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Chieko Saito1, Tomohiro Uemura, Chie Awai

  • 1Molecular Membrane Biology Laboratory, RIKEN Advanced Science Institute, Wako, Japan. chiezo@riken.jp

Plant Signaling & Behavior
|November 23, 2011
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Plant cells contain mobile "bulb" structures within their vacuolar membranes. Researchers found that a bulb-negative protein unexpectedly localized to bulbs when co-expressed with a bulb-positive protein.

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