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Carolina Yáñez-Domínguez1, Daniel Lagunas-Gómez1, Diana M Torres-Cifuentes1
1Departamento de Biología Molecular de Plantas, Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Av. Universidad 2001, Cuernavaca, Morelos 62210, México.
Abstract:
Newly synthesized membrane proteins pass through the secretory pathway, starting at the endoplasmic reticulum and packaged into COPII vesicles, to continue to the Golgi apparatus before reaching their membrane of residence. It is known that cargo receptor proteins form part of the COPII complex and play a role in the recruitment of cargo proteins for their subsequent transport through the secretory pathway. The role of cornichon proteins is conserved from yeast to vertebrates, but it is poorly characterized in plants. Here, we studied the role of the two cornichon homologs in the secretory pathway of the moss Physcomitrium patens. Mutant analyses revealed that cornichon genes regulate different growth processes during the moss life cycle by controlling auxin transport, with CNIH2 functioning as a specific cargo receptor for the auxin efflux carrier PINA, with the C terminus of the receptor regulating the interaction, trafficking and membrane localization of PINA.
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