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Plant specialized metabolites are often synthesized and stored in dedicated morphological structures such as glandular trichomes, resin ducts, or laticifers where they accumulate in large concentrations. How this high productivity is achieved is still elusive, in particular, with respect to the interface between primary and specialized metabolism. Here, we focus on glandular trichomes to survey recent progress in understanding how plant metabolic cell factories manage to balance homeostasis of essential central metabolites while producing large quantities of compounds that constitute a metabolic sink. In particular, we review the role of gene duplications, transcription factors and photosynthesis.
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In the present work, we show for the first time, that Nɛ-carboxymethyllysine is the major product of the in vitro non-enzymatic glycation reaction between fibrillar collagen and glucuronic acid. Dual diffusion membrane system was effectively used for oriented crystal growth of octacalcium phosphate/hydroxyapatite on the biomimetically carboxymethylated collagen fibrils. We hypothesize that the function of biomimetically carboxymethylated collagen is to increase the local concentration of corresponding ions in such a way that a critical nucleus of ions can be formed, leading to the formation of the mineral under specific micro-environment conditions achieved by using diffusion membrane system.
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