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Andrés Guillén-Samander1,2,3,4, Xin Bian1,2,3,4, Pietro De Camilli5,2,3,4,6
1HHMI, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510.
Abstract:
Contacts between the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and other membranes are hot spots for protein-mediated lipid transport between the 2 adjacent bilayers. Compiling a molecular inventory of lipid transport proteins present at these sites is a premise to the elucidation of their function. Here we show that PDZD8, an intrinsic membrane protein of the ER with a lipid transport module of the SMP domain family, concentrates at contacts between the ER and late endosomes/lysosomes, where it interacts with GTP-Rab7. These findings suggest that PDZD8 may cooperate with other proteins that function at the ER-endo/lysosome interface in coordinating endocytic flow with lipid transport between endocytic membranes and the ER.
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