CLV3 Is Localized to the Extracellular Space, Where It Activates the Arabidopsis CLAVATA Stem Cell Signaling Pathway | Zendy

Enrique Rojo | Zendy; Vijay Sharma | Zendy; Valentina Kovaleva | Zendy; Natasha V. Raikhel | Zendy; Jennifer C. Fletcher | Zendy

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CLV3 Is Localized to the Extracellular Space, Where It Activates the Arabidopsis CLAVATA Stem Cell Signaling Pathway

Author(s) -

Enrique Rojo,

Vijay Sharma,

Valentina Kovaleva,

Natasha V. Raikhel,

Jennifer C. Fletcher

Publication year - 2002

Publication title -

the plant cell

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 5.324

H-Index - 341

eISSN - 1532-298X

pISSN - 1040-4651

DOI - 10.1105/tpc.002196

Subject(s) - arabidopsis , meristem , microbiology and biotechnology , stem cell , biology , extracellular , apoplast , organogenesis , population , cell , signal transduction , progenitor cell , cell growth , botany , shoot , cell wall , genetics , gene , medicine , environmental health , mutant

Plant growth and development depends on the activity of a continuously replenished pool of stem cells within the shoot apical meristem to supply cells for organogenesis. In Arabidopsis, the stem cell-specific protein CLAVATA3 (CLV3) acts cell nonautonomously to restrict the size of the stem cell population, but the hypothesis that CLV3 acts as an extracellular signaling molecule has not been tested. We used genetic and immunological assays to show that CLV3 localizes to the apoplast and that export to the extracellular space is required for its function in activating the CLV1/CLV2 receptor complex. Apoplastic localization allows CLV3 to signal from the stem cell population to the organizing center in the underlying cells.

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