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Journal Article
Pectin Methyl Esterase Inhibits Intrusive and Symplastic Cell Growth in Developing Wood Cells of Populus
2008
Overview
Wood cells, unlike most other cells in plants, grow by a unique combination of intrusive and symplastic growth. Fibers grow in diameter by diffuse symplastic growth, but they elongate solely by intrusive apical growth penetrating the pectin-rich middle lamella that cements neighboring cells together. In contrast, vessel elements grow in diameter by a combination of intrusive and symplastic growth. We demonstrate that an abundant pectin methyl esterase (PME; EC 3.1.1.11) from wood-forming tissues of hybrid aspen (Populus tremula × tremuloides) acts as a negative regulator of both symplastic and intrusive growth of developing wood cells. When PttPME1 expression was up- and down-regulated in transgenic aspen trees, the PME activity in wood-forming tissues was correspondingly altered. PME removes methyl ester groups from homogalacturonan (HG) and transgenic trees had modified HG methylesterification patterns, as demonstrated by two-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance and immunostaining using PAM1 and LM7 antibodies. In situ distributions of PAM1 and LM7 epitopes revealed changes in pectin methylesterification in transgenic trees that were specifically localized in expanding wood cells. The results show that en block deesterification of HG by PttPME1 inhibits both symplastic growth and intrusive growth. PttPME1 is therefore involved in mechanisms determining fiber width and length in the wood of aspen trees.
Publisher
American Society of Plant Physiologists,American Society of Plant Biologists
Subject
/ Biological and medical sciences
/ Carboxylic Ester Hydrolases - metabolism
/ cytology
/ epitopes
/ esters
/ Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
/ Gene Expression Regulation, Plant
/ Gene Expression Regulation, Plant - physiology
/ genetics
/ hybrids
/ Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
/ nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy
/ pectins
/ Plant physiology and development
/ Plants, Genetically Modified
/ Populus
/ Populus - growth & development
/ trees
/ wood
