Nature Communications (Aug 2022)

Segregated cation flux by TPC2 biases Ca2+ signaling through lysosomes

  • Yu Yuan,
  • Dawid Jaślan,
  • Taufiq Rahman,
  • Stephen R. Bolsover,
  • Vikas Arige,
  • Larry E. Wagner,
  • Carla Abrahamian,
  • Rachel Tang,
  • Marco Keller,
  • Jonas Hartmann,
  • Anna S. Rosato,
  • Eva-Maria Weiden,
  • Franz Bracher,
  • David I. Yule,
  • Christian Grimm,
  • Sandip Patel

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31959-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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TPC2 is a lysosomal ion channel permeable to both calcium and sodium ions. Here, the authors show that TPC2 can selectively increase its calcium permeability when simultaneously challenged by both its natural activators- NAADP and PI(3,5)P2.