Nature Communications (Nov 2017)

Ist1 regulates ESCRT-III assembly and function during multivesicular endosome biogenesis in Caenorhabditis elegans embryos

  • E. B. Frankel,
  • Raakhee Shankar,
  • James J. Moresco,
  • John R. Yates,
  • Niels Volkmann,
  • Anjon Audhya

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01636-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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During the oocyte-to-embryo transition in C. elegans, multivesicular endosomes (MVEs) are formed rapidly. Using live imaging and electron microscopy, the authors here show that the ESCRT-III subunit Ist1 is required for normal MVE biogenesis in the early C. elegans embryo.