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SUBMITTER: Su YH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7486707 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Su Ying Hua YH Zhou Chao C Li Ying Ju YJ Yu Yang Y Tang Li Ping LP Zhang Wen Jie WJ Yao Wang Jinsong WJ Huang Rongfeng R Laux Thomas T Zhang Xian Sheng XS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20200824 36
In the shoot meristem, both WUSCHEL (WUS) and SHOOT MERISTEMLESS (STM), two transcription factors with overlapping spatiotemporal expression patterns, are essential for maintaining stem cells in an undifferentiated state. Despite their importance, it remains unclear how these two pathways are integrated to coordinate stem cell development. Here, we show that the WUS and STM pathways in <i>Arabidopsis thaliana</i> converge through direct interaction between the WUS and STM proteins. STM binds to ...[more]