Nature Communications (Nov 2018)

Amino acids stimulate the endosome-to-Golgi trafficking through Ragulator and small GTPase Arl5

  • Meng Shi,
  • Bing Chen,
  • Divyanshu Mahajan,
  • Boon Kim Boh,
  • Yan Zhou,
  • Bamaprasad Dutta,
  • Hieng Chiong Tie,
  • Siu Kwan Sze,
  • Geng Wu,
  • Lei Lu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07444-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Amino acid levels are known to regulate anabolic and catabolic pathways. Here, the authors report that amino acids also affect membrane trafficking by stimulating endosome-to-Golgi retrograde trafficking and regulating cell surface localization of certain Golgi proteins through Ragulator and Arl5.