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http://dx.doi.org/10.14348/molcells.2015.2323

Suppression of ASKβ(AtSK32), a Clade III Arabidopsis GSK3, Leads to the Pollen Defect during Late Pollen Development  

Dong, Xiangshu (Department of Biological Science, College of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chungnam National University)
Nou, Ill-Sup (Department of Horticulture, Sunchon National University)
Yi, Hankuil (Department of Biological Science, College of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chungnam National University)
Hur, Yoonkang (Department of Biological Science, College of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chungnam National University)
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Molecules and Cells / v.38, no.6, 2015 , pp. 506-517 More about this Journal
Abstract
Arabidopsis Shaggy-like protein kinases (ASKs) are Arabidopsis thaliana homologs of glycogen synthase kinase 3/SHAGGY-like kinases (GSK3/SGG), which are comprised of 10 genes with diverse functions. To dissect the function of $ASK{\beta}$ (AtSK32), $ASK{\beta}$ antisense transgenic plants were generated, revealing the effects of $ASK{\beta}$ down-regulation in Arabidopsis. Suppression of $ASK{\beta}$ expression specifically interfered with pollen development and fertility without altering the plants' vegetative phenotypes, which differed from the phenotypes reported for Arabidopsis plants defective in other ASK members. The strength of these phenotypes showed an inverse correlation with the expression levels of $ASK{\beta}$ and its co-expressed genes. In the aborted pollen of $ASK{\beta}$ antisense plants, loss of nuclei and shrunken cytoplasm began to appear at the bicellular stage of microgametogenesis. The in silico analysis of promoter and the expression characteristics implicate $ASK{\beta}$ is associated with the expression of genes known to be involved in sperm cell differentiation. We speculate that $ASK{\beta}$ indirectly affects the transcription of its co-expressed genes through the phosphorylation of its target proteins during late pollen development.
Keywords
aborted pollen; antisense suppression; $ASK{\beta}$ (AtSK32, At3g61160); co-expressed genes; serine/threonine kinase; sperm cell formation;
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