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Isolation of Protoplasts from Tissues of 14-day-old Seedlings of Arabidopsis thaliana
Published on: August 17, 2009
Preparation of Clathrin-Coated Vesicles From Arabidopsis thaliana Seedlings
Niccolò Mosesso1, Tobias Bläske1, Marie-Kristin Nagel1
1Chair of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany.
Abstract:
Clathrin coated vesicles (CCVs) mediate endocytosis of plasma membrane proteins and deliver their content to the endosomes for either subsequent recycling to the plasma membrane or transport to the vacuole for degradation. CCVs assemble also at the trans-Golgi network (TGN) and is responsible for the transport of proteins to other membranes. Oligomerization of clathrin and recruitment of adaptor protein complexes promote the budding and the release of CCVs. However, many of the details during plant CCV formation are not completely elucidated. The analysis of isolated CCVs is therefore important to better understand the formation of plant CCVs, their cargos and the regulation of clathrin-mediated transport processes. In this article, we describe an optimized method to isolate CCVs from Arabidopsis thaliana seedlings.
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