Publication Date:
2006-01-21
Description:
Plants and some animals have a profound capacity to regenerate organs from adult tissues. Molecular mechanisms for regeneration have, however, been largely unexplored. Here we investigate a local regeneration response in Arabidopsis roots. Laser-induced wounding disrupts the flow of auxin-a cell-fate-instructive plant hormone-in root tips, and we demonstrate that resulting cell-fate changes require the PLETHORA, SHORTROOT, and SCARECROW transcription factors. These transcription factors regulate the expression and polar position of PIN auxin efflux-facilitating membrane proteins to reconstitute auxin transport in renewed root tips. Thus, a regeneration mechanism using embryonic root stem-cell patterning factors first responds to and subsequently stabilizes a new hormone distribution.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Xu, Jian -- Hofhuis, Hugo -- Heidstra, Renze -- Sauer, Michael -- Friml, Jiri -- Scheres, Ben -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2006 Jan 20;311(5759):385-8.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Molecular Genetics, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8, 3584CH Utrecht, Netherlands.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16424342" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Arabidopsis/cytology/genetics/metabolism/*physiology
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Arabidopsis Proteins/genetics/metabolism
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Biological Transport
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Cell Nucleus/metabolism
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Genes, Plant
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Indoleacetic Acids/*metabolism/pharmacology
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Membrane Transport Proteins/*metabolism
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Models, Biological
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Plant Growth Regulators/*metabolism
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Plant Roots/cytology/*physiology
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Recombinant Fusion Proteins/metabolism
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*Regeneration
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Stem Cells/metabolism
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Transcription Factors/genetics/*metabolism
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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