Tip growth in the brown alga Ectocarpus is controlled by a RHO-GAP-BAR domain protein independently from F-actin organisation
Nehr, Z.; Chenivesse, S.; Billoud, B.; Genicot, S.; Desban, N.; Theodorou, I.; Nasir, A.; Le Bail, A.; Rabille, H.; Godfroy, O.; Katsaros, C.; Charrier, B.
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The brown alga Ectocarpus is a filamentous seaweed that grows by tip growth and branching. In the morphometric mutant etoile, tip growth is slower than in the WT and eventually stops. In this paper, we show that the causal etoile mutation is a null mutation in a bi-domain BAR-RhoGAP gene. By quantitative RT-PCR, we showed that ETOILE is ubiquitously expressed in prostrate filaments of the Ectocarpus sporophyte, and is downregulated in the etoile mutant. We immunolocalised both domains of the protein in WT and etoile, as well as RAC1, the known target of Rho-GAP enzymes. Thus, ETOILE would be localised at the apical cell dome where it would control the localisation of EsRAC1 to the plasma membrane. Actin staining showed that the mutant is not affected in F-actin structures. Overall, these results suggest that in Ectocarpus, BAR-RhoGAP controls tip growth by controlling RAC1 localization and through an actin-independent mechanism.
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