Role of a positive regulator of root hair development, CAPRICE, in Arabidopsis root epidermal cell differentiation - PubMed (original) (raw)

. 2002 Dec;129(23):5409-19.

doi: 10.1242/dev.00111.

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Role of a positive regulator of root hair development, CAPRICE, in Arabidopsis root epidermal cell differentiation

Takuji Wada et al. Development. 2002 Dec.

Abstract

In Arabidopsis, root hairs are formed only from a set of epidermal cells named trichoblasts or hair-forming cells. Previous studies showed CAPRICE (CPC) promotes differentiation of hair-forming cells by controlling a negative regulator, GLABRA2 (GL2), which is preferentially expressed in hairless cells. Here, we show that CPC is also predominantly expressed in the hairless cells, but not in the neighboring hair-forming cells, and that CPC protein moves to the hair-forming cells and represses the GL2 expression. We also show that the N terminus of bHLH protein interacts with CPC and is responsible for the GL2 expression. We propose a model in which CPC plays a key role in the fate-determination of hair-forming cells.

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