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第一作者:Yufan Li
第一单位:北京大学
通讯作者:Haodong Chen
Abstract
背景回顾:Gravity is a critical environmental factor regulating directional growth and morphogenesis in plants, and gravitropism is the process by which plants perceive and respond to the gravity vector.
提出问题:The cytoskeleton is proposed to play important roles in gravitropism, but the underlying mechanisms are obscure.
主要发现:Here we use genetic screening in Physcomitrella patens, to identify a locus GTRC, that when mutated, reverses the direction of protonemal gravitropism.
结果1-编码功能基因:GTRC encodes a processive minus-end-directed KCHb kinesin, and its N-terminal, C-terminal and motor domains are all essential for transducing the gravity signal.
结果2-功能区域鉴定:Chimeric analysis between GTRC/KCHb and KCHa reveal a unique role for the N-terminus of GTRC in gravitropism.
结果3-体内功能验证:Further study shows that gravity-triggered normal asymmetric distribution of actin filaments in the tip of protonema is dependent on GTRC.
结论:Thus, our work identifies a microtubule-based cellular motor that determines the direction of plant gravitropism via mediating the asymmetric distribution of actin filaments.
摘 要
节植物方向性生长和形态发生的重要环境因子,而向重力性是植物感知和响应重力矢量的过程。细胞骨架被认为在植物的向重力性中起重要作用,但具体的分子机制尚不清楚。本文中,作者通过对小立碗藓进行遗传筛选,鉴定到了一个GTRC,该位点突变会导致小立碗藓原丝体的生长方向发生逆转。GTRC编码一个负极指向的KCHb驱动蛋白,其N端、C端和motor结构域都是传递重力信号所必需的。对于GTRC/KCHb和KCHa的嵌合分析显示,GTRC的N端在向重力性中具有其独特的作用。进一步的研究表明,原丝体顶端肌动蛋白纤维在重力诱导下的不对称分布依赖于GTRC。因此,本文的研究结果揭示了一种基于微管的细胞马达,其通过介导肌动蛋白纤维的不对称分布来决定植物的向重力性方向。
通讯作者
** 陈浩东 **
个人简介:
1999-2003年,北京大学,学士;
2003-2008年,北京大学,博士;
2008-2010年,北京大学,博后。
研究方向:
1. 植物感受重力的机制;
2. 植物中向重力性方向决定的机制。
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24546-2
Journal: Nature Communications
Published date: July 22, 2021
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