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TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE
Volume 16, Issue 9, Pages 468-475Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON
DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2011.05.002
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- Research Foundation-Flanders [3G006507]
- GA ASCR [IAA601630703, MSM0021622415]
- Vienna Science and Technology Fund
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Carrier-dependent, intercellular auxin transport is central to the developmental patterning of higher plants (tracheophytes). The evolution of this polar auxin transport might be linked to the translocation of some PIN auxin efflux carriers from their presumably ancestral localization at the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) to the polar domains at the plasma membrane. Here we propose an eventually ancient mechanism of intercellular auxin distribution by ER-localized auxin transporters involving intracellular auxin retention and switch-like release from the ER. The proposed model integrates feedback circuits utilizing the conserved nuclear auxin signaling for the regulation of PIN transcription and a hypothetical ER-based signaling for the regulation of PIN-dependent transport activity at the ER. Computer simulations of the model revealed its plausibility for generating auxin channels and localized auxin maxima highlighting the possibility of this alternative mechanism for polar auxin transport.
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