@article{ParkKrauseKarnahletal.2018, author = {Park, Misoon and Krause, Cornelia and Karnahl, Matthias and Reichardt, Ilka and El Kasmi, Farid and Mayer, Ulrike and Stierhof, York-Dieter and Hiller, Ulrike and Strompen, Georg and Bayer, Martin and Kientz, Marika and Sato, Masa H. and Nishimura, Marc T. and Dangl, Jeffery L. and Sanderfoot, Anton A. and J{\"u}rgens, Gerd}, title = {Concerted Action of Evolutionarily Ancient and Novel SNARE Complexes in Flowering-Plant Cytokinesis}, series = {Developmental cell}, volume = {44}, journal = {Developmental cell}, number = {4}, publisher = {Cell Press}, address = {Cambridge}, issn = {1534-5807}, doi = {10.1016/j.devcel.2017.12.027}, pages = {500 -- +}, year = {2018}, abstract = {Membrane vesicles delivered to the cell-division plane fuse with one another to form the partitioning membrane during plant cytokinesis, starting in the cell center. In Arabidopsis, this requires SNARE complexes involving the cytokinesis-specific Qa-SNARE KNOLLE. However, cytokinesis still occurs in knolle mutant embryos, suggesting contributions from KNOLLE-independent SNARE complexes. Here we show that Qa-SNARE SYP132, having counterparts in lower plants, functionally overlaps with the flowering plant-specific KNOLLE. SYP132 mutation causes cytokinesis defects, knolle syp132 double mutants consist of only one or a few multi-nucleate cells, and SYP132 has the same SNARE partners as KNOLLE. SYP132 and KNOLLE also have non-overlapping functions in secretion and in cellularization of the embryo-nourishing endosperm resulting from double fertilization unique to flowering plants. Evolutionarily ancient non-specialized SNARE complexes originating in algae were thus amended by the appearance of cytokinesis-specific SNARE complexes, meeting the high demand for membrane-fusion capacity during endosperm cellularization in angiosperms.}, language = {en} }