The VTI Family of SNARE Proteins Is Necessary for Plant Viability and Mediates Different Protein Transport Pathways[W]
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- Marci Surpin
- Center for Plant Cell Biology and Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, California 92521
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- Haiyan Zheng
- Center for Plant Cell Biology and Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, California 92521
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- Miyo T. Morita
- Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Graduate School of Biological Sciences, Ikoma Nara 630-0101, Japan
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- Cheiko Saito
- Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Graduate School of Biological Sciences, Ikoma Nara 630-0101, Japan
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- Emily Avila
- Center for Plant Cell Biology and Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, California 92521
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- Joshua J. Blakeslee
- Horticulture Department, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-1165
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- Anindita Bandyopadhyay
- Horticulture Department, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-1165
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- Valentina Kovaleva
- Center for Plant Cell Biology and Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, California 92521
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- David Carter
- Center for Plant Cell Biology and Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, California 92521
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- Angus Murphy
- Horticulture Department, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-1165
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- Masao Tasaka
- Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Graduate School of Biological Sciences, Ikoma Nara 630-0101, Japan
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- Natasha Raikhel
- Center for Plant Cell Biology and Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, California 92521
説明
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>The Arabidopsis genome contains a family of v-SNAREs: VTI11, VTI12, and VTI13. Only VTI11 and VTI12 are expressed at appreciable levels. Although these two proteins are 60% identical, they complement different transport pathways when expressed in the yeast vti1 mutant. VTI11 was identified recently as the mutated gene in the shoot gravitropic mutant zig. Here, we show that the vti11 zig mutant has defects in vascular patterning and auxin transport. An Arabidopsis T-DNA insertion mutant, vti12, had a normal phenotype under nutrient-rich growth conditions. However, under nutrient-poor conditions, vti12 showed an accelerated senescence phenotype, suggesting that VTI12 may play a role in the plant autophagy pathway. VTI11 and VTI12 also were able to substitute for each other in their respective SNARE complexes, and a double-mutant cross between zig and vti12 was embryo lethal. These results suggest that some VTI1 protein was necessary for plant viability and that the two proteins were partially functionally redundant.</jats:p>
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- The Plant Cell
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The Plant Cell 15 (12), 2885-2899, 2003-12-01
Oxford University Press (OUP)
