Nature Communications (Aug 2022)

Multivalent interactions between molecular components involved in fast endophilin mediated endocytosis drive protein phase separation

  • Samsuzzoha Mondal,
  • Karthik Narayan,
  • Samuel Botterbusch,
  • Imania Powers,
  • Jason Zheng,
  • Honey Priya James,
  • Rui Jin,
  • Tobias Baumgart

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32529-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 20

Abstract

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Here the authors show that protein phase separation is a key mechanism in cellular receptor internalization via fast endophilin mediated endocytosis (FEME). Phase separation facilitates multivalent FEME-protein assembly in this clathrin-independent pathway.