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SUBMITTER: De Leonibus C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7049802 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
De Leonibus Chiara C Cinque Laura L Settembre Carmine C
The EMBO journal 20200219 5
To maintain cellular homeostasis, the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) necessitates a continuous removal of ER fragments via a selective, receptor-mediated, form of autophagy known as ER-phagy. In this issue of The EMBO Journal, Jiang et al (2020) shed light on how the best characterized autophagy receptor FAM134B mediates ER membrane fragmentation, the earliest event during ER-phagy. They propose a dynamic model for FAM134B protein oligomerization and ER membrane scission, which are driven by CAMK2B- ...[more]