Plant lipids: Key players of plasma membrane organization and function
Résumé
The Plasma Membrane (PM) is a key structure protecting the cell, regulating nutrient exchanges and acting as a control tower allowing the cell to perceive signals. Plasma comes from the greek πλάσμα meaning "which molds", meaning that the PM takes the shape of the cell by delimitating it. The PM harbors the appropriate signaling cascades allowing adaptive responses ensuring proper cell functions in a continuously fluctuating environment, crucial for cell survival. To address this challenge, the PM needs to be both stable and robust yet incredibly fluid and adaptable. This amazing combination of long-term stability and short-term dynamics in order to adapt to signals relies on its fascinating molecular organization. PMs are extremely complex systems, harboring many different molecular species of lipids in which heterogeneity is more likely to occur than homogeneity. In plants as in animals, the recent development of proteomics, lipidomics and methods to visualize lipids and proteins in vivo has greatly increased our knowledge of the PM. Corresponding Author Sébastien Mongrand