Nature Communications (Mar 2019)

Coming together to define membrane contact sites

  • Luca Scorrano,
  • Maria Antonietta De Matteis,
  • Scott Emr,
  • Francesca Giordano,
  • György Hajnóczky,
  • Benoît Kornmann,
  • Laura L. Lackner,
  • Tim P. Levine,
  • Luca Pellegrini,
  • Karin Reinisch,
  • Rosario Rizzuto,
  • Thomas Simmen,
  • Harald Stenmark,
  • Christian Ungermann,
  • Maya Schuldiner

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09253-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Given the recent growing interest in interorganelle membrane contact sites, the field will benefit from clear rules to define and study them. In this Perspective, a panel of experts aims to provide this growing field with guidelines for experimental definition and analysis.