Abstract
Transgenic tobacco BY-2 cell lines stably expressing fluorescent protein-tagged marker proteins have been used to visualize the dynamic behaviors of cytoskeletons and organelles during plant cell division. Using time-lapse confocal imaging, we recently revealed that the pharmacological disruption of actin filaments results in the abnormal organization of phragmoplast microtubules during the early phase of cytokinesis in cell cycle-synchronized BY-2 cells. Additionally, disrupting the actin filaments shortens the time from cell plate emergence to the accumulation of green fluorescent protein-tagged NACK1 kinesin on the cell plate, suggesting that there are two functionally diverse types of microtubules in the phragmoplast. We herein describe a protocol for the cell cycle synchronization of BY-2 cells and the time-lapse confocal imaging of cytokinesis combined with a treatment with an actin polymerization inhibitor and the visualization of an emerging cell plate with a vital stain. This protocol is useful for examining the dynamic changes in protein localization or the intracellular architecture and the effects of actin disruption during plant cell division.
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