ArticleLipids2015
Plant Sterol Diversity in Pollen from Angiosperms.
Article in Lipids, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.
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- Rab geranylgeranyl transferase activity is required for proper sterol biosynthesis in Arabidopsis thaliana.Plant & cell physiology · 2026Article
- Inhibition of Sterol Biosynthesis Alters Tubulin Association with Detergent-Insoluble Membranes and Affects Microtubule Organization in Pollen Tubes ofPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Pollen sterols are highly diverse but phylogenetically conserved.The New phytologist · 2025Article
- Sterol composition in plants is specific to pollen, leaf, pollination and pollinator.Phytochemistry · 2023Article
- Sterol and lipid metabolism in bees.Metabolomics : Official journal of the Metabolomic Society · 2023Review
- Sterols and Sphingolipids as New Players in Cell Wall Building and Apical Growth ofPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Assessing pollen nutrient content: a unifying approach for the study of bee nutritional ecology.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Heat stress leads to rapid lipid remodeling and transcriptional adaptations in Nicotiana tabacum pollen tubes.Plant physiology · 2022Article
- Effects of impaired steryl ester biosynthesis on tomato growth and developmental processes.Frontiers in plant science · 2022Article
- Pollen sterols are associated with phylogeny and environment but not with pollinator guilds.The New phytologist · 2021Article
- Membrane Sterol Composition inInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2021Article
- Lipid Composition and Associated Gene Expression Patterns during Pollen Germination and Pollen Tube Growth in Olive (Olea europaea L.).Plant & cell physiology · 2020Article
- Evaluating Effects of a Critical Micronutrient (24-Methylenecholesterol) on Honey Bee Physiology.Annals of the Entomological Society of America · 2020Article
- Inhibition of Phytosterol Biosynthesis by Azasterols.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Distinct triterpene synthases in the laticifers of Euphorbia lathyris.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Metabolism and Biological Activities of 4-Methyl-Sterols.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019Review
- The mevalonate pathway but not the methylerythritol phosphate pathway is critical for elaioplast and pollen coat development inPlant biotechnology (Tokyo, Japan) · 2018Article
- PUX10 Is a Lipid Droplet-Localized Scaffold Protein That Interacts with CELL DIVISION CYCLE48 and Is Involved in the Degradation of Lipid Droplet Proteins.The Plant cell · 2018Article
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4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Here we have examined the composition of free sterols and steryl esters of pollen from selected angiosperm species, as a first step towards a comprehensive analysis of sterol biogenesis in the male gametophyte. We detected four major sterol structural groups: cycloartenol derivatives bearing a 9β,19-cyclopropyl group, sterols with a double bond at C-7(8), sterols with a double bond at C-5(6), and stanols. All these groups were unequally distributed among species. However, the distribution of sterols as free sterols or as steryl esters in pollen grains indicated that free sterols were mostly Δ(5)-sterols and that steryl esters were predominantly 9β,19-cyclopropyl sterols. In order to link the sterol composition of a pollen grain at anthesis with the requirement for membrane lipid constituents of the pollen tube, we germinated pollen grains from Nicotiana tabacum, a model plant in reproductive biology. In the presence of radiolabelled mevalonic acid and in a time course series of measurements, we showed that cycloeucalenol was identified as the major neosynthesized sterol. Furthermore, the inhibition of cycloeucalenol neosynthesis by squalestatin was in full agreement with a de novo biogenesis and an apparent truncated pathway in the pollen tube.
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