Journal
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY
Volume 65, Issue 10, Pages 2657-2666Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/ert411
Keywords
Arabidopsis; asymmetric cell division; cell cycle; gene expression; phosphorylation; plant; Rb plylogenetic tree; retinoblastoma-related (RBR)
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- MINECO [BFU2012-34821, BFU2011-23434]
- Fundacion Ramon Areces
- ICREA Funding Source: Custom
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The retinoblastoma (Rb) protein was identified as a human tumour suppressor protein that controls various stages of cell proliferation through the interaction with members of the E2F family of transcription factors. It was originally thought to be specific to animals but plants contain homologues of Rb, called RETINOBLASTOMA-RELATED (RBR). In fact, the Rb-E2F module seems to be a very early acquisition of eukaryotes. The activity of RBR depends on phosphorylation of certain amino acid residues, which in most cases are well conserved between plant and animal proteins. In addition to its role in cell-cycle progression, RBR has been shown to participate in various cellular processes such as endoreplication, transcriptional regulation, chromatin remodelling, cell growth, stem cell biology, and differentiation. Here, we discuss the most recent advances to define the role of RBR in cell proliferation and asymmetric cell division. These and other reports clearly support the idea that RBR is used as a landing platform of a plethora of cellular proteins and complexes to control various aspects of cell physiology and plant development.
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