Nature Communications (Jul 2018)

Seipin and the membrane-shaping protein Pex30 cooperate in organelle budding from the endoplasmic reticulum

  • Sihui Wang,
  • Fatima-Zahra Idrissi,
  • Martin Hermansson,
  • Alexandra Grippa,
  • Christer S. Ejsing,
  • Pedro Carvalho

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05278-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

Read online

Lipid droplets (LDs) and peroxisomes both emerge from the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). Here, the authors show that yeast Seipin and Pex30 proteins act together to regulate budding of these organelles from the same subdomain of the ER.