Nature Communications (Apr 2022)

Ca2+-activated sphingomyelin scrambling and turnover mediate ESCRT-independent lysosomal repair

  • Patrick Niekamp,
  • Felix Scharte,
  • Tolulope Sokoya,
  • Laura Vittadello,
  • Yeongho Kim,
  • Yongqiang Deng,
  • Elisabeth Südhoff,
  • Angelika Hilderink,
  • Mirco Imlau,
  • Christopher J. Clarke,
  • Michael Hensel,
  • Christopher G. Burd,
  • Joost C. M. Holthuis

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29481-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Activation of ESCRT prevents potentially lethal outcomes of minor perturbations in lysosomal integrity. Here authors show that Ca2 + -activated scrambling of sphingomyelin and its cytosolic turnover drives lysosomal repair independently of ESCRT.