Journal article
The pollen-specific R-SNARE/longin PiVAMP726 mediates fusion of endo- and exocytic compartments in pollen tube tip growth
Journal of experimental botany, Vol.63(8), pp.3083-3095
05/2012
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/109494
PMCID: PMC3350921
PMID: 22345643
Abstract
The growing pollen tube apex is dedicated to balancing exo- and endocytic processes to form a rapidly extending tube. As perturbation of either tends to cause a morphological phenotype, this system provides tractable model for studying these processes. Vesicle-associated membrane protein 7s (VAMP7s) are members of the soluble N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive factor attachment protein receptor (SNARE) family that mediate cognate membrane fusion but their role in pollen tube growth has not been investigated. This manuscript identifies PiVAMP726 of
Petunia inflata
as a pollen-specific VAMP7 that localizes to the inverted cone of transport vesicles at the pollen tube tip. The endocytic marker FM4-64 was found to colocalize with yellow fluorescent protein (YFP)-PiVAMP726, which is consistent with PiVAMP726 containing an amino-acid motif implicated in endosomal localization, At high overexpression levels, YFP- PiVAMP726 inhibited growth and caused the formation of novel membrane compartments within the pollen tube tip. Functional dissection of PiVAMP726 implicated the N-terminal longin domain in negative regulation of the SNARE activity, but not localization of PiVAMP726. Expression of the constitutively active C-terminal SNARE domain alone, in pollen tubes, generated similar phenotypes to the full-length protein, but the truncated domain was more potent than the wild-type protein at both inhibiting growth and forming the novel membrane compartments. Both endo- and exocytic markers localized to these compartments in addition to YFP-PiVAMP726, leading to the speculation that PiVAMP726 might be involved in the recycling of endocytic vesicles in tip growth.
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- Title
- The pollen-specific R-SNARE/longin PiVAMP726 mediates fusion of endo- and exocytic compartments in pollen tube tip growth
- Creators
- Feng Guo - School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-4236, USAAndrew G McCubbin - School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-4236, USA
- Publication Details
- Journal of experimental botany, Vol.63(8), pp.3083-3095
- Academic Unit
- Biological Sciences, School of
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Identifiers
- 99900547482601842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article