Lipid Requirements for Endocytosis in Yeast.
From: Department of Biochemistry, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
Biochimica et biophysica acta
- Publish Date: Mar 2007
- ISSN: 0006-3002
- Volume: 1771
- Issue: 3
- Pages: 442-54
- Medium: Print
- Language: English
- Citation (JAMA): Souza Cleiton Martins, Pichler Harald, et al. Lipid Requirements for Endocytosis in Yeast.. Biochim. Biophys. Acta Mar 2007;1771:442-54
Abstract
Endocytosis is, besides secretion, the most prominent membrane transport pathway in eukaryotic cells. In membrane transport, defined areas of the donor membranes engulf solutes of the compartment they are bordering and bud off with the aid of coat proteins to form vesicles. These transport vehicles are guided along cytoskeletal paths, often matured and, finally, fuse to the acceptor membrane they are targeted to. Lipids and proteins are equally important components in membrane transport pathways. Not only are they the structural units of membranes and vesicles, but both classes of molecules also participate actively in membrane transport processes. Whereas proteins form the cytoskeleton and vesicle coats, confer signals and constitute attachment points for membrane-membrane interaction, lipids modulate the flexibility of bilayers, carry protein recognition sites and confer signals themselves. Over the last decade it has been realized that all classes of bilayer lipids, glycerophospholipids, sphingolipids and sterols, actively contribute to functional membrane transport, in particular to endocytosis. Thus, abnormal bilayer lipid metabolism leads to endocytic defects of different severity. Interestingly, there seems to be a great deal of interdependence and interaction among lipid classes. It will be a challenge to characterize this plenitude of interactions and find out about their impact on cellular processes.
Mesh Headings (Keywords): Animals, Endocytosis, Humans, Lipids, Membrane Lipids, Saccharomyces cerevisiae
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