Peroxisomal localization of a myosin XI isoform in Arabidopsis thaliana
Hashimoto, K.(University of Hyogo, Kamigoori (Japan)) | Igarashi, H. | Mano, S. | Nishimura, M. | Shimmen, T. | Yokota, E.
The genome of Arabidopsis thaliana contains 13 myosin XI isoforms. Here we prepared a specific ahtibody against a peptide that mimics a unique C-terminal region from the myosin XI isoform, MYA2. The resulting antibody was used to demonstrate that MYA2 in Arabidopsis protein extracts co-sedimented with actin filaments and dissociated from the filaments with ATP treatment. Immunolocalization studies showed that MYA2 co-localized predominantly with actin filaments in clustered punctuate dots in leaf epidermal cells, root hair cells and suspension-cultured cells. In a transgenic plant in which peroxisomes are labeled with green fluorescent protein, some MYA2 signals were localized on peroxisomes in an actin-dependent manner. We propose that the peroxisome is one of the cargos translocated by MYA2 on actin filaments.
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