Table 1.

Profilin and its cellular functions in plant cells.

Profilin involving in the cellular pathway	Profilins	Cells or ligands	Reference
Plasma membrane-actin cytoskeleton interaction	ZmPRO3	Root cells of maize PIP2	Baluska et al. (2001)
	AtPRF1 etc	Arabidopsis seed endosperm, root cells etc AtFH1, AtFH5, and AtFH6	Banno and Chua (2000); Cheung and Wu (2004), Ingouff et al. (2005), Favery et al. (2004)
	PcPRF1	Cultured parsley cells	Schutz et al. (2006)
Organelles location with the actin cytoskeleton	Profilins from Arabidopsis	Arabidopsis mesophyll protoplasts CHUP1	Oikawa et al. (2003); Schmidt von Braun and Schleiff (2008)
	NA	Rice leaf cells OsFH5	Zhang et al. (2011); Yang et al. (2011)
	AtPRF2	Arabidopsis epidermal cells, trichomes, stem epidermal cells ER	Wang et al. (2009)
	NA	Arabidopsis root cells AtFH8	Xue et al. (2011)
Vesicle trafficking with the actin cytoskeleton	PvPRO1	Phaseolus vulgaris root nodules Class III PI3Ks	Aparicio-Fabre et al. (2006)
	AtPRF2	Arabidopsis roots TGN	Takac et al. (2011)

NA, not available.