Ion and lipid signalling in apical growth – a dynamic machinery responding to extracellular cues.
Apical cell growth seems to have independently evolved throughout the major lineages of life. To a certain extent, so does our body of knowledge on the mechanisms regulating this morphogenetic process. Studies on pollen tubes, root hairs, rhizoids, fungal hyphae, even nerve cells, have highlighted t...
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| author | Rui eMalhó Susana eSerrazina Laura eSaavedra Laura eSaavedra Fernando Vaz Dias Reiaz eUl-Rehman Reiaz eUl-Rehman |
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| description | Apical cell growth seems to have independently evolved throughout the major lineages of life. To a certain extent, so does our body of knowledge on the mechanisms regulating this morphogenetic process. Studies on pollen tubes, root hairs, rhizoids, fungal hyphae, even nerve cells, have highlighted tissue and cell specificities but also common regulatory characteristics (e.g. ions, proteins, phospholipids) that our focused research sometimes failed to grasp. The working hypothesis to test how apical cell growth is established and maintained have thus been shaped by the model organism under study and the type of methods used to study them. The current picture is one of a dynamic and adaptative process, based on a spatial segregation of components that network to achieve growth and respond to environmental (extracellular) cues. Here, we explore some examples of our live imaging research, namely on cyclic nucleotide gated ion channels, lipid kinases and syntaxins involved in exocytosis. We discuss how their spatial distribution, activity and concentration suggest that the players regulating apical cell growth may display more mobility than previously thought. Furthermore, we speculate on the implications of such perspective in our understanding of the mechanisms regulating apical cell growth and their responses to extracellular cues. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-63f9f35928b745d5a5b547b166d1588d2022-12-21T17:58:28ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Plant Science1664-462X2015-10-01610.3389/fpls.2015.00816158893Ion and lipid signalling in apical growth – a dynamic machinery responding to extracellular cues.Rui eMalhó0Susana eSerrazina1Laura eSaavedra2Laura eSaavedra3Fernando Vaz Dias4Reiaz eUl-Rehman5Reiaz eUl-Rehman6Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de CiênciasUniversidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de CiênciasUniversidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de CiênciasUniversidad Nacional de CórdobaUniversidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de CiênciasUniversity of KashmirUniversidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de CiênciasApical cell growth seems to have independently evolved throughout the major lineages of life. To a certain extent, so does our body of knowledge on the mechanisms regulating this morphogenetic process. Studies on pollen tubes, root hairs, rhizoids, fungal hyphae, even nerve cells, have highlighted tissue and cell specificities but also common regulatory characteristics (e.g. ions, proteins, phospholipids) that our focused research sometimes failed to grasp. The working hypothesis to test how apical cell growth is established and maintained have thus been shaped by the model organism under study and the type of methods used to study them. The current picture is one of a dynamic and adaptative process, based on a spatial segregation of components that network to achieve growth and respond to environmental (extracellular) cues. Here, we explore some examples of our live imaging research, namely on cyclic nucleotide gated ion channels, lipid kinases and syntaxins involved in exocytosis. We discuss how their spatial distribution, activity and concentration suggest that the players regulating apical cell growth may display more mobility than previously thought. Furthermore, we speculate on the implications of such perspective in our understanding of the mechanisms regulating apical cell growth and their responses to extracellular cues.http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpls.2015.00816/fullphosphoinositidessignallingCa2+cyclic nucleotidesTip growthsyntaxins |
| spellingShingle | Rui eMalhó Susana eSerrazina Laura eSaavedra Laura eSaavedra Fernando Vaz Dias Reiaz eUl-Rehman Reiaz eUl-Rehman Ion and lipid signalling in apical growth – a dynamic machinery responding to extracellular cues. Frontiers in Plant Science phosphoinositides signalling Ca2+ cyclic nucleotides Tip growth syntaxins |
| title | Ion and lipid signalling in apical growth – a dynamic machinery responding to extracellular cues. |
| title_full | Ion and lipid signalling in apical growth – a dynamic machinery responding to extracellular cues. |
| title_fullStr | Ion and lipid signalling in apical growth – a dynamic machinery responding to extracellular cues. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Ion and lipid signalling in apical growth – a dynamic machinery responding to extracellular cues. |
| title_short | Ion and lipid signalling in apical growth – a dynamic machinery responding to extracellular cues. |
| title_sort | ion and lipid signalling in apical growth a dynamic machinery responding to extracellular cues |
| topic | phosphoinositides signalling Ca2+ cyclic nucleotides Tip growth syntaxins |
| url | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpls.2015.00816/full |
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