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Plant lipid transfer proteins, also known as plant LTPs or PLTPs, are a group of highly-conserved proteins of about 9kDa found in higher plant tissues.〔http://content.karger.com/ProdukteDB/produkte.asp?Doi=53671〕 As its name implies, lipid transfer proteins are responsible for the shuttling of phospholipids and other fatty acid groups between cell membranes.〔http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.arplant.47.1.627?cookieSet=1&journalCode=arplant.2〕 LTPs are also able to bind acyl groups.〔 ==Function== Ordinarily, most lipids do not spontaneously exit membranes because their hydrophobicity makes them poorly soluble in water. LTPs facilitate the movement of lipids between membranes by binding, and solubilising them. LTPs typically have broad substrate specificity and so can interact with a variety of different lipids. LTPs in plants may be involved in: *cutin biosynthesis *surface wax formation *mitochondrial growth *pathogen defense reactions *adaptation to environmental changes 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Plant lipid transfer proteins」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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