ReviewJournal of experimental botany2020
Exocytosis and endocytosis: coordinating and fine-tuning the polar tip growth domain in pollen tubes.
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- TipQuant: a robust algorithm for quantitative analysis of spatiotemporally dynamic activities in tip-growing cells.The New phytologist · 2026Article
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- A new player at the tip: KPZP steers pollen tube growth by reining in receptor trafficking.Plant physiology · 2026Article
- Electron microscopy-based three-dimensional subcellular imaging of plant male gametophyte.Journal of integrative plant biology · 2026Review
- Three-dimensional visualization of tip-vesicles in growing pollen tubes by electron tomography.Science China. Life sciences · 2026Article
- A Plant-Derived Antifungal Agent, Poacic Acid, Inhibits Germination and Tube Growth of Lily Pollen.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- NtLLG4-mediated unconventional polar exocytosis of NtPPME1 coordinates cell wall rigidity and membrane dynamics to control pollen tube integrity.Science advances · 2025Article
- Identifying new players of gynoecium development using tissue-specific transcriptome data of Arabidopsis.Planta · 2025Article
- Effects of fluorescent tags and activity status on the membrane localization of ROP GTPases.Plant signaling & behavior · 2024Article
- The Role of Female and Male Genes in Regulating Pollen Tube Guidance in Flowering Plants.Genes · 2024Review
- MAPK20-mediated ATG6 phosphorylation is critical for pollen development inHorticulture research · 2024Article
- From gametes to zygote: Mechanistic advances and emerging possibilities in plant reproduction.Plant physiology · 2024Review
- WD40-domain protein GORI is an integrative scaffold that is required for pollen tube growth in rice.Plant signaling & behavior · 2023Article
- VAMP726 and VAMP725 regulate vesicle secretion and pollen tube growth in Arabidopsis.Plant cell reports · 2023Article
- The putative myristoylome of Physcomitrium patens reveals conserved features of myristoylation in basal land plants.Plant cell reports · 2023Article
- Integrated analysis of biparental and natural populations reveals CRIB domain-containing protein underlying seed coat crack trait in watermelon.TAG. Theoretical and applied genetics. Theoretische und angewandte Genetik · 2023Article
- Autophagy and its mediated mitochondrial quality control maintain pollen tube growth and male fertility in Arabidopsis.Autophagy · 2023Article
- Silencing of a Pectin Acetylesterase (PAE) Gene Highly Expressed in Tobacco Pistils Negatively Affects Pollen Tube Growth.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Sterols and Sphingolipids as New Players in Cell Wall Building and Apical Growth ofPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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Abstract
Pollen tubes rapidly elongate, penetrate, and navigate through multiple female tissues to reach ovules for sperm delivery by utilizing a specialized form of polar growth known as tip growth. This process requires a battery of cellular activities differentially occurring at the apical growing region of the plasma membrane (PM), such as the differential cellular signaling involving calcium (Ca2+), phospholipids, and ROP-type Rho GTPases, fluctuation of ions and pH, exocytosis and endocytosis, and cell wall construction and remodeling. There is an emerging understanding of how at least some of these activities are coordinated and/or interconnected. The apical active ROP modulates exocytosis to the cell apex for PM and cell wall expansion differentially occurring at the tip. The differentiation of the cell wall involves at least the preferential distribution of deformable pectin polymers to the apex and non-deformable pectin polymers to the shank of pollen tubes, facilitating the apical cell expansion driven by high internal turgor pressure. Recent studies have generated inroads into how the ROP GTPase-based intracellular signaling is coordinated spatiotemporally with the external wall mechanics to maintain the tubular cell shape and how the apical cell wall mechanics are regulated to allow rapid tip growth while maintaining the cell wall integrity under the turgor pressure. Evidence suggests that exocytosis and endocytosis play crucial but distinct roles in this spatiotemporal coordination. In this review, we summarize recent advances in the regulation and coordination of the differential pectin distribution and the apical domain of active ROP by exocytosis and endocytosis in pollen tubes.
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