Nature Communications (Mar 2022)

RUFY3 and RUFY4 are ARL8 effectors that promote coupling of endolysosomes to dynein-dynactin

  • Tal Keren-Kaplan,
  • Amra Sarić,
  • Saikat Ghosh,
  • Chad D. Williamson,
  • Rui Jia,
  • Yan Li,
  • Juan S. Bonifacino

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28952-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 22

Abstract

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Organellar transport is carefully regulated, and endolysosome localized ARL8 is important for kinesin recruitment and anterograde movement. Here, the authors show that RUFY3 and RUFY4 promote retrograde transport of endolysosomes by mediating interaction of ARL8 with dynein-dynactin.