Publications by authors named "Vitor F Pinoti"
In the flower development study, we identified SCI1 (Stigma/style Cell-cycle Inhibitor 1), a regulator of cell proliferation. SCI1 interacts with NtCDKG;2 ( Cyclin-Dependent Kinase G;2), a homolog of human CDK11, which is responsible for RanGTP-dependent microtubule stabilization, regulating spindle assembly rate. In a Y2H screening of a cDNA library using NtCDKG;2 as bait, a RanBP1 (Ran-Binding Protein 1) was revealed as its interaction partner.
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- - The SCI1 gene in Nicotiana tabacum plays a crucial role in plant reproductive organ size by regulating cell proliferation and interacting with proteins involved in the cell cycle.
- - Researchers identified the interaction between SCI1, a cyclin-dependent kinase (NtCDKG;2), and a newly discovered RNA helicase (NtRH35) through various experimental methods, revealing their association in subcellular structures like splicing speckles.
- - This study highlights SCI1 and its interactors as novel components of the spliceosome, suggesting that SCI1 may influence cell proliferation via splicing processes, which enhances our understanding of plant developmental pathways.
The final shape and size of plant organs are determined by a network of genes that modulate cell proliferation and expansion. Among those, functions by inhibiting cell proliferation during pistil development. Alterations in expression levels can lead to remarkable stigma/style size changes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe specified floral meristem will develop a pre-established number of floral organs and, thus, terminate the floral meristematic cells. The floral meristematic pool of cells is controlled, among some others, by WUSCHEL (WUS) and AGAMOUS (AG) transcription factors (TFs). Here, we demonstrate that the () gene, a cell proliferation regulator, starts to be expressed since the floral meristem specification of and is expressed in all floral meristematic cells.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe manuscript by Alves et al. entitled "Genome-wide identification and characterization of tRNA-derived RNA fragments in land plants" describes the identification and characterization of tRNAderived sRNA fragments in plants. By combining bioinformatic analysis and genetic and molecular approaches, we show that tRF biogenesis does not rely on canonical microRNA/siRNA processing machinery (i.
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