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ArticleProtoplasma2021

Ultrastructural characterization of microlipophagy induced by the interaction of vacuoles and lipid bodies around generative and sperm cells in Arabidopsis pollen.

Kae Akita, Tomoko Takagi, Keiko Kobayashi, Kazuyuki Kuchitsu, Tsuneyoshi Kuroiwa, Noriko Nagata

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Article in Protoplasma, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

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6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Kae AkitaDepartment of Chemical Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Japan Women's University, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
Tomoko TakagiDepartment of Chemical Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Japan Women's University, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
Keiko KobayashiDepartment of Chemical Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Japan Women's University, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
Kazuyuki KuchitsuDepartment of Applied Biological Science, Tokyo University of Science, Noda, Chiba, Japan.
Tsuneyoshi KuroiwaDepartment of Chemical Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Japan Women's University, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
Noriko NagataDepartment of Chemical Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Japan Women's University, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan. n-nagata@fc.jwu.ac.jp.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0894-2049
Japan Women's University · JPTokyo University of Science · JP

Funding

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science JP19H03260Japan Society for the Promotion of Science JP20K06728
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

During pollen maturation, various organelles change their distribution and function during development as male gametophytes. We analyzed the behavior of lipid bodies and vacuoles involved in lipophagy in Arabidopsis pollen using serial section SEM and conventional TEM. At the bicellular pollen stage, lipid bodies in the vegetative cells lined up at the surface of the generative cell. Vacuoles then tightly attached, drew in, and degraded the lipid bodies and eventually occupied the space of the lipid bodies. Degradation of lipid began before transfer of the entire contents of the lipid body. At the tricellular stage, vacuoles instead of lipid bodies surrounded the sperm cells. The degradation of lipid bodies is morphologically considered microautophagy. The atg2-1 Arabidopsis mutant is deficient in one autophagy-related gene (ATG). In this mutant, the assembly of vacuoles around sperm cells was sparser than that in wild-type pollen. The deficiency of ATG2 likely prevents or slows lipid degradation, although it does not prevent contact between organelles. These results demonstrate the involvement of microlipophagy in the pollen development of Arabidopsis.

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AnimalsArabidopsisLipid DropletsMalePollenSpermatozoaVacuolesATG2Lipid bodyLipophagyMicroautophagyPollenVacuole

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PMID32968871
PMCPMC7782417
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