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SUBMITTER: Kadota A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2722281 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kadota Akeo A Yamada Noboru N Suetsugu Noriyuki N Hirose Mana M Saito Chieko C Shoda Keiko K Ichikawa Satoshi S Kagawa Takatoshi T Nakano Akihiko A Wada Masamitsu M
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20090720 31
Organelle movement is essential for proper function of living cells. In plants, these movements generally depend on actin filaments, but the underlying mechanism is unknown. Here, in Arabidopsis, we identify associations of short actin filaments along the chloroplast periphery on the plasma membrane side associated with chloroplast photorelocation and anchoring to the plasma membrane. We have termed these chloroplast-actin filaments (cp-actin filaments). Cp-actin filaments emerge from the chloro ...[more]