Traffic Routes and Signals for the Tonoplast

Pedrazzini, Emanuela; Komarova, Nataliya; Rentsch, Doris; Vitale, Alessandro (2013). Traffic Routes and Signals for the Tonoplast. Traffic, 14(6), pp. 622-628. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell 10.1111/tra.12051

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Tonoplast, the membrane delimiting plant vacuoles, regulates ion, water and nutrient movement between the cytosol and the vacuolar lumen through the activity of its membrane proteins. Correct traffic of proteins from the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) to the tonoplast requires (i) approval by the ER quality control, (ii) motifs for exit from the ER and (iii) motifs that promote sorting to the tonoplast. Recent evidence suggests that this traffic follows different pathways that are protein-specific and could also reflect vacuole specialization for lytic or storage function. The routes can be distinguished based on their sensitivity to drugs such as brefeldin A and C834 as well as using mutant plants that are defective in adaptor proteins of vesicle coats, or dominant-negative mutants of Rab GTPases.

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