論文

2021年7月12日

Remodeling of organelles and microtubules during spermiogenesis in the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha

bioRxiv
  • Naoki Minamino
  • ,
  • Takuya Norizuki
  • ,
  • Shoji Mano
  • ,
  • Kazuo Ebine
  • ,
  • Takashi Ueda

DOI
10.1101/2021.07.10.451882
出版者・発行元
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Gametogenesis is an essential biological event for sexual reproduction in various organisms. Bryophytes and some other plants employ motile sperms (spermatozoids) as male gametes, which self-locomote to the egg cells to accomplish fertilization. Spermatozoids of bryophytes harbor distinctive morphological characteristics, including the cell body with a helical slender shape and two motile flagella at the anterior edge. During transformation from a spermatid to spermatozoid (spermiogenesis), the shape and cellular contents of spermatids are dynamically reorganized. However, how each organelle is reorganized during plant spermiogenesis remains obscure. In this study, we classified the developmental processes during spermiogenesis in the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha according to cellular and nuclear shapes and flagella development. We then examined the remodeling of microtubules and reorganization of endomembrane organelles during spermiogenesis. The results indicate that the state of post-translational modification of tubulin is dynamically changed during the formation of the flagella and spline, and the plasma membrane and endomembrane organelles are drastically reorganized in a precisely regulated manner during spermiogenesis. These findings are expected to provide useful indexes to classify developmental and subcellular processes of spermiogenesis in bryophytes.

リンク情報
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.07.10.451882
URL
https://syndication.highwire.org/content/doi/10.1101/2021.07.10.451882
ID情報
  • DOI : 10.1101/2021.07.10.451882

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