation to phloem translocation.Journal of experimental botany · 2020Review
- Plasmodesmata-Mediated Cell-to-Cell Communication in the Shoot Apical Meristem: How Stem Cells Talk.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2017Review
- The ER-Membrane Transport System Is Critical for Intercellular Trafficking of the NSm Movement Protein and Tomato Spotted Wilt Tospovirus.PLoS pathogens · 2016Article
- A model system for analyzing intercellular communication through plasmodesmata using moss protonemata and leaves.Journal of plant research · 2015Review
- Plasmodesmata in integrated cell signalling: insights from development and environmental signals and stresses.Journal of experimental botany · 2014Review
- Callose deposition and symplastic connectivity are regulated prior to lateral root emergence.Communicative & integrative biology · 2013Article
- Quantitative imaging of directional transport through plasmodesmata in moss protonemata via single-cell photoconversion of Dendra2.Journal of plant research · 2013Article
- Spatio-temporal cellular dynamics of the Arabidopsis flagellin receptor reveal activation status-dependent endosomal sorting.The Plant cell · 2012Article
- Gene silencing in Arabidopsis spreads from the root to the shoot, through a gating barrier, by template-dependent, nonvascular, cell-to-cell movement.Plant physiology · 2012Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Actin and myosin are components of plasmodesmata, the cytoplasmic channels between plant cells, but their role in regulating these channels is unclear. Here, we investigated the role of myosin in regulating plasmodesmata in a well-studied, simple system comprising single filaments of cells which form stamen hairs in Tradescantia virginiana flowers. Effects of myosin inhibitors were assessed by analysing cell-to-cell movement of fluorescent tracers microinjected into treated cells. Incubation in the myosin inhibitor, 2,3-butanedione monoxime (BDM) or injection of anti-myosin antibodies increased cell-cell transport of fluorescent dextrans, while treatment with the myosin inhibitor N-ethylmaleimide (NEM) decreased cell-cell transport. Pretreatment with the callose synthesis inhibitor, deoxy-D: -glucose (DDG), enhanced transport induced by BDM treatment or injection of myosin antibodies but did not relieve NEM-induced reduction in transport. In contrast to the myosin inhibitors, cell-to-cell transport was unaffected by treatment with the actin polymerisation inhibitor, latrunculin B, after controlling for callose synthesis with DDG. Transport was increased following azide treatment, and reduced after injection of ATP, as in previous studies. We propose that myosin detachment from actin, induced by BDM, opens T. virginiana plasmodesmata whereas the firm attachment of myosin to actin, promoted by NEM, closes them.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.