Nature Communications (Aug 2016)

Sec16 alternative splicing dynamically controls COPII transport efficiency

  • Ilka Wilhelmi,
  • Regina Kanski,
  • Alexander Neumann,
  • Olga Herdt,
  • Florian Hoff,
  • Ralf Jacob,
  • Marco Preußner,
  • Florian Heyd

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12347
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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The transport of secretory proteins from the endoplasmic reticulum to the Golgi depends on COPII-coated vesicles. Here, the authors show that activation-induced alternative splicing of Sec16 controls adaptation of COPII transport to increased secretory cargo upon T cell activation.