Nature Communications (Jul 2020)

PDZD8 interacts with Protrudin and Rab7 at ER-late endosome membrane contact sites associated with mitochondria

  • Yael Elbaz-Alon,
  • Yuting Guo,
  • Nadav Segev,
  • Michal Harel,
  • Daniel E. Quinnell,
  • Tamar Geiger,
  • Ori Avinoam,
  • Dong Li,
  • Jodi Nunnari

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17451-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Membrane contact sites between organelles have been shown to play important biological roles. Here, the authors show that at the ER, PDZD8 associates with Protrudin and also with Rab7 endosomes and recruits mitochondria to form three-way contacts.