Induction of multinucleation by [beta]-glucosyl Yariv reagent in regenerated cells from Marchantia polymorpha protoplasts and involvement of arabinogalactan proteins in cell plate formation

• Published in: Planta Vol. 230; no. 3; p. 581
• Main Authors: Shibaya, Taeko, Sugawara, Yasutake
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Heidelberg Springer Nature B.V 01-08-2009
• Subjects: Aquatic plants; Plant species
• ISSN: 0032-0935; 1432-2048
• DOI: 10.1007/s00425-009-0954-y

Arabinogalactan proteins (AGPs) are abundant plant cell surface proteoglycans widely distributed in plant species. Since high concentrations of β-glucosyl Yariv reagent (βglcY), which binds selectively to AGPs, inhibited cell division of protoplast-regenerated cells of the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha L. (Shibaya and Sugawara in Physiol Plant 130:271-279, 2007), we investigated the mechanism underlying the inability of the cells to divide normally by staining nuclei, cell walls and β-1,3-glucan. Microscopic observation showed that the diameter of regenerated cells cultured with βglcY was about 2.8-fold larger than that of cells cultured without βglcY. The cells cultured with βglcY were remarkably multinucleated. These results indicated that βglcY did not inhibit mitosis but induced multinucleation. In the regenerated cells cultured with low concentrations of βglcY (5 and 1 μg ml-1), the cell plate was stained strongly by βglcY, suggesting abundant AGPs in the forming cell plate. In these cell plates, β-1,3-glucan was barely detectable or not detected. In multinucleated cells, cell plate-like fragments, which could not reach the cell wall, were frequently observed and they were also stained strongly by βglcY. Our results indicated that AGPs might have an important role in cell plate formation, and perturbation of AGPs with βglcY might result in remarkable multinucleation in protoplast-regenerated cells of M. polymorpha.