Plant Cell Shape: Trafficking Gets Edgy

Ramin Rahni; Kenneth D Birnbaum

doi:10.1016/j.devcel.2016.02.005

Plant Cell Shape: Trafficking Gets Edgy

Dev Cell. 2016 Feb 22;36(4):353-4. doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2016.02.005.

Authors

Ramin Rahni¹, Kenneth D Birnbaum²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biology, Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, New York University, 12 Waverly Place, New York, NY 10003, USA.
² Department of Biology, Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, New York University, 12 Waverly Place, New York, NY 10003, USA. Electronic address: ken.birnbaum@nyu.edu.

PMID: 26906728
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2016.02.005

Abstract

Polyhedral-shaped plant cells have faces, corners, and edges that can have different material properties. As Kirchhelle et al. (2016) now show, RAB-A5c reveals a trafficking compartment that localizes to the edges where two cell walls meet, with a potential role in mediating local wall stiffness.

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MeSH terms

Arabidopsis / enzymology*
Cell Membrane / metabolism*
Organogenesis / physiology*
Plant Cells / metabolism*
rab GTP-Binding Proteins / metabolism*

Substances

rab GTP-Binding Proteins