VPS34 Complexes in Plants: Untangled Enough?

Kaushal Kumar Bhati; Ai My Luong; Henri Batoko

doi:10.1016/j.tplants.2021.02.001

VPS34 Complexes in Plants: Untangled Enough?

Trends Plant Sci. 2021 Apr;26(4):303-305. doi: 10.1016/j.tplants.2021.02.001. Epub 2021 Feb 16.

Authors

Kaushal Kumar Bhati¹, Ai My Luong¹, Henri Batoko²

Affiliations

¹ Louvain Institute of Biomolecular Science and Technology, University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
² Louvain Institute of Biomolecular Science and Technology, University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. Electronic address: henri.batoko@uclouvain.be.

PMID: 33602624
DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2021.02.001

Abstract

Phosphatidylinositol-3-phosphate (PI3P) is essential for endocytosis and autophagy. VPS38 (endocytosis) and ATG14 (autophagy) are required for localized biosynthesis of PI3P. Liu et al. have shown that mutant arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) lacking both proteins are viable and synthesize PI3P, suggesting that the enzymatic complex VPS34 can function in absence of these regulatory subunits.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
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MeSH terms

Arabidopsis Proteins* / genetics
Arabidopsis* / genetics
Autophagy
Endocytosis
Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases

Substances

Arabidopsis Proteins