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doi: 10.1242/10.1242/dev.00525
Institut für Biologie III, Universität Freiburg, Schänzlestraße 1, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany
* Author for correspondence (e-mail: laux{at}biologie.uni-freiburg.de)
Accepted 3 April 2003
Stem cell maintenance in the Arabidopsis shoot meristem is regulated by communication between the apical stem cells and the underlying organizing centre. Expression of the homeobox gene WUSCHEL in the organizing centre induces stem cell identity in the overlying neighbours, which then express the CLAVATA3 gene whose activity in turn restricts the size of the WUSCHEL expression domain. We have analyzed how the stem cells and the organizing centre communicate, by studying the mode of action of CLAVATA3 protein. We provide direct evidence that CLAVATA3 protein functions as a mobile intercellular signal in the shoot apical meristem that spreads laterally from the stem cells and acts both on their lateral neighbours and on the stem cells themselves to repress WUSCHEL transcription. We also show that the spread and range of action of CLAVATA3 can be limited by binding to its receptor CLAVATA1, which offers an explanation for how CLAVATA3 is prevented from entering the organizing centre and repressing WUSCHEL transcription there. This regulated spread of a secreted signalling molecule enables the shoot meristem to permit the onset of cell differentiation in the periphery, but at the same time to maintain a stable niche for its stem cells in the center.
Key words: Stem cells, Shoot meristem, Arabidopsis thaliana, CLV3, Ligand sequestration
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