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¹ College of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chubu University and CREST, Japan Science and Technology Corporation, 1200 Matsumoto-cho, Kasugai, Aichi 487-8501, Japan
² Division of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8602, Japan

Cytokinesis is the critical step during which daughter cells are separated. We showed previously that a protein complex that consists of NACK1 (and NACK2) kinesin-like protein and NPK1 MAPKKK and its substrate NQK1 MAPKK are required for progression of cytokinesis in Nicotiana tabacum. The genome of Arabidopsis thaliana encodes homologues of NACK1 and NACK2, namely, AtNACK1/HINKEL and STUD/TETRASPORE/AtNACK2, respectively. Loss-of-function mutations in AtNACK1/HINKEL and STUD/TETRASPORE/AtNACK2 result in the occasional failure of somatic and male-meiotic cytokinesis, respectively. However, it is likely that these genes function redundantly to some extent in somatic tissues and female gametogenesis. We describe the phenotypes of Arabidopsis plants that have mutations in both the AtNACK1/HINKEL and STUD/TETRASPORE/AtNACK2 genes. These phenotypes suggest that the two genes are essential during both male and female gametogenesis. Female gametes with atnack1 atnack2 double mutations failed to cellularize and to generate a central cell, synergids and the egg cells. Male gametes with atnack1 atnack2 mutations were also not transmitted to the next generation. The AtNACK1/HINKEL and STUD/TETRASPORE/AtNACK2 genes for kinesin-like proteins have overlapping functions that are essential for gametogenetic cytokinesis. They appear to be essential components of a MAP kinase cascade that promotes cytokinesis of plant cells in both gametophytic (haploid) and sporophytic (diploid) proliferation.

^aPresent address: Laboratory of Plant Molecular Biology, The Rockefeller University, 1230 York Avenue, New York, NY 10021, USA

^* Correspondence: E-mail: yas{at}bio.nagoya-u.ac.jp

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