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Review
. 2022 Sep;596(17):2231-2242.
doi: 10.1002/1873-3468.14343. Epub 2022 Apr 5.

Vesicle trafficking in Arabidopsis pollen tubes

Guang-Jiu Hao  1 , Xin-Ying Zhao  1 , Miao-Miao Zhang  2 , Jun Ying  1 , Fei Yu  1 , Sha Li  1 , Yan Zhang  1   2   3
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Vesicle trafficking in Arabidopsis pollen tubes

Guang-Jiu Hao et al. FEBS Lett. 2022 Sep.
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Abstract

The delivery of sperm cells via tip-growing pollen tubes is an innovation of seed plants and shows the importance of pollen tubes for reproduction and their specific growth kinetics. Fast-growing pollen tubes demand an extensive and dynamic vesicular trafficking network to build new cell membrane and wall, to deliver proteins among endomembrane compartments, and also to respond to external stimuli for growth adjustment. In this review, we summarize current findings on endomembrane compartments and vesicular trafficking routes of pollen tubes, comparing and contrasting their features with those of most somatic cells. We discuss the importance of membrane homeostasis, either at the plasma membrane (PM) or between PM-targeted trafficking and vacuolar trafficking, for pollen tube growth. We also provide perspectives to facilitate future studies of vesicular trafficking in pollen tubes.

Keywords: actin microfilaments; cell wall; endocytosis; endosome; membrane homeostasis; pollen tube; vacuole; vesicle trafficking.

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