Nature Communications (Jan 2023)

Stabilization of membrane topologies by proteinaceous remorin scaffolds

  • Chao Su,
  • Marta Rodriguez-Franco,
  • Beatrice Lace,
  • Nils Nebel,
  • Casandra Hernandez-Reyes,
  • Pengbo Liang,
  • Eija Schulze,
  • Evgeny V. Mymrikov,
  • Nikolas M. Gross,
  • Julian Knerr,
  • Hong Wang,
  • Lina Siukstaite,
  • Jean Keller,
  • Cyril Libourel,
  • Alexandra A. M. Fischer,
  • Katharina E. Gabor,
  • Eric Mark,
  • Claudia Popp,
  • Carola Hunte,
  • Wilfried Weber,
  • Petra Wendler,
  • Thomas Stanislas,
  • Pierre-Marc Delaux,
  • Oliver Einsle,
  • Robert Grosse,
  • Winfried Römer,
  • Thomas Ott

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-35976-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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In plants, plasma membrane topologies are predominantly driven by the cell wall. In this study, the authors demonstrate that remorin proteins can take over these functions at specialized, unwalled plasma membranes such as infection droplets associated with symbiotic infection threads.