The cellular dynamics of plant aquaporin expression and functions.
Aquaporins are channel proteins that facilitate the transport of water and small neutral molecules, including gases, across cell membranes of most of the living organisms. Integrative studies have stressed the role of aquaporins in maintaining the whole plant water and nutrient status. Cellular aspects of plant aquaporin functions and regulations are also extensively investigated. The present review provides a glance at recent progresses in this area. One first direction concerns the mechanisms that determine aquaporin targeting to specific subcellular membranes and a dynamic and stimulus-dependent control of their density in these membranes. The regulation of aquaporin opening and closing and its links to cell signalling cascades are also discussed. Multiple cellular functions are now attributed to plant aquaporins. They include the dynamic equilibration and subcellular partitioning of their various substrates and a contribution to cell expansion and possibly cell division.
Biochimie et Physiologie Moléculaire des Plantes, Institut de Biologie Intégrative des Plantes, UMR 5004 CNRS/UMR 0386 INRA/Montpellier SupAgro/Université Montpellier 2, F-34060 Montpellier Cedex 1, France. maurel@supagro.inra.fr
Christophe
C
Maurel
Véronique
V
Santoni
Doan-Trung
DT
Luu
Michael M
MM
Wudick
Lionel
L
Verdoucq
D020346:Aquaporins / Q000502:physiology*; D020013:Calcium Signaling; D002245:Carbon Dioxide / Q000378:metabolism; D016923:Cell Death; D002455:Cell Division; D049108:Cell Enlargement; D006861:Hydrogen Peroxide / Q000378:metabolism; D006863:Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; D015640:Ion Channel Gating; D010766:Phosphorylation; D010940:Plant Proteins / Q000502:physiology*; D010944:Plants / Q000378:metabolism*; D011499:Protein Processing, Post-Translational; D014867:Water / Q000378:metabolism
D020346:Aquaporins; D010940:Plant Proteins; D014867:Water; D002245:Carbon Dioxide; D006861:Hydrogen Peroxide