Journal
PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Volume 74, Issue 4-5, Pages 423-435Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11103-010-9683-7
Keywords
Root hair; Growth; Extracellular nucleotide; Apyrase; Nitric oxide; Reactive oxygen species
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Funding
- NSF [IOS 0718890, CHE-0629136]
- Freshman Research Initiative
- HHMI Undergraduate Science Education Award [52005907]
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Root hairs secrete ATP as they grow, and extracellular ATP and ADP can trigger signaling pathways that regulate plant cell growth. In several plant tissues the level of extracellular nucleotides is limited in part by ectoapyrases (ecto-NTPDases), and the growth of these tissues is strongly influenced by their level of ectoapyrase expression. Both chemical inhibition of ectoapyrase activity and suppression of the expression of two ectoapyrase enzymes by RNAi in Arabidopsis resulted in inhibition of root hair growth. As assayed by a dose-response curve, different concentrations of the poorly hydrolysable nucleotides, ATP gamma S and ADP beta S, could either stimulate (at 7.5-25 mu M) or inhibit (at a parts per thousand yen 150 mu M) the growth rate of root hairs in less than an hour. Equal amounts of AMPS, used as a control, had no effect on root hair growth. Root hairs of nia1nia2 mutants, which are suppressed in nitric oxide (NO) production, and of atrbohD/F mutants, which are suppressed in the production of H2O2, did not show growth responses to applied nucleotides, indicating that the growth changes induced by these nucleotides in wild-type plants were likely transduced via NO and H2O2 signals. Consistent with this interpretation, treatment of root hairs with different concentrations of ATP gamma S induced different accumulations of NO and H2O2 in root hair tips. Two mammalian purinoceptor antagonists also blocked the growth responses induced by extracellular nucleotides, suggesting that they were initiated by a receptor-based mechanism.
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