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Assistant Professor Feng Yihong from Laboratory of Plant Stem Cell Regulation and Floral Patterning has received the 15th Young Researcher Award at National Institutes of Natural Sciences
Assistant Professor Feng Yihong from Laboratory of Plant Stem Cell Regulation and Floral Patterning has received the 15th Young Researcher Award at National Institutes of Natural Sciences (July 20, 2026).
Research Details of Awarded Presentation
Plant vacuoles play pivotal roles in various cellular functions, yet whether membrane proteins can be recycled from the vacuole had remained unclear. In this study, we demonstrated retrograde membrane trafficking from the vacuole in Arabidopsis by showing that VAMP727, a plant-unique vacuolar membrane fusion protein, is retrieved from the vacuolar membrane. We further revealed that this retrieval is mediated by SORTING NEXIN (SNX) proteins. In addition, the core retromer complex and SNXs were found to act independently in distinct retrograde trafficking pathways for specific cargo proteins.
Title of Awarded Research
Retrieval of membrane proteins during vacuolar/endosomal transport in plant cells
The National Institutes of Natural Sciences
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( October 15, 2026 )
