Nature Communications (Aug 2018)

A molecular switch orchestrates enzyme specificity and secretory granule morphology

  • Suena Ji,
  • Nadine L. Samara,
  • Leslie Revoredo,
  • Liping Zhang,
  • Duy T. Tran,
  • Kayla Muirhead,
  • Lawrence A. Tabak,
  • Kelly G. Ten Hagen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05978-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Regulated secretion is an essential process that requires packing and maturation of cargo proteins in membranous secretory granules. Here, authors identify a gene, pgant9, that influences the glycosylation status of the secretory cargo as well as the structure of secretory granules within the Drosophila salivary gland.