Journal
PLANT SCIENCE
Volume 266, Issue -, Pages 9-18Publisher
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2017.10.007
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AtRMRs; AtRMR endogenous promoters trans-Golgi network; Transmission electron microscopy; Endoplasmic reticulum; Arabidopsis thaliana
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- Swiss National Science Foundation [3100A0-113789, 31003A_141257]
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) [31003A_141257] Funding Source: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
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Soluble vacuolar proteins reach their compartments of final accumulation through the binding with specific transmembrane cargo receptors. In Arabidopsis thaliana two different families of receptors have been characterized. The AtVSRs (Vacuolar Sorting Receptor), which are known to be involved in the protein sorting to lytic vacuoles (LV), and the AtRMRs (Receptor Membrane RING-H2), for which there is less evidence for a role in the traffic to the protein storage vacuole (PSV). In this study we investigated the localization and tissue expression of two RMRs (AtRMR1 and 2) in their species of origin, A. thaliana. Our experiments using leaf protoplasts and transgenic plants supported previous results of subcellular localization in Nicotiana benthamiana that visualized AtRMR1 and 2 in the cisternae of endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and in the trans-Golgi network (TGN), respectively. The promoter activities of AtRMR1 and AtRMR2 detected in transgenic A. thaliana lines suggest that the expression of these two receptors only partially overlap in some organs and tissues. These results suggest that AtRMR1 and 2 are not functionally redundant, but could also interact and participate in the same cellular process in tissues with an overlapping expression.
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