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Research article - Peer-reviewed, 2004

Lipid function in plant cell polarity

Fischer U, Men S, Grebe M

Abstract

The establishment and maintenance of cell polarity play pivotal roles during plant development. During the past five years, proteins that are required for different aspects of plant cell polarity have been identified. However, the functions of lipids and their interactions with proteins that mediate polarity remained largely unaddressed. Recent genetic studies have discovered cell and tissue polarity mutants that have defects in sterol composition, glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored proteins, glycosylphosphatidylinositol biosynthesis and phospholipid signalling. Analyses of the affected gene products have provided a first glance at the roles of lipids in cell polarity signalling, as well as in the trafficking and anchoring of polar proteins

Published in

Current Opinion in Plant Biology
2004, volume: 7, number: 6, pages: 670-676
Publisher: CURRENT BIOLOGY LTD

Authors' information

Fischer, Urs
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology
Grebe, Markus
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology
Men, Shuzhen

UKÄ Subject classification

Forest Science

Publication Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ppi.2004.09.007

URI (permanent link to this page)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/3120