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Actin-Depolymerizing Factor Mediates Rac/Rop Gtpase-Regulated Pollen Tube Growth, C, Y, Chen, Alice Cheung, H. M. Wu
Actin-Depolymerizing Factor Mediates Rac/Rop Gtpase-Regulated Pollen Tube Growth, C, Y, Chen, Alice Cheung, H. M. Wu
Alice Cheung
Pollen tube elongation is a rapid tip growth process that is driven by a dynamic actin cytoskeleton. A ubiquitous family of actin binding proteins, actin-depolymerizing factors (ADFs)/cofilins, bind to actin filaments, induce severing, enhance depolymerization from their slow-growing end, and are important for maintaining actin dynamics in vivo. ADFs/cofilins are regulated by multiple mechanisms, among which Rho small GTPase-activated phosphorylation at a terminal region Ser residue plays an important role in regulating their actin binding and depolymerizing activity, affecting actin reorganization. We have shown previously that a tobacco pollen-specific ADF, NtADF1, is important for maintaining normal pollen tube actin cytoskeleton …