Arabidopsis formin AtFH6 Is a plasma membrane-associated protein upregulated in giant cells induced by parasitic nematodes
Plant-parasitic nematodes Meloidogyne spp induce an elaborate permanent feeding site characterized by the redifferentiation of root cells into multinucleate and hypertrophied giant cells. We have isolated by a promoter trap strategy an Arabidopsis thaliana formin gene, AtFH6, which is upregulated du...
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Published in | The Plant cell Vol. 16; no. 9; pp. 2529 - 2540 |
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Main Authors | , , , , , , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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United States
American Society of Plant Biologists
01.09.2004
American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) |
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Summary: | Plant-parasitic nematodes Meloidogyne spp induce an elaborate permanent feeding site characterized by the redifferentiation of root cells into multinucleate and hypertrophied giant cells. We have isolated by a promoter trap strategy an Arabidopsis thaliana formin gene, AtFH6, which is upregulated during giant cell formation. Formins are actin-nucleating proteins that stimulate de novo polymerization of actin filaments. We show here that three type-I formins were upregulated in giant cells and that the AtFH6 protein was anchored to the plasma membrane and uniformly distributed. Suppression of the budding defect of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae bni1delta bnr1delta mutant showed that AtFH6 regulates polarized growth by controlling the assembly of actin cables. Our results suggest that AtFH6 might be involved in the isotropic growth of hypertrophied feeding cells via the reorganization of the actin cytoskeleton. The actin cables would serve as tracks for vesicle trafficking needed for extensive plasma membrane and cell wall biogenesis. Therefore, determining how plant parasitic nematodes modify root cells into giant cells represents an attractive system to identify genes that regulate cell growth and morphogenesis. |
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Bibliography: | http://www.plantcell.org/ ObjectType-Article-2 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-1 content type line 23 ObjectType-Article-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 Current address: Laboratoire de Morphogénèse Végétale, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 6116, Université Aix-Marseille III, Faculté des Sciences et Techniques de Saint Jérôme, Avenue de l'Escadrille Normandie-Niemen, 13397 Marseille, France. These authors contributed equally to this work. Article, publication date, and citation information can be found at www.plantcell.org/cgi/doi/10.1105/tpc.104.024372. To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail abad@antibes.inra.fr; fax 33-492386587. |
ISSN: | 1040-4651 1532-298X |
DOI: | 10.1105/tpc.104.024372 |