Nature Communications (Sep 2017)

Arabidopsis R1R2R3-Myb proteins are essential for inhibiting cell division in response to DNA damage

  • Poyu Chen,
  • Hirotomo Takatsuka,
  • Naoki Takahashi,
  • Rie Kurata,
  • Yoichiro Fukao,
  • Kosuke Kobayashi,
  • Masaki Ito,
  • Masaaki Umeda

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00676-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Inhibition of cell division maintains genome integrity in response to DNA damage. Here Chen et al. propose that DNA damage causes cell cycle arrest in the Arabidopsis root via Rep-MYB transcription factor-mediated repression of G2/M-specific gene expression in response to reduced cyclin-dependent kinase activity.