Talts Kristiina, Ilau Birger, Ojangu Eve-Ly, Tanner Krista, Peremyslov Valera V, Dolja Valerian V, Truve Erkki, Paves Heiti
Department of Gene Technology, Tallinn University of Technology Tallinn, Estonia.
Department of Botany and Plant Pathology and Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing, Oregon State University, Corvallis OR, USA.
Front Plant Sci. 2016 Dec 21;7:1932. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2016.01932. eCollection 2016.
Myosins and actin filaments in the actomyosin system act in concert in regulating cell structure and dynamics and are also assumed to contribute to plant gravitropic response. To investigate the role of the actomyosin system in the inflorescence stem gravitropism, we used single and multiple mutants affecting each of the 17 myosins of class VIII and XI. We show that class XI but not class VIII myosins are required for stem gravitropism. Simultaneous loss of function of myosins XI1, XI2, and XIK leads to impaired gravitropic bending that is correlated with altered growth, stiffness, and insufficient sedimentation of gravity sensing amyloplasts in stem endodermal cells. The gravitropic defect of the corresponding triple mutant could be rescued by stable expression of the functional XIK:YFP in the mutant background, indicating a role of class XI myosins in this process. Altogether, our results emphasize the critical contributions of myosins XI in stem gravitropism of .
肌动球蛋白系统中的肌球蛋白和肌动蛋白丝协同作用,调节细胞结构和动态变化,并且还被认为对植物的向重力性反应有贡献。为了研究肌动球蛋白系统在花序茎向重力性中的作用,我们使用了影响第VIII类和第XI类17种肌球蛋白中每一种的单突变体和多突变体。我们发现,茎的向重力性需要第XI类而不是第VIII类肌球蛋白。肌球蛋白XI1、XI2和XIK功能的同时丧失会导致向重力性弯曲受损,这与茎内皮层细胞中重力感应淀粉体的生长改变、硬度变化和沉降不足有关。相应三突变体的向重力性缺陷可以通过在突变体背景中稳定表达功能性XIK:YFP来挽救,这表明第XI类肌球蛋白在这一过程中发挥作用。总之,我们的结果强调了肌球蛋白XI在[具体植物]茎向重力性中的关键作用。