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Nature 426, 775-776 (18 December 2003) | doi:10.1038/426775a
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Faculty Position - Center for Viral Oncology
- University of Kansas Medical Center
- Kansas City, KS
Senior Lecturer / Reader
- King's College London
- London United Kingdom
Cell biology: Earthworms and lipid couriers
Sean Munro1
Abstract
Lipids can hop between cellular compartments without using the transport vesicles that carry proteins. A key molecule involved in conveying the lipid ceramide has at last been uncovered.
Slice open any eukaryotic cell and you will find it packed with membrane-bounded compartments, each with a characteristic set of resident proteins and lipids. Many of these molecules begin their lives in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), a large network of intracellular membranes.
- Sean Munro is at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 2QH, UK.
Email: sean@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
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