Research article - Peer-reviewed, 2004
Lipid function in plant cell polarity
Fischer U, Men S, Grebe MAbstract
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 proteinsPublished in
Current Opinion in Plant Biology2004, 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