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PLANT AND CELL PHYSIOLOGY
卷 64, 期 3, 页码 325-335出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcad002
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Arabidopsis; Cell cycle; Cell division; Live imaging; MUTE; Stomatal development
Cell division and differentiation in plants need to be coordinated for functional tissue formation. The transcription factor MUTE plays a crucial role in regulating the cell cycle and orchestrating the symmetric division and differentiation of stomatal precursor cells in Arabidopsis. MUTE accumulates in the early G2 phase, while its direct target FAMA accumulates in late G2 through mitosis.
Plants develop in the absence of cell migration. As such, cell division and differentiation need to be coordinated for functional tissue formation. Cellular valves on the plant epidermis, stomata, are generated through a stereotypical sequence of cell division and differentiation events. In Arabidopsis, three master regulatory transcription factors, SPEECHLESS (SPCH), MUTE and FAMA, sequentially drive initiation, proliferation and differentiation of stomata. Among them, MUTE switches the cell cycle mode from proliferative asymmetric division to terminal symmetric division and orchestrates the execution of the single symmetric division event. However, it remains unclear to what extent MUTE regulates the expression of cell cycle genes through the symmetric division and whether MUTE accumulation itself is gated by the cell cycle. Here, we show that MUTE directly upregulates the expression of cell cycle components throughout the terminal cell cycle phases of a stomatal precursor, not only core cell cycle engines but also check-point regulators. Time-lapse live imaging using the multicolor Plant Cell Cycle Indicator revealed that MUTE accumulates up to the early G2 phase, whereas its successor and direct target, FAMA, accumulate at late G2 through terminal mitosis. In the absence of MUTE, meristemoids fail to differentiate and their G1 phase elongates as they reiterate asymmetric divisions. Together, our work provides the framework of cell cycle and master regulatory transcription factors to coordinate a single symmetric cell division and suggests a mechanism for the eventual cell cycle arrest of an uncommitted stem-cell-like precursor at the G1 phase.
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