Phosphoinositides as membrane organizers

Y Posor, W Jang, V Haucke - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2022 - nature.com
Phosphoinositides are signalling lipids derived from phosphatidylinositol, a ubiquitous
phospholipid in the cytoplasmic leaflet of eukaryotic membranes. Initially discovered for their …

Beyond PI3Ks: targeting phosphoinositide kinases in disease

JE Burke, J Triscott, BM Emerling… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2023 - nature.com
Lipid phosphoinositides are master regulators of almost all aspects of a cell's life and death
and are generated by the tightly regulated activity of phosphoinositide kinases. Although …

[HTML][HTML] Membrane phosphoinositides regulate GPCR-β-arrestin complex assembly and dynamics

J Janetzko, R Kise, B Barsi-Rhyne, DH Siepe… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Binding of arrestin to phosphorylated G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) is crucial for
modulating signaling. Once internalized, some GPCRs remain complexed with β-arrestins …

PI4KA and PIKfyve: Essential phosphoinositide signaling enzymes involved in myriad human diseases

I Barlow-Busch, AL Shaw, JE Burke - Current Opinion in Cell Biology, 2023 - Elsevier
Lipid phosphoinositides are master regulators of multiple cellular functions. Misregulation of
the activity of the lipid kinases that generate phosphoinositides is causative of human …

Phosphoinositides: regulators of nervous system function in health and disease

P Raghu, A Joseph, H Krishnan, P Singh… - Frontiers in molecular …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Phosphoinositides, the seven phosphorylated derivatives of phosphatidylinositol have
emerged as regulators of key sub-cellular processes such as membrane transport …

Segregated cation flux by TPC2 biases Ca2+ signaling through lysosomes

Y Yuan, D Jaślan, T Rahman, SR Bolsover… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Two-pore channels are endo-lysosomal cation channels with malleable selectivity filters that
drive endocytic ion flux and membrane traffic. Here we show that TPC2 can differentially …

A family of PIKFYVE inhibitors with therapeutic potential against autophagy-dependent cancer cells disrupt multiple events in lysosome homeostasis

G Sharma, CM Guardia, A Roy, A Vassilev, A Saric… - Autophagy, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
High-throughput screening identified 5 chemical analogs (termed the WX8-family) that
disrupted 3 events in lysosome homeostasis:(1) lysosome fission via tubulation without …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in understanding the molecular basis of melanogenesis in melanocytes

N Ohbayashi, M Fukuda - F1000Research, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Melanin pigments are responsible for human skin and hair color, and they protect the body
from harmful ultraviolet light. The black and brown melanin pigments are synthesized in …

Insights into lysosomal PI (3, 5) P2 homeostasis from a structural-biochemical analysis of the PIKfyve lipid kinase complex

JA Lees, PQ Li, N Kumar, LS Weisman, KM Reinisch - Molecular cell, 2020 - cell.com
Summary The phosphoinositide PI (3, 5) P 2, generated exclusively by the PIKfyve lipid
kinase complex, is key for lysosomal biology. Here, we explore how PI (3, 5) P 2 levels …

Cytoplasmic short linear motifs in ACE2 and integrin β3 link SARS-CoV-2 host cell receptors to mediators of endocytosis and autophagy

J Kliche, H Kuss, M Ali, Y Ivarsson - Science signaling, 2021 - science.org
The spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 binds the angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) on the
host cell surface and subsequently enters host cells through receptor-mediated endocytosis …