Plant Vasculature: Selective Membrane-to-Microtubule Tethering Patterns the Xylem Cell Wall.

Plant Vasculature: Selective Membrane-to-Microtubule Tethering Patterns the Xylem Cell Wall.

Accepted version

Peer-reviewed

Repository URI

https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/270647

Repository DOI

https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.17579

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Type

Article

Authors

Bourdon, Matthieu

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7243-5642

Kalmbach, Lothar

Helariutta, Yrjö

Abstract

To introduce pits into a cell wall, plants depolymerize cortical microtubules, which prevents subsequent secondary cell wall thickening. A newly identified protein tethers microtubules to the plasma membrane and contains this breakdown to defined regions, thereby shaping these holes.

Keywords

Cell Membrane, Cell Wall, Microtubules, Xylem, rho GTP-Binding Proteins

Journal Title

Curr Biol

Journal ISSN

0960-9822
1879-0445

Volume Title

27

Publisher

Elsevier BV

Publisher DOI

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2017.07.044

Rights

http://www.rioxx.net/licenses/all-rights-reserved

Sponsorship

European Research Council (323052)
Gatsby Charitable Foundation (GAT3395/PR3)

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