Ultrastructural and biochemical characterization of autophagy in higher plant cells subjected to carbon deprivation: control by the supply of mitochondria with respiratory substrates.

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  • S Aubert
    Laboratoire de Physiologie Cellulaire Végétale, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Unité de Recherche Associée 576, Grenoble, France.
  • E Gout
    Laboratoire de Physiologie Cellulaire Végétale, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Unité de Recherche Associée 576, Grenoble, France.
  • R Bligny
    Laboratoire de Physiologie Cellulaire Végétale, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Unité de Recherche Associée 576, Grenoble, France.
  • D Marty-Mazars
    Laboratoire de Physiologie Cellulaire Végétale, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Unité de Recherche Associée 576, Grenoble, France.
  • F Barrieu
    Laboratoire de Physiologie Cellulaire Végétale, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Unité de Recherche Associée 576, Grenoble, France.
  • J Alabouvette
    Laboratoire de Physiologie Cellulaire Végétale, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Unité de Recherche Associée 576, Grenoble, France.
  • F Marty
    Laboratoire de Physiologie Cellulaire Végétale, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Unité de Recherche Associée 576, Grenoble, France.
  • R Douce
    Laboratoire de Physiologie Cellulaire Végétale, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Unité de Recherche Associée 576, Grenoble, France.

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<jats:p>Autophagy triggered by carbohydrate starvation was characterized at both biochemical and structural levels, with the aim to identify reliable and easily detectable marker(s) and to investigate the factors controlling this process. Incubation of suspension cells in sucrose-free culture medium triggered a marked degradation of the membrane polar lipids, including phospholipids and galactolipids. In contrast, the total amounts of sterols, which are mainly associated with plasmalemma and tonoplast membranes, remained constant. In particular, phosphatidylcholine decreased, whereas phosphodiesters including glycerylphosphorylcholine transiently increased, and phosphorylcholine (P-Cho) steadily accumulated. P-Cho exhibits a remarkable metabolic inertness and therefore can be used as a reliable biochemical marker reflecting the extent of plant cell autophagy. Indeed, whenever P-Cho accumulated, a massive regression of cytoplasm was noticed using EM. Double membrane-bounded vacuoles were formed in the peripheral cytoplasm during sucrose starvation and were eventually expelled into the central vacuole, which increased in volume and squeezed the thin layer of cytoplasm spared by autophagy. The biochemical marker P-Cho was used to investigate the factors controlling autophagy. P-Cho did not accumulate when sucrose was replaced by glycerol or by pyruvate as carbon sources. Both compounds entered the cells and sustained normal rates of respiration. No recycling back to the hexose phosphates was observed, and cells were rapidly depleted in sugars and hexose phosphates, without any sign of autophagy. On the contrary, when pyruvate (or glycerol) was removed from the culture medium, P-Cho accumulated without a lag phase, in correlation with the formation of autophagic vacuoles. These results strongly suggest that the supply of mitochondria with respiratory substrates, and not the decrease of sucrose and hexose phosphates, controls the induction of autophagy in plant cells starved in carbohydrates.</jats:p>

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