Moving with purpose and direction: transcription factor movement and cell fate determination revisited
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ArticleKAUST Department
Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering (BESE) DivisionCenter for Desert Agriculture
Plant Science
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BAS/1/1081-01-01Date
2020-09-28Online Publication Date
2020-09-28Print Publication Date
2020-10Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/665419
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Cell diversity in a multicellular organism relies on cell–cell communication where cells must receive positional information as input signals to adopt their proper cell fate in the right place and at the right time. This process is achieved through triggering signaling cascades that drive cellular changes during development. In plants, signaling through mobile transcription factors (TF) plays a central role in development. Rather than acting cell-autonomously and exclusive to their expression domains, many TFs move between cells and deploy regulatory networks and cell type-specific effectors to achieve their biological functions. Here, we highlight a few examples of mobile TFs central to cell fate specification in Arabidopsis.Citation
Gundu, S., Tabassum, N., & Blilou, I. (2020). Moving with purpose and direction: transcription factor movement and cell fate determination revisited. Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 57, 124–132. doi:10.1016/j.pbi.2020.08.003Sponsors
This study was supported by King Abdulah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) baseline funding BAS/1/1081-01-01 given to Ikram Blilou.Publisher
Elsevier BVJournal
Current Opinion in Plant BiologyAdditional Links
https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S136952662030100Xae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1016/j.pbi.2020.08.003
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