ReviewProtoplasma2001
Actin and pollen tube growth.
Review in Protoplasma, 2001. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 72 papers.
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72 citing papers in PubMed.
- Cytoskeletal control of development and environmental adaptation in plants.Science China. Life sciences · 2026Review
- Extracellular AMP Inhibits Pollen Tube Growth inPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- AtHMGB15 regulates tapetal apoptosis in pollen development and actin dynamics during pollen germination in arabidopsis.Plant reproduction · 2024Article
- Exploring the Role of the Plant Actin Cytoskeleton: From Signaling to Cellular Functions.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Review
- Genetic Regulation of Mitosis-Meiosis Fate Decision in Plants: Is Callose an Oversighted Polysaccharide in These Processes?Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Let's shape again: the concerted molecular action that builds the pollen tube.Plant reproduction · 2022Review
- Deciphering the dynamic gene expression patterns of pollen abortion in a male sterile line of Avena sativa through transcriptome analysis at different developmental stages.BMC plant biology · 2021Article
- Insights into the molecular control of cross-incompatibility in Zea mays.Plant reproduction · 2020Review
- A calcium-mediated actin redistribution at egg activation in Drosophila.Molecular reproduction and development · 2020Article
- Control of the Actin Cytoskeleton Within Apical and Subapical Regions of Pollen Tubes.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2020Review
- Mightier Than Muscle: A Near-Atomic View of Pollen Actin Filaments.The Plant cell · 2019Article
- The Balance between Actin-Bundling Factors Controls Actin Architecture in Pollen Tubes.iScience · 2019Article
- Mechanism of CAP1-mediated apical actin polymerization in pollen tubes.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019Article
- Actin Bundles in The Pollen Tube.International journal of molecular sciences · 2018Review
- SMALL AUXIN UP RNA62/75 Are Required for the Translation of Transcripts Essential for Pollen Tube Growth.Plant physiology · 2018Article
- The functional analysis of SlNCED1 in tomato pollen development.Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2018Article
- Ethylene promotes pollen tube growth by affecting actin filament organization via the cGMP-dependent pathway in Arabidopsis thaliana.Protoplasma · 2018Article
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- Signaling with Ions: The Keystone for Apical Cell Growth and Morphogenesis in Pollen Tubes.Plant physiology · 2017Review
- The Cytoskeleton and Its Regulation by Calcium and Protons.Plant physiology · 2016Review
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Abstract
Actin microfilaments (MFs) are essential for the growth of the pollen tube. Although it is well known that MFs, together with myosin, deliver the vesicles required for cell elongation, it is becoming evident that the polymerization of new actin MFs, in a process that is independent of actomyosin-dependent vesicle translocation, is also necessary for cell elongation. Herein we review the recent literature that focuses on this subject, including brief discussions of the actin-binding proteins in pollen, and their possible role in regulating actin MF activity. We promote the view that polymerization of new actin MFs polarizes the cytoplasm at the apex of the tube. This process is regulated in part by the apical calcium gradient and by different actin-binding proteins. For example, profilin binds actin monomers and gives the cell control over the initiation of polymerization. A more recently discovered actin-binding protein, villin, stimulates the formation of unipolar bundles of MFs. Villin may also respond to the apical calcium gradient, fragmenting MFs, and thus locally facilitating actin remodeling. While much remains to be discovered, it is nevertheless apparent that actin MFs play a fundamental role in controlling apical cell growth in pollen tubes.
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