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Many bisexual flowering plants possess a reproductive strategy called self-incompatibility (SI) that enables the female tissue (the pistil) to reject self but accept non-self pollen for fertilization. Three different SI mechanisms are discussed, each controlled by two separate, highly polymorphic genes at the S-locus. For the Solanaceae and Papaveraceae types, the genes controlling female function in SI, the S-RNase gene and the S-gene, respectively, have been identified. For the Brassicaceae type, the gene controlling male function, SCR/SP11, and the gene controlling female function, SRK, have been identified. The S-RNase based mechanism involves degradation of RNA of self-pollen tubes; the S-protein based mechanism involves a signal transduction cascade in pollen, including a transient rise in [Ca(2+)]i and subsequent protein phosphorylation/dephosphorylation; and the SRK (a receptor kinase) based mechanism involves interaction of a pollen ligand, SCR/SP11, with SRK, followed by a signal transduction cascade in the stigmatic surface cell.
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PMID:Molecular recognition and response in pollen and pistil interactions. 1103 Dec 40

Many flowering plants possess self-incompatibility (SI) systems to prevent inbreeding. SI in Brassica species is controlled by a single S locus with multiple alleles. In recent years, much progress has been made in determining the male and female S determinant in Brassica species. In the female, a gain-of-function experiment clearly demonstrated that SRK was the sole S determinant, and that SLG enhanced the SI recognition process. By contrast, the male S determinant (termed SP11/SCR) was identified in the course of genome analysis of S locus to be a small cysteine-rich protein, which was classified as a pollen coat protein. This SP11/SCR may function as a ligand for the S domain of SRK in the SI recognition reaction of Brassica species.
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PMID:Molecular aspects of self-incompatibility in Brassica species. 1142 74

Genetic self-incompatibility in Brassica is determined by alleles of the transmembrane serine-threonine kinase SRK, which functions in the stigma epidermis, and of the cysteine-rich peptide SCR, which functions in pollen. Using tagged versions of SRK and SCR as well as endogenous stigma and pollen proteins, we show that SCR binds the SRK ectodomain and that this binding is allele specific. Thus, SRK and SCR function as a receptor-ligand pair in the recognition of self pollen. Specificity in the self-incompatibility response derives from allele-specific formation of SRK-SCR complexes at the pollen-stigma interface.
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PMID:Allele-specific receptor-ligand interactions in Brassica self-incompatibility. 1154 71

Self-incompatibility in Brassica species is regulated by a set of S-locus genes: SLG, SRK, and SP11/SCR. In the vicinity of the S-locus genes, several expressed genes, SLL2 and SP2/ClpP, etc., were identified in B. campestris. Arabidopsis thaliana is a self-compatible Brassica relative, and its complete genome has been sequenced. From comparison of the genomic sequences between B. campestris and A. thaliana, microsynteny between gene clusters of Arabidopsis and Brassica SLL2 regions was observed, though the S-locus genes, SLG, SRK, and SP11/SCR were not found in the region of Arabidopsis. Almost all genes predicted in this region of Arabidopsis were expressed in both vegetative and reproductive organs, suggesting that the genes in the SLL2 region might not be related to self-incompatibility. Considering the recent speculation that the S-locus genes were translocated as a single unit between Arabidopsis and Brassica, the translocation might have occurred in the region between the SLL2 and SP7 genes.
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PMID:Characterization of expressed genes in the SLL2 region of self-compatible Arabidopsis thaliana. 1175 41

The determinants of recognition specificity of self-incompatibility in Brassica are SRK in the stigma and SP11/SCR in the pollen, respectively. In the pair of S haplotypes BrS46 (S46 in B. rapa) and BoS7 (S7 in B. oleracea), which have highly similar SRK alleles, the SP11 alleles were found to be similar, with 96.1% identity in the deduced amino acid sequence. Two other pairs of S haplotypes, BrS47 and BoS12, and BrS8 and BoS32, having highly similar SRK and SP11 alleles between the two species were also found. The haplotypes in each pair are considered to have been derived from a single S haplotype in the ancestral species. The allotetraploid produced by interspecific hybridization between homozygotes of BrS46 and BoS15 showed incompatibility with a BoS7 homozygote and compatibility with other B. oleracea S haplotypes in reciprocal crossings. This result indicates that BrS46 and BoS7 have maintained the same recognition specificity after the divergence of the two species and that amino acid substitutions found in such cases in both SRK alleles and SP11 alleles do not alter the recognition specificity. DNA blot analysis of SRK, SP11, SLG and other S-locus genes showed different DNA fragment sizes between the interspecific pairs of S haplotypes. A much lower level of sequence similarity was observed outside the genes of SRK and SP11 between BrS46 and BoS7. These results suggest that the DNA sequences of the regions intervening between the S-locus genes were diversified after or at the time of speciation. This is the first report demonstrating the presence of common S haplotypes in different plant species and presenting definite evidence of the trans-specific evolution of self-incompatibility genes.
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PMID:Recognition specificity of self-incompatibility maintained after the divergence of Brassica oleracea and Brassica rapa. 1185 21

We analyse the sequence in which the three most commonly prescribed cancer treatments--surgery (S), chemotherapy (C) and radiotherapy (R)--should be administered. A system of ordinary differential equations is formulated that captures the various local and systemic effects of the three modes of treatment, as well as the first-order effects of the inter-relationship between the primary tumour and the distant metastatic tumours, including primary tumour shedding and the primary tumour's effect on the rate of angiogenesis in the metastatic tumours. Under a set of stated assumptions on the parameter values, we find the exact cancer cure probability (subject to toxicity constraints) for the six permutation schedules (i.e. SCR, CSR, CRS, SRC, RSC, RCS) and for two novel schedules, SRCR and RSCR, that apply radiotherapy in disjoint, optimally timed portions. We show analytically that SRCR and RSCR are the two best-performing (i.e. highest cure probability) schedules among the eight considered. Further, SRCR is shown to be optimal among all possible schedules, provided a modest condition is satisfied on the delay of initial angiogenesis experienced by the patient's dormant tumours.
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PMID:Analysis and comparison of multimodal cancer treatments. 1204 34

Transitions from cross-fertilizing to self-fertilizing mating systems have occurred frequently in natural and domesticated plant populations, but the underlying genetic causes are unknown. We show that gene transfer of the stigma receptor kinase SRK and its pollen-borne ligand SCR from one S-locus haplotype of the self-incompatible and cross-fertilizing Arabidopsis lyrata is sufficient to impart self-incompatibility phenotype in self-fertile Arabidopsis thaliana, which lacks functional orthologs of these genes. This successful complementation demonstrates that the signaling cascade leading to inhibition of self-related pollen was maintained in A. thaliana. Analysis of self-incompatibility will be facilitated by the tools available in this species.
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PMID:Generation of self-incompatible Arabidopsis thaliana by transfer of two S locus genes from A. lyrata. 1211 25

We present results from a mathematical analysis that is aimed at finding the best way to sequence the three traditional cancer treatments: surgery (S), chemotherapy (C), and radiotherapy (R). The mathematical model tracks the temporal evolution of the primary tumor and its associated metastases, and incorporates the primary tumor's effect on the dormancy and growth of the metastases. We show that the SCR schedule (i.e., surgery followed by chemotherapy followed by radiotherapy) achieves a higher cure probability than SRC if the primary tumor is sufficiently large or if the metastatic population is sufficiently large relative to the primary tumor. We also show that a novel schedule, SRCR, which splits the radiotherapy regimen into two disjoint portions, is optimal among all schedules, provided that the patient's dormant metastatic tumors do not become vascularized within about 40 days after surgery.
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PMID:Sequencing surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy: insights from a mathematical analysis. 1220 17

Brassica self-incompatibility (SI) is controlled by SLG and SRK expressed in the stigma and by SP11/SCR expressed in the anther. We determined the sequences of the S domains of 36 SRK alleles, 13 SLG alleles, and 14 SP11 alleles from Brassica oleracea and B. rapa. We found three S haplotypes lacking SLG genes in B. rapa, confirming that SLG is not essential for the SI recognition system. Together with reported sequences, the nucleotide diversities per synonymous and nonsynonymous site (pi(S) and pi(N)) at the SRK, SLG, and SP11 loci within B. oleracea were computed. The ratios of pi(N):pi(S) for SP11 and the hypervariable region of SRK were significantly >1, suggesting operation of diversifying selection to maintain the diversity of these regions. In the phylogenetic trees of 12 SP11 sequences and their linked SRK alleles, the tree topology was not significantly different between SP11 and SRK, suggesting a tight linkage of male and female SI determinants during the evolutionary course of these haplotypes. Genetic exchanges between SLG and SRK seem to be frequent; three such recent exchanges were detected. The evolution of S haplotypes and the effect of gene conversion on self-incompatibility are discussed.
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PMID:Coevolution of the S-locus genes SRK, SLG and SP11/SCR in Brassica oleracea and B. rapa. 1239

Of the plant self-incompatibility (SI) systems investigated to date, that possessed by members of the Brassicaceae is currently the best understood. Whilst the recent demonstrations of interactions between the male determinant (S-locus cysteine rich protein, SCR) and the female determinant (S-locus receptor kinase, SRK) indicate the minimal requirement for SI in Brassica, no consensus exists as to the nature of these molecules in vivo and the potential involvement of accessory molecules in establishing the active S-receptor complex. Variation between S haplotypes appears to be present in the molecular composition of the receptor complex, the regulation of downstream signalling and the requirement for accessory molecules. This review discusses what constitutes an active receptor complex and highlights potential differences between haplotypes. The role of accessory molecules, in particular SLG (S-locus glycoprotein) and low molecular weight pollen coat proteins (PCPs), in pollination are discussed, as is the link between SI and unilateral incompatibility (UI).
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PMID:Just how complex is the Brassica S-receptor complex? 1245 66


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