ArticleThe Plant cell2002
A kinesin-like protein is essential for oriented deposition of cellulose microfibrils and cell wall strength.
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- Rice Brittle Culm19 Encoding Cellulose Synthase Subunit CESA4 Causes Dominant Brittle Phenotype But has No Distinct Influence on Growth and Grain Yield.Rice (New York, N.Y.) · 2021Article
- Phosphoproteome analysis reveals an extensive phosphorylation of proteins associated with bast fiber growth in ramie.BMC plant biology · 2021Article
- Large-scale whole-genome resequencing unravels the domestication history ofScience advances · 2021Article
- Molecular Programming of Drought-ChallengedFrontiers in microbiology · 2021Article
- The functions of kinesin and kinesin-related proteins in eukaryotes.Cell adhesion & migration · 2020Review
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Abstract
Cortical microtubules have long been hypothesized to regulate the oriented deposition of cellulose microfibrils. However, the molecular mechanisms of how microtubules direct the orientation of cellulose microfibril deposition are not known. We have used fibers in the inflorescence stems of Arabidopsis to study secondary wall deposition and cell wall strength and found a fragile fiber (fra1) mutant with a dramatic reduction in the mechanical strength of fibers. The fra1 mutation did not cause any defects in cell wall composition, secondary wall thickening, or cortical microtubule organization in fiber cells. An apparent alteration was found in the orientation of cellulose microfibrils in fra1 fiber walls, indicating that the reduced mechanical strength of fra1 fibers probably was attributable to altered cellulose microfibril deposition. The FRA1 gene was cloned and found to encode a kinesin-like protein with an N-terminal microtubule binding motor domain. The FRA1 protein was shown to be concentrated around the periphery of the cytoplasm but absent in the nucleus. Based on these findings, we propose that the FRA1 kinesin-like protein is involved in the microtubule control of cellulose microfibril order.
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