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A research report from the Graduate School of Agriculture in Sakai, Japan discusses findings on cytokines. The report focuses on an Arabidopsis sterol mutant, smt2 smt3, which exhibits severe growth abnormalities due to a defect in sterolmethyltransferase2 (SMT2). The researchers characterized the subcellular dynamics of sterol biosynthetic enzymes and found that the movement of these enzymes to the division plane during cytokinesis was impaired in the mutant. This led to compromised cell wall integrity and the failure to determine the subsequent cell division site. The researchers suggest that C-24 ethyl sterols may play a role in the interaction between the cytoskeletal network and the plasma membrane. [Extracted from the article] |
