PLANT MORPHOLOGY
Online ISSN : 1884-4154
Print ISSN : 0918-9726
ISSN-L : 0918-9726
A“bulb”subregion in the vacuolar membrane
Chieko Saito
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2003 年 15 巻 1 号 p. 60-67

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Complex, mobile spherical structures continuous with the vacuolar limiting membrane were identified in young cotyledons of Arabidopsis by expression of a vacuolar membrane marker(r-TIP-GFP)and by electron microscopy, and were named“bulbs”. These structures are cytoplasm wrapped by two layers of intricately folded membrane; both layers are continuous with the vacuolar limiting membrane. When visualized using r-TIP-GFP, the fluorescence intensity of bulbs is about3-fold higher than that of the vacuolar limiting membrane. However, bulbs were negative for GFP-AtRab75, another vacuolar marker. These results suggest that bulbs form a subregion in the continuous vacuolar membrane that concentrate some proteins and segregate others.

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