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ArticleThe Plant cell2011

Auxin-dependent cell cycle reactivation through transcriptional regulation of Arabidopsis E2Fa by lateral organ boundary proteins.

Barbara Berckmans, Valya Vassileva, Stephan P C Schmid, Sara Maes, Boris Parizot, Satoshi Naramoto, Zoltan Magyar, Claire Lessa Alvim Kamei, Csaba Koncz, Laszlo Bögre and 6 more

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Article in The Plant cell, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 113 papers.

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16 authors at 6 institutions in 4 countries.

Barbara BerckmansDepartment of Plant Systems Biology, VIB, B-9052 Ghent, Belgium.
Valya Vassileva
Stephan P C Schmid
Sara Maes
Boris Parizot
Satoshi Naramoto
Zoltan Magyar
Claire Lessa Alvim Kamei
Csaba Koncz
Laszlo Bögre
Geert Persiau
Geert De Jaeger
Jiří Friml
Rüdiger Simon
Tom Beeckman
Lieven De Veylder
Ghent University · BEVIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology · BEHeinrich Heine University Düsseldorf · DEHUN-REN Szegedi Biológiai Kutatóközpont · HUMax Planck Society · DERoyal Holloway University of London · GB

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/D017599/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Multicellular organisms depend on cell production, cell fate specification, and correct patterning to shape their adult body. In plants, auxin plays a prominent role in the timely coordination of these different cellular processes. A well-studied example is lateral root initiation, in which auxin triggers founder cell specification and cell cycle activation of xylem pole-positioned pericycle cells. Here, we report that the E2Fa transcription factor of Arabidopsis thaliana is an essential component that regulates the asymmetric cell division marking lateral root initiation. Moreover, we demonstrate that E2Fa expression is regulated by the LATERAL ORGAN BOUNDARY DOMAIN18/LATERAL ORGAN BOUNDARY DOMAIN33 (LBD18/LBD33) dimer that is, in turn, regulated by the auxin signaling pathway. LBD18/LBD33 mediates lateral root organogenesis through E2Fa transcriptional activation, whereas E2Fa expression under control of the LBD18 promoter eliminates the need for LBD18. Besides lateral root initiation, vascular patterning is disrupted in E2Fa knockout plants, similarly as it is affected in auxin signaling and lbd mutants, indicating that the transcriptional induction of E2Fa through LBDs represents a general mechanism for auxin-dependent cell cycle activation. Our data illustrate how a conserved mechanism driving cell cycle entry has been adapted evolutionarily to connect auxin signaling with control of processes determining plant architecture.

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ArabidopsisArabidopsis ProteinsCell CycleE2F Transcription FactorsGene Expression Regulation, PlantGene Knockout TechniquesIndoleacetic AcidsMutagenesis, InsertionalNicotianaPlant RootsPlants, Genetically ModifiedPlant Vascular BundlePromoter Regions, GeneticSignal TransductionTranscriptional ActivationTranscription FactorsArabidopsis ProteinsE2Fa protein, ArabidopsisE2F Transcription FactorsIndoleacetic AcidsLBD18 protein, ArabidopsisLBD33 protein, ArabidopsisTranscription Factors

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PMID22003076
PMCPMC3229142
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