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| | CEPCEB - Center for Plant Cell Biology at UC Riverside |
 | | We are using similar approaches for other mutants that affect endomembrane and/or vacuolar biogenesis. | | | This recently discovered link presents exciting opportunities to understand both the endomembrane system and gravitropism from an entirely new perspective. | | | Over the years my laboratory has been involved in studying vesicular trafficking to the vacuoles and vacuolar biogenesis. |
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http://cepceb.ucr.edu/members/raikhel.htm
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| | Vacuole - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Contractile vacuoles are found in some freshwater protozoa, such as paramecium. | | | Examples of vacuoles that perform each of these functions in different organisms are described below. | | | Under conditions of starvation, proteins are degraded in vacuoles; this is called autophagy. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuole
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| | Vacuoles |
| | A vacuole is very important to its cell as it has many important functions, each varied and necessary for the survival of a cell. | | | Another function or type of vacuole is the food vacuole. | | | The vacuole must work in conjunction with the cell membrane, both fro increasing/decreasing turgor pressure, and also with phagocytosis. |
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http://sun.menloschool.org/~cweaver/cells/c/vacuole
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| | Cell Organelles: Vacuole |
| | Vacuoles tend to be large in plant cells and play a role in turgor pressure. | | | Without sufficient water, pressure in the vacuole is reduced and the plant wilts. | | | A vacuole is a membrane-bound sac that plays roles in intracellular digestion and the release of cellular waste products. |
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http://www.cellsalive.com/cells/vacuole.htm
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| | The lysosome can fuse with the vacuole membrane and squirt digestive enzymes into the food vacuole to break down what is in there. | | | In animal cells vacuoles may store food that needs to be digested. | | | Vacuoles can also store the undigestible wastes until they can fuse with the cell membrane and squirt the wastes outside. |
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http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/miramesa/Organelles/vacuole.html
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| | Botany online: Membranes - Compartments and Their Significance |
| | The denaturation of many enzymes would be the consequence. | | | In many other cell types, especially in meristematic tissues occur several, usually small vacuoles. | | | that can also be regarded as protein-rich vacuoles contain species-specific storage compounds, like vicelin in the cotyledons of Vicia faber. |
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http://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/b-online/e23/23.htm
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| | Life Science Safari - Vacuole |
| | Vacuoles can also be found in fungi and protists. | | | Vacuoles store water, food, pigments, waste or other materials. | | | Within a cell, a vacuole fills a similar role as a temporary storage space for the cell. |
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http://vilenski.org/science/safari/cellstructure/vacuole.html
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| | Animal cells may only have small vacuoles, which are usually called vesicles. | | | Plant and animal cells share many structures, such as ribosomes, mitochondria, and chromosomes, but they also have notable differences: plant cells have chloroplasts, a large vacuole, and a cellulose cell wall. | | | Plant cells usually have a large central vacuole containing call sap (sugar and salts in solution) which serves both as a store of food and as a key factor in storing water and in maintaining turgor. |
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http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0015140.html
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| | The Vacuole |
| | Plants usually have a few large vacuoles, while animal cells have smaller vacuoles, if any. | | | The vacuole is a round, fluid-filled sac found in both plant and animal cells. | | | It stores food, water, and other materials for use by the cell. |
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http://www.usoe.k12.ut.us/curr/science/sciber00/7th/cells/sciber/vacuole.htm
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| | Vacuole.html |
| | This is a vacuole with a single surrounding membrane called the tonoplast. | | | If you think about why that is so, you will probably answer the question easily. | | | The dangers are obvious, so evolution must be responding to the advantages of such an arrangement! |
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http://koning.ecsu.ctstateu.edu/cell/vacuole.html
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| | vacuole.html |
| | Helps in the structure of the plant, provents the plant from wilting | | | Vacuoles have membranious sacs that consist mostly of water and contain different dissolved nutrients such as salt and protein. | | | The central vacuole holds plant wastes that taste bitter to discourage them from eating the plant |
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http://t3.preservice.org/T0300751/vacuole.html
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| | Contractile Vacuole |
| | is enlarged at the bottom, and shows the appearance of the vacuole both before (left) and after (right) contraction of the vacuole occurs, releasing the collected water to the outside of the organism. | | | The elongate ridges, clearly seen in these phase-contrast micrographs, are the collecting tubules which "dump" fluid into the central vacuole. | | | This page was last updated on January 10, 1999. |
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http://tidepool.st.usm.edu/crswr/contractvac.html
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| | vacuole : Definition |
| | Search for vacuole in these other databases too | | | A large, fluid-filled compartment in the cytoplasm of a plant cell or a smaller vesicle (a compartment that can involve cellular secretion, storage or nutrient uptake) in the cytoplasm of any eukaryotic cell. |
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http://www.biology-text.com/definition.php?word=vacuole
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