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Auxin-transporting ABC transporters are defined by a conserved D/E-P motif regulated by a prolylisomerase

Hao, Pengchao ; Xia, Jian ; Liu, Jie ; Donato, Martin Di ; Pakula, Konrad ; Bailly, Aurélien ; Jasinski, Michal ; Geisler, Markus

In: Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2020, vol. 295, no. 37, p. 13094–13105

The plant hormone auxin must be transported throughout plants in a cell-to-cell manner to affect its various physiological functions. ABCB transporters are critical for this polar auxin distribution, but the regulatory mechanisms controlling their function is not fully understood. The auxin transport activity of ABCB1 was suggested to be regulated by a physical interaction with FKBP42/Twisted...

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A transportome-scale amiRNA-based screen identifies redundant roles of Arabidopsis ABCB6 and ABCB20 in auxin transport

Zhang, Yuqin ; Nasser, Victoria ; Pisanty, Odelia ; Omary, Moutasem ; Wulff, Nikolai ; Donato, Martin Di ; Tal, Iris ; Hauser, Felix ; Hao, Pengchao ; Roth, Ohad ; Fromm, Hillel ; Schroeder, Julian I. ; Geisler, Markus ; Nour-Eldin, Hussam Hassan ; Shani, Eilon

In: Nature Communications, 2018, vol. 9, no. 1, p. 4204

Transport of signaling molecules is of major importance for regulating plant growth, development, and responses to the environment. A prime example is the spatial- distribution of auxin, which is regulated via transporters to govern developmental patterning. A critical limitation in our ability to identify transporters by forward genetic screens is their potential functional redundancy. Here,...

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A critical view on abc transporters and their interacting partners in auxin transport

Geisler, Markus ; Aryal, Bibek ; Di Donato, Martin ; Hao, Pengchao

In: Plant and Cell Physiology, 2017, vol. 58, no. 10, p. 1601–1614

Different subclasses of ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters have been implicated in the transport of native variants of the phytohormone auxin. Here, the putative, individual roles of key members belonging to the ABCB, ABCD and ABCG families, respectively, are highlighted and the knowledge of their assumed expression and transport routes is reviewed and compared with their mutant phenotypes....

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TWISTED DWARF1 mediates the action of auxin transport inhibitors on actin cytoskeleton dynamics

Zhu, Jinsheng ; Bailly, Aurelien ; Zwiewka, Marta ; Sovero, Valpuri ; Donato, Martin Di ; Ge, Pei ; Oehri, Jacqueline ; Aryal, Bibek ; Hao, Pengchao ; Linnert, Miriam ; Burgardt, Noelia Inés ; Lücke, Christian ; Weiwad, Matthias ; Michel, Max ; Weiergräber, Oliver H. ; Pollmann, Stephan ; Azzarello, Elisa ; Mancuso, Stefano ; Ferro, Noel ; Fukao, Yoichiro ; Hoffmann, Céline ; Wedlich-Söldner, Roland ; Friml, Jiří ; Thomas, Clément ; Geisler, Markus

In: The Plant Cell, 2016, vol. 28, no. 4, p. 930–948

Plant growth and architecture is regulated by the polar distribution of the hormone auxin. Polarity and flexibility of this process is provided by constant cycling of auxin transporter vesicles along actin filaments, coordinated by a positive auxin-actin feedback loop. Both polar auxin transport and vesicle cycling are inhibited by synthetic auxin transport inhibitors, such as...