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SUBMITTER: Sohn EJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2141857 | biostudies-other | 2007 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20071114 47
Plants are unique in their ability to store proteins in specialized protein storage vacuoles (PSVs) within seeds and vegetative tissues. Although plants use PSV proteins during germination, before photosynthesis is fully functional, the roles of PSVs in adult vegetative tissues are not understood. Trafficking pathways to PSVs and lytic vacuoles appear to be distinct. Lytic vacuoles are analogous evolutionarily to yeast and mammalian lysosomes. However, it is unclear whether trafficking to PSVs h ...[more]