Plant cell remodeling by autophagy: switching peroxisomes for green life.
Plant seedlings are not photoautotrophs until they are equipped with photosynthetic machinery. Some plant cells are remodeled after being exposed to light, and a group of peroxisomal proteins are degraded during the remodeling. Autophagy was proposed as one of the mechanisms for the degradation of peroxisomal proteins. We recently showed that ATG7-dependent autophagy is partially responsible for the degradation of obsolete peroxisomal proteins during Arabidopsis seedling growth.
Department of Biological Sciences; Pusan National University; Busan, Korea.
Jimi
J
Kim
Department of Biological Sciences; Pusan National University; Busan, Korea.
Han Nim
HN
Lee
Department of Biological Sciences; Pusan National University; Busan, Korea.
Taijoon
T
Chung
D017360:Arabidopsis / Q000166:cytology* / Q000378:metabolism*; D001343:Autophagy; D020675:Peroxisomes / Q000378:metabolism*; D059828:Plant Cells / Q000378:metabolism*; D059748:Proteolysis
ATG; autophagosome; autophagy-related; degradation; hypocotyl; pexophagy