1 Station Biologique, UMR 1931 CNRS and Laboratoires Goëmar, 29680 Roscoff, France
2 Marine Biological Association, The Laboratory, Citadel Hill, Plymouth PL1 2PB, UK
*Author for correspondence (e-mail: bouget{at}sb-roscoff.fr)
Accepted August 8, 2001
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SUMMARY |
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Key words: Fucus zygote, Polarisation, Morphogenesis, Cell cycle, CDK
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INTRODUCTION |
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Several examples in animals and plants have shown that uncoupling cell cycle and morphogenesis has no dramatic effect on development. Drosophila wings that overexpress the cell cycle activator dE2F display more cells that are smaller compared with wild-type animals, but the size and morphology of territories in mutants are normal (Neufeld et al., 1998). Similarly, overexpressing the retinoblastoma homolog Rbf in Drosophila wings causes an increase in cell size but has no effect on development (Neufeld et al., 1998). Furthermore, the constitutive expression of dominant negative alleles of the main cell cycle controller, cdc2, in Drosophila wings gives rise to organs with fewer cells but which are of normal shape (Weigmann et al., 1997). However, in this Drosophila mutant, arresting the cell cycle of early stages of wing development prevents growth and morphogenesis (Weigmann et al., 1997).
Several examples in plants also suggest that there is only a weak interaction between cell cycle and morphogenetic events in developing organs. In Arabidopsis, overexpression of the gene encoding cyclin B results in an increased number of cells and longer roots, but no major effects on morphogenesis (Doerner et al., 1996). In tobacco, the constitutive expression of dominant negative alleles of Arabidopsis cdc2a, cdc2aN147, gives rise to organs with fewer cells, but these plants display normal morphogenesis, histogenesis and developmental timing (Hemelerly et al., 1995).
Altering cell cycle progression appears to have more dramatic effects on morphogenesis in unicellular organisms and early embryos than in developing organs with predefined patterns. In single-celled budding yeast, the cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK) cd28 in association with its regulatory cyclins controls cell cycle progression at the G1/S transition as well as morphogenesis (Lew and Reed, 1993; Cvrckova and Nasmyth, 1993). Inhibition of the cyclin/cdc28 complex prevents both the localisation of F-actin at the budding site and polarised secretions, which are required for budding (Lew and Reed, 1993). Furthermore, the activation of cdc28 by G1 cyclins is sufficient to trigger the localisation of F-actin at the budding site in the absence of protein synthesis (Lew and Reed, 1993). It has recently been shown that, in G1, the guanine-nucleotide exchange factor cdc24 for the GTPase cdc42 is sequestred in the nucleus by the CDK inhibitor Far1. At budding, cdc28-Cln, by triggering the degradation of Far1, allows cdc24 to move to the cytoplasm at the site of heterotrimeric G-protein activation where it binds to cdc42, allowing the localisation of F-actin (Shimada et al., 2000). A reciprocal control of cell cycle by morphogenesis has been characterised, and this morphogenesis checkpoint monitors the actin cytoskeleton in budding yeast (McMillan et al., 1998). Interestingly, in the multicellular ascomycete Aspergillus nidulans, defects in basic cell cycle machinery deeply affect morphogenesis by inhibiting the switch from filamentous to budding growth during conidiophore development as well as spore polarisation (Ye et al., 1999; Harris, 1999), suggesting that cell cycle-dependent control of morphogenesis may be a more specific feature of fungi than of animals and land plants.
The possibility that the cell cycle may exert a control on morphogenesis during early embryogenesis is suggested by three lines of evidence: (1) organ size and shape is severely affected in many tobacco seedlings expressing cdc2aN147 and the mutants produce only a few viable seeds; (2) in Arabidopsis plants expressing cdc2aN147 under the control of the constitutive CaMV 35S promoter, embryo development appears to be particularly affected (Hemerly et al., 1995); and (3) when cdc2aN147 is expressed under the control of the seed storage albumin promoter which drives specific expression during late embryo development, either germination is abolished or cotyledons and root development are absent or completely abnormal (Hemerly et al., 2000). However, little is known on the interactions between cell cycle and morphogenesis during early embryogenesis, because in land plants, most cell cycle mutants are not viable and zygotes are not amenable to direct manipulation.
Brown algae of the genus Fucus and Pelvetia are recognised as model systems with which to study embryogenesis in multicellular plants (Brownlee and Bouget, 1998). In these genera, polarity is established after fertilisation (AF) and the polar axis can be reoriented in response to external factors such as light (photopolarisation), before being irreversibly fixed (axis fixation). Microfilaments of F-actin and polarised secretions play a major role in the establishment of polarity (Hable and Kropf, 2000; Shaw and Quatrano, 1996). Much attention has been devoted to the transduction pathways that lead from signal perception and transduction to the anchorage of polarity (Kropf et al., 1999). However, the influence on early development of intracellular factors and, in particular, of cell cycle progression has never been investigated. Fucoid zygotes are well suited to study the relationships between cell cycle and morphogenesis, as polarisation and germination occur during the first cell cycle. We have recently characterised the first cell cycle in Fucus zygotes and showed that it resembles a somatic cell cycle, i.e. cell cycle progression is tightly regulated by CDK-like proteins, which are themselves regulated at the level of synthesis and by tyrosine phosphorylation (Corellou et al., 2001). In particular, two CDK-like proteins containing the hallmark sequence PSTAIRE, p32 and p34, are barely detectable in the egg, and their synthesis is triggered by fertilisation in the absence of transcription. CDKs are required for various events of cell cycle progression and the purine derivative olomoucine, a specific inhibitor of CDK, prevents S-phase entry, as illustrated by the inhibition of both DNA replication and transcription of histone H3 in early S phase (Corellou et al., 2001). An S/M checkpoint prevents all aspects of cell division until DNA is replicated and inhibits centrosomal axis alignment (Corellou et al., 2000b). This checkpoint, however, has no effect on polarisation, germination and rhizoid elongation.
We now report on the link between cell cycle control and the establishment of polarity in Fucus zygotes. We show that both the photopolarisation period and the G1/S transition are concomitant. Inhibiting entry in S phase with purine derivatives, such as olomoucine, which specifically inhibits CDKs, or microinjection of the CDK inhibitor p21cip1 (Harper et al., 1995) prevented the early expression of morphogenesis, i.e. germination. Olomoucine and amino-purvalanol, another purine derivative, inhibited photopolarisation and germination only when applied before or at the time of sensitivity to light (or S phase entry), suggesting that the inhibition of germination is due to the inhibition of polarisation. A monoclonal anti-PSTAIRE antibody prevented cell division and germination but only if microinjected very soon after fertilisation. Finally, amino-purvalanol (Gray et al., 1998) had affinity only for the PSTAIRE CDK-like protein referred to as p34 suggesting that, among PSTAIRE CDKs, p34 is the main target of purine derivatives.
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MATERIALS AND METHODS |
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Staining of DNA and cell wall sulphated compounds
Zygotes and embryos were fixed for 12 hours in 0.2 M citric acid, 0.2% Triton X-100 and kept in 100% methanol for long term storage. Fixed cells were attached to poly-L-lysine-coated coverglasses, and DNA was stained with 50 µg/ml of mithramycin A, as described previously (Corellou et al., 2000b).
For the staining of sulphated cell wall compounds, zygotes were frozen in liquid nitrogen and stored at 80°C. Cell walls were isolated by several cycles of sonication in bi-distilled water and attached to coverslips coated with poly-L-lysine (Sigma). Sulphated compounds were specifically stained with a solution of 0.05% Toluidine Blue O solution-HCl, pH 0.5 (TBO) and washed in 0.1 M HCl.
Protein extraction, purification, histone H1 kinase activity and immunodetection of CDK-like proteins
Protocols for protein extraction and western blot analysis have previously been described in detail (Corellou et al., 2000b). Briefly, embryos were harvested, centrifuged (3000 g) to remove excess FSW, frozen in liquid nitrogen and stored at 80°C until extraction. Frozen samples were ground in liquid nitrogen and proteins were extracted as described previously (Corellou et al., 2000b). Protein extracts were incubated with 10 µl of p9CKShs1 Sepharose beads (containing 3.9 mg/ml of proteins), on a rotary shaker at 4°C for 1 hour. Beads were spun at 3000 g for 1 minute and washed three times in bead buffer. Western blot analysis was performed as following. Forty microliters of 4x Laemmli buffer were added to p9CKShs1 beads and proteins were eluted by heating at 90°C for 10 minutes. For affinity purification on amino-purvalanol, proteins were processed the same way as with p9CKShs1 beads, using 10 µl of amino-purvalanol Sepharose beads (purvalanol covalently linked to Sepharose beads at a concentration of 20 µM in packed beads; a kind gift from Nathanael Gray).
Proteins eluted from p9CKShs1 or amino-purvalanol beads were resolved on a 10 or 12% SDS-polyacrylamide denaturing gel and electro-transferred onto a nitrocellulose membrane (Amersham Life Science, Buckingamshire, UK) for ECL detection (Amersham Life Science). The membranes were stained with Ponceau Red to check the homogeneity of the transfer, blocked in Tris-buffered saline (TBS) containing Blotto B, as described by the manufacturer (Santa Cruz Biotechnology, California) and then incubated with a monoclonal anti-PSTAIRE antibody (Sigma) at a 1/3,000 dilution. The membranes were washed three times in TBS containing 0.1% Tween 20 and the bound antibody was detected with a goat anti-mouse IgG coupled to horseradish peroxidase (BioRad Laboratories Hercules, CA) and then visualised by enhanced chemiluminescence (ECL, Amersham).
The activity of CDK-like proteins was taken as the histone H1 kinase activity of proteins bound to the human suc1 homolog p9CKShs1 sepharose beads. This activity was measured at 30°C for 30 minutes using [32P] ATP, as previously reported (Corellou et al., 2000b). Quantification of radioactive histone H1 was performed using a phosphorimager STORM with the Image QuanT software (Molecular Dynamics). When investigating the effect of amino-purvalanol or p21cip1 on histone H1 kinase, these inhibitors were preincubated with proteins bound to p9CKShs1 for 5 minutes before starting the kinase assay.
Microinjection of the anti-PSTAIRE antibody and the CDK inhibitor p21cip1
The CDK inhibitor p21cip1, cloned in pGEX as a fusion with GST (a kind gift from André Picard), was overproduced in E. coli and purified by affinity on glutathione-agarose beads, using the GST Gene Fusion System, as described by the manufacturer (Pharmacia Biotech). GST-p21cip1 (final concentration of 360 µM) was concentrated in buffer A, which consisted of 5 mM MgCl2, 10 mM Hepes, pH 7.5, using the centricon YM-10, 10,000 Mr cut off device (Millipore). A control buffer lacking GST-p21cip1 was processed identically. A monoclonal anti-PSTAIRE antibody (Sigma) was brought to a final concentration of 2.5 mg/ml of pure IgG1 (16 mg/ml of total proteins) in buffer A, using the centricon YM30-, 30,000 Mr cut off device (Millipore). Ascite Fluid (Sigma), processed identically (final concentration of 16 mg/ml in buffer A), was used as a negative control in microinjection experiments. Finally, GST-p21cip1, the anti-PSTAIRE antibody and ascite fluid were brought to concentrations of 180 µM, 0.7 mg/ml (4.4 mg/ml of total proteins) and 4.4 mg/ml respectively, in injection buffer consisting of 2.5% w/v Oregon Green 488 Dextran 70 kDa (Molecular Probes), 200 mM KCl, 550 mM mannitol and 10 mM, Hepes, pH 7.5.
Zygotes were placed in a wedge (Speksnijder et al., 1989) in FSW containing either 0.2 M mannitol (for 1-hour-old zygotes) or 0.6 M mannitol (for 8-hour-old zygotes). Zygotes were loaded with injection buffer, containing either p21cip1, anti-PSTAIRE antibody or the control buffers mentioned above, by pressure microinjection (picoinjector PLI-100, Medical System Corp), as previously described (Berger and Brownlee, 1993). The fluorescence of Oregon Green 488 dextran 70 kDa was used to check the loading of the cells. From the average fluorescence, the injection volume was estimated to be approx. 2 to 5% of the cell volume. Oregon Green dextran became localised to the nuclear area and was used to visualise the nuclei of injected cells, using a confocal microscope (Biorad model 1024). Both germination and cell division were monitored after microinjection.
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RESULTS |
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CDK inhibitors and microinjection of the CDK inhibitor p21cip1 inhibit germination and cell division in Fucus zygotes
We have tested the effect of olomoucine and of two other purine derivatives, roscovitine and amino-purvalanol, a cell-permeable derivative of purvalanol (Gray et al., 1998), on photopolarisation and germination. These molecules are known to be highly specific for CDKs and more particularly for PSTAIRE CDKs (Meijer, 1995; Gray et al., 1998). When applied at 2 hours AF, 100 µM olomoucine induced a G1/S arrest (Corellou et al., 2001) and mitosis was fully inhibited until at least 36 hours AF (Fig. 2A). The behavior of nuclei in zygotes treated from 2 to 36 hours AF with 30 µM roscovitine or with 5 µM amino-purvalanol was similar to those of nuclei from zygotes treated with 100 µM olomoucine (Fig. 2B,C). The inactive stuctural analogues isoolomoucine and methyl-amino-purvalanol, at the concentrations of 400 µM and 25 µM, respectively, had no effect on cell division (Fig. 2D; Table 1). Remarkably, olomoucine, roscovitine and amino-purvalanol all inhibited rhizoid germination when applied from 2 hours AF (Fig. 2E-G), while isolomoucine and methyl-amino-purvalanol did not (Fig. 2D; Table 1). The uptake of these inactive analogues by the cells has not been quantified. However, it is likely that both olomoucine and its isomer, iso-olomoucine are taken-up to similar extents, as their permeability is related to their hydrophobicity. Arresting the cells in S phase with 20 µM aphidicolin effectively prevented cell division, whereas germination and rhizoid growth were unaffected (Fig. 2I) (Corellou et al., 2000b). Similarly treatments with lower doses of olomoucine (35 µM), which arrested zygotes in mitosis with dispersed chromosomes (Corellou et al., 2001), had no effect on germination (Fig. 2J). In these conditions, three drugs each prevented the localisation, at the rhizoid pole, of sulphated compounds (Fig. 2E-G), a marker of polarity in control zygotes (Fig. 2H) (Shaw and Quatrano, 1996). Zygotes recovering from a treatment with 100 µM olomoucine from 2 to 30 hours AF divided but often lacked a rhizoid (not shown). After 2 weeks in culture, up to 50% of such embryos were formed of thallus tissue only, marked by the presence of thallus-specific apical hairs (Fig. 2K). By contrast, over 80% of zygotes treated with 100 µM olomoucine from 2 to 20 hours AF recovered, divided and displayed polarised growth (data not shown).
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CDK inhibitors prevent germination only when applied before or at the time of photopolarisation
Photopolarisation was efficiently inhibited by olomoucine (100 µM), roscovitine (30 µM) or amino-purvalanol (5 µM) treatments starting at 2 hours AF (Table 1). Olomoucine (100 µM) or amino-purvalanol (5 µM) were then added at various times AF and the germination was scored 36 hours later (Fig. 3). Similarly, aphidicolin was added at various times, to determine the beginning of G2 phase. Photopolarisation and axis fixation were scored in parallel in control populations. Both the photopolarisation period and the period of insensitivity to olomoucine, i.e. the period after which the addition of the drug had no effect on germination, as scored 36 hours later, were concomitant in populations of polarising zygotes (Fig. 3). Although the period of insensitivity to amino-purvalanol appears to start soon after photopolarisation, this is likely to be due to our experimental protocol, which may lead to an overestimation of photopolarised cells (in this experiment, 25% of photopolarisation corresponds to a random orientation in response to light). For the same reason, zygotes are likely to become insensitive to olomoucine before they become photopolarisable rather than at the time of photopolarisation as suggested in Fig. 3. More interestingly, neither drug affected germination when added at the time of axis fixation (60% of fixation at 9 hours AF) or germination (16 hours AF, not shown). It is, therefore, likely that the inhibition of germination by olomoucine or amino-purvalanol arose from the prevention of photopolarisation rather than from the inhibition of axis fixation or germination.
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DISCUSSION |
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The nature of CDK-like proteins involved in the control of early development
Compared with animal cells, the first cell cycle of the Fucus zygote resembles more a somatic than an embryonic cell cycle. In particular PSTAIRE CDK-like proteins are synthesised after fertilisation, probably from stored maternal mRNAs (Corellou et al., 2001). We show (Fig. 4) that, when injected early, a monoclonal anti-PSTAIRE antibody completely prevents cell division, most likely by competing with cyclins for the PSTAIRE-binding site. The anti-PSTAIRE antibody also inhibits germination, suggesting that the CDK-like proteins involved in the control of early development exhibit the PSTAIRE hallmark. When injected at 8 hours AF, i.e. in S phase, cells divided and germinated normally. It is possible that these cells were not sensitive to the injection at this stage of development. However, it is more likely that the cyclin/CDKs complexes were already formed at the time of injection. In favour of this second hypothesis, preliminary data suggest that the PSTAIRE CDK-like protein p34 also plays a major role in the control of mitosis (Corellou et al., 2001). At all the stages of development investigated in this study, the p34 PSTAIRE CDK-like protein, but not p32, had affinity for amino-purvalanol (Fig. 5). This suggests that, in vivo, p34 is the only PSTAIRE CDK-like protein sensitive to amino-purvalanol and probably to other purine derivatives, such as olomoucine. We therefore propose that p34 is the main PSTAIRE CDK-like protein involved in the control of the progression through the first cell cycle. For the same reason, p34 is likely to be the main PSTAIRE CDK-like protein involved in the control of polarity. Although PSTAIRE CDKs are known to be much more sensitive to purine derivatives compared with non-PSTAIRE CDKs (Meijer, 1995), we do not rule out, however, that other, non-PSTAIRE CDK-like proteins, are involved with the control of cell cycle progression and/or of polarisation in Fucus zygotes.
A model for the regulation of early cell cycle and polarisation in Fucus zygotes
At least three different pathways can account for the control of polarity by the p34 CDK-like protein (Fig. 6). P34 may directly control both the entry in S phase and the polarisation events (Fig. 6A). This pathway would resemble the cell cycle-dependent control of morphogenesis in budding yeast (Lew and Reed, 1993). A parallel has been established between germination in Fucus zygotes and budding in yeast (Goodner and Quatrano, 1993), as both budding and germination require the localisation of F-actin at the budding, or germination, site (Lew and Reed, 1993; Kropf et al., 1989) and polarised secretions (Lew and Reed, 1993; Shaw and Quatrano, 1996; Hable and Kropf, 1998). Once they pass the START point in late G1, budding yeasts are committed to the next cycle (Hartwell, 1974) and inhibiting DNA replication has no effect on budding (Lew and Reed, 1995). Altering the activity of Cdc28 at the G1/S transition prevents polarised secretions and inhibits polar localisation of F-actin (Lew and Reed, 1993). Similarly in Fucus, germination occurs when DNA replication is inhibited (Corellou et al., 2000b) but the inhibition, before entry in S phase, of CDK-like proteins prevents photopolarisation and the polar secretion of sulphated compounds. Alternatively p34 may control only the entry in S phase, which in turn positively regulates polarisation events. In this case, the inhibition of polarity would be an indirect consequence of the inhibition of p34 (Fig. 6B). It is also possible that polarisation and the cell cycle are part of two independent pathways (Fig. 6C). In this case, an inhibitory mechanism (checkpoint) would prevent polarisation only before the cell has entered S phase (Fig. 6C).
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Until recently, it was assumed that increasing or decreasing the number of cells by affecting the basic cell cycle machinery leads to a modification of cell size without affecting morphogenesis of plant organs (Doerner et al., 1996; Hemelerly et al., 1995). However, a recent study indicates that the constitutive expression of the CDK inhibitor, ICK1, produces Arabidopsis plants with defects in growth and morphogenesis (Wang et al., 2000). Furthermore, Arabidopsis plants that express constitutively the dominant negative allele cdc2aN147 do not develop (Hemerly et al., 1995), and the expression of cdc2aN147 under the control of an embryo specific promoter either prevents germination or induces defects in morphogenesis (Hemerly et al., 2000). These observations suggest that, as in Fucus zygotes, early interactions exist between early cell cycle and developmental events in higher plant embryos.
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