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- Title
Role of LBPA and Alix in multivesicular liposome formation and endosome organization.
- Authors
Matsuo, Hirotami; Chevallier, Julien; Mayran, Nathalie; Le Blanc, Isabelle; Ferguson, Charles; Fauré, Julien; Blanc, Nathalie Sartori; Matile, Stefan; Dubochet, Jacques; Sadoul, Rémy; Parton, Robert G; Vilbois, Francis; Gruenberg, Jean
- Abstract
What are the components that control the assembly of subcellular organelles in eukaryotic cells? Although membranes can clearly be distorted by cytosolic factors, very little is known about the intrinsic mechanisms that control the biogenesis, shape, and organization of organellar membranes. Here, we found that the unconventional phospholipid lysobisphosphatidic acid (LBPA) could induce the formation of multivesicular liposomes that resembled the multivesicular endosomes that exist where this lipid is found in vivo. This process depended on the same pH gradient that exists across endosome membranes in vivo and was selectively controlled by Alix. In turn, Alix regulated the organization of LBPA-containing endosomes in vivo.
- Publication
Science (New York, N.Y.), 2004, Vol 303, Issue 5657, p531
- ISSN
1095-9203
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1126/science.1092425