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SUBMITTER: Siggel M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8028312 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Siggel Marc M Bhaskara Ramachandra M RM Moesser Melanie K MK D Ikić Ivan I Hummer Gerhard G
The journal of physical chemistry letters 20210216 7
Living cells constantly remodel the shape of their lipid membranes. In the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), the reticulon homology domain (RHD) of the reticulophagy regulator 1 (RETR1/FAM134B) forms dense autophagic puncta that are associated with membrane removal by ER-phagy. In molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, we find that FAM134B-RHD spontaneously forms clusters, driven in part by curvature-mediated attractions. At a critical size, as in a nucleation process, the FAM134B-RHD clusters induce th ...[more]