Membrane trafficking and processing in Paramecium

摘要: Cellular membranes are made in a cell's biosynthetic pathway and composed of similar biochemical constituents. Nevertheless, they become differentiated as membrane components sorted into different membrane-limited compartments. We summarize the morphological immunological similarities differences seen various interacting compartments single-celled organism, Paramecium. Besides pathway, regulated secretory endocytic phagocytic highlighted. Paramecium is multipolarized cell sense that several pools targeted for exocytosis at very specific sites surface. Thus, method used by this to sort package its subunits compartments, processes transport these locations plasma other intracellular fusion sites, retrieval, docking reviewed. has provided an excellent model studying complexities trafficking one using both immunocytochemical techniques. This also promises be useful aspects molecular biology sorting, transport, fusion.