title: Plant Cell Shape: Trafficking Gets Edgy.
abstract: Polyhedral-shaped plant cells have faces, corners, and edges that can have different material properties. As Kirchhelle et al. (2016) now show, RAB-A5c reveals a trafficking compartment that localizes to the edges where two cell walls meet, with a potential role in mediating local wall stiffness.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, New York University, 12 Waverly Place, New York, NY 10003, USA.
authors.forename: Ramin
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Rahni
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, New York University, 12 Waverly Place, New York, NY 10003, USA. Electronic address: ken.birnbaum@nyu.edu.
authors.forename: Kenneth D
authors.initials: KD
authors.lastname: Birnbaum
mesh_terms: D017360:Arabidopsis / Q000201:enzymology*; D002462:Cell Membrane / Q000378:metabolism*; D038081:Organogenesis / Q000502:physiology*; D059828:Plant Cells / Q000378:metabolism*; D020691:rab GTP-Binding Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D020691:rab GTP-Binding Proteins