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Adamowski M, Matijević I, Friml J. Developmental patterning function of GNOM ARF-GEF mediated from the cell periphery. eLife 2024; 13:e68993. [PMID: 38381485 PMCID: PMC10881123 DOI: 10.7554/elife.68993] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2021] [Accepted: 02/05/2024] [Indexed: 02/22/2024] Open
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The GNOM (GN) Guanine nucleotide Exchange Factor for ARF small GTPases (ARF-GEF) is among the best studied trafficking regulators in plants, playing crucial and unique developmental roles in patterning and polarity. The current models place GN at the Golgi apparatus (GA), where it mediates secretion/recycling, and at the plasma membrane (PM) presumably contributing to clathrin-mediated endocytosis (CME). The mechanistic basis of the developmental function of GN, distinct from the other ARF-GEFs including its closest homologue GNOM-LIKE1 (GNL1), remains elusive. Insights from this study largely extend the current notions of GN function. We show that GN, but not GNL1, localizes to the cell periphery at long-lived structures distinct from clathrin-coated pits, while CME and secretion proceed normally in gn knockouts. The functional GN mutant variant GNfewerroots, absent from the GA, suggests that the cell periphery is the major site of GN action responsible for its developmental function. Following inhibition by Brefeldin A, GN, but not GNL1, relocates to the PM likely on exocytic vesicles, suggesting selective molecular associations en route to the cell periphery. A study of GN-GNL1 chimeric ARF-GEFs indicates that all GN domains contribute to the specific GN function in a partially redundant manner. Together, this study offers significant steps toward the elucidation of the mechanism underlying unique cellular and development functions of GNOM.
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- Maciek Adamowski
- Institute of Science and Technology AustriaKlosterneuburgAustria
- Plant Breeding and Acclimatization Institute – National Research InstituteBłoniePoland
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- Institute of Science and Technology AustriaKlosterneuburgAustria
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- Institute of Science and Technology AustriaKlosterneuburgAustria
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Pang L, Kobayashi A, Atsumi Y, Miyazawa Y, Fujii N, Dietrich D, Bennett MJ, Takahashi H. MIZU-KUSSEI1 (MIZ1) and GNOM/MIZ2 control not only positive hydrotropism but also phototropism in Arabidopsis roots. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2023; 74:5026-5038. [PMID: 37220914 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erad193] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2023] [Accepted: 05/22/2023] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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In response to unilateral blue light illumination, roots of some plant species such as Arabidopsis thaliana exhibit negative phototropism (bending away from light), which is important for light avoidance in nature. MIZU-KUSSEI1 (MIZ1) and GNOM/MIZ2 are essential for positive hydrotropism (i.e. in the presence of a moisture gradient, root bending towards greater water availability). Intriguingly, mutations in these genes also cause a substantial reduction in phototropism. Here, we examined whether the same tissue-specific sites of expression required for MIZ1- and GNOM/MIZ2-regulated hydrotropism in Arabidopsis roots are also required for phototropism. The attenuated phototropic response of miz1 roots was completely restored when a functional MIZ1-green fluorescent protein (GFP) fusion was expressed in the cortex of the root elongation zone but not in other tissues such as root cap, meristem, epidermis, or endodermis. The hydrotropic defect and reduced phototropism of miz2 roots were restored by GNOM/MIZ2 expression in either the epidermis, cortex, or stele, but not in the root cap or endodermis. Thus, the sites in root tissues that are involved in the regulation of MIZ1- and GNOM/MIZ2-dependent hydrotropism also regulate phototropism. These results suggest that MIZ1- and GNOM/MIZ2-mediated pathways are, at least in part, shared by hydrotropic and phototropic responses in Arabidopsis roots.
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- Lei Pang
- Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, 2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8577, Japan
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- Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, 2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8577, Japan
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- Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Yamagata University, 1-4-12 Kojirakawa-machi, Yamagata 990-8560, Japan
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- Faculty of Science, Yamagata University, 1-4-12 Kojirakawa-machi, Yamagata 990-8560, Japan
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- Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, 2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8577, Japan
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- Centre for Plant Integrative Biology, University of Nottingham, Nottingham LE12 5RD, UK
- Plant and Crop Sciences, School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham LE12 5RD, UK
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- Centre for Plant Integrative Biology, University of Nottingham, Nottingham LE12 5RD, UK
- Plant and Crop Sciences, School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham LE12 5RD, UK
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- Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, 2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8577, Japan
- Research Center for Space Agriculture and Horticulture, Graduate School of Horticulture, Chiba University, 648 Matsudo, Chiba 271-8510, Japan
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Meissner JM, Akhmetova K, Szul T, Viktorova EG, Sha B, Bhatt JM, Lee EJ, Kahn RA, Belov GA, Chesnokov I, Sztul E. The Arf-GEF GBF1 undergoes multi-domain structural shifts to activate Arf at the Golgi. Front Cell Dev Biol 2023; 11:1233272. [PMID: 37745300 PMCID: PMC10512945 DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2023.1233272] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2023] [Accepted: 08/29/2023] [Indexed: 09/26/2023] Open
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Golgi homeostasis require the activation of Arf GTPases by the guanine-nucleotide exchange factor requires GBF1, whose recruitment to the Golgi represents a rate limiting step in the process. GBF1 contains a conserved, catalytic, Sec7 domain (Sec7d) and five additional (DCB, HUS, HDS1-3) domains. Herein, we identify the HDS3 domain as essential for GBF1 membrane association in mammalian cells and document the critical role of HDS3 during the development of Drosophila melanogaster. We show that upon binding to Golgi membranes, GBF1 undergoes conformational changes in regions bracketing the catalytic Sec7d. We illuminate GBF1 interdomain arrangements by negative staining electron microscopy of full-length human GBF1 to show that GBF1 forms an anti-parallel dimer held together by the paired central DCB-HUS core, with two sets of HDS1-3 arms extending outward in opposite directions. The catalytic Sec7d protrudes from the central core as a largely independent domain, but is closely opposed to a previously unassigned α-helix from the HDS1 domain. Based on our data, we propose models of GBF1 engagement on the membrane to provide a paradigm for understanding GBF1-mediated Arf activation required for cellular and organismal function.
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- Justyna M. Meissner
- Department of Cell, Developmental and Integrative Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States
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- Department of Cell, Developmental and Integrative Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States
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- Department of Veterinary Medicine, Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States
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- Department of Cell, Developmental and Integrative Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States
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- Department of Cell, Developmental and Integrative Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States
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- Department of Cell, Developmental and Integrative Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, United States
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- Department of Veterinary Medicine, Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States
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- Department of Cell, Developmental and Integrative Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States
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Yuan M, Lyu S, Wang Y, E L, Liu T, Hou X, Li Y, Zhang C. Host Factors Genes BcCLC1 and BcCLC2 Confer Turnip Mosaic Virus Resistance in Non-Heading Chinese Cabbage ( Brassica campestris ssp. chinensis). PLANTS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2023; 12:2269. [PMID: 37375894 DOI: 10.3390/plants12122269] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2023] [Revised: 05/26/2023] [Accepted: 06/07/2023] [Indexed: 06/29/2023]
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Clathrin is an evolutionarily highly conserved evolutionary protein consisting of clathrin light chains (CLC) and clathrin heavy chains (CHC), and these form its basic structure. Clathrin is an important host factor in the process of viral infection. In this study, we cloned the BcCLC1 gene and the BcCLC2 gene from the '49CX' variety of non-heading Chinese cabbage (NHCC, Brassica campestris L. ssp. chinensis Makino) and verified their functions. The results showed that BcCLC1 was mainly localized in the cytomembrane and cytoplasm, and only a small amount entered the nucleus. BcCLC2 encoded a protein comprising 265 amino acids that were distributed in the cytomembrane, nucleus, and cytoplasm. A BiFC assay and yeast two-hybrid (Y2H) analysis showed that BcCLCs (BcCLC1 and BcCLC2) could interact with several TuMV proteins. We further investigated the mechanism of BcCLCs in regulating TuMV virus infections in NHCC, and observed that BcCLCs gene silencing inhibited TuMV infections and overexpression of BcCLCs in Arabidopsis promoted TuMV infections in NHCC. Finally, mutants of Arabidopsis homologs of BcCLCs were also screened and subjected to TuMV inoculation tests. In conclusion, we speculate that BcCLCs confer Turnip mosaic virus (TuMV) resistance in NHCC by interacting with TuMV proteins to promote the intracellular transport of the virus.
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- Mengguo Yuan
- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics & Germplasm Enhancement and Utilization, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
- College of Horticulture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics & Germplasm Enhancement and Utilization, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
- College of Horticulture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
- Key Laboratory of South China Agricultural Plant Molecular Analysis and Genetic Improvement, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Botany, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics & Germplasm Enhancement and Utilization, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
- College of Horticulture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics & Germplasm Enhancement and Utilization, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
- College of Horticulture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics & Germplasm Enhancement and Utilization, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
- College of Horticulture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics & Germplasm Enhancement and Utilization, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
- College of Horticulture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics & Germplasm Enhancement and Utilization, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
- College of Horticulture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics & Germplasm Enhancement and Utilization, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
- College of Horticulture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
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The Course of Mechanical Stress: Types, Perception, and Plant Response. BIOLOGY 2023; 12:biology12020217. [PMID: 36829495 PMCID: PMC9953051 DOI: 10.3390/biology12020217] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/27/2022] [Revised: 01/23/2023] [Accepted: 01/25/2023] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Mechanical stimuli, together with the corresponding plant perception mechanisms and the finely tuned thigmomorphogenetic response, has been of scientific and practical interest since the mid-17th century. As an emerging field, there are many challenges in the research of mechanical stress. Indeed, studies on different plant species (annual/perennial) and plant organs (stem/root) using different approaches (field, wet lab, and in silico/computational) have delivered insufficient findings that frequently impede the practical application of the acquired knowledge. Accordingly, the current work distils existing mechanical stress knowledge by bringing in side-by-side the research conducted on both stem and roots. First, the various types of mechanical stress encountered by plants are defined. Second, plant perception mechanisms are outlined. Finally, the different strategies employed by the plant stem and roots to counteract the perceived mechanical stresses are summarized, depicting the corresponding morphological, phytohormonal, and molecular characteristics. The comprehensive literature on both perennial (woody) and annual plants was reviewed, considering the potential benefits and drawbacks of the two plant types, which allowed us to highlight current gaps in knowledge as areas of interest for future research.
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Mao B, Takahashi H, Takahashi H, Fujii N. Diversity of root hydrotropism among natural variants of Arabidopsis thaliana. JOURNAL OF PLANT RESEARCH 2022; 135:799-808. [PMID: 36149514 PMCID: PMC10039817 DOI: 10.1007/s10265-022-01412-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2022] [Accepted: 09/08/2022] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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Root gravitropism affects root hydrotropism. The interference intensity of root gravitropism with root hydrotropism differs among plant species. However, these differences have not been well compared within a single plant species. In this study, we compared root hydrotropism in various natural variants of Arabidopsis under stationary conditions. As a result, we detected a range of root hydrotropism under stationary conditions among natural Arabidopsis variants. Comparison of root gravitropism and root hydrotropism among several Arabidopsis natural variants classified natural variants that decreased root hydrotropism into two types; namely one type that expresses root gravitropism and root hydrotropism weaker than Col-0, and the other type that expresses weaker root hydrotropism than Col-0 but expresses similar root gravitropism with Col-0. However, root hydrotropism of all examined Arabidopsis natural variants was facilitated by clinorotation. These results suggested that the interference of root gravitropism with root hydrotropism is conserved among Arabidopsis natural variants, although the intensity of root gravitropism interference with root hydrotropism differs.
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- Boyuan Mao
- Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, 2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba-Ku, Sendai, 980-8577, Japan
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- Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, 2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba-Ku, Sendai, 980-8577, Japan
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- Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, 2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba-Ku, Sendai, 980-8577, Japan
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- Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, 2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba-Ku, Sendai, 980-8577, Japan.
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Brumm S, Singh MK, Kriechbaum C, Richter S, Huhn K, Kucera T, Baumann S, Wolters H, Takada S, Jürgens G. N-terminal domain of ARF-GEF GNOM prevents heterodimerization with functionally divergent GNL1 in Arabidopsis. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2022; 112:772-785. [PMID: 36106415 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.15979] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2022] [Revised: 09/11/2022] [Accepted: 09/13/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Evolutionary change following gene duplication can lead to functionally divergent paralogous proteins. If comprising identical subunits their random assortment would also form potentially detrimental heteromeric proteins. In Arabidopsis, the ARF GTPase guanine-nucleotide exchange factor GNOM is essential for polar recycling of auxin-efflux transporter PIN1 from endosomes to the basal plasma membrane whereas its paralog GNL1 mediates retrograde Golgi-endoplasmic reticulum traffic. Here we show that both GNOM and GNL1 form homodimers but no heterodimers. To assess the biological significance of this, we generated transgenic plants expressing engineered heterodimer-compatible GNOM variants. Those plants showed developmental defects such as the failure to produce lateral roots. To identify mechanisms underlying heterodimer prevention, we analyzed interactions of the N-terminal dimerization and cyclophilin-binding (DCB) domain. Each DCB domain interacted with the complementary fragment (ΔDCB) both of their own and of the paralogous protein. However, only DCBGNOM interacted with itself whereas DCBGNL1 failed to interact with itself and with DCBGNOM . GNOM variants in which the DCB domain was removed or replaced by DCBGNL1 revealed a role for DCB-DCB interaction in the prevention of GNOM-GNL1 heterodimers whereas DCB-ΔDCB interaction was essential for dimer formation and GNOM function. Our data suggest a model of early DCB-DCB interaction that facilitates GNOM homodimer formation, indirectly precluding formation of detrimental heterodimers.
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- Sabine Brumm
- Center for Plant Molecular Biology (ZMBP), Developmental Genetics, University of Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 32, 72076, Tübingen, Germany
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- Center for Plant Molecular Biology (ZMBP), Developmental Genetics, University of Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 32, 72076, Tübingen, Germany
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- Center for Plant Molecular Biology (ZMBP), Developmental Genetics, University of Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 32, 72076, Tübingen, Germany
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- Center for Plant Molecular Biology (ZMBP), Developmental Genetics, University of Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 32, 72076, Tübingen, Germany
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- Center for Plant Molecular Biology (ZMBP), Developmental Genetics, University of Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 32, 72076, Tübingen, Germany
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- Center for Plant Molecular Biology (ZMBP), Developmental Genetics, University of Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 32, 72076, Tübingen, Germany
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- Center for Plant Molecular Biology (ZMBP), Developmental Genetics, University of Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 32, 72076, Tübingen, Germany
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- Center for Plant Molecular Biology (ZMBP), Developmental Genetics, University of Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 32, 72076, Tübingen, Germany
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- Center for Plant Molecular Biology (ZMBP), Developmental Genetics, University of Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 32, 72076, Tübingen, Germany
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- Center for Plant Molecular Biology (ZMBP), Developmental Genetics, University of Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 32, 72076, Tübingen, Germany
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Linh NM, Scarpella E. Leaf vein patterning is regulated by the aperture of plasmodesmata intercellular channels. PLoS Biol 2022; 20:e3001781. [PMID: 36166438 PMCID: PMC9514613 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001781] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2022] [Accepted: 08/03/2022] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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To form tissue networks, animal cells migrate and interact through proteins protruding from their plasma membranes. Plant cells can do neither, yet plants form vein networks. How plants do so is unclear, but veins are thought to form by the coordinated action of the polar transport and signal transduction of the plant hormone auxin. However, plants inhibited in both pathways still form veins. Patterning of vascular cells into veins is instead prevented in mutants lacking the function of the GNOM (GN) regulator of auxin transport and signaling, suggesting the existence of at least one more GN-dependent vein-patterning pathway. Here we show that in Arabidopsis such a pathway depends on the movement of auxin or an auxin-dependent signal through plasmodesmata (PDs) intercellular channels. PD permeability is high where veins are forming, lowers between veins and nonvascular tissues, but remains high between vein cells. Impaired ability to regulate PD aperture leads to defects in auxin transport and signaling, ultimately leading to vein patterning defects that are enhanced by inhibition of auxin transport or signaling. GN controls PD aperture regulation, and simultaneous inhibition of auxin signaling, auxin transport, and regulated PD aperture phenocopies null gn mutants. Therefore, veins are patterned by the coordinated action of three GN-dependent pathways: auxin signaling, polar auxin transport, and movement of auxin or an auxin-dependent signal through PDs. Such a mechanism of tissue network formation is unprecedented in multicellular organisms. How do plants form vein networks, in the absence of cellular migration or direct cell-cell interaction? This study shows that a GNOM-dependent combination of polar auxin transport, auxin signal transduction, and movement of an auxin signal through plasmodesmata patterns leaf vascular cells into veins.
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- Nguyen Manh Linh
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
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WAVY GROWTH Arabidopsis E3 ubiquitin ligases affect apical PIN sorting decisions. Nat Commun 2022; 13:5147. [PMID: 36050482 PMCID: PMC9437102 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-32888-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2021] [Accepted: 08/22/2022] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Directionality in the intercellular transport of the plant hormone auxin is determined by polar plasma membrane localization of PIN-FORMED (PIN) auxin transport proteins. However, apart from PIN phosphorylation at conserved motifs, no further determinants explicitly controlling polar PIN sorting decisions have been identified. Here we present Arabidopsis WAVY GROWTH 3 (WAV3) and closely related RING-finger E3 ubiquitin ligases, whose loss-of-function mutants show a striking apical-to-basal polarity switch in PIN2 localization in root meristem cells. WAV3 E3 ligases function as essential determinants for PIN polarity, acting independently from PINOID/WAG-dependent PIN phosphorylation. They antagonize ectopic deposition of de novo synthesized PIN proteins already immediately following completion of cell division, presumably via preventing PIN sorting into basal, ARF GEF-mediated trafficking. Our findings reveal an involvement of E3 ligases in the selective targeting of apically localized PINs in higher plants.
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Bellande K, Trinh DC, Gonzalez AA, Dubois E, Petitot AS, Lucas M, Champion A, Gantet P, Laplaze L, Guyomarc’h S. PUCHI represses early meristem formation in developing lateral roots of Arabidopsis thaliana. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2022; 73:3496-3510. [PMID: 35224628 PMCID: PMC9162184 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erac079] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2021] [Accepted: 02/25/2022] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Lateral root organogenesis is a key process in the development of a plant's root system and its adaptation to the environment. During lateral root formation, an early phase of cell proliferation first produces a four-cell-layered primordium, and only from this stage onwards is a root meristem-like structure, expressing root stem cell niche marker genes, being established in the developing organ. Previous studies reported that the gene regulatory network controlling lateral root formation is organized into two subnetworks whose mutual inhibition may contribute to organ patterning. PUCHI encodes an AP2/ERF transcription factor expressed early during lateral root primordium development and required for correct lateral root formation. To dissect the molecular events occurring during this early phase, we generated time-series transcriptomic datasets profiling lateral root development in puchi-1 mutants and wild types. Transcriptomic and reporter analyses revealed that meristem-related genes were expressed ectopically at early stages of lateral root formation in puchi-1 mutants. We conclude that, consistent with the inhibition of genetic modules contributing to lateral root development, PUCHI represses ectopic establishment of meristematic cell identities at early stages of organ development. These findings shed light on gene network properties that orchestrate correct timing and patterning during lateral root formation.
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- Univ Montpellier, CNRS, INSERM, Montpellier, France
- Montpellier GenomiX, France Génomique, Montpellier, France
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- Univ Montpellier, CNRS, INSERM, Montpellier, France
- Montpellier GenomiX, France Génomique, Montpellier, France
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- DIADE, Univ Montpellier, IRD, Montpellier, France
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Ashraf MA, Rahman A. Cellular Protein Trafficking: A New Player in Low-Temperature Response Pathway. PLANTS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2022; 11:933. [PMID: 35406913 PMCID: PMC9003145 DOI: 10.3390/plants11070933] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2022] [Revised: 03/26/2022] [Accepted: 03/28/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Unlike animals, plants are unable to escape unfavorable conditions, such as extremities of temperature. Among abiotic variables, the temperature is notableas it affects plants from the molecular to the organismal level. Because of global warming, understanding temperature effects on plants is salient today and should be focused not only on rising temperature but also greater variability in temperature that is now besetting the world's natural and agricultural ecosystems. Among the temperature stresses, low-temperature stress is one of the major stresses that limits crop productivity worldwide. Over the years, although substantial progress has been made in understanding low-temperature response mechanisms in plants, the research is more focused on aerial parts of the plants rather than on the root or whole plant, and more efforts have been made in identifying and testing the major regulators of this pathway preferably in the model organism rather than in crop plants. For the low-temperature stress response mechanism, ICE-CBF regulatory pathway turned out to be the solely established pathway, and historically most of the low-temperature research is focused on this single pathway instead of exploring other alternative regulators. In this review, we tried to take an in-depth look at our current understanding of low temperature-mediated plant growth response mechanism and present the recent advancement in cell biological studies that have opened a new horizon for finding promising and potential alternative regulators of the cold stress response pathway.
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- M. Arif Ashraf
- Biology Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA;
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- The United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, Iwate University, Morioka 020-8550, Japan
- Department of Plant Biosciences, Faculty of Agriculture, Iwate University, Morioka 020-8550, Japan
- Department of Plant Sciences, College of Agriculture and Bioresources, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A8, Canada
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De Bellis D, Kalmbach L, Marhavy P, Daraspe J, Geldner N, Barberon M. Extracellular vesiculo-tubular structures associated with suberin deposition in plant cell walls. Nat Commun 2022; 13:1489. [PMID: 35304458 PMCID: PMC8933581 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-29110-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2021] [Accepted: 02/25/2022] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Suberin is a fundamental plant biopolymer, found in protective tissues, such as seed coats, exodermis and endodermis of roots. Suberin is deposited in most suberizing cells in the form of lamellae just outside of the plasma membrane, below the primary cell wall. How monomeric suberin precursors, thought to be synthesized at the endoplasmic reticulum, are transported outside of the cell, for polymerization into suberin lamellae has remained obscure. Using electron-microscopy, we observed large numbers of extracellular vesiculo-tubular structures (EVs) to accumulate specifically in suberizing cells, in both chemically and cryo-fixed samples. EV presence correlates perfectly with root suberization and we could block suberin deposition and vesicle accumulation by affecting early, as well as late steps in the secretory pathway. Whereas many previous reports have described EVs in the context of biotic interactions, our results suggest a developmental role for extracellular vesicles in the formation of a major cell wall polymer. Suberizing plant cells export suberin monomers outside of the cell to form a hydrophobic barrier. Here the authors propose a role for extracellular vesiculo-tubular structures in the deposition of suberin monomers.
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- Damien De Bellis
- Department of Plant Molecular Biology, DBMV, UNIL-Sorge, University of Lausanne, 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland.,Electron Microscopy Facility, University of Lausanne, 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Plant Molecular Biology, DBMV, UNIL-Sorge, University of Lausanne, 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland.,Sainsbury Laboratory University Cambridge, CB2 1LR, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Plant Molecular Biology, DBMV, UNIL-Sorge, University of Lausanne, 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland.,Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, 90736, Umeå, Sweden
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- Electron Microscopy Facility, University of Lausanne, 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Plant Molecular Biology, DBMV, UNIL-Sorge, University of Lausanne, 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland.
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- Department of Plant Molecular Biology, DBMV, UNIL-Sorge, University of Lausanne, 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland. .,Department of Botany and Plant Biology, University of Geneva, 1211, Geneva, Switzerland.
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Connected function of PRAF/RLD and GNOM in membrane trafficking controls intrinsic cell polarity in plants. Nat Commun 2022; 13:7. [PMID: 35013279 PMCID: PMC8748900 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-27748-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2021] [Accepted: 12/09/2021] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Cell polarity is a fundamental feature underlying cell morphogenesis and organismal development. In the Arabidopsis stomatal lineage, the polarity protein BASL controls stomatal asymmetric cell division. However, the cellular machinery by which this intrinsic polarity site is established remains unknown. Here, we identify the PRAF/RLD proteins as BASL physical partners and mutating four PRAF members leads to defects in BASL polarization. Members of PRAF proteins are polarized in stomatal lineage cells in a BASL-dependent manner. Developmental defects of the praf mutants phenocopy those of the gnom mutants. GNOM is an activator of the conserved Arf GTPases and plays important roles in membrane trafficking. We further find PRAF physically interacts with GNOM in vitro and in vivo. Thus, we propose that the positive feedback of BASL and PRAF at the plasma membrane and the connected function of PRAF and GNOM in endosomal trafficking establish intrinsic cell polarity in the Arabidopsis stomatal lineage.
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Lavania D, Linh NM, Scarpella E. Of Cells, Strands, and Networks: Auxin and the Patterned Formation of the Vascular System. Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol 2021; 13:cshperspect.a039958. [PMID: 33431582 DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a039958] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Throughout plant development, vascular cells continually form from within a population of seemingly equivalent cells. Vascular cells connect end to end to form continuous strands, and vascular strands connect at both or either end to form networks of exquisite complexity and mesmerizing beauty. Here we argue that experimental evidence gained over the past few decades implicates the plant hormone auxin-its production, transport, perception, and response-in all the steps that lead to the patterned formation of the plant vascular system, from the formation of vascular cells to their connection into vascular networks. We emphasize the organizing principles of the cell- and tissue-patterning process, rather than its molecular subtleties. In the picture that emerges, cells compete for an auxin-dependent, cell-polarizing signal; positive feedback between cell polarization and cell-to-cell movement of the polarizing signal leads to gradual selection of cell files; and selected cell files differentiate into vascular strands that drain the polarizing signal from the neighboring cells. Although the logic of the patterning process has become increasingly clear, the molecular details remain blurry; the future challenge will be to bring them into razor-sharp focus.
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- Dhruv Lavania
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E9, Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E9, Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E9, Canada
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Yoshinari A, Toda Y, Takano J. GNOM-dependent endocytosis maintains polar localisation of the borate exporter BOR1 in Arabidopsis. Biol Cell 2021; 113:264-269. [PMID: 33443774 DOI: 10.1111/boc.202000106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2020] [Revised: 01/06/2021] [Accepted: 01/08/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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BACKGROUND INFORMATION Plants use transporters polarly localised in the plasma membrane for the directional transport of nutrients. The boric acid/borate (B) exporter BOR1 is localised polarly in the inner lateral domain of the plasma membrane in various root cells for efficient translocation of B under B limitation. With a high B supply, BOR1 is ubiquitinated and transported to vacuoles for degradation. The polar localisation and vacuolar targeting of BOR1 are maintained by different endocytosis mechanisms. RESULTS We demonstrated that one of the most utilised inhibitors in endosomal recycling, brefeldin A (BFA), inhibits the polar localisation of BOR1. BFA inhibits a subset of guanine-nucleotide exchange factors (ARF-GEFs), regulators of vesicle formation. Using a transgenic line expressing BFA-resistant engineered GNOM, we identified GNOM as the key ARF-GEF in endocytosis and maintenance of the polar localisation of BOR1. CONCLUSIONS AND SIGNIFICANCE We found that BFA inhibits the polar localisation of BOR1 by inhibiting GNOM activity. Our results suggest that GNOM-dependent endocytosis contributes to the maintenance of the polar localisation of BOR1 under B limitation. We propose a model of BOR1 transcytosis initiated from GNOM-dependent endocytosis.
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- Akira Yoshinari
- Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (WPI-ITbM), Nagoya University, Chikusa, Nagoya, Aichi, 464-8601, Japan.,Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Osaka Prefecture University, Sakai, Osaka, 599-8531, Japan
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- Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (WPI-ITbM), Nagoya University, Chikusa, Nagoya, Aichi, 464-8601, Japan.,Japan Science and Technology Agency, Kawaguchi, Saitama, 332-0012, Japan.,Phytometrics Inc., Minami, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, 435-0036, Japan
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- Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Osaka Prefecture University, Sakai, Osaka, 599-8531, Japan
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Otsuka K, Mamiya A, Konishi M, Nozaki M, Kinoshita A, Tamaki H, Arita M, Saito M, Yamamoto K, Hachiya T, Noguchi K, Ueda T, Yagi Y, Kobayashi T, Nakamura T, Sato Y, Hirayama T, Sugiyama M. Temperature-dependent fasciation mutants provide a link between mitochondrial RNA processing and lateral root morphogenesis. eLife 2021; 10:61611. [PMID: 33443014 PMCID: PMC7846275 DOI: 10.7554/elife.61611] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2020] [Accepted: 01/13/2021] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Although mechanisms that activate organogenesis in plants are well established, much less is known about the subsequent fine-tuning of cell proliferation, which is crucial for creating properly structured and sized organs. Here we show, through analysis of temperature-dependent fasciation (TDF) mutants of Arabidopsis, root redifferentiation defective 1 (rrd1), rrd2, and root initiation defective 4 (rid4), that mitochondrial RNA processing is required for limiting cell division during early lateral root (LR) organogenesis. These mutants formed abnormally broadened (i.e. fasciated) LRs under high-temperature conditions due to extra cell division. All TDF proteins localized to mitochondria, where they were found to participate in RNA processing: RRD1 in mRNA deadenylation, and RRD2 and RID4 in mRNA editing. Further analysis suggested that LR fasciation in the TDF mutants is triggered by reactive oxygen species generation caused by defective mitochondrial respiration. Our findings provide novel clues for the physiological significance of mitochondrial activities in plant organogenesis.
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- Kurataka Otsuka
- Botanical Gardens, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Botanical Gardens, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Botanical Gardens, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Botanical Gardens, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Botanical Gardens, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Botanical Gardens, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Botanical Gardens, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Botanical Gardens, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Botanical Gardens, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Molecular and Functional Genomics, Interdisciplinary Center for Science Research, Shimane University, Shimane, Japan
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- Department of Applied Life Science, School of Life Sciences, Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences, Tokyo, Japan
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- Division of Cellular Dynamics, National Institute for Basic Biology, Aichi, Japan
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- Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
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- Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
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- Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
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- Biology and Environmental Science, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Ehime University, Ehime, Japan
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- Institute of Plant Science and Resources, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan
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- Botanical Gardens, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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Li SW. Molecular Bases for the Regulation of Adventitious Root Generation in Plants. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2021; 12:614072. [PMID: 33584771 PMCID: PMC7876083 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2021.614072] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2020] [Accepted: 01/08/2021] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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The formation of adventitious roots (ARs) is an ecologically and economically important developmental process in plants. The evolution of AR systems is an important way for plants to cope with various environmental stresses. This review focuses on identified genes that have known to regulate the induction and initiation of ARs and offers an analysis of this process at the molecular level. The critical genes involved in adventitious rooting are the auxin signaling-responsive genes, including the AUXIN RESPONSE FACTOR (ARF) and the LATERAL ORGAN BOUNDARIES-DOMAIN (LOB) gene families, and genes associated with auxin transport and homeostasis, the quiescent center (QC) maintenance, and the root apical meristem (RAM) initiation. Several genes involved in cell wall modulation are also known to be involved in the regulation of adventitious rooting. Furthermore, the molecular processes that play roles in the ethylene, cytokinin, and jasmonic acid signaling pathways and their crosstalk modulate the generation of ARs. The crosstalk and interaction among many molecular processes generates complex networks that regulate AR generation.
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Gibson CL, Isley JW, Falbel TG, Mattox CT, Lewis DR, Metcalf KE, Muday GK. A Conditional Mutation in SCD1 Reveals Linkage Between PIN Protein Trafficking, Auxin Transport, Gravitropism, and Lateral Root Initiation. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2020; 11:910. [PMID: 32733502 PMCID: PMC7358545 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2020.00910] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2019] [Accepted: 06/03/2020] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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Auxin is transported in plants with distinct polarity, defined by transport proteins of the PIN-formed (PIN) family. Components of the complex trafficking machinery responsible for polar PIN protein localization have been identified by genetic approaches, but severe developmental phenotypes of trafficking mutants complicate dissection of this pathway. We utilized a temperature sensitive allele of Arabidopsis thaliana SCD1 (stomatal cytokinesis defective1) that encodes a RAB-guanine nucleotide exchange factor. Auxin transport, lateral root initiation, asymmetric auxin-induced gene expression after gravitropic reorientation, and differential gravitropic growth were reduced in the roots of the scd1-1 mutant relative to wild type at the restrictive temperature of 25°C, but not at the permissive temperature of 18°C. In scd1-1 at 25°C, PIN1- and PIN2-GFP accumulated in endomembrane bodies. Transition of seedlings from 18 to 25°C for as little as 20 min resulted in the accumulation of PIN2-GFP in endomembranes, while gravitropism and root developmental defects were not detected until hours after transition to the non-permissive temperature. The endomembrane compartments that accumulated PIN2-GFP in scd1-1 exhibited FM4-64 signal colocalized with ARA7 and ARA6 fluorescent marker proteins, consistent with PIN2 accumulation in the late or multivesicular endosome. These experiments illustrate the power of using a temperature sensitive mutation in the gene encoding SCD1 to study the trafficking of PIN2 between the endosome and the plasma membrane. Using the conditional feature of this mutation, we show that altered trafficking of PIN2 precedes altered auxin transport and defects in gravitropism and lateral root development in this mutant upon transition to the restrictive temperature.
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- Carole L. Gibson
- Department of Biology, Center for Molecular Signaling, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, United States
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- Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, United States
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- Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, United States
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- Department of Biology, Center for Molecular Signaling, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, United States
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- Department of Biology, Center for Molecular Signaling, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, United States
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- Department of Biology, Center for Molecular Signaling, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, United States
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- Department of Biology, Center for Molecular Signaling, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, United States
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Wang X, Ye L, Lyu M, Ursache R, Löytynoja A, Mähönen AP. An inducible genome editing system for plants. NATURE PLANTS 2020; 6:766-772. [PMID: 32601420 PMCID: PMC7611339 DOI: 10.1038/s41477-020-0695-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2019] [Accepted: 05/17/2020] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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Conditional manipulation of gene expression is a key approach to investigating the primary function of a gene in a biological process. While conditional and cell-type-specific overexpression systems exist for plants, there are currently no systems available to disable a gene completely and conditionally. Here, we present a new tool with which target genes can efficiently and conditionally be knocked out by genome editing at any developmental stage. Target genes can also be knocked out in a cell-type-specific manner. Our tool is easy to construct and will be particularly useful for studying genes having null alleles that are non-viable or show pleiotropic developmental defects.
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- Xin Wang
- Institute of Biotechnology, HiLIFE, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Organismal and Evolutionary Biology Research Programme, Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Viikki Plant Science Centre, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Institute of Biotechnology, HiLIFE, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Organismal and Evolutionary Biology Research Programme, Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Viikki Plant Science Centre, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Institute of Biotechnology, HiLIFE, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Organismal and Evolutionary Biology Research Programme, Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Viikki Plant Science Centre, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Plant Molecular Biology, Biophore, Campus UNIL-Sorge, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Institute of Biotechnology, HiLIFE, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Institute of Biotechnology, HiLIFE, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
- Organismal and Evolutionary Biology Research Programme, Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Viikki Plant Science Centre, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
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Cai G, Wang Y, Yan W, Luan S, Lan W. Choline transporter-like 1 (CTL1) positively regulates apical hook development in etiolated Arabidopsis seedlings. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2020; 525:491-497. [PMID: 32111354 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2020.02.124] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2020] [Accepted: 02/19/2020] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Ethylene is a gaseous phytohormone that is perceived by two-component histidine kinase-type receptors. Recent studies identified choline transporter-like 1 (CTL1) essential for Arabidopsis growth and development, including apical hook development in the etiolated seedlings. Here, we report that CTL1 contributes to apical hook development by enhancing ethylene response. The expression of CTL1 was highly correlated with the intensity of ethylene response and was enriched in the apical hook, cotyledon tip and hypocotyl. Genetic analysis showed that the dark-grown ctl1 mutant displayed a defect in ethylene-induced apical hook development as compared with the wild type. Accordingly, the expression of ethylene signaling reporter EBS::GUS in ctl1 mutant was greatly reduced in leaves, apical hook, hypocotyl and root, suggesting that the disruption of CTL1 impairs the ethylene signaling. Furthermore, protein-protein interaction assays demonstrated that CTL1 may interact with ethylene receptors, including ETR1, ETR2, ERS1, ERS2. Importantly, the abundance of CTL1 was diminished when ETR1 was disrupted upon ethylene response. Taken together, our results suggest that CTL1 functions as a positive regulator in ethylene signaling which in turn contributes to apical hook development of etiolated plant seedlings.
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- Guohua Cai
- State Key Laboratory for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, PR China
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- Shanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Shanghai, 201602, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, PR China
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA.
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- State Key Laboratory for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, PR China.
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Yang K, Wang L, Le J, Dong J. Cell polarity: Regulators and mechanisms in plants. JOURNAL OF INTEGRATIVE PLANT BIOLOGY 2020; 62:132-147. [PMID: 31889400 PMCID: PMC7196246 DOI: 10.1111/jipb.12904] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2019] [Accepted: 12/25/2019] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Cell polarity plays an important role in a wide range of biological processes in plant growth and development. Cell polarity is manifested as the asymmetric distribution of molecules, for example, proteins and lipids, at the plasma membrane and/or inside of a cell. Here, we summarize a few polarized proteins that have been characterized in plants and we review recent advances towards understanding the molecular mechanism for them to polarize at the plasma membrane. Multiple mechanisms, including membrane trafficking, cytoskeletal activities, and protein phosphorylation, and so forth define the polarized plasma membrane domains. Recent discoveries suggest that the polar positioning of the proteo-lipid membrane domain may instruct the formation of polarity complexes in plants. In this review, we highlight the factors and regulators for their functions in establishing the membrane asymmetries in plant development. Furthermore, we discuss a few outstanding questions to be addressed to better understand the mechanisms by which cell polarity is regulated in plants.
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- Kezhen Yang
- Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Physiology, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China
- Correspondences: Kezhen Yang (); Juan Dong (, Dr. Dong is fully responsible for the distributions of all materials associated with this article)
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- Waksman Institute of Microbiology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
- Waksman Institute of Microbiology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA; Department of Plant Biology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08901, USA
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Physiology, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China
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- Waksman Institute of Microbiology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
- Waksman Institute of Microbiology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA; Department of Plant Biology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08901, USA
- Correspondences: Kezhen Yang (); Juan Dong (, Dr. Dong is fully responsible for the distributions of all materials associated with this article)
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Verna C, Ravichandran SJ, Sawchuk MG, Linh NM, Scarpella E. Coordination of tissue cell polarity by auxin transport and signaling. eLife 2019; 8:51061. [PMID: 31793881 PMCID: PMC6890459 DOI: 10.7554/elife.51061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2019] [Accepted: 11/01/2019] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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Plants coordinate the polarity of hundreds of cells during vein formation, but how they do so is unclear. The prevailing hypothesis proposes that GNOM, a regulator of membrane trafficking, positions PIN-FORMED auxin transporters to the correct side of the plasma membrane; the resulting cell-to-cell, polar transport of auxin would coordinate tissue cell polarity and induce vein formation. Contrary to predictions of the hypothesis, we find that vein formation occurs in the absence of PIN-FORMED or any other intercellular auxin-transporter; that the residual auxin-transport-independent vein-patterning activity relies on auxin signaling; and that a GNOM-dependent signal acts upstream of both auxin transport and signaling to coordinate tissue cell polarity and induce vein formation. Our results reveal synergism between auxin transport and signaling, and their unsuspected control by GNOM in the coordination of tissue cell polarity during vein patterning, one of the most informative expressions of tissue cell polarization in plants. Plants, animals and other living things grow and develop over their lifetimes: for example, oak trees come from acorns and chickens begin their lives as eggs. To achieve these transformations, the cells in those living things must grow, divide and change their shape and other features. Plants and animals specify the directions in which their cells will grow and develop by gathering specific proteins to one side of the cells. This makes one side different from all the other sides, which the cells use as an internal compass that points in one direction. To align their internal compasses, animal cells touch one another and often move around inside the body. Plant cells, on the other hand, are surrounded by a wall that keeps them apart and prevents them from moving around. So how do plant cells align their internal compasses? Scientists have long thought that a protein called GNOM aligns the internal compasses of plant cells. The hypothesis proposes that GNOM gathers another protein, called PIN1, to one side of a cell. PIN1 would then pump a plant hormone known as auxin out of this first cell and, in doing so, would also drain auxin away from the cell on the opposite side. In this second cell, GNOM would then gather PIN1 to the side facing the first cell, and this process would repeat until all the cells' compasses were aligned. To test this hypothesis, Verna et al. combined microscopy with genetic approaches to study how cells' compasses are aligned in the leaves of a plant called Arabidopsis thaliana. The experiments revealed that auxin needs to move from cell-to-cell to align the cells’ compasses. However, contrary to the above hypothesis, this movement of auxin was not sufficient: the cells also needed to be able to detect and respond to the auxin that entered them. Along with controlling how auxin moved between the cells, GNOM also regulated how the cells responded to the auxin. These findings reveal how plants specify which directions their cells grow and develop. In the future, this knowledge may eventually aid efforts to improve crop yields by controlling the growth and development of crop plants.
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- Carla Verna
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
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POLTERGEIST and POLTERGEIST-LIKE1 are essential for the maintenance of post-embryonic shoot and root apical meristems as revealed by a partial loss-of-function mutant allele of pll1 in Arabidopsis. Genes Genomics 2019; 42:107-116. [DOI: 10.1007/s13258-019-00894-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2019] [Accepted: 11/18/2019] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Béziat C, Kleine-Vehn J. The Road to Auxin-Dependent Growth Repression and Promotion in Apical Hooks. Curr Biol 2019; 28:R519-R525. [PMID: 29689235 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.01.069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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The phytohormone auxin controls growth rates within plant tissues, but the underlying mechanisms are still largely enigmatic. The apical hook is a superb model to understand differential growth, because it displays both auxin-dependent growth repression and promotion. In this special issue on membranes, we illustrate how the distinct utilization of vesicle trafficking contributes to the spatial control of polar auxin transport, thereby pinpointing the site of growth repression in apical hooks. We moreover highlight that the transition to growth promotion is achieved by balancing inter- and intracellular auxin transport. We emphasize here that the apical hook development is a suitable model to further advance our mechanistic knowledge on plant growth regulation.
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- Chloé Béziat
- Department of Applied Genetics and Cell Biology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Muthgasse 18, 1190 Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Applied Genetics and Cell Biology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Muthgasse 18, 1190 Vienna, Austria.
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Xue S, Zou J, Liu Y, Wang M, Zhang C, Le J. Involvement of BIG5 and BIG3 in BRI1 Trafficking Reveals Diverse Functions of BIG-subfamily ARF-GEFs in Plant Growth and Gravitropism. Int J Mol Sci 2019; 20:ijms20092339. [PMID: 31083521 PMCID: PMC6539719 DOI: 10.3390/ijms20092339] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2019] [Revised: 05/07/2019] [Accepted: 05/09/2019] [Indexed: 01/14/2023] Open
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ADP-ribosylation factor-guanine nucleotide exchange factors (ARF-GEFs) act as key regulators of vesicle trafficking in all eukaryotes. In Arabidopsis, there are eight ARF-GEFs, including three members of the GBF1 subfamily and five members of the BIG subfamily. These ARF-GEFs have different subcellular localizations and regulate different trafficking pathways. Until now, the roles of these BIG-subfamily ARF-GEFs have not been fully revealed. Here, analysis of the BIGs expression patterns showed that BIG3 and BIG5 have similar expression patterns. big5-1 displayed a dwarf growth and big3-1 big5-1 double mutant showed more severe defects, indicating functional redundancy between BIG3 and BIG5. Moreover, both big5-1 and big3-1 big5-1 exhibited a reduced sensitivity to Brassinosteroid (BR) treatment. Brefeldin A (BFA)-induced BR receptor Brassinosteroid insensitive 1 (BRI1) aggregation was reduced in big5-1 mutant, indicating that the action of BIG5 is required for BRI1 recycling. Furthermore, BR-induced dephosphorylation of transcription factor BZR1 was decreased in big3-1 big5-1 double mutants. The introduction of the gain-of-function of BZR1 mutant BZR1-1D in big3-1 big5-1 mutants can partially rescue the big3-1 big5-1 growth defects. Our findings revealed that BIG5 functions redundantly with BIG3 in plant growth and gravitropism, and BIG5 participates in BR signal transduction pathway through regulating BRI1 trafficking.
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- Shan Xue
- Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Physiology, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China.
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Physiology, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Physiology, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China.
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Physiology, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China.
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Physiology, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Physiology, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China.
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Ashraf MA, Rahman A. Cold stress response in Arabidopsis thaliana is mediated by GNOM ARF-GEF. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2019; 97:500-516. [PMID: 30362633 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.14137] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2018] [Revised: 10/14/2018] [Accepted: 10/16/2018] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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Endosomal trafficking plays an important role in regulating plant growth and development both at optimal and stressed conditions. Cold stress response in Arabidopsis root is directly linked to inhibition of the endosomal trafficking of auxin efflux carriers. However, the cellular components that link cold stress and the endosomal trafficking remain elusive. By screening available endosomal trafficking mutants against root growth recovery response under cold stress, we identified GNOM, a SEC7 containing ARF-GEF, as a major modulator of cold response. Contrasting response of partial loss of function mutant gnomB4049/emb30-1 and the engineered Brefeldin A (BFA)-resistant GNOM line, both of which contain mutations within SEC7 domain, to cold stress at the whole-plant level highlights the importance of this domain in modulating the cold response pathway of plants. Cold stress selectively and transiently inhibits GNOM expression. The engineered point mutation at 696 amino acid position (Methionine to Leucine) that makes GNOM resistant to BFA in fact results in overexpression of GNOM both at transcriptional and translational levels, and also alters its subcellular localization. Overexpression and altered cellular localization of GNOM were found to be directly linked to conferring striking cold-resistant phenotype in Arabidopsis. Collectively, these results provide a mechanistic link between GNOM, BFA-sensitive GNOM-regulated trafficking and cold stress.
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- Mohammad A Ashraf
- United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, Iwate University, Morioka, 020-8550, Japan
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- United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, Iwate University, Morioka, 020-8550, Japan
- Department of Plant Bio Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, Iwate University, Morioka, 020-8550, Japan
- Agro-Innovation Center, Iwate University, Morioka, Japan
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Lee HW, Cho C, Pandey SK, Park Y, Kim MJ, Kim J. LBD16 and LBD18 acting downstream of ARF7 and ARF19 are involved in adventitious root formation in Arabidopsis. BMC PLANT BIOLOGY 2019; 19:46. [PMID: 30704405 PMCID: PMC6357364 DOI: 10.1186/s12870-019-1659-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2018] [Accepted: 01/24/2019] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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BACKGROUND Adventitious root (AR) formation is a complex genetic trait, which is controlled by various endogenous and environmental cues. Auxin is known to play a central role in AR formation; however, the mechanisms underlying this role are not well understood. RESULTS In this study, we showed that a previously identified auxin signaling module, AUXIN RESPONSE FACTOR(ARF)7/ARF19-LATERAL ORGAN BOUNDARIES DOMAIN(LBD)16/LBD18 via AUXIN1(AUX1)/LIKE-AUXIN3 (LAX3) auxin influx carriers, which plays important roles in lateral root formation, is involved in AR formation in Arabidopsis. In aux1, lax3, arf7, arf19, lbd16 and lbd18 single mutants, we observed reduced numbers of ARs than in the wild type. Double and triple mutants exhibited an additional decrease in AR numbers compared with the corresponding single or double mutants, respectively, and the aux1 lax3 lbd16 lbd18 quadruple mutant was devoid of ARs. Expression of LBD16 or LBD18 under their own promoters in lbd16 or lbd18 mutants rescued the reduced number of ARs to wild-type levels. LBD16 or LBD18 fused to a dominant SRDX repressor suppressed promoter activity of the cell cycle gene, Cyclin-Dependent Kinase(CDK)A1;1, to some extent. Expression of LBD16 or LBD18 was significantly reduced in arf7 and arf19 mutants during AR formation in a light-dependent manner, but not in arf6 and arf8. GUS expression analysis of promoter-GUS reporter transgenic lines revealed overlapping expression patterns for LBD16, LBD18, ARF7, ARF19 and LAX3 in AR primordia. CONCLUSION These results suggest that the ARF7/ARF19-LBD16/LBD18 transcriptional module via the AUX1/LAX3 auxin influx carriers plays an important role in AR formation in Arabidopsis.
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- Han Woo Lee
- Department of Bioenergy Science and Technology, Chonnam National University, Yongbongro 77, Buk-gu, Gwangju, 61186 South Korea
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- Department of Bioenergy Science and Technology, Chonnam National University, Yongbongro 77, Buk-gu, Gwangju, 61186 South Korea
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- Department of Bioenergy Science and Technology, Chonnam National University, Yongbongro 77, Buk-gu, Gwangju, 61186 South Korea
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- Department of Bioenergy Science and Technology, Chonnam National University, Yongbongro 77, Buk-gu, Gwangju, 61186 South Korea
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- Department of Bioenergy Science and Technology, Chonnam National University, Yongbongro 77, Buk-gu, Gwangju, 61186 South Korea
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- Department of Bioenergy Science and Technology, Chonnam National University, Yongbongro 77, Buk-gu, Gwangju, 61186 South Korea
- Kumho Life Science Laboratory, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, 61186 South Korea
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Chiatante D, Rost T, Bryant J, Scippa GS. Regulatory networks controlling the development of the root system and the formation of lateral roots: a comparative analysis of the roles of pericycle and vascular cambium. ANNALS OF BOTANY 2018; 122:697-710. [PMID: 29394314 PMCID: PMC6215048 DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcy003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2017] [Accepted: 01/08/2018] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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Background The production of a new lateral root from parental root primary tissues has been investigated extensively, and the most important regulatory mechanisms are now well known. A first regulatory mechanism is based on the synthesis of small peptides which interact ectopically with membrane receptors to elicit a modulation of transcription factor target genes. A second mechanism involves a complex cross-talk between plant hormones. It is known that lateral roots are formed even in parental root portions characterized by the presence of secondary tissues, but there is not yet agreement about the putative tissue source providing the cells competent to become founder cells of a new root primordium. Scope We suggest models of possible regulatory mechanisms for inducing specific root vascular cambium (VC) stem cells to abandon their activity in the production of xylem and phloem elements and to start instead the construction of a new lateral root primordium. Considering the ontogenic nature of the VC, the models which we suggest are the result of a comparative review of mechanisms known to control the activity of stem cells in the root apical meristem, procambium and VC. Stem cells in the root meristems can inherit various competences to play different roles, and their fate could be decided in response to cross-talk between endogenous and exogenous signals. Conclusions We have found a high degree of relatedness among the regulatory mechanisms controlling the various root meristems. This fact suggests that competence to form new lateral roots can be inherited by some stem cells of the VC lineage. This kind of competence could be represented by a sensitivity of specific stem cells to factors such as those presented in our models.
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- Donato Chiatante
- Dipartimento di Biotecnologie e Scienze della Vita, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy
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- Department of Plant Biology, College of Biological Sciences, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
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- Biosciences, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
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Inahashi H, Shelley IJ, Yamauchi T, Nishiuchi S, Takahashi-Nosaka M, Matsunami M, Ogawa A, Noda Y, Inukai Y. OsPIN2, which encodes a member of the auxin efflux carrier proteins, is involved in root elongation growth and lateral root formation patterns via the regulation of auxin distribution in rice. PHYSIOLOGIA PLANTARUM 2018; 164:216-225. [PMID: 29446441 DOI: 10.1111/ppl.12707] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2017] [Revised: 02/07/2018] [Accepted: 02/08/2018] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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Auxin flow is important for different root developmental processes such as root formation, emergence, elongation and gravitropism. However, the detailed information about the mechanisms regulating the auxin flow is less well understood in rice. We characterized the auxin transport-related mutants, Ospin-formed2-1 (Ospin2-1) and Ospin2-2, which exhibited curly root phenotypes and altered lateral root formation patterns in rice. The OsPIN2 gene encodes a member of the auxin efflux carrier proteins that possibly regulates the basipetal auxin flow from the root tip toward the root elongation zone. According to DR5-driven GUS expression, there is an asymmetric auxin distribution in the mutants that corresponded with the asymmetric cell elongation pattern in the mutant root tip. Auxin transport inhibitor, N-1-naphthylphthalamic acid and Ospin2-1 Osiaa13 double mutant rescued the curly root phenotype indicating that this phenotype results from a defect in proper auxin distribution. The typical curly root phenotype was not observed when Ospin2-1 was grown in distilled water as an alternative to tap water, although higher auxin levels were found at the root tip region of the mutant than that of the wild-type. Therefore, the lateral root formation zone in the mutant was shifted basipetally compared with the wild-type. These results reflect that an altered auxin flow in the root tip region is responsible for root elongation growth and lateral root formation patterns in rice.
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- Hiroki Inahashi
- Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi, 464-8601, Japan
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- International Cooperation Center for Agricultural Education, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi, 464-8601, Japan
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- Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi, 464-8601, Japan
- Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 113-8657, Japan
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- Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi, 464-8601, Japan
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- International Cooperation Center for Agricultural Education, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi, 464-8601, Japan
- National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Shizuoka, 411-8540, Japan
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- Faculty of Agriculture, Iwate University, Morioka, Iwate, 020-8550, Japan
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- Department of Biological Production, Akita Prefectural University, Akita, Akita, 010-0146, Japan
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- Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi, 464-8601, Japan
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- International Cooperation Center for Agricultural Education, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi, 464-8601, Japan
- PRESTO, JST, Kawaguchi, Saitama, 332-0012, Japan
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Bräuning S, Catanach A, Lord JM, Bicknell R, Macknight RC. Comparative transcriptome analysis of the wild-type model apomict Hieracium praealtum and its loss of parthenogenesis (lop) mutant. BMC PLANT BIOLOGY 2018; 18:206. [PMID: 30249189 PMCID: PMC6154955 DOI: 10.1186/s12870-018-1423-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2018] [Accepted: 09/10/2018] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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BACKGROUND Asexual seed formation (apomixis) has been observed in diverse plant families but is rare in crop plants. The generation of apomictic crops would revolutionize agriculture, as clonal seed production provides a low cost and efficient way to produce hybrid seed. Hieracium (Asteraceae) is a model system for studying the molecular components of gametophytic apomixis (asexual seed reproduction). RESULTS In this study, a reference transcriptome was produced from apomictic Hieracium undergoing the key apomictic events of apomeiosis, parthenogenesis and autonomous endosperm development. In addition, transcriptome sequences from pre-pollination and post-pollination stages were generated from a loss of parthenogenesis (lop) mutant accession that exhibits loss of parthenogenesis and autonomous endosperm development. The transcriptome is composed of 147,632 contigs, 50% of which were annotated with orthologous genes and their probable function. The transcriptome was used to identify transcripts differentially expressed during apomictic and pollination dependent (lop) seed development. Gene Ontology enrichment analysis of differentially expressed transcripts showed that an important difference between apomictic and pollination dependent seed development was the expression of genes relating to epigenetic gene regulation. Genes that mark key developmental stages, i.e. aposporous embryo sac development and seed development, were also identified through their enhanced expression at those stages. CONCLUSION The production of a comprehensive floral reference transcriptome for Hieracium provides a valuable resource for research into the molecular basis of apomixis and the identification of the genes underlying the LOP locus.
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- Sophia Bräuning
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Otago, 710 Cumberland St, Dunedin, 9016 New Zealand
- Department of Botany, University of Otago, 464 Great King St, Dunedin, 9016 New Zealand
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- New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research, Gerald St, Lincoln, 7608 New Zealand
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- Department of Botany, University of Otago, 464 Great King St, Dunedin, 9016 New Zealand
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- New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research, Gerald St, Lincoln, 7608 New Zealand
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Otago, 710 Cumberland St, Dunedin, 9016 New Zealand
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Naramoto S, Kyozuka J. ARF GTPase machinery at the plasma membrane regulates auxin transport-mediated plant growth. PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY (TOKYO, JAPAN) 2018; 35:155-159. [PMID: 31819717 PMCID: PMC6879391 DOI: 10.5511/plantbiotechnology.18.0312a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2018] [Accepted: 03/12/2018] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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VAN3 is a plant ACAP-type ADP-ribosylation factor-GTPase activating protein (ARF-GAP) that regulates auxin transport-mediated plant morphogenesis such as continuous venation and lateral root development in Arabidopsis. Previous studies suggested that VAN3 localizes at the plasma membrane (PM) and intracellular structures. However, the role of PM localization in mediating the van3 mutant phenotype is not clear. Here we performed subcellular localization analysis of VAN3 and its regulators CVP2 and VAB to determine their endogenous functions. We found that GFP-tagged CVP2 and VAB preferentially localize at the PM in stably transformed plants. We determined that transgenic plants with lower expression levels of GFP- or mRFP-tagged VAN3 displayed PM localization, which was sufficient to rescue the van3 mutant. Functional VAN3-mRFP and VAB-GFP colocalized at PMs. The van3 mutant phenotype was suppressed by mutation of VAN7/GNOM, which encodes an ARF-GEF that localizes at the PM and Golgi apparatus. These combined results suggest that ARF-GTPase machinery at the PM regulates auxin transport-mediated plant growth and development.
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- Satoshi Naramoto
- Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8577, Japan
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- Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8577, Japan
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Linh NM, Verna C, Scarpella E. Coordination of cell polarity and the patterning of leaf vein networks. CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY 2018; 41:116-124. [PMID: 29278780 DOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2017.09.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2017] [Revised: 09/12/2017] [Accepted: 09/15/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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During development, the behavior of cells in tissues is coordinated along specific orientations or directions by coordinating the polar localization of components in those cells. The coordination of such cell polarity is perhaps nowhere more spectacular than in developing leaves, where the polarity of hundreds of cells is coordinated in the leaf epidermis and inner tissue to pattern vein networks. Available evidence suggests that the spectacular coordination of cell polarity that patterns vein networks is controlled by auxin transport and levels, and by genes that have been implicated in the polar localization of auxin transporters.
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- Nguyen Manh Linh
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
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Napsucialy-Mendivil S, Dubrovsky JG. Genetic and Phenotypic Analysis of Lateral Root Development in Arabidopsis thaliana. Methods Mol Biol 2018; 1761:47-75. [PMID: 29525948 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-7747-5_4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Root system formation to a great extent depends on lateral root (LR) formation. In Arabidopsis thaliana, LRs are initiated within a parent root in pericycle that is an external tissue of the stele. LR initiation takes place in a strictly acropetal pattern, whereas posterior lateral root primordium (LRP) formation is asynchronous. In this chapter, we focus on methods of genetic and phenotypic analysis of LR initiation, LRP morphogenesis, and LR emergence in Arabidopsis. We provide details on how to make cleared root preparations and how to identify the LRP stages. We also pay attention to the categorization of the LRP developmental stages and their variations and to the normalization of the number of LRs and LRPs formed, per length of the primary root, and per number of cells produced within a root. Hormonal misbalances and mutations affect LRP morphogenesis significantly, and the evaluation of LRP abnormalities is addressed as well. Finally, we deal with various molecular markers that can be used for genetic and phenotypic analyses of LR development.
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- Selene Napsucialy-Mendivil
- Departamento de Biología Molecular de Plantas, Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico
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- Departamento de Biología Molecular de Plantas, Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico.
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Wang Y, Yang L, Tang Y, Tang R, Jing Y, Zhang C, Zhang B, Li X, Cui Y, Zhang C, Shi J, Zhao F, Lan W, Luan S. Arabidopsis choline transporter-like 1 (CTL1) regulates secretory trafficking of auxin transporters to control seedling growth. PLoS Biol 2017; 15:e2004310. [PMID: 29283991 PMCID: PMC5746207 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.2004310] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2017] [Accepted: 11/21/2017] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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Auxin controls a myriad of plant developmental processes and plant response to environmental conditions. Precise trafficking of auxin transporters is essential for auxin homeostasis in plants. Here, we report characterization of Arabidopsis CTL1, which controls seedling growth and apical hook development by regulating intracellular trafficking of PIN-type auxin transporters. The CTL1 gene encodes a choline transporter-like protein with an expression pattern highly correlated with auxin distribution and is enriched in shoot and root apical meristems, lateral root primordia, the vascular system, and the concave side of the apical hook. The choline transporter-like 1 (CTL1) protein is localized to the trans-Golgi network (TGN), prevacuolar compartment (PVC), and plasma membrane (PM). Disruption of CTL1 gene expression alters the trafficking of 2 auxin efflux transporters—Arabidopsis PM-located auxin efflux transporter PIN-formed 1 (PIN1) and Arabidopsis PM-located auxin efflux transporter PIN-formed 3 (PIN3)—to the PM, thereby affecting auxin distribution and plant growth and development. We further found that phospholipids, sphingolipids, and other membrane lipids were significantly altered in the ctl1 mutant, linking CTL1 function to lipid homeostasis. We propose that CTL1 regulates protein sorting from the TGN to the PM through its function in lipid homeostasis. Auxin, a plant hormone, controls many aspects of plant growth and development. The precise transport and distribution of auxin hold the key to its function. A number of transport proteins are known to be involved in auxin translocation, and the PIN proteins, which are an integral part of membranes in plants, play a pivotal role in this process. Several PIN proteins are localized in the plasma membrane to mediate auxin efflux from cells, but their regulation is not well known. In this report, we analyze the role of a choline transport protein, choline transporter-like 1 (CTL1), and find that it controls the trafficking of Arabidopsis PM-located auxin efflux transporter PIN-formed 1 (PIN1) and Arabidopsis PM-located auxin efflux transporter PIN-formed 3 (PIN3) to the plasma membrane, thereby regulating auxin distribution during plant growth and development. In addition, we show that CTL1 has a role in lipid homeostasis in the membrane; thus, these findings provide a mechanistic link between choline transport, lipid homeostasis, and vesicle trafficking in plants. We conclude that CTL1 is a new factor in secretory protein sorting and that this finding contributes to the understanding of not only auxin distribution in plants but also protein trafficking in general.
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- Yuan Wang
- State Key Laboratory for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Nanjing University-Nanjing Forestry University Joint Institute for Plant Molecular Biology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America
- College of Life Sciences, Northwest University, Xi’an, Shanxi, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Nanjing University-Nanjing Forestry University Joint Institute for Plant Molecular Biology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Nanjing University-Nanjing Forestry University Joint Institute for Plant Molecular Biology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America
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- State Key Laboratory for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Nanjing University-Nanjing Forestry University Joint Institute for Plant Molecular Biology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Nanjing University-Nanjing Forestry University Joint Institute for Plant Molecular Biology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Nanjing University-Nanjing Forestry University Joint Institute for Plant Molecular Biology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
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- Key Laboratory for Genetics and Breeding of Forest Trees and Ornamental Plants, Ministry of Education, College of Biological Sciences and Technology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory for Genetics and Breeding of Forest Trees and Ornamental Plants, Ministry of Education, College of Biological Sciences and Technology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America
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- Nanjing University–Nanjing Forestry University Joint Institute for Plant Molecular Biology, Key Laboratory of Forest Genetics and Biotechnology, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Nanjing University-Nanjing Forestry University Joint Institute for Plant Molecular Biology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Nanjing University-Nanjing Forestry University Joint Institute for Plant Molecular Biology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
- * E-mail: (WL); (SL)
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America
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Eapen D, Martínez-Guadarrama J, Hernández-Bruno O, Flores L, Nieto-Sotelo J, Cassab GI. Synergy between root hydrotropic response and root biomass in maize (Zea mays L.) enhances drought avoidance. PLANT SCIENCE : AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PLANT BIOLOGY 2017; 265:87-99. [PMID: 29223345 DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2017.09.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2017] [Revised: 09/19/2017] [Accepted: 09/20/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Roots of higher plants change their growth direction in response to moisture, avoiding drought and gaining maximum advantage for development. This response is termed hydrotropism. There have been few studies of root hydrotropism in grasses, particularly in maize. Our goal was to test whether an enhanced hydrotropic response of maize roots correlates with a better adaptation to drought and partial/lateral irrigation in field studies. We developed a laboratory bioassay for testing hydrotropic response in primary roots of 47 maize elite DTMA (Drought Tolerant Maize for Africa) hybrids. After phenotyping these hybrids in the laboratory, selected lines were tested in the field. Three robust and three weak hybrids were evaluated employing three irrigation procedures: normal irrigation, partial lateral irrigation and drought. Hybrids with a robust hydrotropic response showed growth and developmental patterns, under drought and partial lateral irrigation, that differed from weak hydrotropic responders. A correlation between root crown biomass and grain yield in hybrids with robust hydrotropic response was detected. Hybrids with robust hydrotropic response showed earlier female flowering whereas several root system traits, such as projected root area, median width, maximum width, skeleton width, skeleton nodes, average tip diameter, rooting depth skeleton, thinner aboveground crown roots, as well as stem diameter, were considerably higher than in weak hydrotropic responders in the three irrigation procedures utilized. These results demonstrate the benefit of intensive phenotyping of hydrotropism in primary roots since maize plants that display a robust hydrotropic response grew better under drought and partial lateral irrigation, indicating that a selection for robust hydrotropism might be a promising breeding strategy to improve drought avoidance in maize.
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- Delfeena Eapen
- Departamento de Biología Molecular de Plantas, Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México,Av. Universidad 2001, Cuernavaca, Mor. 62210, Mexico.
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- Departamento de Biología Molecular de Plantas, Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México,Av. Universidad 2001, Cuernavaca, Mor. 62210, Mexico
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- Departamento de Biología Molecular de Plantas, Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México,Av. Universidad 2001, Cuernavaca, Mor. 62210, Mexico
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- Departamento de Biología Molecular de Plantas, Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México,Av. Universidad 2001, Cuernavaca, Mor. 62210, Mexico
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- Laboratorio de Fisiología Molecular, Jardín Botánico, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Circuito Zona Deportiva s/n, Ciudad Universitaria, Ciudad de Mexico, 04510, Mexico
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- Departamento de Biología Molecular de Plantas, Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México,Av. Universidad 2001, Cuernavaca, Mor. 62210, Mexico.
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Morohashi K, Okamoto M, Yamazaki C, Fujii N, Miyazawa Y, Kamada M, Kasahara H, Osada I, Shimazu T, Fusejima Y, Higashibata A, Yamazaki T, Ishioka N, Kobayashi A, Takahashi H. Gravitropism interferes with hydrotropism via counteracting auxin dynamics in cucumber roots: clinorotation and spaceflight experiments. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2017; 215:1476-1489. [PMID: 28722158 DOI: 10.1111/nph.14689] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2016] [Accepted: 05/28/2017] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Roots of land plants show gravitropism and hydrotropism in response to gravity and moisture gradients, respectively, for controlling their growth orientation. Gravitropism interferes with hydrotropism, although the mechanistic aspects are poorly understood. Here, we differentiated hydrotropism from gravitropism in cucumber roots by conducting clinorotation and spaceflight experiments. We also compared mechanisms regulating hydrotropism and auxin-regulated gravitropism. Clinorotated or microgravity (μG)-grown cucumber seedling roots hydrotropically bent toward wet substrate in the presence of moisture gradients, but they grew straight in the direction of normal gravitational force at the Earth's surface (1G) on the ground or centrifuge-generated 1G in space. The roots appeared to become hydrotropically more sensitive to moisture gradients under μG conditions in space. Auxin transport inhibitors significantly reduced the hydrotropic response of clinorotated seedling roots. The auxin efflux protein CsPIN5 was differentially expressed in roots of both clinorotated and μG-grown seedlings; with higher expression in the high-humidity (concave) side than the low-humidity (convex) side of hydrotropically responding roots. Our results suggest that roots become hydrotropically sensitive in μG, and CsPIN5-mediated auxin transport has an important role in inducing root hydrotropism. Thus, hydrotropic and gravitropic responses in cucumber roots may compete via differential auxin dynamics established in response to moisture gradients and gravity.
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- Keita Morohashi
- Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, 2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-8577, Japan
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- Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, 2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-8577, Japan
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- Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, 2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-8577, Japan
- Japan Space Forum, 3-2-1 Kanda-Surugadai, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 101-0062, Japan
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- Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, 2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-8577, Japan
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- Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, 2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-8577, Japan
- Faculty of Science, Yamagata University, 1-4-12, Kojirakawa-machi, Yamagata, 990-8560, Japan
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- Advanced Engineering Services Co. Ltd, 1-6-1 Takezono, Tsukuba, 305-0032, Japan
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- Japan Manned Space Systems Co., 1-6-1 Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 100-0004, Japan
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- Japan Manned Space Systems Co., 1-6-1 Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 100-0004, Japan
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- Japan Space Forum, 3-2-1 Kanda-Surugadai, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 101-0062, Japan
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- Japan Space Forum, 3-2-1 Kanda-Surugadai, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 101-0062, Japan
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- JEM Utilization Center, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, 2-1-1 Sengen, Tsukuba, 305-8505, Japan
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- Graduate School of Medicine, Teikyo University, 2-11-1 Kaga, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo, 173-8605, Japan
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- Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, 3-1-1 Yoshinodai, Sagamihara, 252-5210, Japan
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- Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, 2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-8577, Japan
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- Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, 2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-8577, Japan
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Mettbach U, Strnad M, Mancuso S, Baluška F. Immunogold-EM analysis reveal brefeldin a-sensitive clusters of auxin in Arabidopsis root apex cells. Commun Integr Biol 2017; 10:e1327105. [PMID: 28702129 PMCID: PMC5501221 DOI: 10.1080/19420889.2017.1327105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2017] [Revised: 04/13/2017] [Accepted: 04/29/2017] [Indexed: 11/05/2022] Open
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Immunogold electron microscopy (EM) study of Arabidopsis root apices analyzed using specific IAA antibody and high-pressure freeze fixation technique allowed, for the first time, vizualization of subcellular localization of IAA in cells assembled intactly within plant tissues. Our quantitative analysis reveals that there is considerable portion of IAA gold particles that clusters within vesicles and membraneous compartments in all root apex cells. There are clear tissue-specific and developmental differences of clustered IAA in root apices. These findings have significant consequences for our understanding of this small molecule which is controlling plant growth, development and behavior.
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- Laboratory of Growth Regulators, Centre of the Region Haná for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research, Institute of Experimental Botany AS CR & Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic
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- Department of Plant, Soil and Environmental Science & LINV, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
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Keicher J, Jaspert N, Weckermann K, Möller C, Throm C, Kintzi A, Oecking C. Arabidopsis 14-3-3 epsilon members contribute to polarity of PIN auxin carrier and auxin transport-related development. eLife 2017. [PMID: 28422008 DOI: 10.7554/elife.24336.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/08/2023] Open
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Eukaryotic 14-3-3 proteins have been implicated in the regulation of diverse biological processes by phosphorylation-dependent protein-protein interactions. The Arabidopsis genome encodes two groups of 14-3-3s, one of which - epsilon - is thought to fulfill conserved cellular functions. Here, we assessed the in vivo role of the ancestral 14-3-3 epsilon group members. Their simultaneous and conditional repression by RNA interference and artificial microRNA in seedlings led to altered distribution patterns of the phytohormone auxin and associated auxin transport-related phenotypes, such as agravitropic growth. Moreover, 14-3-3 epsilon members were required for pronounced polar distribution of PIN-FORMED auxin efflux carriers within the plasma membrane. Defects in defined post-Golgi trafficking processes proved causal for this phenotype and might be due to lack of direct 14-3-3 interactions with factors crucial for membrane trafficking. Taken together, our data demonstrate a fundamental role for the ancient 14-3-3 epsilon group members in regulating PIN polarity and plant development.
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- Jutta Keicher
- Plant Physiology, Center for Plant Molecular Biology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Plant Physiology, Center for Plant Molecular Biology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Plant Physiology, Center for Plant Molecular Biology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Plant Physiology, Center for Plant Molecular Biology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Plant Physiology, Center for Plant Molecular Biology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Plant Physiology, Center for Plant Molecular Biology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Plant Physiology, Center for Plant Molecular Biology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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Keicher J, Jaspert N, Weckermann K, Möller C, Throm C, Kintzi A, Oecking C. Arabidopsis 14-3-3 epsilon members contribute to polarity of PIN auxin carrier and auxin transport-related development. eLife 2017; 6. [PMID: 28422008 PMCID: PMC5397284 DOI: 10.7554/elife.24336] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2016] [Accepted: 04/06/2017] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Eukaryotic 14-3-3 proteins have been implicated in the regulation of diverse biological processes by phosphorylation-dependent protein-protein interactions. The Arabidopsis genome encodes two groups of 14-3-3s, one of which - epsilon - is thought to fulfill conserved cellular functions. Here, we assessed the in vivo role of the ancestral 14-3-3 epsilon group members. Their simultaneous and conditional repression by RNA interference and artificial microRNA in seedlings led to altered distribution patterns of the phytohormone auxin and associated auxin transport-related phenotypes, such as agravitropic growth. Moreover, 14-3-3 epsilon members were required for pronounced polar distribution of PIN-FORMED auxin efflux carriers within the plasma membrane. Defects in defined post-Golgi trafficking processes proved causal for this phenotype and might be due to lack of direct 14-3-3 interactions with factors crucial for membrane trafficking. Taken together, our data demonstrate a fundamental role for the ancient 14-3-3 epsilon group members in regulating PIN polarity and plant development.
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- Jutta Keicher
- Plant Physiology, Center for Plant Molecular Biology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Plant Physiology, Center for Plant Molecular Biology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Plant Physiology, Center for Plant Molecular Biology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Plant Physiology, Center for Plant Molecular Biology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Plant Physiology, Center for Plant Molecular Biology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Plant Physiology, Center for Plant Molecular Biology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Plant Physiology, Center for Plant Molecular Biology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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Keicher J, Jaspert N, Weckermann K, Möller C, Throm C, Kintzi A, Oecking C. Arabidopsis 14-3-3 epsilon members contribute to polarity of PIN auxin carrier and auxin transport-related development. eLife 2017; 6. [PMID: 28422008 DOI: 10.7554/elife.24336.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2016] [Accepted: 04/06/2017] [Indexed: 05/19/2023] Open
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Eukaryotic 14-3-3 proteins have been implicated in the regulation of diverse biological processes by phosphorylation-dependent protein-protein interactions. The Arabidopsis genome encodes two groups of 14-3-3s, one of which - epsilon - is thought to fulfill conserved cellular functions. Here, we assessed the in vivo role of the ancestral 14-3-3 epsilon group members. Their simultaneous and conditional repression by RNA interference and artificial microRNA in seedlings led to altered distribution patterns of the phytohormone auxin and associated auxin transport-related phenotypes, such as agravitropic growth. Moreover, 14-3-3 epsilon members were required for pronounced polar distribution of PIN-FORMED auxin efflux carriers within the plasma membrane. Defects in defined post-Golgi trafficking processes proved causal for this phenotype and might be due to lack of direct 14-3-3 interactions with factors crucial for membrane trafficking. Taken together, our data demonstrate a fundamental role for the ancient 14-3-3 epsilon group members in regulating PIN polarity and plant development.
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- Jutta Keicher
- Plant Physiology, Center for Plant Molecular Biology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Plant Physiology, Center for Plant Molecular Biology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Plant Physiology, Center for Plant Molecular Biology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Plant Physiology, Center for Plant Molecular Biology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Plant Physiology, Center for Plant Molecular Biology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Plant Physiology, Center for Plant Molecular Biology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Plant Physiology, Center for Plant Molecular Biology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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Salazar-Blas A, Noriega-Calixto L, Campos ME, Eapen D, Cruz-Vázquez T, Castillo-Olamendi L, Sepulveda-Jiménez G, Porta H, Dubrovsky JG, Cassab GI. Robust root growth in altered hydrotropic response1 (ahr1) mutant of Arabidopsis is maintained by high rate of cell production at low water potential gradient. JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2017; 208:102-114. [PMID: 27912083 DOI: 10.1016/j.jplph.2016.11.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2016] [Revised: 07/28/2016] [Accepted: 11/09/2016] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Hydrotropism is the directional root growth response determined by water stimulus. In a water potential gradient system (WPGS) the roots of the Arabidopsis wild type have a diminished root growth compared to normal medium (NM). In contrast, the altered hydrotropic response1 (ahr1) mutant roots maintain their robust growth in the same WPGS. The aims of this work were to ascertain how ahr1 roots could sustain growth in the WPGS, with a special focus on the integration of cellular processes involved in the signaling that determines root growth during abiotic stress and their relation to hydrotropism. Cellular analysis of the root apical meristem of ahr1 mutant contrary to the wild type showed an absence of changes in the meristem length, the elongation zone length, the length of fully elongated cells, and the cell cycle duration. The robust and steady root growth of ahr1 seedlings in the WPGS is explained by the mutant capacity to maintain cell production and cell elongation at the same level as in the NM. Analysis of auxin response at a transcriptional level showed that roots of the ahr1 mutant had a lower auxin response when grown in the WPGS, compared to wild type, indicating that auxin signaling participates in attenuation of root growth under water stress conditions. Also, wild type plants exhibited a high increase in proline content while ahr1 mutants showed minimum changes in the Normal Medium→Water Stress Medium (NM→WSM), a lower water potential gradient system than the WPGS. Accordingly, in this condition, gene expression of Δ1-6 Pyrroline-5-Carboxylate Synthetase1 (P5CS1) involved in proline synthesis strongly increased in wild type but not in ahr1 seedlings. The ahr1 phenotype shows unique features since the mutant root cells continue to proliferate and grow in the presence of a progressively negative water potential gradient at a level comparable to wild type growing in the NM. As such, it represents an exceptional resource for understanding hydrotropism.
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- Amed Salazar-Blas
- Departamento de Biología Molecular de Plantas, Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Av. Universidad 2001, Cuernavaca, Mor. 62250, México
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- Departamento de Biología Molecular de Plantas, Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Av. Universidad 2001, Cuernavaca, Mor. 62250, México
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- Departamento de Biología Molecular de Plantas, Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Av. Universidad 2001, Cuernavaca, Mor. 62250, México
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- Departamento de Biología Molecular de Plantas, Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Av. Universidad 2001, Cuernavaca, Mor. 62250, México
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- Departamento de Biología Molecular de Plantas, Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Av. Universidad 2001, Cuernavaca, Mor. 62250, México
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- Departamento de Biología Molecular de Plantas, Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Av. Universidad 2001, Cuernavaca, Mor. 62250, México
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- Doctorado en Ciencias Biológicas, Facultad de Ciencias UNAM, Centro de Desarrollo de Productos Bióticos-IPN, Calle CeProBi No. 8, Col. San Isidro, Yautepec Morelos 62731, México
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- Departamento de Biología Molecular de Plantas, Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Av. Universidad 2001, Cuernavaca, Mor. 62250, México
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- Departamento de Biología Molecular de Plantas, Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Av. Universidad 2001, Cuernavaca, Mor. 62250, México
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- Departamento de Biología Molecular de Plantas, Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Av. Universidad 2001, Cuernavaca, Mor. 62250, México.
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Dümmer M, Michalski C, Essen LO, Rath M, Galland P, Forreiter C. EHB1 and AGD12, two calcium-dependent proteins affect gravitropism antagonistically in Arabidopsis thaliana. JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2016; 206:114-124. [PMID: 27728837 DOI: 10.1016/j.jplph.2016.09.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2016] [Revised: 09/21/2016] [Accepted: 09/22/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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The ADP-RIBOSYLATION FACTOR GTPase-ACTIVATING PROTEIN (AGD) 12, a member of the ARF-GAP protein family, affects gravitropism in Arabidopsis thaliana. A loss-of-function mutant lacking AGD12 displayed diminished gravitropism in roots and hypocotyls indicating that both organs are affected by this regulator. AGD12 is structurally related to ENHANCED BENDING (EHB) 1, previously described as a negative effector of gravitropism. In contrast to agd12 mutants, ehb1 loss-of function seedlings displayed enhanced gravitropic bending. While EHB1 and AGD12 both possess a C-terminal C2/CaLB-domain, EHB1 lacks the N-terminal ARF-GAP domain present in AGD12. Subcellular localization analysis using Brefeldin A indicated that both proteins are elements of the trans Golgi network. Physiological analyses provided evidence that gravitropic signaling might operate via an antagonistic interaction of ARF-GAP (AGD12) and EHB1 in their Ca2+-activated states.
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- Michaela Dümmer
- Fachbereich Biologie, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Karl-von-Frisch Str. 8, D-35032 Marburg, Germany.
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- Fachbereich Biologie, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Karl-von-Frisch Str. 8, D-35032 Marburg, Germany.
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- Fachbereich Chemie, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Karl-von-Frisch Str. 8, D-35032 Marburg, Germany.
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- Fachbereich Biologie, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Karl-von-Frisch Str. 8, D-35032 Marburg, Germany.
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- Fachbereich Biologie, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Karl-von-Frisch Str. 8, D-35032 Marburg, Germany.
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- Institut für Biologie, Universität Siegen, Adolf-Reichwein Str. 2, D-57068 Siegen, Germany.
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Krogan NT, Marcos D, Weiner AI, Berleth T. The auxin response factor MONOPTEROS controls meristem function and organogenesis in both the shoot and root through the direct regulation of PIN genes. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2016; 212:42-50. [PMID: 27441727 PMCID: PMC5596637 DOI: 10.1111/nph.14107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2016] [Accepted: 06/19/2016] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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The regulatory effect auxin has on its own transport is critical in numerous self-organizing plant patterning processes. However, our understanding of the molecular mechanisms linking auxin signal transduction and auxin transport is still fragmentary, and important regulatory genes remain to be identified. To track a key link between auxin signaling and auxin transport in development, we established an Arabidopsis thaliana genetic background in which fundamental patterning processes in both shoot and root were essentially abolished and the expression of PIN FORMED (PIN) auxin efflux facilitators was dramatically reduced. In this background, we demonstrate that activating a steroid-inducible variant of the auxin response factor (ARF) MONOPTEROS (MP) is sufficient to restore patterning and PIN gene expression. Further, we show that MP binds to distinct promoter elements of multiple genetically defined PIN genes. Our work identifies a direct regulatory link between central, well-characterized genes involved in auxin signal transduction and auxin transport. The steroid-inducible MP system directly demonstrates the importance of this molecular link in multiple patterning events in embryos, shoots and roots, and provides novel options for interrogating the properties of self-regulated auxin-based patterning in planta.
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- Naden T. Krogan
- American University, Department of Biology, 4400 Massachusetts
Avenue NW, Washington D.C. 20016, United States
- To whom correspondence should be addressed:
Tel: (202) 885-2203,
Tel: (416) 946-3734
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- University of Toronto, Department of Cell and Systems Biology, 25
Willcocks Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3B2, Canada
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- American University, Department of Biology, 4400 Massachusetts
Avenue NW, Washington D.C. 20016, United States
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- University of Toronto, Department of Cell and Systems Biology, 25
Willcocks Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3B2, Canada
- To whom correspondence should be addressed:
Tel: (202) 885-2203,
Tel: (416) 946-3734
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Van Norman JM. Asymmetry and cell polarity in root development. Dev Biol 2016; 419:165-174. [PMID: 27426272 DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2016.07.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2016] [Revised: 07/09/2016] [Accepted: 07/13/2016] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Within living systems, striking juxtapositions in symmetry and asymmetry can be observed and the superficial appearance of symmetric organization often gives way to cellular asymmetries at higher resolution. It is frequently asymmetry and polarity that fascinate and challenge developmental biologists. In multicellular eukaryotes, cell polarity and asymmetry are essential for diverse cellular, tissue, and organismal level function and physiology and are particularly crucial for developmental processes. In plants, where cells are surrounded by rigid cell walls, asymmetric cell divisions are the foundation of pattern formation and differential cell fate specification. Thus, cellular asymmetry is a key feature of plant biology and in the plant root the consequences of these asymmetries are elegantly displayed. Yet despite the frequency of asymmetric (formative) cell divisions, cell/tissue polarity and the proposed roles for directional signaling in these processes, polarly localized proteins, beyond those involved in auxin or nutrient transport, are exceedingly rare. Indeed, although half of the asymmetric cell divisions in root patterning are oriented parallel to the axis of growth, laterally localized proteins directly involved in patterning are largely missing in action. Here, various asymmetric cell divisions and cellular and structural polarities observed in roots are highlighted and discussed in the context of the proposed roles for positional and/or directional signaling in these processes. The importance of directional signaling and the weight given to polarity in the root-shoot axis is contrasted with how little we currently understand about laterally oriented asymmetry and polarity in the root.
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Orman-Ligeza B, Parizot B, de Rycke R, Fernandez A, Himschoot E, Van Breusegem F, Bennett MJ, Périlleux C, Beeckman T, Draye X. RBOH-mediated ROS production facilitates lateral root emergence in Arabidopsis. Development 2016; 143:3328-39. [PMID: 27402709 PMCID: PMC5047660 DOI: 10.1242/dev.136465] [Citation(s) in RCA: 110] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2016] [Accepted: 07/04/2016] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Lateral root (LR) emergence represents a highly coordinated process in which the plant hormone auxin plays a central role. Reactive oxygen species (ROS) have been proposed to function as important signals during auxin-regulated LR formation; however, their mode of action is poorly understood. Here, we report that Arabidopsis roots exposed to ROS show increased LR numbers due to the activation of LR pre-branch sites and LR primordia (LRP). Strikingly, ROS treatment can also restore LR formation in pCASP1:shy2-2 and aux1 lax3 mutant lines in which auxin-mediated cell wall accommodation and remodeling in cells overlying the sites of LR formation is disrupted. Specifically, ROS are deposited in the apoplast of these cells during LR emergence, following a spatiotemporal pattern that overlaps the combined expression domains of extracellular ROS donors of the RESPIRATORY BURST OXIDASE HOMOLOGS (RBOH). We also show that disrupting (or enhancing) expression of RBOH in LRP and/or overlying root tissues decelerates (or accelerates) the development and emergence of LRs. We conclude that RBOH-mediated ROS production facilitates LR outgrowth by promoting cell wall remodeling of overlying parental tissues. Summary: Reactive oxygen species promote cell wall remodeling of cells overlying the sites of lateral root formation, thereby contributing to lateral root emergence in Arabidopsis.
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- Beata Orman-Ligeza
- Université Catholique de Louvain, Earth and Life Institute, Louvain-la-Neuve B-1348, Belgium Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Ghent B-9052, Belgium Department of Plant Systems Biology, VIB, Ghent B-9052, Belgium
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- Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Ghent B-9052, Belgium Department of Plant Systems Biology, VIB, Ghent B-9052, Belgium
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- Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Ghent B-9052, Belgium Department of Plant Systems Biology, VIB, Ghent B-9052, Belgium
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- Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Ghent B-9052, Belgium Department of Plant Systems Biology, VIB, Ghent B-9052, Belgium
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- Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Ghent B-9052, Belgium Department of Plant Systems Biology, VIB, Ghent B-9052, Belgium
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- Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Ghent B-9052, Belgium Department of Plant Systems Biology, VIB, Ghent B-9052, Belgium
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- Centre for Plant Integrative Biology, School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington LE12 5RD, UK
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- PhytoSYSTEMS, Laboratory of Plant Physiology, University of Liège, Sart Tilman Campus, 4 Chemin de la Vallée, Liège B-4000, Belgium
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- Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Ghent B-9052, Belgium Department of Plant Systems Biology, VIB, Ghent B-9052, Belgium
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- Université Catholique de Louvain, Earth and Life Institute, Louvain-la-Neuve B-1348, Belgium
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Armengot L, Marquès-Bueno MM, Jaillais Y. Regulation of polar auxin transport by protein and lipid kinases. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2016; 67:4015-4037. [PMID: 27242371 PMCID: PMC4968656 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erw216] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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The directional transport of auxin, known as polar auxin transport (PAT), allows asymmetric distribution of this hormone in different cells and tissues. This system creates local auxin maxima, minima, and gradients that are instrumental in both organ initiation and shape determination. As such, PAT is crucial for all aspects of plant development but also for environmental interaction, notably in shaping plant architecture to its environment. Cell to cell auxin transport is mediated by a network of auxin carriers that are regulated at the transcriptional and post-translational levels. Here we review our current knowledge on some aspects of the 'non-genomic' regulation of auxin transport, placing an emphasis on how phosphorylation by protein and lipid kinases controls the polarity, intracellular trafficking, stability, and activity of auxin carriers. We describe the role of several AGC kinases, including PINOID, D6PK, and the blue light photoreceptor phot1, in phosphorylating auxin carriers from the PIN and ABCB families. We also highlight the function of some receptor-like kinases (RLKs) and two-component histidine kinase receptors in PAT, noting that there are probably RLKs involved in co-ordinating auxin distribution yet to be discovered. In addition, we describe the emerging role of phospholipid phosphorylation in polarity establishment and intracellular trafficking of PIN proteins. We outline these various phosphorylation mechanisms in the context of primary and lateral root development, leaf cell shape acquisition, as well as root gravitropism and shoot phototropism.
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- Laia Armengot
- Laboratoire Reproduction et Développement des Plantes, Univ Lyon, ENS de Lyon, UCB Lyon 1, CNRS, INRA, F-69342, Lyon, France
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- Laboratoire Reproduction et Développement des Plantes, Univ Lyon, ENS de Lyon, UCB Lyon 1, CNRS, INRA, F-69342, Lyon, France
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- Laboratoire Reproduction et Développement des Plantes, Univ Lyon, ENS de Lyon, UCB Lyon 1, CNRS, INRA, F-69342, Lyon, France
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Omelyanchuk NA, Kovrizhnykh VV, Oshchepkova EA, Pasternak T, Palme K, Mironova VV. A detailed expression map of the PIN1 auxin transporter in Arabidopsis thaliana root. BMC PLANT BIOLOGY 2016; 16 Suppl 1:5. [PMID: 26821586 PMCID: PMC4895256 DOI: 10.1186/s12870-015-0685-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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BACKGROUND Theauxin efflux carrier PIN1 is a key mediator of polar auxin transport in developing plant tissues. This is why factors that are supposed to be involved in auxin distribution are frequently tested in the regulation of PIN1 expression. As a result, diverse aspects of PIN1 expression are dispersed across dozens of papers entirely devoted to other specific topics related to the auxin pathway. Integration of these puzzle pieces about PIN1 expression revealed that, along with a recurring pattern, some features of PIN1 expression varied from article to article. To determine if this uncertainty is related to the specific foci of articles or has a basis in the variability of PIN1 gene activity, we performed a comprehensive 3D analysis of PIN1 expression patterns in Arabidopsis thaliana roots. RESULTS We provide here a detailed map of PIN1 expression in the primary root, in the lateral root primordia and at the root-shoot junction. The variability in PIN1 expression pattern observed in individual roots may occur due to differences in auxin distribution between plants. To simulate this effect, we analysed PIN1 expression in the roots from wild type seedlings treated with different IAA concentrations and pin mutants. Most changes in PIN1 expression after exogenous IAA treatment and in pin mutants were also recorded in wild type but with lower frequency and intensity. Comparative studies of exogenous auxin effects on PIN1pro:GUS and PIN1pro:PIN1-GFP plants indicated that a positive auxin effect is explicit at the level of PIN1 promoter activity, whereas the inhibitory effect relates to post-transcriptional regulation. CONCLUSIONS Our results suggest that the PIN1 expression pattern in the root meristem accurately reflects changes in auxin content. This explains the variability of PIN1 expression in the individual roots and makes PIN1 a good marker for studying root meristem activity.
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- N A Omelyanchuk
- Institute of Cytology and Genetics SB RAS, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
- Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
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- Institute of Cytology and Genetics SB RAS, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
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- Institute of Cytology and Genetics SB RAS, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
- Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
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- Institute of Biology II/Molecular Plant Physiology, Centre for BioSystems Analysis (ZBSA), BIOSS Centre for Biological Signalling Studies, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, 79104, Germany
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- Institute of Biology II/Molecular Plant Physiology, Centre for BioSystems Analysis (ZBSA), BIOSS Centre for Biological Signalling Studies, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, 79104, Germany.
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- Institute of Cytology and Genetics SB RAS, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia.
- Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia.
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Brumbarova T, Ivanov R. Differential Gene Expression and Protein Phosphorylation as Factors Regulating the State of the Arabidopsis SNX1 Protein Complexes in Response to Environmental Stimuli. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2016; 7:1456. [PMID: 27725825 PMCID: PMC5035748 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2016.01456] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2016] [Accepted: 09/12/2016] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Endosomal recycling of plasma membrane proteins contributes significantly to the regulation of cellular transport and signaling processes. Members of the Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) SORTING NEXIN (SNX) protein family were shown to mediate the endosomal retrieval of transporter proteins in response to external challenges. Our aim is to understand the possible ways through which external stimuli influence the activity of SNX1 in the root. Several proteins are known to contribute to the function of SNX1 through direct protein-protein interaction. We, therefore, compiled a list of all Arabidopsis proteins known to physically interact with SNX1 and employed available gene expression and proteomic data for a comprehensive analysis of the transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulation of this interactome. The genes encoding SNX1-interaction partners showed distinct expression patterns with some, like FAB1A, being uniformly expressed, while others, like MC9 and BLOS1, were expressed in specific root zones and cell types. Under stress conditions known to induce SNX1-dependent responses, two genes encoding SNX1-interacting proteins, MC9 and NHX6, showed major gene-expression variations. We could also observe zone-specific transcriptional changes of SNX1 under iron deficiency, which are consistent with the described role of the SNX1 protein. This suggests that the composition of potential SNX1-containing protein complexes in roots is cell-specific and may be readjusted in response to external stimuli. On the level of post-transcriptional modifications, we observed stress-dependent changes in the phosphorylation status of SNX1, FAB1A, and CLASP. Interestingly, the phosphorylation events affecting SNX1 interactors occur in a pattern which is largely complementary to transcriptional regulation. Our analysis shows that transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulation play distinct roles in SNX1-mediated endosomal recycling under external stress.
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Schüler O, Hemmersbach R, Böhmer M. A Bird's-Eye View of Molecular Changes in Plant Gravitropism Using Omics Techniques. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2015; 6:1176. [PMID: 26734055 PMCID: PMC4689802 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2015.01176] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2015] [Accepted: 12/08/2015] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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During evolution, plants have developed mechanisms to adapt to a variety of environmental stresses, including drought, high salinity, changes in carbon dioxide levels and pathogens. Central signaling hubs and pathways that are regulated in response to these stimuli have been identified. In contrast to these well studied environmental stimuli, changes in transcript, protein and metabolite levels in response to a gravitational stimulus are less well understood. Amyloplasts, localized in statocytes of the root tip, in mesophyll cells of coleoptiles and in the elongation zone of the growing internodes comprise statoliths in higher plants. Deviations of the statocytes with respect to the earthly gravity vector lead to a displacement of statoliths relative to the cell due to their inertia and thus to gravity perception. Downstream signaling events, including the conversion from the biophysical signal of sedimentation of distinct heavy mass to a biochemical signal, however, remain elusive. More recently, technical advances, including clinostats, drop towers, parabolic flights, satellites, and the International Space Station, allowed researchers to study the effect of altered gravity conditions - real and simulated micro- as well as hypergravity on plants. This allows for a unique opportunity to study plant responses to a purely anthropogenic stress for which no evolutionary program exists. Furthermore, the requirement for plants as food and oxygen sources during prolonged manned space explorations led to an increased interest in the identi-fication of genes involved in the adaptation of plants to microgravity. Transcriptomic, proteomic, phosphoproteomic, and metabolomic profiling strategies provide a sensitive high-throughput approach to identify biochemical alterations in response to changes with respect to the influence of the gravitational vector and thus the acting gravitational force on the transcript, protein and metabolite level. This review aims at summarizing recent experimental approaches and discusses major observations.
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- Oliver Schüler
- Institute of Aerospace Medicine, Gravitational Biology, German Aerospace CenterCologne, Germany
- Institute of Plant Biology and Biotechnology, Westfälische Wilhelms UniversitätMünster, Germany
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- Institute of Aerospace Medicine, Gravitational Biology, German Aerospace CenterCologne, Germany
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- Institute of Plant Biology and Biotechnology, Westfälische Wilhelms UniversitätMünster, Germany
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Jelínková A, Müller K, Fílová-Pařezová M, Petrášek J. NtGNL1a ARF-GEF acts in endocytosis in tobacco cells. BMC PLANT BIOLOGY 2015; 15:272. [PMID: 26541824 PMCID: PMC4635988 DOI: 10.1186/s12870-015-0621-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2015] [Accepted: 09/18/2015] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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BACKGROUND Processes of anterograde and retrograde membrane trafficking play an important role in cellular homeostasis and dynamic rearrangements of the plasma membrane (PM) in all eukaryotes. These processes depend on the activity of adenosine ribosylation factors (ARFs), a family of GTP-binding proteins and their guanine exchange factors (GEFs). However, knowledge on the function and specificity of individual ARF-GEFs for individual steps of membrane trafficking pathways is still limited in plants. RESULTS In this work, treatments with various trafficking inhibitors showed that the endocytosis of FM 4-64 is largely dynamin-dependent and relies on proteins containing endocytic tyrosine-based internalization motif and intact cytoskeleton. Interestingly, brefeldin A (BFA), reported previously as an inhibitor of anterograde membrane trafficking in plants, appeared to be the most potent inhibitor of endocytosis in tobacco. In concert with this finding, we demonstrate that the point mutation in the Sec7 domain of the GNOM-LIKE protein1a (NtGNL1a) confers intracellular trafficking pathway-specific BFA resistance. The internalization of FM 4-64 and trafficking of PIN-FORMED1 (PIN1) auxin efflux carrier in BY-2 tobacco cells were studied to reveal the function of the ARF-GEF NtGNL1a in these. CONCLUSIONS Altogether, our observations uncovered the role of NtGNL1a in endocytosis, including endocytosis of PM proteins (as PIN1 auxin efflux carrier). Moreover these data emphasize the need of careful evaluation of mode of action of non-native inhibitors in various species. In addition, they demonstrate the potential of tobacco BY-2 cells for selective mapping of ARF-GEF-regulated endomembrane trafficking pathways.
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- Adriana Jelínková
- Institute of Experimental Botany, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Rozvojová 263, 165 02, Prague 6, Czech Republic.
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- Institute of Experimental Botany, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Rozvojová 263, 165 02, Prague 6, Czech Republic.
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- Institute of Experimental Botany, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Rozvojová 263, 165 02, Prague 6, Czech Republic.
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- Institute of Experimental Botany, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Rozvojová 263, 165 02, Prague 6, Czech Republic.
- Department of Experimental Plant Biology, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Viničná 5, 128 44, Prague 2, Czech Republic.
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