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CELL BIOLOGY AND SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION

The gravitropism defective 2 Mutants of Arabidopsis Are Deficient in a Protein Implicated in Endocytosis in Caenorhabditis elegans^1,[w]

Carnegie Institution, Department of Plant Biology, Stanford, California 94305 (R.A.S., W.L., P.S., C.R.S); Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305 (R.A.S., C.R.S.); and Graduate School of Biological Sciences, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Nara 630–0101, Japan (T.K., M.T.)

The gravitropism defective 2 (grv2) mutants of Arabidopsis show reduced shoot phototropism and gravitropism. Amyloplasts in the shoot endodermal cells of grv2 do not sediment to the same degree as in wild type. The GRV2 gene encodes a 277-kD polypeptide that is 42% similar to the Caenorhabditis elegans RME-8 protein, which is required for endocytosis. We hypothesize that a defect in endocytosis may affect both the initial gravity sensing via amyloplasts sedimentation and the subsequent more general tropic growth response.

² These authors contributed equally to the paper.

³ Present address: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 1 Bungtown Road, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724.

⁴ Present address: Division of Biology 159–29, California Institute of Technology, 1200 East California Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91125.

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^* Corresponding author; e-mail crs{at}stanford.edu; fax 650–325–6857.

Received May 26, 2004; returned for revision July 27, 2004; accepted July 27, 2004.

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