Hayashi Makoto, Nishimura Mikio
National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki 444-8585, Japan.
Biochim Biophys Acta. 2006 Dec;1763(12):1382-91. doi: 10.1016/j.bbamcr.2006.08.014. Epub 2006 Aug 22.
In higher plants, peroxisomes have been believed to play a pivotal role in three metabolic pathways, which are lipid breakdown, photorespiration and H2O2-detoxificaton. Recently, significant progress in the study of plant peroxisomes was established by forward-/reverse-genetics and post-genomic approaches using Arabidopsis thaliana, the first higher plant to have its entire genome sequenced. These studies illustrated that plant peroxisomes have more diverse functions than we previously thought. Research using Arabidopsis thaliana is improving our understanding of the function of plant peroxisomes.
在高等植物中，过氧化物酶体被认为在脂质分解、光呼吸和过氧化氢解毒这三种代谢途径中发挥着关键作用。最近，利用拟南芥（首个完成全基因组测序的高等植物）通过正向/反向遗传学和后基因组学方法，在植物过氧化物酶体的研究方面取得了重大进展。这些研究表明，植物过氧化物酶体具有比我们之前认为的更多样化的功能。对拟南芥的研究正在增进我们对植物过氧化物酶体功能的理解。
