The use of quantitative imaging to investigate regulators of membrane trafficking in Arabidopsis stomatal closure

Bourdais, Gildas, McLachlan, Deirdre H, Rickett, Lydia M, Zhou, Ji, Siwoszek, Agnieszka, Häweker, Heidrun, Hartley, Matthew, Kuhn, Hannah, Morris, Richard J, MacLean, Dan and Robatzek, Silke (2019) The use of quantitative imaging to investigate regulators of membrane trafficking in Arabidopsis stomatal closure. Traffic, 20 (2). pp. 168-180. ISSN 1398-9219

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Abstract

Expansion of gene families facilitates robustness and evolvability of biological processes but impedes functional genetic dissection of signalling pathways. To address this, quantitative analysis of single cell responses can help characterise the redundancy within gene families. We developed high-throughput quantitative imaging of stomatal closure, a response of plant guard cells, and performed a reverse genetic screen in a group of Arabidopsis mutants to five stimuli. Focussing on the intersection between guard cell signalling and the endomembrane system, we identified eight clusters based on the mutant stomatal responses. Mutants generally affected in stomatal closure were mostly in genes encoding SNARE and SCAMP membrane regulators. By contrast, mutants in RAB5 GTPase genes played specific roles in stomatal closure to microbial but not drought stress. Together with timed quantitative imaging of endosomes revealing sequential patterns in FLS2 trafficking, our imaging pipeline can resolve non-redundant functions of the RAB5 GTPase gene family. Finally, we provide a valuable image-based tool to dissect guard cell responses and outline a genetic framework of stomatal closure. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Science > The Sainsbury Laboratory
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	11 Dec 2018 11:30
Last Modified:	25 Sep 2024 13:48
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/69266
DOI:	10.1111/tra.12625

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