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Pattern morphogenesis in cell walls of diatoms and pollen grains: a comparison

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Mechanisms acting in pattern morphogenesis in the cell walls of two distant groups of plants, pollen of spermatophytes and diatoms, are compared in order to discriminate common principles from plant group- and wall material-specific features. The exinous wall in pollen is sequentially deposited on the exocellular side of the plasmalemma, while the siliceous wall in diatoms is formed intracellularly within an expanding silica deposition vesicle (SDV) which is attached to the internal face of the plasmalemma. Two levels of patterning occur in diatom and pollen walls: the overall pattern stabilises the wall mechanically and is apparently initiated in both groups by the parent cell, and a microtubule-dependent aperture and portula pattern created by the new mitotic (diatoms) or meiotic (pollen) cells. The parent wall in diatoms, and also the callosic wall in microspores, functions as anchor surfaces for transient, species-specific patterned adhesions of the plasmalemma to these walls, involved in pattern and shape creation. Patterned adhesion and exocytosis is blocked in pollen walls where the plasmalemma is shielded by the endoplasmic reticulum at the sites of the future apertures. In diatoms, wall patterning is uncoupled from the formation of a siliceous wall per se when the SDV and its wall is formed without contact to the the plasmalemma. Conversely, a blue-print pattern laid out in advance along the plasmalemma can be found in several diatoms. This highlights the key function of the plasmalemma and its associated membrane skeleton (fibrous lamina), and its orchestrated co-operation with elements of the radial filamentous cytoskeleton (actin?) in pattern formation. The role of microtubules during generation of the overall pattern may be primarily a transport and stabilizing function. Auxiliary organelles (spacer vesicles, endoplasmic reticulum, mitochondria) involved in diatoms for shaping the SDV, and a mechanism adhering and disconnecting this SDV together with spacer organelles in a species-specifically controlled sequence to and from the plasmalemma, are unnecessary for pollen wall patterning. The precise positioning of the portula pattern in diatom walls is discussed with respect to their role as permanent anchors of the cytoplasm to its wall, and in providing spatial information for nucelar migration and the next cell division, whereas apertures in pollen are for single use only.

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Abbreviations

AF:

actin filaments

C/Ca:

callose

CF:

cleavage furrow

cPL:

cleavage plasmalemma

DV:

dense vesicles

ER:

endoplasmic reticulum

ET:

epitheca

HT:

hypotheca

mPL:

folded plasmalemma

MT:

microtubules

MTOC:

microtubule organising centre

PEV:

primexine (matrix) vesicles

PL:

plasmalemma

SDV:

silica deposition vesicle

Si:

silica

SL:

SDV-membrane

SPV:

spacer vesicles

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Dedicated to Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Eberhard Schnepf on the occasion of his retirement

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Schmid, A.M.M., Eberwein, R.K. & Hesse, M. Pattern morphogenesis in cell walls of diatoms and pollen grains: a comparison. Protoplasma 193, 144–173 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01276642

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