MacAlister, C. A., Ortiz-Ramirez, C., Becker, J. D., Feijo, J. A., Lippman, Z. B. (January 2016) Hydroxyproline O-arabinosyltransferase mutants oppositely alter tip growth in Arabidopsis thaliana and Physcomitrella patens. Plant J, 85 (2). pp. 193-208. ISSN 1365-313X (Electronic)0960-7412 (Linking)
Abstract
Hydroxyproline O-arabinosylatransferases (HPATs) are members of a small, deeply conserved family of plant-specific glycosyltransferases that add arabinose sugars to diverse proteins including cell wall-associated extensins and small signaling peptides. Recent genetic studies in flowering plants suggest that different HPAT homologs have been co-opted to function in diverse species-specific developmental contexts. However, nothing is known about the roles of HPATs in basal plants. We show that complete loss of HPAT function in Arabidopsis thaliana and the moss Physcomitrella patens results in a shared defect in gametophytic tip cell growth. Arabidopsis hpat1/2/3 triple knockout mutants suffer from a strong male sterility defect as a consequence of pollen tubes that fail to fully elongate following pollination. Knocking out the two HPAT genes of Physcomitrella results in larger multicellular filamentous networks due to increased elongation of protonemal tip cells. Physcomitrella hpat mutants lack cell-wall associated Hyp-arabinosides, can be rescued with exogenous cellulose, and global expression profiling shows that cell wall-associated genes are severely misexpressed, implicating a defect in cell wall formation during tip growth. Our findings point to a major role for HPATs in influencing cell elongation during tip growth in plants. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
| Item Type: | Paper |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Arabidopsis thaliana Physcomitrella patens arabinosylation cell wall development extensins glycosylation pollination protonema tip growth |
| Subjects: | organism description > plant > Arabidopsis bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics organism description > plant |
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| Communities: | CSHL labs > Lippman lab |
| Depositing User: | Matt Covey |
| Date: | 18 January 2016 |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Nov 2015 20:39 |
| Last Modified: | 27 Jan 2017 21:27 |
| PMCID: | PMC4738400 |
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| URI: | https://repository.cshl.edu/id/eprint/31997 |
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