U.S.-Switzerland Cooperative Research on Plasma Membrane- Cell Wall Adhesion Proteins

9214986 Carpita该奖项支持普渡大学的Nicholas Carpita教授和Robert Dunkle教授及其研究小组的学生与瑞士苏黎世大学植物生物学研究所的Hans Hohl教授和Robert Dudler博士在细胞生物学研究方面进行合作。他们正在研究植物细胞结构的一些基本微观方面，这些结构随着细胞对不利环境胁迫的反应而变化。美国参与者在蛋白质生物化学和植物病理学方面的才能与德国科学家在细胞学和遗传学方面的专业知识相结合，形成了一个不同寻常的强大团队，致力于了解受胁迫植物的细胞内过程。植物细胞内部有与细胞壁相邻但不相连的膜，这些膜通过粘附细胞壁对某些类型的压力作出反应。这些研究人员正试图通过检查膜壁粘附复合物的单个蛋白质成分来了解这种粘附的机制。通过表征这些成分，他们将获得了解粘附过程所需的信息，并可能以有用的方式控制它，以改善植物对盐胁迫和病原体攻击的反应。＊＊＊

9214986 Carpita This award supports Professors Nicholas Carpita and Robert Dunkle of Purdue University, and students in their research groups, to collaborate in cellular biology research with Professor Hans Hohl and Dr. Robert Dudler of the Institute of Plant Biology of the University of Zurich, Switzerland. They are studying some fundamental microscopic aspects of plant cell structure that change as the cells respond to unfavorable environmental stress. The combined talents of the U.S. participants in protein biochemistry and plant pathology and the German scientists' expertise in cytology and genetics create an unusually strong team to work on understanding the intracellular processes in stressed plants. Plant cells have membranes inside them adjacent but not connected to the cell walls that react to some types of stress by adhering to the cell walls. These investigators are attempting to understand the mechanisms for that adhesion by examining the individual protein constituents of the membrane-wall adhesion complex. By characterizing the components, they will obtain information necessary for understanding the adhesion process, and perhaps controlling it in useful ways to improve plants' reaction to saline stress and pathogen attack. ***