Chen, Y. H., Li, H. J., Shi, D. Q., Yuan, L., Liu, J., Sreenivasan, R., Baskar, R., Grossniklaus, U., Yang, W. C. (November 2007) The central cell plays a critical role in pollen tube guidance in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell, 19 (11). pp. 3563-3577. ISSN 1040-4651
Abstract
The sperm cell of flowering plants cannot migrate unaided and must be transported by the pollen tube cell of the male gametophyte to achieve successful fertilization. Long-distance pollen tube guidance is controlled by the seven-celled female gametophyte, the embryo sac. Previous reports showed that the synergid cell of the embryo sac is essential for pollen tube guidance. Here, we report the identification of a central cell guidance (ccg) mutant, which is defective in micropylar pollen tube guidance. CCG encodes a nuclear protein with an N-terminal conserved zinc beta-ribbon domain that is functionally interchangeable with that of TFIIB in yeast. This suggests that CCG might act as a transcription regulator for pollen tube guidance. CCG is expressed in the central cell of the female gametophyte. Expression of CCG in the central cell alone is sufficient to restore the normal pollen tube guidance phenotype, demonstrating that the central cell plays a critical role in pollen tube guidance.
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | RNA-POLYMERASE-II TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR-TFIIB START SITE SELECTION VITRO STYLAR MATRIX ZINC RIBBON DOMAIN FUNCTIONAL DOMAINS IN-VITRO FEMALE GAMETOPHYTE FLOWERING PLANTS SEED DEVELOPMENT |
| Subjects: | organism description > plant > Arabidopsis bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > protein structure, function, modification > protein types > enzymes > RNA polymerase bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > DNA, RNA structure, function, modification > gametophyte organism description > plant |
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| Communities: | CSHL labs > Grossniklaus lab |
| Depositing User: | CSHL Librarian |
| Date: | November 2007 |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Dec 2011 14:48 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Mar 2018 15:50 |
| PMCID: | PMC2174880 |
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| URI: | https://repository.cshl.edu/id/eprint/22985 |
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