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NATURE
卷 579, 期 7800, 页码 561-+出版社
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-2106-2
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资金
- Ministry of Science and Technology Overseas Project, 2013 Graduate Student Study Abroad Program
- Estancias Posdoctorales en el Extranjero, Vinculadas a la Consolidacion de Grupos de Investigacion y Fortalecimiento del Posgrado Nacional 2018
- NSF [IOS-1147165, IOS-1146941, IOS-1645854, MCB-1715764]
- National Institutes of Health [S10OD010645]
- NIFA/USDA, the Center for Agriculture, Food and the Environment [MAS00525]
- Massachusetts Life Science Center
Species that propagate by sexual reproduction actively guard against the fertilization of an egg by multiple sperm (polyspermy). Flowering plants rely on pollen tubes to transport their immotile sperm to fertilize the female gametophytes inside ovules. In Arabidopsis, pollen tubes are guided by cysteine-rich chemoattractants to target the female gametophyte(1,2). The FERONIA receptor kinase has a dual role in ensuring sperm delivery and blocking polyspermy(3). It has previously been reported that FERONIA generates a female gametophyte environment that is required for sperm release(4). Here we show that FERONIA controls several functionally linked conditions to prevent the penetration of female gametophytes by multiple pollen tubes in Arabidopsis. We demonstrate that FERONIA is crucial for maintaining de-esterified pectin at the filiform apparatus, a region of the cell wall at the entrance to the female gametophyte. Pollen tube arrival at the ovule triggers the accumulation of nitric oxide at the filiform apparatus in a process that is dependent on FERONIA and mediated by de-esterified pectin. Nitric oxide nitrosates both precursor and mature forms of the chemoattractant LURE1(1), respectively blocking its secretion and interaction with its receptor, to suppress pollen tube attraction. Our results elucidate a mechanism controlled by FERONIA in which the arrival of the first pollen tube alters ovular conditions to disengage pollen tube attraction and prevent the approach and penetration of the female gametophyte by late-arriving pollen tubes, thus averting polyspermy. FERONIA prevents polyspermy in Arabidopsis by enabling pectin-stimulated nitric oxide accumulation at the filiform apparatus after the first pollen tube arrives, which disengages LURE1 chemoattraction to prevent late-arriving pollen tubes from entering the ovule.
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