ArticleNature communications2017
Exocytosis-coordinated mechanisms for tip growth underlie pollen tube growth guidance.
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- Essential developmental processes in Physcomitrium patens require distinct levels of total activity provided by functionally redundant PpROP GTPases.The New phytologist · 2025Article
- Polarized subcellular activation of Rho proteins by specific ROPGEFs drives pollen germination in Arabidopsis thaliana.PLoS biology · 2025Article
- Membrane nanodomains to shape plant cellular functions and signaling.The New phytologist · 2025Review
- Peptides in plant reproduction-small yet powerful.Frontiers in plant science · 2025Review
- The Role of Female and Male Genes in Regulating Pollen Tube Guidance in Flowering Plants.Genes · 2024Review
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- Rho of Plants patterning: linking mathematical models and molecular diversity.Journal of experimental botany · 2024Review
- A multiscale chemical-mechanical model predicts impact of morphogen spreading on tissue growth.NPJ systems biology and applications · 2023Article
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- Electrifying rhythms in plant cells.Current opinion in cell biology · 2022Review
- Let's shape again: the concerted molecular action that builds the pollen tube.Plant reproduction · 2022Review
- A small Rho GTPase OsRacB is required for pollen germination in rice.Development, growth & differentiation · 2022Article
- Plant cell mechanobiology: Greater than the sum of its parts.The Plant cell · 2022Review
- Constrained Nonlinear and Mixed Effects Integral Differential Equation Models for Dynamic Cell Polarity Signaling.Frontiers in plant science · 2022Article
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Abstract
Many tip-growing cells are capable of responding to guidance cues, during which cells precisely steer their growth toward the source of guidance signals. Though several players in signal perception have been identified, little is known about the downstream signaling that controls growth direction during guidance. Here, using combined modeling and experimental studies, we demonstrate that the growth guidance of Arabidopsis pollen tubes is regulated by the signaling network that controls tip growth. Tip-localized exocytosis plays a key role in this network by integrating guidance signals with the ROP1 Rho GTPase signaling and coordinating intracellular signaling with cell wall mechanics. This model reproduces the high robustness and responsiveness of pollen tube guidance and explains the connection between guidance efficiency and the parameters of the tip growth system. Hence, our findings establish an exocytosis-coordinated mechanism underlying the cellular pathfinding guided by signal gradients and the mechanistic linkage between tip growth and guidance.
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