Transient expression of chimeric fluorescent reporter proteins in pollen tubes to study protein polar secretion and dynamics

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Abstract

Transient expression of chimeric fluorescent reporter proteins by biolistic bombardment is a quick and useful procedure for studying subcellular protein localization and dynamics in plants. It is especially beneficial in specific plant cells which are not suitable for protoplast-based and Agrobacterium-mediated protein transient expression. Polar protein secretion and vesicular trafficking play essential functions for cell polarization and tip growth. The growing pollen tube is regarded as an ideal model plant cell system to study the machinery and regulation of polar protein trafficking and targeting. A large amount of newly synthesized proteins are packed and polarly transported to the apical region to support the rapid and highly polarized tip growth. Here, we described a detailed step-by-step protocol for the transient expression of chimeric fluorescent reporter proteins in growing Arabidopsis and tobacco pollen tubes to study polar transportation logistics and mechanisms. In addition, we have optimized the Arabidopsis and tobacco in vitro pollen germination medium and the conditions to maximize the efficiency of protein expression. As a proof of concept, we have used this protocol to express actin microfilament and late endosomal fluorescent markers in Arabidopsis and tobacco pollen tubes.

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Zhong, G., Liu, R., Zhuang, M., & Wang, H. (2017). Transient expression of chimeric fluorescent reporter proteins in pollen tubes to study protein polar secretion and dynamics. In Methods in Molecular Biology (Vol. 1662, pp. 115–124). Humana Press Inc. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7262-3_10

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