Canonical Rab5 GTPases are essential for pollen tube growth through style in Arabidopsis.
Canonical Rab5 GTPases are essential for pollen tube growth through style in Arabidopsis.
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10.1111/nph.19059
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2023-06
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Guangyu Hao;Lu Li;Xin-Ying Zhao;Jun Ying;Miao Zhang;Xue-Chun Cui;Tiantian Sun;En Li;
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Guangyu Hao;Lu Li;Xin-Ying Zhao;Jun Ying;Miao Zhang;Xue-Chun Cui;Tiantian Sun;En Li;
Pollen tubes have dynamic tubular vacuoles. Functional loss of AP-3, a regulator of one vacuolar trafficking route, reduces pollen tube growth. However, the role of canonical Rab5 GTPases that are responsible for two other vacuolar trafficking routes in Arabidopsis pollen tubes is obscure. By using genomic editing, confocal microscopy, pollen tube growth assays, and transmission electron microscopy, we demonstrate that functional loss of canonical Rab5s in Arabidopsis, RHA1 and ARA7, causes the failure of pollen tubes to grow through style and thus impairs male transmission. Functional loss of canonical Rab5s compromises vacuolar trafficking of tonoplast proteins, vacuolar biogenesis, and turgor regulation. However, rha1;ara7 pollen tubes are comparable to those of wild-type in growing through narrow passages by microfluidic assays. We demonstrate that functional loss of canonical Rab5s compromises endocytic and secretory trafficking at the plasma membrane (PM), whereas the targeting of PM-associated ATPases is largely unaffected. Despite that, rha1;ara7 pollen tubes contain a reduced cytosolic pH and disrupted actin microfilaments, correlating with the mis-targeting of vacuolar ATPases (VHA). These results imply a key role of vacuoles in maintaining cytoplasmic proton homeostasis and in pollen tube penetrative growth through style.