title: Giving meaning to movement.
abstract: A growing body of evidence indicates that plant transcription factors move between cells. A recent paper by Nakajima et al. (2001) shows that movement of the SHORTROOT protein provides a mechanism for signaling positional information between cell layers of the root.
authors.affiliation: Department of Genetics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA. barton@andrew2.stanford.edu
authors.forename: M K
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Barton
mesh_terms: D017360:Arabidopsis / Q000196:embryology; D004707:Endoderm / Q000166:cytology; D008954:Models, Biological; D009068:Movement; D018521:Plant Physiological Phenomena; D011485:Protein Binding; D015398:Signal Transduction; D014157:Transcription Factors / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D014157:Transcription Factors