Nature Communications (Feb 2023)

The cytoplasmic synthesis and coupled membrane translocation of eukaryotic polyphosphate by signal-activated VTC complex

  • Zeyuan Guan,
  • Juan Chen,
  • Ruiwen Liu,
  • Yanke Chen,
  • Qiong Xing,
  • Zhangmeng Du,
  • Meng Cheng,
  • Jianjian Hu,
  • Wenhui Zhang,
  • Wencong Mei,
  • Beijing Wan,
  • Qiang Wang,
  • Jie Zhang,
  • Peng Cheng,
  • Huanyu Cai,
  • Jianbo Cao,
  • Delin Zhang,
  • Junjie Yan,
  • Ping Yin,
  • Michael Hothorn,
  • Zhu Liu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36466-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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The VTC complex generate eukaryotic polyphosphate (polyP). Authors here reveal how the signal-activated VTC synthesize cytosolic polyP and transport polyP across vacuolar membrane into the lumen, by using cryo-EM, in-cell NMR, and smFRET analyses.