Université de Fribourg

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...

Université de Fribourg

The cyclophilin A DIAGEOTROPICA gene affects auxin transport in both root and shoot to control lateral root formation

Ivanchenko, Maria G. ; Zhu, Jinsheng ; Wang, Bangjun ; Medvecká, Eva ; Du, Yunlong ; Azzarello, Elisa ; Mancuso, Stefano ; Megraw, Molly ; Filichkin, Sergei ; Dubrovsky, Joseph G. ; Friml, Jiří ; Geisler, Markus

In: Development, 2015, p. dev.113225

Cyclophilin A is a conserved peptidyl-prolyl cis-trans isomerase (PPIase) best known as the cellular receptor of the immunosuppressant cyclosporine A. Despite significant effort, evidence of developmental functions of cyclophilin A in non-plant systems has remained obscure. Mutations in a tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) cyclophilin A ortholog, DIAGEOTROPICA (DGT), have been shown to abolish the...

Université de Fribourg

Arabidopsis TWISTED DWARF1 functionally interacts with auxin exporter ABCB1 on the root plasma membrane

Wang, Bangjun ; Bailly, Aurélien ; Zwiewka, Marta ; Henrichs, Sina ; Azzarello, Elisa ; Mancuso, Stefano ; Maeshima, Masayoshi ; Friml, Jiří ; Schulz, Alexander ; Geisler, Markus

In: The Plant Cell, 2013, vol. 25, no. 1, p. 202-214

Plant architecture is influenced by the polar, cell-to-cell transport of auxin that is primarily provided and regulated by plasma membrane efflux catalysts of the PIN-FORMED and B family of ABC transporter (ABCB) classes. The latter were shown to require the functionality of the FK506 binding protein42 TWISTED DWARF1 (TWD1), although underlying mechanisms are unclear. By genetic manipulation of...