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Seed oil bodies in plants are surrounded by a monolayer of highly unusual and abundant proteins, the oleosins, which can comprise as much as 8–15% total seed protein [1,2]. However, relatively little is known about the subcellular targeting and processing of oleosins, and their role in oil-body formation and maturation. We have expressed a soybean 24 kDa oleosin in transgenic rapeseed, in order to elucidate these issues. Detailed experimental data will be published elsewhere [3], but in this report, we discuss the implications of our findings for the mechanism of oil-body ontogeny in plants.
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Murphy, D.J., Sarmiento, C., Ross, J.H.E., Herman, E. (1997). Oleosins: Their Subcellular Targeting and Role in Oil-Body Ontogeny. In: Williams, J.P., Khan, M.U., Lem, N.W. (eds) Physiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Plant Lipids. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2662-7_91
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