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Kinematic Analysis of Cell Division and Expansion: Quantifying the Cellular Basis of Growth and Sampling Developmental Zones in Zea mays Leaves
Published on: December 2, 2016
Cyclin D1 and p22ack1 play opposite roles in plant growth and development
Jeong Woo Cho1, Sun Chung Park, Eun Ah Shin
1Kumho Life and Environmental Science Laboratory, Oryongdong, Bukgu, Kwangju 500-712, Republic of Korea.
Abstract:
The plant cell division cycle, a highly coordinated process, is continually regulated during the growth and development of plants. In this report, we demonstrate how two cell-cycle regulators act together to control cell proliferation in transgenic Arabidopsis. To identify potential cyclin dependent kinase regulators from Arabidopsis, we employed an two-hybrid screening system to isolate genes encoding G1 specific cyclin-interacting proteins. One of these, p22(ack1), which encodes a novel 22kDa protein, binds to cyclin D1. Overexpression of p22(ack1) in transgenic Arabidopsis resulted in growth retardation due to a strong inhibition of cell division in the leaf primordial and meristematic tissue. The leaf shape of p22(ack1) transgenic Arabidopsis was altered from oval in wild-type to dentate. Wild-type phenotype was successfully restored in F1 hybrids by cross-hybridizing the p22(ackl)Arabidopsis mutants with cyclin D1. Taken together, these results suggest that p22(ack1) and cyclin D1, which act antagonistically, are major rate-limiting factors for cell division in the leaf meristem.
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