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Haiqi Fu1, Xinhao Yang1, Rong Hao1
1College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, Haidian, China.
Abstract:
Stomatal closure-associated actin-binding protein 1 (SCAB1) regulates stomatal closure by mediating actin filament reorganization in Arabidopsis thaliana. Our previous study showed that phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate (PI3P) binds to SCAB1 and inhibits its oligomerization, thereby inhibiting its activity on F-actin in guard cells during stomatal closure. In this study, we show that another phospholipid, phosphatidic acid (PA), also binds to SCAB1 and inhibits its actin-bundling activity but not its actin-binding activity. F-actin bundling was promoted in vivo by treating Col-0 seedlings with n-butanol, a suppressor of PA production, but this effect was absent in the scab1 mutant. These results indicate that the signaling molecule PA is involved in the modulation of SCAB1 activity in F-actin reorganization.
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