Record ID No. |
1286 |
Author(s) |
Yuki Nakamura , 2013 |
Affiliation |
Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica, 128 Sec. 2 Academia Rd., Nankang, Taipei 11529, Taiwan, email: nakamura@gate.sinica.edu.tw |
Title |
Phosphate starvation and membrane lipid remodeling in seed plants |
Source. Vol.(no):Page |
Progress in Lipid Research, 52(1): 43–50p. |
Categories |
Mycorrhiza General |
Subjects |
Reviews |
Sub-subjects |
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Host |
Plants |
Country |
Tsiwan, Asia |
Abstracts |
Phosphate is an essential, yet scarce, nutrient that seed plants need to maintain viability. Phosphate-starved plants utilize their membrane phospholipids as a major source for internal phosphate supply by replacing phospholipids in their membranes with the non-phosphorus galactolipid, digalactosyldiacylglycerol. This membrane lipid remodeling has drawn much attention as a model of metabolic switching from phospholipids to the galactolipid. In the past decade, a considerable effort has been devoted to unraveling the molecular biology of this phenomenon. This review thus aims to summarize recent achievements with a focus on metabolic pathways during lipid remodeling.
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