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- Title
Microtubules guide root hair tip growth.
- Authors
Sieberer, Björn J.; Ketelaar, Tijs; Esseling, John J.; Emons, Anne Mie C.
- Abstract
Summary 1 I. Introduction 1 II. Root hair tip growth 2 III. Microtubule organization and dynamics in elongating root hairs 3 IV. Microtubules and their role in root hair cell polarity 4 V. Microtubules and their putative role in targeting polarity markers to the very tip of elongating root hairs: what we might learn from Schizosaccharomyces pombe 6 VI. Conclusion 7 References 7 The ability to establish cell polarity is crucial to form and function of an individual cell. Polarity underlies critical processes during cell development, such as cell growth, cell division, cell differentiation and cell signalling. Interphase cytoplasmic microtubules in tip-growing fission yeast cells have been shown to play a particularly important role in regulating cell polarity. By placing proteins that serve as spatial cues in the cell cortex of the expanding tip, microtubules determine the site where excocytosis, and therefore growth, takes place. Transport and the targeting of exocytotic vesicles to the very tip depend on the actin cytoskeleton. Recently, endoplasmic microtubules have been identified in tip-growing root hairs, which are an experimental system for plant cell growth. Here, we review the data that demonstrate involvement of microtubules in hair elongation and polarity of the model plants Medicago truncatula and Arabidopsis thaliana. Differences and similarities between the microtubule organization and function in these two species are discussed and we compare the observations in root hairs with the microtubule-based polarity mechanism in fission yeast. New Phytologist (2005) doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2005.01506.x © New Phytologist (2005)
- Subjects
ARABIDOPSIS thaliana; CYTOSKELETON; MICROTUBULES; ROOT hairs (Botany); YEAST
- Publication
New Phytologist, 2005, Vol 167, Issue 3, p711
- ISSN
0028-646X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1469-8137.2005.01506.x