Nature Communications (Jan 2023)

Synaptic vesicle proteins and ATG9A self-organize in distinct vesicle phases within synapsin condensates

  • Daehun Park,
  • Yumei Wu,
  • Xinbo Wang,
  • Swetha Gowrishankar,
  • Aaron Baublis,
  • Pietro De Camilli

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36081-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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ATG9 is the only transmembrane protein of the core autophagy machinery known to be present at presynapses. Here, the authors show that both synaptophysin and ATG9A vesicles assemble into condensates with synapsin but remain segregated from each other.