First published online June 18, 2004; 10.1105/tpc.021865
The Plant Cell 16:1841-1853 (2004)
© 2004 American Society of Plant Biologists
A Semidominant Mutation in an Arabidopsis Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Phosphatase-Like Gene Compromises Cortical Microtubule Organization
Kuniko Naoi and
Takashi Hashimoto1
Graduate School of Biological Sciences, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma, Nara 630-0192, Japan
1 To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail hasimoto{at}bs.naist.jp; fax 81-743-72-5529.
Reversible protein phosphorylation regulates many cellular processes, including the dynamics and organization of the microtubule cytoskeleton, but the events mediating it are poorly understood. A semidominant phs1-1 allele of the Arabidopsis thaliana PROPYZAMIDE-HYPERSENSITIVE 1 locus exhibits phenotypes indicative of compromised cortical microtubule functions, such as left-handed helical growth of seedling roots, defective anisotropic growth at low doses of microtubule-destabilizing drugs, enhancement of the temperature-sensitive microtubule organization1-1 phenotype, and less ordered and more fragmented cortical microtubule arrays compared with the wild type. PHS1 encodes a novel protein similar to mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) phosphatases. In phs1-1, a conserved Arg residue in the noncatalytic N-terminal region is exchanged with Cys, and the mutant PHS1 retained considerable phosphatase activity in vitro. In mammalian MAPK phosphatases, the corresponding region serves as a docking motif for MAPKs, and analogous Arg substitutions severely inhibit the kinase–phosphatase association. Transgenic studies indicate that the phs1-1 mutation acts dominant negatively, whereas the null phs1-2 allele is recessive embryonic lethal. We propose that the PHS1 phosphatase regulates more than one MAPK and that a subset of its target kinases is involved in the organization of cortical microtubules.
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