The 102th KARC Colloquium
The 102th KARC Colloquium was ended. Thank you for the participation.
| Date&Time | Tuesday, March 9 , 2010 16:00-17:00 |
| Place | Conference Room, 3F, Research Building 2,Kobe Advanced ICT Research Center |
| Lecturer | “Plant specific intracellular trafficking and myosin motors” |
| Speaker | Dr. Motoki Tominaga RIKEN Advanced Science InstituteMolecular Membrane Biology Laboratory |
| Abstract | Directional movement of motor protein is essential for regulations of intracellular trafficking. In animal cells, microtubule and various motor proteins (kinesins and dynein) play important roles on the trafficking. In contrast, in plant cells, the actomyosin system takes the place where only 2 class of plant specific myosin VIII and XI exist. However higher plant developed many members, 4 in myosin VIII and 13 in myosin XI expressed in /Arabidopsis thaliana/. Our goal is total understanding of the unique plant trafficking regulated by myosin members.In order to identify the function of each myosin, full length cDNA of all myosin members was cloned from /Arabidopsis/. GFP fused myosins were expressed in /Arabidopsis/ cultured cell. Live cell imaging revealed various distribution and motility among members. These results showed the wide diversity in plant myosin functions and possible unique and specific mechanisms in plant intracellular trafficking. |
| Language | Japanese |
| Admission | Free |
| Organizer | Hitoshi Sakakibara Senior Researcher, Biological ICT group Kobe Advanced ICT Research Center, NICT |