Nature Communications (Sep 2016)

Dysferlin-mediated phosphatidylserine sorting engages macrophages in sarcolemma repair

  • Volker Middel,
  • Lu Zhou,
  • Masanari Takamiya,
  • Tanja Beil,
  • Maryam Shahid,
  • Urmas Roostalu,
  • Clemens Grabher,
  • Sepand Rastegar,
  • Markus Reischl,
  • Gerd Ulrich Nienhaus,
  • Uwe Strähle

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12875
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Sarcolemma lesions are sealed by a repair patch of lipids and proteins that prevents cell death and myopathy. Here the authors show that the "eat-me" signal phosphatidylserine is sorted from adjacent sarcolemma to the repair patch in a Dysferlin dependent process in zebrafish and human cells.