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IRREGULAR TRICHOME BRANCH1 in Arabidopsis encodes a plant homolog of the actin-related protein2/3 complex activator Scar/WAVE that regulates actin and microtubule organizationXiaoguo Zhang
Department of Botany and University of Florida Genetics Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611 8526, USA
Plant Cell 17:2314-26. 2005..Our results extend the evidence that the Scar/WAVE pathway of Arp2/3 complex regulation exists in plants and plays an important role in regulating cell expansion...
Divide and conquer: cytokinesis in plant cellsL G Smith
Department of Biology, Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 0116, USA
Curr Opin Plant Biol 2:447-53. 1999..Newly discovered mutations have identified a variety of genes required for cytokinesis or its spatial regulation...- Tangled1: a microtubule binding protein required for the spatial control of cytokinesis in maizeL G Smith
Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA
J Cell Biol 152:231-6. 2001..These results suggest that TAN1 protein participates in the orientation of cytoskeletal structures in dividing cells through an association with MTs... - Plant cell division: building walls in the right placesL G Smith
Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California at San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093 0116, USA
Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol 2:33-9. 2001..Experiments using various approaches are now building on classical studies to shed light on the mechanisms underlying the spatial control of cytokinesis... - Plant cytokinesis: motoring to the finishLaurie G Smith
Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California at San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093 0116, USA
Curr Biol 12:R206-8. 2002..Recent studies have identified kinesin-like proteins that appear to play a variety of roles in plant cytokinesis... - Cytoskeletal control of plant cell shape: getting the fine pointsLaurie G Smith
Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, Division of Biology, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla 92093 0116, USA
Curr Opin Plant Biol 6:63-73. 2003.... - Spatial control of cell expansion by the plant cytoskeletonLaurie G Smith
Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093 0116, USA
Annu Rev Cell Dev Biol 21:271-95. 2005..Nevertheless, many important questions remain to be answered... - Arabidopsis TANGLED identifies the division plane throughout mitosis and cytokinesisKeely L Walker
Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093 0116, USA
Curr Biol 17:1827-36. 2007..A variety of observations suggest that expanding phragmoplasts are actively guided to the former PPB site, but little is known about how plant cells "remember" this site after PPB disassembly... 
Tangled localization at the cortical division site of plant cells occurs by several mechanismsCarolyn G Rasmussen
University of California, San Diego, Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, 9500 Gilman Dr, La Jolla, CA 92093 0116, USA
J Cell Sci 124:270-9. 2011..We propose a new model in which TAN is actively recruited to the CDS by several mechanisms, indicating that the CDS is dynamically modified from prophase through to the completion of cytokinesis...- Two kinesins are involved in the spatial control of cytokinesis in Arabidopsis thalianaSabine Muller
Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA
Curr Biol 16:888-94. 2006..We propose that POK1 and POK2 participate in the spatial control of cytokinesis, perhaps via an interaction with the A. thaliana TAN1 homolog, ATN... - Determination of symmetric and asymmetric division planes in plant cellsCarolyn G Rasmussen
Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA
Annu Rev Plant Biol 62:387-409. 2011..Recent work is beginning to shed light on polarization mechanisms in asymmetrically dividing cells, with receptor-like proteins and potential downstream effectors emerging as important players in this process... - BRICK1/HSPC300 functions with SCAR and the ARP2/3 complex to regulate epidermal cell shape in ArabidopsisStevan Djakovic
Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093 0116, USA
Development 133:1091-100. 2006..BRK1 is required for accumulation of SCAR1 protein in vivo, potentially explaining the apparently essential role of BRK1 in ARP2/3 complex function... - Three Brick genes have distinct functions in a common pathway promoting polarized cell division and cell morphogenesis in the maize leaf epidermisMary J Frank
Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, UC San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0116, USA
Development 130:753-62. 2003..Recent work demonstrating a function for the mammalian homolog of BRK1 (HSPC300) in activation of Arp2/3-dependent actin polymerization implicates the Brk pathway in local regulation of actin polymerization in plant cells... - discordia1 and alternative discordia1 function redundantly at the cortical division site to promote preprophase band formation and orient division planes in maizeAmanda J Wright
Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093 0116, USA
Plant Cell 21:234-47. 2009.... - A small, novel protein highly conserved in plants and animals promotes the polarized growth and division of maize leaf epidermal cellsMary J Frank
Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 0116, USA
Curr Biol 12:849-53. 2002..The Brk1 gene encodes a novel, 8 kD protein that is highly conserved in plants and animals, suggesting that BRK1-related proteins may function in actin-dependent aspects of cell polarization in a wide spectrum of eukaryotic organisms... - Activation of Arp2/3 complex-dependent actin polymerization by plant proteins distantly related to Scar/WAVEMary Frank
Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California at San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093 0116, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 101:16379-84. 2004..Thus, AtSCAR proteins are likely to function in association with AtBRK1, and perhaps other Arabidopsis homologs of WAVE complex components, to regulate activation of the Arp2,3 complex in vivo... - PAN1: a receptor-like protein that promotes polarization of an asymmetric cell division in maizeHeather N Cartwright
Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, San Diego, CA 92093 0116, USA
Science 323:649-51. 2009..Our findings implicate PAN1 in the transmission of an extrinsic signal that polarizes asymmetric SMC divisions toward GMCs... - Actin polymerization: riding the waveLaurie G Smith
Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, Universityof California San Diego, La Jolla, 92093, USA
Curr Biol 14:R109-11. 2004..WAVE/SCAR has long been known to activate the actin-nucleating Arp2/3 complex in a Rac-dependent manner. Recent biochemical and genetic studies have revealed important roles for four WAVE-associated proteins in regulating WAVE function... - Investigation of the role of cell-cell interactions in division plane determination during maize leaf development through mosaic analysis of the tangled mutationKeely L Walker
Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, U.C. San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0116, USA
Development 129:3219-26. 2002..These observations argue against the idea that the division planes of proliferatively dividing maize leaf epidermal cells are governed by short-range communication with their nearest neighbors...