"VTT"-domain proteins VMP1 and TMEM41B function in lipid homeostasis globally and locally as ER scramblases

Karin M Reinisch; Xiao-Wei Chen; Thomas J Melia

doi:10.1177/25152564211024494

"VTT"-domain proteins VMP1 and TMEM41B function in lipid homeostasis globally and locally as ER scramblases

Contact (Thousand Oaks). 2021 Jan 1:4:25152564211024494. doi: 10.1177/25152564211024494. Epub 2021 Jun 16.

Authors

Karin M Reinisch¹, Xiao-Wei Chen², Thomas J Melia¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cell Biology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520.
² State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, College of Future Technology, Center for Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, 100871.

Abstract

Recent studies have identified the metazoan ER-resident proteins, TMEM41B and VMP1, and so structurally related VTT-domain proteins, as glycerolipid scramblases.

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