Secondary cell wall patterning-connecting the dots, pits and helices.
Authors
Xu, Huizhen
Giannetti, Alessandro
Sugiyama, Yuki
Zheng, Wenna
Schneider, René
Watanabe, Yoichiro
Oda, Yoshihisa
Publication Date
2022-05Journal Title
Open Biol
ISSN
2046-2441
Publisher
The Royal Society
Volume
12
Issue
5
Language
en
Type
Article
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Xu, H., Giannetti, A., Sugiyama, Y., Zheng, W., Schneider, R., Watanabe, Y., Oda, Y., & et al. (2022). Secondary cell wall patterning-connecting the dots, pits and helices.. Open Biol, 12 (5) https://doi.org/10.1098/rsob.210208
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Funder: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft; Id: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001659
Funder: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
Funder: University of Melbourne; Id: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001782
Funder: DFG
Abstract
All plant cells are encased in primary cell walls that determine plant morphology, but also protect the cells against the environment. Certain cells also produce a secondary wall that supports mechanically demanding processes, such as maintaining plant body stature and water transport inside plants. Both these walls are primarily composed of polysaccharides that are arranged in certain patterns to support cell functions. A key requisite for patterned cell walls is the arrangement of cortical microtubules that may direct the delivery of wall polymers and/or cell wall producing enzymes to certain plasma membrane locations. Microtubules also steer the synthesis of cellulose-the load-bearing structure in cell walls-at the plasma membrane. The organization and behaviour of the microtubule array are thus of fundamental importance to cell wall patterns. These aspects are controlled by the coordinated effort of small GTPases that probably coordinate a Turing's reaction-diffusion mechanism to drive microtubule patterns. Here, we give an overview on how wall patterns form in the water-transporting xylem vessels of plants. We discuss systems that have been used to dissect mechanisms that underpin the xylem wall patterns, emphasizing the VND6 and VND7 inducible systems, and outline challenges that lay ahead in this field.
Keywords
Review, Review articles, plant cell wall, microtubules, xylem, cell wall patterning, cellulose
Sponsorship
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) (19H05677)
Novo Nordisk (NNF19OC0056076)
ARC (25915, DP190101941)
Danmarks Grundforskningsfond (DNRF Chair 155, DNRF155)
Villum Fonden (25915)
JSPS (19K16168, 21H02514)
German Research Foundation (453188536)
Identifiers
rsob210208
External DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsob.210208
This record's URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/336847
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