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Insect galls are abnormal plant organs formed by gall-inducing insects to provide shelter and nutrients for themselves. Although insect galls are spatialized complex structures with unique shapes and function...
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Author Correction: PtdIns(3,5)P2 mediates root hair shank hardening in Arabidopsis
An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.
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Physiological Functions of Phosphoinositide-Modifying Enzymes and Their Interacting Proteins in Arabidopsis
The integrity of cellular membranes is maintained not only by structural phospholipids such as phosphatidylcholine and phosphatidylethanolamine, but also by regulatory phospholipids, phosphatidylinositol phosp...
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PtdIns(3,5)P2 mediates root hair shank hardening in Arabidopsis
Root hairs elongate by tip growth and simultaneously harden the shank by constructing the inner secondary cell wall layer. While much is known about the process of tip growth1, almost nothing is known about the m...
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A rice glutaredoxin isoform (OsGrxC2;2) with antioxidant capacity is expressed abundantly in seed tissues and is localized to storage vacuoles in aleurone layers in develo** and mature seeds.
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Open AccessSplit luciferase complementation assay to detect regulated protein-protein interactions in rice protoplasts in a large-scale format
The rice interactome, in which a network of protein-protein interactions has been elucidated in rice, is a useful resource to identify functional modules of rice signal transduction pathways. Protein-protein i...
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Open AccessIncrease methylmercury accumulation in Arabidopsis thaliana expressing bacterial broad-spectrum mercury transporter MerE
The bacterial merE gene derived from the Tn21 mer operon encodes a broad-spectrum mercury transporter that governs the transport of methylmercury and mercuric ions across bacterial cytoplasmic membranes, and this...
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Requirement of vesicle-associated membrane protein 721 and 722 for sustained growth during immune responses in Arabidopsis
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Expression of the bacterial heavy metal transporter MerC fused with a plant SNARE, SYP121, in Arabidopsis thaliana increases cadmium accumulation and tolerance
The bacterial merC gene from the Tn21-encoded mer operon is a potential molecular tool for improving the efficiency of metal phytoremediation. Arabidopsis SNARE molecules, including SYP111, SYP121, and AtVAM3 (SY...
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The Role of RAB GTPases and SNARE Proteins in Plant Endocytosis and Post-Golgi Trafficking
Each membrane trafficking pathway involves several evolutionarily conserved key molecules, including RAB GTPases and SNARE proteins. Distinct sets of RAB and SNARE molecules regulate tethering and fusion of th...
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A membrane trafficking pathway regulated by the plant-specific RAB GTPase ARA6
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SNAREs in Plant Endocytosis and the Post-Golgi Traffic
In eukaryotic cells, the transport vesicles carry various cargo proteins from a donor compartment to a target compartment, and discharge the cargo into the target compartment by fusing with the membrane ...
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Pollen-specific regulation of vacuolar H+-PPase expression by multiple cis-acting elements
We dissected the regulatory region of the AVP1 gene encoding the vacuolar H+-pyrophosphatase (V-PPase) of Arabidopsis thaliana by using a GUS-reporter assay system. The cloned 1.4 kb 5′-regulatory region in the G...
