Nature Communications (Mar 2021)

An ARF GTPase module promoting invasion and metastasis through regulating phosphoinositide metabolism

  • Marisa Nacke,
  • Emma Sandilands,
  • Konstantina Nikolatou,
  • Álvaro Román-Fernández,
  • Susan Mason,
  • Rachana Patel,
  • Sergio Lilla,
  • Tamas Yelland,
  • Laura C. A. Galbraith,
  • Eva C. Freckmann,
  • Lynn McGarry,
  • Jennifer P. Morton,
  • Emma Shanks,
  • Hing Y. Leung,
  • Elke Markert,
  • Shehab Ismail,
  • Sara Zanivan,
  • Karen Blyth,
  • David M. Bryant

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21847-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 22

Abstract

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The signalling pathways underpinning cell growth and invasion use overlapping components, yet how mutually exclusive responses occur is unclear. Here, the authors show that alternate isoforms of the ARF GTPase exchange factor IQSEC1 direct phosphoinositide metabolism to control this switch.