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Gao X, Nagawa S, Wang G, Yang Z. Cell polarity signaling: focus on polar auxin transport. MOLECULAR PLANT 2008; 1:899-909. [PMID: 19825591 PMCID: PMC2902905 DOI: 10.1093/mp/ssn069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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Polar auxin transport, which is required for the formation of auxin gradients and directional auxin flows that are critical for plant pattern formation, morphogenesis, and directional growth response to vectorial cues, is mediated by polarized sub-cellular distribution of PIN-FORMED Proteins (PINs, auxin efflux carriers), AUX1/AUX1-like proteins (auxin influx facilitators), and multidrug resistance P-glycoproteins (MDR/PGP). Polar localization of these proteins is controlled by both developmental and environmental cues. Recent studies have revealed cellular (endocytosis, transcytosis, and endosomal sorting and recycling) and molecular (PINOID kinase, protein phosphatase 2A) mechanisms underlying the polar distribution of these auxin transport proteins. Both TIR1-mediated auxin signaling and TIR1-independent auxin-mediated endocytosis have been shown to regulate polar PIN localization and auxin flow, implicating auxin as a self-organizing signal in directing polar transport and directional flows.
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- Xiaowei Gao
- Key Laboratory of Arid and Grassland Agroeology at Lanzhou University, Ministry of Education, Lanzhou 730000, China
- CAU–UCR Joint Center for Biological Science, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100094, China
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- Center for Plant Cell Biology and Department of Botany and Plant Science, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
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- College of Life Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310029, China
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- CAU–UCR Joint Center for Biological Science, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100094, China
- Center for Plant Cell Biology and Department of Botany and Plant Science, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
- To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail , fax 9011-886-2-2651-6234, tel. 951-827-7351
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- Brett M Collins
- Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia.
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Phan NQ, Kim SJ, Bassham DC. Overexpression of Arabidopsis sorting nexin AtSNX2b inhibits endocytic trafficking to the vacuole. MOLECULAR PLANT 2008; 1:961-976. [PMID: 19825596 DOI: 10.1093/mp/ssn057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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Sorting nexins are conserved proteins that function in vesicular trafficking and contain a characteristic phox homology (PX) domain. Here, we characterize the ubiquitously expressed Arabidopsis thaliana sorting nexin AtSNX2b. Sub-cellular fractionation studies indicate that AtSNX2b is peripherally associated with membranes. The AtSNX2b PX domain binds to phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate in vitro and this association is required for the localization of GFP-AtSNX2b to punctate structures in vivo, identified as the trans-Golgi network, prevacuolar compartment and endosomes. Overexpression of GFP-tagged AtSNX2b produces enlarged GFP-labeled compartments that can also be labeled by the endocytic tracer FM4-64. Endocytic trafficking of FM4-64 to the vacuole is arrested in these GFP-AtSNX2b compartments, and similar FM4-64-accumulating compartments are seen upon overexpression of untagged AtSNX2b. This suggests that exit of membrane components from these enlarged or aggregated endosomes is inhibited. Vacuolar proteins containing an N-terminal propeptide, but not those with a C-terminal propeptide, are also present in these enlarged compartments. We hypothesize that AtSNX2b is involved in vesicular trafficking from endosomes to the vacuole.
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- Nguyen Q Phan
- Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA
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Dhonukshe P, Tanaka H, Goh T, Ebine K, Mähönen AP, Prasad K, Blilou I, Geldner N, Xu J, Uemura T, Chory J, Ueda T, Nakano A, Scheres B, Friml J. Generation of cell polarity in plants links endocytosis, auxin distribution and cell fate decisions. Nature 2008; 456:962-6. [PMID: 18953331 DOI: 10.1038/nature07409] [Citation(s) in RCA: 209] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2008] [Accepted: 09/04/2008] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Dynamically polarized membrane proteins define different cell boundaries and have an important role in intercellular communication-a vital feature of multicellular development. Efflux carriers for the signalling molecule auxin from the PIN family are landmarks of cell polarity in plants and have a crucial involvement in auxin distribution-dependent development including embryo patterning, organogenesis and tropisms. Polar PIN localization determines the direction of intercellular auxin flow, yet the mechanisms generating PIN polarity remain unclear. Here we identify an endocytosis-dependent mechanism of PIN polarity generation and analyse its developmental implications. Real-time PIN tracking showed that after synthesis, PINs are initially delivered to the plasma membrane in a non-polar manner and their polarity is established by subsequent endocytic recycling. Interference with PIN endocytosis either by auxin or by manipulation of the Arabidopsis Rab5 GTPase pathway prevents PIN polarization. Failure of PIN polarization transiently alters asymmetric auxin distribution during embryogenesis and increases the local auxin response in apical embryo regions. This results in ectopic expression of auxin pathway-associated root-forming master regulators in embryonic leaves and promotes homeotic transformation of leaves to roots. Our results indicate a two-step mechanism for the generation of PIN polar localization and the essential role of endocytosis in this process. It also highlights the link between endocytosis-dependent polarity of individual cells and auxin distribution-dependent cell fate establishment for multicellular patterning.
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- Pankaj Dhonukshe
- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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Bassham DC, Brandizzi F, Otegui MS, Sanderfoot AA. The secretory system of Arabidopsis. THE ARABIDOPSIS BOOK 2008; 6:e0116. [PMID: 22303241 PMCID: PMC3243370 DOI: 10.1199/tab.0116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 94] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Over the past few years, a vast amount of research has illuminated the workings of the secretory system of eukaryotic cells. The bulk of this work has been focused on the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, or on mammalian cells. At a superficial level, plants are typical eukaryotes with respect to the operation of the secretory system; however, important differences emerge in the function and appearance of endomembrane organelles. In particular, the plant secretory system has specialized in several ways to support the synthesis of many components of the complex cell wall, and specialized kinds of vacuole have taken on a protein storage role-a role that is intended to support the growing seedling, but has been co-opted to support human life in the seeds of many crop plants. In the past, most research on the plant secretory system has been guided by results in mammalian or fungal systems but recently plants have begun to stand on their own as models for understanding complex trafficking events within the eukaryotic endomembrane system.
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- Diane C. Bassham
- Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology and Plant Sciences Institute, Iowa State University, 455 Bessey Hall, Ames, Iowa 50011
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- MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State University, S-238 Plant Biology, East Lansing, Michigan 48824
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- Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin- Madison, 224 Birge Hall, 430 Lincoln Drive, Madison, Wisconsin 53706
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- Department of Plant Biology, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, 250 Bioscience Center, 1445 Gortner Ave, St. Paul, Minnesota 55108
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Harrison B, Masson PH. ARG1 and ARL2 form an actin-based gravity-signaling chaperone complex in root statocytes? PLANT SIGNALING & BEHAVIOR 2008; 3:650-3. [PMID: 19704815 PMCID: PMC2634546 DOI: 10.4161/psb.3.9.5749] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2008] [Accepted: 02/19/2008] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Plants are acutely sensitive to the directional information provided by gravity. They have evolved statocytes, which are specialized cells that sense gravity and, upon integration of the corresponding information with that of other environmental stimuli, control the growth behavior of their organs. The cellular mechanisms that allow statocytes to sense and transduce gravitational information likely involve detecting the sedimentation of, or the tension/pressure exerted by, starch-filled amyloplasts-the presumptive statoliths-within their cytoplasm. Gravity signaling in root statocytes controls the direction of transport of signaling compounds, especially auxin, across the root cap, establishing a lateral gradient that is transmitted to cells in the elongation zone and results in gravitropic curvature. The Arabidopsis J-domain proteins ARG1 and ARL2 function as gravity-signal transducers in root statocytes. In the January issue of The Plant Journal, we reported that ARG1 and ARL2 function non-redundantly in a common gravity signaling pathway required for accumulation of the auxin efflux facilitator PIN3 on the new bottom side of statocytes following gravity stimulation, and lateral redistribution of auxin toward the new lower flank of stimulated roots. Here we present data suggesting that ARG1 physically associates with ARL2, the J-domain co-chaperone HSC70, and actin in vivo. We briefly discuss potential mechanisms by which ARG1 and ARL2 might function in gravity signaling in light of this information.
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Petricka JJ, Benfey PN. Root layers: complex regulation of developmental patterning. Curr Opin Genet Dev 2008; 18:354-61. [PMID: 18617392 PMCID: PMC2605625 DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2008.05.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2008] [Revised: 05/17/2008] [Accepted: 05/22/2008] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Developmental patterning events involve cell fate specification and maintenance processes in diverse, multicellular organisms. The simple arrangement of tissue layers in the Arabidopsis thaliana root provides a highly tractable system for the study of these processes. This review highlights recent work addressing the patterning of root tissues focusing on the factors involved and their complex regulation. In the past two years studies of root patterning have indicated that chromatin remodeling, protein movement, transcriptional networks, and an auxin gradient, all contribute to the complexity inherent in developmental patterning events within the root. As a result, future research advances in this field will require tissue-specific information at both the single gene and global level.
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- Jalean J. Petricka
- Biology Department, IGSP Center for Systems Biology, Duke University, 124 Science Drive, FFSC 4101, Durham, NC 27708, Fax: 919-660-7338, 919-613-8182 (Philip Benfey), , 919-613-8203 (Jalean Petricka),
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- Biology Department, IGSP Center for Systems Biology, Duke University, 124 Science Drive, FFSC 4101, Durham, NC 27708, Fax: 919-660-7338, 919-613-8182 (Philip Benfey), , 919-613-8203 (Jalean Petricka),
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Rojo E, Denecke J. What is moving in the secretory pathway of plants? PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2008; 147:1493-503. [PMID: 18678741 PMCID: PMC2492647 DOI: 10.1104/pp.108.124552] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2008] [Accepted: 06/25/2008] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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- Enrique Rojo
- Departamento de Genética Molecular de Plantas, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, E-28049 Madrid, Spain
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Robinson DG, Jiang L, Schumacher K. The endosomal system of plants: charting new and familiar territories. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2008; 147:1482-92. [PMID: 18678740 PMCID: PMC2492610 DOI: 10.1104/pp.108.120105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 105] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2008] [Accepted: 05/05/2008] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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- David G Robinson
- Heidelberg Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Heidelberg, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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Geldner N, Robatzek S. Plant receptors go endosomal: a moving view on signal transduction. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2008; 147:1565-74. [PMID: 18678748 PMCID: PMC2492600 DOI: 10.1104/pp.108.120287] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2008] [Accepted: 05/07/2008] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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- Niko Geldner
- Department of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
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Kleine-Vehn J, Dhonukshe P, Sauer M, Brewer PB, Wiśniewska J, Paciorek T, Benková E, Friml J. ARF GEF-dependent transcytosis and polar delivery of PIN auxin carriers in Arabidopsis. Curr Biol 2008; 18:526-31. [PMID: 18394892 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2008.03.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 185] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/27/2007] [Revised: 02/25/2008] [Accepted: 03/09/2008] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Cell polarity manifested by the polar cargo delivery to different plasma-membrane domains is a fundamental feature of multicellular organisms. Pathways for polar delivery have been identified in animals; prominent among them is transcytosis, which involves cargo movement between different sides of the cell [1]. PIN transporters are prominent polar cargoes in plants, whose polar subcellular localization determines the directional flow of the signaling molecule auxin [2, 3]. In this study, we address the cellular mechanisms of PIN polar targeting and dynamic polarity changes. We show that apical and basal PIN targeting pathways are interconnected but molecularly distinct by means of ARF GEF vesicle-trafficking regulators. Pharmacological or genetic interference with the Arabidopsis ARF GEF GNOM leads specifically to apicalization of basal cargoes such as PIN1. We visualize the translocation of PIN proteins between the opposite sides of polarized cells in vivo and show that this PIN transcytosis occurs by endocytic recycling and alternative recruitment of the same cargo molecules by apical and basal targeting machineries. Our data suggest that an ARF GEF-dependent transcytosis-like mechanism is operational in plants and provides a plausible mechanism to trigger changes in PIN polarity and hence auxin fluxes during embryogenesis and organogenesis.
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- Jürgen Kleine-Vehn
- Department of Plant Systems Biology, Flanders Institute for Biotechnology VIB, Ghent University, 9052 Gent, Belgium
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Plant endosomes are highly dynamic organelles that are involved in the constitutive recycling of plasma membrane cargo and the trafficking of polarized plasma membrane proteins such as auxin carriers. In addition, recent studies have shown that surface receptors such as the plant defense-related FLS2 receptor and the brassinosteroid receptor BRI1 appear to signal from endosomes upon ligand binding and internalization. In yeast and mammals, endosomes are also known to recycle vacuolar cargo receptors back to the trans Golgi network and sort membrane proteins for degradation in the vacuole/lysosome. Some of these sorting mechanisms are mediated by the retromer and endosomal sorting complex required for transport (ESCRT) complexes. Plants contain orthologs of all major retromer and ESCRT complex subunits, but they have also evolved variations in endosomal functions connected to plant-specific features such as the diversity of vacuolar transport pathways. This review focuses on recent studies in plants dealing with the regulation of endosomal recycling functions, architecture and formation of multivesicular bodies, ligand-mediated endocytosis and receptor signaling from endosomes as well as novel endosomal markers and the function of endosomes in the transport and processing of soluble vacuolar proteins.
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- Marisa S Otegui
- Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA.
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Foresti O, Denecke J. Intermediate organelles of the plant secretory pathway: identity and function. Traffic 2008; 9:1599-612. [PMID: 18627574 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0854.2008.00791.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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The secretory pathway of eukaryotic cells comprises a network of organelles that connects three large membranes, the plasma membrane, the vacuole and the endoplasmic reticulum. The Golgi apparatus and the various post-Golgi organelles that control vacuolar sorting, secretion and endocytosis can be regarded as intermediate organelles of the endocytic and biosynthetic routes. Many processes in the secretory pathway have evolved differently in plants and cannot be studied using yeast or mammalian cells as models. The best characterized organelles are the Golgi apparatus and the prevacuolar compartment, but recent work has shed light on the role of the trans Golgi network, which has to be regarded as a separate organelle in plants. In this study, we wish to highlight recent findings regarding the late secretory pathway and its crosstalk with the early secretory pathway as well as the endocytic route in plants. Recently published findings and suggested models are discussed within the context of known features of the equivalent pathway in other eukaryotes.
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- Ombretta Foresti
- Centre for Plant Sciences, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
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Martinez-Godoy MA, Mauri N, Juarez J, Marques MC, Santiago J, Forment J, Gadea J. A genome-wide 20 K citrus microarray for gene expression analysis. BMC Genomics 2008; 9:318. [PMID: 18598343 PMCID: PMC2483987 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-9-318] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2008] [Accepted: 07/03/2008] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Background Understanding of genetic elements that contribute to key aspects of citrus biology will impact future improvements in this economically important crop. Global gene expression analysis demands microarray platforms with a high genome coverage. In the last years, genome-wide EST collections have been generated in citrus, opening the possibility to create new tools for functional genomics in this crop plant. Results We have designed and constructed a publicly available genome-wide cDNA microarray that include 21,081 putative unigenes of citrus. As a functional companion to the microarray, a web-browsable database [1] was created and populated with information about the unigenes represented in the microarray, including cDNA libraries, isolated clones, raw and processed nucleotide and protein sequences, and results of all the structural and functional annotation of the unigenes, like general description, BLAST hits, putative Arabidopsis orthologs, microsatellites, putative SNPs, GO classification and PFAM domains. We have performed a Gene Ontology comparison with the full set of Arabidopsis proteins to estimate the genome coverage of the microarray. We have also performed microarray hybridizations to check its usability. Conclusion This new cDNA microarray replaces the first 7K microarray generated two years ago and allows gene expression analysis at a more global scale. We have followed a rational design to minimize cross-hybridization while maintaining its utility for different citrus species. Furthermore, we also provide access to a website with full structural and functional annotation of the unigenes represented in the microarray, along with the ability to use this site to directly perform gene expression analysis using standard tools at different publicly available servers. Furthermore, we show how this microarray offers a good representation of the citrus genome and present the usefulness of this genomic tool for global studies in citrus by using it to catalogue genes expressed in citrus globular embryos.
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- M Angeles Martinez-Godoy
- Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas (IBMCP), Laboratorio de Genomica (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas), Avenida de los Naranjos s/n, E46022 Valencia, Spain.
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Endosidin1 defines a compartment involved in endocytosis of the brassinosteroid receptor BRI1 and the auxin transporters PIN2 and AUX1. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2008; 105:8464-9. [PMID: 18550817 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0711650105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 202] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Although it is known that proteins are delivered to and recycled from the plasma membrane (PM) via endosomes, the nature of the compartments and pathways responsible for cargo and vesicle sorting and cellular signaling is poorly understood. To define and dissect specific recycling pathways, chemical effectors of proteins involved in vesicle trafficking, especially through endosomes, would be invaluable. Thus, we identified chemicals affecting essential steps in PM/endosome trafficking, using the intensely localized PM transport at the tips of germinating pollen tubes. The basic mechanisms of this localized growth are likely similar to those of non-tip growing cells in seedlings. The compound endosidin 1 (ES1) interfered selectively with endocytosis in seedlings, providing a unique tool to dissect recycling pathways. ES1 treatment induced the rapid agglomeration of the auxin translocators PIN2 and AUX1 and the brassinosteroid receptor BRI1 into distinct endomembrane compartments termed "endosidin bodies"; however, the markers PIN1, PIN7, and other PM proteins were unaffected. Endosidin bodies were defined by the syntaxin SYP61 and the V-ATPase subunit VHA-a1, two trans-Golgi network (TGN)/endosomal proteins. Interestingly, brassinosteroid (BR)-induced gene expression was inhibited by ES1 and treated seedlings displayed a brassinolide (BL)-insensitive phenotype similar to a bri1 loss-of-function mutant. No effect was detected in auxin signaling. Thus, PIN2, AUX1, and BRI1 use interactive pathways involving an early SYP61/VHA-a1 endosomal compartment.
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Cullen PJ. Endosomal sorting and signalling: an emerging role for sorting nexins. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol 2008; 9:574-82. [DOI: 10.1038/nrm2427] [Citation(s) in RCA: 320] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Retromer. Curr Opin Cell Biol 2008; 20:427-36. [PMID: 18472259 DOI: 10.1016/j.ceb.2008.03.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 387] [Impact Index Per Article: 24.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2008] [Revised: 03/20/2008] [Accepted: 03/20/2008] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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The retromer is a heteropentameric complex that associates with the cytosolic face of endosomes and mediates retrograde transport of transmembrane cargo from endosomes to the trans-Golgi network. The mammalian retromer complex comprises a sorting nexin dimer composed of a still undefined combination of SNX1, SNX2, SNX5 and SNX6, and a cargo-recognition trimer composed of Vps26, Vps29 and Vps35. The SNX subunits contain PX and BAR domains that allow binding to PI(3)P enriched, highly curved membranes of endosomal vesicles and tubules, while Vps26, Vps29 and Vps35 have arrestin, phosphoesterase and alpha-solenoid folds, respectively. Recent studies have implicated retromer in a broad range of physiological, developmental and pathological processes, underscoring the critical nature of retrograde transport mediated by this complex.
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In yeast and animal cells, the sterol composition of membranes is a key factor that controls the polarity of membrane proteins by regulating their intracellular trafficking or lateral diffusion. A recent study in Nature Cell Biology demonstrates that plant sterols play a major role in the acquisition of cell polarity by modulating endocytosis after cell division.
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- Yvon Jaillais
- Institut Fédératif de Recherche 128, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Université Claude Bernard Lyon I, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 46 allée d'Italie F-69364 Lyon, France
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Delker C, Raschke A, Quint M. Auxin dynamics: the dazzling complexity of a small molecule's message. PLANTA 2008; 227:929-941. [PMID: 18299888 DOI: 10.1007/s00425-008-0710-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2007] [Accepted: 01/29/2008] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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The phytohormone auxin is a potent regulator of plant development. Since its discovery in the beginning of the twentieth century many aspects of auxin biology have been extensively studied, ranging from biosynthesis and metabolism to the elucidation of molecular components of downstream signaling. With the identification of the F-box protein TIR1 as an auxin receptor a major breakthrough in understanding auxin signaling has been achieved and recent modeling approaches have shed light on the putative mechanisms underlying the establishment of auxin gradients and maxima essential for many auxin-regulated processes. Here, we review these and other recent advances in unraveling the entanglement of biosynthesis, polar transport and cellular signaling events that allow small auxinic molecules to facilitate their complex regulatory action.
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- Carolin Delker
- Independent Junior Research Group, Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry, Weinberg 3, Halle/Saale, Germany
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Yamazaki M, Shimada T, Takahashi H, Tamura K, Kondo M, Nishimura M, Hara-Nishimura I. Arabidopsis VPS35, a retromer component, is required for vacuolar protein sorting and involved in plant growth and leaf senescence. PLANT & CELL PHYSIOLOGY 2008; 49:142-56. [PMID: 18222962 DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcn006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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The retromer complex is responsible for retrograde transport, which is coordinated with anterograde transport in the secretory pathway including vacuolar protein sorting. Yeast VPS35 is a component of the retromer complex that is essential for recognition of specific cargo molecules. The physiological function of VPS35 has not been determined in vacuolar protein sorting in higher organisms. Arabidopsis thaliana has three VPS35 homologs designated VPS35a, VPS35b and VPS35c. We isolated four vps35 mutants (vps35a-1, vps35b-1, vps35b-2 and vps35c-1) and then generated four double mutants and one triple mutant. vps35a-1 vps35c-1 exhibited no unusual phenotypes. On the other hand, vps35b-1 vps35c-1 and the triple mutant (vps35a-1 vps35b-2 vps35c-1) exhibited severe phenotypes: dwarfism, early leaf senescence and fragmentation of protein storage vacuoles (PSVs). In addition, these mutants mis-sorted storage proteins by secreting them out of the cells and accumulated a higher level of vacuolar sorting receptor (VSR) than the wild type. VPS35 was localized in pre-vacuolar compartments (PVCs), some of which contained VSR. VPS35 was immunoprecipitated with VPS29/MAG1, another component of the retromer complex. Our findings suggest that VPS35, mainly VPS35b, is involved in sorting proteins to PSVs in seeds, possibly by recycling VSR from PVCs to the Golgi complex, and is also involved in plant growth and senescence in vegetative organs.
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- Misako Yamazaki
- Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502 Japan
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Laxmi A, Pan J, Morsy M, Chen R. Light plays an essential role in intracellular distribution of auxin efflux carrier PIN2 in Arabidopsis thaliana. PLoS One 2008; 3:e1510. [PMID: 18231596 PMCID: PMC2200863 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0001510] [Citation(s) in RCA: 184] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2007] [Accepted: 12/29/2007] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Background Light plays a key role in multiple plant developmental processes. It has been shown that root development is modulated by shoot-localized light signaling and requires shoot-derived transport of the plant hormone, auxin. However, the mechanism by which light regulates root development is not largely understood. In plants, the endogenous auxin, indole-3-acetic acid, is directionally transported by plasma-membrane (PM)-localized auxin influx and efflux carriers in transporting cells. Remarkably, the auxin efflux carrier PIN proteins exhibit asymmetric PM localization, determining the polarity of auxin transport. Similar to PM-resident receptors and transporters in animal and yeast cells, PIN proteins undergo constitutive cycling between the PM and endosomal compartments. Auxin plays multiple roles in PIN protein intracellular trafficking, inhibiting PIN2 endocytosis at some concentrations and promoting PIN2 degradation at others. However, how PIN proteins are turned over in plant cells is yet to be addressed. Methodology and Principle Findings Using laser confocal scanning microscopy, and physiological and molecular genetic approaches, here, we show that in dark-grown seedlings, the PM localization of auxin efflux carrier PIN2 was largely reduced, and, in addition, PIN2 signal was detected in vacuolar compartments. This is in contrast to light-grown seedlings where PIN2 was predominantly PM-localized. In light-grown plants after shift to dark or to continuous red or far-red light, PIN2 also accumulated in vacuolar compartments. We show that PIN2 vacuolar targeting was derived from the PM via endocytic trafficking and inhibited by HY5-dependent light signaling. In addition, the ubiquitin 26S proteasome is involved in the process, since its inhibition by mutations in COP9 and a proteasome inhibitor MG132 impaired the process. Conclusions and Significance Collectively, our data indicate that light plays an essential role in PIN2 intracellular trafficking, promoting PM-localization in the presence of light and, on the other hand, vacuolar targeting for protein degradation in the absence of light. Based on these results, we postulate that light regulation of root development is mediated at least in part by changes in the intracellular distribution of auxin efflux carriers, PIN proteins, in response to the light environment.
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- Ashverya Laxmi
- Plant Biology Division, Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Ardmore, Oklahoma, United States of America
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- Plant Biology Division, Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Ardmore, Oklahoma, United States of America
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- Plant Biology Division, Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Ardmore, Oklahoma, United States of America
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- Plant Biology Division, Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Ardmore, Oklahoma, United States of America
- * To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail:
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Vergés M. Retromer: multipurpose sorting and specialization in polarized transport. INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2008; 271:153-98. [PMID: 19081543 DOI: 10.1016/s1937-6448(08)01204-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Retromer is an evolutionary conserved protein complex required for endosome-to-Golgi retrieval of lysosomal hydrolases' receptors. A dimer of two sorting nexins-typically, SNX1 and/or SNX2-deforms the membrane and thus cooperates with retromer to ensure cargo sorting. Research in various model organisms indicates that retromer participates in sorting of additional molecules whose proper transport has important repercussions in development and disease. The role of retromer as well as SNXs in endosomal protein (re)cycling and protein targeting to specialized plasma membrane domains in polarized cells adds further complexity and has implications in growth control, the establishment of developmental patterns, cell adhesion, and migration. This chapter will discuss the functions of retromer described in various model systems and will focus on relevant aspects in polarized transport.
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- Marcel Vergés
- Laboratory of Epithelial Cell Biology, Centro de Investigación Príncipe Felipe, C/E.P. Avda. Autopista del Saler, Valencia, Spain
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Chow CM, Neto H, Foucart C, Moore I. Rab-A2 and Rab-A3 GTPases define a trans-golgi endosomal membrane domain in Arabidopsis that contributes substantially to the cell plate. THE PLANT CELL 2008; 20:101-23. [PMID: 18239134 PMCID: PMC2254926 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.107.052001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 215] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2007] [Revised: 12/10/2007] [Accepted: 01/13/2008] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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The Ypt3/Rab11/Rab25 subfamily of Rab GTPases has expanded greatly in Arabidopsis thaliana, comprising 26 members in six provisional subclasses, Rab-A1 to Rab-A6. We show that the Rab-A2 and Rab-A3 subclasses define a novel post-Golgi membrane domain in Arabidopsis root tips. The Rab-A2/A3 compartment was distinct from but often close to Golgi stacks and prevacuolar compartments and partly overlapped the VHA-a1 trans-Golgi compartment. It was also sensitive to brefeldin A and accumulated FM4-64 before prevacuolar compartments did. Mutations in RAB-A2a that were predicted to stabilize the GDP- or GTP-bound state shifted the location of the protein to the Golgi or plasma membrane, respectively. In mitosis, KNOLLE accumulated principally in the Rab-A2/A3 compartment. During cytokinesis, Rab-A2 and Rab-A3 proteins localized precisely to the growing margins of the cell plate, but VHA-a1, GNOM, and prevacuolar markers were excluded. Inducible expression of dominant-inhibitory mutants of RAB-A2a resulted in enlarged, polynucleate, meristematic cells with cell wall stubs. The Rab-A2/A3 compartment, therefore, is a trans-Golgi compartment that communicates with the plasma membrane and early endosomal system and contributes substantially to the cell plate. Despite the unique features of plant cytokinesis, membrane traffic to the division plane exhibits surprising molecular similarity across eukaryotic kingdoms in its reliance on Ypt3/Rab11/Rab-A GTPases.
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- Cheung-Ming Chow
- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3RB, United Kingdom
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Nibau C, Gibbs DJ, Coates JC. Branching out in new directions: the control of root architecture by lateral root formation. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2008; 179:595-614. [PMID: 18452506 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2008.02472.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 161] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Plant roots are required for the acquisition of water and nutrients, for responses to abiotic and biotic signals in the soil, and to anchor the plant in the ground. Controlling plant root architecture is a fundamental part of plant development and evolution, enabling a plant to respond to changing environmental conditions and allowing plants to survive in different ecological niches. Variations in the size, shape and surface area of plant root systems are brought about largely by variations in root branching. Much is known about how root branching is controlled both by intracellular signalling pathays and by environmental signals. Here, we will review this knowledge, with particular emphasis on recent advances in the field that open new and exciting areas of research.
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- School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
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Guermonprez H, Smertenko A, Crosnier MT, Durandet M, Vrielynck N, Guerche P, Hussey PJ, Satiat-Jeunemaitre B, Bonhomme S. The POK/AtVPS52 protein localizes to several distinct post-Golgi compartments in sporophytic and gametophytic cells. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2008; 59:3087-98. [PMID: 18583349 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/ern162] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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The organization and dynamics of the plant endomembrane system require both universal and plant-specific molecules and compartments. The latter, despite the growing wealth of information, remains poorly understood. From the study of an Arabidopsis thaliana male gametophytic mutant, it was possible to isolate a gene named POKY POLLEN TUBE (POK) essential for pollen tube tip growth. The similarity between the predicted POK protein sequence and yeast Vps52p, a subunit from the GARP/VFT complex which is involved in the docking of vesicles from the prevacuolar compartment to the Golgi apparatus, suggested that the POK protein plays a role in plant membrane trafficking. Genetic analysis of Arabidopsis mutants affecting AtVPS53 or AtVPS54 genes which encode putative POK partners shows a transmission defect through the male gametophyte for all lines, which is similar to the pok mutant. Using a combination of biochemical approaches and specific antiserum it has been demonstrated that the POK protein is present in phylogenetically divergent plant species, associated with membranes and belongs to a high molecular weight complex. Combination of immunolocalization studies and pharmacological approaches in different plant cells revealed that the POK protein associates with Golgi and post-Golgi compartments. The role of POK in post-Golgi endomembrane trafficking and as a member of a putative plant GARP/VFT complex is discussed.
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- Hélène Guermonprez
- INRA UR254, Station de Génétique et d'Amélioration des Plantes, Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, Centre de Versailles-Grignon, F-78026 Versailles, France
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Jaillais Y, Gaude T. Sorting out the sorting functions of endosomes in Arabidopsis. PLANT SIGNALING & BEHAVIOR 2007; 2:556-8. [PMID: 19704558 PMCID: PMC2634368 DOI: 10.4161/psb.2.6.5108] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2007] [Accepted: 10/04/2007] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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In animals, sorting of membrane proteins following their internalization from the plasma membrane (PM) by endocytosis occurs through a series of different endosomal compartments. In plants, how and where these sorting events take place is still poorly understood and our current view of the endocytic pathway still largely relies on analogies made from the animal system. However, extensive differences seem to exist between animal and plant endosomal functions, as exemplified by the role of the trans-Golgi network (TGN) as an early endosomal compartment in plants or the functional diversification of conserved sorting complexes. By using the Arabidopsis root tip as a reference model, we and other have begun to shed light on the complexity of the plant endocytic pathways. Notably, we have recently characterized the functions of an endosomal compartment, the SNX1-endosomes, also referred to as the prevacuolar compartment (PVC) or multivesicular bodies (MVB), in the sorting of different cargo proteins, including two related auxin-efflux carriers, PIN1 and PIN2. We have shown that routing decisions take place at this endosomal level, such as the sorting of PIN2 toward the lytic vacuole for degradation or PIN1 toward the PM for recycling.
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- Yvon Jaillais
- Reproduction et Développement des Plantes; Institut Fédératif de Recherche 128; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique; Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique; Université Claude Bernard Lyon I; Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon; Lyon, France
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