WAVY GROWTH Arabidopsis E3 ubiquitin ligases affect apical PIN sorting decisions

Konstantinova, N; Hörmayer, Lukas; Glanc, Matous; Keshkeih, R; Tan, Shutang; Di Donato, M; Retzer, K; Moulinier-Anzola, J; Schwihla, M; Korbei, B; Geisler, M; Friml, Jiří; Luschnig, C

WAVY GROWTH Arabidopsis E3 ubiquitin ligases affect apical PIN sorting decisions

Konstantinova N, Hörmayer L, Glanc M, Keshkeih R, Tan S, Di Donato M, Retzer K, Moulinier-Anzola J, Schwihla M, Korbei B, Geisler M, Friml J, Luschnig C. 2022. WAVY GROWTH Arabidopsis E3 ubiquitin ligases affect apical PIN sorting decisions. Nature Communications. 13, 5147.

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10.1038/s41467-022-32888-8

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Konstantinova, N; Hörmayer, Lukas^ISTA; Glanc, Matouš^ISTA ; Keshkeih, R; Tan, Shutang^ISTA ; Di Donato, M; Retzer, K; Moulinier-Anzola, J; Schwihla, M; Korbei, B; Geisler, M; Friml, Jirí^ISTA
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Friml Group

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Molecular mechanisms of endocytic cargo recognition in plants

Abstract

Directionality in the intercellular transport of the plant hormone auxin is determined by polar plasma membrane localization of PIN-FORMED (PIN) auxin transport proteins. However, apart from PIN phosphorylation at conserved motifs, no further determinants explicitly controlling polar PIN sorting decisions have been identified. Here we present Arabidopsis WAVY GROWTH 3 (WAV3) and closely related RING-finger E3 ubiquitin ligases, whose loss-of-function mutants show a striking apical-to-basal polarity switch in PIN2 localization in root meristem cells. WAV3 E3 ligases function as essential determinants for PIN polarity, acting independently from PINOID/WAG-dependent PIN phosphorylation. They antagonize ectopic deposition of de novo synthesized PIN proteins already immediately following completion of cell division, presumably via preventing PIN sorting into basal, ARF GEF-mediated trafficking. Our findings reveal an involvement of E3 ligases in the selective targeting of apically localized PINs in higher plants.

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2022

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2022-09-01

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Nature Communications

Acknowledgement

We would like to thank Tatsuo Sakai, Marcus Heisler, Toru Fujiwara, Lucia Strader, Christian Hardtke, Malcolm Bennett, Claus Schwechheimer, Gerd Jürgens and Remko Offringa for sharing published materials and Alba Grau Gimeno for support. We are greatly indebted to Bert de Rybel for supporting N.K. and M.G. to work on the final stages of manuscript preparation as postdocs in his laboratory. A full-length SOR1 cDNA clone (J090099M14) was obtained from the National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO, Japan). Support by the Multiscale Imaging Core Facility at the BOKU is greatly acknowledged. This work has been supported by grants from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF P25931-B16; P31493-B25 to Christian Luschnig; I3630-B25 to Jiří Friml; P30850-B32 to Barbara Korbei) and from the Swiss National Funds (31003A-165877/1 to Markus Geisler) and the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 885979 to Matouš Glanc).

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5147

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2041-1723

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12052

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Konstantinova N, Hörmayer L, Glanc M, et al. WAVY GROWTH Arabidopsis E3 ubiquitin ligases affect apical PIN sorting decisions. Nature Communications. 2022;13. doi:10.1038/s41467-022-32888-8

Konstantinova, N., Hörmayer, L., Glanc, M., Keshkeih, R., Tan, S., Di Donato, M., … Luschnig, C. (2022). WAVY GROWTH Arabidopsis E3 ubiquitin ligases affect apical PIN sorting decisions. Nature Communications. Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32888-8

Konstantinova, N, Lukas Hörmayer, Matous Glanc, R Keshkeih, Shutang Tan, M Di Donato, K Retzer, et al. “WAVY GROWTH Arabidopsis E3 Ubiquitin Ligases Affect Apical PIN Sorting Decisions.” Nature Communications. Springer Nature, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32888-8.

N. Konstantinova et al., “WAVY GROWTH Arabidopsis E3 ubiquitin ligases affect apical PIN sorting decisions,” Nature Communications, vol. 13. Springer Nature, 2022.

Konstantinova, N., et al. “WAVY GROWTH Arabidopsis E3 Ubiquitin Ligases Affect Apical PIN Sorting Decisions.” Nature Communications, vol. 13, 5147, Springer Nature, 2022, doi:10.1038/s41467-022-32888-8.

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