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PLANT AND CELL PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 62, Issue 8, Pages 1280-1289Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcab075
Keywords
Arabidopsis thaliana; Live-cell imaging; Vacuole; Zygote
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- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science {JSPS} [JP19J30006, JP21K15117, 19H04859, 19H05670, 19H05676, JP16H06465, JP16H06464, JP16K21727, JP18H05492, JP16H06280, JP19H03243, JP20H03289, JP19K22421]
- Suntory Rising Stars Encouragement Program in Life Sciences (SunRiSE)
- Toray Science Foundation [20-6102]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [19H05676, 19H05670, 19H04859] Funding Source: KAKEN
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This study reveals that in Arabidopsis zygotes, vacuolar contents are exchanged dynamically between the apical and basal ends via a tubular network, with vacuoles migrating towards the basal end. Mutants lacking key vacuolar membrane proteins failed to maintain asymmetric vacuolar distribution, leading to symmetric cell division. The study also highlights the importance of YDA-mediated directional migration for establishing polar vacuolar distribution in zygotes.
In most flowering plants, the asymmetric cell division of zygotes is the initial step that establishes the apical-basal axis. In the Arabidopsis zygote, vacuolar accumulation at the basal cell end is crucial to ensure zygotic division asymmetry. Despite the importance, it was unclear whether this polar vacuolar distribution was achieved by predominant biogenesis at the basal region or by directional movement after biogenesis. Here, we found that apical and basal vacuolar contents are dynamically exchanged via a tubular vacuolar network and the vacuoles gradually migrate toward the basal end. The mutant of a vacuolar membrane protein, SHOOT GRAVITROPISM2 (SGR2), failed to form tubular vacuoles, and the mutant of a putative vacuolar fusion factor, VESICLE TRANSPORT THROUGH INTERACTION WITH T-SOLUBLE N-ETHYLMALEIMIDE-SENSITIVE FUSION PROTEIN ATTACHMENT PROTEIN RECEPTORS (SNARES) 11 (VTI11), could not flexibly rearrange the vacuotar network. Both mutants failed to exchange the apical and basal vacuolar contents and to polarly migrate the vacuoles, resulting in a more symmetric division of zygotes. Additionally, we observed that in contrast to sgr2, the zygotic defects of vtii 1 were rescued by the pharmacological depletion of phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate (PI3P), a distinct phospholipid in the vacuolar membrane. Thus, SGR2 and VTI11 have individual sites of action in zygotic vacuolar membrane processes. Further, a mutant of YODA (YDA) mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase kinase, a core component of the embryonic axis formation pathway, generated the proper vacuolar network; however, it failed to migrate the vacuoles toward the basal region, which suggests impaired directional cues. Overall, we conclude that SGR2- and VTI11-dependent vacuolar exchange and YDA-mediated directional migration are necessary to achieve polar vacuolar distribution in the zygote.
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