Nature Communications (Feb 2019)

Allosteric enhancement of ORP1-mediated cholesterol transport by PI(4,5)P2/PI(3,4)P2

  • Jiangqing Dong,
  • Ximing Du,
  • Huan Wang,
  • Jue Wang,
  • Chang Lu,
  • Xiang Chen,
  • Zhiwen Zhu,
  • Zhipu Luo,
  • Li Yu,
  • Andrew J. Brown,
  • Hongyuan Yang,
  • Jia-Wei Wu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08791-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Phosphatidylinositol phosphates (PIPs) and cholesterol are known to regulate the function of late endosomes and lysosomes (LELs). Here authors unveil a mechanism by which PI(4,5)P2/PI(3,4)P2 allosterically enhances ORP1-mediated cholesterol exit from LELs.