Eisosomes mark static sites of endocytosis

Tobias C. Walther (), Jason H. Brickner, Pablo S. Aguilar, Sebastián Bernales, Carlos Pantoja and Peter Walter
Additional contact information
Tobias C. Walther: University of California at San Francisco
Jason H. Brickner: University of California at San Francisco
Pablo S. Aguilar: University of California at San Francisco
Sebastián Bernales: University of California at San Francisco
Carlos Pantoja: University of California at San Francisco
Peter Walter: University of California at San Francisco

Nature, 2006, vol. 439, issue 7079, 998-1003

Abstract: Debut of the eisosome Endocytosis is the process by which a cell's plasma membrane encircles a substance and then pinches off an intracellular vesicle in which to trap and transport the substance. It facilitates the cellular uptake of nutrients and macromolecules, and recycles plasma membrane components. Until now no mechanism to specify where in the cell's membrane endocytosis will occur had been identified: it remained possible that sites of endocytosis might be chosen at random. But now a protein assembly to do the job has been identified in yeast. The complex, named the eisosome (for portal body), forms immobile structures at the cell cortex that co-localize with sites of endocytosis.

Date: 2006
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature04472 Abstract (text/html)
Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:nat:nature:v:439:y:2006:i:7079:d:10.1038_nature04472

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://www.nature.com/

DOI: 10.1038/nature04472

Access Statistics for this article

Nature is currently edited by Magdalena Skipper

More articles in Nature from Nature
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().