Annual Plant Reviews, Volume 9, The Golgi Apparatus and the Plant Secretory Pathway

Robinson, David G. (Editor)

Annual Plant Reviews (Series Nr. 9)

1. Edition May 2003
280 Pages, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd

ISBN: 978-1-84127-329-7

John Wiley & Sons

Annual Plant Reviews, Volume 9

The Golgi apparatus is at the fulcrum of secretory traffic,
beginning at the endoplasmic reticulum and culminating at the cell
surface or lytic/vacuolar compartments. Its major functions are
protein glycosylation and polysaccharide synthesis, on one hand,
and protein sorting on the other. With advances in our
understanding of how the Golgi apparatus operates in plants, the
possibility of manipulating the timing, type and site of delivery
of secretory macromolecules is therefore becoming more and more
feasible. This will be important not only for improving crop
production, but also for increasing the use of plants as
bioreactors for vaccines and other therapeutic agents.

This volume concentrates on the major developments of the last
few years, drawing attention to the distinct differences between
the plant and non-plant Golgi apparatus and highlighting unsolved
problems. A chapter is included on the yeast Golgi apparatus.

This is a volume for researchers and professionals in plant cell
biology, biochemistry, physiology and molecular biology.

To stack or not to stack - the yeast Golgi apparatus; The Golgi apparatus in mammalian and higher plant cells - a comparison; How to make a vesicle - coat protein-membrane interactions; Endomembrane and cytoskeleton interrelationships in higher plants; Intra-Golgi transport - escalator or bucket brigade?; Retrograde transport from the Golgi; Protein modifications in the Golgi apparatus; Sorting of lytic enzymes in the plant Golgi apparatus; Sorting of storage proteins in the plant Golgi apparatus; Rab proteins and the plant Golgi apparatus; Glycosyltransferases in the plant Golgi; Perturbation of ER-Golgi vesicle trafficking; SNARE components and mechanisms of exocytosis in plants; Cytokinesis - membrane trafficking by default?; References; Index

"This book provides a good opportunity to think about what the Golgi is and what it does, even though it is written from the viewpoints of plant researchers... I would recommend this book not only to plant scientists but also to animal and yeast cell biologists who are interested in the Golgi itself and/or the organization of protein trafficking." Nature Cell Biology, Feb 2004