It is accumulated in the early stationary growth phase (Mackerras et al. 1990; Liotenberg et al. 1996) and functions as storage compound for nitrogen, carbon, and energy (Elbahloul et al. 2005; Füser and Steinbüchel 2007).
Nevertheless, the garage continues to function as storage.
Not only are the sinks visually arresting, but they function as storage cubbies, too.
Noticeably, fronds perform photosynthesis and turions function as storage for starch and germinate in the following spring [ 10- 13].
Whereas white adipose tissue (WAT) functions as a storage depot for lipids, releasing energy between meals, brown adipose tissue (BAT) provides a mechanism for thermogenesis, dissipating energy as heat.
The leaf sheaths of grass species are considered to function as temporal storage tissues for accumulating excess photoassimilates, and as conducting tissues that connect source leaf blades with terminal sink tissues such as roots and developing leaves (for recent review see Slewinski [2012]).
IGCs function as storage sites for the splicing factors.
The experimental observations that (i) the nuclear diffuse and NB-bound Pfr pools are in equilibrium, (ii) the NBs, containing either active or inactive phyB are depleted at different rates indicate that nuclear bodies function as storage sites for phyB Pfr that is released in darkness.
Stress granules are related to P bodies; they are induced by stress and function as storage depots for mRNAs (Anderson and Kedersha, 2008; Decker and Parker, 2012).
While this latter condition would indicate that SC35 domains function as active sites of RNA processing and export, if this poly(A) component is composed of a small number of structural noncoding RNAs, this might instead suggest that SC35 domains function as storage sites for splicing factors.
ER stress is caused by perturbations of any of the three homeostatic functions of the ER, i.e. functioning as a site for protein folding, for synthesis of unsaturated fatty acids (FA), sterols, and phospholipids and for intracellular Ca2+ storage.
