受体样激酶在植物的生长发育中发挥着重要的功能。CRINKLY4(简称CR4)属于生长因子类的受体激酶,包括玉米中的ZmCR4、拟南芥中的ACR4和水稻中的OsCR4,参与了植物细胞的增殖和分化,包括细胞分化命运和发育方向。ZmCR4影响了玉米表皮细胞的形态和糊粉层的发育,ACR4启动拟南芥根中形成层细胞的分化,而且器官发生开始后可以控制细胞分化的数目。本文对植物受体样激酶CR4家族近年的研究进展进行了总结。
Receptor like kinases play important roles in the development of plants.CRINKLY4(CR4) is a growth factor-like plant receptor kinase including ZmCR4 in Zea mays,ACR4 in Arabidopsis and OsCR4 in rice.They exert a great influence on a wide array of developmental processes including plant cell proliferation and differentiation,cell fate and pattern.ZmCR4 affects the pattern leaf epidermis and in the aleurone of the endosperm.ACR4 promots formative cell divisions in the pericycle and controls in the number of the division cells when organogenesis has been started.This paper summarized the research progress of CR4 family.