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(AVP1 & Protons) Li-Arabidopsis H - PPase AVP1 Regulates Auxin-Mediated Organ Development-Science (2005)
(AVP1 & Protons) Li-Arabidopsis H - PPase AVP1 Regulates Auxin-Mediated Organ Development-Science (2005)
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Jisheng Li et al.
Science 310, 121 (2005);
DOI: 10.1126/science.1115711
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the trait allele inherited from their fathers. The
stronger genetic associations that develop in
daughters than in sons again favor the spread
of preferences for the female-benefit allele, T. Arabidopsis Hþ-PPase AVP1
The conditions for the invasion of a new
preference allele were determined assuming Regulates Auxin-Mediated
weak selection. How robust are these results to
stronger selection? Simulations with selection
coefficients on the order of 10 to 30% were
Organ Development
explored; selection coefficients in this range Jisheng Li,1* Haibing Yang,1* Wendy Ann Peer,3 Gregory Richter,2
are not uncommon (18). Invasion depends only Joshua Blakeslee,3 Anindita Bandyopadhyay,3
on how the new preference allele changes
Boosaree Titapiwantakun,3 Soledad Undurraga,1
female mating preferences and not on the
strength of selection, confirming our analytical
Mariya Khodakovskaya,1 Elizabeth L. Richards,3 Beth Krizek,4
results (Figs. 1 and 2) Angus S. Murphy,3 Simon Gilroy,2 Roberto Gaxiola1.
Our results point to a potentially large effect
of the sex-determination mechanism on how The transport of auxin controls developmental events in plants. Here, we report
female preferences evolve for sexually antago- that in addition to maintaining vacuolar pH, the Hþ-pyrophosphatase, AVP1,
nistic traits. Over long time scales, evolutionary controls auxin transport and consequently auxin-dependent development.
changes in female preferences will lead to the AVP1 overexpression results in increased cell division at the onset of organ
fixation of the trait alleles most fit in females in formation, hyperplasia, and increased auxin transport. In contrast, avp1-1 null
XY systems and ZW systems when the pref- mutants have severely disrupted root and shoot development and reduced
erence is autosomal, but the trait allele most fit auxin transport. Changes in the expression of AVP1 affect the distribution and
in males in ZW systems with Z-linked pref- abundance of the P–adenosine triphosphatase and Pinformed 1 auxin efflux
erences. Thus, sexually antagonistic selection is facilitator, two proteins implicated in auxin distribution. Thus, AVP1 facilitates
always resolved in favor of females in XY the auxin fluxes that regulate organogenesis.
species (Fig. 1B), but in favor of males in ZW
species when the preference is Z-linked (Fig. The phytohormone auxin Eprincipally indole retained in the neutral cytoplasm by means of
2B). This process can occur very rapidly if the acetic acid (IAA)^ plays a fundamental role in polarly localized efflux complexes (4). Thus,
new allele has a strong effect on preferences. the formation of all plant organs, and gradients the transporters responsible for setting cyto-
Assuming the conditions of our model, we of auxin have been shown to be essential to plasmic and apoplastic pH are likely to have
predict that the difference in fitness between polarity of development (1, 2). Because IAA is key roles in driving this polar flux of auxin.
daughters and sons should be greater for a weak acid (pKa 4.75, where Ka is the acid Plants have three distinct membrane Hþ-
females that choose mates relative to females dissociation constant), a chemiosmotic model pumps capable of generating pH gradients (5).
mating at random. Choosy females should describes polar auxin uptake and efflux driven The P-type Hþ–adenosine triphosphatase
produce daughters that are more fit than sons by a plasma membrane Hþ gradient (3). In the (P-ATPase) is a single-subunit protein that
in XY systems and vice versa in ZW systems. acidic apoplast, an enrichment of the lipophilic energizes transport across the plasma mem-
Another prediction of our model is that female protonated species of IAA facilitates its entry brane (PM) by extruding Hþ from the cell (6).
preferences can evolve more easily for male- into the cell. The same gradient motivates The vacuolar Hþ-ATPase (V-ATPase) com-
benefit alleles in ZW species, which is con- efflux of anionic (non–lipid soluble) IAA– plex, encoded by at least 26 genes, acidifies
Fig. 4. Auxin transport, PIN1 localization and trafficking model in AVP1 gain- SD of two assays of 10 seedlings each. PIN1 (G) localization in root tips of
and loss-of-function seedlings. (A) Shoot and root development of 53-day- 5-day-old Col-0, avp1-1, and AVP1-1. Scale bar, 50 mm. AVP1 function
old Col-0 (WT) and avp1-1 plants with 5 mM IAA. Scale bar, 1 cm. GUS regulates trafficking of Hþ-ATPase and PIN1. (H) Loss of AVP1 function
staining in 6-day-old roots of Col-0 DR5::GUS (B) and avp1-1DR5::GUS (C). results in decreased Hþ-ATPase and PIN1 abundance on the PM;
GUS staining in 6-day-old cotyledons of Col-0 DR5::GUS (D) and avp1- overexpression results in increased abundance; Hþ-ATPase and PIN1 traffic
1DR5::GUS (E). Scale bar in (B) to (E), 50 mm. (F) Basipetal IAA transport in the same vesicles (23). Resultant changes in pH alter chemiosmotically
from shoot apex to root-shoot junction and root tips of 5-day-old avp1-1 driven auxin flux through the cells (arrows). In avp1-1, auxin levels do not
and AVP1-1 seedlings. Values are percentage of Col-0 control, and means T fall below the threshold required for increased PIN1 redistribution (16).
transport. Vacuolar, cytosolic, and apoplastic expression might directly or indirectly influence than in wild-type plants (pH 5.6 T 0.05) (P G
pH were therefore measured in root elongation pH homeostasis.The apoplastic pH was signif- 0.05, Student_s t test) (Fig. 3E). No difference
zone cells of wild-type, AVP1OX, and avp1-1 icantly more acidic in AVP1OX (pH 5.1 T 0.05) in cytosolic pH was detected (fig. S9A).
seedlings to test whether alterations in AVP1 and more alkaline in avp1-1 (pH 5.8 T 0.06) However, the vacuolar pH of the avp1-1