The Arabidopsis Diacylglycerol Kinase 4 is involved in nitric oxide-dependent pollen tube guidance and fertilization
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Wong, Aloysius Tze
Donaldson, Lara
Portes, Maria Teresa
Eppinger, Jörg

Feijó, José

Gehring, Christoph A

KAUST Department
Biological & Organometallic Catalysis LaboratoriesBiological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering (BESE) Division
Bioscience Program
Chemical Science Program
KAUST Catalysis Center (KCC)
Molecular Signalling Group
Office of the VP
Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division
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2019-06-10Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/656585
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Nitric oxide (NO) is a key signaling molecule that regulates diverse biological processes in both animals and plants. In animals, NO regulates vascular wall tone, neurotransmission and immune response while in plants, NO is essential for development and responses to biotic and abiotic stresses [1–3]. Interestingly, NO is involved in the sexual reproduction of both animals and plants mediating physiological events related to the male gamete [2, 4]. In animals, NO stimulates sperm motility [4] and binding to the plasma membrane of oocytes [5] while in plants, NO mediates pollen-stigma interactions and pollen tube guidance [6, 7]. NO generation in pollen tubes (PTs) has been demonstrated [8] and intracellular responses to NO include cytosolic Ca2+ elevation, actin organization, vesicle trafficking and cell wall deposition [7, 9]. However, the NO-responsive proteins that mediate these responses are still elusive. Here we show that PTs of Arabidopsis lacking the pollen-specific Diacylglycerol Kinase 4 (DGK4) grow slower and become insensitive to NO-dependent growth inhibition and re-orientation responses. Recombinant DGK4 protein yields NO-responsive spectral and catalytic changes in vitro which are compatible with a role in NO perception and signaling in PTs. NO is a fast, diffusible gas and, based on our results, we hypothesize it could serve in long range signaling and/or rapid cell-cell communication functions mediated by DGK4 downstream signaling during the progamic phase of angiosperm reproduction.Citation
Wong, A., Donaldson, L., Portes, M. T., Eppinger, J., Feijó, J., & Gehring, C. (2019). The Arabidopsis Diacylglycerol Kinase 4 is involved in nitric oxide-dependent pollen tube guidance and fertilization. doi:10.1101/665810Sponsors
This research was supported by the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (CG lab) and National Science Foundation grants MCB-1616437 and 1714993 (JF lab). A.W. is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant no. 31850410470) and the Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant no. LQ19C130001).Publisher
Cold Spring Harbor LaboratoryDOI
10.1101/665810Additional Links
http://biorxiv.org/lookup/doi/10.1101/665810ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1101/665810
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