Isolation of Tonoplast Vesicles from Tomato Fruit Pericarp

Autor: Christopher Snowden, Benjamin Thomas, Charles Baxter, J. Andrew Smith, Lee Sweetlove
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Bio-Protocol, Vol 5, Iss 24 (2015)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2331-8325
DOI: 10.21769/BioProtoc.1686
Popis: This protocol describes the isolation of tonoplast vesicles from tomato fruit. The vesicles isolated using this procedure are of sufficiently high purity for downstream proteomic analysis whilst remaining transport competent for functional assays. The methodology was used to study the transport of amino acids during tomato fruit ripening (Snowden et al., 2015) and based on the procedure used by Betty and Smith (Bettey and Smith, 1993). Such vesicles may be useful in further studies into the dynamic transfer of metabolites across the tonoplast for storage and metabolism during tomato fruit development.
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