Journal
TRAFFIC
Volume 15, Issue 9, Pages 915-932Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/tra.12187
Keywords
chloroplast; cuticular wax; endoplasmic reticulum; glycolipids; sphingolipids
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Funding
- US National Science Foundation [MCB 0741395]
- US Department of Energy, Basic Energy Sciences [DE-FG02-98ER20305]
- US Department of Energy-Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center [DE-FC02-07ER6449]
- US Air Force Office of Scientific Research [FA9550-11-1-0264]
- MSU AgBioResearch
- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-FG02-98ER20305] Funding Source: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
- Div Of Molecular and Cellular Bioscience
- Direct For Biological Sciences [1157231] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Plant cells contain unique organelles such as chloroplasts with an extensive photosynthetic membrane. In addition, specialized epidermal cells produce an extracellular cuticle composed primarily of lipids, and storage cells accumulate large amounts of storage lipids. As lipid assembly is associated only with discrete membranes or organelles, there is a need for extensive lipid trafficking within plant cells, more so in specialized cells and sometimes also in response to changing environmental conditions such as phosphate deprivation. Because of the complexity of plant lipid metabolism and the inherent recalcitrance of membrane lipid transporters, the mechanisms of lipid transport within plant cells are not yet fully understood. Recently, several new proteins have been implicated in different aspects of plant lipid trafficking. While these proteins provide only first insights into limited aspects of lipid transport phenomena in plant cells, they represent exciting opportunities for further studies.
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