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ER-PM Contacts Restrict Exocytic Sites for Polarized Morphogenesis

Amanda Yunn Ee Ng1, Annabel Qi En Ng1, Dan Zhang1

  • 1Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117604, Singapore.

Current Biology : CB
|January 2, 2018
PubMed
Summary

Endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-plasma membrane (PM) contacts restrict exocytosis sites, maintaining fission yeast cell shape. Disrupting these contacts leads to delocalized exocytosis and abnormal cell morphology.

Keywords:
ER-PM contactsVAPscell morphogenesiscell polarityexocytosisfission yeast

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