Nature Communications (Mar 2016)

FAM21 directs SNX27–retromer cargoes to the plasma membrane by preventing transport to the Golgi apparatus

  • Seongju Lee,
  • Jaerak Chang,
  • Craig Blackstone

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10939
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Endosomes maintain cellular homeostasis by sorting, recycling and degrading endocytosed cargoes. Here the authors show that the SNX27-retromer-WASH complex acts as a hub to direct cargoes to the plasma membrane by blocking their transport to lysosomes and Golgi apparatus.