Lipid interaction of the C terminus and association of the transmembrane segments facilitate atlastin-mediated homotypic endoplasmic reticulum fusion

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 32, 2012, Pages

  Liu, Tina Y ^a,b   Bian, Xin ^c,d   Sun, Sha ^c,d   Hu, Xiaoyu ^c,d   Klemm, Robin W ^a,b   Prinz, William A ^e   Rapoport, Tom A ^a,b   Hu, Junjie ^c,d  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Tianjin Key Laboratory of Protein Sciences   (China)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Content mixing; Hereditary spastic paraplegia; Membrane perturbation; Organelle remodeling; Organelle shaping

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; OLIGOMER; PROTEIN ATLASTIN; SYNTHETIC PEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL FUSION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL VACUOLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSOL; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; IN VIVO STUDY; LIPID BILAYER; LIPOLYSIS; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LIPID INTERACTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCEINS; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; GENE COMPONENTS; GTP PHOSPHOHYDROLASES; HUMANS; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; LIPID METABOLISM; LIPOSOMES; MEMBRANE FUSION; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; YEASTS;

EID: 84864651815     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1208385109     Document Type: Article

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