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Functions of the exocyst complex in secretion and cell wall biogenesis Nemanja Vukašinović Charles University in Prague Faculty of Science Department of Experimental Plant Biology Summary Ph.D. Thesis 2016 ABSTRACT The mechanical strength of plant tissues and organs can be attributed to specific properties of the cell wall. In many cases, in order to establish their final shape, cells deposit various cell wall materials in a localized manner. This is achieved by highly organized action of the endomembrane system which is essential for biosynthesis and secretion of cell wall proteins and polysaccharides. The exocyst complex is a conserved tethering complex in eukaryotes and it is involved in tethering of secretory vesicles to the sites of secretion at the plasma membrane. In this study, we address several aspects of the plant exocyst complex architecture and cell wall development using molecular biology techniques and advanced confocal microscopy. We demonstrated that two SEC10 exocyst subunits are present in Arabidopsis thaliana and share redundant functions. We also showed that the architecture of the plant exocyst complex shares several structural features with the yeast one. We demonstrated the importance of the functional EXO84b exocyst subunit for normal tracheary element development and showed that the main constituents of the secondary cell walls are deposited normally in exocyst mutants. We described a clear difference in the exocyst microtubule-independent dynamics in epidermal cells vs. cell type specific microtubule-driven exocyst recruitment in developing tracheary elements. In Arabidopsis pollen tubes, we showed that the depletion of EXO70C1 and EXO70C2 isoforms leads to a complete male-specific transmission defect due to inefficient pollen tube growth. Both proteins localize in the cytoplasm of pollen grains, pollen tubes and root hair cells. We suggest that EXO70C1/C2 may not act as subunits of the exocyst complex but rather acquired a different function as regulators of polar growth. Taken together, our findings extend the current knowledge about the exocyst complex in plant cells and further support its role in targeted secretion. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................................... 1 1.1. The plant cell wall .............................................................................. 1 1.2. Role of the endomembrane system in the plant cell wall deposition . 1 1.3. The exocyst complex .......................................................................... 2 2. AIMS OF THE THESIS ................................................................................................ 3 3. RESULTS ........................................................................................................................ 4 3.1. PAPER No. 2 ...................................................................................... 4 3.2. PAPER No. 3 ...................................................................................... 5 3.3. PAPER No. 4 ...................................................................................... 5 4. CONCLUSIONS ............................................................................................................ 6 5. REFERENCES ............................................................................................................... 7 6. APPENDIX ..................................................................................................................... 9 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1. The plant cell wall Plants would be unable to achieve their large variety of shapes and forms without their exoskeleton – the cell wall. The presence of cell wall also underlies the most basic physiological principles in plant bodies. The plant cell wall is a highly complex and surprisingly dynamic structure that is constantly modulated in response to biotic and abiotic signals from environment. Thanks to its stiffness and elasticity, it allows the cell to grow without bursting, by resisting turgor pressure generated by expanding central vacuole, on one side, and allows the cell to expand, on the other. The three main groups of carbohydrates within the cell walls (cellulose, hemicelluloses and pectins) are able to interact in covalent and non-covalent manner, in order to form strong and extensible networks. Cell wall structural proteins and remodeling enzymes represent another layer of complexity within the cell walls, because the former can affect wall strength, assembly, hydration and permeability while the latter can reshape carbohydrates by creating and breaking bonds between molecules or by adding and removing different chemical modifications (Cosgrove, 2005). Inspite of intensive research, the molecular mechanisms of cellulose and matrix polysaccharides deposition to the apoplast remain mostly elusive. 1.2. Role of the endomembrane system in the plant cell wall deposition Plant cells are encircled by cell walls which prevent their migration, and once the cell expansion is finished and the cell wall maturated, the final cell shape is locked. It means that morphogenesis is highly dependent on precise regulation of cell divisions and growth that both rely on correct deposition of cell wall building blocks and their modulators. Some cell types, in order to fulfill their functions, build special types of cell walls with complicated morphology and the cell wall deposition must be precisely localized. Best examples are phloem sieve elements and xylem vessels with sieve plates and spiral thickenings, respectively, or Casparian strips of endodermal cells. Highly polarized delivery of the cell wall material is also essential in cells exhibiting tip growth, such as pollen tubes or root hairs, to meet their extreme demands for fast cell wall synthesis at one specific site. A common feature of all these processes is that the cell wall material needs to be secreted in the right place at the right time, which is orchestrated by the vesicle trafficking machinery. Secretory vesicles originate from the endomembrane system where they move in two main directions: 1) Anterograde pathway, starts at the 1 endoplasmic reticulum (ER), goes through the Golgi apparatus and ends at the plasma membrane (PM) where vesicles deliver their cargo or PM proteins. 2) Retrograde pathway starts with endocytotic vesicles that fuse with trans-Golgi network/early endosome (TGN/EE) compartment and ends with the delivery of the endocytosed cargo to the vacuole (Bassham et al., 2008). There are multiple crosstalk events between these two pathways that enable the eukaryotic cell to continuously maintain its homeostasis (Wu et al., 2013). At the molecular level, the vesicle trafficking includes a vesicle budding from a donor compartment that involves different coat proteins (e.g. COPI, COPII, clathrin). Once the vesicle reaches its final destination, it is tethered through activated RAB GTPases and their effectors (e.g. tethering complexes). Finally, SNAREs (Soluble Nethylmaleimide-sensitive Factor Attachment Protein Receptors) mediate the fusion of the vesicle with the target membrane, and its cargo is released into the target compartment. 1.3. The exocyst complex The exocyst is an octameric complex mediating tethering of secretory vesicles to the PM, involved intimately also in the regulation of cell polarity (He and Guo, 2009; Heider and Munson 2012). Its eight subunits (Sec3, Sec5, Sec6, Sec8, Sec10, Exo70 and Exo84) form a stable complex in yeast (Heider at al., 2016). Yeast and mammalian Sec3 and Exo70 subunits interact directly with the activated RHO GTPases and membrane lipids and are proposed to serve as landmarks for delivery of secretory vesicles to a specific PM domain (Boyd et al., 2004; Wu et al., 2008; Pleskot et al., 2015) Rab GTPases Sec4 (in yeast) or RAB11 (in animals) and v-SNARE Snc2 interact with Sec15 and Sec6 respectively, to link the complex to the secretory vesicle (Guo et al., 1999; Shen et al., 2013). Due to its engagement in the final stages of exocytosis, i.e. also in the cell wall biogenesis, plant cell cytokinesis and defence, the plant exocyst complex has attracted more attention as compared to other tethering complexes in plants. The first Arabidopsis genome analysis (Eliáš et al., 2003) immediately indicated a peculiar feature of the land plant exocyst complex - a multiplicity of EXO70 paralogs with more than twenty-three genes in Arabidopsis and forty genes encoded by the rice genome (Cvrčková et al., 2012). The first phenotypic analyses of loss of function exocyst subunit mutants in Arabidopsis and maize clearly supported the expected involvement of the exocyst in the targeting of secretory vesicles that regulate plant cell polarity (Cole et al., 2005; Wen et al., 2005; Synek et al., 2006). The plant exocyst was partially purified and shown to exist as a biochemical entity with all eight basic subunits present (Hála et al., 2008; Fendrych et al., 2010). Over the last ten years its participation has been documented in many exocytosisrelated processes in plants (Žárský et al., 2009, Žárský et al., 2013). Reviewed also in the Paper No1. Of this thesis (Vukašinović and Žárský, 2016). 2 2. AIMS OF THE THESIS The exocyst complex is an important regulator of cell polarity and secretion. In this thesis, following questions about the plant exocyst architecture and aspects of its involvement in xylem development and pollen tube growth are addressed: - How many SEC10 exocyst subunit isoforms are present in Arabidopsis thaliana and if more than one, do they have redundant functions? What is the position of the SEC10 within the plant exocyst complex? - What is the role of the exocyst complex during the secondary cell wall deposition in xylem? What molecular mechanisms underlie the targeting of the exocyst complex to the plasma membrane in xylem cells? - What EXO70 isoforms are involved in pollen tube growth in Arabidopsis? What is the subcellular localization of the dominant EXO70 isoforms in growing pollen tubes and how do they interact with other exocyst subunits? 3 3. RESULTS 3.1. PAPER No. 2 Dissecting a Hidden Gene Duplication: The Arabidopsis thaliana SEC10 Locus Vukašinović, N., Cvrčková, F., Eliáš, M., Cole, R., Fowler, J. E., Žárský, V., & Synek, L. (2014). PloS One, 9(4), e94077. Summary: Repetitive sequences present a challenge for genome sequence assembly, and highly similar segmental duplications may disappear from assembled genome sequences. Having found a surprising lack of observable phenotypic deviations and non-Mendelian segregation in Arabidopsis thaliana mutants in SEC10, a gene encoding a core subunit of the exocyst tethering complex, we examined whether this could be explained by a hidden gene duplication. Re-sequencing and manual assembly of the Arabidopsis thaliana SEC10 (At5g12370) locus revealed that this locus, comprising a single gene in the reference genome assembly, indeed contains two paralogous genes in tandem, SEC10a and SEC10b, and that a sequence segment of 7 kb in length is missing from the reference genome sequence. Differences between the two paralogs are concentrated in non-coding regions, while the predicted protein sequences exhibit 99% identity, differing only by substitution of five amino acid residues and an indel of four residues. Both SEC10 genes are expressed, although varying transcript levels suggest differential regulation. Homozygous T-DNA insertion mutants in either paralog exhibit a wild-type phenotype, consistent with proposed extensive functional redundancy of the two genes. By these observations we demonstrate that recently duplicated genes may remain hidden even in well-characterized genomes, such as that of A. thaliana. Moreover, we show that the use of the existing A. thaliana reference genome sequence as a guide for sequence assembly of new Arabidopsis accessions or related species has at least in some cases led to error propagation. 4 3.2. PAPER No. 3 Cell Type Specific Microtubule-Dependent Targeting of the Exocyst Complex in Xylem Nemanja Vukašinović, Yoshihisa Oda, Přemysl Pejchar, Lukáš Synek, Tamara Pečenková, Anamika Rawat, Juraj Sekereš and Viktor Žárský Summary: Cortical microtubules (MTs) play the major role in patterning of secondary cell wall (SCW) thickenings in tracheary elements (TE) by determining the sites of SCW deposition. EXO70A1 subunit of exocyst secretory-vesicles tethering complex was implicated to be important for TE development via VETH1/2 and COG2 MT interaction. We investigated subcellular localization of several core exocyst subunits in xylem and proposed a mechanism for exocyst recruitment to the sites of SCW deposition. Live cell imaging of fluorescently tagged exocyst subunits in TE using spinning disk and laser-scanning confocal microscopy was performed and yeast twohybrid system and FRET analyses were used to confirm interaction between COG2 and core exocyst subunits. In TEs all exocyst subunits localized to the sites of SCW deposition in a microtubule-dependent manner. We propose that the mechanism of exocyst targeting to microtubules involves a direct interaction of several exocyst subunits with COG2-VETH1/2 complex. Additionally, we demonstrate the importance of a functional EXO84b for normal TE development and show that the three main constituents of the SCWs are normally deposited in exocyst mutants. We conclude that the exocyst complex is an important factor bridging the pattern defined by cortical microtubules with localized secretion of the SCW in TEs. 3.3. PAPER No. 4 EXO70C2, a putative exocyst subunit, is responsible for efficient pollen tube growth in Arabidopsis Lukáš Synek, Nemanja Vukašinović, Michal Hála, Matyáš Fendrych, Viktor Žárský Summary: The exocyst tethering complex as an effector of small GTPases is involved in regulation of targeted exocytosis which underlies polarized growth in eukaryotic cells. In plants, several exocyst subunits are encoded by double or even multiple genes (e.g. the EXO70 family). Here, we inspected Arabidopsis EXO70 isoforms that are expressed in the male gametophyte. Genetic and microscopic analyses of mutants in putative pollen EXO70 genes (EXO70A2, C1, C2, F1, H3, H5, H6) revealed that an exo70C2 mutant exhibits a significant male-specific transmission defect due to aberrant pollen tube growth. A pollen-specific knock-down of EXO70C1 (the closest 5 paralog to EXO70C2) in the exo70C2 mutant background resulted in a complete transmission defect. Both EXO70C1 and EXO70C2, tagged with GFP and expressed under their native promoters, showed comparable localization in the cytoplasm of pollen grains, pollen tubes, and root trichoblast cells. We conclude that EXO70C2 is a key factor for the efficient pollen tube growth, while EXO70C1 plays a partially redundant function to EXO70C2. 4. CONCLUSIONS The Arabidopsis thaliana genome was the first plant genome to be fully sequenced and assembled. However, even such a well characterized genome contains errors caused by imperfect computational assembling at regions of tandem duplications. Gene duplication events are common in plant evolution and that also applies for the genes coding for subunits of the exocyst. Initiated by puzzling outputs from genetic analysis of sec10 exocyst subunit mutants, we re-sequenced and manually assembled the SEC10 locus of A. thaliana and discovered that it contains two genes in fact - SEC10a and SEC10b, instead of a sole gene in the current genome annotation. We showed that the two proteins, which exhibit a very high degree of sequence identity, share the same set of interactors within the exocyst complex. Since also the expression patterns and subcellular localization of the two proteins are identical, we conclude that SEC10a and SEC10b act redundantly as interchangeable parts of the exocyst complex. Based on studies of physical interactions among exocyst subunits, together with the localization analyses of exocyst subunits in different exocyst mutant backgrounds, we suggest that the plant exocyst complex is organized in two relatively stable modules similarly as proposed in yeast cells (Heider et al., 2016): SEC3-SEC5SEC6-SEC8 and SEC10-SEC15-EXO70-EXO84 binding one another. The EXO70A1 exocyst subunit was shown to play a role in xylem development in several studies. Therefore, we tested the involvement of other exocyst subunits in this process, and we propose that whole exocyst complex localizes to the sites of secondary cell wall deposition at the plasma membrane. Exocyst subunits are observed there in static foci co-aligned with cortical microtubules. Unlike microtubule-independent exocyst targeting in rhizodermal cells, we uncovered a strong xylem-specific dependence on microtubule cytoskeleton in the exocyst recruitment. This association coincides with the start of differentiation of the tracheary elements as documented using an advanced inducible system for tracheary-element differentiation. In comparison to exocyst foci in root epidermal cells, the foci in developing xylem cells have much longer dwelling time, probably reflecting a higher demand for cell wall material secretion in cells generating secondary cell walls. We also described a novel phenotype in exo84b-1 mutants: interrupted protoxylem cells with considerably thinner cell walls in comparison to the wild-type morphology. All three major constituents of the secondary cell wall (cellulose, lignin and xylans) were deposited normally in xylem cell walls of exocyst mutants, 6 therefore further research will be needed for the molecular identification of exocystmediated cargo that is delivered to secondary cell walls. Finally, we propose a model of the exocyst recruitment to the sites of secondary cell wall deposition through a direct interaction of several exocyst subunits with the COG2/VETH1/2 complex. Together, these data indicate the the exocyst complex is essential for normal xylem development. The importance of the exocyst complex for pollen tube growth has been well documented. However, previous studies were focused the “core” exocyst subunits. Here, we inspected putative pollen EXO70 isoforms for their possible role in pollen tube growth. EXO70C1 and EXO70C2 paralogs emerged as dominant regulators of the polar growth, since their simultaneous knock-down resulted in a complete transmission defect of mutant alleles via pollen. Surprisingly, these EXO70s do not localize to the plasma membrane at the apex a growing pollen tube, unlike SEC8 and SEC10a exocyst subunits. These findings, together with the fact that EXO70C2 does not physically interact with other exocyst subunits, suggest that they may function outside of the exocyst complex, perhaps as regulators rather than direct mediators of vesicle tethering. Despite the molecular mechanism of their action remains to be elucidated, we conclude that EXO70C1 and EXO70C2 are key factors for the efficient pollen tube tip growth. 5. REFERENCES Bassham, D. C., Brandizzi, F., Otegui, M. S., & Sanderfoot, A. A. (2008). The secretory system of Arabidopsis. Arabidopsis Book, e0116. Boyd, C., Hughes, T., Pypaert, M., & Novick, P. (2004). 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APPENDIX Curriculum vitae Nemanja Vukašinović Born in Užice, Serbia, September 17, 1985 2011-present: Ph.D. student in the lab of Viktor Žárský at the Faculty of Science at Charles University in Prague and at the Institute of Experimental Botany AS CR. 2010: Diploma in Biology, Major: Plant Physiology, Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade, Serbia; Diploma thesis – “Effect of salicylic acid on the development of induced heat tolerance in potato (Solanum tuberosum L.)”, done at the Institute for Biological Research “Siniša Stanković” in Belgrade, Serbia. 2004: Grammar school, Užice, Serbia. Publications: Vukašinović, N., Cvrčková, F., Eliáš, M., Cole, R., Fowler, J. E., Žárský, V., & Synek, L. (2014). Dissecting a hidden gene duplication: the Arabidopsis thaliana SEC10 locus. PloS One, 9, e94077. Vukašinović, N., & Žárský, V. (2016). Tethering Complexes in the Arabidopsis Endomembrane System. Front Cell Dev Biol, 4. Bloch, D., Pleskot, R., Pejchar, P., Potocký, M., Trpkošová, P., Cwiklik, L., Vukašinović, N., Sternberg, H., Yalovsky, S., & Žárský, V. (2016). SEC3a exocyst subunit is required for pollen tube development, is differentially regulated by phosphoinositides and predicts growing site. Plant Physiol, submitted. Vukašinović, N., Oda, Y., Pejchar, P., Synek, L., Pečenková, T., Rawat, A., Sekereš, J. & Žárský, V.. (2016). Cell Type Specific Microtubule-Dependent Targeting of the Exocyst Complex in Xylem. In preparation. Synek, L., Vukašinović, N., Hála, M., Fendrych, M., & Žárský, V. (2016). EXO70C2, a putative exocyst subunit, is responsible for efficient pollen tube growth in Arabidopsis. In preparation. 9