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Review
. 2006 Dec;9(6):579-88.
doi: 10.1016/j.pbi.2006.09.014. Epub 2006 Sep 28.

Polarized growth: maintaining focus on the tip

Rex A Cole  1 , John E Fowler
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Polarized growth: maintaining focus on the tip

Rex A Cole et al. Curr Opin Plant Biol. 2006 Dec.

Abstract

Tip growth, a spatially focused cell expansion, has been best characterized in two plant cell types: pollen tubes and root hairs. It has long been established that both cell types require three intracellular components for this process: a tip-high calcium gradient, a polarized actin cytoskeleton, and tip-directed vesicle trafficking. More recently, additional mechanistic parallels have been observed between the two cell types, including roles for ROP and Rab GTPase signaling, phosphoinositides, calcium-dependent protein kinases, and the exocyst. Uncovering pathways that control the three components is beginning to reveal a highly interconnected network, which we call the tip growth LENS (for localization enhancing network, self-sustaining), that coordinates the required cellular activities to allow regulated tip growth, and to maintain itself as the tip advances.

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