Membrane trafficking in plants.
Plant membrane trafficking shares many features with other eukaryotic organisms, including the machinery for vesicle formation and fusion. However, the plant endomembrane system lacks an ER-Golgi intermediate compartment, has numerous Golgi stacks and several types of vacuoles, and forms a transient compartment during cell division. ER-Golgi trafficking involves bulk flow and efficient recycling of H/KDEL-bearing proteins. Sorting in the Golgi stacks separates bulk flow to the plasma membrane from receptor-mediated trafficking to the lytic vacuole. Cargo for the protein storage vacuole is delivered from the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), cis-Golgi, and trans-Golgi. Endocytosis includes recycling of plasma membrane proteins from early endosomes. Late endosomes appear identical with the multivesiculate prevacuolar compartment that lies on the Golgi-vacuole trafficking pathway. In dividing cells, homotypic fusion of Golgi-derived vesicles forms the cell plate, which expands laterally by targeted vesicle fusion at its margin, eventually fusing with the plasma membrane.
ZMBP, Entwicklungsgenetik, Universitat Tubingen, 72076 Tubingen, Germany. gerd.juergens@zmbp.uni-tuebingen.de
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D017360:Arabidopsis / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology; D001692:Biological Transport; D002462:Cell Membrane / Q000502:physiology; D022162:Cytoplasmic Vesicles / Q000502:physiology*; D007425:Intracellular Membranes / Q000502:physiology*; D010940:Plant Proteins / Q000502:physiology; D010944:Plants / Q000378:metabolism*
D010940:Plant Proteins