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4210 Illéš et al.<br />

Fig. 9. Detection <strong>of</strong> NO production by DAF-2DA labelling in control root tip (A), root tips treated with 90 lM aluminium for 60 min (B), <strong>and</strong> 10 lM<br />

cPTIO, the NO-scavenger, for 60 min (C). Fluorescence <strong>of</strong> DAF-2DA is green, FM4-64 is red. Fluorescence intensity (D) <strong>and</strong> distribution (insert) <strong>of</strong><br />

DAF-2DA labelling along root developmental zones. Note the disappearance <strong>of</strong> the NO production peak in DTZ after aluminium treatment. Average<br />

intensities <strong>of</strong> 20 roots per treatment.<br />

<strong>of</strong> the root apex including the PTZ <strong>and</strong> the elongation zone<br />

(see FM4-64 labelling <strong>of</strong> the tonoplast), although internalization<br />

<strong>of</strong> aluminium was spatially restricted to the pectinrecycling<br />

zone (Baluška et al., 2002), <strong>and</strong> did not occur<br />

in the PTZ <strong>and</strong> the elongation zone. Inside the cells,<br />

endosomal-sorting processes might be implicated in releasing<br />

the aluminium from the pectin complexes; pectins would<br />

be recycled back to the cell wall while aluminium would<br />

continue in the endocytic pathway towards the vacuole. Pectin<br />

molecules reaching the cell wall may represent a new<br />

pool for binding <strong>of</strong> free <strong>and</strong> loosely bound apoplastic aluminium<br />

<strong>and</strong> thus support the gradual removal <strong>of</strong> morinstained<br />

apoplastic aluminium during recovery. Supporting<br />

data for such endocytic internalization <strong>of</strong> aluminium come<br />

from the presence <strong>of</strong> aluminium in myelin figures (Vázquez,<br />

2002), which closely resemble the multilamellar endosomes<br />

occurring in the pectin internalization pathway (Baluška<br />

et al., 2005a). Difficulties with the visualization <strong>of</strong> these intermediary<br />

structures under experimental conditions could<br />

be caused by weakening <strong>of</strong> the morin fluorescent signal<br />

intensity. A decrease <strong>of</strong> the fluorescent signal in the morin<br />

detection method after aluminium binding to pectins<br />

in vitro was shown by Eticha et al. (2005). However, this<br />

finding obtained by both the use <strong>of</strong> h<strong>and</strong> sections <strong>and</strong>

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