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Growth of tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.) pollen tube is controlled by post-transcriptionally regulated protein synthesis. Stored mRNA was found to be present in the form of messenger ribonucleoprotein particles (mRNPs) in both maturing and germinating pollen. During pollen dehydration in the anthers content of mRNPs strongly increased during dissociation of polysomes suggesting a transfer of mRNA liberated from polysomal structures into mRNP particles. Pollen germination and initial pollen tube growth characterized by rapid reassociation of ribosomes was accompanied by decrease of mRNPs indicating an involvement of mRNA of these particles in the formation of polysomes. Distribution of the particular mRNAs during the pollen activation preceeding tube growth suggests that other mechanisms along with pollen rehydration are engaged in this process and that the continuous exploitation of stored mRNPs during pollen tube growth is precisely regulated.
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Honys, D., Čapková, V. Temporal Changes in the RNA Distribution between Polysomes and Postpolysomal Ribonucleoprotein Particles in Tobacco Male Gametophyte. Biologia Plantarum 43, 517–522 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1002846105299
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