PIN polar targeting
PIN polar targeting
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DOI:
10.1104/pp.108.121756
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发表时间:
2008-08-01
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影响因子:
7.4
通讯作者:
Friml, Jiri
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作者:
Feraru, Elena;Friml, Jiri
Cell polarity is one of the fundamental properties of multicellular organisms and is tightly linked with processes such as cell division, differentiation, cellular signaling, and intercellular communication. Polarities of individual cells, transmitted by cell divisions, are reflected at the tissue and organ levels and contribute to the overall shape of the multicellular organism. In addition, in plants, cell polarity provides means by which they maintain developmental continuity and adapt their development to optimally conform to environmental conditions by flexible redefinition of cell polarities. Thus, the mechanisms underlying the establishment and maintenance of cell polarity belong to the important themes of developmental and cell biology.At the level of the individual cell, polarity is mirrored by the asymmetric distribution of intracellular components, such as organelles, cytoskeletal strands, and single proteins. This asymmetric distribution of intracellular components defines functionally and/or morphologically distinct domains (Bonifacino and Lippincott-Schwartz, 2003). Mechanisms that underlie the sorted delivery of intracellular cargos to these domains and thus contribute to the generation or maintenance of cell polarity have been extensively studied in different model organisms, including mammals, flies, worms, and yeast (Knoblich, 2000; Irazoqui and Lew, 2004; Nance, 2005). Animal epithelial cells are a preferred model system, because their plasma membrane (PM) is divided into two distinct domains, the apical domain facing the lumen and the basolateral domain (Mostov et al., 2003; Janssens and Chavrier, 2004). Selective recruitment of apical and basolateral cargos is achieved by their targeted delivery to these domains and results mainly from three processes:(1) newly synthesized proteins are sorted on their way to the PM (mainly in the trans-Golgi network) into vesicles that discriminately deliver them to the apical or basolateral surface;(2) other proteins are selectively