Suppressing a putative sterol carrier gene reduces plasmodesmal permeability and activates sucrose transporter genes during cotton fiber elongation

Zhang, Zhiyuan; Ruan, Yong-Ling; Zhou, Na; Wang, Fang; Guan, Xueyiing; Fang, Lei; Shang, Xiaoguang; Guo, Wangzhen; Zhu, Shuijin; Zhang, Tianzhen

Title: Suppressing a putative sterol carrier gene reduces plasmodesmal permeability and activates sucrose transporter genes during cotton fiber elongation
Creator: Zhang, Zhiyuan; Ruan, Yong-Ling; Zhou, Na; Wang, Fang; Guan, Xueyiing; Fang, Lei; Shang, Xiaoguang; Guo, Wangzhen; Zhu, Shuijin; Zhang, Tianzhen
Relation: Funding BodyARCGrant NumberDP110104931 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP110104931
Relation: Plant Cell Vol. 29, Issue 8, p. 2027-2046
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1105/tpc.17.00358
Publisher: American Society of Plant Biologists
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2017
Description: Plasmodesmata (PDs) play vital roles in cell-to-cell communication and plant development. Emerging evidence suggests that sterols are involved in PD activity during cytokinesis. However, whether sterols contribute to PD gating between established cells remains unknown. Here, we isolated GhSCP2D, a putative sterol carrier protein gene from elongating cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) fibers. In contrast to wild-type fiber PDs, which opened at 5 to 10 d postanthesis (DPA) and closed only at 15 to 25 DPA, plants with suppressed GhSCP2D expression had reduced sterol contents and closed PDs at 5 through 25 DPA. The GhSCP2D-suppressed fibers exhibited callose deposition at the PDs, likely due to reduced expression of GhPdBG3-2A/D, which encodes a PD-targeting β-1,3-glucanase. Both GhPdBG3-2A/D expression and callose deposition were sensitive to a sterol biosynthesis inhibitor. Moreover, suppressing GhSCP2D upregulated a cohort of SUT and SWEET sucrose transporter genes in fiber cells. Collectively, our results indicate that (1) GhSCP2D is required for GhPdBG3-2A/D expression to degrade callose at the PD, thereby contributing to the establishment of the symplasmic pathway; and (2) blocking the symplasmic pathway by downregulating GhSCP2D activates or increases the expression of SUTs and SWEETs, leading to the switch from symplasmic to apoplasmic pathways.
Subject: plasmodesmata; plant development; cytokinesis; sterols
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1386815
Identifier: uon:32469
Identifier: ISSN:1040-4651
Language: eng
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