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ArticleThe New phytologist2021

Quantitative and dynamic cell polarity tracking in plant cells.

Yan Gong, Rachel Varnau, Eva-Sophie Wallner, Raghav Acharya, Dominique C Bergmann, Lily S Cheung

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Article in The New phytologist, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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15 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Split-YFP-coupled interaction-dependent TurboID identifies new functions of basal cell polarity inProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  6. Asymmetric cell division in plant development.Journal of integrative plant biology · 2023
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6 authors.

Yan GongDepartment of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1329-7096
Rachel VarnauDepartment of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3203-9597
Eva-Sophie WallnerDepartment of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4268-3976
Raghav AcharyaSchool of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 30332, USA.
Dominique C BergmannDepartment of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0873-3543
Lily S CheungSchool of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 30332, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8089-7783

Funding

Howard Hughes Medical Institute
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Quantitative information on the spatiotemporal distribution of polarised proteins is central for understanding cell-fate determination, yet collecting sufficient data for statistical analysis is difficult to accomplish with manual measurements. Here we present Polarity Measurement (Pome), a semi-automated pipeline for the quantification of cell polarity and demonstrate its application to a variety of developmental contexts. Pome analysis reveals that, during asymmetric cell divisions in the Arabidopsis thaliana stomatal lineage, polarity proteins BASL and BRXL2 are more asynchronous and less mutually dependent than previously thought. A similar analysis of the linearly arrayed stomatal lineage of Brachypodium distachyon revealed that the MAPKKK BdYDA1 is segregated and polarised following asymmetrical divisions. Our results demonstrate that Pome is a versatile tool, which by itself or combined with tissue-level studies and advanced microscopy techniques can help to uncover new mechanisms of cell polarity.

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ArabidopsisArabidopsis ProteinsCell Cycle ProteinsCell LineageCell PolarityPlant CellsPlant StomataArabidopsis ProteinsBASL protein, ArabidopsisCell Cycle ProteinsBASLBRXfcell polarityimage quantificationstomatal lineage

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PMID33378550
PMCPMC8048652

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