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PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 146, Issue 3, Pages 1109-1116Publisher
AMER SOC PLANT BIOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.1104/pp.107.113654
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- NCRR NIH HHS [1 S10 RR 107903-01] Funding Source: Medline
- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM 053190] Funding Source: Medline
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Multigene families encoding class XI myosins are conserved in higher plants, however, little information is available on specific functions of these ubiquitous molecular motors. We isolated gene knockout mutants for all 13 class XI myosins present in Arabidopsis ( Arabidopsis thaliana) genome. Inactivation of 11 myosin genes resulted in no discernible phenotypes under the normal growth conditions. In contrast, the knockouts of the remaining two myosin genes, XI-2 ( formerly MYA2) and XI-K, exhibited similar defects in root hair elongation suggesting that the myosin- driven motility plays a significant role in a polar tip growth. Strikingly, inactivation of each of these myosins also reduced trafficking of Golgi stacks, peroxisomes, and mitochondria in root hairs and in leaf epidermal cells. These results indicate that myosins XI-K and XI-2 play major and overlapping roles in the cell dynamics in Arabidopsis and highlight the redundant nature of myosin function in plants.
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