Nature Communications (Feb 2019)
The companion of cellulose synthase 1 confers salt tolerance through a Tau-like mechanism in plants
- Christopher Kesten,
- Arndt Wallmann,
- René Schneider,
- Heather E. McFarlane,
- Anne Diehl,
- Ghazanfar Abbas Khan,
- Barth-Jan van Rossum,
- Edwin R. Lampugnani,
- Witold G. Szymanski,
- Nils Cremer,
- Peter Schmieder,
- Kristina L. Ford,
- Florian Seiter,
- Joshua L. Heazlewood,
- Clara Sanchez-Rodriguez,
- Hartmut Oschkinat,
- Staffan Persson
Affiliations
- Christopher Kesten
- Department of Biology, ETH Zurich
- Arndt Wallmann
- Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP), NMR-supported Structural Biology
- René Schneider
- School of Biosciences, University of Melbourne
- Heather E. McFarlane
- School of Biosciences, University of Melbourne
- Anne Diehl
- Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP), NMR-supported Structural Biology
- Ghazanfar Abbas Khan
- School of Biosciences, University of Melbourne
- Barth-Jan van Rossum
- Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP), NMR-supported Structural Biology
- Edwin R. Lampugnani
- School of Biosciences, University of Melbourne
- Witold G. Szymanski
- Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology
- Nils Cremer
- Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP), NMR-supported Structural Biology
- Peter Schmieder
- Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP), NMR-supported Structural Biology
- Kristina L. Ford
- School of Biosciences, University of Melbourne
- Florian Seiter
- Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP), NMR-supported Structural Biology
- Joshua L. Heazlewood
- School of Biosciences, University of Melbourne
- Clara Sanchez-Rodriguez
- Department of Biology, ETH Zurich
- Hartmut Oschkinat
- Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP), NMR-supported Structural Biology
- Staffan Persson
- School of Biosciences, University of Melbourne
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08780-3
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 10,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 14
Abstract
The Arabidopsis CC1 protein maintains microtubule array stability and cellulose synthesis during salt stress. Here the authors show that CC1 engages microtubules via an intrinsically disordered N-terminus that suggests it controls microtubule dynamics in a similar way to the mammalian Tau protein.